The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

IRELAND Drum. Die. 23. paOSECUTION OF THE "ANGLO CELT.* The ow o f the Qgateh it the prosecution of the Atuemy .(; enet al against Mr. Zechariah Wallace, m tor of the Assilo Ci /t newspaper. for libel, was r p „ su arr.cril yesterday in the Court of Queen's Bench teem the lAsti Chief Justice and a special jiiry. ne Attorney (item], the Solicitor.Oeneral, Mr. Mart. ay. it F. Heye., Q C., Mr Graydon, and Mr. For. a ppe'ri..l on behalf albs crews ; and Mr. Fitagib- T.,;.‘; C • Mr. MDossoltki .C., Mr. O'Hagan, sad 3 1, pArge speear.4 foe the ilefendant. L. , rd Chief Justice raid that it appeared to him that tt , diLailant had justified his publication, and as an aw t sstm uf the caw world prejudge the twat of the od,„ n •be were charged with the murder of certain per. p l eat Sillade Illrelpe, it would be desirable to enter a m e ter span tf c in,Letnient. The plea ofjugiticatien put **. e ,. whether the soldiers of the 31st Regiment, under ce:imead of Captain Edlit, were or were nut guilty of 4..h.vite murder ? Suocitor-iieneral stated that this plea of justification b,,en withdrew°. Eviiihbon, said that though the plea of justi on amund stated by Li. lardship, heel been tLere nu mach that was true in what his lord la.," • %Lac!. the Attorrieffilestrel said that no question of the kind I.li.jari.4 during the trio,. He would be of coarse re r,mible for the pruecation, and he ussidered it a ngce sa him., If that the case should be 'upended with. • :111 CU* which he had to submit to the court and the b, tog hoard. :he 1.4.1 Chief J usties haring heard the reasons urged 'r Attorney-General, decided that the case should be with. - Mr. Ferguson opened the pleadings. That wee an In ' .:mint at the prosecutlon of the Queen against Zechariah e:A.A., for printing and publi.hing, in the Ce.t ern,paper, upon Thursday, the 12th cf August, 18.52, • !ire. scandalous, and malicious defamatory libel concern c4 the 31st Regiment, otfici rs and suldi.n. The learned ,Aineel stated the %.11.. , US count. in the indictment, the - ,ading paints in which were, that the defendant bad en favoured to iitterfsre with the doe administration of ;I•l've. and had maligned the eh iracten or the officers and re of the 31st Regiment. The foliose ing is the article shish appeared in the defendant's newspaper, and which Lai Weren't to the garbled report of the coroner's inquest t a s Sad appeased in the paper. • Ter Sti• TILAGILDT.—The slaughter of th Irish people at Six-mile Bridge, in the county of Clare, has be. n uncle r investigation forseveral days past. la another we publali a porbon of the evidence Riven at the inquest, t which it will be seen that the men under the command of Egar were guilty of wilful and deliberate murder. W. rt .ume from the ev.denec that Captain Eger was in of the party who butchered our fellow countrymen It n day upon their native soil, and if we are under any shatsotrer, it is owing to the attempts of the mid. tor• • Aa*.t.uritie.' to stiffs the investigation. The 3lst, we ;• -s,. its facings years ago for cowardice, audit now , ai• at red tufts, rod collars, Mo. It seems by all ae tlAt the Clare election was of the ordinary hue of cwitteted elections in Lrelacd. Upon the one side ran,: the landlord 'ethic ace ; upon the other aide the pasts. All parties were of omen much excited; but it is rate app.rent that no sufficient provocation wee given to tit, (\wearily wretches of the 31st to discharge their guns or a a def. hee:csa crowd. Indeed, it has been proved by ffr. Icllwn, of Lelvoir, a protestant gentleman, that the populace sake ndi lel their sticks to him be fine the 'mili tary entered the village. This alcae would show that no ethali OM premeditated hy the people. We trust the go vithaeat will act impartially in the cutter, and punish the pa.lty runes, whether Creme I in red, black, or grey." Ito Attothey.Geaera! then addressed the court out jury. The si :edi.aut stood iudieted for the crime of libel ; and et:sp lit: :hr cast of all those technicalities which were necemary as act es of kw, the substance of the case was this—that the le:it:dant, by the publication, attempted to interfere silt Ito dile coitale of public justice, and to prejudice the bet and impartial nvr.tagatioa of a Moat important aid 'pm the second branch of the ease the charge was, that tie defendant had falsely and maliciously calumniated miatary gen•lenien of the highest position and the most a; :Ices character; and in another part of the cam the de irric.e.l was charged with having, by falsehood end re:amry. endeavoured to depreciate the character of mili tary meii. The I • d gentleman then referred to the transaction that had occurred at Six-mile Bridge, which Lateen frequently published, and commented upon the impropriety of my newspaper editor prejudging a verdict aid pnjedicinp the minds of the jury. At the prevent day a whipper editor had no reason to complain of and., re 'Mint upon the liberty of the prees—apeaking for himself, La had as wish to me it rtstiained. lie asked no greater restrictica upon the liberty of the prime than what he saw before him—twelve gentlemen upon their oaths imps:k eel:eel to say whether in their opinion the f a i r bonds of the law had been (acceded. The learned gentleman then lead the attention of the court to Lord Campbell's Label Act, to show that the person who published what was regarded as a label might biddy by Foy is; that it was true, and that the publication of the truth would be conducive to publics heeteat. The teamed gentle men then adverted to the prided and partial report of the evideme which the defradant had lye& in his newspaper, sad observed that this was to pasjailige the nee cad interfere with the due admintetration pine pone. Ile kid published in his newspeper the eglinse ef mem who had not seen the occarrease in the hae ► sad who were, therefore, ineay able of giving teetimev as be the main sod .aportaat parts of the case. lie wwlfTpwho several ml- Wry gentlemen who wend tell this On the telpilaillt, who hail been de *imbed an sommeffit e bad ban nennehle for th,ir mirage. It hod helm ftingen bed lost its colours sad its beings. It wee tree rat the reel- Gate had lost its eclairs. They had hewn ink and n inety is the Penineular war, end Wile VIM WM true oa board the Rest Rest Inansa. dean. tin at