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No. 5.—Vox, I.] 


FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1843. 


(SIXPENCE. 


THE REVENUE. 


The policy of Prxx’s Apministration is beautifully 
developing itself. Last Quarter, there was a tremendous 
falling-off. We are not much better now. The return, 
made up to the 5th inst. exhibits a deficiency in every item 
except the Post-office. There is an amount of £1,885,232, 
from Income Tax, for the Quarter, and, were the year to be 
estimated by the Quarter, the revenue from this source 
would be nearly 7} millions sterling. Pxut originally esti- 
mated its probable produce at £3,771,000 per annum, but 
the Duke of WELLINGTON stated on Tuesday night, that 
the amount would probably be £4,500,000 a year. His 
Grace appeared to think that there would not be any neces- 
sity for keeping on this inquisitorial impost for a longer 
period than the three years it was first asked for. 

On the Quarter’s Revenue, compared with that of the 
corresponding period last year, the decrease is 


Tn? GustomsiOfin. <e'ercletsveete vie ood e's £270,016 
EXCISE Sic cice's cle efereters Wmeanasdace 1,788 

HY ‘xyorl Stamps. oo... 2.00 oe HBO DDAAGGOLD 6,361 
Taxes chore’. ee eieetnte teetarcereetateet 8,055 

Crown Lands..........+.. ee eeee 15,500 


Imprest and other monies ....++. | 8,807 


Repayments of advances.....-.. 40,623 

356,650 

the increase is 

From Income-tax of...... ne st 3: £1,885,232 
Post: ORC s ico orcas clsioiclele cielo stole 2,000 
Miscellaneous .....-. selilcletelste's 218,363 

—— 2,105,595 
Increase on the Quarter, as compared with 

that of April 1842..........6++ .£1,748,945. 


But, as the Income Tax is a new item, which did not occur 
within the previous period in 1842, no credit should be taken 
for it in this comparative estimate. Therefore, deducting 
£1,885,232, from Income Tax, there appears an actual de- 
crease in the Quarter, as ‘compared with that ending April 
5th 1842, of £619,670. 

The decrease on the year arises from the following 
items :— 


CINE OINIS yas ccie s.6 0's ceeeaees £1,076,336 

Excise: ...... Uieteishitel eters wees. 1,059,093 

SURIIDS HEP ss ole tes tle cit o/s'e oe 146,790 

AXES UNS aie", cralere sielers Stale ale te 146,082 

Crown Lands ....... FOC OL . 62,500 
—2,490,801 


The increase, for the year, from 


Tncome-tax, of-etmee ss es. .. £2,456,288 

Post- office sreysnti, She <i. siete - 103,000 

Miscellaneous 2.3. 2¢..'...... 425,969 

Imprest and other monies .... 154,918 

Repayments of advances rs 65,614 
AmoulitS tO... +++ 0 02 se cistesihicleloicictelee — 3,205,784 


'This shows an ostensible increase, in the year, of £714,983 
—but here again we must deduct the Income-tax, as an 
item which was not in last year’s source of revenue. This 
will leave 

Income for the year ending 


April 5, 1842 .-e.-e 000 ____ 45,868,827 
For the year just ended...- 46,078,810 
Deduct Income-tax .-+:°" 2,456,288 

———— 44,622,522 

Decrease on the year ..---**"""" ste tetete 741,305 


In plain words, the actual decrease 0D the Quarter’s Re- 
venue is £619,670—on that of the year, £741,300. 

Let Tory arithmetic get over this damning fact—if it can. 
And this is the golden age which Tory rule was to bring back ? 
Alas ! what havoc do figures of arithmetic make with mere 
figures of speech. Doctor PEEL has prescribed , and the 
circulation of his patient is rapidly going down. He tries 
bleeding and drenching, like a second Sangrado, but the body 


politic grows weaker and weaker in its purse. 
perity comes down, at last, to large deficiencies in the reve- 
nue. Weknew how it would be. ; rie 


THE -ELECTIONS. 

During this week three elections have taken place, all 
with important results, inasmuch as they have all terminated 
in favour of the Liberal interest. The most important, how- 
ever, is that at Nottingham. An election Committee, con- 
sisting of seven Members of ‘Parliament, four of whom were 
Tories, decided that Joun Water, of the Times, had been 
guilty of BRIBERY, at Nottingham, “ by his agents,” and 
this decision disqualified the said WALTER from sitting in 
the present Parliament. The mere fact of the Tory Chair- 
man of the Election Committee having given the casting vote 
against WALTER shows that the case against him must have 
been very bad indeed. The Times, with an impudence without 
any parallel, save in the case of its own disgusting and dis- 
graceful change ofpolitics in November, 1834, has been doing 
its best to impute the very worst of motives to Mr. Hoae, the 
gentleman in question. We know him to be what is called 
“‘astaunch Tory,’ and he has shown himself, in this in- 
stance, aman whose conscientious feelings are superior to any 
party influences. We dare say that he would have been well 
pleased if Joun WaxrTsER could have remained the repre- 
sentative for Nottingham. But the case against the hero of 
Bearwood was so strong that he was compelled, by his feel- 
ings of honesty, to vote against him. The Times, of which 
WALTER is owner, had the good taste, yesterday, when re- 
porting the proceedings at Nottingham, to insult Mr. 
Hoag, by republishing the following nasty squib, written, 
in all probability, by one of its own editors :— 

“ What wonder the Yellows, 
And all such Jad fellows, 
Should gain their wneworthy petition, 
When the members agog 


Fain must ‘ go the whole hog, 
And report a pig-headed decision ! 


‘¢ But of this we are sure— 
Whether venal or pure— 
That through England our chargeable poor 
Will not cease to lament 
That from this Parliament 
Their tried friend was thrust out by a bore!” 

This is the manner in which the T'imes—the property of 
that Waxzrer who has literally been turned out of Parlia- 
ment by the solemn and deliberate decision of an Election 
Committee duly sworn upon the Holy Gospel to administer 
justice between party and party,—this is the way, We S@y» 
in which the Times has the audacity to insinuate Im- 
putations against the Chairman of the tribunal which inves- 
tigated the charges contained in the recent petition against 
the return of JouN WALTER, late of Nottingham! We 
never knew anything more decidedly scandalous than this, 
What wonder that the penny publications—the cheap un- 
stamped papers—should sometimes take liberties with the 
characters of public men, when the lordly Times presumes 
to do so, in this manner and matter? The mere publication 
of the nasty squib in question is not the “head and front 
of its offending.” No—ever since JoHN WALTER was un- 
seated by a sworn Committee, the Times (of which he is the 
proprietor) has been firing away at Mr. Hoa, the Chairman 
of that Committee in leaders, in letters, and in paragraphs. 

The Earl of Linxcon, eldest son of the Duke of CANNor- 
I-po-w HAT-I-PLEASE-WITH-MY-OWN, moved that the 
issue of a new writ for Nottingham should be suspended. 
Did this appear as if his Lordship had any doubt of the 
justice of the decision which the Committee had arrived at? 
Certainly not. An effort was made to prevail on the House 
of Commons to stultify itself by ordaining—contrary to all 
law and precedent—that JouN WALTER should be eligible 
for re-election by the voters of Nottingham. The law now 
provides that a man unseated for “ bribery and corruption,” 
as he has been, may not sit in the existing Parliament. A 


Tory pros- | Mr. Cocuranz (who we believe, is only known as the au- 


thor of certain heavy imitations of Byron’s poetry) actu- 
ally threatened to bring in a bill, by which WaLTEnr’s eligi- 
bility should be rendered lawful, and would have done so, 
we dare say, if the practical good sense of Pexx had not 
thrown a wet blanket upon the absurd proposal. 


The writ was issued.’ The people of Nottingham were 
placed in a difficult position, for while WarEr’s son (who 
certainly appears a more clever and gentlemanly man than 
his father) was known, from: the commencement, as the 
Tory candidate, great indecision prevailed, until almost the 
last hour, as to the candidate on the Liberal side. Sir 
Grorar LARPENT was awfully tedious in making. up his 
mind not to stand, in compliance, it seems, with a promise 
he had given to WALTER last year. At length, and at the 
eleventh hour, Mr. THomMAs GISBORNE appeared in the 
field. The nomination took place on Wednesday, and the 
polling on Thursday. The Liberal party gained the victory 
—chiefly, we may say, because they were united. Some of 
them wished to have Mr. Sruree asa candidate; some 
were disposed to favour Mr. FEARGUS O’Connor. It was 
soon seen that any division of the interest would allow the 
Tory candidate to slip in, and therefore Chartists, Radicals, 
and Whigs nobly sacrificed all minor differences, and 
agreed to support Mr. GisporneE. It is due to Mr. 
Fearaus O’Connor and Mr. Tomas DuncoMBE to say 
that to their influence—great with the Chartists—this happy 
consummation may be mainly attributed. In spite of Tory 
threats, Tory supplications, and Tory gold, the honest men 
of Nottingham did their duty, and returned Mr. GisBoRNE 
by a majority of 117. 

The importance of this is really very great, THoMAs GIs- 
BORNE is aman of eloquence, of information, of spirit, and 
of energetic honesty. He will be a thorn in the side of 
Toryism. He isa great gun, because he is the advocate of 
Free Trade ; and he is the decided enemy of all duties which 
make dear the price of bread. 


At Durham, on Tuesday, there was an election. Captain 
Frrzroy had been appointed Governor of New Zealand, 
and the Tory faction in that borough had ample notice, ‘on 
the sly,” that such a vacancy would be made, as the officer 
thus promoted was one of their representatives. Viscount 
DunGanxnon—who is a Puseyite jin religion, an ultra- 
Tory in principle, and a writer of wretched histories and 
worse pamphlets by profession—immediately made his ap- 
pearance as a candidate. He had formerly sat for Durham, 
as the Marquis of LonpoNDERRY’S nominee, but found the 
bondage so intolerable (the noble marquis insisting that his 
men shall not have a voice of their own, even on the most 
trifling question) that, in 1841, he declined coming forward 
again, and retired to Brynkinalt, his seat in North Wales, 
where he has since been performing the partof J ustice Shallow 
(not by Shakspere) with more notoriety than success. The Pu- 
seyite Viscount, tired of solitude, was glad enough, we dare 
say, to obey the summons of his former master, the Mar- 
quis, and post off to Durham. Suddenly the Liberals there 
thought of Mr. Bria, of the Anti-Corn-Law League, as 
a candidate. Though not brought forward until the last 
moment, this Liberal candidate received 406 votes—Lord 
Duncannon polling 507. This is quite enough ; this mino- 
rity contains the germ of future triumph. Such a man as 
Mr. Briaut ought to be in Parliament, and we trust that 
he will be a candidate whenever a vacancy may occur. 

The third election within the present week has been at 
Athlone. The candidates were one of the BERESFORD family, 
—‘the bloody Beresfords,” as they are called from their horri- 
ble cruelties during the Rebellion of 1798—and Mr. CoLLert, 
an English merchant. The BrrREsFoRDSs have hitherto looked 
upon the borough of Athlone as their private property. 
There was treason in the mere idea of a stranger and a Libe- 
ral venturing to oppose them. The contest came on— 
Orange gold flowed freely—the BERESFORDS promised and 


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paid most liberally for votes. Mr, Co.ierr declined paying 
one sixpence except the legal expenses. Then, of course, 
the venal electors of Athlone returned Berrsrorp? No 
such thing—there was more sterling honesty among them 
than had been calculated. The majority of them—nobly re- 
solving to cast off the Brurresrorp yoke—declined the 
BrresFrorp gold, and heeded neither the BERESFORD pro- 
mises nor the Berrsrorp threats. They acted like honest 
men. They elected a stranger simply because he was a 
Liberal, and returned Mr. Cotxerr, after a hard pushed 
contest, by a majority of six. 

Let us now sum up. Three contests have taken place 
within a week. The gain has been great. In Nottingham, 
Gisborne instead of Wautrer ; in Athlone, CoLLErT in- 
stead of one of the Burgesrorps,—and in Durham, Mr 
Briaur has secured future success. The sum total is—two 
seats gained for Nottingham and Athlone, making a differ- 
ence of four votes in a division. 

We are creeping up the hill—just as the Tories did dur- 
ing the time that elapsed since the passing of the Reform 
Bill. By-and-by we shall have a Liberal Majority in Parlia- 
ment, and only hope that, when the Tories are turned out, 
he new Administration will include practical men, instead 
of a lot of aristocratical gentlemen, with mincing accents 
and kid gloves, who claim office as a right—because of their 
birth and connexion !—No, the next Ministry must include 
not only popular men, but men of the people. Surely 
JosEpn Hume would make as good a Chancellor of the 
Exchequer as HENRY GouLsuRN, and we suspect that 
RicHarpD CospEN knows quite as much about trade as 
Lord FirzaEraup and VEsEY. 


THE INDIAN VICTORY. 

Poor Lord ExtenporoveH! The Brahmins of Som- 
nauth declare that the gates—the gates of his Lordship’s 
magniloquent proclamation !—are desecrated by having 
been applied to a Mahomedan tomb, and therefore refuse to 
have any thing to do with them! How utterly useless was 
the Proclamation’s boast, ‘‘ The injuries of eight hundred 
years are now avenged !” The Brahmins refuse to take the 
gates :—indeed, seeing that the Temple of Somnauth is in 
the dust, we do not well see what they could do with them. 

Perhaps Lord ELLEN sorovGH might have put up with 
the humiliation of having his grand proclamation thus reduced 
to a bit of waste paper. But, hand-in-hand with this misfor- 
tune, comes another—namely the nullification, by a battle 
and victory, equal in magnitude to those of Plassey, of the 
famous manifesto which he issued at Simla, in October 1842. 
‘Then he declared, ‘‘ Content with the limits which nature 
has assigned to its empire, the Government of India will 
devote all its efforts to the establishment and maintenance 
of general peace ;” but now he has had to announce that 
this pacific policy was actually impracticable, for there 
has been a battle in Scinde—the most severe fought 
in India since the time of CirvE,—which has placed 
the British in possession of Hyderabad, and is likely to 
make us masters of Scinde. This infraction of Lord ELLEN- 
BOUGH’s pacific views is generally attributed, even by his 
partisans in India, to—Lord ELLENBorouGu himself. 
Why, when they sent him out as Governor-General, did not 
the Tories put his Lordship under the guidance of ‘‘a brace 
of tame elephants” (to quote from a memorable epistle) in 
the shape of wise councillors ? 

We can scarcely regret what has taken place, knowing 
that the free navigation of the Indus is of first-rate impor- 
tance to India and to the British. The occupation of 
Scinde will secure this. The British Government de- 
manded of the Ameers that certain slips of land lying along 
the Indus should be given up, for the use of the navigation, 
and this surrender was promised. The Ameers (as one 
account says) ‘temporised, until at length their troops 
were collected, when, on the 14th of February, they sent 
word to Major Ourram to retire from their city. Major 
Ourram, who did not suppose that they would proceed to 
extremities, delayed. On the 15th, the residency of the 
British Political Agent, or Minister, was attacked ;_ it was 
gallantly defended by one hundred. men for several 
hours ; but at Jength their ammunition having been ex- 
pended, the British soldiers retired, with a small loss, to 
the steamers, and proceeded to join Sir Cuartes Navisr, 
then at the head of about 2,700 men, at a distance of about 
20 miles from the capital of the Ameers. The latter has- 
tened, at the head of 22,000 men, to attack the British 
force. On the 17th a battle took place, which can only be 
compared to the celebrated one at Plassey, in which, after a 
severe struggle of three hours, the Ameers were totally 
routed and their troops dispersed. ‘The loss of the British 
troops was considerable. The Ameers on the following 
day surrendered themselves prisoners of war, and Hydera- 
bad was occupied by the conquerors.” 

It appears that the plan of an attack in order to extermi- 
nate all the British in Scinde was not confined to Hyderabad, 
it extended itself throughout the terrritory of the Ameers, 
but their utmost efforts have been bated, and they are now 
prisoners. 

We believe that the transfer of Scinde from the tyranny 
ofthe Ameers to the civilising sway of the British, will 
benefit that country. We are sure that an immense field 
for commercial enterprise may be opened by means of the 
navigation of the Indus. But weare equally sure that none 
but an ELLENBoRovGH would have blundered out the pro- 
mise of pacific conduct at the very moment he must have 
known, from the negotiations then pending, of the chance 
of the Ameers of Scinde suddenly turning round and break- 
ing into warfare against us. Oh, rare Lory Ellenborough! 


FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, 
——- 


FRANCE. 

The Paris Presse states that the Government intend soon 
to present a bill to the Chambers, declaring their approba- 
tion of the taking possession of the Marquesas and of 
Otaheite. 

A paragraph in the Paris papers tends to confirm a state- 
ment put forth by the London Missionary Society, that one 
of the objects of the French Government, in occupying 
islands in the Pacific, is to introduce the Catholic religion 
among the natives. A number of priests are to be sent out, 
and wooden churches are prepared in France to be conveyed 
forthwith to the Marquesas. The French Minister has 
forwarded orders to Toulon and Brest to embark a quantity 
of artillery for the Marquesas Islands. M. Mariette, of 
Paris, had bcen directed to cast a number of bells for 
wooden churches, which are to be erected in those islands ; 
and eighty wooden houses, two and three stories high, are 
now building in Paris for that destination. 

M. Mauguin has given notice of a motion in the Chamber 
of Deputies for exempting from duty spirits which are unfit 
for consumption. There is a new alcoholic lamp, much 
approved ot, which, if the duty on spirits of wine for burn- 
ing, not drinking, could be taken off, would become very 
profitable to the inventor, and useful to the public. 

A French Government ship is on the point of taking her 
departure for Guadaloupe with 200,000 francs, in addition 
to the 310,000 franes sent to the island for the relief of the 
sufferers, on the 26th ultimo, by the Gomer. The second 
remittance is accompanied, like the former, by directions for 
its immediate application towards lightening the distresses 
of the most necessitous. 

The King of Sweden has just nominated M. de Lesseps 
and Captain Gattier Knights of the Order of the Polar 
Star. 

The Commerce states that a camp for manceuvres would be 
formed in the beginning of August in the department of the 
Isere, under the command of the Duke of Nemours. On 
this announcement the Paris correspondent of the Times 
makes rather a startling communication—namely, that it 
was a demonstration, if not a menace, to Austria, that the 
French Government viewed with displeasure her concur- 
rence with Russia, and her abandonment of France and 
England on the Servian question. 

The Journal du Havre announces that the Paris and 
Rouen railroad will be fully completed, and ready for use, 
by the 29th inst., when it will be placed at the disposition 
ot the Minister of Public Works, who is to open it. Imme- 
diately after the cermony of the inauguration it will be 
opened to the public for passengers, and in the course of 
another month all the arrangements for carrying merchan- 
dise will be completed. 

The Courier Frangais announces that the contract for con- 
structing a railroad from Avignon to Marseilles has been 

iven to M. Talabot ; and the contract for the railroad from 

rleans to Tours, MM.Gouse and Teste Lebeau, of the 
Treasury Department. 

The Chantilly Races are fixed for the first fortnight in 
May. The Duke de Nemours and Prince Augustus of 
Saxe-Coburg will honour the course with their presence. 
There will be eight prizes, the principal of which are the 
Chantilly Prize of 1,200f. ; a plate of 2,000f., given by the 
Minister of Commerce ; the Duke d’Aumale’s Plate of 
1,250f. ; the Haras Plate of 5,000f. ; the Orleans Plate of 
3,000f. ; and a Plate of 6,000f., given by the Jockey Club. 
Several private matches are also to be run. 


SPAIN. 

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 29th ult. The 
papers announce the arrival of Don Francisco de Paulo on 
the morning of that day, attended by a numerous escort. 
The Madrid Gazette contains an official notice of the 
taking of the quicksilver mines. The Corresponsal men- 
tions a report, that a commission has been charged 
by the government to prepare a new law for the 
repression of offences of the public press. The Cas- 
tellano considers a change in the Cabinet as immi- 
nent, and mentions MM. Alonzo, Escalante, Chacon, Surra 
y Rull, Lopez Iriarte, and Camba as among those who are 
most likely to figure in the new Administration. Every 
account from Spain represents the army as suffering greatly 
from the wretched condition of the Treasury. 

PRUSSIA, 

The Frankfort Journal announces that Prussia and the 
States of the German Union, have rejected the late offers of 
France. With Belgium they are likely to come to some 
conclusion. 

The Cologne Gazette of the Ist inst, states, that the 
Prussian Government is occupied in endeayouring to open 
communications with China, for the purpose of arranging a 
commercial treaty between that country and the Zollverein. 

ITALY. 

Our Jetters from Naples affirm positively that the nucleus 

of the comet has been distinctly seen there. 
GREECE. 

An Athens letter of the 20th ult. mentions that King 
Otho had fallen out with the French party and their cham- 
pion, M. Christides, the Minister of the Interior, but was 
afraid to dismiss the latter from his post, No answer had yet 
been received from the protecting Powers respecting the 
loan. The comet had been secn at Athens during the last 
ten days every evening after sunset. 


THE EAST, 

According to accounts from Constantinople of the 15th 
ult. the Christian population of Bulgaria is in a state ot 
great excitement, and has threatened to take up arms 
against the authorities. A revolutionary proclamation, 
drawn up by a Bulgarian in Paris, is said to be in circula- 
tion in Bulgaria. 

Accounts from Trebisond announce the death of the Otto- 
man Plenipotentiary, Nouri Effendi. ; 

By a seeming extraordinary coincidence, the Persian Ple- 
nipotentiary, on the very day on which Nouri Effendi died 
at Erzerum, was taken ill at Tabriz, and, according to the 
last accounts, his life despaired of. Mr. Curzon, the secre~ 
tary of the British Embassy, Major Williams, the British 
Commissioner, and M. Redhouse, who accompanied him as 
interpreter, were lying dangerously ill at Erzerum. 


THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY TIMES. 


If we are to believe the Siecle, the differences between 
Russia and Turkey are by uo means arranged. ‘‘ This is the 
opinion, too,” says that Journal, ‘‘in Germany. Russia is 
said to be ready to dart upon her prey. We have, for our 
part, frequently remarked that Russia did not desire the im- 
mediate conquest of Constantinople, but she wishes to have 
an excuse ready whenever the proper time may arrive. 
Since the reign of Peter the Great, one dispute has never 
been arranged with the Divan without another having pre- 
viously arisen. 

AMERICA. 

By the Great Western we learn, trom New York, on the 
3rd ult. the 27th Congress of the United States adjourned. 
A large majority of the 28th Congress belong to the de- 
mocratic party. They will meet the first week in December. 
One of the last acts of the late Congress, was the rejection 
of Mr. Wise as minister to France, and Mr. Cushing, as 
Secretary of the Treasury. The only important news brought 
by the Great Western (viz. Mr. President Tyler’s Message, 
and Mr. Webster’s letter, on the 8th article of the Washing- 
ton Treaty, respecting the right of visit) is, as will be seen, 
anticipated ; and the accounts of Sir Charles Bagot’s health 
are, we regret to say, most unfavourable. His recovery is 
indeed pronounced all but impossible ; but so long as there 
is life there is hope. A treaty has been signed between 
Mexico and the United States. ‘ 

Our Liverpool correspondent has supplied us with the de- 
tails of a revolution at Hayti. The insurrection commenced 
on the 26th of January. On the 28th, a body of insurgents 
had advanced within tive miles of Aux Cayes, when their 
leader sent word that he did not contemplate either the 
pillage of the city, or the sacrifice of the lives of its inhabi- 
tants. All that he desired was to give them a new govern- 
ment. The revolutionists were said to be some 4000 strong 
before the troops called to oppose them had deserted to their 
ranks. They have since swelled to 6000 men, and have 
taken possession of several towns, in which they have esta- 
blished provisional governments. All business is of course 
at a stand, and, amie political affairs settle down, is hardly 
likely to improve. The soldiers appear to have been badly 
paid, and to this cause is, of course, their defection to be 
mainly attributed. 


PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 


_— oP 


HOUSE OF LORDS—Monpay. 

The Marquis of LanspowNE put questions to the Earl of Aberdeen 
relative to the alleged conflicting constructions put upon that part of the 
Ashburton treaty which relates to the right of visit, and moved for 
copies of correspondence, upon the noble earl’s declaring that he did 
not object to lay before the House all the information which could with 
propriety be introduced. Lord Ashburton gave it as his opinion, that 
when the correspondence should be before their lordships, it would be 
found that there was no actual difference of opinion between the 
two countries on the subject. 

Lord Brovcuam postponed his motion of thanks to Lord Ashburton 
until Friday. 

The Earl of Wicktow moved the second reading of the Dogs’ Bill ; 
Lord Campsett opposed it, and moved as an amendment that it be 
read a second time that day six months. On a division, the numbers 
were found to be equal (content 14, non-content 14), and the bill was 
consequently lost. 


HOUSE OF COMMONS—Monpay. 

Lord J, Russet put questions to Sir R. Peel, similar to those pro- 
pounded in the other House by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and received 
answers the same in effect as those given by the Earl of Aberdeen. 

The first order of the day was the re-consideration, in committee, of 
the Registration of Voters’ Bill; on which 

_Lord J. Russetx called attention to the introduction of a proviso 
giving an appellate jurisdiction to the Court of Common Pleas from the 
decision of an election committee, which he considered highly objec- 
tionable, as an interference with the privileges of the House of Com- 
mons. 

Sir J. Gravam said that this alteration had been regularly introduced, 
while the bill was under consideration in committee ; but as it was now 
to be reconsidered, any objections might be made to this appellate ju- 
risdiction, the object of which was to refer to the decision of a court of 
law, not a question of fact or evidence, but one strictly of a legal nature. 

After a few observations from Sir G., Grey and Mr. Hume, the bill 
was recommitted, and the committee proceeded seriatim clause by 
clause. On arriving at the 58th clause, Lord J. Russet renewed his 
objection, 

Sir J. Grauam contended, that in ancient as well as in modern times, 
the Courts of Law had taken a prominent part in protecting the rights 
und liberties of the people. The noble lord, in the Irish Registration 
Bill, had recognised this very principle, and to a greater extent, for 
the Judges of Assize in Lreland were given, by his bill, jurisdiction not 
only in questions of law, but also in questions of fact and evidence. 

Mr. Rogsucx said they were about to thrust on the Judges a mass of 
business which, overwhelmed as they were already, they would never 
get through without neglecting their more legitimate avocations. 

The Artornry-Grnerat contended that the Courts of Law were 
the fitting judges of a point of law, which he would refer to their con- 
sideration, not with the slightest intention of diminishing the authority 
of the House of Commons, but for the more effectual settlement of 
disputed legalities. 

Mr. Cuarces Buiver appealed to actual experience in proof of the 
great inconvenience of referring any political matter to the decision of 
the Judges—decision would always be interpreted according to political 
bias. Instead of parting with their power, let them rather amend their 
election committees, and simplify their system of procedure. 

On a division, the committee atlirmed the clause by 164 to 51. 

The clause was then adopted, as well as the subsequent clauses to the 
64th, Clauses up to 77 were agreed to. On clause 78, defining the 
right of voting in boroughs by occupiers of houses, 

Mr. Horsman said he thought the words admitting occupiers of 
houses, warehouses, counting-houses or ‘other buildings” to vote, 

were too vague. He moved, that in order to enable a claimant in any 
city or borough to be enrolled on a qualification of house or building 
held jointly with lands, and of the yearly value of not less than £10, 
such house or building, taken separately, shall be of the clear yearly 
value of not less than 55. He threw out this suggestion for the con- 
sideration of Government, and would leave it in their hands, if they 
felt disposed to view it favourably. ‘ 

Sud, Gnranam said the great object was to have an independent con- 
stuency, ‘l'his was a point of much importance to large constituencies ; 
and if the motion were carried, a number of yoters would be dis- 
franchised, He must, therefore, give it his opposition. 

_Mr. Horsman remarked, that some of the revising barristers had de- 
cided that four posts, with a few boards for a root, constituted a build- 
Ing within the meaning of the Reform Act, 

Sir J. Granam observed, the present bill would give power of ap- 
peal, The House divided. The numbers were—for the amendment, 
34; against it, 128: majority, 94, 

Mr, E_puisrone proposed to insert words to the effect that no scot- 
and-lot voter (whose name is on the register of voters for the current 
year) shall be prevented from voting by reason of his not having paid 
any rates demanded of him previous to the day of election. 

Sir J. Granam resisted the proposition, which would give too great 
an advantage to the scot-and-lot voters, who had already been placed 
by the Reform bill in a position more favourable than they ever pre- 
viously occupied. 


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_{ fter a short conversation the committee divided. For the proviso, 
325 against it, 81: majority, 49. 

The remaining clauses were agreed to. 

he schedules were also agreed to. The House then resumed, and 
the report was ordered to be received on Thursday, ‘The other orders 
of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half- 
past one, 

HOUSE OF LORDS—-Tuespay. 

Some bills were severally advanced a stage, after which their lord- 

ships adjourned until Thursday. 


HOUSE OF COMMONS—tTusspay. 

On the motion of Lord C. Frrzroy, a new writ was ordered for the 
election of a knight of the shire for the Eastern Division of the county 
of Suffolk, in the room of Major-General Sir C. Broke Vere, deceased. 

“THE GREAT UNPAID.” 
__ Mr. T. Duncombe presented a petition from a working man named 
Vhomas Starkie, complaining that he bad been arrested on a charge of 
sedition during the late riots in the manufacturing districts, and that the 
magistrates had refused to admit him to bail, though he had been sub- 
sequently honourably acquitted. Ie was in prison 17 days, and put to 
an expense of £50. 
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. 

On the motion of Lord J. Russetr, the Municipal Corporation Act 

Amendment Bill was postponed until Wednesday, the 26th inst. 
THE OPIUM TRADE. 

Lord Asutry, having presented petitions from the Wesleyan, Baplist, 
and London Missionary Societies, praying for the abolition of the opium 
trade, rose to submit to the adoption of the House the following reso- 
lution :—** That the continuance of the trade in opium, and the mono- 
poly of its growth in the territories of Britjsh India, is destructive of all 
relations of amity between England and Ching, injurious to the manu- 
facturing interests of the country, by the very serious diminution of 
legitimate commerce, and utterly inconsistent with the honour and 
duties of a Christian kingdom ; and that steps be taken as soon as possi- 
ble, with due regard to the rights of Governments and individuals, to 
abolish the evil.” The noble lord (in a speech which occupied three 
hours in the delivery) quoted a mass of opinions, of statistical facts, 
and public documents, to establish his proposition, that, so long as the 
opium traffic continued in its present state, our commercial and political 
interests with China must be kept in constant jeopardy—that the opium 
trade had operated as a substitute for our general exports to that 
country, and had been mischievous to every branch of our manufactures 
—that the pernicious effect of the drug was so direful as to debuase the 
minds and bodies of whoever used it, and to keep down population— 
that a system of the most desperate smuggling is at this moment going 
ou along the Chinese coasts—and that the continuance of the opium 
traffic with the Chinese was incompatible with the introduction amongst 
them of the blessings of Christianity. He maintained that no object of 
revenue ought to influence us in maintaining so nefarious a trade, and 
one so fraught with fearful present and future results to our own popu- 
lation, and to the peop!e upon whom we had forced it. 

Mr. Broruerton seconded the motion, and a long and interesting 
debate ensued, in the course of which Lord Asuiry’s views were sup- 
ported by Lord Jocenyn, Captain Layarp, and others, and opposed by 
Mr. B, Baninc, Mr. Hoge, and Mr, Linpsay. 

An adjournment having been moved and negatived on a division, 
some further discussion took place whether the debate should then pro- 
ceed, many members having, quitted the House on the understanding 
that it was to be adjourned. 

Lord Sanpon and Sir R. H. Incris warmly supported Lord Ash- 
ley’s resolution, and declared that no precarious revenue, like that 
derived from this traffic, could justify its continuance. 

Sir, Robert Pret suggested it to the House to consider whether, i 
hegotiatious were then pending between England and China for the 
adjustment of this difficult and delicate question, a resolution of the 
House affirming an absolute opinion against the continuance of the 
trade might not perplex and defeat that treaty? A resolution was not 
like a bill, which must go through many stages ; it was finally passed 
by a single vote. Sir H. Pottinger had made a representation to the 
Chinese Emperor npon this subject pressing tor some modification of 
the present prohibition, and Lord Aberdeen had sent instructions to 
discourage tho illicit trattc to the utmost. So much for the coatraband 
trade ; the discontinuance of the growth of opium was quite another 
question, and he very much doubted the justice of displacing great 
inasses of capital employed in Indian agriculture, for the purpose of in- 
creasing the export of British manufactures. But, although we might 
discontinue the growth of opium in our own territories, there was no 
possibiiity of preventing that growth elsewhere. The monopoly had 
been attacked ; but the highest authorities were in its favour, for in- 
stance, those of Lord Cornwallis, Mr: Mill, and others, who had 
enjoyed opportunities of knowing the subject locally and accurately, 
He was not asking the House to decide that night between monopoly 
and free trade in opium; but he did ask them to vote for the previous 
question, that they might avoid deciding hastily upon a matter requiring 
the fullest information and the maturest deliberation. He entreated the 
House to consider the deficient state of the Indian revenue, and the 
hard pressure of taxation upon the Indian people, which, if the revenue 
were renounced, must be yet further increased. 

Mr. Acianp, considering the specch of Sir R. Peel, could not vote for 
a resolution of Lord Ashley, though very favourable to the object 
of it. 

Lord Asuuey said, that after the declaration of Sir Robert Peel, re- 
specting the probable inconvenience which the diplomacy of the Crown 
might sustain from a vote of the House of Commons, he would not 
press his resolution to a division. 

Lord Lixcotn obtained leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Com- 
missioners of Woods and Forests to appropriate for building purposes 
the areas of Thatehed House-court, and to widen and improve Little St. 
James’s-street, 

_Lord Sranrry obtained leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the Le- 
gislations of the Australian colonies, including New Zealand, to pass 
Jaws regulating the admission of unsworn testimony in civil and cri- 
minal cases, 

Adjourned at two o'clock. 


ae a HOUSE OF COMMONS—Wepnespay. 
The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. 
CORN-LAWS. 

Mr. Brorurrton presented upwards of 40 petitions from farmers of 
Leigh and various parts of Lancashire against the corn-laws. Petitions 
to the same effect were presented by Lord Datmeny from Queensferry, 
and by Sir P. H. Ftrerwoop, 

, FACTORY EDUCATION. 

Petitions against the education clauses of the Factory Bill were pre- 
sented by Mr. Srrutr, from Smalley, in Derbyshire ; by Mr.V. Sarrn, 
from Kettering; by Mr. G. Kyicurt, trom Bradford; by Mr. Hawes, 
from Dissenting congregations, and Sunday-school teachers of ‘lrou- 
bridge, Bexley-heath, Bromley, Crayford, Orpington, Gloucester, St. 
Mary, Newington, Ripon, Thame, Flockton, Pittersbury, Modbury, 
Ringmore, Newton Abbots, and another place; by Mr. S. Crawrorp, 
from Rochdale and 42 other places ; by Mr. Hurr (three petitions), 
from Durham ; by Mr. Ewart, from a place in Somersetshire, Wigan, 
and places in Yorkshire ; and by Lord Barnarp, from a place in 


Salop. 4 = 
PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES BILL. 

Mr. Ewarr moved the sesond reaaing of this bill, reserving discus- 
sion until it went into committee. : : 

Mr. M. Surtow could not consent to the bill as it now stood, though 
he admitted the law, as it at present stood, was not ina Satisfactory 
state. One clause of the present bill would deprive magistrates of all 
power in these matters. He would, however, allow it to be read a 
second time, on the distinct understanding that by so doing, no pledge 
was implied. 

The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed 
on the 26th of April, 


THE SUDBURY WITNESSES’ INDEMNITY BILL. 
The bill passed through committee. 
CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. ., . 
The Clerk of the House read from the table the petition of certain 
electors of Cambridge, complaining of the undue election of Mr. F. 
Kelly to represent that borough in Parliament, 
Adjourned at five o’clock. 


HOUSE OF LORDS—Tuurspay. 

Lord Monrracre moved for returns relating to the import and ex- 
port of woollens and cottons, his object being to show the alarming 
decrease which had taken place, and from which he inferred that no- 
thing could be more injurious in a country like this than taxes on raw 
materials. Few things would give greater encouragement to those who 
were now struggling against foreign competition than to find that 
Government was prepared to remit duties which were practically felt to 
be a serious evil, interfering with the employment of the people. 

The Duke of Wrttincton said that the repeal of those taxes would 
involve a loss to the revenue of £800,000, and it would, therefore, be 
better to wait until they ascertained the state of the revenue. ‘The in- 
come-tax was to cease in two years, and it would then be necessary to 
have a sufficient revenue to meet the expenditure of the country. He 
recommended that the returns should be for a period of ten years, in- 
stead of seven, as moved for, and he proposed an amendment to that 
effect. 

Lord Monrracte agreed to the amendment ; an‘ after some remarks 
from Lord Asupurron the returns Were ordered. 

Lord Broucnam expressed a hope that some intimation would be 
given as to whether the last quarter’s income-tax might be considered 
as a fair criterion of its produce for the year. He always thought that 
the tax would produce six millions, but from the present quarter’s 
returns it might be taken as over seven millions, 

Lord Wnarncurrre said it was no criterion one way or another, as it 
included a portion of the previous quarter, while a considerable propor- 
tion of the last quarter remained unpaid. He would, however, endea- 
vour to ascertain and state the information. 

The Duke of WreLtincron said he understood the produce of the tax 
would be about four millions and a half. 

The House then adjourned. 


HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tuunspay. 

Petitions on many subjects were presented, and several private Bills 
advanced. 

Sir R. Peet laid on the table papers relating to the affairs of Syria. 

Mr. Hume postponed his motion of thanks to Lord Ashburton to 
Monday next. 

Sir J. Grauam fixed the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill positively for 
Monday next. 

In reply to Mr. H. Jounsrone, Sir J. Grauam announced that the 
Government did not intend to propose to the Legislature any measure 
declaratory of the state of the law on the Scotch Chureh settlement 
question. 

