The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

Ctutams Facile Ptaalp.• Uses • y m perty Tas Poet Oak , Crown Land. ....... ..... Meeelkneea• barren and other Moneys , itriaiymente ul .ktlvxnces April 3, 1648. July 3, 18415. Oet. 10, 1646. Jan. 3, 1647. tiara Jan. 5, 1547. ~Orll b~ btt. July 5, 1547. Colo= ........... Taoism Stamp„gyms ....... o- Propertr Tax . rowortie , crown Lamle Total ordinary 111.1111•111 China Money !moron and other lliont7s hereymenta of Ailvanct% Total Income .. App. to Ca; FunlL es. of Advs. & in. of the Loan PAW applied no Advances De..pplied a.l,ortofthowystasrdisdtherr ABSTRACT of NET PRODUCE of REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the 'fulls sad Qv, 3,961,9161 1,626,438 1,1363,%011 1 , 146,142, 1,963,682 21%,0061 43,0061 91,322 9~:55~1 a 2,0091 436,4;31 10,245,1721 3,408,35.1 140,000 4,030,011 4,527,391 3,104,711 1,730,492 2,006,427 1,000,162 161,000 Is,oot 1 12,373,197 440,000 73,939 111,607 13.196,7331 6,976,1341 91,601 4,461,066 6,310,635 4,161,926 1,774,961 209,940 1,972,128 217,000 45,000 177,910. 13,889,103' 227,61 36,813 199,881 14,330,4441 7.517,4 3 : 111.472280.1 ,500 14,150,1 4,314.721 3,9011033 1,740,687 1,909, 430,21 203, SO, 29,657 12,41/1,3331 12,82°,6711 s 337,,303 837,3001 $,,367,27t tts3o,s7 II 3 , 3 0 1E of the CONSOLIDATED FUND, 13,310,4445 13,631,230 6,931,414 4,272,406 6,395,391 916,40 120,900 317,00 t 1,684,4 i 667,614 192,44; 1,070,411 30,81*,0201 10,177,b29 1.541,301 18,693,897 4,447,073 1,1132,563 !,1317,282 130,392 1,033,072 219,000 37,000 92,593 10,430,3771 $3,839! 164,5681 10,61X,601~ 3,26,61.111 2,940,000 5,461,196 11,00 1 4 80 41 - 4,319,119 $,291,05$ 1,880,464 2,013,101 1,0:13,317 213,0301 1;013,614: 68,632 137,044! 13,740,1901 9,912,813 1,724,911 7,113,919 ,730,tt The INCOME and CHAI iksts,l72l 13,11115,7531 INCOMIL To Cosh brolight to this Amos.% being the Phial Tastabeeat el l Low of Light Millions FESTIVAL OF LAMB AND FLAG RAGGED SCHOOLS. —On Tuisday, 200 children of these schools were regaled at the School-house, Clerkenwell-green, with a substantial entertainment of roast beef, plum puddling, bread, and potatoes. The school-rooms had been tastefully decorated for the occasion with evergreens, banners, and festoons of drapery. Grace having been chaunted by the children with much elect the work of mastication began, and the edibles quickly disappeared, but with a total absenze of e.tise and confusion. Dinner having been concluded, the children daunted with admirable effect the blessing, and were then dismissed to re-ea...ethic at 5 o'clock for the examination. This lasted nearly au hour and a half, and it is gratifying to say that the children acquitted themselves with the greatest success. Among these who hail Ar undergo an individual examination was a sharp, good-looking little boy, who bas been fortunate enough to attract the notice and care of the daughter of a n hlensan, eminently distinguislud for his wsevering exertions in the cause of education. This poor boy's talc is a melancholy one, but through the instru mentality or the Limb and Flag Ragged Schools it is hoped in time he and many others will furnish living examples of the efficacy of ragged schools. The examination having been concluded the children were entertained with the magic lantern, but though quiet and orderly in the morning they were sufficiently uproarious in the evening. II aviog given three cheers fur the superintendents and teachera of the Sabbath school, they separated to resume school en Thursday morning. The whole of the children presented a clean, tidy, and in many instances smart appearance WESTERN JEWS' FREE SCOWL, FOR BOTS.—A ball Iles given last evening, at Rooms, St. Jemeet's, in aid of the funds of this instkution, witch we believe to be one we!' deserving of support. Every arrangement ap peared to have been made by the stewards to render the entertainment as agreeable in its character as it wu useful in design, and their exertions may be considered as met succasful. There was a very fair assemblage in point of numbers ; and among the visitors were included Twiny distinguished persona of the Hebrew nation. Jallien's quadrille band lent snit:kid mu sical as-istance•, ana Mr. Cotrie was no less useful in the ca pacity of master of the ceremonies. Among the stewards present we noticed Lord Hobert Grosvenor, Lord Marcos ill, Mr. A.derman &demons, and Mr. A. Cluksmid. NATTONAL DEFENCES. The Commissioners of Customs have directed their superior officers, heads of depart ments, to transmit, with the least possible delay, an nccuunt ac cording to a form sent, shewing the numberuf porters sod per eons boiding subordinate s it uati .ns in the stations departments of the customs, in the receipt of nut mote than 3a, per diem ; sod how many of tit. m are pensioners of the army and navy. These returns have. it is said, souse reference to putting our east* in a state of defence. POST-OFFICE SALtnIES.—The following is a copy of the official reply to all applications on the part of Put- i dace subardieuites fur an iecrease of salary : " I beg to ac knowledge the receipt cf your application, and to acquaint you that your case will receive due consideration when a general revision which the postmaster-g•neral contemplates making of the salaries of thewa belonging to the postutlice , department throughout the kingdom shell be carried into ! effect. This revision has been promised on account of the innumerable applicoti•ns for increase of salary- s from post men, receivers of litters el! rho, and postmasters, in eoose quence of Swig increased dunes arising from double and treble deliveries of letters, double and treble commuuios- ! tines daily from one town to another, increase in the number I of letters, money order-', and every portion of post-eau duty. The wages of some letter carriers are es low as Ts. a week, and the salaries of letter receivers do not amount to more, in some instances, than 2/. a year. A searching in quiry is now in progress by Mr. Itowland Hill into the salaries and perquisites of country postmasters. THE FIATS .IN BANE RUPTCY.—The distribution of i the fiats in these courts of late has been productive of great I dissatisfutiou to parties evens:led with them. The public • may not be aware that the authorised mode of distribution is through the ballot- bOI, and . machine of this description, upon a beer and improved principle, has been procured fur the purpose, at the cost of visceral hundred pounds. Oer ow respondent is informed that the administration of this box is placed under tne charge of Mr. Serj. Lewes. It is ruluound, whether truly or uutruly, that the learned serjeant is nut al ways present at the ballotting ; but whether or no this he so, one thing at all events is certain, that some of the courts do not receive anything ,like their fair or proportionate share of the " heavy" fiats. To the commissioners set course this is no object whatever, hut to the official assignees and messengers it is quite a different matter. The only mode et remuneration attached to the OffiCe of these funcuourits is 'certain per centage on tho amount of assets. Both official soignee' and messengers are obliged to maintain heavy and 1 expensive establishments of clerks, accountants, &c. and ! the trouble and coat to them is often greater when they du I not receive 101. than in others where their share might ! amount to tan times that sum. The absence of those fiats in 1 the courts of Cornotissionent Holroyd and Shepherd is a . matter of notoriety, and it is ereatly to be desired that a i more equitable arrangement could be made, so that diligent and trustworthy public officers might be remunerated ac cording to their services.—G lobe. i FItAUDS ON THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.—Luc' ! evening the grand jury at the Central Criminal Court re- ' turned as "true" five bills of Indictment preferred jointly and individually against Solomon Muscovite, Jacob I. nide- burg,Raphael Kauffman, and Leybe Aaronson, for having i been in po.ousion, without coy lawful excu•e, of some piece. 1 of paper for the payment of money of the Emperor of . Buena ; such pieces of paper being to their knowledge forged. These indictments run to an immense length. Their united measure is nearly one hundred and arty yards: our being 40 yards lung, another 34, another 30, and two about 20 yards each. It wu stated that en application would be made for the postponement of the trial until the neat session. THE NAIL SEA MuanKa.