The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

- . sailed from Bahia for this port ; C 11210114 (at.), fro. L:. : 0 • Oct It;, and sailed 19th for the Brasile; Har t„,n (st..`,. from Eoglaad, Ott 19, and sailed 2dth for mosta i,, ; Emilie (at.), from hence. Oct. 21. and sailed ,y d (sr Itia , Adelaide. from Swawsea, and Penelope and Wllltain Pitt, foga Carsktf, at the Caps de Yards; Jannis, st L GetWV .4VD TOWN RIOT AT OXFORD. •---. thyohp, Nov. b.—Last evening the annual gown town vows commenced, according to custom, and for t .. 1 boors kept the greater part of t h e C it y in • state of sew ta med and eseitement. Moat of the shops were closed by s o'clock, at which time some hundreds of gowesmen and toessmte, chiefly meehaniee, were seen parading the streets in rank.. and whenever they came in contact a dea r,is re w i ld issued. lhe chief fighting was in the High .Jset,tee gownsman being ranged on one side and the townsmen en the other, and at one time there were no less tees Y t couples angered in combat. It being Saturday nicht the town mustered in larger force than usual, and tits coasequence was that they gained the ascendancy, and thinabril the ir opponents most effectuell The destruc y. ti on of caps, gown', and eats never was surpassed; and, it i t s eieipattd, that the catraordinuy demand for them ist a cause a rise in the market. The city is tolerably trim gaff this even;eg (Sunday), aotwithstandiug that many Wale. are Congregating in the streets, " eager for the etc,; " but it is not ..uticipated that hostilities will be re nowid un til to morrow evening, when it is generally ex pteted that the [Own will endeavour to retrieve their laurels. The university authorities are doing all in their power to prevent Oval annual di.turbances, but the fresh non lied serne , hieg sa exciting in • gown and town row, that it i t not eitcClica that these disorderly gatherings will cease, until both parties have been thrashed to their own satiefactien. TILE lIITII OF NOVEMBER AT EXETER. EXFTER, S•ThXDAV.—Great excitement has pre veiled in this city in consequeuce of a determination on the part of the ilutherities to " put down" the celebration of the fifth of Novembtr in the cathedral yard, where the citi miss bare been accustomed to commemorate the day for a outaberof years past. Up to within the last few years the re „ o ,,,lior were confined to a Mabee, fireworks, and the burning of the rope's effigy. Latterly, however, the obnoxious reseyite divines of the diocese of Exeter, and even the bishop himself, have been bernt In ettiay, and the consequence is that the dean and chapter are determined, if possible, to stop their u npalitteable proceedings. A few days ago they issued bills cautioning the citizens not to let off fireworks or light a beeline, la the cathedral yard, and threatening to institute legal proceedings against all who assisted therein. The Mayor of Eseter, anzams to carry out ato, the wishes of th the e dean and chapter, engaged Mr. C pyrotechnist to Vauxhall-gardens, to give a grand display of fireworks in • field near the city, with a view of drawing off the citizens from the yard. These precautions, however, had not the desired edict, for Mr. Caton's" grai.d display" was scarcely finished. when shortly after nine o'clock, large bodies of men entered the cathedral Jar!, commenced letting off fireworks, and shouted "we will have a bonfire; we won't be put down by the Puseyites." The wo od for the bonfire was brought into the city, after night, but the police having obtained • knowledge of the fact, seized it, and lodged it in a yard of an inn in South street. Shortly . afterwards, however, • number of man attacked the place, broke the doors, and succeeded in spite of the 'dorm of the police who guarded the wood, in " fl ying it off to the cathedral yard, where a bonfire was kindled in (wen defiance of the ecclesiastical and civil au. dimities. During the night several of the police were in. jared, sad one of the inspector* received a severe cut in the Mad. Some arrests took place ; and at one period of the ermine the proceedings were so tumultuous that it was said the Mayor had signified his intention of calling out the Preteens to the commencement of these extraordinary proceedings, • terrific explosion umuned in the High-street. Two boys were enga g ed in loading rockets by candle-lied in an upper 100/4 of a house, occupied by Kr. Oahe's, when some powder ignited, and there befog • quantity of rockets and combustible materials in the room, a fearful explosion was the result. The roof of the house was blown off, and one of the lads was hurled iato the air, and fell with great force through the skylight of an adjoiniag Mess. He was much aniseed, but is expected to reeeeme The bozos was coon in a blase, and as the West of Iblikad Beek 'near, serious: apprehensions were entertained es to its safety. By the prompt attendance of the fire-riegans, and the energies of the mca, however, the dams were speedily subdued, before they had extended further than the house is which the accident occurred. FRENCH HISTORY IN GUN CARTRIDGES. • • A singular discovery has just been made in France. The Masan', says that the Minister of the Interior having been informed that the grower part of the parchment em ployed by the artillery for snaking gun cartridges came from the old archives disposed et different periods, re quested his colleague of the war department to order these parchments to be collected and submitted to the examina tion of a special inspector of archives. Oat of 4,000 car tridges which have been examined at the artillery depot in Paris, 3,000 produced very Important documents connected with French history. Among them were I.2oonages of the old manuscript accounts of the Kings or Frain*, Charles VI., VII., and VIII., Lewis Xl. and XII., Francis 1., &c. Them lists of ezpenses point out the employment of the budgets of the different reign", and thus throw light os many points of national history. They interest at the same time the annals of diplomacy by men tions, the pesessweelof the envoys as well as the object end the espouse of each minima ; the history of the arts by stating the orders given to painters, musicians, statuaries, architects, , pie:unique history of furniture, costumes, ice., by giving the names and elect description of each object, with the price affixed; and lastly, the history of the habits of the court, and manners in general, by the detail of the gifts.and alms granted to the persons of the mate of the Kings or to them who met the royal corlige; gentle men, soldiers, and adventurer' wounded in war • girls to merry ; pilgrims; hermits; poor persons aff ected with King's evil. wetting for the King to tc.eh Oen ; and others with all kinds of diseases. Among thinammilillsto fortisately preserved, we may also maatini 1011 AIM male almaised with the old chamber of semeaais of Daa **A min which comprises some very hopertua dome. meeur s 44116 as far back as the 13th centime( hotel IF • weekarie, tomesvial grants, accounts of emiftlea g e n t ur lt asitar amps emanatieg from the Priam sad 41 .... :22.4 Savoy; seven hundred charters of the ex; Papal Bulls; letters patent of the Kings 67.1eottie,Trilippe the Bold, Philippe le Bel, &c. ; 600 do. mimesis frina,the archives of Artois and Flanders; budgets of cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; accounts of the artillery of Duke Charles the R.sh at the siege of Liege ; military subsidise furnished by the communes, and other curious documents connected with the history of the FIiPTII or NOVEMBER.