sea they (the Pay) bed no Been end; he beamed that the alms of the regiment bad Kesel buret ia the ews tsgratioa, the the facings al the segineet bed never bees C.sagsul. its jury langine the Anew ef the Ul. tary patients, an nese weft Ink sannen, la beteg Massed with eft ea Anse as estwagilse sal saftlesp toe, sad they would is the le=ani cuss 1e the character of the British sast, leallikad from the lowest eases neenigt, nib the ellen sane from that chintzes, and benagebis dais who EM very mock eay minted= Ilia be oast upset their bo zos.. lie (the At hit tbs ere:with the)aey, cante:f that their beenhesabis Tee proprietorship of thedhip&Ciell bane, ben preyed, the following winnow were ennieed: John Gabbett, Bag, etrawlaed by the Aelftey Omen. am• ma gistrate o f the amp of Clore. I remember the. Adios ir ne «sawd Claw, at 8122111•-___ worn by a deseneet sipea alarm sad wow testes of that ). That requidtion was acted open. I was at Si on the ensiles' et the Worts. note loss of We, and saw part af the liennetin I saw put of what waned at the Illpoeflk Inn Saw persona than. I attended the *aft whs.., sworn On the lit of Jull. I wee newieed as an denied to everything I saw. I wee peahen ea the part of the military. It was towards ths eel a - read aet I was weaned. Other witnesses wen se bents me as the part of the military, gadgets& 1 OM, Capt. Eager aid others. Celoael Robert Doe@ essefted by the Solicitor fieseral—l was Annan Adluent Omani for Legend in the may of Annie. 1852, Kane. General Fl em i ng volaisammil. The ilea se patent was stasisan as Lona Is net s = endives emmameffed W Woad liteftes. th o eddle.. Aped 01.14/41f 1118. Section for wises Wee WM rig t• eiateWdesae A party of the sug Reghasai wee draws te hes en ann. arid] myself saw It resat ma inf. It enftedefikeipsesit sad hie, with two seritessis. UMW to emmosi sf Hag, Eder and Lieutenant Henn he day was be be a eel guard to the voter' who weft On _ben Simla*** p , thas.place at Biamile- brit re. l did wet the party omit I hoard in the Amon of Mat what hennaed at Sininbeidge. I pegtaied there with more troops. Oe the Shed of flay I saw roc wean He on neonates the joy nee I rarteeL I ranged a rtiuuntemi his the earanw tallier ft the sifting* at the iirtest eine sweep lath esanseedi the mil. 110 f attended asesedingly, en I wee with then. There was an e ncampment at the pis ft thew. I obeyed the orders of the general to moist the ossease in every way I could. I did net in any way stiffiejleaffinre en prevent the truth from ht , alt disclosed. Col. ftentsa was present at the *seat. I think the inquest closed as the IRA of Awn. Two weeks had elapsed betore any I/MOM IMO celled as the part of the military. TM 31st Reginnns has sever been etigmatised for cowardice. It is NM erne that they win ever deprived of thexi i tr. They aft as high a repo. as taboo any . other in the sentes. Ihe ftqauatiou of areghafeen, reasinag protection to the voters, was handed Ise as endesse. Cross-examination of the witness by Mr. Fitzgibbon, It C.—l remember that 'ousel wen sting at the inquest aesinot the military—Mr. Coffey eipiont Am" and Mr. Graydon was for the military. Lewdest Mr. Ogee salt ine cur the names of the soldiers who int I cannily 4.41 rroienatier turning about to Mann with Mr. Oraydon Spin Pus doing se. Mn. Oraidas allglit have spoken to us. I ri coiled, la the cowls ei the *asst. Mr. Orsydon re fining to give the Dania et the and at the saws time affirming that Ire did net knew them. At the time Mr Coffey asked fur the name I did sot know them. If the .tiliutant-General had waft me to And them out, kW te.ely think I could have den le. not know them now. crigibbon —Do yes believe their Won are known MalicitorAicaeral-1 avast to that question. It is not evid, ace. las chit( Jostles sided that the question should not be pat. Crosuezaininatiew ilientinwaff-1 did ant We any steps to ascertain the names of fka seldlea who and, foe 1 would have been cu lp a bl e i n d e b. se wiliest enders Irons the genteel. I had we awl= ups tin 'abject at all. I dare vs, I might have said at the iscpwat Ant. res far as I was e incensed, I could give no informsdaw." Mr. hi:gibbon—Did you *bet molar consult the' a djuttat•general on the su bject? Wi . nese—N o ; ceitsinly not. thew Mr. Coffey piteared tlic name., I said I was la the kiwis of nay estuseeL I ' did not connaanieste 4 tkeaffjelasaverni MAIM ernes rccolired by the 01411114 Ml6* alle. I dwell' It haw , ' dose it asks* my email we le de me. I td net erwege Set dm ono obsold Est be styes. Cs* win names were pees by Mr. Clowila, the meglewate, bet not he admitt e d b e did give Mem etwrettly. Col. Norge elmsMa ozonised by Kr. Manley, Q.C.---I am liestessaboollemol 'piths 3lst regiment. 1 hare tiled that peados he shoat sin years sad a half. I recollect the in quest la questioa. I attended it from the fret day to the lass. £ll the moo who composed the escort attended it, eltlmo , who was sick. Dario' the progre of thatr muss qotry I did sot attempt to keep back the truth or to ttsetnte the ends of justice. I was in the army with the Slit Regiment on the beaks of the fintledj. Mr. Martley—Were they properly stigmatised as a cowardly regiment ? Witness—Well, upon my word I cannot say that that wu one of their attrihstee. Duriug the time I have knows them they have serer been deprived of their facings for cowardice, or for any other cause. Croweesamined by Mr. 74*Dencrogh, Q.C.—Colonel Douglas was my superior officer. I had not the mean. of learning which of the forty men And the shots. I Instil Mr. Coal_ mak for their names more than ogee. Mt. M.Donough—lf you had received orders from your commateling officer to ascertain the sums of the men who fired, could you not have elected that object? Thu question was objected to. The Chief Justice ruled that it could not be premed. Mr. M•Dolesugh called on his lordship to tabs a note that be pressed the question, and the Chief Justice sail be would dose. Craw gemination eontinued—To the beet of my know ledge and belief 1 did not make inlay Inquiry to aseerain the nam.a of the IBM who tired. I beard that ten eisots bad Istro fired. The names of the men who tired were de manded by counsel on one aide, awl refused by counsel on the other. _ Solicitor-General—A very modest demand, I court ton fees, my lord. Crow-examination continued—l rvtained Mr. Graydon to act for the military. Colent i Douai.. and I were both pre sent when the dvinan 1 for the names was made. I think it probable that Mr. Graydon spoke to Colonel Douglas on the multit et, but I cannot sweat that he did. To the Court—lt was certainly not in consequer.ce of any direction from me that Mr. Graydon refused to give them. I did not 6.4 that if I was advised ►y my counsel I would furnish th. m, nor did I hear Col. Douglas say so. In point of fact, I could not have furnished the names unless from the statement of the soldiers themselves. Mr. 11•Doeough—Did yi , u hear the ma state anything ab.ut which of them tired ? Witness—l am sure I heard tonne of them allow that they fired, but I could not my how many. Mr. M'lMaoti‘h—Did that reach your knowledge before the inquest terminated ? Witness—Certainly, what I heard was before it tents: aided. Ite cremated by Mr. Manley, Q C.