—bir,—ln the Express, re- (lived to-day, under the Somersetehire head, there is an ac count of an attack, with fire-arms, on a man named Wall, residing at the time in Backwell, an adjoining parish to this. The supposed murderers (for the poor man has died of his wound) are parishioners of mine—both young—one a mere boy, and an occasional attendant at the Sunday school. They are cousins, sod, I am sorry to say, have been long no torious for general bad conduct. My object, however, in troubling you now is to inquire what course you, as 010 01 the " best possible instructors," would have country gentle men and others pursue with juvenile offenders ; for Cha.les ' Manfield, the elder of the boys in question, and now welt ing to be tried for his life, was convicted, a few weeks ago, at my instance, of stealing pears and sentenced for so doted to imprismtnent and hard labour ,• tut [Jawing to mercy iii part, and unwilling to have it said that I punished a boy for , taking a few pears without leave, did not press the matter, and he was allowed to go at large. Now,' sir, if this Charles Manfield had been sent to Shepton gaol for stealing pears, in all probability he would not now be a prisoner charged with a deliberate and foul murder; and pet if the press, or a certain portion of it, bad get hold of the fact, that I, a minister of religion, a man of peace, &c., did not scruple to send a young lad to prison for threepennyworth of pears, I should doubtless have been held up to public execration. I therefore beg to repeat my question—what are we to do with juvenile offenders? Edu cate them you will say ; but I must be permitted to reply, sine will not be taught. This has been the case with these %infields about whom I write.—Fitss a HEWSON, minister of Christchurch, Naihea, Somerset—Jan. 3. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.—Under this heading the following paragraph appeared in the limning Chronicle if yesterday : A paragraph has gone the round of the English journals, that at Evfa two Gentian translations of Bulwer's "Lucretia' bad la ea .... ... triad, and an action corzmence . d iii,ainet the publiihers : The :Moe sow Zeibery, of the 30th Decemix r, pays this is evidently a mis . i take it ought to be two English editions of the work published reerromy. Thi Alornihg Chronicle and its authority are both mis taken. The Royal Criminal Court of Magdeburg on the 7th December declared " ' Lucretia, or the Children of the Bight,',. a romance, by E. L. Bulwer. From the English, by ewsder Oelher /nos dery Englischen con T. O.)" and 'Lucretia, or the Children of the Night,' by E. L. Bulwer, Mbar of sic. From the English, by A. Knetseb- Imam (nor dens Englischen von A. K.) piracies (Nach drinisl, and caused public notice to be given that aiay person selling them will be prosecuted and pu ,Med an application to that end being made by the 'OM of Duncter and Humblet, in Berlin, which is ex- clearly entitled to publish a German translation of the I nflinh, work in question." This judicial decision rests upon I ,na regulations of the treaty between Prussia and Great 4 ettian of July 1816, and upon the patent of 29th Nevem- bet, l8:17, which gives the decree promulgated by the German DM of that year the authority of law in the Prussian demi • 1. The announcement of the judgment pronounced by 't watt at Magdeburg was published in theAllgemeine THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1848. 11,863,1 7,010, 340 4,1701. , 4 11,760,1 12,141,1: 4361,141 in the QUARTS'/ ended Jan. 6,1847, and 1848. CHARGE. £4314731 3,612,131 1,149,631 1,909,099 450,1.9 203,000 39,000 29,697 31,984 302,449 4,111,662 3,226,460 1,264,825 1,914,743 462,567 2014,000 40,600 11,746 30, , 14 74,048 12,104,887 £12,634,087 Ti;ei:63,c 575,774 C1;240,729 Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities. Interest on Esensemer 11.011, mot Mew se Kinking Vend The Ova IJII Other Chars cm ea *mandated Find For Advances Total Charge The Stuillus TM Surplul Income on Oct. 10, 1847 Ditto, Jan. 3, 1348, as above The Surplu midis OrksoMated Preussische Zei(ung of 19th December last. Had the ob ject of the Chronicle been to give correct information, them factecould easily have been ascertained j but it appears to have coiled the notice of the decision which appeared in the Daily News, and the contradiction which appeared in the Allyemeine Zeitung, en the j rinciple of the newspaper editor commemorated by Joe Miller, who, being at a loss for matter to fill up his columns, and (Indio,: that an account of a are he had been counting upon has been used the day before, gave directions to contradict it. THE WEATHER AND MAILS AT DOVER.—There was to great a tea oft Diver yesttrday, that H.M.S. Onyx, from Ostend, was unable to land her pamengen at the time she transhipped her mails into a am ill boat. The French day mail from London, which arrived at Dover by the 3, p.m., train, cruld not be shipped, and was conveyed by land t. Deal, to be put on board the French screw-steamer which awaited it off that port. GIRDER BRIDGES ON RAlLwAirs.—The Railway Commissioners have, in reply to the inquiries of Sir E. Walker and Sir J. Jervis, as to whether, consequent on the late accident at the Dee-bride, on the Chester and Holy head line, they intended to make any report on the condi tions to be observed in the application of iron to railway structures, replied that " the commissioners for inquiring into the conditions to be observed in the application of iron to railway structures are engaged in predariog experiments to enable them to arrive at sati-factory conclusions on the subject of their inquiry before making their report. With respect to the girth'. bridges on the Trent Valley line, some of them are of similar construction, but of smaller dimat sions than the Dee-bridge at Chester, and these have all been strengthened to the sataaction of the inspecting officer of the commissioners." MR. JUSTICE COLERIDGE ON DRUNKENNESS.— During the recent gaol delivery for Yorkshire two young' men were convicted of a highway robbery. They received • excellent characters from several w:tneues, and on the night of the robbery it appeared that 0103, as also the pronmeor, were in a state of iIItOXIC ition. The jury found them both guilty, but recommended them to many on account of their previous good character, and because they. as well as the I prosecutor, were all drunk at the time. His lordship, ad dressing the prisoners, said, " The jury, on account of your previous good characters, and because all the parties were drunk at the time, have recommended you to mercy. I ; must say that the first ground is an exceedingly good one ,• but I think if the jury had considered the mischief and crime that results in this county, as well us in every other part of England, from the use of liquor in 'war, they would hardly have considered that that is any I extenuation of your offence. True, you would now perhap., have committed this offence if you had not been' is liquor; but if a man will comeait crime when drunk, he should ticks, care not to fp t I I venture to say that in much more than half the offences which have been : brought before this as-use Feiner has hail something to do. Liquor his either been tne temptation beforehand to robbery , to get something to purchase it, or it is the provocation I under the influence of liquor that causes them to quarrel, I and perhaps commit murder ; or it is liquor upon which the fruits that hare been obtained by robbery are generally spent; and it seems to Inc that, but fur the cases where offences are ! brought on by the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, the courts] of justice might be nosey shut up. lam sure that' a great deal more than halt the time of crimioal courts is taken up in consequence of offences which have something to' do with liquor. The first recommendation of the jug I shall take into consideration, but the second I cannot. The laws of this country do not allow drunkenness to be either a justification or extenuation of any offence. The old law said that if a man killed another when drunk he should be hung when sober. It must not be fur a moment heard that intoxication is to be anything lake en excuse for crime." AIR-TIGHT GRANARIES. Three conditions