—On Saturday this anniversary was commemorated in the usual manner in the metropolis, and with considerable freedom in the suburbs. Of late years it has been the practice to barrow the form and lineaments of the doomed effigy from the meet unpopu lar public characten of the day, and on Saturday Nicholas, Emperor end Autocrat of all the Remiss, might be seen parodied in the chair which three years ago carried the Mamma of Cardinal Wiseman. In the evening the prlice In the principal thoroughfares was considerably reinforced fee the repression of the fleawort oakum, but crackers and squibs were nevertheless heard in Kr/ent ailed. alAsssural ovals were made. A serious explosion Mt piss@ Is Casssilusse, Tower-hill. A pensioner named Calloolom, orb* kap a small shop, had bought 7 1 . 10 s. monk sf Am works of different descriptions; and Mn. Cal laghan, is order to show one of her customers the manner in which squibs were let off, lighted one of them, the sparks from which fell upon her whole stock. The persons in the shop immediately made their escape, and the premises were in a few minutes in dames. A considerable amount of pro perly was destroyed before the fire could be extinguished. H MIEIBLE ATROCITY AT NEW YORlL.—Daring the peat seek the most intake excitement has been masticated 111 consequence of a rape and murder perpetrated ex :the person of Catherine Quigley, a very interesting girl of roar teen or fifteen years of age. The parents of the girl are natives of Ireland, and came to this country some two pan and a half ago. On Sunday Catherine went to school in the afternoon; and her nunoirrival at home exciting alarm. the whole of the next day wee spent in makirg search. About sun-down the body was found in a pad near Jamaica. A meeting of the citizens was called, a vigi lance committee formed, and subscriptions amounting to flee huhdted dollars were obtained, sad offered as a reward for the detection and conviction of the guilty parties. Th• governor of the 'state has also offered a reward of one thousand dollars additional. On Monday, a roughly dressed Irishman, who is said to have been prowling about in the woods for the lase day er two, was arrested. The prisoner was brought to Jamaica, his clothing examined, and on his linen were found spots of blood, and in other places of his clothing traces of blood, as if water had been applied in endeavours to Wash it out. A legal investigation is now going en.—Nroe lurk Weekly Iltrairt, Oct. 12. CIIIACIIE, AND SECIA IN RCSSIA.—The Russian church affects toleration. Of the vast population of fully 60,000,1100, only about 44,000,000 are members of the re gale; church ; 640,000 are dissenters or heretics to that church itself 3,500.000 Roman catholic. are found tbri.utrhout Ilse wide domains of the Czar ; and fully 2.00,000 Armenians. The prott stank of the Augsburg Confession of Faith amount to 2,000,000 ; these of tbs Reformed church to 64,000. There ere 10,000 Moravian', while no 1, se than 2,500,000 belong to the )I•Eome tan creed. The J'ws are 600,000 in number, and the followers of that mysterious potentate, the Grand Lama of Thibet, amount to no !ens than half that amount. Bat there are creeds still more extraordinary throughout the enormous tract of territery which constitutes the Rus sian empire ; 170,000 are open idolaters, and no km than 600,000 arc addictrd to the disgusting practice of Fetichism, worshipping bate, cows, and every uncouth specimen of brute, as representative of the 4ivinity of heaven.—Parker's Natio/sal Moicelmsg. gbe Court. WINDSOR, Nov. b. DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. The dinner party yesterday included the King or the Belgians, the Duchess of Brabant, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, the Belgian =Mister, the Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Brabsat, the Ladrin-Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Lady Frances Brun, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Baroness de !Meth, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir Geo. I Cooper Conon Gustave de Lannoy, Colonel de Moerkerke, Baron Prime sad Monsieur Rickets. The bead of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle, sad played grim dinner the billowing music : Mani ea the Mee " CP, GUaNP, sad et 'ere" Deen a..lltneneee" bleyerbeer. "Dtaniver of St. Hark" Alensudria" Gomel. Seleetino," Itlgoletto" " Friederieb Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the evening, and performed the following selection Overture, " use Frvi.etn•a" Entr'acte or Aria, „ Marco Spada" Auber. Selection, "Clear and Zimmermann" Umtata'. 'Male, Ind act The QUIN n and Prince, with the Duke and Duchess of Brabant and the Cuuta of Flanders, drove out in open carriages yesterday afternoon. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon were in attendance on horseback. The Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Princess Char lotte of Belgium also drove out. The King of the Belgians, the Duke and Duchess of Bra bent, the Count of Flanders, and Princess Charlotte of Belgium, attended by Monsieur Van de Weyer and their suite, left Windsor Castle at ten minutes to two o'clock to-day. Prince Albert accompanied the party to the rail way station at Windsor. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant are expected to return to Windsor Castle, after taking leave of the King and the Royal Family at Dover, whither they proceed to embark fur Ostend. Lord Canton Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, Equery in Waiting to Prince Albert, also attended the Royal Family to Dover. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived to-day on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James Clark had the honour of dining with her Majesty to-day. The Queen's =irate band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner and played the following compositions: Overture, " Zerline" 'Tema°, " Azov an d 7.engra" Spohr Sinfonla ( let movement) Dann nolormlesse Finale, Ist set " It Don Giovanni" WINDSOR, Nov. 6. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prin tout Royal, and Princess Alice, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household attended divine ser vice this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. THE Dueness or LOUCESTER.—Her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester continues ill. The duchess has been subject on several former occasions to attacks of indisposition arising from colds, but n when suffering from any previous attacks was her royal highness so much weakened as during her present illness. Dr. Ferguson and Mr. Keats are in attendance on the royal patient. The members of the royal family make constant inquiries after the state of the royal duchess. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.—R. Handyeide, Esq. her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland, is ap• pointed one of the Lords Justiciary of the Outer Court, in the TOM of Lord Andersen, deceased. James Crauford, Esq Sheriff Depute of Perthshire, is appointed Solicitor- General for Scotland. in the room of Mr. Handpide. W. T. Napier Champ, Esq., is appointed Colonial Secretary for Van Diemen's Lind. \V. Wright. Esq., is appointed Clerk of the Enrolments in the Conn of Chancery.