Correspondence between the Board of ‘Trade and the inhabitants of 
the Isle of Man, on the subject of the import duties, was ordered, on the 
motion of Dr. Bowninc. 

COLONIZATION. 

Mr. C. Butter moved “an address to the Queen, praying her Ma- 
jesty to take into consideration the means by which extensive and 
systematic colonisation may be most effectually rendered available for 
augmenting the resources of her empire, for giving additional employ- 
rent tv capital and labour, both in the United Isingdom and in the 
colonies, and thereby bettering the condition of her people. It appeared 
to him that the cause of the distress in this country was plainly the 
constant accumulation of both capital and labour within a restricted 
field of employment. Unless some field for the adiitional capital and 
labour, which yearly increased, were provided, the distress would go on 
yearly accumulating, It was with the view of remedying the compe- 
tition of capital against capital, and of labour against labour, that he 
proposed an extensive systein of colonisation. He dul not propose it as 
a panacea, but as a remedy that ought to be tried, either in conjunc- 
tion with or independently of others, He proposed colonisation as sub- 
sidiary to free trade, and as another means of obtaining the same object. 
The Hon. Member did not bring forward any specific plan for carrying 
out his views, because what he proposed was not an alteration of the 
existing system, but an extension of its principle. What he wanted to 
urge on the Government was, to follow up the system begun ia 1852, 
and which has been consolidated by the emigration commission ; and 
that they should investigate every point of the subject, and adopt that 
course which appeared to them to be the best. 

The motion was seconded by Lord Asutty. 

Mr. S. Crawrorp moved, as an amendment, that ‘ the resouress 
derivable from the lands, manufactures, and commerce of the United 
Kingdom, if tully brought into action, are adequate to afford the means 
of giving employment and supplying food to the whole population ; and 
that, therefore, before any measure be adopted for removing to foreign 
lands any portion of that population, it is the first duty of the House to 
take into consideration the measures necessary for the better application of 
these measures to the employment and support of the people.” 

Mr. Gatry Kyicur supported Mr. C. Buller’s motion. It was, he 
said, their duty to leave nothing undone which might appear in any 
way calculated to alleviate the evils under which the country suffered. 

Lord Srantey, concurring in the general principles laid down in his 
speech by Mr. C. Buller, could not gq with him in the proposition 
with which he had concluded his speech, for a larger and more extensive 
system of emigration, under the guidance of Government, than that 
which now is, and for some time has been in operation, The hon. 
gentleman’s motion was unnecessary, because a very enlarged system 
of emigration, under the superintendence of Government, was already 
in operation, and it was mischievous, because calculated to lead to ex~ 
pectitions onthe part of the public the fulfilment of which would be 
found to be impracticable. The noble Lord then entered into a full 
statement of the progress of emigration. In Canada, such were 
the arrangements made by the agents appointed by the Govern- 
ment, that from the moment of the emigrant’s leaving this country until 
he arrived at the very extremities of the colony, he was never from 
under the care and protection of the Government. With respect 
to Canada now, he thought it unadvisable for the Government to 
encourage that pauper emigration, which experience shows 
was already sufficient in proportion to the means of employment. 
Canada was not the place for persons to go to who had nothing but 
their labour to depend on; neither was it a place for those who had 
large capitals to invest in weighty speculations. With respect to Aus- 
tralia, no colony in the world bad ever made such rapid advances as 
that of New South Wales. Under the system of land sales, the pro- 
duces of which is applied to purposes of emigration, New South Wales 
had rapidly progressed. Fron 1832 to the present time, the total amount 
received from the land sales, exceeded a million sterling 5 and of this 
large sum, not less than 900,000/, had been given in nid of emigration, 
the remainder being applied to other legitimate charges. Besides this, 
a surplus of the revenue of the colony had been devoted to the eucou- 
ragement of emigration. The noble lord then entered into an expla- 
nation of the way in which lands were sold by auction, rather than by 
having any fixed price placed on them ; and accounted for the diminu- 
tion of the sales by the bursting of a speculation bubble, similar to 
what had taken place in the land sales of the United States, by which 
fictitious capital had been employed in extensive jobbing. After many 
details, descriptive of the actual condition of the colony, Lord Stanley 
concluded by declaring that, as he could not conenr 1 the amendment 
moved by Mr. 8. Crawford, he should vote against 10; and then, as 
he believed the system of remedy proposed by Mr. C. Buller was 
already practically in operation, he should move the previous question 
on the original motion. . 2 

Lord Howrexk expressed a hope that, however satisfied Lord Stanley 
might be of the result of the existing regulations respecting emigration, 
he would turn his attention to the subject, and see i nothing better 
could be devised. 2 jue 

Sir R. Incuis thought the House should encourage no emigration, 
unless they at the same time provided with it the civil and religious 
institutions of the mother country. 

Mr. Hume considered that the only way to effectually encourage 
emigration was to govern the colonies in such a way as that there would 
be in them not one dissatisfied person. sae 

Lord F, Ecerron hoped that no system of emigration would take 
place that did not provide for the religious as well as civil advantages of 
the colonists. 

Lord J. Russers. could not recommend the House to adopt Mr. C. 
Buller’s resolution, as he had not brought forward any specific plan of 
colonisation, and as the Government had not stated their possession of 
the means necessary to give his proposition effect. When it was found 
that 25,000 persons went in one year to Canada, and 50,000 to New 
South Wales in another year, it was evident that the colonies had the 
means in existence of increasing their own strength, and of doing great 


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good to the mother country. The recommendation of Sir R. Inglis to 
send out complete ecclesiastical establishments, and that of Mr. Hume 
to govern the colonies in such a manner as that every one should be 
satisfied, were equally impracticable, and would not add much to the 
advantages of the colonies. 

Sir H. Dovcias and Mr. S. Worrtey made 2 few remarks; alter 
which the motion and the amendment were both withdrawn. 

‘The Earl of Lincovn obtained leave to bring in a Bill jor the better 
regulation of buildings in the metropolis. 

‘Che House adjourned at half-past twelve. 


HOUSE OF LORDS—Fnipay. 

Lord WuarnciitFE presented a report from the School of Design, 

and several other papers which had been ordered by their Lordships. 
THE INCOME TAX. 

The Duke of Wettrxcron wished to inform his noble and learned 
friend, Lord Brougham, in reply to a question which be had put yes- 
terday, that he had ascertained that the income-tax collected during the 
half-year, amounted to £2,456,000 ‘The tax had not, however, been 
collected in many places; and it was, therefore, impossible that any 
accurate estimate could be formed of its amount for the year. 


VOTE OF THANKS TO LORD ASHBURTON. 
Lord Brouciam rose to propose his promised vote of thanks to Lord 
Ashburton tor the manner in which he had brought to a successful ter- 
mination the negotiations with the United States. 


The Duke of Camprripce, Earl of Aserpeen, Lord Cotciersrer, 
Lord Denman, supported the motion, which was resisted by the Marquis 
of Lanspowne and Lord Campzent, and carried without a division, — 
Adjourned. 

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Fnripay. 

Lord Duncannon was introduced by Mr. Hodson Hinde and Sir 
Thomas Fremantle, and took the oaths and his seat for Durham City. 

Numerous petitions were presented against the educational clauses in 
the Factories Bull, which the petitioners deprecated, as inconsistent with 
the principles of religious liberty. 

CORN-LAWS. 

Mr. Brorurrron presented a petition agreed to at a public meeting 
of the inhabitants of the borough of Salford, presided over by the 
boroughreeve and authorities of the place, complaining of the present 
depressed state of trade, attributing it to the iniquitous and unjust ope- 
ration of the Corn-laws, and praying for their total and immediate 
repeal. The hon. member presented four other petitions from various 
places in Lancashire, to the same effect. 

General Morrison presented a petition against the corn and provi- 
sion laws. 

Mr. B. Cuive presented a petition from the Protestant Dissenters. of 
Warwick, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. 

Mr. Danby presented petitions from several places in the county of 
Sussex, praying the House to take the Corn-laws into their serious con- 
siderauion. 

; NEWSPAPER STAMPS. 

On the motion of Dr. BowriNe, the usual qurterly returns of the 
amount of stamp duty paid by the various newspapers, was ordered. 

The Order of the Day for going into Committee on the Factory Bill 
was read, for the purpose of postponement. The Bill was ordered to be 
committed on the Ist of May. 

PUBLIC BUSINESS. 

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, 

Lord Joun RusseLt rose to put a question to Sir Robert Peel, and 
hoped he would state what measure he was about to introduce for the 
purpose of repairing the present state of the revenue. 

Sir Roserr Peer was sure that the Noble Lord was aware that, in 
consequence of the great financial measure of last year—the income tax 
—it would be impossible for the Government to lay any financial 
statement before the House until it was ascertained what would be the 
productiveness of that impost. It would, therefore, be impossible for 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer to anticipate the usual period forth 
financial statement ; but very early after Easter he would be able to 
state to the House what were the views of the Government on the sub- 
ject of finance. With respect to the state of negotiations for commer- 
cial treaties, he need not state to the House the difficultties, the preju- 
dices, the jealousies, they had to conteud with. The difficulties of nego- 
tiating treaties were not confined to the negotiations with arbitrary Go- 
vernment. Indeed the spread of representative government had rather 
increased the difiiculty. With respect to articles of luxury it was very 
natural to desire that we should strive to get corresponding advantages 
when we admitted them ; but he would not recommend that we should 
press too for in demanding reciprocal advantages, but that we should 
pursue our own policy without any reference to that of other 
Governments. 

Mr. Lanoucuere expressed a hope that the Government would at 
no distant time state to the House in what state of progress were there 
commercinl treaties. The most large and liberal offers hed been made 
to France by the late Government, but in the case both of France and 
of Portugal, the delay was owing more to the prejudices of the peoplu 
than of the Governments; for the people could not be persuaded but 
that in any commercial treaty the advantages must be all on the side of 
England, and the disadvantages upon theirs. If France had accepted 
the offers which were made to her, a treaty would have been formed, 
advantageous, certainly, to both countries, but far more so to France 
than to England. He was most anxious that the duty on such articles 
as sugar and coffee should be reduced. He was fearful that the right 
hon. gentleman opposite did not intend to adhere to those principles 
which he had propounded last year. 


Sir R. Pert said he would at the present moment only make one 
observation, and that was, that he made no declaratlon which could be 
construed differently from what he said last year. 


Mr. Hume said, if the right honourable baronet did not reduce the 
expenditure three or four millions, he would find his deficiency go on 
increasing—(A laugh). Why, where was the difficulty? Since 1835, 
his predecessors had reduced the expenditure nearly five millions, and 
where was the difficulty in reducing :t three or four millions more ? 
(Hear, and a laugh). He thought the right honourable baronet might 
safely make a reduction in the army and navy estimates, and he hoped 
he would do so. For the last ten years there had been an addition to 
the amount of the national debt, and he thought that the right honour- 
able baronet at the head of her Majesty’s Government ought to have 
been able to cause a diminution with regard to the other subject of com- 
percuas treaties. He thought the country would be better without 

em. 

The conversation then dropped, when the House, upon the motion 
of Sir G. Clerk, resolved itself into a Committee of Supply. 

A great deal of desultory conversation took place as to various money 
votes, and the estimates for the Irish National Education system, and 
for the British Museum (comprising several votes), were agreed to, as 
were some others ; after which the House resumed, and the other orders 
were disposed of, one being leave to Sir Grorce Grey to bring ina bill 
to apply certain charitable trusts to the purposes of education.— Ad- 
Journed. 

er VERA S  E 


Stamp Duties oN LeGActEs, &c.—A parliamentary paper 
just published, shows that in the year ending the Sth of January, 
1843, the total amount of duty paid for legacies, probates, and 
adminstrations, was — in England and Wales, £2,001,960 73. 811. 5 
in Scotland, £150,213 11s. 2d.; in Ireland, £114,923 Los. G3d.; total, 
£2,267,105 14s, 43d. Duties received since 1797—in England, 
£59,643,426 63. 11d. ; in Scotland, £3,287,910 10s. 8d. ; in Ireland 
£1,664,853 8s. 94d. Total duties received since the year 1797 
amount to £64,596,190 Gs. 44d. 

— The Courrier Frangais states that arrangements are being, 
made to establish night telegraphs between Paris and Marseilles, 
and between Paris and the Belgian frontier. 

— The profit to the Bank of England for bank notes which have 
been lost. or destroyed, from the year 1,694 to the present year 
(150 years), is stated to be £500,000. 

— Mr. Mordan, the inventor of the patent pencil-case, died very 
suddenly at an early hour on Monday morning of apoplexy, after 
only an hour’s illness. He had been previously in perfect health. 


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HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS 
OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. 


CHAPTER II. 


We have seen that the delegates from all parts of the kingdom 
who were assembled at the Banquet in Manchester procceded to 
London. ‘Their first meeting took place on the 4th of February, 
1839, in Brown’s Hotel, Palace-yard. The attendance was thin, 
and no business of importance was transacted. Nothing in the 
procecdings of that day calls for historical remark save two mani- 
festations of character. The first is, that the thinness of the mect- 
ing was accounted for by the fact that few of the delegates had 
arrived in London on that day, Monday, because a great majority 
had conscientious scruples against travelling on Sunday. This 
feature in the conduct of the delegates of 1839 is a characteristic 
of the League of 1843. Perhaps there never was a public ques- 
tion which associated together so many ministers and professors of 
Christianity as this bread tax-question, not excepting the great 
causes of Catholic Emancipation and the Abolition of Negro 
Slavery. 

The other manifestation of character at the preliminary 
meeting was exhibited by Mr. Villiers. Several appointments 
were made, or proposed, and amongst others, the appointment of 
a parliamentary advocate, the latter office being offered specially 
to Mr. Villiers. Proverbially modest, modest toa fault, the honour- 
able gentleman, begged to decline the honour, lest its acceptance 
might appear invidious as regarded older, and as he was pleased to 
say, more talented and more experienced members. It is a re- 
markable fact, that the two leading parliamentary advocates of 
commercial liberation, Mr. Villiers and Mr. Cobden, are singu- 
larly deficient, physically and morally, of the quality of self- 
esteem. 

Parliament was opened on the following day, the Sth of 
February, the Royal Speech made no allusion to the distress of the 
country. To the Chartist meetings it alluded, and recommended 
a firm enforcement of the law. Indeed, so far were the Ministers 
from proposing or favouring the question of free trade, that they 
made choice of Mr. George William Wood, the chairman of the 
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to second the address to the 
Queen in the House of Commons; agentleman, who, as we saw in 
our last chapter, used all his official, all his party, all his personal 
influence to defeat the free-trade resolutions, and Mr. Cobden’s 
petition founded therecona few weeks previously in the Chamber of 
Commerce. And now, in seconding the address to the throne, not 
contented with supporting the Government for the mere honour of 
such a seductive distinction, not contented to sacrifice his personal 
opinions to party necessities, he brought forward statements to 
show that the manufacturing trade was prospering, and that the 
solemn declaration of the vast body of the merchants and 
manufacturers, members of the Manchester Chamber of Com- 
merce, in which they foretold all that four years loaded with 
disaster and distress have since fulfilled, he attempted to shew 
that this solemn declaration was a fallacious artifice. Cozened on 
one side by the smiles of the Government, vexed on the other at 
the recent defeat of his personal and party influence in Manchester, 
he selected figures from various returns, and having stripped them 
of their truth, dressed them up in a flimsy garb of plausibility, and 
daringly attempted to pass them on the nation as current and 
sterling. 

Never did monopoly receive such a blow, free commerce such an 
impulse. The Whigs who had employed this unscrupulous par- 
tisan, merely because he was commercially connected, drew upon 
their Government the scorn of all independent and well-instructed 
men. They cnt off by this miserable manceuvre all the commer- 
cial Liberals, not completely within the radius of Government sub- 
jugation; and when they had thus tampered with their own 
strength, when, looking upon their political death-bed, a nation 
was ready to give a verdict of felo de se, when at the last hour they 
proclaimed their repentance, and promised better conduct if par- 
doned and preserved ; when thus weakened, helpless, and over- 
thrown, they pleaded their own cause as the cause of the nation, 
they were told by the man and the party who had grown strong 
through their weakness—that the nation did not need commercial 
extension as they proposed to give it—that the nation was not in 
distress as they alleged it was—that commerce was flourishing, and, 
at most, distress was only temporary, as they and their friends had 
often proved. 

The falsified figures of George William Wood were adopted 
by Sir Robert Peel, and when too late to withdraw them, Mr. 
Wood and his fallen chiefs denied their armoury. 

But the assertion of such fictions, at first, was no loss to the 
cause of free-trade ; on the contrary, the time, and manner, and 
circumstance of their publication ; the time, the opening of Par- 
liament ; the manner, that of a commercial man full of facts ; the 
circumstance, that of Parliament being surrounded with delegates 
from all parts of the kingdom to prove that trade was decaying ; 
all these did good, and, as already said, never did monopoly receive 
such a blow—the hope of free commerce such an impulse. 

On the 6th of February, the day succeeding the speeches on the 
address, the delegates met in great numbers at Brown’s Hotel, and 
the assertions in Parliament of the Chairman of the Chamber of 
Commerce were the main topics of discussion. 

Mr. John Benjamin Smith was in the chair. He adverted 
to the notice of motion which Mr. Villiers had given in Parliament 
on the previous evening, which was in the following words :—* That, 
on the 19th instant, I will move that the House do receive evidence 
at the bar in support of the prayer of certain petitions for a total 
repeal of all the Jaws restricting the importation of foreign corn.” 
And Mr. Smith went on to say, that “ He could not refrain from 
expressing his astonishment at the speech of the seconder of the 
address, Mr. Wood. Sir Robert Peel had ironically congratulated 
the honourable gentleman on having made out a most triumphant 
case against the repeal of the Corn-laws; and he (the Chairman) 
was rejoiced to sce Mr, Villiers rise and protest against the delusive 
and fallacious statements of the member for Kendal.” Mr. Smith, 
followed by Mr. Grey, the Mayor of Stockport, Mr. Ashworth of 
Bolton, Mr. Rawson of Manchester, Mr. Johnson of Glasgow, Mr. 
Ewart, Mr. Joseph Sturge of Birmingham, Mr, Weir of Glasgow, 
Mr. Finch, M.P., Dr. Bowring, and others, went into many details, 
and fully proved the errors of Mr. Wood. 

Mr. Villiers, who was also present, said, “There appeared to 
be a great deal of ignorance in the House of Commons on the 
subject of the Corn-laws, and he thought it would be worth while 
ifsome gentleman were to take the trouble of drawing up a few 
statements and facts, so that they might be published in the form 
of tracts, and distributed among members.” 


This suggestion was at once acted on, and the issue of those 
tracts was begun which has since extended to every elector of the 
kingdom. 

On the 7th. another meeting of the delegates was held. The 
business transacted related principally to the appointment of a 
deputation to wait on Lord Melbourne, and to the propriety of 
petitioning to be heard at the bar of the House of Commons by 
counsel. On the latter point some discussion arose as to the pro- 
ability of the prayer of the petition being granted, when Mr. 
Ewart made the following observation :—‘ In 1808 a motion was 
made in the House of Commons by Mr. Alderman Poole for leave 
to be heard by counsel at the bar against the celebrated ‘ Orders 
in, Council.’ No opposition was offered. Lord Brougham, who 
was not at that time in Parliament, appeared as counsel for the 


petitioners—opencd his case clearly and explicitly—and the first 
witness he called would be also the first wituess whom he (Mr. 
Ewart) would call on the present occasion, an extensive manufac- 
turer in Manchester, Mr. George William Wood ;” to which ob- 
servation the laughter and cheers of Mr. Ewart’s auditors was the 
ready and appropriate response. 

On the 8th, delegates again met, attended by several members 
of parliament. Some good speeches were made, but the chief 
business done was the issuing of a series of questions to persons in 
all parts of the kingdom, requesting answers on the various sub- 
jects connected with the Corn-laws. These queries were twenty- 
nine in number, and were signed by Dr. Bowring. 

Various other mectings were held almost every day, which were 
attended by all the members of parliament favourable to the dele- 
gates, and amongst them, by Mr. George William Wood. 

On the 18th, Lorp Brouauam with all the power of his com- 
prehensive mind and eloqnent tongue, brought the subject of the 
Corn-laws under discussion in the House of Lords. He was op- 
posed alike by the Whig Government and the Torics, by Lord 
Melbourne on one hand, and the Duke of Wellington on the other ; 
on both of whom and their supporters, he retaliated with his cha- 
racterestic bitterness. 

Next day at a meeting of the delegates, Mr. COBDEN suggested, 
that a vote of thanks be passed to Lord Brougham for his speech. 
A discussion ensued ; some urging that they should not be com- 
mitted to his Lordship’s statement of the case, especially as 
he had brought forward the subject unsolicited by them, and 
at best it was but partial. Whereupon Mr. BAINES said, 
that “ Having had the pleasure of hearing the speech of Lord 
Brougham, he must declare that a more magnificent oration he had 
never heard,—a speech containing more strength of reasoning, and 
more acquaintance with details he had never heard ;” and proceeded 
to express his surprise that any one should think differently. It 
was to this replied, that if Lord Brougham had communicated to 
the delegates his intention of bringing on the subject, they would 
have furnished him with many facts which he was not in posscs- 
sion of, and that if a vote of thanks was to be given, it must state 
that his specch was voluntary, not solicited. Ultimately the motion 
was carried thus:—That the thanks of the delegates be given to 
Lord Brougham for his unsolicited, admirable, unanswered, and 
unanswerable speech last night.” 

Next day (19th), Mr. Vinuiers brought forward his motion in 
the House of Commons, in an able speech, not comprehending so 
much of the main question, as the argument that the petitioners 
should be heard at the bar of the House. He was ably supported 
by Mr. Strutt, of Derby; Mr. Mark Phillips, Mr. Ward, Mr. 
Thornley, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Poulett Thomson, 
Mr. Hindley, Mr. Brotherton, and Sir Hesketh Fleetwood ; and 
opposed by Lord Howick, Mr. Pryme, Mr. Worsley, Mr. Heath- 
cote, Mr. Cayley, Lord Stanley, Lord John Russell, and Sir Robert 
Peel. The motion was lost by a majority of 189, there being 172 
for, and 361 against it. 

Next day (the 20th) Mr. CoppEn proposed, at a meeting of the 
delegates, that a vote of thanks be given to Mr. Villiers for his able 
and eloquent speech; which being seconded by Mr. Johnson of 
Glasgow, was carried by acclamation. 

On the 21st the delegates met, and Mr. Cobden read along report 
of their proecedings, embodying what they had done since their ar- 
rival in London. What the evidence was they had collected, and what 
the opinions they had deduced. He followed it up with an exposition 
of his opinions, in which he said the delegates from the chief towns 
of the kingdom had been lightly spoken of, and lightly treated 
in the Houses of Parliament, but they must still persevere. Did 
not history tell them of the towns united in the Hanseatic League, 
and also what those towns united for—to put down the feudal 
plunderers? Why should not we have a League of the towns ?— 
(Cries of “ An Anti-Corn-law League.”) Yes, a National Auti- 
Corn-law League—(loud cheering)—and the result would be the 
same that emancipated and glorified the Hanse Towns. 

From this incidental allusion to history did the name of this 
great movement, which advances so fast to the liberation of com- 
merce, arise. 


ANTI-CORN-LAW MOVEMENT. 

Mr. CoppEN, destitute of the personal exterior that mi- 
nistered so much to the oratory of Chatham, Burke, and Fox, 
has one of the least impassioned styles. He is earnest, but not in- 
tense—simple as childhood, but never dull—straightforward, but 
never vulgar ; he abounds in the aryumentum ad hominem et ex 
concesso, but he is never vituperative—never subtle, but always 
acute—at no time profound, but always sagacious—more bullied 
than any, except O’Connell, but never worsted in the parry—inex- 
haustible in quotation of well-proved facts, which appeal to the 
common judge in every man’s bosom, and indomitably true to 
their Jegitimate induction. He derives none of his power from the 
influence of the landlord, or from great property acquired by trade. 
With such a lack of what has always been thought indispensable to 
party success, Mr. Cobden has yet risen, in two or three sessions, 
to contest the championship with the Premier experienced in par- 
liamentary tactics for thirty years, and he represents more fairly 
the sentiments of a larger number of her Majesty’s subjects than, 
perhaps, any other member of Parliament. 

— Seven bishops, right reverend fathers in God, opposed Lord 
Monteagle’s motion on the Corn-laws. 

— The petition from Dundee to both Houses of Parliament, for 
a total and immediate abolition of the corn and provision laws, has 
received about 10,000 signatures of all classes of the community. 
The document will be forthwith transmitted for presentation. The 
petition lately adopted at Lochee is in the course of signature. 

A FARMER’S OPINION OF THE Corn LAws.—Mr. W-. Roth- 
well, a farmer at Winwick, in a review of the corn laws since 
1835, in the March number of the Farmer's Magazine, contends 
that they have been positively injurious to both farmers and la- 
bourers. At the conclusion of the article he thus writes; “ I 
ground my objections to any corn laws, principally, that they lead 
to everlasting uncertainty in the affairs of almost every class, by 
raising or depressing their expectations above or below par, and 
lead to everlasting agitation and ill-fecling between the different 
classes which ought to go hand in hand together. Through them, 
men’s minds are always in an unsettled state. Repeal them, 
and we shall soon know what we are all about. We could not be 
worse than we are. If we have a fixed duty, Jet it be a low one, 
of about 4s. a quarter, for the purpose of revenue.” 

Foop—AMERICA.—The following is an extract from a letter 
from Emma Alderson, sister of Mary Howitt, from the United 
States, dated East Bethlehem, Washington County, 2d month, 
1843 :-— Things are at present in a very depressed state, from 
the almost unparalleled lowness of prod uce, so that the farmer can 
make little or nothing by his articles. If he is not in debt, and 
able to carry on without much oulay, he may do well; but if 
money is necessary, he may be, and soon is, involved in difficul- 
ties. To the man that has money to spend and to the poor man, 
these are favourable circumstances; we can live inconceivably 
cheap: to-day we have bought fine beef at two cents. a pound, 
butter is from five to six, eggs rather less than two for a cent, 
turkeys twenty-five cents, flour from eighteen to twenty pounds 
for our English shilling, and sugar, tea, and coffee, are all very 
low. : : When I sec the teeming abundance of this 
fruitful country, where food is a complete drug, and think of the 


thousands pining for want in England, how do I long, I may say 
pray, that He who regardeth the cry of the poor may, in his 
compassion and tender mercy, so influence the hearts of the rulers, 
that the two countries might be a mutual blessing. The manu- 
factures of England would be a great advantage here, and the 
surplus produce of America would fill the houses of the poor with 
you with abundant comfort.”—Keene’s Bath Journal. 


CARLISLE.—The petition to the Commons House of Parliament 
for the total and immediate repeal of the corn law has received, up 
to the present time, 4,180 signatures, care having been taken to 
exclude the signatures of youths under eighteen years of age. 

THE WESTMINSTER CENTRAL CoMMITTEE.—On Wednesday 
night the members of the Westminster Central Committee assembled 
at the offices of the Anti-Corn-law League, to take steps for the 
purpose of raising funds towards assisting the League in exertions 
to obtain a total repeal of the corn-laws. The committee was nu- 
merously attended, and several gentlemen offered themselves as 
canvassers for the various parishes in which they resided, 
when the parishes of St. Paul, Covent-garden; St. Ann, Soho; 
St. Clement Danes; St. Mary-le-Strand, and the Savoy, 
were appointed to be immediately canvassed. The com- 
mittee of the parish of St. Martin-in-the Fields, which was ap- 
pointed at a vestry meeting held upon the question of the corn- 
laws, forwarded £43, and £50 had been previously sent in from 
St. James’s, Westminster, making, in addition to other sums re- 
ceived by Mr. Pouncey, the treasurer, above £100 paid into his 
hands from the different parishes in the city of Westminster. 

Mr.. Vitirers’s Motion.—Of this we may be assured, that 
whatever be the result of the division, the result of the discussion 
will be most favourable to the progress of our cause. Discussion, 
indeed, is a term which ought scarcely be used, for argument is 
not likely to be attempted against us, since each foundation for it 
has successively been cut from under our adversaries. From their 
own mouths can we convict them of treason against the welfare of 
the nation, and they may be assured due justice shall be done to 
their demerits. The people at large, moreover, will see the glaring 
inconsistency which admits the truth of our principles, but refuses 
to put them into practice, which talks free trade but acts restric- 
tion, and, while it atfects the character of philanthropy, post- 
pones to the temporary selfishness of the few the permanent 
interests of the many. The conversion of several of the most 
influential fixed-duty men will be a remarkable symptom of the 
times ; and the debate in general will, we doubt not, add many 
new proofs to those already noted of the rapid progress which 
repeal has made, a progress unrivalled in the same space of time 
by any other public movement. What those of the Whigs may 
do, who have hitherto stood aloof from the cause of total and 
immediate repeal, we need not now conjecture, though certain 
rumours which have reached us promise an addition to our adhe- 
rents. One thing is certain. Our course is plain. It is an open, 
an honest, and a manly one; nay, it is the only course deserving 
of such epithets. We are the advocates of total and immediate 
repeal. This alone can save England, and we will not be content 
with less.—Anti-Corn-law Circular. 

Norwicu.—On Friday evening a meeting of the friends of free 
trade was held in St. Andrew’s Hall, to hear addresses from R. 
Cobden, Esq., M.P., Colonel Thompson, and R. Moore, Esq., when 
that magnificent building was crowded in every part, the body 
being filled with electors and working men, whilst upon the or- 
chestra were some of the leading Liberals of the borough. The ter- 
mination of the proceedings witnessed the of late rare occurrence 
in Norwich, of an enthusiastic and unanimous expression of opi- 
nion. Attempts were made at the commencement by those old 
offenders, the Chartists, led on by a man from London, who gave 
his name as Mantz, or some such unknown monosyllable, but it was 
put down instantly by the meeting, who evidently came to be inte- 
rested and instructed upon this subject. A far more important 
meeting has, however, been held this morning in the same place, 
comprising a large body of farmers and ayriculturists, generally 
from the neighbourhood ; in fact, whether as respects the movement 
of the Anti-Corn-law League, or the political interests of this 
country, this morning’s meeting in St. Andrew’s Hall, is the most 
important occurrence that has taken place for many a day. The 
experiment has been fairly tried of summoning a gathering of far- 
mes, to hear an Anti-Corn-law advocate, and it has been completely 
successful. I understand that it was determined upon, at the in- 
stance of Mr. Cobden, who, in answer to an invitation from the 
Norwich Anti-Corn-law Association, made it a condition of his 
paying them a visit, that they should provide him with an audience 
of farmers. Placards and circulars, inviting the agriculturists to 
meet him, and adeputation from the League, were consequently 
sent into all the neighbouring districts twenty miles round 
Norwich, and the hour fixed on was eleven o’clock on a mar- 
ket-day, to suit their convenience. The hall was provided 
with seats, and by the time of taking the chair, there were about 
1,200 persons present, a large proportion of them farmers. 
The proceedings were much enlivened towards the close by Mr. 
Lemon, the chairman of the committee for erecting a monument to 
the late Earl of Leicester, who accepted Mr. Cobden’s challenge, 
thrown out at the beginning of his address to the meeting to all 
present, to put questions to him at the termination of the speeches. 
Mr. Lemon’s questions elicited from the honourable member for 
Stockport some explanations, which proved the most interesting 
and satisfactory of the whole of his elucidations. Even Mr. Le- 
mon’s friends confessed that the replies were satisfactory, and that 
gentleman, on taking his departure, which he did before the close 
of the meeting, shook hands with the members of the deputation, 
amidst the applause of the meeting. The deep interest that was 
felt in the whole proceedings may be understood by the fact, that 
the entire meeting remained in the hall till nearly three o’clock, 
unmindful apparently of the market and the dinner-hour. The 
whole affair went off to perfection ; the speakers were happily 
blended. Mr. Cobden’s argumentative statemeut was followed by 
Colonel Thompson’s quaint and quiet illustrations, and the audience 
were warmed up at the-close by an appeal to the feelings by Mr. 
Moore, which drew tears from the eyes of many a weather-beaten 
face. I must not omit to add an incident which is regarded as of 
very great importance here; the vote of thanks to the deputation, 
which was moved by Capt. Fitzroy, was seconded by Mr. Joseph 
John Gurney, a man of local weight in the borough, as an exten- 
sive banker, and whose high standing in the Society of Friends, and 
general influence in the religious world, make his adhesion to the 
cause of corn-law repeal of the utmost importance. Judging from 
this day’s meeting I should be disposed to say that the League has 
succeeded in making a lodgment amongst the farmers. 


ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. 

The fourth weekly meeting of the Anti-Corn-Law League took 
place on Wednesday evening, in Drury-lane Theatre. 

The attendance of the people was fully as great as on the three 
preceding occasions. There were as many ladies in the circles as 
we have before witnessed, and the respectability of the audience, 
and the uninterrupted attention paid to the several speakers, were 
strong evidences that the League was working quietly, but effec- 
tually—a conviction on the public mind that these meetings were 
of higher concernment than those which usually attract crowded 
assemblies in this metropolis. 

The gentlemen whom we observed on the platform were—Ho- 
nourable Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., T, Milner Gibson, Esq. 


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M.P., Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., John 
Lewis Ricardo, Esq., M.P., Captain Plumridge, M.P., Henry Met 


calf, Esq., M.P., Joshua Scholefield, Esq., M.P., Robert Holland, 


Esq., M.P., Dr. John Bowring, M.P., William Harvey, Esq., Man- 
chester; A. Prentice, Esq., ditto. ; R. R. Moore, Esq., ditto. ; An- 


drew Hall, Esq., ditto; L. Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool; — Mylne, 


Esq., barrister; Jacob Tweedale, Esq., Healey-hall, Rochdale ; 


Stephen Leach, Esq., of the same; R. L. Tweedale, Esq., London ; 
Charles Dela Pryme, Esq., Henry Ashworth, Esq., Bolton; J. B. 
Scott, Esq., Manchester ; William Chadwick, Esq., ditto ; H.White, 
Esq., Captain Ridout, George Ridout, Esq., John Hunter, 
Esq., John Heath, Esq., Captain Macdonald, G. B. Hall, 


Esq., Jellinger C. Symons, Esq., John Evans, Esq., W. 


Bertram Evans, Esq., E. Edwards, Esq., Sir W. Owen, Bart., 
Sir John Scott Lillie, James Coppock, Esq., Summers Harford, 
Esq., John M‘Leod, Esq., John A. Choune, Esq., J. Donkin, Esq., 
the Rev. W. J. Fox, Dr. Price, Dr. Cooke Taylor, J. Goulston, Esq., 
J. Lindley, Esq., Dr. Sheridan, Admiral Dundas, J. Holland, Esq., 


James Wilson, Esq., J. Lister, Esq., D. E. Austin, Esq., Sir Wil- 


liam Baynes, John Travers, Esq., James Pattison, Esq., Samuel 
Amory, Esq., — Nevill, Esq., Dr. Jenkyn, Rev. Dr. Hutton, P. A. 


Taylor, Esq., — Strike, Esq., W. Sharp, Esq., of Southampton ; 


J. C. Sharp, Esq., ditto ; William Lankester, Esq., ditto ; Cap- 
tain Tracy, R.N., ditto; Joseph Jordan, Esq., ditto; William 
Betts, Esq., ditto; Captain Baxter, R.N.; E. Baxter, Esq. ; Ty 


Wynn, Esq., of Wolverhampton ; Bailie Smith, of Stirling ; 
Duncan M‘Laren, Esq., of Edinburgh ; Culling Smith, Esq. 


The mecting was ably addressed by the Chairman (Geo. Wilson, 
Esq.), Mr. Hume, M.P.; Mr. Brotherton, M.P.; Mr. T. M. 
Gibson, M.P.; and Mr. J. Bright, of Rochdale. The next meeting 


of the League will also be held in Drury-lane Theatre. 


METROPOLITAN. 
—~——_- 


— Mr. Pemberton is to have the seals of the Duchy of Lancas ter 
as Chancellor. The Hon. J. Talbot, son of the Farl Talbot, is to 


succeed Mr. Pemberton as Attorney-General to his Royal High- 
ness the Duke of Cornwall. 

Tur METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. — On Tuesday, by 
order of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, the remainder 
of the houses on the east side of Castle-strect, Leicester-syuare, 
were disposed of by auction, for the purpose of forming the new 
street which is to lead from Coventry-street to Long Acre. On 

hursday last, Old Slaughter’s Coffee-house, in St. Martin’s-lane, 
with several houses in Great Newport-street, were also sold ina 
similar way. The commissioners have purchased several houses on 
the south side of Cranbourne-alley, which are to be removed. 

— A new hospital, on an extensive scale, is about to be erected 
in the Marylebone and Paddington district. 

_— Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart., M.P., arrived at his mansion, 
in Berkeley-square, late on Sunday night, from Paris, where he 
made a brief sojourn on his way from Italy to this country. 

Coprriant Act.—Saturday being the Ist of April, one of the 
most important enactments ever passed by the Legislature came 
into operation. We allude to the Copyright and Customs’ Act for 
the protection of English literature, by the prohibition of the im- 
portation of the foreign editions of English works under any pre- 
text whatever, and thus the extensive system of piracy and smug- 


gling which has for so many years been carried on with impunity, 


to the prejudice of the author, bookseller, and, in fact, every arti- 
san engaged in the issuing of works from the press, will be pre- 
vented. Under this statute it is illegal for any person who may 


purchase reprint copies of English works on the Continent to in- 
troduce them into this country ; and any bookseller is liable to a 
heavy fine if any of these foreign editions are found in his posses- 
sion, being exposed for sale. It is understood that the leading 
publishing firms are determined to do all in their power to support 


the law and to enforce the penalties. 