are essential to the process of putrefaction of grain, viz.: heat, moisture, and still air. Wi.h wind, moisture is carried off ; with cold, the decomposing proms, is checked, as may be seen by the carcases of animal* that lie through the winter in snowy mountains, and dry up to glue. Without air, every- I thing is locked up and remains in sin/mono; as reptiles have been buried forages in blocks of some or ancient trees, and than resumed their vital Junction., unchanged by time. In I direct opposition to these principle." are the granaries of I Great Britain and other countries constructed. Their site is generally the hank of a river, or the sea side. They are built of many II 'ore, at a vest expense. They are provided' with many windows, each floor being the height of a man, I yet not permitting more than twelve to fifteen inches depth of grain on each floor tor fear of heating, unless in the case of very old samples. Men are continually employed to turn I the grain over, to ventilate it, end clear out the vermin; and the weevil is naturalised in every crevice, as surely as bugs in neglected London bele, or cockroaches in West Indian sugar ships. It is the admission of air that permits this evil, that promotes germination, that permits the existence I of rats and mice. In the exclusion of sir is to be found the remedy. The practicalisation of this is neither difficult nor costly : on the contrary, close granaries might be constructed I at far less proportional cost than the existing kind. They might be made under ground as well as above ground ; in many cases, better. They might be constructed of cast iron, like gasometer tanks ; or of brick and cement; or of brick and asphelte, like underground water-tanks. It is only re- nuired that they ,hould be air-tight, and consequently water- I tight. A. single man-hole at the top, similar to a steam boiler, is all the opening required, with an airtight cover. The aie.pump has long ceased to be a pinicsophic toy, and has taken its place in the arts as a manufacturer's tool ; and no difficulty would exist as to that portion of the mechanism. Now, if we suppose a large cast iron or brick cylinder suck in the earth, the bottom being conical, and the top domed over ; an sir-pump adjusted or exhausting the air, and an Archimedean screw pump to discharge the grain, we have the whole apparatus complete. If we provide fir wet grain, a water-pump may be added, as to a leaky ship. Suppose, now, a cargo of grain, partly germinating, and containing rats, mice, and weevils, to be shot into this reservoir, the cover put on and kited, and the air pump at work, the ger mination would instantly cease, and the animal functions would be suspended. If it he objected that they would re vive with the admission of the air, we answer, that the air need not be admitted, save to empty the reservoir. If it be contended that the reservoir may he leaky, we answer, so may a ship ; and if so, the air-rump must be set to work just as is the cue with a water-pump in a leaky ship. The cost of an underground reservoir would possibly be more than one above ground, but it has the advantage of occupy ing space of otherwise little value. One obvious cheapness of this improved granary over thole now existing is, that the whole cubic contents may be filled, whereto, in the existing mode, not above one-fourth of the cubic contents can be ren dered available. But many existing structures might be rendered eligible. For example : the railway arches of the Eastern Counties, the Blackwell, and the Greenwich. In such cases the grain would be discharged lett, them from waggons on the line, in the mode used with coals. Reser voirs might be erected in farm yard., and the grain threshed out and carried from the harvest field direct, with the abso lute certainty of preserving it any levels of time that might be desired. Or, inasmuch as it. is a certain thing that all , farms must ultimately communicate with railways, by means of cheap horse-trains, or steam sidings, in order to work to • profit, it would be desirable that the granary should be erected at some central railway station, where a steam mill would do the work of exhausting the air, discharging the grain by Arehimedean screw when required, and grinding it into meal. No better purpose could be found to which to apply the atmospheric engines and stations of the Croydon Railway, with their existing air-pumps. Communicating with all the southern wheat-growing counties of England, and also with the Thames, no spot could be more eligible as a central depot. In connexion with these arrangements it would be desirable to minimise the cost of transit in every possible way.— IVesinsinster Reeler. . INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—SUEPOSED SrICIDE.— Before Mr. Bedford, at the Bedford Head, Maiden-lane Covent-garden, on the body of Mr. William Hancock, aged 67, newavender, &c. The deceased carried on business at 14, Maiden-lane. In Oct., 1846, a cataract formed in both his eyes, for which he had since been under medical treat ment. His affliction preyed upon his mind, and in Septem ber last he attempted suicide by jumiVng off a Gravesend steamer into the river. On Wednesday morning, the 29th ult., his wife, on waking, discovered deceased lying across the bed with his head hanging over the side, and a deep wound in his throat. Mr. Tompson, surgeon, of Tavistock street, was sent for, and sewed up the wound, and deceased seemed to be recovering. On Sunday evening he became much excited, the wound gaped open again, and Mr. Temp son was fetched, but be died shortly afterwards. The wound had been inflicted with a table knife. Mr. Tompson not un dertaking to say that the wound (which had escaped the large vessels) was the cause of death, which might have en sued from some internal disease, the Coroner thought it important that the memory of deceased should not be branded with the crime of self-murder, and adjourned the inquiry for the purpose of a post mortem examination of the 3,631,230 617,473 446 . ,.413 sa,no 314.536 661,600 5,024,436 4,810,211 £12,634,617 729,195 1,043,007 The Amount Issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 11115, In part of the moms granted by Purliminelit ot.t of Ms Consolidated Fund for Satiny Widens Quitter soda Jew S. 1141. 48116,728 372,708 si:ser 3131,801 WOO 7,20'7,632 5.043,097 U,230,7211 5,71'Z292 4,539,744 863,548 body.—Tua Lava Cot. PrzaLas.—Before Mr. C. J. Cantu, at the private residence of the late Col. Thomas Peebles, second commandant of the Royal Marines at Wool. wich, in the Royal Marine Barracks, on the body of that officer, who expired suddenly on Monday morning.—ln ad dition to the evidence of Major Little, the barrack-master, and J. Dinnicombe, serum of the deceased, who merely de- I posed to the general health of deceased, Mr. J. Drummond, M.D., deputy-inspector of hospitals, deposed that he had attended the deceased professionally during the lot month fur influenza, from which he entirely recovered, and had been on duty for the hut eight days. He was called shortly after two o'clock on Monday morning to attend the deceased, whom he found in 1» d insen‘ible. He died almost imme diately. His asedstant had previously taken a small quan tity of blood from the jugular vein. His death witness considered bad been caused by disease of the heart, or the large vestals in its cavity. He read a letter from Dr. Rae, inspector of Melville Hospital, who was deceased's medical attendant, stating that he always anticipated the deceased would die suddenly. The deceased bad attended church in the morning of Sunday, and afterwards went to Coryton, and it was remarked by his family that they had not seen him so well for some time.—The jury returned a verdict of " Died from disease of the heart." LONDON TAKEN BY THE FRENCII. [From Pinieh.) We give a copy of the bulletin that it may be ex pected blaphal Bugnaurt will forward to his government on the invaNion of England and posetcsion of London by 50,000 French: " Head.quartere, Buckingham Palace, London (date not azed).