— Observer. TUE HlOll 811E111F/8 TOR 1854.—0 n Saturday next, the 12th instant, the sheriffs I.r all the counties of England and Wales for next year (1844) will be nominated, according to annual custom, to the Court of Exchequer, on which occasion the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone will preside for the first time as Chancellor of the Bache quit', end will wear his gold robe of office. Other cabinet ministers, and the Judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas and the Exchequer, will semis' at the pro ceedings. nine gentlemen will be named for each county. "THE IRIS!! TOCRISTe TICKET."—The Countess of Clarendon and the Lollies Villiers, Lady Harriet Chi chester and party, Lady Glover, the Right Run. 0. Corns wall Lewis and Lady ferns Lewis, &c., to were present at the first morning performance of Mr. P. Henry Ratch's entertainment at the Ranover-equare Room on Saturday PROPOSED MONUMENT TO PRINCE ALBERT. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1853. IRELAND. Dom.'''. Nov. 5. A very melancholy occurrence took place yesterday in the vi cinity of Balbriggan, Lady Langford, who was on a visit at Ardgillan Castle, the seat of Colonel Taylor, having been drowned on the sea coast where she had gone, accompanied by her maid, to bathe. The sea was at the time in a very . boisterous state, and she was carried by the waves into deep water and drowned before any attempt could be made to rescue her. The body was conveyed to Ardgillan Castle, where an inquest would be held in the course of this day. Lord Langford and Colonel Taylor are on a grouse shooting excursion in Scotland, which renders the accident still more melancholy. The deceased lady, who was very generally esteemed, wes daughter of the late Col. Couolly, M.P., of Castle town, and sister of the present member for the county Donegal. The disastrous floods in Cork have not failed to evoke a speedy and practical expression of public sympathy. Yesterday, one of the most intiueatial meetings ever held there took place in that city, presided over by the Mayor, for the purpose of (yen ing a subscription list to afford relief to the poorer class of the sufferers by the inundation ; and in little more than an hour the sum received amounted to 800/. A committee was appointed to receive further subscriptions, and to take the necessary measures to afford the intended relief. No approximation has yet been made to so estimate of the damage; but as all the shops and offices in a considerable portion of the city were under water for a couple of days and nights, it must amount to a very large sum. The Cork ESII• miner of yesterday, is giving some additional details of the disaster, says : The impetuosity with which the water rushed into the houses was one of the most terrible features of this inunda ties, es it left the people but little time to escape from them. A melancholy exemplification of this was seen in the lane Leading to the Spa, where three persona were suffocated in their houses, being unable to escape before the rush of water cut off all hope. The number of persons drowned has been erroneously stated at live. The statement of an officer connected with the railway will OS some idea of the fearful velocity with which this deluge overwrehaed the town. His house is situated close under the railway bridge which crosses the river, and he was at home asleep when he was awoke in the morning by the sushi°, noise of the water, and the loud bleating of some gouts which he had in the lower part of his house. When lie came down, anxious to find at what rate the water was coming, he placed a sod of turf upon a step, the only mark he had, and in the course of one minute the step, the height of which was about one foot, was covered. In forty minutes the flo id rose to the height of ten feet. II is house was completely insulated, and in his alarm, he gathered his family about him, and began to break through the slates of his house in the hope of effeetiog his escape, when to his joy he found that the flood had just began slightly to subside. It was long, however, before he could get out, and even yesterday the family could only reach the embankment by means of a ladder from the top window. A curious circumstance occurred in the residence of Mr. Braddell, of Mallow ' whose house *hared the fate of the rest of the town. A large and valuable collection of books was kept by him in a glass case, and tale, owing to the pressure of the flood, fell, and the whole collection became completely saturated with wet, and of coarse destroyed ; I but strange to say not a single pane of glass was broken. In the counties of Waterford,Tipperary, Limerick, Kilkenny, and Kildare, there have also been floods, attended in the two latter—as they have probably been in some remoter districts—with loss of life. Ac counts from the north state that the greater part of Newry was under water. In the Court of Exchequer, this day, James Birch, proprietor of the late if newspaper, obtained a conditional order for a new trial in his prosecution against the proprietors of the Freeman 's Journal, for libel. In the Court of Queen's Bench, an application was made on behalf of Gass, the engine-driver, and O'Hara, the stoker of the goods train which caused the late fearful accident on the Great Southern and Western Railway, to be admitted to bail. The ap plication was granted for bail to be taken for the engine driver in two sureties of 501. each, and him self in 1001. ; and for the stoker, two sureties of 201. each, and himself in 401.' Dr. Bull, a highly-respectable physician of Cork, put an end to his life on Thursday evening by hang ing himself with a leather strap. No cause, unless temporary insanity, has been assigned. The deceased stood at the head of his profession in Cork. The Dowager Lady Power, of )(Wane House, county Kilkenny, died on the Ist inst., at the age of 77. She was niece to the great Henry Grattan. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. s.—This morning being the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, an appropriate sermon was pinched at Great St. Mary's, by the Rev. Harvey Goodwin. The customary Latin speech was afterwards delivered in the Senate House by the Rev. E. H. Perowee, of Corpus Christi College. -- 1t.,. Temple Hamilton Chase, A.M , to the Perpetual Curacy of Lydbrook, Forest of Dean, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, vacant by resignation of Rev. W. W. Deeriog; patrons, Visitors of the Michel Foundation in Queen's Col lege, Ozford. I Rev. Edward Layng, A.M., to the Curacy of Dawn Ha therley, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Rev John Rawksley, A. 8., to Curacy of Aylburton and Hewelafield, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Rev. John Kynuton, A.M., to Curacy of St. Briave:e, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. TO TNT ZDITOZ OF TIIII 11FRESS. 