— The united deputation from the London Missionary Society 
and the Wesleyan Misssonary Society waited upon Sir Robert Peel 
and the Earl of Aberdeen, on Saturday, at the Foreign Office, on 
the recent assumption of French sovereignty in the island of Tahiti, 
and the general interests of Protestant Christian missions in the 
islands of the South Seas. The deputation consisted of the Rev. 
Dr. Bunting, the Rev. Dr. Henderson, the Rev. Dr. Alder, the 
Rev. Dr. Morison, the Rev. John Scott, the Rev. E. Hoole, Mr. 
Thomas Farmer, Mr. Thomas M. Coombs, and the Rev. John 
Beecham, and the Rey. Arthur Tedman, secretaries. ; : 

NELson’s STATUE.—A casting of one of the volutes for Nelson’s 
monument, Trafalgar-square, took place on Saturday afternoon at 
the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and narrowly escaped being a failure, 
not from any want of judgment in the plans adopted by Mr. 
Clark, the artist to whom the making of the ornaments of the 
column has been entrusted, but to an unforeseen accident, the back 
of the furnace having given way when the metal was nearly in its 


complete state of fusion, which caused about from 700 to 800ib. of 


the boiling metal to fall amongst the coals and ashes. Fortunately 
Mr. Clark had added a larger quantity of metal to the furnace in 
the first instance, and immediately on the accident taking place, 
attempted the casting, and succeeded perfectly in filling his mould 
with the aid of about 201b. of metal, which was fortunately in a 
fluid state in another part of the foundry. The casting was taken 
out on Wednesday, to ascertain that it was perfect, and a more 
beautiful and perfect piece of workmanship in all its parts could 
not have been made under the most favourable circumstances. The 
quantity of metal in the volute is as near as possible to the weight 
calculated upon, being from 10 to 11 ewt. 

—We understand that Lady Sale’s Journal of Events in Affghan- 
istan has been confided for publication to Mr. Murray, of Albe- 
marle-street, and that it will appear in the course of next week. 

BANK OF ENGLAND.—On Tuesday, a special court of the pro- 
prietors of this corporation was held at the Bank of England, for 
the purpose of electing a governor and deputy-governor for the year 
ensuing, pursuant to the terms of the charter. The ballot com- 
menced at ten o’clock, and continued till four, when the scrutincers, 
Messrs. Sutton and others, declared William Cotton, Esq., and B. 
Heath, Esq., to have been duly elected, the first as governor, and 
the second as deputy-governor, for the year ensuing. The usual 
oaths having been administered, the court adjourned. The house- 
list of directors were elected without opposition, on Wednesday. 

NEw APPOINTMENTS.—Last night’s Gazette announces that 
Sir H. Pottinger has been appointed Governor and Commander- 
in-Chief of the colony of Hong-kong, and that Wordsworth has 
been appointed Poet Laureate. 

PROCLAMATIONS oF OUTLAWRY.—On Thursday, in the 
Sheriff’s Court, Red Lion-square, Mr. Hemp, an officer of the 
sheriffs of Middlesex, proclaimed the following outlaws :—Charles 
Hunson, George de la Poer Beresford, John Molly, Morgan Smith, 
Henry Addison, William George Smith, Augustus Villiers, Frede- 
rick Farquharson, Thomas Huring, Henry Sapwell, —Solly, John 
Samuel Manning, William Egan, Frederick William Franklin, and 
George Nugent. : 

UNIVERSITY OF LoNDoN.—On Wednesday ® mecting of the 
senate of the University of London was held at Somerset House, 
for the purpose of electing examiners and professors in the sub- 
jects required of candidates in arts, medicines, and laws. The 
Chancellor, the Earl of Burlington, occupied the chair. It was 
stated, that, since the last annual meeting, the University had lost 
one of its most efficient examiners, the Rey. R. Marphy, M.A. 


After a lengthened investigation of the testimonials of the respec- 
tive candidates, the following gentlemen were appointed for the 
ensuing year :—In Classics, T. B. Burcham, Esq., M.A., Barrister- 
at-law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; in Mathematics 
and Natural Philosophy, G. B. Jerrard, Esq., M.A., and the Rev. 
J. W. L. Heaviside, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of Sidney Sussex 
College, Cambridge, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philo- 
sophy at the East India College, Hailybury, vice the Rev. R. 
Murphy ; in Logic, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, the Rev- 
Henry Alford, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and 
T. B. Burcham, Esq., M.A.; in Chemistry, Professor Daniell ; 
the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, the Greek Text of the New 
Testament, and Scripture History, the Rev. W. Drake, M.A., and 
the Rev. T. Stone, M.A.; the French Language, C.J. Delille, Esq., 
of King’s College; the German Language, Dr. Bialloblotzky ; 
Laws and Jurisprudence, Professor Graves, F.R.S.; Medicine, Alex- 
ander Tweedie, Esq., F.R.S.; Anatomy and Physiology, Professor 
Sharpey, M.D., F.R.S. ; Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, 
Professor T. Rymer Jones; Midwifery and the Diseases of Women 
and Children, Edward Rigby, Esq., M.D.; Materia Medica and 
Pharmacy, Jonathan Pereira, Esq., M.D.,F.R.S. It was an- 
nounced that the next examination for the degree of Masters of 
Arts will take place on May 1, and for the degree of Bachelor and 
Doctor in Laws in October. 

Tun Royan Mrinv.—For the last week the employes at the 
Royal Mint have been extremely busy in striking a considerable 
amount both of gold and silver coinage, for the Bank of England, 
the payment of the April dividends commencing to-day in the 
Rotunda, and also at the Sonth Sea House. The quantity of 
bullion at the Bank is nearly £12,000,000 sterling, which is a 
larger amount than for many years past. The long-talked-of new 
half-farthing coinage is, after all, not to be issued, at least this 
year; but a new coinage of penny pieces, halfpence, and farthings 
will be struck shortly, as there is a general deficiency of copper 
currency not only in the metropolis but in the large manufacturing 
and agricultural districts. 

New SovEREIGN WeErIGuT.—The Governor of the Bank of 
England has invented a machine for weighing sovereigns and sepa- 
rating the light ones from those of standard weight. The machine 
is so delicate that it detected with precision a variation of a twelve 
thousand two hundred and fiftieth part of the weight of a sove- 
reign. The coins are placed ina tube or hopper, from whence 
they are carried on to a smail platform which is suspended over a 
dclicately-poised beam, to the other end of which is appended the 
standard Mint weight. On setting the machine at work, a sove- 
reign is placed upon the platform, and if it is full weight, a small 
tongue advances and strikes it off into a till appointed to receive 
it; but if it is light the platform sinks and brings it within the 
reach of another tongue at a lower level, which advances at right 
angles to the former tongue, and pushes the coin into another till; 
other coins succeed in rapid rotation, so that the machine can 
weigh and sort 10,000 sovereigns in six hours; while an expert 
teller can at the utmost only weigh between 300 or 400 coins by 
hand scales in the same time, and even then the optic nerve by 
incessant straining becomes fatigued, and errors occur. 


Linconw’s Inn.—The building for the new dining-hall and 
library is about to be commenced forthwith on a site at the south- 
west angle of the garden, so that its west front, or side, will come 
upon the terrace overlooking Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and its south 
front, or that of the fhall, will be towards ‘ New-square.” The 
style adopted by the architect (Mr. Hardwick) is that of the latest 
Tudor, previous to the corruptions introduced into it by what is 
called Elizabethan: and will, therefore, resemble that of the older 
parts of Hampton Court. The materials, also, will be similar ; 
viz., red brick, interlaced with darkerglazed bricks, and with stone 
quoins and dressings ; thereby producing both a good aud charac- 
teristic effect as to colour, very greatly superior to that attending 
the mixture of either white or yellow brick with stone. The gene- 
ral plan of the building will run north and south, but not ina 
formal, unbroken line; for the library at the north end will be 


placed traversely to the hall and other parts, in the direction of 


of east and west, with an oriel and gable in each of those fronts, 
and three windows towards the north. The dimensions of this 
apartment will be 80 ft. by 40 ft., and 48 ft. high; those of the 
dining-hall 120 ft. by 45 ft., and 54ft. high; and both will have 
open timber roofs, with carved beams, &c. Between these two 
principal portions of the general plan there will be an ietermediate 
one, consisting of a corridor of communication, on the east side 
of which will be a council-room, and on the west a drawing-room, 
or bencher’s room. Thus there will bea good deal of contrast and 
play in the exterior, and also of variety of outline, owing to diffe- 
rences as to height in the roof and to the gables being turned in 
different directions. That over the south end of the hall will be 
flanked by two turrets, between which will be a single large 
window of “ perpendicular” character. There can be no doubt 
that the whole will be a very great improvement, and will help to 
reedem the architectural credit of Lincoln’s Inn, although it is also 
likely to render the modern “ gothicizings” in some of the build- 
ings there still more offensive than they .are at present.—Art 
Union. ; 

KENSINGTON GARDENS.—On the west bank of the Serpentine, 
nearly the whole water frontage has been converted into two mag- 
nificent beds for flowering trees and shrubs, the rhododendrons, 
kalmias, azaleas (150 varieties), magnolias, &c. Messrs. Loddiges 
have just put in 600 named varieties, so that Lord Lincoln seems 
determined that these grounds shall be real gardens, and deserve 
the name of Kensington Gardens. : 

On Wednesday the Lord Mayor gave a grand dinner to Sir R. 
Peel and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers, and also to a numerous 
company, embracing persons of all shades of politics. He has issued 
cards for another sumptuous banquet on Wednesday next, the 12th 
inst. The party will comprise several of the leading members of the 
nobility, Lord John Russell and a large number of the noble lord’s 
political adherents. The number of invitations is, we understand, 
confined to 140. 

THE LATE DR. Ropert Soutney.—The library of this dis- 
tinguished man is consigned to the charge of Leigh Sotheby for pub- 
lic sale, and will speedily be brought to London. The collection, 
inasmuch as very many of the books bear internal evidence of their 
constant use by the late Poet Laureate, will no doubt create con- 
siderable interest. Dr. Southey was ardently fond of Spanish lite- 
rature, in which his library, we believe, is particularly rich. He 
has left personal property amounting to about 12,0001. By his 
will, dated the 26th of August, 1839, he has bequeated to his wife 
all the personal property possessed by her previously to their 
marriage, together with the interest of the sum of 2,0007. during 
her life. The residue of his property, including the above 2,0002. 
he has bequeathed to his four children, Charles Cuthbert Southey, 
Edith Mary Warter, Bertha Hill, and Katherine Southey. equally, 
and in ease of the death of any of them before the testator, their 
share is to be divided amongst their children (if any). The ex- 
ecutors named are Henry Herbert Southey, M.D., of Harley-street, 
and Henry Taylor, Esq., of the Colonial-oftice. 

THe TUNNEL.—We have been favoured with a view of some 
very beautiful medals, struck in honour of the completion of the 
Thames Tunnel, on one side bearing a faithful and admirably 
executed likencss of Sir Isambart Brunel, and on the other a view 
of the stupendous undertaking itself. They are published by Mr. 
Griffin, the eminent jeweller of 25, Change Alley, Cornhill, and 
reflects great credit on his taste and liberality. 


THE PROVINCES. 


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Brovenam Hari.—A gentleman of the name of Bird, who claims 
to be a descendant of the owners of Brougham Hall and the annexed 
estates, has come forward to dispute the ownership with the noble lord, 
and on Tuesday last proceeded with an appraiser to take a schedule of 
the goods of one of the tenants.— Kendal Mercury. 

Rartway Accrpent.—On Tuesday week a slight collision took place 
between the London Mail Train and the Sheffield train; the Sheffield 
one running into the other, and breaking two of the carriages. Hap- 
pily, no person was in the carriages which were broken, but we under- 
stand that Prince George of Cambridge, and Feargus O’Connor, Esq., 
were in one of the first-class carrizges of the London train at the time, 
but sufficiently far from the point of collision to suffer no injury.— Leeds 
Intelligencer. 

Exiraorpinary Suoorinc Frar.—For the past week the shooting 
world has been on the qui vive, from the extraordinary announcement 
of a person being backed to hit 495 penny pieces out of 500 shots. The 
event came off on Thursday, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, at Day’s 
cricket ground, in the presence of a numerous company assembled to 
witness this novel feat, when Mr. Hurst (a well-known shot) shot at 
500, and hit every piece ; thus winning the wager, and performing one 
of the most unequalled feats on record. He shot from three guns, and 
although it took him five hours and ten minutes to xccomplish it, being 
at the rate of 100 shots per hour, he did not appear in the least fatigued. 
—Salopian Journal. 

Cornisu StEam Encines.—By far the largest engine ever constructed 
is now in process of manufacture at Harvey and Co.’s foundry, Hayle. 
The piston-rod, which was forged last week, is 19 feet long, 13 inches 
diameter in the middle, and 16 inches in the cone, and weighs three 
tons 16 ewt. It will work in an 80-inch cylinder, which will stand in 
the middle of another cylinder of 144 inches diameter. Five other 
piston rods will work between the inner and the outer cylinders. The 
80-inch cylinder was cast last week, and the large one will be cast 
soon. The pumps are to be 64 inches in diameter! a measurement 
which may afford some idea of the size and power of the engine. Itis 
intended for draining Haarlem Lake, in Holland.— Falmouth Packet. 

Exmoutu.—It is said to be in contemplation of some capitalists of 
London, to form a harbour at the north of the sea-wall, for which there 
are great natural facilities. In the event of this being practicable, it is 
proposed to form a railway thence to Exeter, keeping ihe shore level to 
Exeter.— Falmouth Packet. 

Tur Execution at Lixcoun.—The wretched man who was tried 
under the alias of Thomas Johnson, for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth 
Evison, of Croft, near Wainfleet, and executed on Friday week, appears, 
as far as the mystery that enveloped the former part of his life has been 
penetrated, to have pursued a long course of mendicity and crime. 
From the time of his condemnation to the night preceding his execu- 
tion he was exceedingly reserved, though the hardihood of his character 
had gradually softened down as the day of his death approached. At 
the time for retiring to rest on Thursday night (the last day but one of 
his life), the governor of the prison, Mr. Nicholson, took some coffee 
to Johnson, who then asked to be permitted to stay up half an hour 
longer, and stated that he had a communication to make ; the request 
was of course granted, and the convict voluntarily stated to the governor 
that his name was Upton; that he came from Tatenhill; that he 
entered the house of the aged pair about ten o’clock, and after striking 
a light with a lucifer match, lighted a candle, and tied Ann Fairweather 
first; that he imagined Mrs. Evison_ died from fright, and was not 
smothered, as was stated. ‘This, it will be seen, substantially agrees 
with the evidence on the trial. ‘There were strong reasons for supposing: 
that there was an accomplice in a person named ‘' Yorkee” (supposed 
to be an assumed name), who had been at the lodging-house at Wain- 
fleet with the prisoner. From the confession it would seem that that 
person had nothing whatever to do with the crime, as the murderer 
stated that Yorkee, whose father lived at a cotiage near Lincoln, had 
only been with him begging three days, for four hours each day. It 
would appear, however, that Yorkee, who has not since been heard of, 
called at the house on the Friday, and that the criminal received a 
penny and Yorkee a halfpenny. ‘The confession was subsequently re- 
peated in the presence of the chaplain and the governor, and the 
criminal expressed his aversion that his friends should know his de- 
plorable end. The execution took place at noon on Vriday, in the 
presence of thousands of spectators. A more numerous gathering of 
people has seldom been witnessed in Lincoln; many came from very 
distant parts of the country, On passing over the Cuastle-yard the 
criminal trembled exceedingly, but seemed penitent and resigned. He 
was assisted over the ground and up the steps to ‘Cob’s Hall,” and 
betrayed no emotion, save that of excessive trembling, until the rope 
was adjusted, when he several times ejaculated, ‘‘ the Lord have mercy 
upon me.” As Great ‘Tom struck the first stroke of 12, the bolt was 
drawn, and after a short and violent struggle, all was over. The body 
having hung until one, was then taken down, andon the next day was in- 
terred within the Norman keep.—Stamford Mercury. : 

Romance or Reat Lire.—A man who is now confined in the New 
Bailey prison for desertion from the army, has recently been discovered 
to be heir to a property worth £100,000. Applications have been made 
to the Horse Guards to obtain his liberation from gaol, that he may im- 
mediately come to the enjoyment of the riches which fortune has so 
unexpectedly showered into his lap. Since writing the above, we Jearn 
that his discharge arrived on ‘Thursday, when he was set at liberty. His 
name is John Flitcroft, and he enlisted early in life into the Royal 
Horse Artillery. His discharge was bought for him many years ago 
but he enlisted again, and had served till within twenty-one days of the 
period entitling him to his discharge, when some comrades having been 
paid off at Sheerness, where his troop was then lying, he got into com- 
pany with them, and, under the influence of liquor, remained away 
from his quarters till his name appeared in the Hue and Cry,as a 
deserter. Shrinking from the consequences of his indiscretion, he then 
came down to Manchester, under the name of Smith, and has been in 
Manchester six years, living part of the time in the barracks, as an 
officer’s servant, without the fact of his being a deserter having trans- 
pired till about three weeks ago, when he was taken and committed to 
gaol. The property was left by a grandfather, we understand, and a 
chancery suit respecting it terminated about a year ago in his favour. 
A cousin then set off in search of him; and though his journey was 
not attended with such extraordinary adventures as those of the Grecian 
youth, who voyaged in search of his father, yet it was a long and 
tedious one; and he travelled to almost every part of the three king- 
doms in vain. He traced him to Manchester several times; but there 
the scent always failed, owing, no doubt, to the change of name. He 
was found at length through advertisements which appeared in the 
Manchester newspapers. He is a man very humble in his manners, 
and of little education; but an anecdote was told us, in connexion with 
his liberation from prison, which smacks a little of aristocratic feeling. 
On being led from his cell intothe prison wardrobe, the turnkey handed 
over to hima suit of clothes which he supposed to be the prisoner’s 
own, to exchange for the prison-dress which he then had on. Fliteroft, 
after examining them, said the clothes were not his. ‘The turnkey re- 
ferred to the book again, in which the prisoners’ names and the situa- 
tion of their clothes are entered, and observed— Oh, I see, it is the 
wrong Flitcroft that I was looking at.” Have you another Fiiteroft 
here, then?” inquired the prisoner. ‘ Yes,” was the reply, ‘*we have 
one here for robbery.” ‘‘ Oh,” resumed the prisoner, ‘* he is of anc- 
ther family, then—he’s not of our generation!” Jt is stated that 
£60,000 of the fortune will be paid to him in ready eash, and the re- 
mainder, in landed property, in the neighbourhood of Ashton-under- 
Lyne, at Staleybridge.— Manchester Times. 

Vue Mayor or Herrrorp rixep.—Mr, Joseph Brown, wine and 
spirit merchant, and Mayor of this borough, was summoned on the in- 
formation of John Bye, officer of excise, for having a deficiency in the 
quantity of his stock of spirits, not accounted for by permit, of 20 gallons, 
viz.:—14 gallons of compounds and 6 gallons of British brandy, 
whereby he had become lable to a penalty of £1 per gallon so unac- 
counted for. Mr. Browne pleaded guilty, and the Bench fined bim in 
ie mitigated penalty of £5, and £3 10s. expenses,— Hertford County 

Press. 
At aninquest held last week, near Huddersfield, seven out of twelve 
jurymen were unable to write their own names.— Liverpool Times. 
New Socrety ry Mancursrer on THE Pian or tur Campen.—A 
new society has just been started in Manchester, under the title of “‘ The 
Cheetham Society,” the object of which is the publication of interesting 
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counties of Lancaster and Chester. It is well known that vast stores of 
valuable unpublished MSS. exist in public and private hands,—a great 
many, for instance, in the Cheetham College library, and the object of 
the society is to raise funds, and, having made a judicious selection of 
the most valuable portions of these works, to print them. ‘The society 
is to be limited to 350 members, each of whom shall subscribe £1 
annually, and be entitled to a copy of the works published: the society 
to be managed by a council of 14 persons, including presidents and 
other officers. About 114 noblemen and gentlemen have signified an 
intention of becoming members already. 

Disrurpances in THE Wetsn Cotiieries.—The Welsh collieries are 
again in such an unsettled state, that at Aberdare, last week, it was 
considered necessary to call out the military. In Monmouthshire the 
whole of the colliers continue on strike, to the number of about 5,000, 
and continue meeting in various parts of the hills. In Glamorganshire 
the works on strike are those of Gelly Gaer, of Pont-y-Pridd, the Duff- 
ryn works, and one or two others. The strike in Monmouthshire 
having now continued for ten weeks, a number of the Monmouth col- 
liers, to the number of about seven hundred, came from Monmouth- 
shire, and having crossed the Taff Vale Railway, compelled the men of 
the Duffryn Aberdare works, and the Gelly Gear works to strike ; and 
from this the strike extended itself to the other collieries. Numerous 
meetings have been held, both by the colliers and by the magistrates, 
but nothing of asatisfactory nature has yet been arranged.— IW orcester- 
shire Chronicle. i 

New Facrory Brt..—Education—The Educational clauses in the 
Factory Bill are exciting intense interest; the high church party as- 
serting that too much is conceded to dissent, while the dissenters look 
upon the bill as a plan for church extension in disguise. We cannot 
but think that the latter have good grounds for alarm, for it is perfectly 
clear that the odds are decidedly against them in Sir James Graham’s 
scheme. Ifthe State be bound to provide education for all those who 
cannot afford to pay for it, why, in the name of all that is good, cannot 
it do so without insisting on teaching religion as wel] as secular know- 
ledge? By all means let a good plain education be attainable by every 
one, but surely it would be better to leave religious instruction to the 
parents or friends of the children, rather than cause dissension and ill- 
feeling by insisting on having it form part of the regular daily business 
of the schools. Serious opposition has already manifested itself to the 
bill—indeed, so much so, that Sir James Graham has consented to post- 
poxe its further consideration till after Easter. In every town, and in 
aioe every village, the dissenters are up in arms.—JViltshire Inde- 
pendent, : 

Tue Crors.—According to all accounts the present appearance of 
the wheat crops is the most promising known for many years, and 
should the weather continue favourable, the harvest will be three or 
four weeks earlier than the average period. 

NovEL IMportTATION.—Among the recent importations at our 
port was one of 235 tons of Mexican copper coin, all of the same 
description, and in value about eight to six of British halfpence.— 
Cambrian. 

ExTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday se’nnight, Mr. 
John Williams, builder, of Luton, possessing brick-fields on the 
London-road, sent one of his labourers with a water-cart for the 
purpose of having it filled with water; the man, after doing so, 
stayed behind for a short time, and allowed the mare (which was 
blind) to go on, which she continued to do until she fell down a pre- 
cipice nearly forty feet deep. After some difficulty the mare was 
disentangled from her dangerous position, and Mr, Heskin, veterinary 
surgeon, from Luton, was sent for, who examined the mare, and, to 
his great astonishment, found that she had not received any injury, 
except a slight abrasion under the left eye. ‘This may be attributed 
to the cart, being much heavier than the mare, reaching terra firma 
first, and thus breaking a fall which must otherwise have proved 
fatal.— Herts County Press. 

THE CHARTIST TRIALS AT STAFFORD.—The protracted trial 
of Cooper, Richards, and Cappur was concluded on Thursday, when 
the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the defendants, but 
recommended Cappur to mercy. ‘The defendants will be brought up 
for judgment next term. 

WHITE’s TRIAL AT BIRMINGHAM.—On Monday the jury re- 
turned with a verdict of Guilty upon the three first counts, charging 
the use of seditious language, and acquitted the defendant on the 
fourth and fifth, which were for riot and unlawful assembling. Mr. 
Baron Alderson was about to pass sentence, when the defendant 
begged that judgment might be deferred until next term, as he had 
not made any arrangements in anticipation of imprisonment, taking 
it for granted that, as in the other cases the sentences had been left 
to the Court of Queen’s Bench, it would be the same in his. Mr. 
Baron Alderson thought the other persons referred to ought to have 
been sentenced at the time of their trials ; it would greatly interfere 
with the ordinary business of the Conrt of Queen’s Bench next term, 
and he thought the public time should have been consulted. After 
some further discussion, the counsel for the Crown offering no objec- 
tion, the learned judge granted the defendant’s request, stating that 
it was the preferable course to him, as far as he was concerned, and 
he did not regret it, because he had just been informed that there 
was not a proper place in Warwick gaol for the confinement of per- 
sons convicted of such offences, and the Court of Queen’s Bench could 
send him wherever they pleased. The Defendant: I shall be entitled 
to be placed amongst the first class of misdemeanants, and not 
amongst common thieves, I presume? Mr. Baron Alderson: yes, 
you will. The Defendant: I hope, my lord, you will have a voice in 
the matter? Mr. Baron Alderson (good humouredly): No, indeed, 
I shall not; if I had I would give it to you, for you have certainly 
deserved it from the manner in which you have conducted your case. 
The defendant then thanked his lordship for his very courteous con- 
duct towards him throughout the trial, and the court rose. 

— There are upwards of three hundred houses unoccupied in the 
borough of Knaresborough, which contains a population of little more 
than 5,000 souls. 

STATE oY HuLL.—A friend of ours has put into our hands the 
following extract from a letter to a gentleman in this town. Ofthe 
truth of the statement no doubt can exist, and we are in possession 
of the name of the writer. We leave it to speak for itself :—“I have 
travelled to Hull for orders for the last forty years in the way of 
business, and never within that period of time have witnessed such a 
deadness of trade. The oldest of my customers said he had realized 
what would support him, and he should be compelled to give up 
business, for that his establishment necessary to ae carrying on the 
trade was such that his profits was swallowed up, and his balance- 
sheet last year was much against him, although he had made no bad 
debts, and this year his loss would be much greater, and he saw no 
chance of any amendment. This is no isolated case, but the same with 
thousands, especially in Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, &c., and the 
surrounding manufacturing districts, in none of which places can the 
expenses of travelling be realized.”— Hull Rockingham. 

READFUL BruTALITY.—An inquest was taken before J. W. 
Cowley, Esq., one of her Majesty’s coroners for the county of Bucks, 
on Wednesday last, at Milton Keynes, on the body of the new born 
male child of Joseph Garrett. The deceased’s mother was taken in 
labour whilst at a neighbour’s louse; she was immediately con- 
veyed to her father-in-law’s, where she and her husband lodged, 
who was inhuman enough to refuse admittance to the poor woman, 
and she was consequently delivered in the public street, in the pre- 
sence of a concourse of neighbours. The child survived until the 
Tuesday morning. The medical man‘was unable to say that it died 
from any other than natural causes. Verdict accordingly. The mo- 
ther lies in a very precarious state. . 

EXTENSIVE’ ROBBERY AT EARL WI1LTON’sS.—On Tuesday in- 
formation was received at the chief oftice of the commissioners of 
metropolitan police, in Great Scotland-yard, of a most extensive and 
daring robbery having been committed on the night of Sunday last 
at the country residence of the Earl of Wilton, Melton Mowbray, 
under circumstances which at the present moment are enveloped in 
mystery. Amongst the property stolen are Bank of England notes 
to the amount of about £200, and notes of the Grantham bank to the 
value of £100 ; also a box containing an old-fashioned gold knife, 
fork, and spoon, with other valuable silver-gilt articles; likewise a 
small gold watch, of the size of half-a-crown piece, having a rose 
in enamel on the back, with various silver pencil-cases, gold snuff- 
boxes, and other valuable and ornamental articles; a sinail solid 
silyer clack, about four inches by two inches, and set round the face 


with turquoises ; a silver Turkish inkstand, with silver chain. &c. &c. 
The exact circumstances under which the robbery has been com- 
mitted have not been suffered to transpire, but the matter has been 
placed in the hands of the detective force. 

at prest, MOON EXTRAORDINARY.—The men of the 4th Dragoons, 
uuu-M. |’ stationed at Chichester, have evinced such a very strong 
io subj, husian disposition, that the officers have found it necessary 


pair? : them to a very strong check. On Sunday last a “ happy 
chiure), pe Joined together in the bonds of wedlock at the Subdeanery 
racks), ut the bridegroom and “ father” had no sooner reached bar- 


getu,,, an they were placed in confinement for breach of discipline in 
sant © married “ without leave.’ Ten couple have had an unplea- 
to put on their progress in the course of love, which, of a 
ertainly never does run smooth. 


INTENDED DuEL At WIxDsoR.—Information having reached 
Mr. Robert Tebbott, the mayor of Windsor, that a ducl was to be 
fought on the morning of Saturday last, between Lieutenant Augustus 
Frederick Hippolito Dacosta, of the Royal Engineers, and Assistant 
Surgeon F. W. G. Calder, of the 2d Life Guards (stationed at Wind- 
sor), warrants to apprehend the principals and their seconds were 
issued at a late hour on the preceding night, and by eight o’clock on 
the following morning Mr. Calder and Lieutenant-Colonel Melville 
Glennie, late of the 6Uth Rifles (the intended second of Lieutenant 
Dacosta), were taken into custody and brought before the mayor, 
charged with an intent to commit a breach of the peace by fighting a 
duel. Lieutenant Dacosta had left Windsor before the warrant could 
be served upon him, and the second of Mr. Calder was also non est. 
The parties, upon appearing before the mayor, did not attempt to 
deny that they were about to fight a duel, although the cause of the 
intended hostile proceeding did not transpire, and the chief magistrate, 
therefore, called upon them to find bail, each of them in the sum of 
£100, and two sureties, in each case, of £5U each, to keep the peace 
towards themselves and all her Majesty’s subjects for the space of 
two years. The required sureties were immediately given, and they 
were liberated. An union which had been in contemplation between 
Mr. Calder and Miss Dacosta, the step-daughter of Colonel Glennie, 
and the sister of Lieutenant Dacosta, and which was lately broken 
off, is said to have been the cause of a hostile message having been 
sent to Mr. Calder by the young lady’s brother. The apprehension 
and examination of the parties were conducted with the greatest 
secresy. 

RESIGNATION OF AN INCOME-TAX COMMISSIONER.—We un- 
derstand that one of the commissioners in this neighbourhood, having 
made his own return, and having been surcharged to twice the 
amount, was so indignant at the douht thus cast upon his veracity 
and integrity, that. he at ounce resigned his oftice.— Liverpool Mer- 
cury. 

tne GREAT WESTERN STEAM-Suip.—This vessel, which sailed 
from Bristol ou the 11th of February, arrived at Funchal, Madeira, 
on the 19th, where she coaled, and sailed again on the evening of the 
20th for New York, which, after a stormy passage, she reached on 
the 12th ult., having been 20 days from Funchal, and 28 from Bristol. 
She left New York on the 16th, and arrived at Liverpool on Satur- 
day, after a passage of 15 days 12 hours. 

— The High Sheriff of Northumberland, pursuant to a ver 
numerously-signed requisition, has convened the county for the 12th 
inst., at Morpeth, to take into consideration the injurious effects of 
the income-tax. 

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—At the half-yearly 
general meeting of the proprietors of this company, held at Carlisle, a 
dividend, at the rate of four per cent., was declared out of the profits 
for the half-year, amounting to 15,065/. 

EXTENSIVE RoBBERY OF Bank Nores.—Wednesday evening 
a young gentleman from Preston, staying a few days in Manchester, 
went to a billiard-room in Market-street, and soon became engaged 
in play. Becoming heated, he took off his coat and threw it aside, 
and continued playing for about an hour, during which time he was 
a winner of several stakes of wine. At length the match being over, 
or the gentlemen tired, he resumed his coat, and left the room. He 
subsequently went to some tavern, and to other places, some of them 
of doubtful reputation; was also at the theatre for a time, and, we 
believe, eventually became much intoxicated, in which state he went 
home to his lodgings, and remained in bed till noon the following day 
(Thursday), when, remembering that he had bank notes to the 
amount of £555, in a pocket-book in his coat pocket, he examined it 
and felt relieved on finding the pocket-book safe. But his satisfac- 
tion was soon at an end, for every bank-note lad been abstracted 
from the book, while other papers and memoranda had been left, and 
the book returned to his pocket. Having been in so many places 
during the night, and in questionable company, of course it was difli- 
cult to say where the pocket-book had been rifled; but it appears 
most probable that it was done while his coat was lying in the 
billiard-room. Information was not given to the police till Thursday 
evening, so that the thief had nearly twenty-four hours’ start. The 
missing property consisted of four bank-notes for £100 each (three of 
Manchester and the other of Liverpool), two (Manchester) notes for 
£20 each (of which six notes the numbers are known), and a £50, a 
£40, a £20, and a £5 note, of which the numbers are not known.— 
Manchester Guardian. 

JXECUTION OF THREE MURDERERS AT DERBY.—On Friday, 
at twelve o’clock, the awful sentence of the Jaw was carried into 
effect at Derby, by the execution of three murderers, Samuel Bon- 
sall, aged 26, William Bland, aged 39, and John Hulme, alias Star- 
bell, in front of the county gaol, situate in that town. The culprits 
were tried and convicted on Monday week last, at the Derbyshire 
Lent Assizes, before Mr. Baron Gurney, for the wilful murder of a 
maiden lady, named Miss Martha Goddard, in the month of Sep- 
tember last, in the villuge of Stanley, about eight miles and a half 
from Derby. <A few days after the commission of the murder the 
prisoners were apprehended ; and, during the period of their impri- 
sonment, Hulme made a confession to the above effect, and that 
Bonsall was the guilty party who perpetrated the horrid offence. 
Since receiving the sentence of death, they have been locked up in 
separate cells, each under the care of two ofticers of the county pri- 
son, who were relieved at certain periods, so that they were not left 
by themselves for a single moment, night or day. p to Thursday 
night their demeanour had not shown any very marked sign of sin- 
cere penitence, excepting Hulme, who was most disposed to commu- 
nicate with those around him. With regard to Bonsall, up to the 
time of his trial, he flattered himself with the hope of escaping death, 
believing that the punishment would be limited to imprisonment ; 
throughout he was most reserved in his conduct, and notwithstand- 
ing his stout denial of being the actual party who perpetrated the 
murder, it is needless to say that not a shadow of doubt is enter- 
tained of his being one of the murderers, and his conversation, in 
fact, betrayed his having had a guilty participation in the ease. The 
Reverend G. Pickering, the chaplain of Derby gaol, and the Reverend 
Mr. Vevers (Wesleyan minister) were unremitting in their exertions 
to bring the wretched criminals to a proper sense of their awful situa- 
tion. However, they maintained the greatest ignorance, endeavour- 
ing up to within a few hours of their ascending the gallows to fix on 
each other the guilt of the perpetration of the crime. Several thou- 
sands of persons assembled in front of the prison to witness the exe- 
cution, and all passed off quietly. It appears that Bonsall and 
Hulme had been concerned in several daring burglaries in the 
county. 

THREATENING TO SHOOT THE QUEEN AND Sir R. PEEL.— 
RocuxsteER, April 1.—John Richmond Ellis, who stood remanded 
on a charge of having threatened to assassinate the Queen and Sir 
Robert Peel, was brought up this day before the Mayor, Edmund 
Buck, Esq., Robert Clements, Esq., and J. Batten, Esq., two of the 
borough Justices. The prisoner, on being placed at the bar, ap- 
peared sensitively to feel the situation his conduct had placed him 
in, and although there was a distinct wildness of expression in his 
eyes, tears were perceived starting from them. Mr. Prall, clerk to 
the magistrates, read over the charge against the prisoner, and the 
evidence that had been taken on a former occasion ; and inquired of 
the prisoner if he had any thing to say? Prisoner—I have not, 
The Mayor— Prisoner, when you were before me on Thursday, I 
felt it my duty to remand you, and directions were given to commu- 
nieate with the Seeretary of State concerning you. The clerk will 
read to you the answer that has been received. Mr. Prall then 


truth, ¢ 


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read the following Jetter: —‘* Whitehall, March 31, 1843.— 
“ Sir,—I am directed by the Secretary of State, Sir James Graham, 
to acknowledge the receipt of yourletter of the 30th instant, forward- 
ing copies of depositions taken before the magistrates of the borough 
of Rochester, relative to certain words of a treasonable and threaten- 
ing description, uttered by a man named John Richmond Ellis ; and 
I am to inform you it appears to Sir James Graham, that it will be 
proper for the magistrates to require moderate and reasonable bail for 
the period of twelve months.” The Mayor—Prisoner, have you any 
one to be bound for you? Prisoner—What bail might be required? I 
amsorry for what I have done ; I had been drinking. The Court said 
they should require the prisoner to find two sureties of 10/7. each, and 
himself in 20/. to keep the peace for twelve months. Prisoner—I 
have no one to be bound forme. I was tipsy at the time, and if I am 
allowed to go at large I will renounce drink altogether. The Mayor 
—You have stated yourself to be a confectioner: for whom did you 
work last ? Prisoner—I have been out of employment for some time. 
The last person I worked for was Mr. Kidman, of Margate. I have a 
wife and child. The prisoner, in answer to other questions, said that 
hehad last worked at Gravesend, and that his father, whose name 
was Edward Ellis, had been a captain in the navy, and had been 
dead 21 years, The Mayor inquired of the station-house-keever, 
Mr. Vine, how the prisoner had conducted himself during his con- 
finement ?—The station- house-keeper said, that during the time the 
prisoner had been under his charge he had been very quiet. The 
Court consulted for some time, when they announced to the prisoner 
that, having taken his case into {their consideration, they revoked 
their former decision, and they therefore required him to enter into 
his own security of 10/., and to find two sureties of 5/. each, to keep 
the peace toward Her Majesty and all her subjects.—Bail not being 
forthcoming, the prisoner was removed from the har, escorted by the 
police. On Thursday, Ellis was removed from the station-house, in 
custody of the police, to the county gaol at Maidstone, where he will 
have to undergo the sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment. Since 
the prisoner appeared last before the city magistrates the following 
additional particulars concerning the life of the prisoner have trans- 
pired. It appears that on his first entry into life, he was bound as an 
apprentice to Mr. S. S. Chancellor, confectioner and baker, of Mar- 
gate, but in consequence of his morose temper and bad conduct, his 
indentures were cancelled, after serving two years, and the prisoner 
then left the town for some years. On the 11th of September, 1838, 
he was charged before William Nethersole, Esq., with being a vagrant 
sleeping in the open air, and was discharged in consequence of the in- 
tercession of his sister, and her offering to assist him. On the 2nd of 
October, 1839, the prisoner was brought up and placed before the Rev. 
Francis Barrow, charged with threatening to murder his sister, and 
he was held to bail for six months, himself in £40, and two sureties 
of £20 each, and not being able to find such sureties, the prisoner 
was committed for six months to Dover gaol, and upon its expiration 
he returned to Margate, and became the associate of the lowest cha- 
racters in the town, when, after some time, the prisoner left to take 
a situation in London, and nothing whatever was heard of him since 
until his apprehension in Rochester. 