—Monsieur,—l have the honour to communicate the intelligence of the landing of the army under my commend on the coast of Dover, with the submission of the capital of England. I write this in the palace of the Guelph'. ' where the tricolor wave ei triumphantly above the standard of our natural enemy. Our troops embarking at Boulngne, at Calais, and Dunkirk, met midway in the Chan nel. The wind failing, the transoorts were towed by theConate de Paris, the Chateau d'Eu, La Chaste, and other steamers. At daybreak we came to anchor, and at 7 p.m. landed the troops—with homes and artillery—from the jolly-boats. The guns from Dover Castle kept an uuntetuly, dropping fire during the dieeenh irkatiem : at length a handful of the Alge rine Immortals—Writ:4W by the pertinacity of the enemy— sealed the chalk-cliffs, and in five minutes—by the watch— spiked the can non. Immediately the tricolor floated front the Castle of Cesar. On the capture of the Castle, the mayor and corporation of Dover brought the key of the town to the beach, and supplicated for honourable terms of capitols'. tion. These I base thought fit to grant ; thus leaving the friendliest disposition in our rear. At nine o'clock the directors of the railway appeared with first-clews tickets for the whole of the army ; having, moreover, under the direc tion of our commissariat, presided the necessary means of transit for baggage and artillery. Our army ar rived at eleven o'clock in Loudon, very fresh and in the highest spirits. We Mrmed at the station, and marched over London-kid.te. Here we raw the Pool of the Thames —all the shipping heel already hoisted the tricolor—which, remembering the glory of our national marine, I have hence forth ordered to be called the Belle Poole. At the end of the Rue de Rot de Guillawne—i i English, King William street—the Lord Mayor and Aide them of London presented theinselvet. Hie lordship begged that the capital might be spared on the payment of 50 millions sterling. To this—the money being ready—l thought fit to accede. (A bell is to be given to the conquering army at the Mansion-house by the wives and daughters of the merchants and bankers.) His lordship then unrolled a pang rama of London, and dis tributed billets to the army according to the choice of the officers. As we approached Lombard-street, we learned that the Guards, commanded by the Earl of Elsewhere, had left London by the Windsor road. The army halted to take a good look at the Bank of England ; then, much refreshed, pushed on through Cheapside. The tricolor was hung out from all the churches, and women, I with tricolor cap-ribbons, were seen at every window. The whole march, from the station to head-quarters, was an ova tiou. Arriving in Fleet-street the whole army drew up before No. 85, known to Europe as the office of Punch. Wishiun to save an unnecessary effusion of blood, we summoned Punch to capitulate. Whilst, however, we held him in parley at the first floor, the pioneers entered the I building by a hack entrance. The army called for the head of Punch; but I have thought it necessary to delay the gitt. Our great enemy—the enemy of France—is now in chains in the Tower. It is my into noon—abolishing for ever the gal llows as unworthy of the civilisation of the age—to guillotine lunch on Tower-hill. The army proceeded down the Strand, and I have flied my head-quarters at Bucking ham Palace, whereupon may now be read, in letters • of gold, "lei on parle franoia." I trust that I her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family of England will ever retain the liveliest recollections of the generosity, the chiveary, and biensionee of the invading army of —. The troops have been received with proper respect by the enemy, who is at last brought to the convic tion of the immeasurable superiority of our arms. It was my intention to quarter the 9hth Ethiopian Chasseurs in the National Gall. ry ; but—it is a touching proof of the taste of the French horse—the animal could not be induced to enter the building. The statue of the charlatan Nelson has been displaced from a column, which will be surmounted by the effigy of our own real hero, Jean du Bart. I have farther caused the marble statue oNapoleon—for many years shame , fully concealed in the wine-cellar of the Duke of Wellington —to be elevated to the arch opposite Apeley House, which is to be henceforward known as Austerlitz Lodge. The statue of the Duke of Wellington is already in the melting pot, and will serve to reinforce our artillery. Twenty thousand Frenchmen domiciled in London—namely, valets, drawing.-maters, cooks, and fiddlers—appeared its the streets in the uniform of National Guards. I have thought it necessary to send Mons. Jullien—a French sub ject—to the Tower, until I shall receive further orders from the government. Madame Celeste (another French subject) I have permitted to act at the Melphi on parole. In a few days I shall be enabled to send you an inventory of the wealth of London; which, until the conclusion of the Opera season, I propose to intake our head quarters. Deign, Mon sieur, to receive the assurance of my highest consideratiou.— BUCIEAUD.—To the Minister of Foreign Affairs." IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. 4. The charge to be delivered by the Chief Justice to day is expected with much anxiety. His lordship is well prepared to read disaffection a grave and im pressive lesson, having had experience in that pecu liar department of a crown officer's duties. The state of the calendar in Clare is almost as heavy as in Limerick. The total number of prisoners is 104, iof whom 11 are chargeable with murder, 20 robbery of arms, 20 housebreaking, 10 shooting, 20 attacks lon dwellings, 4 arson, with other less serious offences. It is supposed a large balance will remain over for the spring assizes after the termination of the com mission in both counties. . . . . Society is not firmly constituted in the north-west, as appears from the disorganisation presented at the Bailieborough sessions, Cavan. The number of civil processes served for the quarter session now in pro gress are 3,000, of which Loa° have been entered. In addition to the civil enormity there are 70 crown prosecutions. The case of the parish priest of Strokcatown appears again on the stage, and with strong claims on public attention. A memorial appears, signed by I nearly 40 inhabitants of the town, all traders with the exception of a Mr. Cruise, who is described as" a private gentleman." They stated that they have been in the constant habit of attending at chapel on Sun. days and holidays, and have one and all a distinct recollection of " All Saint's Day," to which the " Irish Peer" so significantly alluded. On that day they add that the Rev. Mr. 31'I ermott " did net open his lips or address a single word to his flock." It will be remembered that the " Irish Peer" charged the Rev. Mr. Wllermott with' a . quality paat peculiar to his order, and that he jesuitically over the " Monday" en which the denuncia tion took place. The memorial certainly strikes at I the root of that charge. Further, they state, and are ready to corroborate what they say upon oath, that the Rev. Mr. M'Dermott never used the words attributed to him by either Lord Farnham or the " Irish Peer;" and furthermore, that he never used " words of a similar import or meaning." If any reliance is to be placed on language, the inhabitants of Strokestown have absolved their priest from the heinous charges in which he is involved. New Durraicre PIIOCLAIMED.—The Lord-Lieutenant held a Privy Council at the Castle yesterday, which was attended by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Duke of Lein ster, the Bishop of Meath, Lord Cloncurry, the Master of the Rohs, Lieut.. General Sir E. Blakeney, Baron Lefroy, Mr. Justice Ball, Mr. Justice Moore, the Right Hon. Ft Keatinge, the Right Hon. It. W. Greene, and the Chief Secretary, Sir Wm. Somerville. Proclamations were ordered to be lamed, and which appear in on Extraordinary G4Zette 'issued this morning, extending the act for the Prevention of Crime in Ireland to the following districts, from and after Saturday next, the Bth of January:—Barony of Longford; the parishes of Ballynakill, Clonrush, Cuniry, Tynsgb, and that part of the pariah of Inniscaltra, situate in the hardly of Leitrim, all in the county of Galway. The barony of Clanawley, county of Fermanagh. Barony of Tullyhaw, and the parish of Drumlane, in the barony of Lower Leughtee, county of Cavan. OFFICIAL AYI.OINTMENT.—Sir Nichols Fitzsimon, a police magistrate of Dublin, bas been appointed Inspector- General of Prisons in Ireland, in the room of Major Cotting ham, deceased. A DISPAIITINO LANDLOED.