813,—1f your paper be really a court in which both sides tea be heard, perhaps a few facts and remarks will enable the people to determine more correctly whether to join in this proposal or not; for "A cocstant reader of the Express " advocates) it, and " One of the class of working met" takes upon himself to speak " for his clam generally." I, on the other side, believe that his elan are far too emmilibe to join him, save under the influence of their whOntma. Tho be way in which a prince can " identify bit:omit I with the booed interests of the people," of which your an. willeMblne talks so largely, is to show some moderation in AMU bees from their labours. Prince Albert's princely allnwaniss man flied at 30,0001. a year. Since then it has been inereusd (either at his own solicitation, or by the selt vility of the oligarchy, who still rule us and waste an labours), by some thousands a year. This got up adulatimk, therefore, may grossly deceive those in high places, and Wel l to more sinecures, to the further postponement of the ne comities of the people, and the further injury of them scarred and grey haired warriors, at whose expense Prises Albert received the last sinecure, that of the colonelcy of the Foot Guards, obtained through Lord Derby only last year, a aid case, as it was expressly reserved " for distin guished military service." No one, even of the most fulsome parasites that hang about birth, pretends that, independent of the Great Exhi bition, the Prince has rendered any public services deserving of a statue. As regards the Exhibition, then, it is well known that the idea was suggested long ago—the only thing claimed for the Prince being a suggestion that goods from all nations should be admitted. The Prince did not Show that originality of design or constructive orient.* which made it the ornament of England and the wonder of dus world ; he did not plan the Crystal Palace—the build ing itself, nor did he display that administrative genius— for it was almost that—which drew from all the parts of enstisoverything of worth and beauty, and filled it is a Irmo lees marvellous than its execution. Ido not even i bliefewes of the parties, so I am at least an honest writer in to 11. titter. The Prince is entitled to considerable praise, and all will willingly give it to him, for his attention in getting the Exhibition taken up by the public; and but for him it is very likely the thing would have dropped. lie is a highly respectable, clever, and commendable Prince. But kis work was the easiest and mat agreeable, and without responsibility. Now, Sir, these are not chow distinguished services to the nation, nor that display of original genius, which will ever earn a public statue during his lifetime, except from a nation of sycophants or simpletons. And I am anxious somewhat to prevent a grave people like the English being thought either. A prince, especially a foreign one, must absolutely do something, in thew days, in return for the lavish honours and liberality of a toiling people who require every farthing for their own enlighten ment ; sad nothing can he attend to so ennobling to him self, or with so little trouble, as in advancing the arts of life. I hope this plain statement will give no offence, fur none is meant. But if foolish folks will set on foot foolish things, and invite the public to join them, they must expect public comments. There is, however, this broad principle against statues to living public men Their subsequent conduct may male the people desirous of pulling down their adulatory erection', or else leave them a mere mockery and false wit ness of their true sentiments. Only death can justify a public statue ; save for such great and undoubted service. as those of the late Duke—a nation's gratitude for which no time or conduct could change. Nov. 4. A CIVILIAN. ROYAL COLLEGE GP SUEGT.OBS.—The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the sth inst.:— Messrs. Juba Caldwell, Kew.green ; John Richard Davern, Royal Hospital, Chelsea; James Allan Currie, Hon. East ' India Company's Service, Bengal ; John llndivon Water. house. Sheffield ; James itekquith Ellis, Nantygln, Mon mouthshire; John Ignatius Purcell Williams, Denbigh, North Wales, and Charles Thomas Wickham, Winchester. At the same meeting of the court Mr. Thomas Wilson passed big examination for naval surgeon; this gentleman bad previously been admitted a member of the college, his diploma bearing date July 4, 1845. DEFEAT Or A CHUItCII RATE.—Last week, a meeting was convened in the church at Langtoft. for the purpose of laying a church rate. Mr. George Robins m. parish•clerk, moved, and Mr. Richard Gray, the occupier of the tithe farm, seconded, a resolution tkat a church rate of twopence in the pound should be laid. Mr. Phillip Wilson moved as an amendment, which was seconded by Mr. William Brounton, that the meeting be adjourned to that day twelvemonth. Alter a good deal of threaten ing on the pert of the pro-rate party, Gm amend ment was carried by a good majority.—Easfern Counlios herald. THE MURDER NEAR WINDSOR. --• _. B ALBERT. BUCKS, SATURDAY NIGHT. The inhuman atrocity perpetrated here his excited the inhabitants of the district for miles arcittad, end from an early hour this morning up to en advanced period of the evening, Burnham Abbey Farm, the scene of the murder, has been virited by hundreds. Indeed, since the murder committed by Towel' some eight yam ago at Slough, about two miles from here, nothing approximating to the horror now entertained has been witnessed, or could base been anticipated. It has been already stated that the groans, Moses Maddo, was yesterday apprehended on suspicion of being the mur derer, but it yet remains to be explained upon what grounds his arrest was decidrd on by the police, inasmuch as the facts were not elicited before the coroner. _ It appears from the &terminal of Superintendent Perkins, of Eton, Superintendent Thomas, of Slough, and Superin tendent Symington, of Banshees, in whose hands the ea-e has been placed by the magistrates, that, notwithstanding the perfect freedom which fladdo had enjoyed subsequent to the discovery of the burning body of the deceased, their Arnagieioas of the man's guilt were strong, and as they saintly, yet minutely, investigated the circum-tances at ! Wading the awful occurrence, they became further fortified, the result of whieh was their decision to arrest him on the Ghee,' yesterday morning Upon taking Haddo into flautody at the farm, he deported himself in a manner which, their experienced judgment in criminal matters, betrayed tho insolence of a person studying to play the character of Imo innocent of the crime, yet betraying in the boldness of the embodiment the ssiouness of innocence might have made. The primer wee not t►en aware of the matter is possession of the police, as,, indeed, is he at this moment, and consequently he pre serves the same insolent bearing in the police station at Ztoa, where he is now under remand. The three superintendents, acting upon the information furnished by Mrs. Dunce, wife of the foreman of Mr. Goodwin's farm, of the deceased's complaint to her a few hours before the murder, of the offensiveness of Haddo in his language, gleaned the fact of the young woman having ea the night prior to her unhappy death, been to Burnham village to post some letters, and of her being accompanied a portion of the distance home by a former fellow servant named John Marsh, of Mills Farm, at Brittle, who had been paying her some