Natioxat Cuntosrry.—The polacre brig Principe Michele, under 
Servian colours, arrived at Falmouth from Ibraila on the Danube, on 
Thursday, laden with bones, to perform | quarantine and to receive 
orders. ‘I'his vessel is the only one belonging to the principality, and 
the flag she bears had not been hoisted on the salt seas, until in the 
present instance, for upwards of 400 years, Servia having been, till 
lately, long under Turkish thraldom.—T’almouth Packet. 


— The number of men who continue from their work on various parts 
ofthe hills in Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire is estimated at fiv 
thousand. Their conduct is daily becoming more turbulent, and several 
of the ringleaders have within the last few days been captured and 
imprisoned. ‘ : 

— The Postmaster-General has sent instructions to all the provincial 
postmasters, informing them “that no credit must be given to parties 
applying for money orders, and that any postmaster or clerk granting 
a money order, without at the same time receiving the amount of the 
order, in money or bank-notes, will render himself liable to dismissal.” 


— Atthe Bucks Sessions on Wednesday, Alfred Towers was arraigned 
upon two indictments, charging him with stealing a pair of union gold 
pins, and a malachite pin, the property of Cyril Randulph, and also with 
stealing a gold watch, the property of Lord Dunkellin, the eldest son of 
the Marquis of Clanricarde, pupils at Eaton College; but upon Mr. 
Tindal, the Clerk of the Peace, reading the indictments, it was dis- 
covered that the day of the month had been negligently omitted, and 
the proceedings in this case were, therefore, for the present abandoned . 
An application was then made to the Court to send the case of Cyril 
Randulph and Lord Dunkelin, to be tried at the next assizes for the 
county of Bucks, which was immediately granted. 

— At the Liverpool Assizes, an action was brought by Col. Kinlock 
against the proprietor of the Grand Junction Hotel of Liverpool, to 
recover damages for the loss of property given in charge of the waiter. 
It appeared that two large parcels were carried off, containing jewels 
and apparel, valued at £213. The jury returned a verdict for the 
plaintiff—Damages £150. 

— A curiosity in railway engineering is now in progress in a meadow 
in the parish of New Alresford, Hauts, where Robert Rodney, Esq., 
of the Scotch Fusileer Guards, is constructing a railway in the form of 
a circle, measuring 400 yards, This novel undertaking has now been 
in course of execution about four months, and in its contracted course 
presents several specimens of engineering, such as a tunnel seventy 
yards in length, &c. It is expected that the works will be completed 
and the line opened shortly after Easter. A locomotive engine, and 
{vo beautifully finished carriages are being built to traverse this line. 


Tus Kentisa Wrecxens.—In consequence of the disgraceful 
plunder perpetrated by the wreckers who infest the Kentish coast on 
the late unfortunate occasion of the loss of the schooner Francis, off 
Dungeness Lighthouse, the Lord Warden has commenced criminal 
proceedings against the ringleaders, and their trials are expected to 
come on at the ensuing assizes. So extensive were the depredations, 
that the cargo of the wreck taken was carried into the adjacent towns, 
Lydd and New Romney, by ecart-loads, and sold at the rate of 3d. per 
Ib. Many of them, on the strength of the wreck, purchased moulds, 
and are now carrying on a roaring trade in the candle department. 


Exrraorpinary Escarr or A Convicr From a Rartway Traw.— 
On Tuesday evening a convict, whose name is stated to be Jeremiah 
Hemmings, recently convicted of burglary at the Lancashire assizes, 
made his escape from custody under the following most ext: aordinary 
circumstances :—It appears that on Tuesday afternoon the man Hem- 
mings and several other convicts were being brought up in the custody 
of several officers, in one of the open carriages of the Birmingham train, 
for the purpose of being sent to the hulks at Woolwich. Hemmings 
was handcuffed, but not attached, as is usually the ease, to any of his 
compeers in crime, aud sat by the side of one of the officers on the side 
of the carriage nearest the down Jine. Just prior to entering the Wat- 
ford tunnel, he was seen all right in his place ; but on the arrival of the 
train at the London end of it the man was missed, having jumped out 
of the carriage whilst passing through the tunnel, the train at the time 
going at the rate of between twenty and thirty miles an hour. On ar- 
riving at the Harrow station, the officer gave information to the autho- 
rities of what had happened, and a special engine was immediately 
despatched with him back to the Watford tunnel, where it was expected 
they would have found the lifeless body of the unfortunate man ; but 
after a diligent search, nothing whatever was discovered but his hat ; 
and on inquiring of the policeman on duty near the tunnel, he stated 
that he had observed a man some time before without one, but believing 
him to bea workman on the line, he took no particular notice of him. 
The man has not since been heard of, but every endeavour is being 
made for his apprehension. 

A Mrracutovs Drart.—During the passage down the Thames of a 
detachment of the Life Guards, one of the poor fellows fel! overboard. 
On being brought on board again, his companions would not receive 
him, stating, that he no longer belonged to them, as he had drafted into 
the Cold-stream. 

Aur, Barren.—The Jersey Gazette intimated to its readers last week 
—** We have heard of no local intelligence of importance. Our re- 
porter, having chilblains, 1s afraid of venturing out to seek for some this 
weather ; and the heavy fall of snow has intercepted all communication 
with the exterior.” 


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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 


We have received a spirited letter complaining of the liberties Mr. Bunn 
has taken with various operas produced by him at Covent-garden. 
erhaps the writer’s charges are all correct—but who ever suid that Mr. 
3unn was anything like an arbiter elegantiarum in operatic affairs? 
native composers were sufficiently encouraged here, there would be 
nO occasion for trying mutilations of foreign operas. 
EEcHEY’s VoyaGE To Tur NortTu Pors.—We have received a copy 
of this work (just published by Mr. Bentley), and shall notice it, as its 
interest merits, in our nevt. Had it appeared twenty years ago, it 
would have much facilitated the efforts then being made to discover the 
North-West passage. 
F. M. C. (Chatham ).—Send up the drawings at the price named. 
P. Q.—The idea is absurd to call a middle-uged woman, of certain (or 
uncertain) character, “ the divine Fanny Llsler.” If twenty Queens, 
instead of our own Victoria, had gone to see her dance, it would not purify 
nor un-torty-fy the woman. 


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ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY TIMES. 


SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 18438. 
a 
PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. 

Much said and little done, in Parliament, since our last. We 
might stereotype the sentence, and it would answer, week after 
week, without any alteration. The real business of the Session 
will not commence untilafter Easter. Zhen, we dare say, there 
will be something done—after a fashion! What an admirable 
thing it would be if “ the palaver” (as the Indians call it) were to 
come on after the actual business of legislation! At present, it is 
speech-making versus law-making. 


THE EDUCATION SCHEME. 

The Factory Bill, which has been put off until after Easter, ap- 
pears not likely to pass without very considerable amendments. 
Our readers are aware, of course, that the measure includes provi- 
sions for the education of children and young persons employed iu 
factories. The church-people affect to grumble at its “ liberality,” 
but the Dissenters and Roman Catholics consider that they have 
the chief cause for dissatisfaction. 

Let the bill pass in its present shape, and the result will not 
only be the annihilation of all Sunday and other schools, sup- 
ported by Dissenters, as well as the British and National schools, 
but the provisions of the bill are entirely subversive of all 
the principles of civil and religious liberty,—the appointment of 
trustees, the election of masters, the admission or dismission of 
children being placed entirely under the control of the Established 
Church. 

At the Swansea meeting against this bill, it was stated that the 
51st clause empowers the bishop of the diocese to select a clerical 
trustee for each school, who shall hold office so long as the bishop 
might deem proper, and the trustee so chusen is empowered annu- 
ally to select two church or chapel wardens to be trustees with him. 
The 54th clause enacts that the trustees so appointed shall meet 
once a month to determine upon matters connected with the school, 
and shall transact no business unless three or more be present, the 
clerical trustee presiding ; but a less number than three can dismiss 
any child from such school. The 58th clause is particularly ob- 
noxious, and provides for the introduction of the Church Cate- 
chism, the Liturgy, and other services of the church into such 
schools. True, there isa clause, which has been called the Dis- 
senters’ saving clause, which gives parents the power of objecting 
to their children attending those lectures, but as long as another 
clause empowers the clerical trustee or trustees to refuse admission 
to, or dismiss any child, that clause is of no effect. 

The measure appears to be one for Church Extension; in fact 
to compel people to become of the same mind in religious matters, 
and of placing the education of the rising generation under the 
entire control of the clergy of the Established Church, whether they 
happen to be of the high church, Puseyite, or evangelical party. 
Besides, by appropriating a portion of the poor rate to propagate 
the doctrines of the Established Church, it will compel the members 
of the Society of Friends, and other conscientious Dissenters, to resist 
the payment of that rate, as they would, in paying, be contributing 
towards the promulgation of a religion which they conscientiously 
believed to be erroneous. 


CARBONIC ACID GAS MOTIVE POWER. 


The wonderful invention patented by Isham Baggs, Esq., for 
jmprovements in obtaining motive power by means of “ carbonic 
acid gas,” is one so peculiarly applicable to the present adaptation 
of machinery for the purpose of transition through the atmosphere, 
that we do not deem it superfluous or uninteresting to furnish our 
readers with a brief explanation of its principles. In the first 
place, however, we would direct particular attention to the sin- 
gular advantages which the inventor undertakes to achieve in the 
very outset of his specification; and these chiefly consist in 
the so arranging of its mechanical portions as to render the 
entire engine comparatively simple and beautifully compact ; 
while, from the singular nature of its chemical ingredients, the 
monstrous inconvenience now experienced in all steam locomotives 
in the additional space occupied by, and enormous weight arising 
from their ordinary stock of fuel, will be totally surmounted—thus 
rendering the whole machine light and buoyant in the extreme. 
The principal excellence of this novel power, however, exists in the 
fact of the original materials, through the medium of whose 
propelling energy it is set 3 _motion, being recovered in se- 
parate bodies by decomposition, and ‘ thus in a series of 
admirable operations the same identical volumes of gas 
being used over and over again, without the slightest. di- 
minution, and with not a particle of expenditure beyond 
the original outlay. On reference to the Mechanics’ Maga- 
zine, in which the editor publishes a very explicit account of Mr. 
Baggs’s invention, accompanied by three explanatory engravings ; 
and, on examining the specification itself, we find the entire adap- 
tation of carbonic acid gas clearly, though elaborately described. 
Yet from the extended nature of these two articles, we may per- 
haps be permitted to condense our own outline, culling occasionally 
from each paper, as we deem it either necessary OT advisable. 

The object of the inventor, as before noticed, is to evolve carbonic 
acid in the form of gas, and after it has been used for the moving 
of a piston in a suitable cylinder, to absorb that gas by means of 
certain chemical matters, For this purpose, therefore, two mate- 
rials are employed, namely, super-sulphate of ammonia and car- 
bonate ofof ammonia; which, being respectively contained in two 


vessels, are constantly introduced into a strong receptacle called 
the “ generator.” The gas, which is consequently evolved 
from the combination of these two liquids, is then conducted 
by a pipe to a cylinder having a piston like the steam- 
engine, with valves for opening and closing the ports for the 
induction and eduction of the carbonic acid gas. This gas, after 
each successive operation of the piston, is introduced through the 
eduction pipe into two vessels, containing a solution of ammonia, 
on uniting with which it is converted into carbonate of ammonia, 
whieh carbonate of ammynia is drawn off at intervals into the 
original receptacle of that material. This is one of the two ingre- 
dients recovered. In the meantime, the vessels receiving the car- 
bonic acid gas from the eduction way of the engine, must be con- 
tinually supplied with a solution of ammonia (for the purpose of 
taking of that gas), by a pipe connected with another vessel, into 
which the solution of ammonia is received from a “ still;” into 
which “ still” the sulphate of ammonia is drawn which is, from 
time to time, withdrawn from the “ generator,” and conveyed to a 
separate receptacle not yet mentioned. The formation of sulphate 
of ammonia in the “ generator” being the consequence of the evo- 
lution of carbonic acid from the mixture of super-sulphate of am- 
monia and the carbonate of ammonia, and, by submitting the sul- 
phate of ammonia to heat in a suitable “ still,” or retort, a portion 
of the ammonia is driven off in the shape of vapour, which is ab- 
sorbed by water in an adjacent vessel, the remaining matter in the 
* still being the super-sulphate of ammonia, which is drawn off 
into the original receptacle of that ingredient. And thus is the 
other material recovered. 

For locomotive purposes, however, and likewise for engines of a 
yet more compact nature, the carbonic acid gas is used, without 
the whole process being carried on in the engine itself, in a liquid 
form, contained in iron tubes ; for the same machine there are also 
another series of tubes, charged with liquid ammonia; each of 
these materials, on assuming a gaseous nature, exerts a pressure 
independently against the pistons, and then escaping into a com- 
mon reservoir, styled the “ condenser,” become united, forming 
carbonate of ammonia, which being subsequently decomposed (in 
a similar manner to the one described above) can be re-used. 

Such are the clear and simple elements of this truly beautiful 
invention, at once scientific in its foundation, and self-evident in its 
applicability ; being based on the incontestible laws of chemical 
affinity. And considering the extraordinary economy of carbonic 
acid gas, scattered in boundless profusion, as it is, over the whole 
globe, impregnating the atmosphere, and the organs of animal 
respiration, and the delicious verdure of the whole vegetable king- 
dom; and taking into account also the unequalled propelling 
power of this subtle element,—we look forward with sanguine 
anticipation to the universal adoption of this wonderful invention, 
and the explosion (metaphorically not literally) of all locomotives 
worked by steam. 


ARTS AND SCIENCES, 


——~<+—_- 
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY FOR FARMERS.—No. IV. 


It will be necessary, before we enter into a description of the com- 
pounds of the elements, already under our notice, to give a slight sketch 
of the laws which govern chemical combination. 

Some bodies combine, apparently in every proportion, such as 
sulphuric acid and water, alcohol and water, while others combine 
only in every proportion up to a certain degree, As an instance of this 
species of combination, we have the solution of a salt in water, in 
which, when a certain quantity has been taken into solutia, the water 
will dissolve no more at that particular temperature. But if we examine 
any chemically compound body, we shall find it very differently con- 
stituted ; for in this case a certain weight of each element entering into 
its composition is required ; and if there is an excess of either element, 
it will not enter into combination, or, if it does, the body formed is very 
different. Thus, water is a compound of one atom, or equivalent of 
oxygen, or eight parts, by weight, and are equivalent of hydrogen, or 
one part, by weight; and vo other proportions than these will form 
water. If we have twice.the above quantity of oxygen, or sixteen 
parts to one of hydrogen, we obtain the peroxide of hydrogen, an ex~ 
tremely corrosive fluid, possessing very singular properties. 

This law holds good in all other cases ; thus, sulphuric acid is always 
composed of sulphur, one equivalent, or sixteen parts by weight, and 
three equivalents, or twenty-four parts of oxygen; 1f we have only two 
equivalents of oxygen, sulphurous acid is formed, which differs com- 
pletely from the preceding compound. 

The following is a list of the elements we shall consider, together 


with their equivalents, or combining proportions :— 
Elements. 


Equivalents. 
PATDOR Pes esscsts se tot eet ere otes ieeet ee esterse st 
Oxygenl. .iveeseecescivbelesiccgcscceesescacere GO 
Hydrogen tse ysia'h ser ce de cree etie cc lceis bisaese tal 
INUPO@Eliep cry sens reste er sects kc te te rwckeeedeosy te 
POtaaHU Sct oc ewes ccc he ae ery ons os che eh Uses ance 
Sodiltieecteccctce seer sete tet ee rece eae 
Galciim se cetrcs cece cct cette ee eee cers © 20 
Maenesium seit. seee cohen cece tees heebeestiese dle 
Silichux d3.css ovsle sitsidrets o's sta car uee a coe e co ae oe heme 
Sulplintyc gue csseens testes tc esos Crececis eeecee ees: emlU 
PRospbOrns tic «is 5:45 909s 'o0 55 as ce v40s4 ds te oe ee toe aegoe 
Gliloritie ties aeccaiaree sence cess cerca sthac smucsseO 
Wluopine vs ivi dies asec ca ceo eee tee set es eres sate o ee 
All elements combine, either in the above proportions, or m some 
multiple of them,and hence the use of these equivalent members in 
analysis, for by a simple proportion we can calculate the quantity of any 
particular body we may meet with in a compound submitted to exami- 
nation. ° 
The equivalent of a compound body is the sum of the equivalents of 
its elements ; thus potash is a compound of potassium, 40 or one equi- 
valent, and oxygen 8; so that the equivalent of potash is 40+5=48. 
Compound bodies also unite in their equivalent proportions, so that 
to form sulphate of potash, we reguire 40 parts of sulphuric acid, and 48 
parts of potash, making the equivalent of sulphate ot potash 88. ; 
Having premised thus much, we can proceed with our subject with- 
out the fear of being niisunderstood. : 
Compounps or Carson anp Oxycen.—There are only three direct 
compounds of these elements interesting to the agricultural che- 
these are carbonic acid, carbonic oxide, and oxalic acid, 
mist, ‘Ihe first of these, carbonic acid, is the one we shall 
particularly examine, as it is to it vegetables owe. the supply of 
carbon necessary to their existence. Fora length of time this supply 
was supposed to have been derived from soluble carbonaceous matter 
contained in thesoil, but the late researches of Liebig have proved that 
the soil could not furnish a sufficient quantity, and that the greater 
part is octained from the carbonic acid contained in the atmosphere, 
‘arbonie acid may be conveniently prepared for experiment from 
fragments of chalk or marble, by the action of hydro-chlorie acid (spirit 
of salts), in an apparatus similar to the one described under the head 
Hydrogen. It is also furnished in large quantities by combustion, re- 
spiration, and fermentation. It is accumulated to @ great extent in 
chalk beds, mountains of limestone, and marble ; it 18 also found in 
many mineral waters, as those of Pyrmont and Seltzer. . 
Carbonic acid abounds also in some wells and caverns, where, in con- 
sequence of its great specific gravity, it occupies the lower portion, 
while the upper is tolerably free from it; an example of this kind is 
afforded in the Grotto del Cave, near Naples. ‘This gas 1s also ‘given 
off in great abundance in volcanic regions. J 
arbonic acid has the {following properties :—It has no colour, is 
much heavier than atmospheric air, its density being 1°524, atmospheric 
air being 1000. It is on this account it can be poured from one vessel 
to another, like water. It is incapable of supporting combustion, and is 
not respirable, Water dissolves its own bulk of this gas, at ordinary 
temperature and pressure, and the solution forms a pleasant acidulous 
drink, known under the name of soda-water, ‘This so called soda-water 


is generally nothing more than a solution of carbonic acid ; some makers 
indeed, more honest than the rest, do employ soda in its manufacture, 
but the cheap rate at which it is commonly sold ; renders that addition 
impossible. 

Carbonic acid, though noxious to animal, is necessary to vegetable 
life, in which provision, the infinite wisdom of the Creator is manifested, 
rendering that which is produced by man, and the various processes 
employed by him requisite to vegetables, which in their turn tend to his 
healthy condition, This acid is composed of one equivalent of carbon, 
or 6, and 2 of oxygen, or 16, making its equivalent 22. 

Carzonic Oxipr.—This is also a gaseous body, and may be prepared 
by passing carbonic acid through a red hot porcelain tube, or by ex- 
posing a mixture of chalk and iron filings toa red heat, in an iron 
bottle, like the one used in the preparation of oxygen, It 1s colourless, 
inodorous, and tasteless, like atmospheric air; it is inflammable, and 
destructive of animal life. Carbonic oxide is not known to exert any 
direct influence on vegetable life ; but it is probable that the next com- 
pound, oxalic acid, is formed in plants by its means. It consists of 
carbon, one equivalent, or six, and oxygen eight; thus, its equivalent 
is fourteen. 

Oxatic Acip.—This substance, unlike the two preceding bodies, is a 
solid, resembling somewhat, in appearance, sulphate of magnesia, or 
Epsom salts. It is prepared by the action of nitric acid upon sugar, 
It isa powerful acid, and very poisonous, It exists largely in some 
vegetables, such as the sorrel (oxalis acetosella, whence its name), the 
hairs of the chick-pea, in the leaves and roots of rhubarb, Xc. ina 
free state, When combined with lime, it constitutes the principal solid 
part of many lichens, sometimes amounting to 20 per cent. of the pure 
acid. It is composed of two equivalents of carbon, or twelve, and 
three of oxygen, or twenty-four, so that its equivalent is thirty-six, 
equal to the sum of the equivalents of carbonic acid and carbonic oxide 
united ; and when oxalic acid is decomposed, it furnishes the two other 
oxides of carbon already named. = E ; 

From these facts, its probable formation in the plant will be noticed 
in another paper. 


Wartenr.— Passace toroucn Lrapew Pirrs,—It is, doubtless, within 
the recollection of most of our readers that Professor Clark, of Marischal 
College, Aberdeen, some months since, patented a process for rendering 
water “ less impure and less hard” than the water which is supplied to 
the London public by the existing water companies ; and in a series of 
lectures, which he delivered at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, de- 
precated the apathy of those companies, and expatiuted on the supine- 
ness of their subscribers in submitting to the impure stuff that was 
meted out to them. Now the Professor’s aspersions were well meant, 
and there was certainly a great deal of truth in what he said ; still there 
exists in London and elsewhere an evil of importance, which a great 
many families suffer, having in their own power a remedy; and we 
shall point out in this paper a case which teaches us that it is necessary 
for our welfare to bestow a little care and thought on such a matter ; 
and we would ask, in what can our reasoning faculties be more judi- 
ciously exerted than on the subject of health? When we reflect that 
every animal on the earth, from the ‘genus homo,” down to the most 
insignificant living being, is dependent on the “ crystal fountain,” it cer- 
tainly is a subject requiring our especial attention ; we will leave out 
of the question the whole race of teetotalers, brandy-and-water drinkers, 
&e., as a class of the community capable of taking care of themselves ; 
but we ought not to forget that the poor domestic animal is at the mercy 
of the ignorant as well as of the intelligent, and can have no means of 
protecting itself. When we look at beautiful wild nature, and see the 
stag roaming at his leisure among his hundred companions, we cannot 
help reflecting on the happy state of these noble creatures ; they require 
no doctors, Nature’s instinct is their only counsellor ; 

They crop the flowering shrub, 
And drink of the pure stream, 
Which Nature, in her bounty, has dispensed, 


without danger; but let us look at the condition of the horse, the 
dog, &c. &c., how different is their case ; for them we must have our 
veterinary surgeon, &c.—and why? because we take them from their 
state of nature, and having done so, leave them without considering 
either their comfort or health. Again, to our nobler selves; our own 
human race, contrast nine-tenths of the civilized world with the beings 
of unsophisticated nature ; instead of the muling, puling stamina of 
the former, we find them healthful and vigorous, both in body and 
mind. No gout, no dispepsia, no plethora, no necessity for those 
abominable pharmaceutical preparations, blue pills and black doses, 
assails him—he seeks his antidote amongst his native wilds; in fine, 
there is no living thing in creation not dependent on water. We appre- 
hend that the generality of our readers are aware that the more pure 
the water, the larger is the quantity of carbonic acid gas contained in 
it, giving it a greater susceptibility for any impurity from the surface 
over which it has to pass, and a capability for certain chemical action 
on different substances, forming what 1s technically called a salt of the 
metal with which it may be brought in contact ; and yet we find in use, 
for general purposes, this very application, in the form of lead pipes, 
tanks, cisterns, &c. &c., either as a means of conveying water from the 
supply to our own “locale,” or as a reservoir for our domestic pur- 
poses, a practice which cannot be too much deprecated ; the action is 
this: —The carbonic acid in the water enters into combination with the 
lead and forms a salt, called carbonate of lead, which is in itself a 
poisonous compound ; and, in all human probability, is the cause of 
many of the ailments ‘‘which our flesh is heir to.” Now, how much 
of this inconvenience might be remedied, by simply taking notice of 
the means which nature adopts in the transit of her gifts; does she 
supply us through aqueducts of poison?’ No. Neither need we adopt 
such a proceeding: the slate, the stone, or the brick, as a cistern, and 
a wooden trough, or other innoxious material, for its supply, would be 
all that is required. On an analysis of some water from one of the 
departments of the Royal establishments (which was procured for the 
laboratory of the Royal Polytechnic Institution for the purpose) being 
made, it was found that in the first sample, which was taken from the 
pure spring, the water was perfectly free from any trace of lead, This 
spring, being at some considerable distance from the place where it is 
required (viz., the kennel of her Majesty’s hounds), it is conveyed 
thence through pipes of lead ; on the second sample (mind, taken from 
the pipes !) being submitted to analysis, the quantity of lead contained 
therein amounted to 1-312 grs., or approaching 13 grs. of carbonate of 
lead to the imperial gallon of water; there can, therefore, be but strong 
grounds for presuming that the disease called kennel lameness in sport- 
ing phraseology, and which now rages amongst the hounds there, is 
caused by the quantity of lead taken into the stomach of the poor animals ; 
and what gives us a greater desire to promote some attention to the 
subject is the fact, that not only the canine race, but the human also are 
sufferers, as in more than one case aspecies of paralysis, and effects 
similar to the painter’s cholic, has attacked the attendants at the kennel, 
one of whom (we believe one of her Majesty’s whippers-in ) is now suf- 
fering from it, Having presented these data, and traced as far as pos- 
sible some probable cause for such casualties, we take leave of the 
subject with a sincere hope, that in the proper quarter some investiga- 
tion of a scientific character will be made “ pro bono publico.”—Illus- 
trated Polytechnic Review. 4 

Coat, Lime, anp Inon.—A correspondent of the New Sealand Journal 
says :— The great difficulty in making iron is the almost impossibility 
of finding lime, coal, and iron near together, Jron cannot be made 
without the three, and they are all so heavy, that it will not pay to make 
iron where « long carriage is necessary for any one of them. ‘The 
riches of Staffordshire have arisen from lime-stone being found under 
the castle at Dudley, in Worcestershire ; but the coal and iron of Staf- 
fordshire by themselves, were of little value; the lump of lime-stone 
at Dudley, by itself, is worthless. A canal was cut, from the lime-stone 
into the thick bed of coal (ten yards thick in Staffordshire), under which 
is iron-stone, which the coal could not convert into iron without lime to 
flux it. This thick bed of coal, with iron underneath, sells for £1,000 
per acre (that of Mr. Attwood’s sold to the British Iron Company was 
£2,600 per acre), as fast as the canal is cut into it. No attempt is made 
to use it away from the canal ; as soon as it is worked out as far as the 
canal goes, the canal company finds it worth its while to cut it forward 
into the bed of coal, and thus the lime stone'at Dudley has produced an 
immense sum of money to its owner, the Lord Dudley and Ward. ‘The 
coals and iron of Staffordshire have produced incomes which were 
never heard of until late years, and the Canal-company have made a 
very profitable investment in bringing these heavy materials together.” 


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Since our last the public have been startled by intelligence 
from India, received by extraordinary express, in advance 
of the Overland Mail. It ran to the effect that “A divi- 
sion of 2,700 men, under the command of Sir C. Napier, 
supported by three steamers, wishing to occupy the course 
of the Indus, was attacked, on the 17th of February, near 
Hyderabad, by 22,000 Hindoos, commanded by the Ameers 
of Scinde. 
routed, abandoning fifteen pieces of cannon, and four thou- 


After a desperate struggle the enemy were | killed. 


{sand killed and wounded. Hyderabad is occupied; the 
Ameers have been taken prisoners. The English division 
has had two hundred and fifty-six killed or wounded.” It 
added that “A mutiny broke out, on the 21st of January, 
in the garrison at Manilla. ‘The artillery reduced the mu- 
tineers, and blew up a powder magazine, of which they had 


taken possession. Six Spanish officers were wounded or 


On the 23rd, order was quite restored.” 


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This news which was published on ‘Tuesday, was naturally 
considered of first-rate importance, and further particulars 
were looked for with intense anxiety. The following official 
report has since come to hand :— 

BomBay Cast te, Feb, 27. 

On the morning of the 15th instant, a body of 8,000 men 
with six guns, under the command of Meer Shadad Khan, 
one of the principal Ameers, his cousin Meer Mahomed 
Khan, and many of the principal Chiefs, took up a position 
on three sides of the British Residency at Hyderabad, and 
attempted to force an entrance into the enclosure, which was 
surrounded by a low wall of from 4 to 5 feet in height, and 
defended by Major Outram’s escort, composed of 100 men. 
* * * * After keeping the enemy at bay for nearly 
four hours, and after almost the whole of their ammunition 
was expended, Major Outram and his brave associates effected 
their retreat in the best possible order to the iron steamers 
Planet and Satellite, and ultimately formed a junction with 
Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., at Hala. 

The loss sustained in this heroic defence reflects much 
honour on the defenders, and is stated to amount on the side 
of the enemy to 90 killed, and many wounded. 

On the following day, the 16th instant, Major-General Sir 
Charles Napier, K. C. B., marched to Mutharée, and on his 
arrival there ascertained that the Ameers were in position 
at Meeanee, distant about 10 miles, to the number of 22,000 
men. Being aware that any delay for reinforcement would 
both strengthen the confidence of the enemy and add to 
their numbers, although his own force was not one-seventh 
part of that of the enemy, Sir Charles Napier resolved upon 
making an immediate attack, and accordingly marched to- 
wards Meeannee at 4 o’cleck in the morning, the 17th. At 
8 o’clock, a.m. the advanced guard of Major-General Sir C. 
Napier’s force discovered the enemy’s camp, and at 9 o’clock 
the British troops formed in order of battle, being composed 
of about 2,800 men, of all arms, and 12 pieces of artillery. 
The enemy opened a most determined and destructive fire 
upon the British troops, and during the action which ensued 
with the most undaunted bravery repeatedly rushed upon 
them, sword in hand; after a most resolute and desperate 
contest, which lasted upwards of three hours, the enemy 
was completely defeated and put to flight with the estimated 
loss of about 5,000 men, 1,000 of whom were left dead on 
the field, together with the whole of their artillery, ammu- 
nition, and standards, a considerable quantity of stores, and 
some treasure. 

The following day, Meer Roostom Khan, Meer Nusseer 
Khan, and Meer Wullee Mahomed of Kyrpore, Meer Nus- 
scor Khan, Meer Shadad Khan, and Meer Hussein Khan, 
of Hyderabad, came into the camp of Major-General Sir ©. 
Napier, and unconditionally gave themselves up as prisoners 
of war, and the British colours were hoisted over the city of 
Hyderabad on the 30th inst. 


BOOKSELLERS’ PROVIDENT RETREAT.—The first meeting of 
the committee and subscribers interested in the establishment of 
the above asylum took place at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate- 
street, James Nisbett, Esq., in the chair. The meeting was attended 
by most of the principal publishers and booksellers in the metro- 
polis ; among whom were Cosmo Orme, Esq., James Duncan, 
Esq., B. Green, Esq., Charles Tilt, Esq., Messrs. Piper, Newman, 
Taylor, &c. The Chairman opened the proceedings by stating that 
the object proposed was to afford a comfortable residence, within 
a short distance of London, to their less fortunate brethren who 
might need such an asyluin in old age. 


eived-liberal support from many members of the trade, the sub- 


i. -<{ * scriptions at present in hand amounting to £1,200. Mr. Duncan, 
<__j- dn moving \the first resolution, “ That a society be now formed, to 


“be called the Bookseller’s Provident Retreat,’ congratulated the 
meeting on the success which had attended their efforts in estab- 


~~ hshing the parent institution, the invested capital of which already 


amounted to £12,200, while its funds had been liberally distri- 
buted tova large number of afflicted members, from whom letters 


Wier xv Piiseiste! acknowledgment had been received. The motion hav- 


ng: been seconded, was earried by acclamation. 


Mr. Spottis- 
moved the next resolution recom- 


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ws pipe? the Bookseller’s Provident Institution, and had alrendy 


The remainder of the official report merely notices the 
gallant conduct of several officers whom it names —laments 
the fate of several who fell in battle—thanks General Napier 
and the troops—declares the British loss to be—63 killed, 
and 194 wounded ; and orders that ‘a royal salute be fired 
this day from the garrison of Bombay in honour of this vic- 
tory, and that a similar salute be fired at all the principal 
military stations under this Presidency on the receipt of 
this order. 

In a leading article, we have stated particulars respecting 
the motives and causes of this war. : 


AFFGHANISTAN. 

The intelligence from Affehanistan is that anarchy con- 
tinues to prevail there. Akhbar Khan is said to be master 
of Cabul, and his father Dost Mahomed is proceeding from 
Lahore towards Peshawur, as if to join him. Akhbar Khan 
has threatened to invade the province of Peshawur, and to 
take it from the Sikhs, but the good treatment of old Dost 
Mahomed by the latter may prevent that invasion. From 
Candahar news has been received that Sufter June had been 
compelled to quit that city, and to seek safety in Hight. 


INDIA PROPER. 

Lord Ellenborough, who had arrived at Delhi on the 5th 
of February, was preparing to go to Agra, where his pre- 
sence was considered necessary, not only on account of the 
death of Scindia, the powerful chief of Gwalior, at the ace 
of 27 years, to whom an adopted heir has been named, but 
also in order to contribute by various arrangements to put 
an end to the disturbances in the Bundelkund districts. 
Among the reports was one that the Brahmins of Somnauth 
had declined to receive the much-talked-of gates, which they 
regarded as polluted by their application to a Mohamedan’s 
tomb, and that these celebrated trophies were to be sent to 
another destination. 

The Courts Martial on the officers engaged in the proceed- 
ings at Cabul have terminated in the acquittal of all ; but 
though the verdict of “ not guilty ” has been pronounced for 
each; there is a most marked distinction made on the re- 
marks of the Governor-General aud of the Commander-in- 
Chief, as to the opinion formed of the acts of Major Pottinger 
and the other leading officers. ie 


CHINA. 

The latest intelligence trom Canton comes down to the 
2ist of January, from which it appears that the Imperial 
Commissioner Elepoo had arrived there on the 10th, but it 
was doubted if the negotiations respecting the tariff would 
commence until after the beginning of the Chinese new year 
which was on the 30th of January. Sir Henry Pottinger 
had left Hong Kong for Canton on the 17th, in order to pay 
a visit of ceremony. Colonel Malcolm left Bombay on the 
18th of Februry, on board a steamer, in order to deliver the 
ratified treaty to the Plenipotentiary, 


mending the purchase of a piece of freehold land, on which to 
erect the Retreat, which was seconded by W. Jerdan, Esq., in an 
eloquent address. Mr. W. Jones, Secretary to the Religious Tract 
Society, moved the appointment of a committee to conduct the 
preliminary arrangements, consisting of the following fifteen gen- 
tlemen :—Messrs. Nisbett, Duncan, Rodd, Baldock, Malcolm, 
Bigg, Sharp, Foss, Bourn, Hodgson, Brown, Newman, and Leftley. 
The motion was unanimously adopted, after which a long list of 
subscriptions was announced by the Secretary, among which the 
following may be mentioned :—Mr. C, Orme, £105 ; Mr. Nisbet, 
£52 10s.; Mr. Whittaker, £21, and £52 103. for the Provident 
Institution ; Mr. Hood, of the same firm, £52 10s. ; the Religious 
Tract Society, £52 10s. ; Mr. Tilt, £21 ; Mr. H. Colburn, £21 ; 
Mr. Alderman Kelly, £21 ; Mr. Duncan, £21 ; Mr. Bagster, £21, 
and Mr. Spottiswoode, £21. The total omount received in the 
room was £450, Several other resolutions were then put and car- 
ried, after which thanks were yoted to the chairman and the 
meeting adjourned. 

A correspondent of the Times says, that at this time there are 
between £40,000,000 and £50,000,000 of money in the hands of 
the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery @ considerable 
portion of which is kept from the starving and suffering suitors by 
the want of progress in the Master’s office. 


MAUNDY MONEY. 


eS ee desuetude, it is singular that the custom of 
giving maundy money should so long have 
stood its ground. To each of our readers 
who may be curious to learn the preserva- 
(Y tion of this gift, we would advise a visit on 

’ Thursday next to the chapel, at Whitehall, 
where the interesting ceremony of bestowing 
the maundy takes place at eleven o’clock. 
According to the number of years attained 
by the reigning monarch, so is the amount of the maundy regu- 
lated ;:and to as many persons also as may receive the bounty, 
there is a present annually made in kind as a species of substitute 
for the monarch washing their feet which was originally done. 
We subjoin illustrations of the present maundy money struck off 
at the Mint for presentation on Thursday next, and consisting of 
silver penny, twopenny, threepenny, and fourpenny pieces. 


The die is remarkably well executed, and the appearance of the 
coins altogether, may be pronounced remarkably neat. The four- 
penny piece is distinguished from those generally in circulation by 
the crown being elevated above the figure, instead of Britannia 
being seen on the sea-shore as usual. Twenty-three persons will 
receive this year the Royal Bounty. 


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Art-Uxton or Lonpon.—The committee of this association 
advertised a premium of £69 pounds in October last, for a series 
of ten designs in outline, illustrative of British history, or of some 
English author. In reply, thirty sets were forwarded, and the 
committee yesterday awarded the premium to a series illustrative 
ofsss Pilgrim’s Progress,” which, on opening the sealed letter accom- 
panying it, was found to be by Mr. H.C. Selons. Some of the 
designs are decmed so satisfactory, that honorary premiums have 
been awarded to the authors of them. 