—Sir C H. Ceote, Bart., one of the most extensive landed proprietors in the Queen's County, is about departing for Italy with his family, in con sequence rf the state of Ireland. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, J 4N. 4. From a recent commercial circular it appears that in Glasgow the number of bankrupts during 1817 exceeded 100. In the grain trade the liabilities were reckoned at 400,0004 in manufactures at 1,328,0001., in East Indian shipping and colonial interests at 1,208,0001., which with the Ayrshire Iron Company made a total of 3,156,0001. Numerically the whole bankruptcies in Scotland in 1847 were 523; in Eng land 1626. As England has a population six times as large as Scotland, the bankruptcies in the latter being so many as one third of the former, this return would seem to indicate a greater proportional amount of mercantile disasters in the one country than in the other. But this conclusion would be erroneous, as Scotland has hitherto escaped better than England. The explanation appears to be that while in England the smaller class of bankrupts take advantage of the Insolvent Debtors Act, the corresponding class of individuals in Scotland are forced into sequestration. Some discussion is being carried on in Glasgow, in the form of anonymous advertisements, regarding the management of the National Exchange Company. In reply to the indignant queries of a " Shareholder," as to " reserved fund" and " capital," propounded much in the same way that Richard 111. was questioned as to his many victims, a " Director" answers that these two important items are to be found in the debts of the company. He says the directors lent money to " men of moderate means but of adventurous disposition," on the security of railway shares now much depreciated, " the proprietors of which have not only to want their money for a long time without receiving any return, but are subjected to continual calls for payment of in stalments while the railways are in progress of for mation ;" and he adds, " were it possible to realise the ' whole of these, the reserved fund and the capital would both be forthcoming." A "director in another exchange company" gra tuitously enters the arena, and addressing the share holders by way of commentary on the above, says : In other words, your money has been lent to worthless specu'ators who had not a farthing to lose, on the security of scrip shares equally worthless ; and you are coolly insured that it you can make these men solvent, and the shares of the value that your directors thought proper to put upon thew, your capital and reserve fund will re appear, wishing you to believe that your directors have only acted as the directors of such other companies hare done. I trust you will not be blinded by such a paltry and wilful misstatement of the tact. Ace pt the offer your director mikes, and exa mine your securiues, and it you do so I think y..ti will find plenty of advances made as he describes, and also on P crip of railways winch never were in actual existence at all, and probably never will be. I deny that such was the nature of the business your directors were appointed to conduct, and it is for you to consider whether thy have adhered to your con•ract of copartner•hip. In matters architectural, Jedburgh Abbey is under going the process of restoration, at the cost of the Lothian family, and not of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, as has been erroneously stated in some of the newspapers. The statistics of the Edinburgh and Glasgow in firtnaries have just been published, and the compari son is unfavourable to Edinburgh. Of 7,816 patients admitted to the Edinburgh institution in 1817, 1,059 died; of 7,891 admitted in Glasgow, death cut off 1138. Taking into account the greater population of Glasgow over Edinburgh, and the fact that while at the end of the year only 382 patients were under treatment in Glasgow, 702 were in the Edinburgh welds, the balance is clearly against the metropolis. INSTALLATION OF COL. MORE, M.P., LORD RECTOR OF GLAMIOW URIVERRITY.—On Tuesday, the installation of Col. More, of Caldwell, ALP., the recently elected L rd Rector of the University of Glasgow, an appointment re garding which so much interest has been excited, took place in the Common-ball. Tho Lord Rector was accompanied by the Earl of Eglintoa (the newly-appointed Dean of Faculties) ; Lord Robertson, of the Court of Se•sion ; Sir Charles Fergusson, of Kilkerran ; all the professors, and a ili,tiuguished party of 'mongol. The Common-hall war densely crowded, several hundred ladies being present. SHERIFFDOM OF AUERDEEN.—MT. James Crauford, ad votate-depute, is understood to have received this appoint ment, vacated by the primotimi of Mr. Gorion to the sheriffdom of Edinburgh. Jan. 6, 1847, and Jan. 8, 1848. tear endedJea. 1148. sicde — d Jan. 6, 1946. 1110121 581,0441 u,sis,sre I 217, tad.n 790. r 1 Ic Menem the year 293,387 790,30{ itinartair endsd 1645. Decrease. 4u2,669 361,172 173,331 17,911 b 74 , 1,170 11,401 1,107,bi3 32.232 1,133,313 WALES. CARNIRVON. The dilatory proceedings of the Welsh education committee of the National Society, in esta blishing a training institution for national schailmasters for North Wales, have, according to the Chester Courant, given great dissatisfaction. It is complained that notwithstanding the fact that a large portion (lithe funds at their disposal has been collected in N..rth Wales, yet no steps are taken to carry out the purpose for which they were subscribed, while S.mth Wales has been most liberally provided for by the founding of an institution in Carmarthen. PROVINCIAL. A BOY KILLED ; --- .l — ii ,;-- ORKSlloP.—Yesterday morning • dreadful occurrence took place in the work-room of Mr. Holgate, iron-worker, Dale-street, Liverpool. A little boy named Lawson was engaged holding a strap, which worked a large lathe, when the other end got entangled with the engine-sr - heel, the consequence of which was, that he was whirled round between the strap and the wheel. His arms were turn completely out of their sockets, and his legs having come in contact with the roof were broken in several places. As soon as possible the unfortunate lad was extricated, and taken to the Northern Hospital. EFFECTIVE SCAVENGING.—SeveraI of the principal thoroughfares of Blackburn have, during the last few days, been subjected to a more effectual cleansing process than any which they have ever before experienced. The water compans, whose works are now almost completed, have been teats .g the e ffi ciency of :he fire plugs and the condition of the mains, in different parts; and, in doing so, have discharged a copious stream with a considerable portion of the im mense power at their command, in an almost horiz natal direction along the streets, stripping them of their mud covering much more effectually than could be done by an army of scavengers or a brigade of sweeping machines. The almency of this mode of cleansing is well worth the consi deration of the improvement commissioners, with a view to its regular adoption. DARING ROBBERY BY ARMED MEX.—A moat daring robbery was perpetrated on Sunday night last, at the Hill Farm, in Lower Darwen. On the night in question, between six and seven o'clock, litr. W. Whalley, Greer, and the members of his family, were alarmed by the sudden en trance of four men, with blackened faces, and with pistols in their hard.. The ruffians were not slow in making apparent the object of their visit, and proceeded to select such articles as they thought would suit them; amongst other things, they took a fowling-piece and between two and three pounds in silver. The daring culprits are supposed to be navigators, and the perpetrators of a highway robbery near the Green's Arms, Tartan, on Saturday morning, about three o'clock, when four men answering their description robbed J. M. Brodie, of Grimshaw Park, Blackburn, of U. ss. Old. and his hat. --- CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES.—III Rochdale and Middleton unemployed factory hands may *till be seen strolling about the streets, begging, but there is a proepest of some of the factories that have been standing being met to work. List week, the machinery in the two factories occupied by Messrs. James Prockter and Sons, who lately stopped payment, has been sold, and the purchasers, it is said, are going to commence working the concern. The theatre was opened last week, but out of five nights, fur which performances were advertised, there were only three on which the actors appeared. On the others, the few per sons that attended had their money returned to them, as it was useless acting to empty benches. This arises entirely from the stagnation of trade. When times are good, the Rochdale Theatre is almost supported by gallery menders, but short time and bad trade have crippled the means of this class. IRISH PAUPERS.—From a statement made at a meet ing of the select vestry at Liverpool yesterday, it appears that the cost of sending the vagrant Irish home for the last three months amounted to the large sum of 1,7001. THE INSPECHON OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN LIVEKPOOL AND MANCHESTEIL—In consequence of the re cent death of the out-door inspector of weights and measures for the borough a Liverpool, some inquiries were made into the working of t►at department, and, as the result of much investigation, a long report was presented to the council of that borough on the lit ult., stating that the existing Nysteen was a very bad one ; that the out-door department had been much neglected, there having been only 154 convictions during the last three years, and 681. paid to the borough fund, whilst in Manchester, in the same time, there had been 897 convictions, and 9611. paid for fines. The expense of the Liverpool establishment was 8901. a year, while in Manchester the same duty wee efficiently performed for 2341. DociCecTl .—At the time monthly meeting of this body, held yesterday at Birken head, Mr. 3 allaby occupied the chair. A communisation was read from the dock and warehouse company (who had been applied to for a portion of the money which they owe the trust, for the purpose of proceeding at once with the dock works). The reply to this demand was to the effect that they really had no money. The propriety of commenc ing legal proceedings against the body was freely canvassed. The chairman, however, expressed his disinclination to inch a measure, and to meet several immediate pressing demands on the commissioners suggested the rale of a portico of the plant. The chairman thought that as the appointment of the new trustees had given an overwhelming influence to the partioa who were responsible for the payment of the money, it would be better for the prevent commissioners to leave the question of legal proceedings till the power fell into the hoods of those to whom he had referred. The matter was ultimately left to the discretion of the previously appointed committee. Oct. 11, 1547. 4,936,644 3,339,946 1,707,945 213,6113 1,916,645 212,000 73,196, 12,812,1411 43,5371 187,4361 12,543,2141 B E KON ,2361 3.114,13 Dad. Incr. Degrease ° ,l Quarter VIARWICKSHTF. LIBERALITY OF " iron men of Birmingham," u they were wont to be called, have just signalised themselves by an act of noble liberality, which is perhaps without parallel. As will be seen by the following brief account of the meeting of the weekly board of the Queen's liorpital, held last week, the committee of the " Artisans' Pe .ny Subscription Movement," originated en tirely by working men, presented the magnificent sum of 9241. 18s. 9d. u a new year's offering towards the funds of the hospital. At the same board the medical and surgical officers paid over the sum of 3421, fees from pupils. CAMBRIDGFSIIIRE. THE COTTENHAII - FINE. 72 II;;HITEE who set fire to Mr. Mayle's premises has made an ample confession of his guilt. On Sunday night last, James Hayes, a native of Grantchestir, who, up to the Saturday preceding the fire, had been in Mr. Mayle's employ, called upon him and stated that he set fire to the prentues, but that he bad no par ticular motive in so doing, nor did he bear any to his master, of whom and whose kindness he speaks in the higbeet terms. Hayes was examined on Monday, and fully committed for trial at the suites. NORFOLK. TILE NELSON COL . LIIN AT YARMOETH.—At a special meeting of the town council on Tuesday afternoon, the mayor in the chair, a letter was read from the elder brethren of the Trinity-house, in answer to the application of the late mayor, requesting that board to take the Nelson column under their care. It stated that the elder brethren had taken the application into their consideration. Its utility as a seamark was not such as to make it so essential as to justify any large outlay ; and they suggested, for the consideration of the town council, whether it would not be desirable to convene a public meeting of the original sub see Own or their representatives, to consider the whole sub ject ; and should the patriotic feeling which had animated the subscribers prove insufficient for tne present repair, and it were found to be the enteral wish to transfer the whole to the Board of Trinity they would consider whether the wish of the meeting could be en ermined by them, and if so, take a conveyance to their corporation.—The town clerk read a list of the subscribers, by which it appeared that the greater portion were dead. Yarmouth, it stems, contributed shout 4001.—The Mayor said he waited on Sir John Pelly, one of the Elder Brethren, when he visited Yarmouth, and Sir I John told him they would not be willing to take it into their hands tulles, they could do what tkey pleased with it, and had a regular conveyance of it.—Mr. Burroughs thought there was a great deal of unnecessary alarm as to the large outlay required. Mr. G. D. Palmer had had a report made ' upon it, and fount that 1401. would do it. He moved that this council do direct their surveyor to make an estimate of I the cost of the necessary repairs of Nebon's column ; and do I determine to defer the consideration of the Trinity Bnaru'a letter above referred to, till such report had been rect iced. —Mr. Turner thought the money might he raised without any material difficul , y, and suggested an appeal to the public. Mr. Worship would be happy to second Mr. Bur roughs' motion ; which, after a few observations from Mr. Cobb was carried. In reference to this discussion, the local paper says:—" It will be seen that our hand- ' some column, erected to the memory of Nelson, is threatened with the fate of being metamorphosed into a lighthouse, if given over, as contemplated, to the care of the elder brethren of the Trinity. Who would have thought, when the structure was raised, that in a few years the feeling of enthusiasm which was then infosed into the hearts of our fellow-townsmen (who raised the sum of 4001. towards its erection) would have been dissipated, and that they would now even contemplate making such a use of it to save the paltry sum of MO/. Why, surely our estimation of the valuable services of this our Norfolk hero ought to be weighed in a higher scale than this. The Nelsen Column is one of the greatest attractions offered to strangers on their visits to Yarmouth, and the inhaqtauts are interested merely through good . policy for themselves, if no better feeling ac tuates them, in keeping in good and substantial repair this monument which their forefather. raised to Horatio Nelson." AT A MEETING OF TIIE YARMOUTII TOWN COUNCIL, on Tuesday last, it was unanimously resolved to oppsse to the utmost the bill introduced into parliament by the corporation of Norwich, entitled "The Norwich Navt ration Improvement Bill." By this bill, the city of Norwich seeks to obtain the exclusive control of the river Yare from the city of Norwich to the Town.hall at Yarmouth—to re move whatever bridges they think proper—to alter the present and levy new tolls, rates, or dues, according to their will—to extieguish all the rights and privileges of the Yar mouth Haven and Pier Commissioners--and to rescind the Haven and Pier Act, and take it from the commissioners. COMMITTAL OP MESSRS. ELLIS AND HURST FOR CONSPIRING TO DEIGIACD.