attention, and whose regards were reciprocated. This, it appears, had considerably augmented the dissatisfaction of Haddo, who also had been manifesting an affection for the deceased, who, so far from encouraging his passion, repulsed him, and, indeed, treated his advances se emansung from one beneath her in station, she, in fact, holding the position el housekeeper, while the prisoner, though celled a groom, in point of feet only performed the duties of stable-man, and was of a disposition far from cal 'Belated to impress with favour a young woman of taste, each as undoub•edly the deceased was for one iu her walk of life—a fact amply testified by the little matters found in the unfortunate girl's bed room subsequent to the hatchery inflicted upon her. The police, haying satisfied !themselves of the jealous feeling of the prisoner, then closely examined the premises, and found, from the state ment of Mr. Goodwin, the deceased's master, that her coasts nt custom, prior to retiring to bed, was to take what ever plate might have been in use during the day from the sideboard drawer, in the parlour, and lock it up in an upstairs room. On the night of the murder the plate was not re moved from the ground flour, nor was it at all disturbed, a fact fully convincing the officers that no burglar bail com mitted the atrocity. It was also perfectly clear to them that the few rings and two pencil caste mimed by her master had been taken, not for their intrinsic worth, but merely to give a colouring for a suspicion of robbery, whereas, if plunder had been the object, there was a valuable quantity of plate easily removable. They then closely examined the spot where the first traces of blood were discovered, awl where, beyond the possibility of doubt, the first violence was in flicted. This spot is the doorway leading from the kitchen ea the right wing of the dwelling to the centre of the house, and immediately over which door is the bed room of the prisoner, and the head of his bed actually lying di rectly over the place at an elevation of only ten feet from the floor of the passage. The polies feel assured that if ' Haddo had been in his bed room (as he asserted to the nenemer) when the girl was here attacked for the first time, pat have beard the deadly struggle evidenced by the OWN of blood on the wall, the door, and the flooring of the pew to have ensued. Further, there are spots' of blood up Nis stairs from this passage, in which Mr. Goodwin Mud the tooth and hair pin, suggesting the probability that when attacked the poor creature fled up stairs with an halation of gaining her room for the purpose of raising an deem from the window looking on to the lawn; but being pursued by the assassin and overtaken, her chance of rescue was cut off. All this, say the police officer, could not pos sibly have occurred without the prisoner, who acknow ledges to have heard a fall, being considerably alarmed, even supposing tbe deceased had been by terror deprived of the power of screaming out. Arai', there is in the room where the deceased was found burning fearful evideace of • desperate straggle with her assassin; and so, indeed, is there in the narrow gallery leading to the apartment, and on the walls of which are several impressions of, from the size, a female hand stained with blood. This very wall sepa rates Haddo's bed room from the door of the deceased', bed room, and, es the police observe with some force, he, if there end awake, ought to have heard that which, to all appear ance, was a dreadful struggle on a level with his apartment. Subsequent to the violence here used the last and MOH desperate effort of the deceased is presented; by the appear ance of her bedroom. The body was found lying befbre the fire-place, the head in the direction of the window. Marks of blood are in various parts of the room, a complete splash being as far up as the mantelpiece, while on one side of the floor, near the bedstead, are drops of blood, as if they had trickled down, while the poor woman was flying about in the hope of escaping with life, or at least prolonging exist- sue,. To-day, however, the polies (Monkeys gleaned from the foreman Dunce a material coatra diction of a statement made by Haddo on the first day of the coroner's inquiry. The pri soner stated that hearing the dog barking he alarmed Bunce, bat the latter most positively asserts that he was net called to by him. Ills statement is, that ►earing the dog bark,he got up and went to the window of his bed room, which he opened and looked through for the purpose, listening, his wife observ ing that no doubt some bird-catchers were about the ad joining hedges. At length hearing footsteps in the yard at the rear of his master's dwelling, he called aloud, and for some minutes received no reply. Calling again, however, ' while in the act of dressing himself the prisoner came to the yard wall separating his (Bane's) cottage from that area, and said " It's me. The colts have got out, and I've come to tell you." It this statement be correct, the police consider that their prisoner ought to have answered when Ant challenged by Banc*. The statement of Mn. Banes is, that she heard Haddo call to her husband, bat the latter persists that she was asleep when he first cried eat " who's there ?" and that she only awoke at the moment when the secured applied to his repeated summons. Such are the grounds of suspicion upon which the officers are acting, but it is right to observe that they have just become neaten of grave facts. which they do not cut eider themselves at present justified in disclosing. During this afternoon, the pollee, assisted by the farm labourers, have been searching the water-closets and other places about the premises, in the hope of discovering the rings and two pencil cues stolen from Mr. Ooodwin's dressing table, but as yet their search has not proved suc cessful. The clothes worn by Haddo on the evening of the murder were taken by Superintendent Symington to London, to he submitted to Professor Taylor fur analysis. It is quite clear that the body of the unfortunate woman must have been burning for nearly two boors prior to her mutar's return home. It is a singular fact that the doors separating the stair case of the accused's room from the centre of the house should, on this night, have been bolted, for Mr. Goodwin states to the police that the deceased always left it unbolted, so that ii during bis absence burglars should attempt an entrance sho might have an opportunity of at once having 1 the presence of Ilivido for protection. NEW TIIRESUING Mechi has imported the American threshing machine, which weighs only 14 cwt., threshes easily and without waste at the rate of one bushel in forty seconds, turns out the grain perfectly clean and ready for market, and is manufactured in Americo at a cost price of 231. It is driven by a six horse portable engine. An objection taken to the machine is that it does not give off the straw and the chaff separately in the most convenient and economical form. Taken altogether, however, this " separator " is a highly creditable I specimen of the mechanical ingenuity of our cousins. It I promises none of those startling results which drew such attention to the reaping machines in 18.51; but it may prove of the highest value if, through the formidable com