— Daguerrcotype, if we can credit a letter from Nice, of the 
27th ultimo, in the Presse, has just received the last mark of per- 
fection in that city. “‘ We hasten,” says the communication, ‘ to 
inform our friends in France of the marvellous discovery which 
has just been made here. Chevalier Tller, whose talents as an 
artist are well known, has just arrived at the means of producing 
Daguerreotyped pictures of various colours, exactly representing 
nature. The likeness and the colouring are imparted together, and 
just as rapidly as in the usual manner. This process has also this 
advantage, of supporting the double test of heat and water.” 

Hoax.—On Saturday night the walls of Bath were placarded 
with notices (having attached to them the names of London 
printers), stating that, at the request of Mr. Roebuck, the ‘ Aérial 
Steam Coach” would commence its proceedings on Monday, by 
making a trip from London to this city, and that it would alight 
on Beechen Cliff at half-past one ‘* Bath time,” after a journey of 
“29 minutes.” Experience having shown us that there are no 
promises, however monstrous, which will not find those who are 
credulous enough to take them for sober seriousness, we were not 
surprised to sce the crest and sides of Beechen Cliff crowded, at 
the hour named in the aforesaid bills, by some hundreds of per- 
sons, all eagerly agape for the appearance of the flying visitor from 
town. Large numbers stood their ground long after the appointed 
hour, under the conviction that the delay in the arrival of the 
machine was most probably caused by some little mishap, incident 
to its first journey, and that it would certainly arrive in the course 
of the afternoon. The honse-tops in the lower part of the city 
also displayed numerous groups of anxious expectants.— Bath 
Chronicle. 


THE CASTLES OF ENGLAND.—NO. V. 


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HATFIELD HOUSE. 


ERHAPS the reader who has wandered 
‘ through the fertile, albeit somewhat flat 
county of Herfortshire, has met with, in 
) his wanderings between Hertford and St. 
* Albans, an old monastic edifice, with a 
rounded turret and pointed windows? We 
say has met with—using the past tense ad- 
~ visedly, for the remainder of the old puild- 
ing no longer exists, having been consumed 
at the time the deplorable conflacration 
took place, which destroyed the late 
Dowager Countess of Hatfield, at the ad- 
vanced age of ninety-one, in the flames. 
Well, this building is—or rather was—Hat- 
field House, for the grey tower represented 
in our engraving is all that exists to show what has been. The 
olden structure, of which this is the last relic, claims the Norman 
era for the time of its nativity, and such, we believe, has never 
been disputed. The grounds are extensive, and the woods and 
preserves adjoining furnish a plentiful supply of game, whilst the 
charms of nature, under a skilful master, have been carefully im- 
proved and matured by the graces of her sister Art. ¥ 


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73 


CHELSEA COLLEGE. 


HERE is the heart which 


of Chelsea College” is flung 
upon the ear! what flashing me- 
mories of Cressy, Poictiers, Agin- 
court, and the rest of the trum- 
pet-tongued victories of yore cross 
ne this wayward fancy of the sound! 
5 ‘ But whilst one of its buildings ex- 
ertssuch magic, to what a number of heart-stirring associations does 
the word “ Chelsea” give rise? Here have resided Sir Thomas More, 
Holbein, St. Evremond, Pym, Walpole, Hans Sloane, Nell Gwynne, 
the Duchess of Mazarin, and a hundred other personages equally 
as famous for their genius or their virtue, their wit or their beauty, 
their patriotism or their sufferings. 


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about the very trees a3 seen from the river; they seem to droop 
over the margin to kiss their shadows; the solemn and antique 
church, the venerable college, and the elm-arched Cheyne walk, all 
conspire to interest the heart and attract the eye, and despite the 
flaunting elegance of new buildings or the prim precision of modern 
streets, there they stand relics of a bygone age, to admonish whilst 
they adorn the present. Chelsea Hospital is said to have derived 
its origin from a suggestion of the quondam orange-girl, Nell 
Gwynne, made to her lover, Charles the Second. Be this as it may 
—and we shall presently consider on what foundation the assertion 
rests—it is alike honourable to all the parties concerned, and few 
will hesitate to concur in our eulogistic remark, when we assert 
that this institution ranks as one of the first which adorns the en- 
virons of our modern Babylon. 


It is always a melancholy duty to destroy 
this is not rarely the task of the antiquary- 
footsteps of truth should be followed, let her : r 
she may, we are bound to acknowledge that after disturbing the 
dust of some choice antiquated tomes, which bear any reference to 
this subject, we are reluctantly compelled to disprove the assertion 
of Eleanor Gwynne haying had any connection at all with the 
origin of this noble institution. The fact is, except as to traditional 
anecdote, this reference to Eleanor Gwynne chiefly depends on the 
remarks made by the anonymous author of her life, published in 
1752. Before that time we meet with no mention of the circum- 


pleasing traditions, but 
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tee ae Tee hospital, which bore for its sign a fanciful 
portrait of Nell Gwynne, with an inscription beneath, signifying 


that the foundation took 


at place in consequence of her desire, but 
this is more likely to have ‘ 


» been occasioned by vacue tradition 
we have alluded to, rather than any Seer such sup- 
position. The site of the hostel, ho 
pleasing associations. Here did many a thoughtless wight in 
* Bess’s Golden Days,” puff his pipe, and carol away the real and 
imaginary ills of life—here were the principal events, from the 
Spanish Armada to the Trafalgar victory, learnedly discussed by 
village politicians, and here did many a veteran from the neigh- 
bouring college recount the dangers he had passed, and shoulder- 
ing his crutch, show how fields were won. But to return to the 
subject of our illustration. In the month of August, 1838, some 
workmen, excavating the ground on which this chapel stands, 
found a mass of haman skeletons, perfect in their preservation, 
and indubitably within a few years of two century’s antiquity. 
These were discovered to be the bodies of the first partakers of this 
college’s hospitality, and since then nearly ten thousand pensioners 
have received its bounty. Their treatment is universally charac- 
terised by kindness and indulgence; and Wilkie never designed a 


» however, revivifies a train of 


happier picture, than when he portrayed the denizens of the Col- 
lege bending over the “ Gazette,” with a smile of intense gratifica- 
tion gleaming on every countenance. We have not now space 
to enter into a long historical account of the College, even if 
we did not intend to pursue the subject in an early nam- 
ber, but shall at once revert to the Chapel, an illustration of 
which is prefixed to our sketch. The arrangement of the 


building, it will be at once perceived, is in unison with those 
sacred offices for which it was designed, and presents a pleasing 
specimen of the florid style of architecture. Around the Hall are 
various flags captured in the different battles. ‘The pair to the left 
were taken from the Reliance and Eagilein the retreat of the Penin- 
sular army from Madrid. 

The next is a Nepaulese standard captured by Lord Com- 
bermere. A little further on is the flag taken from the Mah- 
rattas by Sir Arthur Wellesley; beyond are two French eagles 
captured at Martinique, and the rest are chiefly those of modern 
conquest amongst which the Chinese signals may be readily dis- 


covered, We shall resume the subject at an early period, when 
we intend illustrating the other portions of this noble edifice, which 


deserves a@ much longer notice than our prescribed limits will at 
present allow. 


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Stxeie ror tun Mii0n.—There is no doubt that Singing for the 
Million will take firm hold of the public mind, mouth, tongue, and 
teeth, so that the ordinary business of every-day life will be set to music. 
We should recommend, in the first instance, the adoption of popular 
tunes for the purpose of more speedily familiarising the people with the 
process we are first approaching to, We understand that is the inten- 
tion of the Sheriff, on the occasion of any future proclamations of out- 
lawry, to have them set to the magnificent tune of ‘‘ Come, if you dare ;”’ 
and the learned Commissioner will, it is said, declare the expected divi- 
dend in Lord Huntingtower’s bankruptcy, to the popnlar aur of “ Sing 
asong of sixpence.” ‘The evidence in cases of picking pockets might 
be arranged to the touching melody of ‘‘ We met, ’twas in a crowd if 
and prisoners could harmoniously confess when taken in the fact at the 
line, ‘ His eye was upon me.” Bankrupts could surrender to the popu- 
lar strain of “I give thee all, I can no more;” and the House of Com- 
mons might be counted out to the pleasing accompaniment of “ One, 
two, buckle my shoe,” which it would be easy fora clever man like the 
present Speaker to carry on as far as ‘thirty-eight, thirty-nine, then 
I'll be off to dine,” which (if accompanied by a precipitate retreat from 
the House) would amount to an adjournment. 

— What is the difference between a viaduct and an aqueduct? A 
via duck is a land duck, and a aqua duck is a water duck. 

JENicma.—I am between a man and a horse in civilization, but am 
unknown to either in their savage state. Whatam I? A saddle. 

— A fortune hunter being in a ball-room at Bath, heard a gentleman 
ceiving an account of a rich old widow thus: “ Died, yesterday, in her 
cighty-ninth year,” said the narrator. ‘ What a pity!” exclaimed the 
fortune hunter— What a fine match she would have made two days 


ago!” 


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THE COURT. 
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ACCOUCHEMENT OF HER MAJEstTy.—Every preparation has 
been made at Buckingham Palace in anticipation of this highly 
interesting event, which is expected to take place before the termi- 
nation of the ensuing week. It will be remembered that (in No- 
vember, 1841) for several days previously to the birth of his Royal 
Highness the Prince of Wales, and up to the morning of the day 
preceding Her Majesty’s accouchement, the Queen, accompanied 
by her illustrious consort, promenaded daily, as usual, in the pri- 
vate grounds attached to Buckingham Palace; thus showing that 
the general health of the Sovereign upon that occasion, as upon 
the present, continued in its usual state of excellence to the latest 
period. The following physicians will be in attendance at Buck- 
ingham Palace at the accouchement of Her Majesty :—Dr. Charles 
Locock, first physician accoucheur to the Queen; Dr. Robert Fer- 
guson, second physician accoucheur; and Sir James Clark, Her 
Majesty’s physician in ordinary. Mr. Richard Blagden, surgeon 
accoucheur to the Queen will also be in attendance. Mrs. Lilly, the 
monthly nurse, who was in attendance upon Her Majesty at the 
birth of the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, has received 
the Queen’s commauds to resume her important duties upon the 
forthcoming auspicious occasion. The Court is not expected to 
return to Windsor until a few days before the Ascot races. Her 
Majesty, should the state of the Sovereign’s health permit, has 
arranged to leave Buckingham Palace for Claremont within a 
month from the period of the Royal accouchement, and there to 
remain for about a week or ten days, returning from thence to 
Buckingham Palace for a few days previously to the Court’s de- 
parture to Windsor for the summer season. 

On Monday a Privy Council was held at Buckingham Palace. 
Tt was attended by Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Trea- 
sury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial 
Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of 
the Board of Control, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Lord 
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the 
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. Her Majesty having ap- 
pointed the Duke of Montrose to be Lord Lieutenant of the county 
of Stirling, his Grace took the oaths appointed to be taken. The 
Queen having appointed Colonel Hugh Baillie to be Lord Lieute- 
tenant of the county of Ross, the Colonel was also sworn into 
office. The Queen gave audience to Lords Wharncliffe, the Duke 

We'¥ngton, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl 

katdeen, Lord Stanley, and Sir J. Graham. 


HEALTH OF HER MAseEsty.—All the arrangements have been 
made at Buckingham Palace for the interesting event in the Royal 
household, which may now be very shortly expected. The at- 
tendants have been all summoned to their posts, and the apart- 
ments assigned to the physicians have been prepared in case of a 
sudden emergency. 

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS.—The royal children will, it is 
fully expected, reside for the benefit of the sea air in Lord Ashbur- 
ton’s villa, at Stoke’s-bay, during theensuing summer, An officer 
of the Household has this week been inspecting the premises, to 
ascertain if it contains sufficient accommodation for Lady Lyttel- 
ton, the governess, and the small household that will accompany 
the interesting infants. No situation in England is better adapted 
for the purpose designed than that fixed on; it is dry and com- 
manding, without being so elevated as to court the keen air, and 
is far removed from any stagnant water, or the miasma arising 
from tidal mud land, the shore of Stoke’s bay being sand and 
shingle-—Hampshire Telegraph. 

Fine Arts.—The portraits of the Queen and Prince Albert, 
painted by Winterhalter, a German artist of some eclebrity, are now 
on view at Messrs. Colnaghi and Puckle’s, Cockspur-street. It 
has been mentioned that these portraits were painted by command 
of her Majesty, for the purpose of being presented to the King of 
the French. They were lately carried to Paris and formally pre- 
sented to his Majesty,and have been conveyed back to this country 
for the purpose of being engraved. The portrait of the Queen is 
certainly a striking likeness, though we can hardly think it a flat- 
tering one. It is a half-length figure, seen in profile; but the 
head is turned round, and presents nearly a front view. The 
artist has placed a flower in one of the hands. If an objection can 
be made to the conception, we should think that it might be 
thought to want majesty. As regards its execution it isnot so easy 
to judge, as the light by which it is shown is artificial ; but it 
struck us as being painted in rather too low a key, and here and 
there we detected some harshness of touch. The drawing, how- 
ever, is unexceptionably correct. The portrait of the Prince is 
only sufficiently like to be known, and it presents the same beau- 
ties and defects as that of the Queen. These portraits are to be 
engraved in line by artists of eminence: that of the Queen by 
Forster, and that of Prince Albert by M. Louis, whose recent en- 
graving of Napoleon has been so justly commended. 

— Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. Edward Anson and Colonel 
Bouverie, did Sir George Hayter the honour to visit his collection 
of historical pictures of the House of Commons in 1833, the House 
of Lords in 1820, &c. On Monday, the Archbishops of Canter- 
bury and York, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Argyll, 
Lords Monteagle and Colborne, the Earl of Verulam, the Countess 
of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, and a great many of the 
Nobility and Members of the House of Commons, also inspected 
the collection in the Egyptian Hall. 

Viscount Melbourne, who intended to come to town from 
Brockett-hall immediately after the Easter recess for the season, 
has altered his arrangements, and it is doubtful whether he will 
leave his seat in Hertfordshire before the last week in the ensuing 
month or early in June. 

Lord Brougham leaves town for Paris at the close of the present 
week. He will visit Cannes, his estate in the south of France, and 
it is his intention to sojourn there until after the Easter recess, 

VISIT OF THE KING or HANOVER.—There is not the slightest 
doubt but His Majesty fully intends to visit this country in the 
eourse of the ensuing month. It will entirely depend on the health 
of the Queen at what period of the month His Majesty will leave 
Germany, as it is said that it is the king’s intention to defer his 
departure from Hanover until Her Majesty’s recovery from her 
accouchement. Various alterations are being made at the king’s 
apartments at St. James’s Palace, and a number of servants have 
been engaged. _ It is stated the king will remain six weeks in this 
country, and the extra domestics have been taken on for two 
months certain. 

HypDE-PARkK.—The Duke of Sussex, as Ranger of Hyde-park, 
issued the following order on Saturday last to the gate-keepers :— 
‘“* It is commanded by his Royal Highness the Ranger, that all car- 
riages going along Piccadilly shall enter the park by the gate next 
Apsley House ; that all carriages going to the park from Gros- 
venor-place or Knightsbridge shall enter by the west gate; and 
that all carriages leaving the park shall pass out through the centre 
gate. These regulations are to be observed during the time when 
it is the pleasure of Her Majesty to drive through the park.— 
March 31, 1843.” 

The, Earl of Zetland has been elected Vice-President of the 


LITERATURE. 


re 
Ragland Castle; A Tale of the Great Rebellion. By Mrs. 

THomson. 3 vols. post 8vo. R. Bentley, New Burlington- 

street. [Second Notice]. 

One of the most striking passages in this historical tale is that in 
which is described the surrender of Ragland Castle, by the Marquis 
of Worcester, its venerable warder, to Fairfax, the Parliamentary 
general. We subjoin it :— 


** It is said that, on that day, when he was to receive the keys of 
Ragland, the general attired himself with a costliness totally unaccus- 
tomed ; for still an early affection for that aristocracy to which his 
family belonged, or, perhaps—a higher sentiment—a reverence for tried 
virtue, prevailed over the harsher dictates of party feeling. 

‘The marquis, on his part, was prepared for this the last guest his 
hospitable halls should ever receive; and the spirit of courtesy guided 
the lord of Ragland even on this occasion. Events could not change 
nature and habit. He was as great in giving up the keys of Ragland, 
as he had ever been in governing that vast domain over which he ruled ; 
he was as gracious, and as dignified, in his calm courtesy to Fairfax, as 
if the general had come to share his splendid entertainment, not to drive 
from his home the master of the castle. The sister and niece of the 
marquis were of like mind.” - 


Royal Masonic Institution for Boys. His lordship fills the dis- 
: tinguished appvintment of Pro-Grand Master in the United Grand 
Lodge of England. 

Lord Ward attained his 26th year on Monday week, and in two 
years will be in full possession of his large dstates. 

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN Hieau Lire.—We understand 
the marriage of the Earl of Leicester and Miss Whitbread is to be 
solemnised on Monday week. It is not yet determined whether 
the ceremony will take place in town or not. 

Mr. Moon had the honour of submitting to her Majesty and 
Prince Albert, on Tuesday, the large historical engraving of John 
Burnett, from the late Sir David Wilkie’s picture of the Death of 
the Sultan Tippoo Saib at the Capture of Seringapatam. 

The Ear! of Rosslyn, Master of the Royal Stag-hounds, has re- 
solved to “do away” with the annual Easter hunt with the Royal 
hounds, owing, it is said, to Easter falling so late, and the conse- 
quent forwardness of the season. The hunt has existed through 
the reigns of several sovereigns. 

BrQckeEt-HALL, Herts.—The Duke of Bedford and Lord and 
Lady John Russell arrived on Tuesday on a visit to Viscount Mel- 
bourne. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., is also amongst 
the noble Viscount’s visitants, and an accession of company is 
expected during the holidays, including Lord and Lady Jocelyn, 
and the Hon. W. H. Cowper, M.P. 

— The French Ambassador and the Countess Ste. Aulaire are 
expected to pass the Easter recess at St. Leonard’s, near Windsor, 
with the Count and Countess D’Harcourt. 

RUMOURED MARRIAGE IN HiGu Li¥rz.—A report is at pre- 
sent current in the higher circles of the approaching marriage of 
Lord Castlereagh to the beautiful Lady Constance Paget, daughter 
of the Ear] of Uxbridge. 

— The gentlemen of the long robe are employed upon a case of 
divorce; the lady is the sister of a Tory duchess, and the daughter 
of an Irish peer. 


THE THEATRES. 
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 


i LSLER—the ‘ divine,” as a certain rosewater critic 
as.5.zepstyles her, albeit she must not only be mortal but also on 
or eoeothe umbrageous side of forty—took her benefit here on 


“i 
ORO eek 


* * 


* 


‘“‘ She hastened to the gallery. Lord Worcester and Blanch were 

there ; Lady Arundel drew near to them with a steady step and a com- 
posed air. She rested her arm on that of her brother, Blanch clung to 
him on the other side, and thus they waited the approach of Fairfax, 
whose arrival was announced by a salute from that portion of the ram- 
parts which his forces had gained., Ragland was, upon certain condi- 
tions, honourably and fully surrendered. 
_ ‘ The general took a calm survey of the castle as he passed through 
its courts, and loitered in its chambers. He was not devoid of feeling 
—on the contrary; but war had deadened present sympathies, and 
General Fairfax had been irritated by a defence which had cost him 
some of his bravest officers, and had lowered his reputation in the 
eyes of scientific judges of sieges. He admired—who could not but 
admire?—the fountain court; he even praised the chapel; his enco- 
miums were quietly uttered, for the despoiler had too much good taste 
to insult the fallen hero of Ragland. After gratifying his curiosity, 
Fairfax made his way to the grand gallery (the hall was now too much 
shattered to receive him), and stood in the presence of the Marquis of 
Worcester, It was a singular, almost an unprecedented meeting. 

**¢ T have been fain, Sir Thomas Fairfax,’ said the nobleman, with as 
much dignity and courtesy as when he received the king, and dressed in 
his full costume, wearing a miniature of Charles the First around his 
neck; ‘ I have been fain to give you even yet more trouble than you 
have had in subduing his Majesty’s garrison ; but your late bombarding 
of the castle has brought me to your terms.’ 

***T am glad to see your lordship well and so stout in heart,’ replied 
General Fairfax, dryly, looking, us he spoke, at the long series of stately 
portraits which graced the walls of the gallery. 

‘“** Your arms, Sir Thomas,’ have made some impression on my walls,’ 
observed the marquis, coolly, for the distant bearing of Fairfax pleased 
him not. ‘And 1 am willing to believe that, for the sake of an ancient 
bond of union between me and your noble grandsire, the Lord Fairfax 
of Dando, you may be pleased to spare my poor house any further da- 
mage. For myself,’ added the peer, loftily, * it is of little consequence, 
Vastly little will content me ; but I have sons, and sons’ sons—like 
Noah—and they will want an ark.’ — : 

“* “ Doubtless,’ replied General Fairfax, kindly, for the better parts of 
his nature prevailed, and he was touched by the situation of the princely 
old man. ‘I engage,’ he added, solemnly, ‘ to see that the articles be 
performed.’ 

““* Your word, sir, I may trust; but muy I,’ asked the marquis, 
‘be assured that the like fate that hath befallen my Lord Shrewsbury 
shall not befall my poor cottage? My mind greatly misgives me. You 
know my Lord Shrewsbury obtained very fair conditions; but how 
were they observed ?? Lord Worcester looked steadfastly at Fairfax as 
he spoke. 

“** Set your heart at rest on that point, my lord,’ returned Fairfax, 
with some emotion. ‘ But,’ he added, the moment afterwards, in a cold, 
dry tone, ‘ my lord, there are some other conditions to be complied with, 
besides those of the Parliament—some on your side. You and your 
family—~are ye willing and ready to depart? I am grieved to hasten 
your removal; but I must return to the Bath, which siege must also 
be accomplished.’ 

“** QO! sir,’ replied the marquis, ‘since we must go, ’tis fitting that 
we go soon. Will it affront you, or those who have directed you to this 
work, if we ask our destination ?’ 

“¢* My lord,’ said General Fairfax, stammering, ‘ ye must, for the 
present, be lodged in the Tower of London.’ 

“¢* Ah, sir! you are witty and wise, too. It is but for the present!’ 
The marquis paused for an instant. ‘ A very small lodging will serve 
me soon.’ 

‘* He arose, and looked around at his sister. ‘ Sir Thomas, sister 
Arundel,’ said the marquis, bowing to the general, ‘shall have the 
honour of conducting thee.—Blanch! what frights thee, girl?’ he 


23. Thursday last, and had a house crammed to excess, 
‘ <;°Maria reappeared on the occasion, and was most warmly 
“ip eeognleed. The ballet of Gizelle concluded the enter- 
: tainments which appeared to give gencral satisfaction. 
DRURY LANE, 

Clara Novello has at last appeared, and, we are happy to add, 
has more than realised the most sanguine expectations her ad- 
mirers had formed of her. This lady possesses a magnificent 
voice, skilfully tutored, and aided by a refined taste, good feeling, 
and exquisite execution, has taken rank amongst our modern 
vocalists as the first singer of the day. The opera of “ Sappho” 
has been beautifully got up in every respect, and Drury now pre- 
sents a prospect of closing a prospective season profitably. 

{The remaining theatres have offered no novelties, and, conse - 
quently, have given no opportunity for criticism. Easter novel- 
ties are in preparation everywhere. ] 


THE COVENT GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND. 
‘J° SHE celebration of the anniversary of this benevolent institution 
Gwe took place on Wednesday, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Great 
“72 Queen-street. The meeting was not so full a one as some on 
*previous occasions of the anniversary, but it was respectable 
both in the number and the rank of those assembled. The galleries 
were filled with ladies, amongst whom were several of the female per- 
formers at the theatres. There was a full military band of musicians ; 
and the musical arrangements, under the direction of Sir George 
Smart, were in the very best taste and judgment. The chair was 
taken at six o’clock by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, 
supported by Lord Robert Grosvenor, Colonel Wood, M. P., the Hon. 
E. Byng, Sir A. Duff, Sir P. Jodrell, Sir W. Geary, Mr. B. Bond 
Cabbell, Colonel Rolt, Mr. Brinsley Sheridan, Mr. Horsley Palmer, 
a P., Mr. G. Lewis, and many other distinguished patrons of the 
rama. 

On the removal of the cloth the Non nobis was finely sung by the 
professional gentlemen present. After whieh, the Chairman gave the 
“ Health of Her Majesty the Queen,” who, he informed the company, 


had sent her usual donation of £105 to the fund. cea as sea ornare Bey to ae, and grasped his arm, ‘ Well, 

The toast “ Success to the Fund” havi : ai et us proceed , be ors out heart, my Jass, * el , 

and received with deafening aanintieme been given from thechale este prisoners then walked towards the grand staircase. This, of 
nto J 


which there are now no traces left, was one of twenty-three staireases 
which were afterwards broken up and pillaged by the peasantry of 
Monmouthshire, but not until the good marquis was forgotten ; whilst 
he lived, not a fragment was touched by the rural poor. They walked, 
in silent procession, down this staircase, and descended to the hall; the 
windows were beaten in, the groined arches were defaced, ‘The last 
cannonading of Fairfax had done this ; but it was nothing! nothing to 
a sight of horror !—Edward, the brave defender of the castle, standing, 
surrounded by armed men—a prisoner a 
*% 


Mr. Bartley said, so long ago as the year 1765, a subscription was 
commenced for this laudable purpose amongst the then performers of 
Covent-garden Theatre, and from that period has been continued an- 
nually by their successors—at first, assisted only by the profits of 
occasional benefits. In the year 1776 the committee found they had 
amassed the sum of £4,800, and then this charity was incorporated 
by Act of Parliament. The first relief afforded was in the year 1772, 
when the small sum of £8 15s. 6d. was distributed in donations, but 
in the tenth year afterwards £280 was disbursed to regularly esta- 
blished annuitants, and so on, on a small increasing scale, until the 
year 1816, at which time the number of claimants had so much in- 
creased that the finances of the fund were insufficient for the de- 
mands upon it. Then it was that, under the august sanction and 
patronage of His Majesty aoe George IV., the gracious support of 
the other branches of the Royal family, and many of our most dis- 
tinguished nobility and gentry, these anniversary festivals were 
established, the result of which has been most prosperous, as the 
following statement will testify:—From the first relief given by 
this charity to the year 1815 (a period of 43 years), the gross 
sum paid in annuities and donations was £15,600, but from 
1816 to 1842, inclusive, a perion of only 27 years, the amount has 
been 27,0007. Last year there passed through my hands to the de- 
pecan on this charity upwards of 1,400/. Such, gentlemen, have 

een the fruits of your benevolence! Portions of these sums have 
been received by many of humble standing in our profession, but 
many also of distinguished abilities have been, and still are, supported 
by this charity. I shall not lessen the sympathy of those I have the 
honour to address when I inform them that by far the greater number 
of our annuitants are females. At this moment there are no less than 
22 on our list ; ten of whom claim in right of their individual sub- 
scriptions ; three of this number have been celebrated actresses, and 
sustained tirst-rate characters in their respective walks in the drama. 
The other twelve claim in right of the subscriptions paid by their de- 
ceased husbands ; and six of them are widows of most popular come- 
dians—‘ fellows of infinite jest, of most excellent. fancy—whose gam- 
bols, songs, and flashes of merriment, were wont to set these tables in 
aroar.” If I were permitted to recount their names, “ I could strike 
a chord that would vibrate upon every ear, and each heart would beat 
responsive to the sound.” While our income and outlay remain as 
they are, the individuals assisted will continue to receive what they 
now enjoy ; but so nearly balanced are our receipts and expenditure, 
that I feel bound to declare, should fresh claimants arise, even to a 
moderate amount, the demand could only be met by a reduction from 
what each aunuitant now receives. From long experience I know 
their best reliance is on your liberality, and to that I confidently and 
respectfully commit them.—At the conclusion of the speech, which 
was received with great applause, the treasurer stated from the report 
the amount of the subscriptions, which was 640/. (Cheers.) His 
Royal Highness left the chair shortly after ten o’clock, but the festi- 
vities were kept up till a much later hour, 


* * 

“‘ Meantime, the marquis, with a guard of parliament soldiers near 
him, walked with a stately step through the two great courts of his once 
proud castle. He was silent, for he could never hope to tread those courts 
again; and it was with a solemn sense of the yet greater approaching 
change, with a stern conviction of the mutability of all things here, that 
the venerable nobleman passed through the ruined archways and gained 
the portal. This was still entire ; and here the marquis was joined by 
Fairfax, who had hastened to overtake his magnanimous prisoner. 

‘“«¢T have not dared,’ said the marquis, ‘ to look to the right, nor yet 
to the Jeft, lest I might see those whose aspect unman me. Have the 
grace, Sir Thomas, to say farewell, in my name, to the officers of my 
garrison, to my poor servants—nay, to the common soldiers and serving- 
men,’ cried the kind old man, He stood still for a moment, and was 
forced to lean on the shoulder of the general to sustain himself. 

“* And be there any,’ asked Fairfax, ‘whom you would, my lord, 
more specially name? ‘Time presseth ; yet tell me, if any last boon your 
lordship willeth,’ 

66 * Ah, sir!’—the marquis looked at him with an arch smile—é | 
must trust to the mercies of Parliament.’ He shook his head, as if to 
say no such requests would be attended to. ‘ Yet,’ he added a moment 
afterwards, ‘ there be two petitioners, Sir Thomas, come of their own 
free will to pray for grace.” He pointed to a couple of tame pigeons, 
which flew from a broken turret and lighted on hisshoulder. ‘ [ would 
fain pray for these fond simpletons, who have daily eaten from my 
hands, that they may be spared. For the rest,” he said, in a low tone, 
turning for a moment to the ruined citadel, ‘ look there, and see if I can 
ask mercy, and think to have it granted,’ 

‘ Fairfax was silent, and it was observed that he did not seem either 
to care to look back at the castle; and the marquis, without uttering 
another word, ascended into his state coach, . 

“* Lady Arundel and Blanch slowly followed. As they turned to take 
One look of Ragland, a sight appalled them. It was Gwyllim, standing 
On a battered tower—his harp on his arm—his eye was glazed and 
fixed—his lips moved not—he looked like the spectre of departed joys-- 
he uttered no plaint. The harp was never more heard among. those 
broken turrets, nor in the courts within.” 


Perhaps, as “ we are nothing if not critical,” Mrs. Thomson will 
allow us to point out an anachronism in her second volume. She 
makes Herbert quote from Dryden’s “ Virgil,” which was not 
written until long after the date of her story. 


THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY TIMES. 


75 


Sir Robert Peel, and his Era: being a Synoptical View of the|a variety of other hard names; if he had considered the case 


chief Events and Measures of his Life and Time. One vol. 
8vo. pp. 284. N. H. Cotes, Cheapside. 


“We who runs may read.” This notice of Peel and his measures 
Will not only abundantly reward perusal, but may stand, in de- 
fault of a more elaborate one, as a work for reference. It takes 
up the Premier from his birth until the commencement of the 
present session, and gives a correct, though rapid, view of his say- 
ings and doings, asa public man, “ from youth upwards even until 
now.” His biographer is certainly not one of those who overlay a 
subject with praise. Far from it—he speaks of Sir Robert on 
terms more fair than favourable, and appears by no means inclined 
to rank him as one of “ those faultless monsters whom the world 
he’er saw.” 

The work contains a rapid sketch of the progress of all public 
questions of paramount interest, since 1819, when Peel entered 
Parliament, until now, accompanied with full extracts from and 
Summaries of his spoken opinions thereon. It is from this that 
We are inclined to recommend “ Sir Robert Peel and his Era” as 
& work worthy of being kept at hand for reference. 

The most graphic portion of the book is the last chapter, en- 
titled “ A Night in the House of Commons,” which contains some 
Capital pen-and-ink sketches of public men. We give a few :— 


THE SPEAKER. 

“ There, you see the Speaker before you. Manners Sutton, now Lord 

anterbury, was an excellent chairman, and his voice was certainly im- 
posing and ore rotundo. But there was a pompous twaddle about him, 
too; and when called upon to laydown the law of order or of precedent, 
he seattered his sense in his sound; ‘honourable members” rested 
satisfied, because they did not clearly comprehend. | Abercromby, now 
Lord Dunfermline, was far more intelligent, but he was deficient in 
manner. Now Charles Shaw Lefevre is a mean between the two: he 
discharges his duties with a dignified and graceful bearing, combined 
with intelligence, and is altogether a very effective Speaker of the 
House of Commons, 


THE PREMIER. 

‘© What time does Peel come down to the House? 

“Generally about five o’clock ; he is very punctual. He will be 
here immediately. Oh, there he is, with papers in his hand, I suppose 
the copy of some newly concluded commercial treaty. You will see him 
stand at the bar to catch the Speaker’s eye, when, of course, he has not 
long to wait; though, if other matters ure in the way, he must take his 
turn. Hark! 

“« Sir Robert Peel!’ 

“¢¢ Papers, Sir, by command of Her Majesty.’ 

“*¢ Bring them up.’ 

*¢ There, now, he is ‘ bringing them up.’ 

“Toes it not strike you, as he moves up the floor of the House, that 
there isa sort of mauvaise honte about him ?—a thing that surprises me, 
considering his rather handsome person, address, and long usage of the 
House of Commons. 

“Yes, but.-thoughreputed such a peculiarly cool, cautious man, he is, 
in temperament, very sensitive, and keenly alive to all the proprieties of 
morals and of manners. You see he is a florid man—sanguineous; and 
such men are frequently very attentive to externals, while ‘ black’ 
or ‘bilious’ men, though just as full of ser, are more apt to neglect 
manner, in their deeper meditation of matter. 

“« How old is Peel? 

‘* He approaches his fifty-fifth year, and, as you may perceive, is in 
the bloom of health, as well as the prime of life.” 

SIR C, NAPIER, 

“ But look here.— Do you see that man crossing the floor? 

“Is it that little, square-built, short-necked, and somewhat bull- 
headed man who limps as he walks ? 

“The same. It is ‘the old Commodore,’ the redoubted Sir Charles 
Napier. 

‘© How men do disappoint one so! Why, the bombarder of St. Jean 
d’Acre, he who ran over the tops of the houses, and called to the Turks 
to ¢ shake a reef out of their trousers,’ I took to be a very different Jook- 
ing man! 

“Yet if you observe Sir Charles, you will see that his weather-beaten 
frame (‘ hull ’ Isuppose I should say) exhibits the determined and fear- 
less tar: he carries a light in his figure head. He has taken the state of 
the navy under his particular care, and you will shortly hear him, in 
his broad {Scotch, asking ‘the right honourable birronet’ a question 
about it. His blunt 2aiveté is exceedingly amusing ; and he never fails 
to raise a roar of laughter when he enlightens the House on such sub- 
jects as the inconveniences which a ship may suffer when troubled with 
‘a foul wind.’” 

These extracts will show that the work is amusing as well as 
instructive. 


The History of Junius and his Works ; and a Review of the Con- 
troversy respecting the Identity of Junius. By JOHN JAQUES. 
8vo. pp. 406. G. Bell, Fleet-street. 


Junius and his writings have been before the public for seventy 
years ; and the old motto, ‘‘ Stat Nominis Umbra,” is as appro- 
priate at this moment as it was when Woodfall put it on his title- 
page. Various guesses have been made, and much speculation 
ventured as to the identity of Junius, but the matter remains a 
mystery. Mr. John Taylor (whose opinion was subsequently 
backed by Brougham in the Edinburgh Review) was the first to 
consider the question with any degree of judgment and ability. 
His work on “ The Identity of Junius,” certainly did all but fix the 
authorship upon Sir Philip Francis. At a later period, Mr. Co- 
ventry attempted to show that Lord George Sackville was the man ; 
and Mr. Jaques, in the clear and sensible work before us, follows 
in the same track. 


Many claimants have been put forward; Mr. Jaques thus enu- 
merates them :— 

“The letters of Junius have, at various times, been attributed to Lord 
George Sackville, Edmund Burke, William Gerard Hamilton, the 
Duke of Portland, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Chatham, Dr. Butler, 
Bishop of Hereford, Dunning (afterwards Lord Ashburton), Charles 
Lloyd, Secretary to Mr. George Grenville, John Roberts, a clerk in the 
Treasury, the Rev. Philip Rosenhagen, the American General Lee, 
John Wilkes, Henry Flood, Richard Glover, the author of Leonidas, 
Hugh Macaulay Boyd, Samuel Dyer, Dr, Wilmot, and, lastly, Sir 
Philip Francis, with many others of less note.” 

The strongest case, however, has been made out for Francis and 
Sackville. d 

Before we consider their respective claims, we may venture upon 
our opinion that Mr. Taylor has taken too high an estimate of the 
literary merit of the Letters of Junius, and that Mr. Jaqnes greatly 
exaggerates their demerits. Junius wrote in a bold, spirited man- 
ner, and his letters took with the public because they were well- 
timed, because their authorship was made a great mystery of, 
because they told plain truths in bold words, and because then, as 
now, the public liked to read attacks upon people in power. We 
Venture to say, that much better writing than that of Junius— 
elaborated as it was—has oceasionally appeared in the London 
papers within the last twenty years, struck off in the heat of the 
moment, and yet most felicitous in arguinent, strong In expression, 
and elegant in polish. We allude to the rapid Jeaders of the 
late Mr. Barnes in the Times, Mr. Black in the Morning Chro- 
nicle, Dr. Gifford in the Standard, Mr. Alexander 10 the defunct 
Morning Journal, Mr. Fonblanque in the xaminer, and Mr, 
Rintoul in the Spectator,—to say nothing of the power put forth, 
Week after week, by Cobbett in his Register. It was the good 
fortune of Junius to write boldly at a time when, to a great ex- 
tent, the press was gagged—to be, in short, a ‘Triton among the 
minnows. There are, at this moment, on the London daily press, 
Political writers equal and even superior to what Junius was in his 
happiest moments, Mr. Jaques calls him a “ moral assassin,” and 


better he might have found that, whatever his motives (which, 
without knowing who he was, no one can know), he did not attack 
any man without cause, nor did he, from mere wantoness, assail 
any pnblic character. No; Junius was for the Constitution, aud 
against jobbers, tyrants, and misdoers. He administered the 
knout with hearty good-will, but was the punishment undeserved ? 
He had great culprits to deal with, and he gave them stern justice. 
He did not even spare him, whom—with a courtly sycophancy 
most disgusting—John Pritt Harley, “ the play-actor,” stepped 
out of his way to eulogise (at the Drury-lane Theatrical Fund 
dinner, last week), as a “ Patriot King,” but spoke the startling 
word of truth to ear of Royalty. In fact, Junius might have taken 
as his motto, Pope’s memorable couplet— 
“Yes, Iam proud—I must be proud to see 
Men not afraid of God, afraid of me !” 