—l was examined at the inquest. I did not refuse to answer any question that was put to me. I remember Mr. Cronin tatting out the names of ten sol tiers, and, according u he did so, I ea.led forward the men nun. d. Mr. hl•Donough—Did you understand that they were the names of the men who fired ? Witness—No, that would have been entirely hearsay. B. nj.min Hayes s 'mined by Mr. Hayes, Q.C.—I was a sub-constable of police in July last. I was stationed pee -1 manently at the pulfis barrsek at Six-mile Bridge. It lases the main street. I saw troop, coming into the town that day. I saw part of what took place. I was examined on the ninth day of the inquest. Constable Richard White examined by Mr. Oraydon—l was stationed at the door of the Courthouse, at the end of the bane. in Six-mile Bridge, on the 22nd of July. I re member the arrival of the military. 1 saw people going into the lane before they appeared. I was examined at the inquest, and stated all I knew. Lieutenant henry Hutton examined by the Attorney- General—On the 22r.d of July last, Captain Eager and I aecompecied the party which escorted the voters to Sismik-bridge. Captain Eager walked with the front of the detachment as it interest the town, and I brought up the party villa formed the rear. Tim sergeants were at each flank. I saw • great number of persons on the right. hand side of the street as we marched in. I was examined at the inquest and gave every information in my power. I have been • little more than nine years in the regiment. At the time I entered it the facings were buff, and they were the same the regiment always had and has still. was five tines in battle with the regiment, and curled the colours on two of those occasions. I heard of the regiment being stigmatised for cowardice. Captain Eager examined by the Solicitor-General—l led the escort when it entered the town of Simile-bridge. I marched at thu head of the party until just before the firing took place. I did not know who bud the shots. I ' was examined at the inquest, and stated all! knew. Mr. Cronin, the magistrate, made application to se about the names of those who fired, and I gave him every mistimes in my power. lam22or 23 years in the regiment. The facings of the regiment have been always buff and it has been in action in various parts of the world. The Solicitor. General—And has been particularly &stilt rtniahed (or cowardice ? Witness—No, sir. Mr. FluiciMmia, Q.C.—Now, is that the form in which a public preload*, should put the ques'ion ? Solicitor-Omnessl—That's the way I'll put it. to Ur. Filitibiseo—Oh, I have too much experience of you expect dull. Crowe elthe whops by Mr. Fitsilbooa, Q.C. —I think the int dot was hied tres the rear, en my right hand aide. I was under the inmates that not more than Ave Of six shots wen died, Ms i.e abets might have been Bred at the same ammotole ag to }adage MS Nu wpwt The whole oempied • very shoot time. I deal it ilia even half a minute. The shots emu hem the part KM, column near me. I don't kwim who Sind. I gave neortim to fire. I was Oder the eine si Ur. Deism. I did not hear him give soy ordain to are. Thom was a muted pee+. betwma the Int Met end the messediog ems. I imbed to the frost to ass whet woe lopposing, and the moment i got to the hest • mew ategpeed and fell as if do. I er&rml the NM 111 some Wog. sad I Wiwi that seder was instantly timed. I onset say whether any Met was fired afterwards ft set, hot I repeated the order not to Are. I braid that Mess dells wort AM. I alert vase sae deed UM. I Mod at em she et the anatiling meg, whits Mr. Creeda asmMi the willists. To the eilellerememl—M. Omit mid It was hi (flay ' as a segitstas Is eadeawasefi asssleda whip dr* and I hid Mot the only way or fieffig It sat thst I scald disk of less Ow Ns is pat his Isar Ma the mai cif scab man's gas sad had she what/writ wag steed se net. I west with Nag serif to the sad of the party where Urn. Hutton wee, awl lima him how to examine the muskets. He dm grid semi; gad wads. W see whisk appeared Se be =hosed bin that It mu set, sad assillsaed ea test whisk was wridisa Is that browse, viz.. that the tapaet glassy gut ellialthati boss And would be teraldhol. esissepaistly he MI on. he had 011 paper the same id Gass wb• he ssallared wan the sea who Ind, Mike twmthesppwslK *dr pas. I asked Ms Es a dills Ihit. sad be gas Is la se. Came; As he was gas of the escort to wee edsh the party in the lane. He was with one ton loadisi teafo.. He wee examined at the Timesserel mimed to sib tf he had maim! any Works Is the Mae. The dedmihnies ssaasi doodad a tics question, and it woe set /NOW. Mr. J. sspy Octagonal on allesisi of the corsage s in- TA,ch ha hal moped the Ia the s of the Clerk ths Owe& -7- fis• - iesWsWiii;;;F:tiiiiilon. The Chief Isaias istamoted that be would sot pawed say farther with the trill that evaiag, as be wee obliged to &toad is soothes pleat. The farther Douai of the sass was this postpaid to 1 this amiss at half-pat ten. n• YwT lemithes as follows soother of the ap• Estramade by the eelog _hi& government : ts uodentsed Mod 1600 Mew Ed, hu ddled-law amil barn to tbe bee aid llie by Ids boned 'trestles en tithe end sest ebergou hes bees appointed by Ms SzesVatisy the La r d Lieu tenant to the vieogemideobblip of the Galway Co ll ege, named by the vodpotim of Dr. O'Toole." The peens misdeed in Winsome gaol charged with be eenmeheilin the murder of Mr. Manifold, have ban dhobingel an entering into reoognisanewe to sprier