petition which it foreshadows, our implement makers are induced to bring their scale of charges more within the reach of the practical farmers' means, and to combine light ness of construction with the greatest passible efficiency and economy is the work done. THE CHOLERA. Mae the Goosed Earl of Ikelib. Nov. S.) METROPOLIS. From returns made by the superintendents of the D, G, H, and M Divisions of Police to the Metropo litan Commissioners, it appears that between the 30th October and 3 rd inst. there have occurred in I . those districts 9 cues of cholera, 3 of which have terminated fatally ; one of the cases is the second in the same house within the last three days. In this house there is a man and a wife and 4 children on the ground floor; a man, wife, 4 children, and 2 single men on the first floor ; a man, his wife, and 3 children on the top floor or garret ; making a total of 19 in one small house. It is added that "the smell from so many persons is very noxious and i oppressive. The privy and drain are also close to I the back door, with two other privies adjoining, all connected with one cesspool, which is full and overflows into a small yard out of re pair, and the sttnch is most abominable." [he place to which the above remarks refer (Magda len-court, Tooley-street), was pointed out in the au tumn of last year at the head of the list of localities chiefly affected in the St. Oleve's Union, when Dr. Sutherland visited and reported on the unitary con dition of the epidemic districts of that union. The deaths from cholera in 1832 from the combined dis tricts of St. Saviour and St. Olave were 114 of the population, while in 1849 the deaths from the same ' cause amounted to 349, or in the extraordinary pro portion of lin 55 of the population, a proportional mortality above double that caused by the epidemic of 1832. There were, moreover, 49 deaths of diar rhcca in the same district. Of the 38 metropolitan dis tricts St. Olave suffered most severely, with the single exception of Itotherhithe. During last week four additional fatal cases of cholera have occurred in that notorious plague spot in Old Brentford known by the name of " Poppbtt's parlour." The guardians of the union have given notice to the owner of this wretched property that legal proceedings will be immediately taken against him, it the houses are again inhabited, as they are utterly unfit for human dwellings . Besides the i above deaths from cholera, a child has died recently choleraic diarrhea near the gas-works in the town. _ A fatal case of cholera occurred on the 2nd inst., in the son of • highly respectable, resident in Ken sington. The attack, it is stated, was not preceded with any premonitory diarrhoea, and proved fatal in the course of a few hours, thus affording another proof of the exceeding virulence of the present epi demic, • feature which cannot be too urgently im pressed upon the public, and especially upon all parochial authorities upon whom rests the responsi bility of adopting the proper precautionary measures for the protection of human life among the poorer classes. On the 4th inst. Dr. Milroy had a conference with the directors of the poor of Islington, to advise with them respecting the steps to be taken in pursuance of the regulations of the General Board of Health, issued under the recent order of her Majesty's Privy Council. The parochial authorities have been steadily carrying out the work of sanitary improvement ever since 1849, having retained the services of an inspector of nuisances during the whole of the inter vening period. One of the principal impediments which they have encountered is the wretched descrip tion of the low house property in several of the courts and lanes, inhabited chiefly by Irish labourers, in different parts of the parish. Many of the houses are so thoroughly bad as to be utterly unfit for human habitation, and the guardians unanimously expressed their regret that the legislature had not invested the General Board of Health with powers to deal more , summarily, upon the certificate of one of their medical inspectors, with such vile tenements, the constant t haunt of disease, misery, and death, and which entail upon parishes a perpetual expense for the relief of the sick and destitute, not to mention avoidable funeral and other charges. An earnest desire ap peared to be entertained that this most important question should be considered in the next session of parliament, and that a clause should be added to the Building Act, requiring all tenements let for oc cupation to be certified by a competent officer as to their sanitary fitness, an enactment which would materially aid in preventing the dreadful waste of life that is occasioned every year by the indifference of the landlords of lower house property, notoriously the most remunerative of all. Why not extend the same principle fee the prevention of disease as for the preservation of human life? Upon receiving the directions and regulations of the General Board of Ikalth, the guardians of Islington nominated two addi tional medical gentlemen to act along with their ordinary staff in the sanitary inspection of the pa rish, and for the prompt discovery and treatment of disease. They also appointed a second inspector of nuisances, besides making other arrangements, wisely considering that the measures to prevent the development of disease are the most economic in the long run. Tnoasc thaw. —With respect to the three deaths from cholera lately reported from this Union, the medical officer states that they occurred in a low and damp locality. He likewise records a death from diarrhoea, in the same locality, and states that the disease prevails there more decidedly than usual. There is, he adds, "a public drain through the town, as well as &stagnant pond, both of which might and ought to be remedied, as I believe miasma are gived off from them, which have a tendency to give rise— at all events to keep up fever or other epidemics." There are several very dirty and unwholesome cot tages and yards, which are invariably the seats of any epidemic which may be prevailing. RYL—In reference to the death from cholera in this place, previously reported, it is stated by the local medical authorities that the locality in which the case occurred is surrounded by an open ditch, into which is poured the refuse of several neighbour- ing_houses. BOXLEY (HOLLINOBOURN UNION).—Nov. 4. Two fatal cues of cholera have occurred here during the last week. Both persons died very suddenly after attack. DUNDEE.—Nov. 3. Deaths—Cholera, 6. The total number of cases already reported as having occurred in the town and parish of Dundee has been 76 (including 16 new cases on the 3rd inst.), and the total deaths have amounted to 32 to the same date. BERWICK-UPON-TWEED (CASTLEGATE).—Nov. 4. NEWCASTLE-lIPON-TTNE.—NOT. 3. Death—Cho- lera, 1. ROCIIFORD (GREAT WAKTJAING):•••Nov. 3. Death —Cholera, 1. DARLINGTON.—NOT. 2. Dierrhaa, 1. Stumap (WEST HAY UNION).—Oat. 3) to Nor. 3. Deaths—Cholera, 3. CHOLERA IN BaussEts.