Mr. Taylor exhibited great cleverness in his identification of 
Junius with Sir Philip Francis. Two points no one can well get 
over: that his situation in the War-Ofiice gave him great facilities 
of knowing all that passed in that department, and that, all of a 
sudden, Junius ceased to write, and Francis was immediately sent 
to India, in a most important office, with a salary of £10,000 a 
year. Now, it is known that Lord Barington had dismissed him 
from the War-Office ; yet, a few months after, the same Lord Ba- 
rington recommended him to this Asiatic post, with a salary which 
was in itself a fortune. Why should he have done this? And 
here we must say, that Mr. Jaques, who (p. 177) candidly adinits 
that Francis, from 1763 to 1772, had held “ a considerable post in 
the War-Office,” takes every occasion, in other places, to sneer at 
him as “an inferior clerk in a public office.’”—We are bound to 
add, that on a close comparison between the autographs of Junius 
and Francis, the writer of this review (himself possessing the 
power of imitating any handwriting at sight) is bound to give it as 
his opinion, that one and the same pen wrote both. This is a pretty 
strong argument, collaterally, in favour of Junius—the strongest 
direct assumption is from the fact. of his preferment to the Indian 
office, and from the fact that, on that appointment, Junius wrote 
no more. 

Mr. Jaques, taking up and very ably working cut Mr. Coventry’s 
view, fathers the letters of Junius upon Lord George Sackville, who 
had all the cause in the world (which Francis had not), to run a 
muck at all the public men and measures attacked by Junius. 
The arguments with which this view is strengthened and worked 
out, show great ability, and, in a legal point, may be characterised 
as a very good summing up of evidence, 

Mr. Taylor, Mr. Jaques, and others, throw great stress upon the 
hints which Junius gives about himself. We think all such hints 
would pass for their full value—nil! It clearly was the plan of 
Junius, whoever he was, to mystify his readers, and the allusions 
to himself we would take as merely thrown out to turn the scent 
from himself. Because Junius hints that he knew this man, or 
served under that, does it follow that we are to believe him ? 

The chance is that Sackville made the bullets and that Francis 
fired them—that one supplied the rough materials which the other 
wrought into shape. This appears to be the final conclusion of Mr. 
Jaques, who speaks of Sir Philip Francis as the “ coadjutor and 
amanuensis” of Lord George Sackville. If so, he was more than 
a mere copier of the written letters, for (as Mr. Taylor shows) their 
style closely resembles that of Francis’s. 

We are happy to say that Mr. Jaques has produced a very 
readable work—likely to awaken inquiry as to the authorship of 
Junius. The subject is fullof interest, and he has not overlaid it 
with words. As the mere history of the case, it must be esteemed 
valuable. 


The Patrician’s Daughter. 
Gerald. A Dramatic Poem. 
C. Mitchell, Red Lion-court. 
Great merit is due to Mr. Marston for having, in “‘ The Patrician’s 

Daughter,” produced a tragedy entirely indebted for its incident 

and passion to the habits and spirit of the age. The Present is as 

poetic as the Past—if men would but view it rightly. The success 
of “The Patrician’s Daughter,” as performed at Drury Lane 

Theatre, with Macready—the greatest living actor—representing 

the Man of the Time, showed that the author judged rightly of the 

capabilities of the Present. The drama is full of fine thoughts. 

How beautiful is this description of the Poet’s life :— 

It is to have a quicker sense than most 

Of what should be, and deeper pain than most 

Tosee whatis. It isto have a form 

Replete with life, and statues for companions ; 

‘Yo have for the most part a lonely lot, 

Yet noble in its solitude, and faithful 

To Truth, and Beauty whence it drew, 

Knowing that they must reign at last. Oh! then, 

Many a humble tenement wherein 

Great minds have wrought their task, and many a pair 

Jnheriting their dust, shall be transformed 

To fanes, and altars, where the world shall worship. 
Mr. Marston’s second work, though dramatic, is not a drama. 

“ Gerald” exhibits, if not quite the history of a mind, at least a 
view of many of its important phases. It shows a mind, not per- 
fect, but touched with human infirmity—turning, ere its setting, 
to that true Faith which alone can bear it aloft, unwearied in 
its heavenward soaring. It is a sweet, sad tale—falling on the 
soul gently, even as the sound of the wind-harp falls upon the 
spirit, softening and subduing, in the holy hush of summer’s 
eventide. 


A Tragedy. (Second Edition). 
By J. WESTLAND MARsTON.— 


The Emigrants’ Handbook of Facts, concerning Canada, New 
Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, §c. By SAMUEL 
BuTLeER, Esq., Author of “ The Handbook for Australian Emi- 
grants,” 12mo, pp. 240. W. R. McPhun, Glasgow ; R. H. 
Cotes, Cheapside. 

Mr. Butler knows little of the art of book-making. If he did, 
this work, instead of being published in a pocket-volume for three 
shillings, would have appeared in a couple of thick octavos, with 
rivulets of type running through meadows of margin, and dis- 
pensed to the public at about ten times its present price.—Mr. 
Butler no doubt thinks that “a great book is a great evil.” In 
this small volume he has condensed an immensity of information 
(such as all actual and intending emigrants particularly require) 
respecting our settlements in British America, Australasia, Africa, 
and South America. He has added a large map of Canada and 
the adjacent states, and another of New Zealand. 


Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels. Part XXV. R. 
CapDELL, Edinburgh; Hounston and StoNEMAN, London. 
This contains part of Rob Roy, and has sixteen admirable en- 

gravings on steel and wood. The gem is a View near the 'Tro- 

rachs, after Nasmyth. Among the wood engravings is Sir W. 

Allan’s “ Bailie Nicol Jarvie,” from the original picture at 

Abbotsford. There is also a spirited sketch of “ The Dougal 

Creature,” by Mc Ian. Among the views, the most effective are 

those by Leitch, Paton, and Boys. 


The British Quarterly Journal of Dental Surgery. Edited by 
J. ROBINSON, Esq. J. Churchill, London, 

This periodical promises to be extremely useful, and we heartily 

wish it success. We take the liberty of recommending its being 


made as practical as possible. The opening article, a ‘“‘ Review of 
Dental Surgery,” has the fault of being at once dull and didactic. 

Most of the other papers are practical, and communicate much 
information. It is to be lamented that, as yet, the surgeon-den- 
tists have not been formed into a Faculty. At present, any quack 
sets up asa tooth-doctor; and the injury thus rendered to the 
public is incalculable. We should add, that this periodical is 
enriched with lithographic and other engravings. 


Oliver Cromwell: a Drama, in Five Acts. By WILLIAM 
LEATHAM. Longman and Co., London. 

Mr. Leatham has not attended to “the unities,” for his drama 
includes a space of fifteen years, from April 1643, to September 
1658. It is, therefore, rather a dramatic poem than a drama. It 
may be called a sort of History of Cromwell during a particular 
period, closing with his death. Many passages exhibit power ; 
and we think it likely that, with a more manageable subject, Mr. 
Leatham may be able to construct a good acting drama. 


The Cathedral Bell and Regulus, Tragedies. By Jacon 
Jonrs, Esq. J. Miller, London. 

There really is great merit in these dramas. The length of time 
which has elapsed since their publication, alone prevents our 
giving them the extended notice they merit. Mr. Jones writes 
blank verse in the spirit of the master-minds of the olden-time, 


who made our drama. 


The Ladies’ Handbook of Millinery, Dress-making, and Satin. 
H. G. Clarke and Co., Old Bailey. 

A catchpenny, teaching nothing new, and giving its instructions 

in such a manner that nothing practical can be learned from them. 


A Glance at the Temple Church. Second edition. G. Bell, 
Fleet-street. hey 
A well-timed, gracefully-written brochure, communicating 


much information about the Temple Church (which has recently 
been repaired and “ restored” with much taste), and enriched 
with a variety of illustrative sketches. 


Our old friend, “‘ The Mirror,” has donned a new dress, and has 
come forth with increased spirit and vigour. The contributions 
are of a superior class—the illustrations apposite, and well exe- 
cuted. The scientific portion of the work is particularly worthy 
attention. 


THE MONTHLIES. 


BENTLEY’s MISCELLANY.—The best article in the April num- 
ber of the Miscellany is that in which Mr. Albert Smith makes 
immortal the adventures of Mr. Ledbury and Jack Johnson. We 
have not very much of the Ledbury family, but the vicissitudes of 
Johuson are told with considerable spirit. The scenes at Rawkins’s 
are capital, and much better than the “ Sawbones ” affair in Pick- 
wick. The Duellists by George Soane, The Pedlar Poet by 
George Raymond, and the articles by Crowquill, Dr. Taylor, Cap- 
tain Addison, and Miss Romer, exhibit various degrees of merit . 
The most natural magazine-paper of the month is “ Jemima’s 
Journal of fashionable life and conversation,” which, if not true, 
is truth-like. The illustrations are not numerous. Cruikshank 
certainly does not do his best for this periodical. 

AINSWORTH’s MAGAZINE.—The continuation of ‘ Windsor 
Castle” occupies a great portion of the April number of this pe- 
riodical. It is admirably illustrated by Cruikshank and Delamotte. 
It is a story of most stirring interest. There are several papers of 
value, but the best (next to the Editor’s own) is the account of 
Elliston. The dinner-anecdote is particularly good. 


FRASER’S MAGAZINE.—A very readable number.  Fitz- 
Boodle’s Confessions and Jack Moriarty are full of broad humour. 
The. most agreeable articles are those upon De Lamartine and 
Victor Hugo, evidently written with intimate knowledge of the 
men. ‘Illustrations of Discount” disclose some “ secrets of the 
prison-house,” and may do good. There is a clever article on the 
American Boundary Question. 

New Monruiy BELLE ASSEMBLEE.—The best number for 
many months. There is always variety in the poetic department, 
but we here have prose tales of considerable value. Miss Toulmin 
contributes part of a story, (we hate “ to be continued”) which 
promises well, and “The English Abroad,” which approaches its 
termination, is one of the best novelettes of the day. 

THe Srory TELLER.—This is a new weekly publication, 
edited by Mr. Robert Bell, aud professing to be a “ Table-book 
of Popular Literature.” It commences well, and we especially 
like the opening—a sort of scholarly conversation, in the style of the 
famous Noctes of Blackwood. The work is astonishingly cheap ; a 
monthly part, at a couple of shillings, will contain nearly as much 
as the usual three-volume novel. ; 

LovEer’s £. s. d—The 4th part of this serial confirms the 
opinion we have entertained for some time, that Mr. Lover has a 
much higher aim than many of his contemporaries. We believe, 
from the internal evidence which the composition supplies, that 
the author aspires at the production of a work not only amusing, 
month after month, but possessing such merits as will give it per- 
manent interest and standard value, when completed and collected 
into a volume. The difficulty of serial writing is, that the author 
is compelled to produce his work in portions, and that. these, 
when collected, do not harmoniously amalgamate. This difficulty, 
Mr, Lover appears determined to conquer. The present part has 
many striking passages, and introduces some new characters. 
The first chapter literally overflows with fun,—in the second, 
Charles Edward (the Pretender) is most graphically sketched,— 
and in the third, there is an account of the Battle of Fontenoi, 
written with extraordinary power. We give the conclusion :— 


_‘“ Saxe now gave up the day for lost—the English column, though it 
did not advance, was master of the field. It remained motionless, and 
showed front everywhere, only firing when it was attacked. 

‘Seeing this state of things, a rather noisy council was held round 
the king, and Saxe despatched fresh orders to have Fontenoi and 
Antoine evacuated, telling Count de la Mark to refuse at his peril. 
Just as these orders were despatched, the Duke de Richelieu, the king’s 
aid-de-camp, arrived at full gallop. 

‘“*¢ What news?’ cried Saxe. 

“<That the day is ours, if we only wish it! The Dutch are beaten, 
and the English, too, at Fontenoi—the centre only holds out, Muster 
all our cavalry and fall upon them like foragers, and the victory is 
won.’ — 

«7 am of that opinion,’ said the king to the Marshal. : 

“¢Then we'll do it,’ said Saxe; ‘ but first shake them with some 
cannon. Pequingny,’ cried he to the Duke, ‘advance four heavy 
pieces. D’Aubeterre, Courten, head your Regiments! Ride, Richelieu, 
to the household troops, and bid Montesson charge! Jumillac, head 
your musqueteers! let the movement be concentrated. Dillon’—for 
the colonel was among the knot of officers round the king,—‘ Dillon! 
let the whole Irish brigade charge !—to you I commend its conduct. 
Where Dillon’s regiment leads the rest will follow. The cavalry has 
made no impression yet ; let the Irish brigade show an example !’ 

“«Tt shall be done, Marshal!’ said Dillon, touching his hat and 
turning his horse. 

“ «To Vicrory !’ cried Saxe, emphatically. 4 

“Or Dean,’ said Dillon, solemnly, kissing the cross of his sword, 
and plunging the rowels in his horse’s side, that swiftly he might do 
his bidding ; and that the Irish brigade might first have the honour of 
changing the fortune of the day. 


76 THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY TIMES. 


Galloping along the front of their line, where the brigade stood im- | 
patient of the order to advance, Dillon gave a word that made every 
man clench his teeth, firmly plunge his foot deep in the stirrup and grip 
his sword for vengeance; for the word that Dillon gave was talismanic 
as others that have been memorable; he shouted as he rode along, 
‘Remember Limerick!’ and then wheeling round,and placing himself at 
the head of his own regiment, to whom the honor of leading was given, 
he gave the word to charge; and down swept the whole brigade, ter- 
rible as a thunderbolt, for the hitherto unbroken column of Cumberland 
was crushed under the fearful charge—the very earth trembled beneath 
that horrible rush of horse. Dillon was amongst the first to fall; he 
received a mortal wound from the steady and well-directed fire of the 
English column, and as he was struck, he knew his presentiment was 
fulfilled ; but he lived long enough to know, also, he completed his 
prophecy of a glorious charge,—plunging his spurs into his fiery horse, 
he jumped into the forest of bayonets, and, laying about him gallantly, he 
saw the English column broken, and fell, fighting, amidst a heap of 
slain. The day was won; the column could no longer resist ; but, with 
the indomitable spirit of Englishmen, they still turned their faces to 
the foe, and retired without confusion; they lost the field with honour, 
and in the midst of defeat it was some satisfaction to know, it was the 
bold islanders of their own seas who carried the victory against them. 
It was no foreigner before whom they yielded, ‘The thought was bitter 
that they themselves had disbanded a strength so mighty ; but they took 
consolation in a strange land in the thought that it was only their own 
right arm could deal a blow so heavy. Thanks be to God, these un- 
natural days are past, and the unholy laws that made them so are ex- 
punged, In little more than sixty years after, and not fifty miles from 
that very spot, Irish valour helped to win victory on the side of Eng- 
land; for, at Waterloo, Erin gave to Albion not only her fiery columns, 
but her unconquered chieftain. 


NEW MUSIC. 
Singing for the Million. 
Yankee Notes for General Circulation. — Purday, St. Paul’s 

Church-yard. 

These are two excellent comic songs, from the practised pen of 
Mr. James Bruton. to whose wit and talent these effusions add 
additional testimonials. They are admirably adapted for private 
parties, and cannot fail becoming generally popular. Mr. Bruton 
is the vocal Hood of the present day ; aud his productions are as 
redolent of punning as his songs are of mirth. 


THE VOICE OF CAMBRIA! 


BY FLORENCE WILSON 3 
Author of * Lyrics for Leisure Hours.” 


Again the voice of Camnrra ealls 
Her children to the festive scene ; 
Avrain are wreathed the flower-crowned walls 
With Pleasure’s garlands, fresh and green ! 
Again her native harp is strung, 
Again her minstrels wake the lay, 
Again the song of joy is sung, 
‘Yo welcome Cambria’s holiday, 


She calls her daughters to prepare 
Their footsteps for the mazy dance ; 
She calls her gallant sons to share 
The scene which beauty’s smiles enhance ; 
Again, in one united band, 
She bids them rally for the weal 
Of their own native “ mountain-land :” 
Can Camerians turn from such appeal? 
IIT. 
The generous cause for which ye meet, 
(Blessings to others to impart, ) 
Will make the dancers’ bounding fect 
Respond the music of the heart! 
No glimpse of misery will appear, 
Like shades, that o’er the dial fall ; 
But smiling, happy faces cheer, 
And look their gratitude to all ; 
‘ IV 


Joy, unalloyed, shall speed the hours 
Till the first blush of morning’s light ; 
And Pleasure strew, with thornless flowers, 
Life’s path-way, on this revel-night ! 
For Beauty shall the rose be twined, 
(Love’s conqu’ring wreath ne’er twined in vain ;) 
Come, Camrnrans, come ! leave care behind, 
And gaily join the festive train. 

[The above spirited lyric, from the pen of Miss Florence Wilson, has 
been written for the occasion of the Governor’s Dress Ball (to be 
given at Willis’s Rooms on the 20th inst.,) for the benefit of the Welsh 
School, established 128 years ago, {and patronised vy the Queen. As 
the poem is much above the usual run of “ oceasional verses,” and its 
publication may benefit the charity, we take leave to insert it. | 


A WORD WARNE TIME. 


Speed on thy way, old Time, with glee, 
But crush not roses in thy path, 
he present cannot spare for thee, 
One hope the flattering future hath : 
Then braid with flowers the passing hours, 
jy ftnd deck the moments ere they’ve fled— 
Thy seythe should gleam no transient beam, 
But leave a light where thou hast sped. 
So speed, old Time. 


II, 
Speed on, old Time, yet thou shouldst change, 
The swiftness of thy pace awhile, 
As when two lovers fond exchange, 
The burning glance—the joyous smile ; 
Then Time should be, Eternity— 
For worlds of joy on moments rest ; 
Thy glass should stop, sand cease to drop, 
And thou shouldst pause whilst they are blest. 


Ill, So stay, old Time, 


Yet speed, old Time, with rapid flight, 
Whene’er we wish the absent near ; 
When we would have the morning night, 
And night again be morning here, 
Thy forelock low, and furrowed brow, 
No longer cherished hopes destroy ; _ 
For then thy wings seem dipped in springs, 
That never cease to gush with joy. 
Then speed, old Time. 
E. L. B. 


(eS I 


A great meeting of the Friends of Free Trade was held in the 
Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, last night; Laurence Heyworrn, Esq., 
of Liverpool, a magistrate of the County of Lancaster, in the 
chair. The house was crowded in every part by a most respectable 
audience. The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting, and his moral 
appeals elicited greatapplause. Mr. PAuLTOoN followed, and in an 
address of one hour very ably combatted the fallacies of wages, and 
more particularly directed the attention of the meeting to the mis- 
chievous operations of the Corn-laws on farmers and farm labour- 
ers. His address excited great applause, and at its conclusion the 
whole audience rose and loudly testified their approbation. Mr. 
PRENTICE followed in an address which lasted an hour and a 
half, and which was frequently interrupted by shouts of laughter 
or applause. The meeting, which commenced at seven o’clook, 


terminated punctually at ten, according to the rule at Drury-lane 
Theatre, 


POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 
—— 


MARLBOROUGH STREET. 

Senuten Drivinc.—Mr. Charles Wilson was brought before Mr. 
Maltby, charged with having run over several persons, in con- 
sequence of reckless driving, while in a state of intoxication. 
Thomas Waller, No. 17, Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital, said 
about eight o’clock on Sunday evening, as he was crossing Little Argyll- 
street, in Regent-street, he was knocked down by the defendant’s gig. 
Just previous to this the defendant had knocked down two ladies, who 
were apparently just returning from chapel, one of whom was much 
injured by the gig passing over her legs. ‘lhe clothes of the ladies were 
quite spoiled, and witness’s clothes were also greatly damaged. The de- 
fendant was stopped, and then it was immediately perceived he was in 
a state of intoxication. In defence, the defendant said he had been din- 
ing with a friend, and had drank rather too freely. The accident hap- 
pened in consequence of the horse he was driving being very hard- 
mouthed, and dithcult to pull up. Mr. Maltby said, if the defendant 
undertook to drive a horse of this description through the streets of 
London, there was the more necessity for his keeping sober. ‘The de- 
fendant said the ladies who had been knocked down, had stated that 
they did not intend to prosecute. Mr. Maltby said it was a lucky thing 
for him the ladies were so leniently disposed. Mr. Maltby then inflicted 
the fine of 40s. for the offence of furious driving; and, in addition, 
ordered the defendant to pay 2U. 10s., the amount of damage done to 
the prosecutor’s clothes. 

Tur Boy Metior.-— Monday was the day appointed for the re-ex- 
amination of the boy Mellor, who was charged before Mr. Rawlinson, 
Marlborough-street, with having caused the death of another boy, 
named Baker, by stabbing him with a knife. A Coroner’s Jury, which 
sat upon the body, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mellor. 
He was not, therefore, brought again to the Court for a further inquiry 
to be gone into, he having been conveyed to prison the day after the in- 
quest, to take his trial for the offence. 


GUILDHALL. 

SmuGcrinc.—Alerander Buchanan, a waterman, was brought before 
Aldermen Copeland and J. Johnson, charged with smuggling nine 
pounds of tobacco from the Columbine steamboat, an offence which sub- 
jects the offender toa penalty of £100, or six months’ imprisonment. 
William Judge, a Customhouse officer, stated that about noon on Sun- 
day he saw the prisoner rowing a boat towards the Columbine Rotter- 
dam steamboat, lying off the Custom house. On getting alongside he 
held up his hands, and a red bundle was dropped into them, by whom 
he could not perceive. ‘The prisoner rowed in shore, and witness came 
up with him in the customs boat. Before he reached him he saw the 
prisoner throw the red bundle overboard, near a coasting vessel called 
the Maid of Yare. After securing the prisoner witness went to the 
Maid of Yare, and asked for the red bag. The men on board said it 
was lying in a boat belonging to the vessel. There he found it, and it 
contained 2Ib of cheroots, and 71b of tobacco. When he asked the pri- 
soner who gave him the bag, he said he was not going to get anybody 
else into trouble. Wm. Christmas, a seaman on board the Maid of 
Yare, said he was in the boat and received a splash from the bundle 
being thrown into the water near him. The prisoner told him to pick 
it up, and he didso, Mr, Alderman Copeland asked Judge how far off 
he was when the prisoner threw the bag overboard. Judge said about 
thirty yards... Mr. Langham, for the prisoner, urged that he was a 
waterman liable to be hired by anybody, and brought into difficulties of 
this sort. He wason this occasion hailed, and offered 2s. 6d. to carry 
the bag on shore. He did not know the contents, but he suspected 
something was amiss when he found the officers rowing after him, and 
upon a sudden impulse he threw the bag overboard. Unless he was 
cognizant of the contents of the bag he was not guilty of the offence 
charged—that of aiding or being concerned in unshipping the tobacco. 
‘The act of unshipping was confined to the time when the bag was dropped 
from the vesselinto the boat. The magistrates were of opinion the pri- 
soner’s conduct showed a knowledge of the business he was concerned 
in, and fined him £100, the power of mitigating which rested only with 
the Commissioners. He was adjudged to be imprisoned until the fine 
was paid. Mr. Alderman Copeland observed that severity was neces- 
sary for the protection of the revenue, the protection of the fair trader, 
and especially of the small shopkeepers who dealt in tobacco, who were 
unable to compete with the venders of duty-free tobacco. Upon the 
application of the solicitor for the prisoner, the magistrates recommended 
him to the merciful consideration of the commissioners of Customs as 
having a large family, his wife being an inmate of a lunatic asylum. 

WORSHIP STREET, 

Very uke Swixpuinc!—IWilliam Grifiths was charged with ob- 
taining a great quantity of goods from various tradesmen under false 
pretences. Mr, John Reece stated that he was a grocer, carrying on 
business in High-street, Shoreditch. On the 27th of January, the pri- 
soner, whom he knew to be in the service of Mr. Cox,a publican, in 
Plough-yard, Shoreditch, called at his shop, and in the name of his 
mistress asked for six pounds of moist sugar, two pounds of lump, half 
a pound of tea, and other articles, which witness served him with, and 
the prisoner took away with him; in a few days after he obtained four 
pounds of coffee and other goods, which he likewise took away. Wit- 
ness afterwards ascertained that the prisoner had left Mr. Cox’s service 
and that none of the articles had been ordered by that gentleman’s wife. 
Witness had not since seen him till he found him in custody. Joel 
Stutter, the son ofa cutler in Shoreditch, stated that on the 23rd of 
January the prisoner came to his father’s shop and ordered a dozen 
of table knives and forks, and on the uext day half-a-dozen more of the 
same pattern, saying Mrs. Cox would call and pay for them. Witness 
served him with the goods, which he took away with him, Mr. Stuart, 
a hatter in Shoreditch, said the prisoner called on him on the 18th of 
March, and desired that he would send by him, for his mistress’s in- 
spection, three silk velvet caps at half a guinea each. Witness was sur- 
prised Mrs, Cox should want them, as she had bought one only a short 
time before, but he packed them in a box, and delivered them to the 
prisoner, who took them away. Elizabeth Andrews deposed to the 
prisoner's obtaining from her three pair of shoes and a pair of boots 
under similar circumstances. Mrs. Cox stated that the prisoner had 
been in her husband’s service for some time, but had left it more than 
two months since. She had sent him to Mr. Stuart’s for the first set of 
knives, which she had paid for, but all the rest of the articles he had ob- 
tained without her knowledge and without her sanction. Mr, Ballan- 
tine, the barrister who attended for the prisoner, cross-examined the 
witnesses, but to no effect, and Mr. Bingham fully committed him to 
Newgate for trial on all the charges, and the witnesses were bound 
over to prosecute. 

Tur Poriceman AND THE Curtarys—Thomas Bowles, a shoe- 
maker, and formerly @ police constable, was placed at the bar 
with a young married woman, named Bright, whose husband 
charged them with robbing him of some window-curtains and 
sundry other articles. Bowles, who was now charged with stealing the 
wife and curtains of the complainant, was lately here as complainant 
against his own wife, who had eloped from him with a paramour and 
taken some property. He had been discharged from the police in con- 
sequence of the almost perpetual fracas between him and his wife, in- 
terfering with his duties of constable. The complainant, a decent- 
looking man, now stated that the ex-policeman. Bowles sometimes 
visited at his place, and was there a fortnight since. Some words after- 
wards occurred between complainant and his wife, who on Monday 
se’nnight eloped during his absence from home, and has since been with 
the prisoner, Bowles, and the curtains, and other articles now produced, 
were carried off. Bowles declared that Mrs. Bright had brought the 
things without any knowledge on his part that they belonged to her 
husband ; and the female assured the magistrate that she took the 
things away herself as her own property, and that Bowles had no hand 
in taking them, A little girl, brought forward by the husband, stated 
that on the day in question she saw the prisoners leaving the house, 
and the man carrying a bundle. Mr, Bingham, however, found upon 
inquiry that there was no evidence to convict Bowles of taking the 
property ; and he, therefore, discharged both the prisoners, and the 
curtains, &c. were given back to the husband. 

UNION-HALL. 

Bicamy.—Thomas Johason, a lighterman, was brought up for final 
examination, charged with intermarrying with Kitty Gardener, his 
former wife being still alive-—The father of the first wife stated that he 
was present at the ceremony of the marriage of the prisoner to his 
daughter in-the year 1835, the capy. of the certificate of which he pro- 


duced, adding that the prisoner abandoned his wife in less than two 
years after their marriage. The witness added, that it was recently 
discovered the prisoner had changed his name to that of Allen, and, 
under that disguise, married a young female, who, however, had ex- 
pressed a strong disinclination to appear against him, although she was 
then present in Court.—Kitty Gardener was then called forward, and, 
in reply to Mr. Traill, she stated that she was unwilling to give evi- 
dence against the prisoner, although he had so basely deceived her.— 
Mr. Traill, finding that her bridesmaid was present, said that the evi- 
dence of Kitty Gardner could be dispensed with, and the witnesses 
alluded to having been called forward, she gave the necessary testimony 
of the fact of the alleged second marriage. Mr. Traill asked the pri- 
soner whether he wished to ask the witnesses any questions, or to say 
anything himself on the subject of the charge ?—‘The prisoner said that 
all he had to say was, that lie could not agree with his first wife owing 
to her bad temper, and that as they were both unhappy, and not likely 
ever to agree, he left her and married a second wife, and found her all 
that he wished. He added that, had he known of his first wife’s mar- 
riage to another man, he should never have interfered.— He was com- 
mitted, 
MANSION HOUSE. 

Arremprrep Assassination ar Sr. Paut’s.—A young man, named 
Augustus John Field Sintzennich, was brought before the Lord Mayor, 
charged with having attempted to assassinate the Rev. Mr. Hayden in 
the cathedral of St. Paul's on Saturday last. ‘The prisoner is under 16 
years of age, Mr. Bryarley, a barrister, attended for him, Mr. Harde, 
a clerk in the Bank of England, stated that he was at St. Paul’s eathe- 
dral on Saturday during divine service, and saw the prisoner there. The 
prisoner rose up when the clergyman was reading the prayer for the 
Queen, and drew a large horse-pistol from under his handkerchief. The 
prisoner was in the choir, and witness ran towards him, and said “ Seize 
him; he has a pistol.” The prisoner raised the pistol, and witness saw 
a spark flash from the pan. He did not think the pistol was directed at 
the clergyman. The prisoner was at once seized.— Mr. Heskett, of No. 
12, Fetter-lane, stated that he saw the prisoner draw the pistol from his 
handkerchief, and seized him. The prisoner said it was useless to hold 
him so tight, as he had no idea of running away.—Mr. Howton, of 
Lisson-street, Waterloo-road, stated that he saw the prisoner raise the 
pistol, and tried to snatch it from him. ‘There was a scuffle for the 
pistol between the prisoner and witness. The prisoner snapped the 
pistol, but it missed fire. He did not seem to be at all excited.— Master 
Gulling, a Christ's Hospital scholar, stated that he knocked the pri- 
soner’s hand down when the prisoner raised the pistol.—Mr. Wood 
deposed that he also struck the prisoner’s arm when the pistol was ele- 
vated.—Mr. Lingard, one of the vergers of St. Paul’s, stated that there 
were five or six shots of No. 4 in the pistol, and a very small quantity 
of powder. ‘he powder and the shot were together, and there was no 
wadding whatever. There was no priming, nor had there been any, in 
the pan, and witness believed the pistol would not have gone off. ‘The 
prisoner, upon being asked by the Lord Mayor whether he wished to say 
anything, replied in the negative. Inspector Lloyd produced the fol- 
lowing letter, which the prisoner wrote to his brother at the station-house: 
“Dear Brother,—I write to inform you of the situation | amin. | 
took it into my head to have a pop at the clergyman at St. Paul’s, and I 
am now inastation-house in an alley that leads into Fleet-street. I 
don’t much care about it as I did no harm, but be so good as not to tell 
papa and mama yet, as it will putthem out. My examination comes 
on Monday next, at 12, as I hear. I want you to come and see me 
first, and no one else till you have seen me. I hope | shall see you to- 
morrow, but it did exasperate me above a bit when I heard the fellow 
calling the usurper Queen, when I have lately discovered that James 
Stuart is right Sovereign. Give my love to all, and tell them not to 
fear about me, and should you come to see me to-morrow come by 
yourself. Your affectionate brother, A. J. F.Sinrzennicu. Fleet- 
street-—Inquire for the Police Station.” In answer to a question from 
the Lord Mayor, the prisoner said the letter was his. He added, that 
he had to deny that the pistol was snapped. Here an old cover of a 
writing-book was produced with some of the prisoner’s writing, assert- 
ing the right of the Stuarts to the throne, and denying the right of any 
other family to that distinction, It was subscribed “ A Staunch 
Jacobite.”—The counsel for the prisoner said he could prove the in- 
sanity of the prisoner, and suggested the propriety of the Lord Mayor’s 
directing that the prisoner should be taken care of under a late statute. 
—The Lord Mayor said he considered the case ought to go to a jury.— 
The counsel for the prisoner pressed the suggestion very strongly, and 
stated that the lad had insanely imbibed itleas of the legitimacy of cer- 
tain sovereigns, and would insist upon it that the Stuarts ought to reign 
instead of the house of Brunswick. ‘The prisoner was strongly excited 
by the performance of Rob Roy at the theatre, and seemed to believe 
that James Stuart, a Scotch piper, had a claim to the Crown in conse- 
quence of a lineal descent from that unfortunate family—(A laugh). 
The prisoner entertained thoughts of raising the clans in favour of the 
piper. His principles were high Church and State principles, and he 
constantly attended divine service. His opinions of the right of the 
Duke of Bourdeaux to the throne of France werealso strong.—The Lord 
Mayor said a jury must determine the case. It was the duty of the 
magistrate to commit. He would, however, postpone the case for a 
day or two in order to make more particular inquiry.—The prisoner was 
then remanded till Friday.— He was brought up yesterday, and his coun- 
sel attempted to show that he was insane. The case of Stevenson was 
cited, but the Lord Mayor said the cases were not parallel. Stevenson 
had not committed the felony which he contemplated. His madness and 
his design were discovered in time to prevent his making the attempt, 
and his case came, therefore, precisely within the meaning of the Act. 
His lordship, after some conference with the solicitor and friends of the 
prisoner, remanded him to this day fortnight, informing him at the same 
time, that upon that day he would commit him for trial.—His lordship 
then called Mr. Lingard, one of the vergers of St. Paul’s, and desired 
him to report to the Dean and Chapter that he thought it was their duty 
to authorise some person to attend at the next examination, and repre- 
sent them in conducting the prosecution. 

LAMBETH STREET. 

“On, MY PROPHETIC SOUL—MY Uncre !"—Mr. Blay, a pawn- 
broker, in the Back-road, St. George’s in the East, appeared a second 
time before Mr. Henry, to answer to an information which had been 
preferred against him for charging excessive interest. Mrs. Oliver, the 
wife of a mechanic, deposed that three years ago, she had pledged a 
carpet at the shop of Mr. Blay, for eight shillings, and rather than lose 
it, had, on the 15th of last March, when the twelve months became ex- 
pired, attended to pay the interest, ‘The first year she paid 2s, 23d., the 
second 2s, 1}d., and the third she was charged 2s. 64d. Owing to the 
variation in the amount charged, ‘she thought there was something 
wrong, and upon asking the question at another pawnbroker’s, what a 
twelve months’ interest upon eight shillings was, slie was informed it was 
only 1s. 6{d. She then applied at this Court, and obtained a summons 
against the defendant, and Saturday week being appointed for hearing 
the case, she attended with her witnesses. Mr Henry here desired the 
witness to be particular in stating what took place between her and the 
defendant on that day. The witness said that while waiting in the 
outer office for the case being called on, Mr. Blay came to her and said 
he wished to speak to her, and pressed her to walk outside with him. She 
replied she did not want to have anything to say to him, as she had come 
therefor justice. The defendant then said that he was engaged on particular 
business, which required his attendanceelsewhere ; and as hecould notthen 
stop to have the case heard, she would have the trouble of attending 
upon the following Monday. The defendant also said witness would 
gain nothing by going before the magistrate, and expressed jhis willing- 
ness to settle it in any way she thought proper. One of her witnesses 
said that, if they did not go before the magistrate, they would get no- 
thing for their attendance, upon which Mr. Blay agreed to give them 
five shillings each for their trouble; and that he would, in addition, 
give up the carpet without any charge ; and further, that he would pay 
the expenses she had been put to. Seeing that the defendant was very 
much agitated about the matter, representing that he had a large family 
to support, she consented to settle the matter with Mr. Blay, who took 
them to a public-house, and treated them to half-a-pint of gin.—Mr. 
Henry : Who was it that received the last money you paid for interest 
at the defendant’s shop ?—Witness: The shopman, sir.— Mr. Henry : 
Was Mr. Blay present upon any one of the occasions on which you 
paid the interest on the article pledged 1— Witness: No, sir, he was 
not ; it was the shopman who always received the money.— Mr. Blay here 
handed to the magistrate a piece of paper, upon which he had made a 
caleulation.between the money paid by the complainant and that which 


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was the legal interest, and according to his own showing there was an 
overcharge of 1s, 114d.—Mr. Pelham, who attended on behalf of the 
defendant, said he would not attempt to deny that a compromise had 
taken place, of which the defendant was both ashamed of and sorry for, 
aud he hoped that, in mitigation, his worship would take into considera- 
ton the fact of his having a large family, and his being by no means a 
man of property ; and further, that he (Mr. Blay) was not personally 
aware of the overcharge.—Mr. Henry observed that the transactions 
bore the appearances of a systematic course of overcharge, as on each 
Occasion a much larger sum than the legal interest was charged ; and it 
could not be supposed that the shopman, who had no interest in the 
matter, would have made such overcharges if they were not sanctioned 
and countenanced by his master. Besides, the master was answerable 
for the acts of his servant, and the offence rendered the defendant liable 
to a penalty of £10. ‘The offence, he must say, was a very bad one, 
but in consideration of its being the first ttme the defendant had been 
summoned for overcharge, at least within his knowledge, he would miti- 
gate the penalty to £3 and expenses.—The defendant, who seemed 
much dissatisfied, paid the money. 
KENSINGTON, 

Murprrous Assautt upon a Potice Serceanr.—Three young 
ruffians, about 19 or 20 years of age, named William Baker, Thomas 
Baker, and Thomas Picton, were brought before Mr. G, Clive, charged 
with having, with others, committed a murderous assault upon Police 
Sergeant George Hunt, V No. 4, on the previous evening, at Parson’s- 
green, Fulham. ‘The injured otkicer was unable to attend, and a medi- 
cal certificate was produced that his attendance at the court would be 
likely to occasion great danger to his life. It appeared from the evi- 
dence of other witnesses that on the previous evening about seven o’clock 
the prisoner homes Baker threw two large sharp flint stones at a per- 
son named Richard Lock, a shoemaker, residing at Parson’s-green, 
who by some eccentricity of character has for some time been the butt 
of the blackguard boys of the neighbourhood, which cut through his 
clothes and seriously bruised his back. He immediately complained to 
Sergeant Hunt, who took Thomas Baker into custody, ‘The sergeant 
was instantly attacked by the other two prisoners and other blackguards, 
who assailed him with showers of stones and other missiles, until he was 
struck down on his knees by a blow from an old boot on the head, and 
before he could recover himself he was struck on the face by a sharp 
stone, which cut out one of hiseyes. Being reduced to a state of in- 
sensibility, the prisoner and the others effected their escape. He was 
shortly afterwards found bleeding profusely from the injuries he had 
received by another constable, by whom he was assisted to the station- 
house, when he gave such a description of the parties as enabled his 
brother officers to apprehend the prisoners in the course of Thursday.— 
‘The prisoners were remanded until Thursday, the 13th instant, 

MARYLEBONE. 