—The Norwich Post, of yester day, says:—" It was generally thought that long ere this, Misers. Ellis and Hurst would have been captured, and brought before the magistrates, as their residence in London was known, and Mr. Last, with Sergeant Coleman, were sent in search of them. When they arrived there, however, they found they bad decamped, and taken their flight to Birmingham, and Mr. Last, not knowing whether it would be agreeable to the rest of the creditors to incur a greater expense by following them thither, returned without ' doing so. Out superintendere of police, however, im mediately wrote off to Birmingham, describing their per sons, as well as teat of the woman Davy, and at the same time ordered the superintendent of police there to stop them, and any goods which they might have in their possession. This was accordingly done, and Mr. Lost and Sergeant Coleman again started for Birming ham, and brought them from thence to Yarmouth, in cus tody. It beinz pretty well known that these persons would appear before the mayor on Monday morning, the greatest excitement prevailed, and long before the court was open for business, many persons were assembled in the court, and as soon as the doors were thrown open, it was completely filled with persons (many of them creditors of Messrs. E. and H.) all anxious to catch a glimpse of the accused.— Mr. Cufaude, in opening the case on the part of the prose cution, said, that he should cnarge these men, Ellis and Hurst, and Mrs. Davy, with conspiring together for the purpose of obtaining goods for which they never meant so pay ; and proceeded to show that, although it was not an illegal act if one person ran into debt, as the debt itself would not constitute a conspiracy ; yet, if two or three persona conspired together for this purpose, it was an illegal act, and a punishable offence. Mr. Cufaude then called a host of witnesses, who gave information as to the fraudulent pretences under which the prisoners obtained the goods in this town, but we think it unnecessary to quote them all, and shall therefore give two or three which bear more espe cially upon the charge. In the first place, that of Mr. Boston, whose evidence was to the following effect, when examined by Mr. Cufaude:—Hesekiati Huston I am a boot and shoemaker. Am in partnership with my father. John Ellis came is me on the 16th of November last He gave me his card, with " Messrs. Ellis and Hurst, Commission Agents, and Porter agents," thereon. Ile bought some goods. Hurst afterwards came, repre senting himself to be Ellie's partner, and asked whether Ellis had lett their card. Hurst als o had goods. Ellis also came to my house on the evening of the 2nd of December, and complained that the first pair of boots I had made for him did not fit. He wished to try on a pair in ixehange for them. He did so, and walked off with them, leaving the ous a he had pulled off to be mended, which be wished to be done by two o'clock on the next day, when I should be paid my account, and receive back the boots which did not fit. Next day I went to their house, and found it closed and locked. I let him have the second pair of boots on the faith of the others being returned to me. When the parties called on me they presented a more re spectable apparance than they do now.—Cross-examined by Mr. Sayer, who appeared on behalf of the defendants: No mention was made at the time I first measured there respect. ing payment. I have delivered in bills. About a forteight elapsed since the time of seeing him first and his calling in.—Mr. aga Corbyn, tailor, Paved row, was next sworn, who deposed that Mr. Hurst called upon him in the middle o: November. He gave me his name as of the firm of Ellis and Co., and said he lived on the South-quay, in a red brick house, lately occupied by the Rev. Mr, Gartman. He first asked me to alter • patr of trowsers, which I did. He paid me afterwards for these, and said he wanted a cost and trowsers of black superfine cloth. I took the order, but did not execute it for two or three days, at which time I met him, and told him I should not make them unless I was paid ready money for them. He said he much approved of my way of doing business, and said he should not have thought of coming to me, or any other tradesman, without being prepared with ready money to pay for the goods. Two days after this he ordered a satin waist coat, and pressed me to send the bill with it and the cash should be paid directly. I supplied the goods. I sent them home about December Ist or 2nd. I told my apprentice, who took the goods, that they were to be paid for on de livery, but he did not bring the money back. The day after they decamped from Yarmouth.—E. Redgrave was subse quently called, who deposed as follows: I took the clothes home at four o'clock on the Thursday afternoon, together with the bill, and told Mr. Ellie, who was there, that my master wanted the money and I was to receipt the bill. Mr. Ellis said Mr. Hurst was not there then, but he would call the following day and pay for them. At 10 the next morning the office was shut up. Numerous other witnesses were called, who deposed to the same effect, amongst whom were Mr. Feltham, Mn. Field, Mr. Blowers, Mr. Gray, &c., all of them victims in like manner, when Mr. Cobb remarked to Mr. Cufaude that be, as one of the magistrates, thought that sufficient evidence had been already gone into respecting the men, but none that touched at all the woman's case, and he considered that , that should now be entered into. For that p urpose, Susannah 011ey deposed that the prisoners lodged at aer house in Sey mour-place. Mrs. Davy lived with Hurst as his wife. They came to her in October. Mrs. Davy (alias Mrs. liant) went away eight days before the others. When Ellis and Hurst left me they said they were going to reside at the o ffi ce on the quay. They paid me all before fraying my house.—The next witness called was John Crisp, son et Crisp, the carter, who said. "I carted some goods for Mr. Hurst on the 24th of Nov., the day the woman went awa_y. I cared them so the Earl of Liverpool steamer. I received the goods of Hurst—they consisted of two half-barrels, • large black duet, and two hampers, directed ' Davy and Co., London.' I took them out at the back door. Oa the 27th I carted twenty bundles of paper, one large and very heavy hamper to the William Jolliffe, directed, I be lieve, in the same manner as the others. Mr. Ellis gave me these things.—Mr. List was then called, who said: I sold these persons • clock for 61. 55., et st. cash. I went to Birmingham on Thursday night. I found the three pri soners there in custody. I found a great deal of luggage sent there by them in the name of J. ()wen, and which was then in their poems- ion. Amongst them were Mr. Gray's and other goo ds . I went from Birmingham to London. I took Ann Davy to the office at London. I found goods had been sent from Yarmouth to London on the 24th and 27th. Amongst the goods were two half-harrele which were received by Ann Davy, who acknowledged to me, in the presence of Sergeant Coleman, that she had taken the things, and signed her name in rcoeiot thereof. — The magistrates decided on accepting bail for the male pri soners for their appearance at the sessions to answer the charge—two sureties each man must find of 751. etch, and themselves to be bound, separately in the sum of 1601. Mrs. Davy should be remanded till next Friday, to allow time for the porter to attend and give his evidence against her. The court thee brake up, but great excitement prevailed in the town respecting the individuals who thus exerted their talents to obtain goods of various tradesmen. The prisoners ap peared shabbily dressed. The goods Mr. Last brought down with him, which were found in the prisoners' possession, comprise not only many of the Yarmouth supplies, but also goods from many other towns." . . SOME MAucious THIETES lest week broke own the hatches of the Dispatch, Dover and London trader lying in the Dover harbour, stole a quantity of spirits, and then set fire to the cargo in two parts of the hold. The fire in the fore part became extinguished, it appeared, by &cask of molasses bursting over it, but the one that had been lit in the after part of the vessel was burning when the captain went oa board in the morning; and bad a short time more elapsed before it was discovered, the vessel and cargo would have been totally consumed, as the fire was rapidly ad vancing in the direction of a cask of ovenproof spirits. ..... THREE INSTANCES Op SUDDEN DEATH am recorded in the Devizes Gazette. On Thursday Miss Throehula Hook was engaged in her brother's confectionery business, in tle Brittox when she was ,uddealy seized with • lit of apoplexy, and the same evening was • oorpse.