—A letter from Brussels, of the 2ad, says—. Several cases of cholera have occurred at Brussels. We do not state this to alarm the public, but the contrary ; for what we are about to add is calculated to ' tranquillise everyone. It is perfectly proved that there are o. cases of cholera which attack persons in good health and kill them in a few hours. All the medical men agree in saying that the (Nears is always preceded by premonitory symptoms, among which must be named dietetics. It is by neglecting these symptoms that the disease is allowed to come on, while it may be easily preventid by immediately attending to them." MARTLEBONE VESTRY.—On Saturday, at the meeting of this vestry, the vestry clerk read • ratepayers' petition, asking that a eommittee of the vestry might attend the inquiry now proceeding into the condition and manage ment of the corporation of the City of London, more par ticularly with a view of exposing the injustice of the coal tai, as Marylebone is estimated to pay 20,000 f. to the Cieg for coal duties. Mr. Wingfield moved the insertion of the meme.rial on the minutes for future consideration, and Mr. C. George seconded the motion, hoping the committee would not only attend the inquiry, but give evi ' dance of the various impediments thrown in the way of free labour and free trade by the cor poration of London. Mr. Hodges and others sup ported the motion, which was carried.—The Paving Com mittee recommended that the wages of the masons and their labourers be increased in consequence of the high price of provisions, which recommendation was adopted. A memo rial was read from the sweepers and scavengers, praying ' that their present wages (Or. per week) be advanced, as with the exorbitant price of provisions, and paying 2s. 61. and ' sometimes as. • week for lodgings, they could not support their families. Mr. Wingfield moved, and Mr.:Howe se conded, " That their wages be advanced 2s. a week." Ibe motion was carried, and the 111/fTejOlr ordered to commence paying the increased wages that night. MILITARY. The following four regiments have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to move from their ptetent quarters to Ireland, vie.:—The 28th Regiment from Leeds to Dublin; the bOth Regiment from Plymouth to Cork ; the 77th Regiment from Glasgow to Belfast; and the 82nd Regiment from Stirling Castle, via Glasgus, to Dublin. These regiments are to replace the service companies of the 9th, 14th, 17th, 39th, 62nd, and 89th Regiments, which are under orders to embark at Curk for Gibrahar and Malta. THE SOLDIERS OF THE THIRTY-NINTH stationed in Kinsale have been practised in the Milne rifle. The men are capital shots, and at 700 yards have sent 59 out of 10t) balls into the targets within killing range. FINE ARTS. --.40. - There are at present on view, at Mr. Jennings', in Cheapside, three pictures, two of which, by Sir Edwin Landseer, have never been exhibited before. The third, by H. Le Jenne, was in the Academy Exhibi tion the year before last. All three are in course of being engraved. Mr. Le Jeune's picture, the " Pa rable of the Lilies," was painted to form a companion piece to Sir C. Eastlake's, " Christ Weeping over Jerusalem." It bears a very decided resemblance, in style, to the works of the President of the Koval Academy: the same warm and hazy softness; the I same sweetness in the female heads and weakness in the male ; the same learned, yet not very effective arrangement of groups and colours ; the same evidences that the artist, though sensitive and ac complished, is not equal to the rendering, to any effectual purpose, of sacred subjects. Something more is certainly demanded in the representation of a principal passage in the life of the I Saviour, than the figure of an amiable man surrounded by chuming young ladies, in various graceful atti tudes of attention and respect, and a few subordinate male figures displaying several degrees of confidence and the reverse. The artistical qualities exhibited in this picture are such as. would fitly and charm ingly illustrate modern domestic subjects, such as those of many of Mr. F. Stone's pictures, but they are painfully inadequate to the " high argument" of the present work. Sir Edwin Landseer's pieces are in crayons, and symbolise the conquest of Free Trade and the dia comfittne of Protection under the forms of a beaten Nee-horse and a fat prize dray-horse. The race-horse fi aocompanied by a groom, a likeness of Lord Derby, and an unhappy and jaded jockey, who is Mr. Disraeli, "and no mistake." There are goad points about these pieces, but the wit seems to us to be poor and the taste worse. It is very well fur our admi rable friend Punch, a professed satirist, to hit off likenesses in its clever and ephemeral sketchrs, but for Sir Edwin Landseer to give the :about of months to the elaboration of a fancy so slight and a 1-atire so pstaonal, is quite a different and a tar more question able proceeding. The best thing in these pieces is the head of the jaded racer, which is full of that super-animal expres sion of which Landseer is so notable—so admirable a master. NEW SUN.—A Mr. Goldhannner has astonished the people of Berlin by his experinunts of his so called electric sun. On Saturday night he placed his apoaratus ku the balcony of the lintel de Rusin., and, directing the rays upon the museum, distant 350 yards, lit up the whole ♦icinity, se that it was easy to read small print. LITERATURE. The Ara?try Rook. With coloured representations of the moritctlebrated Prize Birds, drawn from life by HA klll6oli Wink, and minted in colours. W. S. Orr and Co. Routledye's Illustrated Domestic Poultry. Rutledge. Within the last few years au enthusiasm, a rage, a mama, has arisen for poultry breeding, and for everything connected with poultry, which seems intensely ridiculous to the uninitiated, especially to those who are not familiar with the rise and progress of the permanent improvements in our other domestic animals. A cock has been sold within tills year for 1001., and 22 fowls have realised by auction 420/. A pair of Toulouse geese have fetched AL, and docks proprtionate prices. This sounds like 'Midsummer madness—it will no dcnbt end in some purchasers being severely bitten. Nevertheless, it has lit tle in common with that mania which sent the sober Dutch into frantic speculations in tulip and hyacinth bulbs, and the fever will be permanently advantageous to the country. The same state of feverish excitement and speculation was lot up early in the present century on the subject of Leicester cheep, as well as, first, long-horn, an,:. then short-horn cattle. It is not so very long ago that a Lincolnshire armee gave one thousw.d guineas for the hire of a ram • foe •one year, • and this a very few years after Mr. Bakewell had gladly let rams at two guineas a piece. No one now gives anythieg like a thousand guineas for a ram; excellent animals are to be had at from 161. to 231. each; but in the general diffusion of two excellent breeds of sheep. and in the general circulation of cor rect knowledgo on the subject of breeding, we have the benefit ut the mania of our agricultural fore fathers. It will be just the same with poultry. A 4 the favourite breed, the Cochin China, is wry prolific —although the percentage of birds which approach an imaginary standard of perfection in colour, in shape of tail, length of hilt, and amount of liloomerisin on their legs must be limited,—Cochins which were imported direct from China, at a vast expense, two years ago, wig be found in every farmyard, and fall from their present high quotations. In recent days the Irish pig was a long-legged h.p-eared brother to the greyhound pigs of Baden. sow we see shipload after shipload of comfore.