visa es. Oilieumment bee Mired a reward of 604 her the omen el the panint the evening of the Oth Wet., between six anwin Abet, as Gerald Villiers Butler, ER., Mr. Fiona Mtn% sad James Tooter, were materring q at the beck entrance of Colonel Weetenee's dar mice ken the opposite side of the road, snapped a pa at them, which burned priming. Government has alai offered a reward of BW. for the disoovery of the party, consisting of eight men, armed with pistols, bayonets, and bludgeons, who a few nigh . . since, about the hour of nine o'clock, attacked the house of • farmer named Michael Far. relly, residing at Whitewell, in Westmeath, whom, together with his brother, they severely assaulted, and at the same time inflicted three bayonet wounds on his servant, William Merchant. It appears that Farrelly discharged a gun at hie assailants, and he is supposed to have wounded some of them, as tame of blood were found about his dwelling. The Belfast Mercury has the following account of an ineenthm7 outrage in that part of the county of Down called the Ards: On Saturday night, the 18th December, at the hole of seven o'clock in the evening, a week of hay, the property of Mr. Robert Brown, aim Kakeubbin, wee malleiessiy set fire to. Moe sobs the matter the more numenntable la the allallainell drellown nu the tenser tenant, who wu oPmehall fro orupepooat of rent, being nearly foe: pan in urea, the awne OM. nearly three year.' rent, for the place, arils Ms into pesieesion with hie entire approval. But some WAeq parties who wished to get Into peenfolon without payiag:ei to it me &swami In their en potations, - sof teed of rides the plate werthhea to the hennaed lee fy their odhineet disparities. It ie pert of the poverty of David 2_i of tioaloseforg : one of the kindled rod most esesidarate kir Herds the north of Ireland; to opooodo of Iher yaws ope Spew 26 per cent. off his way., ad IMO the >tret to War his mom to the aloud deeemennees et the Moo, est this Is hi. reward. He lee me soestied as tottring rent eel of it for wren years, net leo Welt _erCootfft /Wroth of no fo il Improving the place into *Wet Avsesto only lately ea- , tared Into ponsui m. This is a state of gltt a that osaht not to exist, and the fault must lia with the public autho rities, who thus fail in affording premeditate Ufa sad pro perty. This person Ins got several tbreeessies lettere. sad is at present living under the threat of mem pm' my sm, and this may be looked upon as the fret leateeast. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1852. solemnity: "And sew ire mon ge quietly towards our rest ; and strut lad fret so more the few last minutes of life's Salina boar." • • • " No, Bracy —no. Be composed, I pray yea. She is right. Young people, forgive ens that I love the dead tea well, and the days when I was whet you are now. Drat the woman," continued he, half ashamed of his motion: " l l '. mak" us laugh , sa d makes us ere, just as she used." What does he say, young woman?" said the old lady, dilly, to Mrs. Clive. " lie says you make us laugh, and make wa cry, madam ; sod se you do me, I'm sure.' " And that's Woffington's notion of an actress ! Better it, Cibber and Ilmerg,rdle, if you can," said the other, rising up like lightning. She thin threw Colley Cibber a note, and walked coolly and rapidly out of the room, without looking once behind her. The rest stood transfixed. looking at one another, and at the empty chair. Then Cibbcr Ginned and read the rote aloud. It was from Mrs. Bracegirdle " Playing at tric•trae ; so can't p!ay the fool in your green room to night —ls." On this a musical ringing laugh was heard from outside the door. where the pseudo Bracegirdle was washing the grey from her hair, and the wrinkles from her face—ah ! I wish I could do it se easily !—and the little bit of sticking plaster from h•r front tooth. Wby, it is the Irish jade :" roared Cibbcr. "Divil a less :" rang kick a rich brogue ; " and it's not the font time we pat the cometber upon ye, England, my jewel:" Her virtues arc made to shino forth in the fine scene towards the cud of the book, in which she restores Vane to his forgiving wife, and she dies in the odour of sanctity—" the Bible in her hand, the cross in her heart; quiet—amidst grass, and flowers, and charitable detds." A Holiday Bock or Christmas and the New Year. Ingram and Cooks. A giant amongst the Christmas Books. It looks down upm its competitors, as it stands in the midst of them, like a good-natured Colossus of Rhodes, brought ilia* the company of the stock of an Italian image boy, or Morgante Maggiore amid a crowd of puny courtiers at the palace of the Emperor, or the champion of England amongst a multitude of would be pugilists in the Eton playing grounds. ' In sim the book is a largo folio. The covers are richly embellished with gold and crimson, and all kinds of rich blazonry, through which the green holly with its scarlet berries meanders gram fully, suggesting thoughts of the season. The con tents are Legends, Tales, Poetry, Music, Sketches of Christmas Manners and Customs, Games and Sports, &c. These are divided into six sections. The first has special reference to Christmas, containing de scriptive sketches of the celebration of what we have called our great national festival, consisting of Essays, Poems, Carols, ite. The second embraces songs and music redolent of the kindly, genial, and happy spirit of the season. Tho third is devoted to the celebration of the New Year, Twelfth Night, &c. In the fourth, we have illustrations of Winter Sports, Sledging, Skating, &c., with descriptions and pictorial sketches of winter scenery. In the fifth are admi rable copies from the old masters of the best pictures which are illustrative of the events of the festival ; for instance, the Birth of the Saviour, the Adoration of the Magi, the Holy Family, and other subjects appropriate to the season, with descriptive articles. The sixth part includes a number of Christmas tales, and &series of sketches illustrative of winter in the Arctic Regions. The staple of the book consists of pictorial and literary sketches which have already appeared in the Illustrated London News. None but artiste, how ever, could anticipate tho extraordinary increase of effect given to the woodcuts by printing them with greater care and using finer paper than when the impressions are to appear in the column. of a newspaper. The engravings now for the first time appear in their true character, as works of high art. The woodcut of Rubeos' Adoration of the Magi is equal to many copper-plate engavings of the picture that we have ever seen. The " Child's Prayer," by Itedgrave, is equally admirable. But you may turn over the pages of the work for an hour and still find something to admire. The li portion of the work is not behind th e pictorial. O terary xenford translates quaint German Fairy mythology. Douglas Jerrold gives us an ad mirable tale, "The Sick Giant and the Doctor Dwarf," beautifully illuatmted by Harvey. Carleton 'luxuriates in an Irish tale. Westland Marston does not disdain to furnish a story for Christmas. Mackay, kloacrieff, Miller, Sharpe, and Horne give us some good stirring suggestive verses. ROMANTIC INCIDENTII.