—On the follow ing Sunday aftetnoon, a man about 27 years old, named Davis, living in the Nureery, was sitting with his wife and a young family, apparently with a prospect of many years of health and strength, when feeling rather unwell, he went up stairs to iie on his bed. He had no', hoverer, been there more than two hours, when e ex pired —A third are, even more sudden, occur red on Monday morning to an old man, 76, named Winterson. He had left his eon-in-law's, accompanied by his grand-daughter to go to his awn resideece. In their prestress thither the old man got somewhat in advance, and upon the little girl's enter ing the house she found her grandfather lying ou his heck, dead. Allusit. THE OPERA OF TUE "MAID OP HONOUR."— The libretto of this opera, now being performed at Drury_ lane, is stated in the feud/dole of the Pres& to he takea from a French ballet by Messrs. Saint George and Mead lier, entitled Herarietle,ou la Serra's& de Greenwich. i/ONIZETTL—This celebrated composer is now re siding at Bergamo, his native place, and his state of health is somewhat improved. He has recovered a little of his b3dily activity ; bat, when spoken to. he looks at the speaker without answering, and at length shuts his eyes. JENNY LIND.—An article, dated Stockholm, Dec. 7, in the Gazelle Musicale, nice that Menlo. Lied has ex pressed a desire to appear in an original Ssvedish piece, and that so there is no such thing as a Swedish opera in exist epee, she has accepted a port in a comedy by M. Blanche, call. d " The Young Lapland Girl," in which the author has iotroduced Swedish nattoaal ballads, a description of musics in which she excels, and has gained ereat tricmphs in fo reign countries. The furere continued without abatement; but precautions were taken to prevent the disturbances which preceded her first appearance at the Stockholm Theatre. On the occasion of her second appearance the re was such eagerness to obtain tickets of admisdoe, the: they were sold so high ss 4.5 viz dollars. or 91. sterling ; and the receipts of the crewing amounted to 11,093 six &Alan, or 2,2191. sterling. MARCH OF MCoIC.—A respectable family in Greenland has lately advertised in the Copenhagen news papers fur • music master. be Drama. THE FRENCH PLAYS. - The production of the " Antigone" of Sophocks, in a French version, and with the music of Mendelsaehri, drew an excessively crowded audience to the St. James's Theatre lest night, great expectations having b.en excited by the preparations for its perfurmanco. We wore very doubtful as to the result ; for Freebie the mana ger every credit for his best exertions, it did not scene that the resources of his theatre were adequate to the represen tation of so extraordinary and "exceptional" a piece. It is true that the character of Crews was performed by M. Bocage, by whom it was originally sustained at the Odeon; but the still more important part of the heroine, in order to be effective, would have demanded the powers of a Rachel, instead of the very respectable but mediocre Madame Fechter. It is true, hkewise, that therm was an excellent instrumental orchestra, conchae:tad by M. Benedict; but, Mendelssohn's music is entirely then', and intended to be sung by a leer number of men's voices: and where were 40 or 60 chorister, to be found in London, capable of singing the choruses of the French " Antis lie " e It must be observed that in the original tragedy, as well as in its modera versions, the lyrical portion is the most highly poetical. The simple dialogue of the ploy is remarkable tor its plainness and simplicity and it is in the choral odes with which it is intermingled that the poet's imagination takes its lot int ft ghts. These chot uses form a very con siderable portion of the whole drama; and it is essential to the success of its representation that they be delivered with as much clearness and energy as any part of the spoken dialogue. When Tieck made the German version of the " Antigone," in order to its performance at Berlin, Mendelssohn united the poetry of the choruses to music so simple in its melodic structure, and so perfectly adapted to the rhythm, accent, and emplane of the words, that every syllable could be uttered es dis tinctly as in simple declamation, and, with disciplined German choristers, as distinctly by fifty voices as by one. But the case 'became different when Mandelesohn's notes, disjoined from the words to which he fitted them, were attached to the words of a different language; and, above all, when that language was French. In Mr. Bartholomew's masterly English version, this difficulty is got over with sur prising success ; but to any one who examines the trench version, is imperfect adaptation to the mus:c must be evident. Mendelesohn's choruses could net be eflictively sue g with the French wards, even by the best French singers ; bat what must have been the case when four out of five of the choristers were English —our worthy old cockney friends of Hanover-square and Exeter Hall, profoundly ignorant of French, and unable to utter a sentence or a word of that language with propriity ! Not one word or syllable of the choruses was intelligible from the beginning to the end of the piece ; and the greatest beauty of the music, its admirable expression, being thus entirely lost, it had no ettict on the audience. Even the magnificent " Hymn to Bacchus," which, when the play wit perforated, lamely enough, at Covent-garden a few years since, was encored with acclama tions, tell quite flat en this occasion; but at Covent garden the English singers rang English weeds, and the au lance felt their spirit. The ryrial portion of the piece being thus defectively performed was insufficient to relievo the keg and heavy scenes of declamation by the iatrior actor'. M. Boc.age's whole representation of the tyrant Croon was, indeed,admirable. Ms noble head and classical attire had the aspect of a piece of Grecian sculpture ; and his action exhibited many tine traits of energy and pathos. Madame Fechtrr (as the French say) had happy inspira tions; but the part of Antigone was beyond her btrehBth. The performance passed off very coldly; and the applause at the fall of the curtain was to faint, and the call for the performers proc .cded so obviously from a few scattered ndividuals, that the house was half empty before M. Bongo presented himsAf, with evident reluctance, and made his bow very hastily. We regret that the trouble and expense employed in getting up this piece have not been bestowed to better purpose, for it evidently cannot have a run. Patxutsa's.—The position attained by tee Miss Cashman in this country induces other histrionics front the far side of the Atlantic to try their fate upon the English boards. It is rather a compliment to our judgment that they submit themselves to such an ordeal ; for certainly, in the present state of the legitimate drama here, there is little to be acquired by its professors beyond the reputa tion which follows a good reception with our public. The manager of this theatre, however, sprees inclined to afford American talent an opportunity of display whenever it de sires to present itself; end last night such opportunity wes afforded to two tratutlantic performers, Her. 3lowatt, who is described as both an authoress and actress, and Mr. Davenport, of the Park Theatre, New York, who we understand to be the lady's brother. The play selected for the occasion was " The Hunchback," Mrs. Mowatt playing Julia, and Mr. Davenport .Sir Thomas C'lif _ford. The lady is fair, of middle stature, with pleasing features and an agreeable voice and manner. There wan much that was meritorious in her performance, but nothing that gave new development to the character or took it out of the range of comparison with other representatives. Regarding the performance in that light, Mrs. Id tscar:ely r :e reaches the English standard, and certainly, before she ac quires the success we wish her, it will be necessary to unlearn much that we are accustomed to regard as provincialism and stage trick. Mr. Davenport appears a judicious ':tor, and we should be glad to see him in other parts. The play, upon the whole, was not badly given. Compton is admirabl e' -Vaduz, Miss Montague a delightful fleltn, and 11r. Vining very amusing as Lord Tinsel. The pantomime here improves upon acquaintance. Flexmore is a very capital Clown, and his imitations of the pets of the ballet are moat amusing. 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