-ble short legged prick-cared porkers disembarked from Irish steamers which are a real credit to their breeding and feeding,whilst in Smithfield cattle showing pure marks of Short-horn or of Devon are common enough. Never theless the first class breeder of pig, bull, or now can always get a fancy price for his stock, though perhaps not such a price as he obtained when -the breeders and the breeds were equally select. UntillBso the two breeds of fowls on which moat attention bad been lavished were the game and the bantam. When cockfighting went cut of fashion tame fowls were neglected. Five and twenty years ago it was an amusement which the first noblemen ' in the land were nut ashamed to pwronise, and the leading journals, as a matter of course, recorded the results of great " mains" and " bye battles." In 11/ 4 23 the grandfather of the present Earl of Derby bad a staff of servants equal to the establishment re quired for a pack of hounds solely engaged in look ing after his game-cocks, of which he had,—including the stocksplaced at his disposal, by three et ighbeuring baronets of Lancashire and Cheehire,—apwaida of three thousand to choose from. Hut, cockfighting having died out, game fowl are now only kept for their culinary qualifications. Bantams were bropght to perfection by Sir John Sebright, who was one of the first persons who experimented seriously in breeding poultry. But bantams are so small that they can never be treated otherwise than as toys. • The poultry reform, which has made poultry-breed ing " a science," commenced with the importation of the gigantic birds trom China which are now called Cochin Chinas by some, Shanghaes by others. Thep birds did not at first find favour with old-faohioned poultry breeders: but when they did start they cane in with a tremendous rush and swept all before them. The perfect Cochin, of which not less than eight admirable representations in white bull and partridge mottle are given in the book before us, are certainly not equal in beauty to other breeds with which we are more familiar. The cock is not to be compared to the Spanish, and neither cock nor hen is so hand some as the Dorking. So, too, there are several familiar breeds which lay more retpiently, and i/oth Dorking and Spanish lay larger eggs ; but, coesi dering the qualities desirable •in terming stock —that is to say, early maturity, weight, prolificness, hardiness of co rim it 4: tame ness of disposition, and aptitude to fatten, the Cochin is the best fowl ever yet introduced to the notice of the farmer's wife. It is, in tact, the short horn of the poultry-yard, superior 'to the Dorking in one point only, but that a very, impor tant point—constitution. At least 10 per cent.more Cochin chickens than Dorkiag,s can be raised out of equal numbers under the saure,circumstances. But on a dry soil, in a warm climate, where consump tion is unknowe, the Dorking is perhaps the better bird. Independentlyof the advantage we have gained by the introduction of the Cochin to oue.poaltry-yard, in getting pullets which at 12 weeks will weigh from four to six pounds, and cockrels one-third there,: the present poultry mania has caused a close study of the merits and habits of all tenants of the pou,ttry yard, including turkeys, ducks, and geese. In the breeds of the three last great improvements have been made. A swarm of book. are daily issuing from the press in which we have the experience of poultry breeders of every county and every class of society. Peers and peeresses, clergymen, barristers, even attorneys, enter with zeal into this innocent agricultural.pur suit, and contest prizes with farmers and profes sionals with as much zeal as if it were for " the blue riband of the turf." Among these numerous publica tions, by far the most splendid is thet iseueLby Mr. Orr. The illustrations, drawn fromlife by Mr,Harrison Weir, are printed, by a new patent poootsais ehsomo lithography, with extraordinary Infect-Se. The...por traits of the white cock. the buff hen, of the gigantic Toulouse geese, and the pos.oopk, erg equal to fine water colours, and would alone, five years ago, have cost more than the price the whole #01090 , 110W sells for. The letterpress is extremely valuable, containing, as it does, the experience of one of the editors, the Rev. W. Wingfield, of Captain Hornby, Messes. Stur geon and Punchard, " Fuirlie," Bond, Aheter; and other eminent poultry breeders, given in their own words, with dates and figures. But there our praise -flint end. MR. ROEBUCK, AL P.. • - 4.- The Mayor of Sheffield has received the following letter from Mr. ftivebuck,in reply to,an invititinn to attend a soiree of the Mechanics' Library : hilltop, Oct. 31,1E453. "My Dear Sir,—l am sorry to say no to any request of yours, but as my great object is now to take my place in the House of Common. next year. I rigidly of every rule of conduct prescribed to me, by which•l em told 1 shall be able to obtain my wish. Among other things, all excite ment is forbidden ; and I was tilansed for making my ap pearance at the Cutlers' feast. AU speaking and public ineetings are especially prose-tilted; stela am ordered to be as quiet and calm as my Were will per mit. To be absent from your gathering will be to me a subject of great regret. lay this sincerely, Rod without affectation. Education has ever been with me a subject of the greatest interest. My first efforts a. a public men were to promote it, and my last wishes will be in its favour. All other subjects in comparison with it appear to me insignifi cant, and could I tee the people of this country once im pressed with a due sense of its importacce, I should then have no tear as to our future. But at present I see sectarian a t . h d at it t h „ r as iee kt u v po o q ui d t i l v a i- t appears better than y n T g hose people seem to sdatlneil,offe creed angesermi forget t tc h i t i t r ff wa d em bn r s g r o g t : fh i o e f a i rtrolyaPl improvement ; rems i e a th o e n f gi e r ef interests e r we y n tfi t sects of England btus is the same, and that a man may be honest and a good citizen, no matter to what sect he belongs. BOL:the fact is that it is not religious belief that steeds in our way so unich as human pride. What is feared is the top of power, not error in b. lief. But whatever may be the cause of op position, the ' , opinion itself. to all attempts at legislative aid in support el education;is at the piesent time so for midable as really to be a eomPlete obstruction. I 4 this state of things I lota upon mechanics' ieetitutions a; u utral ground, and one of our chief means of .ealiii.lling the people. By this means the people will, I hope, 'be able to do tor themselves what the state ought to do for them, and they therefore have my warmest .support.„ *gain l say, would that I ceu'il be with you ; hut my first 'duty is to Ott again, if posaibie. to earliament-to that I melee everythiug yield ; and I titers fore most raluctantly deny myself the pleasure of being at your soiree. I.hupe this my excuse will appear to you sufficient, and that yawed/ not think me lukewarm in the good cause.—Beliere ois , rery truly yours, J. A. Bonnet:L.—W. A. Ilattharis, Eq., Mayor, Jct." 1