—A short time ulnae a Mrs. Hughes, alter having placed two interesting girls in a school at St. John's Wood, deserted them, end absconded from her ova residence, and thereon the proprietress of the school planed them in the Maryiebotte workhouse, the authorities of which with much diMculty disco vere d the mother, who, upon being arrested, took the children out of the workliosie. The affair, through publicity given to it by the press, excited deep Interest, and many parties generously offered to centnbsto lownftb the support of ! the ehildnu. Anseagst the bewswellast son on their behalf, the latest and most were the fallowing :—A lady residing to the , ressm ing 12,0001. a ear, and having no shalom her sera, Profane n isi, giel. end with • that new mum up le and suns an to mem Me seam M a aielleia pis& w take the supemeass - AK with her. Dot the altars dig net bop _ the appdatmest, sad Mt lady dement from Luba Olest ealtkolei her on s at inge The sent oiler was hem • esstimean rota* la la, whe. WARR sk ems and se thoppar, was maims to rear ems Mlle &Urea as a momenisn to his &lidos, and OM mime Ms Welker to load*. to = as ,Mgt and mad 61411 to * Sestimid. The rm esesrtaimed Mr& KNOW rename, gam lor thi r e quired sues to mad ler MOS to EdJahmelt. The pws ehial antissidessellmiabass, wbe we .0111 edam Or the he. et the ahlbleaslaw am as yet assist whether 7 ir izZaa how NM IMAM as her plummet adopted Or tier; as the ,ether hes ha Mr Ids realisem, Mr. i lbsmaier OA* workless& los wrists. ta Ma pia Ow adjail. 1131111131010 COMlTaY.—Hattoa, in his Ilifory of PiroksgArass, gives a &Moroni oriels te this espeesnott, whisk he eye muse as &news :—The day alter Chariot I. Mb Ilturitagbaim es his march best I blewebury, in 160, she pea eery party mined hie eaniegas metals ing dr Mal PIM* aad teralture, "Milt they essoeyed for esenally le Marwick God& lloy appoiseasd ill mosessisse _and sumeeted perms, and trimsently Masked . end mimed email parties et the royalists, whoa they sent pima= to Ormairy. limes the tremolos reqpiWng a rettneOry pees. , " Send him to Coventry . ' —From Nan and Cestories. BANIIIIIDOS, NINNY, AND BILLFAST JUNCTION.— Rummy, Tonasur Memstio.—A large sad influential sleeting_ was hold this matting in the assembly roes, New ry kr Me yarn el nothing a &plonks trots Ben- bilt ra lled MT* tbe advantars which mast menu te Ben the end Wade et Newry by_ the moping out el tie above propos. Joseph Lupton, Em., having bons .ailed to Me chair, introduced the depatatlea to the ..et Memo IVOUsad..,la a la ce: win s te Pith.4 the N Mn the' *e l = la its amines by M. , the eseesnounest he haling* =ltby taking shares to the ,meet et 5,000 U, the the mill-owners along the prorated line telt in the rei llin g4 glidi e i b tr=. H. thes ew sad ali ciwer i : the linti thtesloille _ weMi. mime to Newer yam the van almost ansimosed belle whkit it would lisMi to it, sod whisk new Fmk man awe% sad eandniled bySI& lag Me pepleatlforry to moon the people se ilhabnise In Unenvied, and the/ mau reci l - procate the Edward Hill Trevor Sep., than briefly adama n t meet ing. Mudd the ask: wan net me eta emodathe sr visleamy ebeessear. was net • smug these with whom it erigineted i sad the Ike woad run for three quarters of a mile thienn lull, be „was to amides that, and NM amps them • lies t 7 is. It em A this he knew was • baling Set Mimed Ithsess7 loth' then Wass Inailetleag the Ilse, he sal ethers Nang the nemeses nouns, that the railway wodd be to &a bridge, Newry, nod their localities. Mr. Froisetak W. Hayes also adducted the meeting, expessaiss. es r if of i the ataasfactaritas interest, their datiss m re the Ile their best meopert. Several other illaillalll 11111WISMA themeslos in tamer of it, and alter • Mkt diesuoies • resolatisa was paned to the following ellima :—" That having heard the else -- nts of the &panties then Ban- , bridge, it theat this meeting that the Use of 1 Ne• er i n n s made by the leabeidge, pahlia, Newry,ise Railway Comas, will serve the istenedeserving the support of the war- 1 Ames end ishablteats of the town of Newry. A large sashay of shires wore tram, and the meeting Molly alter separated. - RAILWAY AOCIDNITS ON THE ENZWAIIII VALLEY LIMI.—Two sccidentn eminered near the Kirkby crossing on this line, last lieglay, ose of which it M hared wi ll taming. fatally. The Int averred ta the sal train vitae braes DiandieM at 6 a.m. It appears that the gate keepav baring overslept himself, the gate acre. the line 7•1111111111 A lint. sad the Incline from Kirkby Junction to Plameem Wig wry great, the driver was unable to stop tie trek, will emu through the gatel with tremendous violmeo, deshiwg I* to pieces, fortunately without doing heals= other accident, which le of a more itetl•we .1111womd about an hoar afterwards. The past meager train front Illasselleid was passing the same soot, and It is supposed (althengli to one witnessed the accident) struck down a la bouneg man In the employ of Mr. Hods. Wilson, farmer, of Kirkby. The poor fellow was found shortly afterwards frightfully lacerated, and but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. It is summed that be was crosere line, and being deaf be aeM nee hear eh lo trait etZei 'DREADFUL COAL-PIT EXPLOSION AT ELSECAR.-FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE. (Prom lb. Doneeder Gesette.) We exceedingly regret that it is again oar duty to place on record another of those dreadful calamities at tendant upoa the explosion of coal mices, and resulting in the lamentable loss of human existence. Thu melascholy calamity occurred about twenty minutes past one in the afternoon of Wednesday lest. The pit is known by the name of the Blum Low Colliery, and is the property of Earl Fitswilliam. The mine is on. hundred and liftyouven yards deep; and as it was pretty well known that about 140 men and boys were down in the pit, each pursuing his regular course of labour, the first intimation of the dreadful event occasioned the deepest anxiety amongst the relatives and friends of the unfortunate sufferers. The first inti• mation of the explosion was signified by a sharp buzzing sound, a fearful messenger of *hat was about to take plec:. Shortly afterwards came a loud reporta sound which throughout a mining district strikes upon the ear with those painful emotions:which are difficult to be correctly described. The scene immediately around the mouth of the pit was truly grievous and heart-rending to behold, especi 11y with regard to the female.. Wine and mothers, who had rushed to the spot, were wringing their hands and uttering the loudest lamentations of grief and the wailing. of despair ; and the dreadful uncertainty whether they were any longer wives or widows increased, if possible, the universal anguish ; while the younger children themselves shared in the arrow and were calling out for their fathers and brothers. These feelings were further deepened by the impossibility. for some time after, of correctly aseer taiuing the extent of the calamity, and the inevitable delay, invariably accompanying the occurrence of those fearful ezploeions, before a descent could be made either to afford &mistime° or to ascertain the re sult, although every exertion was used to meet the emergency in the most effectual manner possible. The prevailing roguish, the refusicet to be comforted, may be readily imagined, as well as the anxiety of the men in attendance to do whatever, under these appalling circumstance'', they possibly could. They displayed the utmost degree of activity, energy, and courage: and nothing seemed to be disregarded by the most experienced ban.:. in performing their painful duty to all parties, especially to those who had been at work in the pit itself. The follow ing persons, amidst hundreds of volunteers, descended the pit the first, end distinguished thenuelves for the highest promptitude, foresight, caution and resolution : Mr. Charles Haigh, Mr. Mark Utley, underground steward, John Cockle, William Ford, Joseph Hodgson, John Pa trick, Joseph Holland, William Cawthorne, George Caw thorn*, James Littlewood, Joseph Evans, John Butter worth, Joseph Mason, die., Ite. Mr. Cooper, of the New Perk-gate Colliery, went down immediately afterwards to ascertaia the extent of the disaster; while hundreds had assembled around the pit's mouth to render assistance. The first attempt to relieve the aufferers was to throw a volume of water down the shaft in order to assist the circulation of the air. and to force out the foul gases which had been generated in the nit. As soon as the men were descending, they found that the fan worked by steam power to promote circulation had been broken. But on more minute examination it was discovered that nothing beyond the strap had been removed from the pulley, by the violence of the shock. The explosion had broken down the 'toppings and deetroled come of the machinery, and else had blown a portl.ri of materials to the mouth of the pit, from which a quantity of steam continued to issue for some time. There are two divisions in the pit, which are kaown as the north and south aides; and while the men who ware working in the former part were almost to a single man more or lees injured, those in the latter escaped without any comparative injury, hut fat considerable pain from the sulphurous state of the air. But it must be borne in mind. that the distance between the men in the South Level and the North Level was between two and three hundred yards. Those who ',seeped were working between the tint broad•gate north and the second gate south. On searching around it was ascertained, by four o'clock, that several dead bodies had been got out, and that wand others were alive, but seriously injured. Later on in the evening, the whole of the suer were got out, dead or injured - . The former amounted to nine, and the latter to thirteen. The names of those who have been thus deprived of their existence are : Jonathan Walker, widower, aged 17, leR a family of seven children wholly unprovided for, a regular and steady workman, had been employed in the pit ever since his youth, and was highly respected. Thomas Hurst, aged 42, left • widow and four small children. William Dickenson, 32, left a widow and four children. George MaMader, left a widow and two children. John 2dallinder, 17, a ulative, unmarried. Henry Addy, 17, a young man, single, much respected. Benjamin Ilitcher, 28, left a widow and two young children. Joseph Stanton, 30, left a widow and three children. Joseph Jowitt, 14. lie was the last got out and died on Wednesday ni zht at nine o'clock. Those injured are—John Rigby, aged 20, very much burnt; Isaac Waller, married, but no children, and more injured than the rest by a chair of coals falling upon him • George Linley, 22, slightly injured; Janus Montego, 22, much injured, has turned deranged; John Benison, 43, a new corner, has several young children, much hurt, and not expected to recover; John Guest, slightly burnt, but much bruisid, a wife and six children; Charles Sellers, 14, much iojured ; Criah Burgin, 33, seriously injured, and not expected to live wife and two children ; Thomas Hutchin son, 30, severely burnt; Jemph Rawson, 35, severely in jured, not likely to survive ; Ralph Mares 35, slightly injured; and William Ilemsworth, slightly b urnt. As to the cause of the accident, we fear it will be attributed altogether to the negligence of some of the men. end not to any defects in any portion of the works themselves. Indeed, the greatest care has al ways beet used to prevent any amidests. whatever. At twelve o'clock, on Wednesday, the workmen had ceased i their labours for dinner. When NO et Me weekaen was bringing a cork, of coals down the breedwri, which is about nine feet wide, be opened a smelt deer whieh coat muuieates through the vein et seek es a similar broadway lin the opposite direction. H. premeds& with the eorfe and