Tur Jew anp the GentiLe.—Mr John Brown, a fruiterer, residing at 
No. 2, Upper Bryanstone-street, Great Cumberland-street, Oxford- 
street, und his shopman, named Craig, attended before Mr. Rawlinson, 
by virtue of a warrant obtained against} them by Henry Cohen, a 
Jew orange merchant, living in Shepherd-street, Goodman’s-fields. 
Complainant’s statement was to the effect that on Sunday morning last 
he called upon Mr. Brown, and asked him to purchase some oranges, 
He (Mr. Brown) refused to have any dealings with him, and Craig, 
after giving him a great deal of abuse, shoved a piece of pork into his 
(complainant’s) mouth, at the same time asking him how he liked it ? 
He complained of the indignity thus offered to him, when Brown came 
forward, and twisting his nose thrust him out of the premises. Mr. 
Brown denied the assault imputed to him, and his shopman Craig de- 
clared most positively that the: Jews story with regard to him was false 
from beginning to end; there was not a morsel of pork at the period in 
question in the house, neither had there been any therein for many 
weeks. Complainant had endeavoured, by the offer of a bribe, to pre- 
vail upon a person to come forward on his behalf, but he had failed in his 
object. Other evidence was gone into, and the warrant was dismissed, 
the magistrate telling the Jew that he did not believe a single word of 


his statement. 4 
CLERKENWELL. 

A Bap Boy.—Wéilliam Jones, aged thirteen, belonging to Blooms- 
bury Charity School, was charged by Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of No. 25, 
Ilyde-street, Bloomsbury, with having wantonly discharged a pistol at 
her. It appeared that the prosecutrix was a lodger in the house of the 
prisoner’s father, who is a pork-butcher. At seven o’clock on Monday 
evening she was in the kitchen, when the prisoner presented a pistol 
at her, and discharged it, when the contents came all over her like fire. 
He discharged the same pistol at her about an hour before, when she 
cautioned him not to do it again; but he said he would do her some 
harm in consequence of her having made complaints of his misconduct 
to his father. When he discharged the pistoi at her she could not see 
for some minutes. A piece of rag “‘as large as a marble,” came from 
the pistol, which made a Joud report. ‘The witness added, that the 
prisoner had robbed his father several times, and he was a very bad 
boy. Sergeant Lester said that information had been given of the 
prisoner’s apprehension to his schoolmaster, but nobody was in attend- 
ance from the school, nor were the prisoners parents present. The 
prisoner said there was ne flint or powder in the pistol ; he was merely 
amusing himself in the kitchen, but he meant no harm. Mr. Combe 
said he would remand the prisoner until Saturday, in order that some 
inquiries should be made as to his character. The prisoner was ac- 
cordingly remanded. 

CircumsrantiaAL Evmence.— At the Surrey Sessions, which con- 
cluded en Saturday afternoon, Mr. Charnock, who was engaged to 
defend a prisoner (the evidence for the prosecutiou entirely resting on 
circumstantial evidence), said such evidence was always dangerous to 
convict on, and cited the following remarkable case, which the learned 
counsel said was not generally known :—On the northern circuit, a few 
years ago, a respectable farmer was indicted for the wilful murder of 
his niece, to whom he was left executor and guardian. A serious quar- 
rel took place between the uncle and his ward, and the former was 
heard to say that his niece would never live to enjoy her property, al- 
though she wanted but a short period of becoming of age. Shortly 
after this declaration and quarrel the niece was suddenly missed, and no 
one knew what had become of her. Rumours were quickly spread to 
the disadvantage of the farmer, until jt was at length publicly reported 
that the farmer had murdered his niece for the sake of possessing him- 
self of her property, and that he had concealed the body. On his being 
apprehended on a charge of murder, various spots of blood were found 
on his clothes, those being the garments he was in the habit of wearing, 
Appearances went so much against the prisoner that he was committed 
for trial. At the assizes application was made to the judge to postpone 
the case, on the ground that public indignation was so generally excited 
against the prisoner, that he could not safely go to trial, and an affidavit 
Raa put in that, if time was granted, there was no doubt that the 
niece would be produced in court, and that the prisoner was entirely 
innocent of the murder. The application was successful, and in the in- 
terim the most strenuous exertions were made on behtlt of the prisoner 
and his friends to find the niece, but all to no purpose, and the search 
proved fruitless. The period of the assizes at length came round, and 
being unable to produce the niece, the prisoner, to save hus life, resorted 

- : ‘atal step of which procured his conde ion ¢ 

to a deception, the fatal step k ondemnation and 
execution within 48 hours after trial. A young lady was produced in 
court exactly reseinbling the suppose gmurectedt female s her height, 
age, complexion, hair and voice, were SO simular that many persons in 
court who were acquainted with the nicce, veniehates that she was 
the same, and some witnesses actually swore 9 the identity, An inti- 
mation, however was given to the counsel for t ie HSS RUC, that the 
female in court was not the niece of the prisoner, | tT the resemblance 
was perfect. By the most skilful crose-sxaminaon vite counsel for 
the prosecution, the artifice was at last detectec, lis I ane without 
hesitation pronounced the fatal verdict of Guilty. Ts tld ~ 1N pass- 
ing sentence of death, said it was impossible the Uey coulc ahs come 
to any other conclusion, and sentenced the Pe eer eae 0 . hung 
the following Monday. On the scaffold, with his last brea ‘ Ven nae 
happy convict declared his innocence, but the clergyman ke Neo nitg 
for his hardihood, and the spectators who had witnessed the execution 
were satified he died a guilty man. Within two years after the execu- 
tion the niece actually made her appearance, and claimed the property 
to which she was entitled. It appeared that on the day alter the unfor- 
tunate quarrel, the niece eloped from her uncle’s house with @ stranger 
to who whom she had recently become attached, and had never been 
heard of until her sudden and unexpected return, and thatshe had only 
by accident heard of her uncle’s execution, 


SCOTLAND. 


Tur CALEDONIAN CANAL.—The canal, which during the win- 
ter had been threatening to overflow its banks at Gairlochy, has 
burst its embankment ata place not so much suspected as other 
portions of the line. About the latter end of last week the bank 
gave way about three-quarters of a mile from Bannavie Inn, where 
there are two tunnels running under the bed of the canal; these 
not being in a good state of repair, yiclded under the weight of 
water, which, having obtained an outlet, burst all restraint, carry- 
ing in its progress (to the river Lochy) trees, rubbish, &e. Some 
property was destroyed in its course, but not so much as might 
have been expected from such an inundation. The canal between 
Gairlochy and Bannavie is now quite dry, and the bank at the 
place of the outbreak is torn away completely for the distance of 
about 150 yards. Persons say, who have some knowledge of the 
matter, that it will be from four to six months ere it can be in a 
proper state of repair for the passage of any vessel along the line 
of the canal.—Jnverness Herald. 

DEATH OF ONE OF Burns’s HEROINES.—We observe the fol- 
lowing announcement in the Edinburgh papers of last week :— 
“ Died at Pau, in Bearn, on the 3d inst., Mrs. Lewis Hay, daugh- 
ter of James Chalmers, Esq., of Finland, and widow of Lewis Hay, 
Esq., one of the partners of the banking-house of Sir William 
Forbes, J. Hunter, and Co., Edinburgh.” It may interest the 
lovers of Scottish poctry to know, that Mrs. Hay was one of the 
special favourites of Burns during his Edinburgh sojourn, and to 
her are addressed some of the most excellent of his letters in his 
printed correspondence. This accomplished lady was ‘then un- 
married, and is addressed by the poet as ‘* Miss Margaret 
Chalmers.” Next to Mrs. Dunlop, Miss Chalmers seems to have 
stood highest in Burns’s estimation, and the unreserved disclosures 
which he made to her of his feclings and sentiments and private 
views are the best evidence of the entire confidence which he re- 
posed in her admirable good sense, taste, and judgment. Mrs. 
Hay was also celebrated by Burns in his songs— 

“ My Peggy’s face, my Peggy’s form, 
The frost of hermit age might warm.” 

Burns, it will be recollected, was fond of displaying the little know- 
ledge of French which he had picked up by a fortnight’s tuition 
from his old preceptor Murdoch, and on this head Mrs. Hay used 
to relate an amusing anecdote, which we give in the words of Mr. 
Campbell, the poet. ‘‘One of his friends (Mrs. Hay, then Miss 
Chalmers) carried him into the company of a French lady, and 
remarked with surprise that he attempted to converse with her in 
her own tongue. Their French, however, was mutually unintelli- 
gible. As far as Burns could make himself understood, he unfor- 
fortunately offended the forcigu lady. He meant to tell her that 
she was a charming person and delightful in conversation, but ex- 
pressed himself so as to appear to her to mean that she was fond 
of speaking ; to which the Gallic dame indignantly replied, that it 
was quite as common for pocts to be impertinent as for women to 
be loquacious.” —Inverness Courier. 


DEATH OF A “ SPAEWIFE.”—A fortune-teller, long known at 
Leith by the cognomen of * Dumb Bell,” dicd last week, who, 
strange to say, intelligent as the age is, has laboured in her voca- 
tion with a success beyond belief. Hundreds of servants, sailors, 
and others, visited her abode for their fortunes. Being dumb, as 
her name indicates, a sister acted as interpreter ; and between the 
two, for the last quarter of a century, they earned a good living at 
the now almost obsolete trade of divining the mysteries of futurity. 
—Scotsman. 

THE Scotch FISHERIES.—The fisheries of Scotland already 
feel the effects of Sir R. Peel’s tariff, in a greater degree than agri- 
culture. In consequence of the supply of Dutch salmon in the 
London market, fresh salmon from Scotland, which at this season 
used to average 2s., is now under ls. the pound. Noone ever con- 
templated that Dutch salmon would be brought into our markets 
in any quantity, and as soon as the rivers open we must look for 
large supplies from Norway. Herrings are also nearly as much 
depressed in value. The best cured pickled herrings have been 
lately put on board ship at 11s. per barrel, and red herrings, which 
at this season used to sell for 24s,, are at present not worth more 
than 16s. per barrel in London; and from the above the freight 
and charges being deducted leaves «bout 11s. to 12s. per barrel to 
the curer, their fish only half of this price—Aberdeen Herald. 


A WHALE.—On Sunday last a whale, 46 feet in length, was 
captured in the Moray Frith, near Kessock Ferry, to the no small 
astonishment and delight of all and sundry of our townsmen and 
neighbours, thousands of whom have flocked to see the huge and 
unwonted spectacle. The fish was first noticed about seven o’clock 
in the morning by the man in charge of the stake-net at Kilmuir. 
It was then floundering and blowing away ona sandbank between 
Kilmuir and Craigton, and the man getting out his coble, and pro- 
curing the assistance of two lads in another boat, proceeded to the 
spot, armed with an old sword and some such other lethal weapon. 
They succeeded in inflicting several wounds on the whale, who 
darted hither and thither, now making for the mouth of the Ness, 
and again plunging forward towards the opposite side of the frith, 
till at length he rose in the vicinity of the boats, and the pursuers, 
with great boldness and no little risk, succeeded in fixing a grapnel, 
or kedge-anchor, in the head of the fish, entering one of the blow- 
holes. At this stroke the whale darted off with great velocity, 
dragging the boat behind ata fearful rate. The conflict was not unob- 
served, and arival party now entered the field of action, determined 
to share in the glory and gain of the victory. The Kilmuir men say, 
they had made the fish fast with ropes, and had it fairly aground, 
exulting in their prize, when two large boats, filled with men and 
headed by the Craighton pilot, appeared coming from the west- 
ward towards the scene of conflict. Their wives and daughters 
from Craighton village also arrived by land, and a regular scufile 
ensued, whieh might have ended seriously bad not the Kilmuir 
people, who were in the minority, prudently given way, but not 
till several blows had been struck. A gentleman in the neigh- 
bourhood then interfered, and tried to persuade the new comers to 
go away, and leave the whale in the hands of the original captors ; 
but this they refused, and after fixing their own tackling to the 
dying fish, they carried it out to sea again, and then towed it 
westward, and landed it where it now is, at Craigton Point. The 
fish is said to be worth from £40 to £50. It is of the finner or 
razor-back species, and is of the following dimensions :—Length of 
the head 11 feet ; breadth of the headG feet ; breath of the tail, 
10 fect ; and the whole length, 46 feet.—Jnverness Courier. 


Cuina.—Extract of a letter from Chusan, dated Dee. 1842 :— 
“This island is assuming, already, an active and bustling appear- 
ance (at least this town, Tinghae, the capital), from the number of 
Chinese tradesmen, artificers, &c., which are now established here, 
and seem very peaceable and well-disposed towards us and our an- 
thority ; and the mandarinsare very civil and in no way troublesome, 
All this arises from the good conduct of our troops and people, and 
the punctuality with which everything is paid for. The Chinamen 
begin to see very plainly the great benefit to themselves by their 
trade and intercourse with us. The island is a very beautiful one, 
and seems very well indeed adapted for a principal trading place 
for us. A great deal might be made of it; but as we are to give 
it up when all the money is paid, it is not worth while to go to 
any expense, The climate is very fine now.” 


IRELAND. 


— The Marquis of Northampton will be domiciled with Sir Wm. 
Chatterton on his arrival in Cork to attend the great mecting of the 
British Association. 

SrateE OF BELFAST.—There are cight hundred unoccupied 
houses in Belfast, every one of which is in a tenantable state. 

— The Lord Lieutenant “and the Countess De Grey leave Dunb- 
lin at once for London. The noble Earl contemplated a visit to 
the south of Ireland, but the intention has for the present been 
abandoned. Their Excellencies’ stay in England will not, it is ex- 
pected, exceed six weeks, and on their return they will take up 
their residence at the viceregal lodge in the park. A ballona 
grand scale was given to the tradesmen of the Castle on Tuesday 
evening, a custom in abeyance since the viceroyalty of the Duke of 
Northumberland. This will be the termination of a winter season 
the most brilliant and fashionable the metropolis could boast of for 
many years. No effort has been spared by their Excellencies to 
revive the almost paralyzed trade of Dublin, and if the attempt 
bas not succeeded in full, it was not for lack of a fostering encou- 
ragement, aided by a munificent and lavish expenditure. 

REpoRTED RESIGNATION.—Lord Stuart de Decies has ad- 
dressed a letter to the Evening Post, contradicting the report which 
originated in a Waterford paper, to the effect that his lordship had 
resigned the Lieutenancy of the county in consequence of not 
having been consulted in the appointments of the new borough 
magistrates. The noble lord declares he has no intention of com- 
mitting “political suicide.” 

Tur ARMY.—A circular from the commander of the forces 
has been addressed to regiments and depots serving in Ireland, to 
the following effect :—Commanding officers are not, in future, to 
allow the men of the flank companies of their respective corps to 
have wings on their shell jackets; nor are they to be made of 
scarlet, but of red cloth. Provident soldicrs, who are apt to take 
good care of their clothing, may make shell jackets out of their 
old coatees, which will be a considerable saving to them. No 
charges are to be made against the soldier for either cleaning 
guard-house or carrying coals. He must not be debited with any- 
thing but that which appears in the company’s ledger. No regi- 
ments to be allowed to wear brass slides on the side belts but the 
Foot Guards and the 5th Fusiliers. The public pays for the mak- 
ing of great coats for the army, thercfore, soldiers must be ex- 
empt from this charge in future.-—Limerick Chronicle. 

— The supposed comet has become visible in Ireland, but has 
not yet blessed the vision of the good people of the capital with 
its appearance. 

EMIGRATION.—The number of persons intending to emigrate, 
says the Derry Sentinel, appears to be far less this season than 
for many years past, and merchants who have chartered vessels for 
the trade at this port are likely to be losers to a considerable extent. 
We cannot tell what has caused this unexpected check to emigra- 
tion at present, but it would seem from the fact that the accounts 
received from the United States and Canada of late give a less en- 
couraging prospect toemigrants than formerly. The new Passenger 
Act, although in many respects a most judicious and praiseworthy 
measure, is said also to have some influence in the matter, its pro- 
visions being represented as too stringent, and as interposing addi- 
tional obstacles to the emigration of persons with small means. By 
this law the ship must be supplied with a certain quantity of 
wheaten bread for each individual on board, thereby adding to the 
expense of the passengers ; whereas, the poorer class of emigrants 
from Ireland usually took with them a supply of potatoes, which 
constituted their principal food during the voyage. 

Curious INcIDENT.—The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave asplen- 
did civic entertainment in the Mansion-house on Thursday evening, 
which was attended by the leading citizens of all parties. In the 
course of the evening Colonel Browne, commissioner of police (a 
brother of the late Mrs. Hemans), sang ‘‘ The British Grenadiers,” 
which abounds with allusions anything but complimentary to the 
bravery of the French. The gallant colonel, who is a very kind- 
hearted man, was totally unaware that the French Consul was 
seated very near him; but the company generally were aware of 
his proximity, and a very painful feeling was felt through the room 
at so untoward an occurrence. Some time after Colonel Browne 
went over to the Consul, and tendered his explanation and apology ; 
but, truth to say, they were felt to be necessary. Mr. O’Connell, 
in the course of his speech, after his health had been proposed by 
the Lord Mayor, in allusion to a passage in the song sung by Co- 
lonel Browne, referring to the French soldiery, begged to assure 
the worthy gentleman (the French Consul), who belonged to a gal- 
lant people—for whatever controversy there was between them as 
to the great French nation, it was a great nation—that, however, 
the good-humoured turn of a British soldier might make him 
forget for one moment, in the gaiety of his heart, what was due to 
him and his country, there was no feeling of the Irish or British 
soldier, or of the Irish or British gentleman, inconsistent with the 
exercise of hospitality to him. Subsequently the Lord Mayor 
proposed “ the friendly relations of France and England, and the 
health of M. Marcescheau.” M. Marcescheau, the French Consul, 
briefly returned thanks in his native language. He felt, he said, 
deeply indebted for the great kindness and courtesy shown to- 
wards him by the Lord Mayor ; and he might assure the company 
that the manner in which the great nation which he represented 
had been spoken of by the distinguished gentleman at the right of 
his Lordship (Mr. O’Connell) would be heard of with feelings of 
pride and satisfaction by the French people.—(Loud cheers.) Co- 
Jonel Browne was anxious to offer one word in explanation. He 
assured the company that when, in returning thanks for the army 
and navy, he had occasion to introduce the song of “ the British 
Grenadier,” he was wholly unaware that the French Consul was in 
the room.—(Hear, hear). Nothing could be more repugnant to 
his intention than a desire to hurt the feelings of any gentleman, 
and he would not have sung the song had he known that a French 
guest was present. The wounds received in action were still fresh 
on his own person, and bore evidence to the bravery and intrepi- 
dity of the French people. 

— Lord Doneraile has made an abatement of 20 per cent. in the 
rental of his tenantry. 

— A new question on the law of marriage has arisen from a 
recent trial at Cork. It is, whether a marriage, within the pro- 
scribed degrees of the Church of Rome—which is void in the view 
of that Church—be invalid also in law? The case will probably be 
argued in the ensuing term. 

ST SES PES 

— We find the following under the head of Saragossa, 24th ult., 
in the Eco de Aragon :—A dreadful crime was committed here yes- 
terday. A labourer at the farm of Pueyo, near the river Huerva, 
murdered the five daughters of his master, and wounded the far- 
mer himself as he was entering his house to repose himself after 
the fatigues of the day. The mother, who was absent when the 
murder was commited, fainted when she returned and saw the life- 
less bodies of her children. The murderer succeeded in making his 
escape. 

4A letter from St. Petersburg states that M. Allier, professor 
of the University of that city, has just discovered in the Imperial 
Library 341 autograph letters of Henry IV. of France, hither un- 
known. He immediately imparted his discovery to a commission 
at Paris especially occupied in collecting the letters of that sove- 
reign. 


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ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. 
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FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLACKWALL. 


On Tuesday morning, at four o’clock, an accident occurred to B. 
Ferrand Busfeild, Esq., late of Magdalen Hall, Cambridge, and who is 
nearly related to the Members for Bradford and Knaresborough, 
which terminated fatally. Tt appears that Mr. Busfeild, who has 
been lately on a visit to his mother at Bath, left town at an early 
hour on Tuesday morning for the purpose of going upon a cruise in 
her Majesty’s steam-ship Vulcan, a revenue vessel, which has been 
recently fitted out at Blackwall. He proceeded in a cab to the 
Brunswick wharf, at Blackwall, and upon arrivlng opposite the 
Brunswick Hotel Tap it was necessary to cross a bridge over the rail- 
way, which leads to a narrow path communicating directly with the 
wharf. The cabman, on reaching the bridge, said he did not think he 
could proceed any further, and Mr. Busfeild alighted and walked 
along the path leading to the wharf, and immediately afterwards 
called out to the cabman to proceed, and said it was all right. The 
cabman drove towards the wharf, and had just reached it when he 
heard Mr. Busfefid hailing the steamer, moored directly opposite, 
and directly aster a splash in the water was heard, and cries for help. 
The cabman immediately raised an alarm, and a boat put off from 
the Vulcan, and drags were procured ; but Mr. Busfeild was never 
seen afterwards, and it is concluded that in stepping from the wharf 
on to the barge moored directly under it, fell into the water and was 
drowned. The commander of the Vulcan gave directions to the 
boatmen in the neighbourhood to continue their search for the body, 
and offered a reward of £10 for its recovery. At seven o’clock last 
evening, they were still dragging the river, but it is not at all proba- 
ble that the body will be recovered for several days. The Com- 
mander of the Vulcan, who was Mr. Busfeild’s intimate friend, and 
had invited him to join the vessel on her intended cruise, was ex- 
ceedingly distressed, on hearing of the melancholy accident. The 
whole of the deceased’s property was removed to the Poplar station- 
house, where it now remains in charge of the police. The deceased 
was a young gentleman of promising abilities. It is only a fortnight 
since that intelligence was received of the death of a brother of the 
deceased, in Canada, by drowning. 

[ Mr. Busfeild’s body has not yet been recovered, and it is doubted 
by many whether it will ever be found at all. The depth of water 
off the Brunswick pier is always considerable, and there is a strong 
current running there; and as it was just after high water when the 
calamity took place, there is no doubt the body of the ill-fated gen- 
tleman was carried down the river. The deceased was twenty-eight 
years of age, and was the brother of Mr. William Busfeild Ferrand, 
the member for Knaresborough, who adopted that name on coming 
into possession of property some years ago. Mr. William Busfeild, 
the member for Bradford, is the uncle of the deceased gentleman, 
As deceased is known to have had a considerable sum of money in 
his possession when he lost his life, the Thames police have received 
instructions to look after the dredgermen, who too often plunder the 
bodies of persons found drowned in the river. 

From inquiries which were made, it appears, that the Vulcan has 
been for the last three weeks under repair in the East India Docks, 
and on Monday came out of dock, when she was moored off Black- 
wall-yard, in all probability waiting for the arrival of the deceased 
gentleman. The vessel was intended for the preventive service, and 
was to have proceeded on her cruise round the coast the instant he 
was on board. The deceased, it is ascertained, came down in the 
course of Monday, and went on board. At that time the lighters 
which are moored off the quay were lying flush with the pier, and 
he was thus enabled to step from the shore to them without the 
slightest impediment. To this circumstance may be attributed his 
untimely fate, as on his arrival yesterday morning he no doubt 
imagined that the floating lighters were in the same position. This 
was not the case, as in consequence of the tide ebbing, the lighters 
swerved from the pier, and in all probability he stepped between them 
and the shore, and was then drawn beneath the barges. The utmost 
secrecy was maintained amongst the authorities respecting the de- 
ceased, and the surprise that may exist at the circumstance of the 
death of the deceased being kept from his family from 5 o’clock in 
the morning until 10 or 11 Jast mght, may he attributed to the Cap 
tain of the Vulcan having requested the police not to take any steps 
to inform the family of the deccased of tle accident, as he would 
adopt measures to make the communication; and it was only when 
it was uscertained that the Valcan had left, that a message was 
despatched to Mr, Ferrand at the House of Commons, conveying the 
melancholy intelligence. During the absence of the constable who 
was thus despatched, the Vulcan returned to her moorings. 


LAMENTABLE AND FATAL OCCURRENCE. 


Considerable excitement has for the last week prevailed at South- 
end, in Essex, from a rumour that Captain Edward Johnson had been 
killed in a duel, by a brother officer, at Prittlewell, and that the body 
had been privately removed in the dead of night to his apartments, it 
having been the intention of his friends to conceal the affair from the 
public, and to bury the corpse without an investigation of the cir- 
cumstances Icading to his death. On the officer of the parish mak- 
ing inquiries, he ascertained that the report of the unfortunate gen- 
tleman having fallen in a duel was without foundation, although he 
had died from the effects of a pistol-shot, under circumstances of the 
most afilicting nature. Notice was immediately forwarded to the 
coroner, and a jury was summoned to the inquiry, which took place 
at the King’s Arms Tavern, before Richard Morrison, Esq., on Mon- 
day morning last. 

William Sinclair deposed that he was groom to the late Captain 
Johnson, who was a single gentleman, and about forty-nine years of 
age. Witness occupied the room immediately under that of his 
master. On the evening of Wednesday, the 30th ult., witness saw 
him go into his apartment for the purpose of dressing for a party. 
About an hour afterwards the deceased left the house, soon after 
which witness heard him return, and go into his dressing-room, but 
he did not remain long. Between 10 and 11 o’clock witness went to 
bed, and heard no more of his master during the night. About 8 
o’clock on Thursday morning witness went into his master’s room, as 
was his usual custom, to call him, when, upon entering, he was asto- 
nished at finding two candles burning in the sockets of the candle- 
sticks, and his master not in bed, nor did it appear he had been, judg- 
ing from the undisturbed state of the clothes. Upon looking behind 
the screen which divided the room, he discovered the deceased sitting 
on the sofa, with his head reclining over one side, weltering in blood, 
which appeared to have come from his mouth. His lips were closed, 
and he was quite dead. Witness made an immediate alarm, and 
Captain Brydges shortly attended. Witness ran off for medical aid, 
and ina short time two surgeons arrived, who, on examination of the 
deceased, declared him to have been dead some hours. The deceased 
was undressed, with the exception of his drawers and stockings. 
Witness afterwards discovered the pistol now produced in his master’s 
drawers, which were hanging about his legs. 

The pistol was here produced: it was one of a pair of duelling 
pistols made by Riggo, of Dublin. 

Coroner: What time do you suppose your late master came home 
from the party ?—Witness: I cannot precisely say, but I think about 

two o’clock in the morning. 

Juror: Did you during the night hear the report of a pistol?— 
Witness: No, sir, I did not. 

Coroner; Have you noticed anything particular in the manner of 
the deceased lately that would induce you to say he was of unsound 
mind ?—Witness ; Oh, no sir ; on the contrary, he was always parti- 
cularly cheerful, and very high-spirited. 

Foreman: Had your late master a difference with any one, that 
would be likely to lead to any unpleasant consequences ?—Witness : 
Certainly not ; as far as my knowledge extends. 

Captain Edward Bridges was next examined: He stated that he 
was weil acquainted with the unfortunate gentleman, who was very 
highly connected. When the alarm was made by the last witness 
that his master was dead, he hurried to his friend’s room, and was 
horror struck at beholding him deluged in blood, without any appa- 
rent wound or mark of violence. His lips were closed, and when the 
surgeons arrived they were at a loss to conjecture from-whence the 
blood had flowed. However, upon search being made, the pistol now 


produced was found, which had recently been discharged, and upo” 

opening the lips of the deceased the upper jaw was found to be com™ 
pletely shattered, the ball having lodged in the bhck of the head, but 
was subsequently extracted. Witness was contident that the de- 
ceased never intended suicide, but that his death was caused in some 
way or other by accident. He was a sensible gallant officer, and the 
last man in the world that would commit self-murder. 

Tn answer to questions from the coroner and jury, Capt. Brydges 
said that the deceased was not addicted to gambling, nor was he in 
the slightest degree embarrassed in pecuniary matters; on the con- 
trary, his means were most ample. He (Capt. Brydges) felt confi- 
dent that the death of his lamented friend was accidental, and he was 
strengthened in that opinion from the examination he had made of 
the pistol. Upon looking at the ramrod, he found it was very diffi- 
cult to remove, and he verily believed that the deceased was abont 
to draw the charge of the pistol, and finding he could not shift the 
ramrod with his hand, he had applied the teeth of his lower jaw to a 
small ridge near the top of it, and in doing so, the teeth must have 
caused the pistol to go off, and produced the dreadful calamity. 

The pistol was closely inspected by the coroner and jury, and the 
ramrod was found ditlicult to remove without the aid of the teeth. 

Captain Brydges further said that he had never seen anything in 
the conduct or general manners of the deceased indicating insanity ; 
in all his experience he had never known a man more careless of fire- 
arms than Captain Johnson was. 

Major Powell and Lieutenant Mahon, who had passed the evening 
in company with the deceased, deposed to his cheerful and composed 
manner when in their company. 

Doctor Mitchell and Mr. Dove, surgeon, proved extracting the 
ball from the head of the decased. Death must have been almost 
instantaneons. 

After other evidence was heard, the jury deliberated a short time, 
ove then returned a verdict, ‘‘ that the deceased was accidentally 
shot. 


EXTENSIVE BURGLARY NEAR WORCESTER. 

One of the most daring and extensive burglaries which it has fallen to 
our lot to record as having been perpetrated in the immediate neigh- 
bourhood of this city, was committed early in the morning of Tuesday 
last, at the residence of Major Williams, situate about a mile from this 
city, on the Malvern road. Major Williams’s residence is within a very 
short distance of the high road, is about 200 or 300 yards from the man- 
sion of Mr, John Williams, Pitmaston, one of our active county magi- 
strates, and there are two or three other houses in closer proximity ; 
but although the thieves were engaged in ransacking the house for at 
least two hours, so well had their plans been organized, that not the 
slightest alarm was occasioned to any of the neighbours until after their 
departure with the booty. 

From information which we have been enabled to glean it would ap- 
pear that Major Williams’s domestics retired to rest at rather a later 
hour than usual on Monday night, and that shortly before one o’clock 
on Tuesday morning, they were disturbed by a noise of some persons 
breaking into the house, upon which one of the girls (there were only 
two female servants in the house) opened her bedroom window to call 
for assistance, but was immediately assailed from without by a shower 
of dirt thrown in her face by one of the party who had stationed him- 
self outside ; almost immediately afterwards two fellows entered the 
bedroom with a light. A third, with a gun in his hand, was also about 
to enter the chamber, when the others intimated that they did not want 
him, and he accordingly withdrew. The women were of course much 
alarmed, and their fears were not lessened by the ruttians ordering them 
to lie on their faces while they tied their feet and arms, and telling 
them they would be murdered if they should give any alarm, Having 
bound their feet and wrists tightly with string, the burglars demanded of 
them their money, and the poor women, overcome with terror, at once 
disclosed to them where they would find all the money which they 
possessed, which amounted to between £2 and £3. One of the fellows 
persisted that they had more money, but the servants declared this was 
all they had, whereupon another of the party said, ‘‘ Well, leave ’em 
alone ; I dare say this is all they’ve got,” and they then desisted from their 
threats, and proceeded to Major Williams’s bedroom. After tying his limbs 

in the same manner as they had done those of the servants, the burglars 
proeeeded leisurely to ransack every piece of furniture and clothing for 
money and valuables, rejecting all property easy of identity, and se- 
curing every easily convertible valuable which they could lay their 
hands upon. In this manner they were occupied until between 2 and 3 
o’clock, when, after regaling themselves upon the contents of the larder 
and cellar, they took their departure, carrying with them £60 in Wor 

cester Old Bank notes, £50 in gold, and a quantity of plate of the fol- 
lowing description :-—A sauce ladle, a fish knife, four small ladles, one 
dozen anda balf of large silver forks, half a dozen small ditto, one dozen 
anda half of large spoons, half a dozen dessert ditto, one dozen tea- 
spoons, half a dozen spoons (marked ‘‘ J. W.”), four salt spoons, cream 
ewer, sugar basket, caster stand and tops, two table spoons (marked 
“M.C.”), two dessert ditto, also an antique gold watch, two other 
watches, seals, &c- 

The mode in which the burglars effected an entrance to the premises 
was by raising a ladder up to the staircase landing window, and break- 
ing a pane of glass, by which means they were enabled to raise the sash. 
It would seem from the marks found in the garden that the thieves had 
secreted themselves behind the shrubs, whence they watched the in- 
mates to bed. There was a quantity of soot found ina heap in the 
garden, and this there was no doubt had been made use of by the bur- 
glars to blacken their faces. On their departure they left behind them 
a pair of thick doe-skin gloves and a piece of soap, which they had 
brought with them, and used to wash the soot from their persons. 

At about 3 o’clock in the morning the thieves took their departure 
without having inflicted any severe personal injury on the inmates, with 
the exception that the Major’s wrists were much rubbed and bruised by 
the] bandages put on them, and he has since suffered much, owing 
to age and nervousness. The unfortunate servants and their master 
remained bound in this condition for several hours, being unable to 
render each other any assistance, till between 5 and 6 o’clock, when 
the terrified housekeeper succeeded, after many fruitless attempts, in 
reaching the window and making herself heard by a labourer who was 
passing along the foot-path at the back of Major William’s house. This 
person immediately came to their assistance, and having liberated the 
inmates, proceeded to this city to give information of the circumstances 
to the police. Inspector Phillips, of the city force, and some of his men 
were soon at the scene of the robbery, making every inquiry likely to 
lead to the discovery of the thieves, but hitherto no clue has been ob- 
tained. Indeed, it is doubtful, from the state of agitation into which the 
Major and his domestics were thrown, and the fact of the ruffians’ faces 
having been blacked, whether they will be able to identify them. ‘They 
state that one of the burglars was tall, and the other two shorter, and 
that they were dressed in bag frocks, and had the appearance of 
coal-heavers ; but there is every reason to believe, from the great 
number of footmarks around the house, and the fact that some of 
the prints were those of a boy’s foot, that more fellows were engaged in 
the outrage than were seen by the women, It is said that several 
strange men were seen in the footpath through the meadow at the back 
of Major Williams’s house on Monday, and it has been ascertained that 
they borrowed the ladder which they used for the purpose of obtaining 
an entry into the premises from the neighbouring stable of Mr. John 
Williams, Information of the robbery was not given to the country 
police till later in the morning; but as soon as it had reached them, 
deputy chief constable Lane visited the house. ‘The chief constable 
(Mr. Harris) subsequently followed him, and such steps were taken as, 
we trust, will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the offenders ; 
though we regret to say, that as yet no clue has been obtained to their 
detection, It appears sufficiently evident that the burglars were 
thoroughly practised in their profession, and that they are no strangers 
to the locality. We hear that a gentleman travelling from Ledbury to 
this city on Tuesday morning meta party of men answering to the 
description given of the burglars by Major Williams and his servants, 

Major Williams was removed early on Tuesday morning to the resi- 

dence of the Rev. W. Holden, Lark-hill, and we regret to hear that he 
still remains very unwell, 
“— The Carlsruhe Gazette states, that a shock of carthquake 
was felt in the district of Loerrach, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, 
on the morning of the 25th ult. The doors and windows of the 
houses were forced open, and furniture were thrown down, but no 
house fell, and no person was injured. 


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THE ILLUSTRATED WHEKLY TIMES. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 
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THE HORRORS OF TRANSPORTATION. 