thoughtlessly left the door open, end joined the other men at dinner. The consequence was, that the door being left open, brake the current of pure air hem its usual course, and allowed the hydrogen gas to seeemulate is its stead. This state of things continued the Meek of the dinner time without any indication of spprase/Mns danger. About ten miasma pest one o'clock, the m ss berg is the act of re turning _hem dieter, perceived the deer ezz:l isi jadt: that it bed hoes !skips by accident er it, sad la a sheet time afterwards the MI air Mei and • tremeadeas explain wee the Imagritedie malt hose on the en* level Imre Mewls he ids OM broad - way be the sear by the hem of the Molt, sad thus may be ameremed kir the Weise, wlrdsheheS_lsseived. • @Ur• eteltagers we bensiktely sent to procure i moilleal re mesa, sad the knew* were on the spot ea Om see poseible : —Mr. Mamma, Mr. Allott, and Mr. BMA. ef Herbed ; and Mr. 1111 rum sea., and Mr. Stones, etWeatworth ; who were led dpble in administer the relief pewible. %amperes were also speedily sad the bodies were eestveyed to their respective amid the immetations of their warviviar relatives, be onnseorls inquisitis a. The injured were removed laarimart UMW is their respective homes. It k somewhat remarkable, that about half.pist eleven o'siesh, Mime the impieties, two of the colliers, Henry Farber ON Abe liehmedesa wee complaining to Iseepn is=, ono of the leadegiveled stewards, that they could undreseed, the ;Wong current of air which passed dicrrusli the pit, en mama of the 1111081111ite coldness ; so Mrs bee hem no wait of ventilation. Devy's safety lamps mem and thesegbout the whole of the works. Telognapide makes were forwarded to Lord Fitswilliass as soot as tho accident had occurred, as well as to Bar Janda Blzem, Bag., his lordship's agent and inspector of mines, who, along with Mr. Mark Utley, inspected the mime of the disaster yesterday. When we left the spot yesterday noon (Thursday) so farther deaths had taken plate ; but crowds of people were assembled from MO- Barnsley, and other plume, when the reports of the sad occurrence had been most grossly exaggerated. Truly lamentable as this unfortunate calamity un doubtedly is, it has sot been 'needed with that great loss of lite which might have bees expected, and which there was every reason to fear,—a circumstance which is mainly to be attributed to the v4ilance caution, and attention which it is the especial wish of E arl Pttswilliam should be constantly exercised in all the pits of which ha 4 the owner or in say way connected. DIUCT RAILWAY TO POSTSMOUTIL—A very hirge petals muting vas held at the Beneficial Society's-hall, PertMettb a on Wetlands, evening, for the purpose of easidliele stb the propriety of supporting the newly projected Ilse of way between Portsmouth and Guildford (33 maw is ), by which the distance between Portsmouth eel Larks will be reduced from 96 miles to 72. The Mayer (J. C. Stigant, Esq.) presided, and on the platform, were—J. B. Carter, Esq., M.P. for Winchester, G. Gill- man, Esq., J. F. Pratt, Esq., T. E. Owen, Esq., and 3. 8. Sayers, Esq.. justices of the pesos ; Captain Sir James Stirling, Wit, Francis Mowatt, Esq., Trottusholue, Pe tenileld, and many other gentlemen interested in P4rill• mouth and the district through which the proposed line is to run. In several able speeches which were made the necessity of the proposed line wu shown, both ma regarded the interests and accommodation of tbeinhabitanta of Punta- ' 1 mouth and the lale of Wight, and times of the rural district I now quite devoid of all railway aoosinsedelies. It was also proved how materially important tin line essuid be in a national point of view, inasmuch as it with leiss veryconsiderably the cost team country for the easeirgaste of troops to Portansouth for service in the gayeties there, or, for embarkation for foreign service ; whilst ia the of war the saving of about an hose is the treissimies of 1 troops, seamen, stores, Be., from Leeks ile ea imperetaat naval end military station, skid im of die gleam The meat to the very stability of th e British eft**. The' unions apeaken gave perfectly satisfactory espiesielose of the details of the project, and resolutions heartily approv ing of the line, and pledging the meeting to support it by every meat., in its power, were unanimously woo ; a very influential committee being appointed to carry these resolutions into effect, by mesas of petitions to p irliament in favour of the line, and in soy ether mode that might be practicable. The town council of the borough of Porte. month liars also appointed a committee to support the establishment of the line. WLITERN RAILWAY Or FlUNCE.—Tratre for the week ending Dee. 19, 1852 :—8 , dlol.p ; corresposellug week feet year, 2,5351. Miles open, 99. THE FATAL COLLISION AT HARROW. Yesterday we published an account of this lament able occurrence. The following In a fuller statement of the facts, which hare been carefully collected front vinous SOUK'S 'The Liverpool express, which was due in London at half put 10, was late when it arrived at Rugby, and had there attacked to it the Midland train, which ought to have come on to !tondos by the Birmingham express, but was too late. The train, whick was drawn by engine 289, an entir e ly new express train engine, and which has only been at work upon the line (or • month, manufactured by Messrs. Sharp, Stuart, and Co., of Manchester, consisted, on leaving Rugby, of 16 carriages and the three guards vans, the first being that of the Midland express attached to the engine ten der, and those of the Manchester and Liverpool guards, Long staff and liatteratey, stationed at the tail and other parts of the train. This train passed the Harrow station at its usual spied, upwards of 40 miles an hour, and on arriving within about three-quarters cf a mile from that station the tyro of the right-hand leading wheel of the engine flew off. The engine, after the tyre of the leading wheel was off, kept on tin line for nearly 400 yards until it came to a slight curve, which it would not go round, in consequence of the flange of the wheel being off. It here lett the line, ploughing up the road for some distance, and then ran across the line and turned over on its side, but not infer* the engine had embedded itself completely up to the smoke box in the left bank. In con