At the Liverpool Assizes, on Tuesday last, one George Robinson » 
alias Saxon, pleaded “ Guilty ” to the charge of having illegally re- 
turned from transportation, and when brought up for sentence en- 
tered into a long and singular statement, which was listened to by a 
crowded Court with great attention. From this it appeared that, in 
1820, being then but eighteen years of age, he had been convicted of 
a highway robbery at Pendleton. He received sentence of death, but 
was finally transported for life. He had, however, an irresisitble de- 
sire to return to his native land, and some time after his arrival at 
Sydney made an attempt to escape by swimming off to a brig lying 
in the roads, and succeeded in concealing himself below until she was 
at sea. She was driven back, however, by stress of weather ; he 
was given up to the anthorities, received 100 lashes, and was sent to 
a penal settlement, first to Hunter’s River, and afterwards at Mac- 
quarrie Harbour. For twelve months at atime he never had the 
irons off his legs. He described his situation as intolerable, without 
any communication with his friends, shut out from the world, and 
with hardly a hope for the future. He determined again to make an 
attempt to escape. He lett the colony with several others. Three 
days after they were attacked by the natives ; several of them were 
wounded, and all their clothes and provisions were carried off. To go 
forward in this position was almost hopeless,—to go back was to suffer 
again a punishment of 100 lashes, and to be condemned to work in 
the gang reserved for the werst criminals. They resolved 
to go on. They lost themselves in the Blue Mountains, and 
wandered aboat naked sixty days, living on what they 
could pick up in the bush or along the shore, to which they were fi- 
nally conducted by another party of natives. They were then near 
the site of Port Philip. Here they fell in with another tribe, by 
whom they were taken and given up to the authorities. They were 
conveyed to Coal River naked as they were. They there were al- 
lowed a blanket to cover them, but even this they were obliged to 
leave behind when they were shipped on board a Government vessel 
which was taking coals to Sydney ; and, but for some canvas which 
they were allowed to have to cover them, they would have had to lie 
naked on the coals in the hold. They were landed in this plight at 
Sydney. There public charity supplied them with some clothing, but 
one of his companions, for six months, had nothing but a pair of 
trousers. They were sentenced to receive 100 lashes, and to be sent 
back to Macquarrie Harbour. Their wretched state was such, how- 
ever, that the first part of the sentence was not inflicted, the medical 
man having made a representation that prevented it. He remained, 
at Macquarrie Harbour some time, when he again, with some others 
got away in a whale-boat, and rau along the coast tor nine days, hav- 
ing made a sail by fastening together the shirts of the party. They 
were obliged, by want of provisions, to put into Hobart-town, and 
were again sent back to Macquarrie Harbour, and placed on Big 
Island—the depot for the worst offenders. He described the horrors 
of this place as being more than language could paint. Several, he 
said, had committed murder that they wight be removed to Sydney 
for trial, though certain that after this short respite death would be 
the punishment of their crime. He told a singular tale of one Pearce, 
who had attempt to escape with several others. Provisions failing, 
they were obliged to sacrifice one to save the rest. All perished in 
this way, till Pearce and another alone remained. They watched each 
conscious of the other’s intention, for 48 hours, until Pearce got an oppor- 
tunity of killing his companion. He was taken, and again escaped with 
one Cox, whom he also killed, and for this he was finally executed 
At this horrible place the prisoner said he remained upwards ofseven 
years, when he was sent to Hobart Town. He again escaped on 
board a vessel, and concealed himself till she was 21 days at sea. The 
Captain, however, gave him up on his arrival at St. Helena. He was 
sent back to the Cape, and thence to Robin’s Island, where he worked 
for seven months, with 2olb. of irons upon him. He was then sent to 
Macquarrie Harbour. His conduct, during a gale on the passage re- 
commended him to the merciful consideration of the authorities, and 
after the lapse of three years he was allowed to come back to Hobart 
Town, and finally obtained a ticket of leave. He still, however, 
longed to see his native land. He escaped on board an American 
whaler, in which he cruised for several months, but the captain in- 
tending to give him up at the first opportunity, he took advantage of 
the vessel touching at New Zealand to take refuge with the natives. 
By them he was well treated, and fivally got an opportunity of enter- 
ing without suspicion on board a vessel buund to Boston ; hence he 
wrought his passage to Quebec, and thence to Greenock and Liver- 
pool. He had since been living at Manchester and gaining an honest 
livelihood by the labour of his hands. He protested that since his 
original offence his conduct has been thatofan honest man. His sole 
wish had been to see his native land, and he expressed ahope that his 
sufferings and his good conduct would recommend him to the -merci- 
ful consideration of the authorities. 

Mr. Baron Parke said the tale which he had related would, he 
trusted, help to dissipate any idea that might be lurking in the minds 
ofany who might hear it, that transportation was a light punish- 
ment. It was his duty simply to pass on him the sentence, that he 
should he transported again for the term of his natural life. 

The prisoner bowed respectfully, and was removed from the bar. 

The appearance of the man was calculated to procure credence for 
the history he related. There was a remarkable expression of suf- 
fering and hardship in his countenance, and there was something 
very moving in the manner in which he received the sentence that 
was to consign him again to the horrors he had been describing. 


— Orders have been sent to Malta for the reduction of the 
Mediterranean squadron, which is, in future, to consist of four sail 
of the line, and a proportionate nuinber of frigates, steamers, and 
brigs. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen is directed to send home 
the Impregnable, Vanguard, and Lormiduble, and to retain the 
Queen, Howe, Indus, and Monarch. Rear-Admiral Sir F, Mason, 
K.C.B., has shifted his flag from the Howe to the Impregnable, 
and is now on his passage home. The Vanguard has also left 
Malta. She will call at Lisbon, and remain in the Tagus about a 
fortnight, and then return to Eneland.— United Service Gazette. 

What net is the most certain to catch a handsome woman? A 
coronet. 

ORIGIN OF PENsIONS.—The first pension ever granted was by 
Henry VIII., in 1512, when the sum of twenty pounds a-year was 
given toa lady of his court, for services done! A gentlewoman 
also had the second. Weare in the dark as to the extent of her 
merits; butit was from thesame sovereign, in 1536,and amounted 
to £6 13s. 4d. a-year. 

— There are 1184 horses named to run for stakes and plates in 
England for 1843. 

— The legislature of Massachusets has repealed the law which 
prohibited the marriages of blacks and whites. 

— The Commission for erecting the tomb of the Emperor Na- 
poleon has come to decisions that the baldachin of the altar in the 
Church of the Invalides, with its gilded columns, shall be sup- 
pressed; that the equestrian statue of the Emperor shall be 
erected on the Esplanade, and not in the Cour Royale, as designed 
by the architect, and that the figure of the Emperor shall be in his 
historical dress, and not in the Roman costume. 

— Letters from the Crimea say, that the winter was departing 
at the end of February, the trees beginning to be green, and the 
violets in bloom. On the south coast the almond trees had done 
blooming, and the preparations for sowing the spring corn were 
nearly ended : 

— Madame de Villeneufe, sister of the Queen of Sweden and of 
Joseph Bonaparte’s wife, died on the 18th of March at Florence, 
where she had resided for the last twenty years. 

Tux TIDIEST WOMAN IN TH WorLD.—Mrs. Baxter's house 
contained three or four sitting-rooms, yet the kitchen, to the great 
annoyance of her poor hard-worked maid, was the place in which 
she chose to take her meals. Her dining-room was large and well- 


THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY TIMES. 


furnished ; but on entering it you would exclaim— Can this be 
an inhabited house?” for not one sign of habitation was there. 
| Curtains there were to the windows, certainly, but not put there to 
be drawn ; for the coldest day in the depths of a Russian winter 
could never tempt Mrs. Baxter to see them so treated. There was 
a comfortable carpet, too ; but, rash visitor, beware! touch not its 
sacred hem, for the last idea ever entertained by Mrs. Baxter, when 
She laid it down, was the idea of anybody walking over it. Do you 
not see that India matting laid round and across the room, which, 
and which only, is to be so profaned? There was a fine large easy 
chair, made in the last style of luxury and elegance, which she 
exultingly told every one cost fourteen guineas; but I wish you 
could see the black look she would have bestowed on any one 
(sposo not excepted) who had dared to remove it from the corner 
she had destined to be its abiding place. In short, Mrs. Baxter’s 
goods, like the Crown jewels, were to be looked at with awe and 
admiration, but not to be touched ; and thus her poor victim of a 
husband, more miserable than the traveller in an Arabian desert, 
who, if he does not see the element he languishes for, at least is 
not tantalized—pines in the midst of plenty for the common com- 
forts of life, knowing no rest in his own well-furnished house, but 
in that blessed oblivion—sleep. Came he home hungry or thirsty, 
there was nothing in his larder, Mrs. Baxter being much too clean 
to cook, or allow cooking ; and some excuse would always be found 
against drawing the strong ale, or opening a bottle of wine. Was 
he weary, not for worlds durst he seek repose in the inviting arm- 
enair, or stretch his limbs on the sofa, for he would sully this, and 
tumble that, and disarrange every thing; and a lecture from Mrs. 
Baxter about her household gods (for such they were to her) was a 
hing in every way to be dreaded.— Ainsworth’s Magazine. 

— The Anti-Slavery Meeting Delegates to the Anti-Slavery 
Convention meet in London in June. 

— A suspension bridge, surpassing all that has been seen, is to 
be constructed at Vienna, says a letter from that city, across the 
Danube. It will be 1,470 English feet in length, with only one 
pier in the river. 


SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 


—>—_—_ 
a TATTERSALL’S.—THURSDAY. . ‘ 
The attendance was good, but businessslack, at the following prices :— 
EPSOM TRIAL STAKES. 
Even on Maccabeus, not p.p. 
RIDDLESWORTH. 
5 to 4 on Mr. Bowes’s Cotherstone 
CHESTER CUP. 


10 to 1 agst Mr. Lovesey’s Corsair (taken to £250) 
10 to 1 — Lord Chesterfield’s Marshal Soult 
12 to 1 — Mr. Wormald’s Millepede 
14 to 1 — Mr. Kitching’s Priscilla Tomboy 
15 to 1 — Sir W.S. Stanley’s Forester (taken) 
15 to I — Mr. Isaac Day’s Marius 
15 to 1 — Mr. Plummer’s Alice Hawthorn 
20 to 1 — Mr. Bateman’s Haitoe 
20 to 1 — Sir C, Monk’s Galanthus 
25 to 1 — Mr. Meiklam’s Aristotle 
25 to 1 — Lord Westminster’s Martyr (taken) 
25 to 1 — Mr. Bell’s Eboracum 
DERBY. 
14 to 2 agst Mr. Blakelock’s A British Yeoman (taken) 
16 to 1 — Colonel Peel’s Murat (taken) 
16 to 1 — Mr. Goodman’s Maccabeus 
16 to 1 — Mr. Bowes’s Cotherstone 
25 to 1 — Lord Eglinton’s Aristides 
25 to 1 — Colonel Anson’s Napier 
26 to 1 — Mr. Bell’s Winesour (taken freely) 
28 to 1 — Mr. T. Taylor’s Gamecock (taken) 
30 to 1 — Lord G. Bentinck’s Gaper (taken) 
30 to 1 — Sir G. Heathcote’s Amorino 
30 to 1 — Lord Westminster’s Languish colt 
45 to 1 — Duke of Richmond’s Cornopean. 
1000. to 20 — Lord Orford’s Mercy colt (taken) 
50 to 1 — Lord Chesterfield’s Parthian 
50 to 1 — Mr. Theobald’s Highlander 
1000 to 10 — Colonel Peel’s St. Valentine (taken) 
OAKS. 
5 to 1 agst Lord Westminster’s Maria Day (taken) 


THE LONDON MARKETS. 


pose? Lena 
CORN EXCHANGE—FRripAy. 


Searcely any fresh English wheat has been received up to our 
market this week; consequently we had a very scanty number of 
samples on show to-day. Although the demand, arising from the 
small attendance of dealers, was far from active, Monday’s quota- 
tions were supported. In foreign wheat, a fair business was doing, 
but no improvement was noticed in the currencies. Grinding and 
distilling barley was the turn dearer, but malting parcels hung hea- 
vily on hand. Superfine malt was inquired for, and commanded an 
advance of 1s. per quarter, all other descriptions ruling about sta- 
tionary. Oats were tully as dear, but other articles were very dull. 


ARRIVALS. 
Wheat | Barley. Oats. Flour. 
English.... | 1,930 qrs. 2,750 qrs. 2,180 qrs. | 2,910 sacks. 
Irish ...... — 10,690 — 


Malt, 3,010 qrs. 


; SMITHFIELD. 

The fresh arrivals of beasts, for this morning’s market, were 
chiefly composed of about 90 oxen, from our midland districts, and 
80 horned and polled Scots, by sea, from Aberdeen and Dundee. 
Although the bullock supply was small, the demand ruled inactive, 
and Monday’s prices were with difficulty supported. For sheep, the 
numbers of which were scanty, we hada firm inquiry, and full rates 
were freely paid by the butchers. From the Isle of Wight, 80 lambs 
were received by railway, in good condition, with fair receipts from 
Essex and Kent. Prime small qualities supported their previous 
value, but that of other descriptions had a downward tendency. 
The veal trade was dull, at an abatement of quite 2d. per 8lb. In 
pigs little was doing. Milch cows sold heayily, at from 16/. to 191. 


ach. 
each BOROUGH HOP MARKET. 

The first parcels of hops still continue to be taken off freely at 
prices quite equal to those noted on this day se’nnight ; but, in all 
all other kinds, very little business is passing. 


{ , Gt. H q 
THE LONDON GAZETTES. 


TUESDAY, APRIL, 4.. 

BANKRUPTS.—HENrRy WooD, Fleet-street, bookseller. —Wi111 AM Burton 
Cambridge, draper.—JoHN HuTron, Ringwood, Hsapanite, draper.—Joun 
RosBert Hircucock, New Sarum, hosier.—JOSEPH ; e Bridge-house-place, 
Southwark, surgical instrument maker.—JOHN mone SS) nefeld, table-knife- 
mauufacturer.— HeENRY Morris, Stourbridge, v otese jerealte, grocer, — 
EDMUND WHEELER, Birmingham, corn-dealer.— THOMAS EARDLRY, New- 
castle-under-Lyme, hat-manufacturer.—J AMES Lorine earsley, Lanca- 
shire, victualler.—Josnrm TraveLt (also known by y tlaeeea of Ta1omas 
TRAVELL and THOMAS JosEPH TRAVELL), Sheffield, tulor.— SORGE Rar- 
cLirFB, Sheffield, fender-manufacturer.— THOMAS BROOK, . Hud ew 
woollen cloth-merchant.—JoHN EyrE PEARSON, Sheffield wine-merchant,— 
Joun EvAns, Liverpool, coal-dealer. 

4 : FRIDAY, APRIL 7. ; 

Joun SuAWw, builder, Seymour-place, Camden-tewn— 
grocer, Poole— DAVID REDMUND and Joun GoLLor, sronefounders: Chere 
street, City-road—JAMES Cok WALNE, hop-merchant, Stowmarket, Sle 
—CHARLES WILLSMER, draper, Tillingham, Essex—JouN eae le 
manufacturer, Bread-street, City—THomas Ropu, merchant, New ik g 
street —JoHN HENRY FULLER, logwood-grinder, Flixton, Lancas see. 
THomAS MILNE WHITELEY, hatter, Liverpool—Joun WHITAKER, woollen- 
manufacturer, Whalley, Lancashire—Hrenry Lewis, cabinet-maker, Haver- 
fordwest-—EDWARD DICKIN, draper, Longdon, Shropshire—Joun NoRMAN, 
grocer, Wadebridge, Cornwall. 


Foreigh.... 


BENJAMIN VINEs, 


THE CHURCH. 
coor arene 


Prererments.—The Rev. J. Hildyard, M.A., of Christ’s College, 
to be one of her Majesty’s preachers, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall ; 


the Rev. W. F. Douglas, M.A., of Christ’s College, to be chaplain 
to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. 


By a list just published, we find that upwards of £4,700 has been 
oe to enable the London Missionary Society to send extra missions 
o China, 

_Campripce Universtry.—Tne Cuancettor’s Merpats. —These 
distinguished honours have been just conferred upon the two following 
gentlemen :—Mr. Gifford, St. John’s college; Mr. Druce, St. Peter’s. 

THE TEMPLE CHURCH.—Prince Albert visited the Temple 

Church on Saturday. He arrived on foot, and was unattended by 
any of his suite. On applying for admission at the door, not being 
expected or recognised, the porter refused him admission; but on 
making himself known, he was received by the principal officers of 
the establishment, and conducted over the ancient edifice, with 
which he expressed himself much delighted. The Prince remained in 
the church upwards of three-quarters of an hour, during which he 
made several inquiries and remarks upon the proficieucy of the choir, 
who were going through the rehearsal of the service for the followin 
day. He retired, as he came, unattended, after having Seprested 
his admiration of the splendour and good taste displayed in the 
architectural designs and embellishments of the sacred edifice. 
_ Tue Rev. SypNEY Smirn on Pusryrism.—A friend, address- 
ing the facetious prebendary of St. Paul’s, inquired, “ What is 
Puseyism, Mr. Smith?” “ Puseyism, sir, is a system of posture and 
imposture--of circumflexion and genuflexion—of bowing to the east, 
and courtesying to the west—with a variety of other fooleries.” 

IMPORTANT TO CLERGYMEN.—It may not be generally known 
that by the late Act marriage certificates must be written on a five- 
shilling stamp. Any clergyman giving a certificate on plain paper, 
except to a private soldier, sailor, or marine, subjects himself to the 
penalty of 50/.—Church and State Gazette. 

A writer in the Z'imes, referring to theabove, says, “‘ This is a mis- 
take from beginning to end. The late Act has made no change at all. 
Copies of our marriage registers require no stamp, norare they the 
certificates mentioned in the stamp acts, a misapprehension of which 
has been the source of the error, which has at length found its way 
into your columns. The fact is, that in former times (before the 
celebrated Marriage Act, and when marriages were celebrated in 
various places besides our parish churches, such as the Fleet, &c.) 
theclergyman used to give a certificate of the marriages itself to the 
parties at the time of marriage, and on this certificate it was requi- 
site to have astamp. But this has nothing whatever to do with the 
copy of our register (usually called a marriage certificate), which is 
now given to any party applying for it, either at the celebration of 
the marriage, or at any subsequent time: on these certificates no 
stamp is required. The error appeared lately in a provincial journal 
of wide circulation, and on that occasion I went myself to Somerset- 
house, and, received the above satisfactory solution of the blunder 
from the intelligent and obliging officers at the head of the establish- 
ment under which the cognizance of stamps and taxes falls.” 


OUR CITY ARTICLE. 
————— 


The causes assigned last week for a probable rise in the funds have operated 
for a further improvement, and an additional one is to be found in the intelli- 
gence by the Indian mail. But little speculative business has been done, owing 
to the near approach of the account day; but such parcels of stock as have 
been offered for sale, were taken by the jobbers, in anticipation of the usual 
demand consequent upon reinvesting dividends. The state of the revenue is 
upon the whole viewed as satisfactory, though the opinion generally held upon 
the question of the income-tax has undergone no change, or that as to the 
propriety of having more fully carried out the principles of the tariff as a sub- 
stitute for this annoying impost. It is said that were proof of the soundness 
of these views necessary, it is to be found in the fact, that after the immense 
change which has been made in our fiscal regulations, the decrease in the cus- 
toms for the quarter amounts but to £275,500; whence it is inferred, that had 
reductions been simultaneously made in the duties on the chief articles of 
consumption, no further loss would have been sustained, while a far greater 
proportionate benefit would have been derived by the community from the 
alteration. The official documents, regularly published by the Custom-house 
authorities, have been anxiously watched, and it has been seen, that in propor- 
tion to the increased consumption of cotton, wool, and their necessary ad- 
juncts in manufactures, have been the clearances of necessaries, such as tea, 
coffee, sugar, and the like, which, singular to say, have advanced in precisely 
the same ratio as have the raw materials, Consols remained steady at 964, 
96f, until Wednesday, when they began gradually to creep up, and then ad- 
vanced to 97; since then they have been currently quoted 97, buyers with 
every appearance of firmness. Three per cent. reduced 96}, 96; new three 
and a half per cent., 1024, 102}; three and a half per cent. reduced, 1014, 
1018; bank stock, 1844; India Stock, 269: India bonds, 75 premium. The 
demand for money which existed at the close of last week, and which caused 
a fall in the premium of Exchequer Bills, has been met from other sources, so 
that a further rise has taken place in these Securities, and they have been in 
demand at 703., 71s. 

A decline in the price of 5 per cent. Dutch Stock, and in that of Brazil, is 
the chief object to notice in the foreign funds. The fallin the former is to be 
accounted for in the indisposition to purchase, owing to the likelihood of that 
Government availing themselves of the power they possess to pay them off at 
par, from the extremely easy rate at which money can be obtained; and in 
the latter, from an apprehension that the finances of Brazil are not so flourish- 
ing as to warrant the late rise. This feeling has been strengthened by the 
circumstance that the outbreak in some of the provinces will cause an addi- 
tion of nearly four millions sterling to the unfunded debt. The last prices 
were, Belgium, 1043, 10543; Dutch 23 per cents., 563, 563; the 5 per cents., 
100; Brazilian, 69. Bargains in the bonds have been few, and to no great 
amount, An arrival of a further sum on account of the Mexican dividends 
has given increased firmness to the holders, though the expectation of an im- 
mediate payment appears to have been quite given up. This remittance is, 
however, looked upon somewhat in the light of a pledge that the foreign 
creditors will not be wholly neglected, as has been the case with some of the 
adjacent republics, and some of the European states. The Spanish Finance 
Minister having succeeded in leasing the quicksilver mines upon more favour- 
able terms, has caused a further speculation in the 3 per cent. Stock of that 
country, in the hope that some certainty may now exist of a few more divi- 
dends being paid upon it; meanwhile scarcely a bond has been sold to parties 
unconnected with the Stock markets. Those who had bought have since been 
anxious sellers, Mexican was last marked at 30, 30}; Portuguese, 40], 41; 
Spanish 5 per cents., 224, 223; the 3 per cents., 334, 33$; and deferred, 13}. 
Subsequent sales have caused the quotations to fall to 22 and 31Z respectively. 

Shares have been steady, but with little business. Few have been offered for 
sale, and such as have been met with ready purchasers, at former prices. 
Bristol and Exeter were last sold at 59}; Cheltenham and Great Western, 
30}; Great Western, 95}; London and Birmingham, 214; Manchester and 
Leeds, half-shares, 35; Eastern Counties, 10}; Blackwall, 6; Brighton, 353 ; 
South Eastern and Dover, 257; Paris and Reuen, 274; Rouen and Havre, 3g. 

Commercial letters have arrived from America (coming down to the 16th 
March, from New York); from the West Indies, and from the East: all of 
which bring more cheering accounts of trade. The effect has been already 
perceptible in the manufacturing districts both for cotton and woollen goods, 
although the prospect of an immense crop of cotton in the Uuited States has 
induced some of the manufacturers to make no more than is directly ordered, 
in the expectation that prices of the raw materials will yet be considerably re- 
duced. The Americans are looking forward to exporting large quantities of 
provisions, lard, and corn through Canada to this country, but there appears 
to be an indisposition to take anything but specie in return. | The prospect of 
these increased shipments has given an impetus to freights, inasmuch as they 
must be brought here for the greater part in our own vessels. The Colonial 
markets have not exhibited any alteration; extensive purchases continue to be 
made for consumption, and the prices of most of the staple articles, espe- 
cially coffee, are on the advance. It has been stated upon good authority, 
and the report is gaining ground, that France, Spain, and Portugal have 
coalesced upon the subject of a commercial treaty with this country. If it be 
so, the hope of making one with either of the countries, by playing off the 
others against it, is at an end. 


BANK OF ENGLAND. ren 

An Account, showing the Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities 

and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 31st. day of December, 

1842, to the 25th day of March, 1843, both inclusive, published pur- 
suant to the Act 3 and 4 Wm. LY’, cap. 98. 

Lraniuittes. 

Circulation ..........£20,093,000 

Deposits ............ 12,003,000 

‘ £32,096,006 

Downing-street, March 31, 1843. 


Assets. 
Securities ...0...+- -£23,830,000 
Bullion.sssccsoes « 11,054,000 


we 


£34,814,000 


79 


BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. 


——~>—. 


RIRTHS. 

On the 5th inst., in Southampton-street, Bloomsbury-square, Mrs. Luke 
James Hansard, of a daughter. 

On the same day, in Connaught-place, the Viscountess Bernard, of a daughter. 

On the 2nd inst., at No. 2, Hanover-terrace, Regent’s-park, Mrs. Thomas 
Longman, of a daughter. 

On the Ist. inst,, at Ham, the lady of General Montholon Count de Lee, late 
of Petersham lodge, Petersham, of a son. 

MARRIED. 

On the 6th inst., at the parish church of St. Alphege, Greenwich, by the 
Lord Bishop of Chester, Captain Herbert Main Dobbie, second son of the late 
Captain W. H. Dobbie, R.N., of Saling hall, Essex, to Ellen, eldest daughter 
of Edward Hawke Locker, Esq. Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. 

On the 4th inst., at St. James’s Westminster, by the Rey. John Giffard Ward, 
rector, Thomas Hull Terrell, of the Inner Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law, to 
Margaret Louisa Jane, youngest daughter of William a’Becket, Esq., of Goal- 
den-square. 

On the same day, at St. George’s, Hanover-square, Henry Charles Sirr, of 
Lincoln’s Inn, Esq., barrister-at-law, younger son of the late Major Sirr, of 
Dublin castle, to Mary, daughter of the late William Mason, of Shepherd’s 
Bush, Esq. 

On Monday, the 27th ult., the Hon. John C. Dundas, M. P., only brother of 
the Earlof Zetland, to Margaret, daughter of James Talbot, Esq., of Talbot 
hall, county of Wexford. 

At Brussels, Robert N. Fynn, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Amelia, daughter of 
the late Thomas Ainsworth, Esqg., of Bolton, and niece to the present M.P. 

DEATHS. 

Od the 5th inst., at his residence in Portsea, Henry Thomson, Esq., R. A. 
late Keeper of the Royal Academy. 

On the Ist inst., at Maesmor, North Wales, General John Manners Kerr 
aged 74. 5 

At Bath, on the same day, Major-General Sir Charles Broke Vere, K.C.B., 
and M.P. for Fast Suffolk, in his 65th year. 

On the 28th ult, at his house, Kennington Green, aged 68, Mr. William Wil- 
kinson, chief clerk on the establishment of the Phoenix Assurance Company, 
after a faithful service of more than half a century. 

On the same day, in his 84th year, Sir George Griffies Williams, bart. of 
Llwynywormwood, Carmarthenshire. He is succeeded in his title by his eldest 
son, now Sir Erasmust Henry Griffies Williams, Rector of Marlbro’, Wilts. 

On the 27th ult., in the 80th year of his age, Sir Samuel Chambers, Knt., of 
Bredgar-house, county of Kent, Deputy-Lieutenant, and one of the oldest ma- 
gistrates for that county. 

At Genoa, on the 25th March, Lady Erskine, wife of the Right Hon. Lord 
Erskine, her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at 
the Court of Munich. 

On Wednesday, the 22nd ult., at his seat, Broomham, in the county of 
Sussex, Sir William Ashburnham, Bart., in the 74th year of his age. 

On the 2Ist ult., at Boulogne, Major Joseph Dacre Watson, of the Hon. East 
India Company’s army. This lamented officer was obliged by severe ill-health 
to retire from the service, after a period of 20 years, in the former of which 
he was actively employed with his corps, when he was appointed Chief Trans- 
lator of the native language in the province of Malabar. In the war with 
Tippoo Sultan he was selected by General Stewart as Aid-de-Camp, in which 
capacity he acted during the campaign, and at the siege of Seringapatam, in 
1799; he was afterwards appointed to one of the first civil situations in the 
province, and, after having the command of between 3,000 to 4,000 Nairs, 
with whom he acted in the jungles for some years, in times of great difficulty 
and danger, frequently displaying the greatest coolness and personal courage, 
he ultimately held the situation of Conservator of the Forests, from the un- 
healthy effects of which he never totally recovered. 

In Upper St. Martin’s-lane, Mrs. Griffinhoofe, aged 86, only surviving sister 
of the late Mr. Griffinhoofe, of Hampton, for many years the personal medical 
attendant of King William the Fourth, and the descendants of whose family 
accompanied William the Third from Holland. 

At Cove, in her 19th year, Julia, eldest daughter of the late Dr. Sweeny, 
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. Two hours before her death this 
interesting girl was engaged in the mazes of the merry dance, enjoying the 
pleasures of a birthday party in her mother’s house. 


SInGULAR CASE oF SurcrpE.—Thursday, Mr. Baker held an 
inquest at the City Arms, City-road, on the body of William 
Joseph Chandler, twenty-six years of age. It appeared that the 
deceased, about three weeks ago, had been troubled with a violent 
tooth ache. The tooth was extracted, and yet the circumstance 
appeared to prey upon his mind, and on Monday morning he 
complained of a degree of fever, and whilst his wife went to a 
neighbouring doctor’s, he procured a razor, and nearly severed his 
head from his body. The jury returned a verdict of “Temporary 
Insanity.” 


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CHOOL OF SCIENCE AND GENERAL EDUCA- 


b TION, GuLovucrEsTER House, Urron PuLacer, near ForEsT GATE, 
Essex. Under the Patronage of the Local Board of Education. 

At this establishment, which is most salubriously situated ‘about 5 miles from 
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other pursuit. Almost all the works of art and devices of man have a de- 
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which the pupils have an opportunity of becoming acquainted with experi- 
mental chemistry under the immediate superintendence of a student at.the 
Royal Polytechnic Institution. a 

Professors of eminence connected with the above sciences will occasionally 
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The situation is extremely pleasant with extensive grounds. 

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Smith, surgeon, 1, Brick-lane, Spitalfields ; Mons. Causs, 267, Regent-street ; 
Mr. Gillingwater, perfumer, 96, Goswell-street-road, Islington; Mr. Wilson, 
277, Strand: Mr. Bromley, ‘‘ Paul Pindar,’? Bishopsgate-street; Mr. Morris, 
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IMPORTANT.TO ALL WHO VALUE GOOD HEALTH. 
NOWLES’S UNIVERSAL FAMILY PILLS, 


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Proprietor. Sold wholesale by Mr. Epwarps, 67, St. Paul’s Churchyard, and 
most other medicine vendors in town and country. 


RAMPTON’S PILL OF HEALTH, FOR BOTH 


SEXES. The sale of these Pills, arising from the recommendations of 
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unnecessary; they are not put forth as a cure for all diseases, but for Bilious 
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also by the verders of medicines generally throughout the kingdom. 

Ask for FRAMPTON’S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name 
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TO TEACHERS AND AMATUERS OF MUSIC, MUSIC SELLERS, 
MERCHANTS, AND SHIPPERS. 
This day is Published, in one vol., 8vo., upwards of 300 pages, Part I of 
R COCKS AND CO/’S GENERAL CATALOGUE 
e OF NEW MUSIC. This Catalogue is so rich, that no musical person 
ought to be without it. 
To be had of all Music-sellers, and at the Libraries throughout the United 
Kingdom ; and of the Publishers, 20, Princes-streets, Hanover-square, London. 
N.B.—Now ready for delivery, as above, the only complete Edition of 
SPOHR’S VIOLIN SCHOOL, by Joun BtsHor, prioe 3s. 6d. Also, JOHN 
BISHOP’S Improved Edition of the MESSIAH and the CREATION, for voice 
and piano, price only 15s. each; and the SEASONS, by CLEMENTI, 2ls. 


EW MUSIC.—DUFF & HODGSON, 65, Oxford- 


street, have just published three new Fantasias for the Pianoforte, by 
Czerny, on the most Popular Airs in Donizetti’s Opera of Adelia, now perform- 
ing at her Majesty’s Theatre.—Le Voyageur, No. 14, Poland, Fantasia on 
Polish melodies, by J. R. Ling; where may be had the previous Numbers of 
thir celebrated Work—viz., No. 1, France, by W. H. Holmes—No. 2, Nor- 
mandy, by Q. Meves,—No. 3, Switzerland, by E. F. Rimbault—No. 4, Ireland, 
by W. B. Wilson—No. 5, Scotland, by J. Calkin—No. 6, Wales, by C. Hergitt 
—No. 7, Naples, by E. J. Loder—No. 8, Spain, by C. Glover—No. 9, Portu- 
gal, by H. Graves—No. 10, Turkey, by G. H. Griffiths—No. 11, Holland, by 
G. A. Macfarren—No. 12, Russia, by E. J. Loder—No. 13, Greece, by W. C. 
Masters. (To be continued.) 


COVINGTON, No. 10, OLD BAILEY, begs to call 

e the attention of the public to the present moment; when so much com- 
petition has arisen in every trade, and particularly in the manufacturing of 
Hats, it behoves that portion of the public who are not in the habit to take 
credit, to reflect ere they make their purchases, where they are most likely to 
obtain the best article at the lowest price. C. COVINGTON, endeavouring to 
procure ashare of that patronage he considers he justly merits, by purchasing 
his materials for ready money, observing the strictest economy, and engaging 
first-rate hands in every branch of the manufacturing department, is enabled 
to produce Paris Napped Hats for 8s. Gd., 10s. 6d., 12s. and 14s., the two 
latter prices are made on the best beaver bodies, and for elegance of shape, 
beautiful appearance, and durability, will not only successtully defy compe- 
tition, but ensure the decided approbation of those who will give them atrial. 

Improved India Rubber Stitfened Bodies, covered with the richest, Italian 
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Livery Hats, 14s.; best Beaver, 17s., which have never been rivalled for fashion 
and durability: 

Ladies’ Riding Hats, and Children’s Fancy Hats of every description. 

Gentlemen’s Travelling Caps in great variety, from ls. 6d.; and an excel- 
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EA and PERRIN’S “WORCESTERSHIRE 


SAUCE.” Prepared from the Recipe of a Nobleman in the Country.— 
The above celebrated Sauce has, from the time of its introduction, been 
steadily progressing in public favour. Its peculiar piquancy, combined with 
exquisite flavour, establish it of a character unequalled in sauces. Noblemen 
and others of acknowledged gof@t, pronounce it to be “the only good sauce ;” 
and for enriching gravies, or as a test for fish curries, steaks, game, cold 
meat, &c., especially unrivalled. As a rapidly-increasing inquiry is now made 
for it in all parts of the kingdom, the Proprietors beg to state that druggists, 
grocers, and others, may he supplied by their Agents—Messrs. Barclay and 
Sons, Farringdon-street; Mr. J. Harding, 59, King-street, Stepney; Messrs. 
Metcalfe and Co., 16, Southampton-row ; and by the Wholesale Oil and 
Italian Warehouscmen in London, upon the same terms as at their warehouse 
at Worcester. 
Sold retail, in half-pint bottles, at 1s. Gd.; pints, 2s. 6d.; and quarts, 5s. 
each, with the Proprietor’s Stamp over the cork of every bottle. 


SPECTACLES UPON UNERRING PRINCIPLES, 
Manufactured on the Premises, 129, Oxford-street. 


EABER and WEBER beg most respectfully to 
inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, that they are the 
Sole Inventors of the Improved INVISIBLE SPECTACLES, with a groove 
cut in the pebble and glass. W. and W. have taken the above premises for 
the retail sale of Spectacles, having manufactured for these last six years for 
C. W. Dixey, of New Bond-street. Feeling confident of giving the greatest 
satisfaction, they solicit a trial direct from the Manufactory, the usual charge 
being for the finest Elastic blued Steel Spectacles, with the best Brazilian 
Pebbles, £1 4s., are now being sold by the Manufacturers, : 
For Ladies....seseseseeee---£0 15 0} Gold do., for Ladies, from £1 15 0 
Gentlemen.....see-+--eeeee 0 16 6] Do. for Gentlemen, from 2 5 0 
Best Brazilian Convex Pebbles, fitted to the purchasers, Frame, 5s. ; 
Concave, 7s.’ 6d. 


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couple ; delicious Devonshire hams, bacon, and pigs’ faces, all highly smoked 
and cured with sugar; Buckinghamshire cream cheese (all cream); clotted 
cream butter, 18d. per lb., or 4s. for 3 1b.; new laid eggs from Devonshire, 
per railway, 16d. per dozen; highly smoked tongues, 4s. 6d. each; Hambro’ 
sausages; Norfolk pork sausages daily, per Magnet coach; mutton hams, 4s. 
each; fresh laver, 10d. per lb. A list of articles, with prices to the middle of 
April, to be had of Wm. TUCKER, Devonshire-house, 287, Strand: esta- 
blished 20 years. N.B. A cart to the west end daily at 9 o’clock, to ensure 
early delivery. 


Vv ATCHES sy WEBSTER anv SON, 


CHRONOMETER MAKERS To THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY 
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of lever and elegant horizontal Watches for ladies and gentlemen, at consider- 

ably reduced prices. Old Watches taken in exchange. The most experienced 

workmen are employed on the premises in the repairing department. 
WEBSTER & Son, 3, Birchin-lane, Cornhill. 


; Prince Albert in relief, on coloured grounds. 

H. Walker’s Improved Fish-hooks, Steel Pens, Hooks 
and Eyes, Bodkins, &c., are recommended to notice. 

- For the Home Trade, neat packages of Needles or Pens, 

from Is. to 10s. value can be sent free by post by any respectable dealer, on 
receipt of 13 penny stamps for every shilling value. Every quality, &c., for 
shipping. 

H. WALKER, Manufacturer to the Queen, 20, Maiden-lane, Wood-street. 


COMPOSITIONS FOR WRITING WITH STEEL PENS. 
TEPHENS’S WRITING FLUIDS.—These Com- 


positions, which have so remarkably extended the use of the Steel Pen, 
are brought to very great .perfection, being more easy to write with, more 
durable, and in every respect preferable to the ordinary ink. In warm climates 
they have become essential. They consist of— 

A BLUE FLUID, changing to an intense Black colour. 

A Patent Unchangeable BLUE FLUID, remaining Blue. 

A Superior BLACK INK of the common character, but more fluid. 

A Brilliant CARMINE RED, for contrast writing. 

An Instantaneous BLACK WRITING INK, which writes Black at once. 

A Carbonaceous RECORD INK, unchangeable by any chemical agents. 

Also, a New Kind of MARKING INK for Linen; and Ink-holders, adapted 
for preserving ink from evaporation and dust. 

Bottles at 3d. each, convenient for writing from, are prepared, which will 
enable those who may wish to try either of these articles to do so at a small 
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use the terms ‘ unchangeable Blue Fluids,” or “ Blue Black,” whichever they 
™may require. sett 

N.B. Black Ink, and imitations | of the above articles are constantly being 
announced as ‘ bus Ui eben but on examination they will be found to 
have only some new name. oath 

Prepared by HENRY STEPHENS, the inventor, 54, Stamford-street, Black- 
friars’-road, London ; and sold by all Stationers and Booksellers. 

STEPHENS’S SELECT STEEL PENS. 

The utmost possible care having been bestowed upon the manufacture of 
these articles so as to procure the highest finish—they can be confidently re- 
commended, both for flexibility and durability. 
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London : Printed by Wittram KELLY, at the Office of KELLY and Co., 19 

and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar ; and Published by ALEXANDER 


FoRRESTER, at the ILLUSTRATED WEE 4 d. 
Saturday, re ril8, 1843, WEEKLY TIMES Office, 194, Stran