sequence of the jerks of the engine and t, Lehr when it got off the line the coupling irons between ti,e tender and the guard's van were trokes, and as the en,tine and tender was crossing the line the guard's van, urged on with terrific velocity, in consequence of the impetus of the heavy train of carriages behind it, dashed intu the to nder and immedi ately turned over on to the right embankment, smacked to atoms. At this moment, unfortunately, the 11 o'clock down goods train, with 40 or .50 goods vans, was close upon the entrees train, and before the driver could receive any signal clashed into a first-class carriage, which hard been by the previous shock thrown across the dawn line. Another collision thus took place, and although the carriage in ques tion—a "composite" carriage, the centre being a ant-,lase compartment —was frightfully mashed, singular to relate two passengers who were in it escaped from the window without any injury. Three carriages were thrown off the line, and the second collision caused both lines to lie blocked completely. The body a the poor guard Ilartholumew was found amongst the fragments of the break vau crushed into an almost indutinguiahable man. George Grace, the driver of the ezpress engine, was found on his hack in the field on the left band side of the line, but owing to the soft nese of the soil from the heavy rains, he was uninjured. Ili, stoker jumped on to the line, and also fell on hie back, and had a narrow escape, as he states that the whole train Of carriages passed over him. The driver of the goods train it is believed jumped off, and it is stated that the only signal he had of the express being near wee one of the pas sengers whistling to Lim with his Heger*. Ile shut off his steam and reversed his lever, but he was too close to stop the impetus ou so heavy • goods train. A passenger by the train has furnished the following statentebt, which corrolbtating the foregoing, adds same details of interest. Ile says:—As the train had arrived nearly opposite Harrow, a sudden and violent concussion was experienced amongst the passengers, when the train came to stop. On getting out, the engine was perceived to be °tithe lion, and in a ditch at the left sii.c • Itcup of ruins as if a large wooden house had fallen, was in the front of the train, and in the way, at the right hand side, was • smashed and overturned passenger carriage. Just at the moment when this scene presented itself, the whistle of an , other train was hard, and it was seen approaching. Shouts were raised, the night was dark, the lights of the fallen engine hail been buried in the earth ; the other tra:n came forward, and ran into tie fallen carriage across the road. Some passengers foreseeing this collision, ran down the bank, jumped over a rail, and here, it being dark, got themselves into • pond, fortunately not a deep one. After a little time, every inquiry was made as to who had been hurt. Lacey bruises, it became • matter of congratulation that no serious injury had occurred; however, in about an hour, and searching amongst the ruins of the front carriage, the legs of a man w ere per ceived. They proved to be those of the unfortunate guard. Some wheels and heavy iron were upon him, and it was evident that life must have been instantly extinguished. The chief efforts were made to remove the mass above him. He was found to have been " smashed to pieces." The remains were put into a tarpaulin, and removed to the side. There was a single passenger in one of the s ma sh e d carriages; he, finding it giving way, had thrown himself instantly flat on the floor, and had thus escaped. On the way a jerking, jumping motion of the carriages was noticed, as if they were loosely held together, and the roads were rough. On a search the large tyre of one of the driving wheels was found. It appeared to have been frao tured, sad lung off, and to have been the immediate caulks of the engine running off the line. On examining the fracture it clearly appeared that the joint was a bad one, only a small part of the iron being bright as by a fracture, the rest being black. The accident took place at five minutes after 11 o'clock); other trains came up; it was said that an account of it bad been telegraphed from the nearest station, but it was only at three o'clock that au engine with carriage! came up from London, though the distance, by railway, is only eleven miles, its half as hour. Had it been needed, as in all pro bability it would have been to a considerable extent, there was no surgical assistance sent, or, at least, none was heard of. In the meanwhile., and in the prospect of wait ing until morning, the night being damp, • hon9re was bghted of the ruins of the carriages, and the female pas sengers placed near it to keep them warm. There seemed to be no competent direction of the efforts of the labourers to clear the road from the obstructions by which the other trains were detained. One or two of the passengers 00011. pied the circle and kept waiting round the burning ember of the wreck with declamations on the railway mismanage ment, illustrating it by t h e confusion before them and the delay experienced. The passengers only got to town at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OP 7001.—CAPTCEE OP ONK OF THE B1:110LAItS AND NZARLY 2001. ix Limns.— Between two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning week, five men, with shirts over their clothes, broke into the dwelling-honse of Mr. George Stephenson, fanner, near Ponteland, a Tanga about seven miles north-west frogs Newcastle, on the road to Scotland, by Otterburn. Mr. Stephenson is an elderly man, unmarried, and the only persona residing with him were his housekeeper and an other female servant, who slept together. The men having made their way to the bedroom of Mr. Stephenson, de manded his keys, and threatened him with violence If he should make any residence. Two of the men then pro ceeded to ransack the house. while the other three kept the inmates from making any alarm. In a chest of drawee the robbers found between 0061. and 7001, consisting of Newcastle Branch Bank Of England, one Scotch, and other nines, about 40 sovereigns, and three old guineas, with which they decamp e d, toge ther with a silver w atch and singie-barrelled gun. Mr. Stephenson followed the men after they left the house, but anon loot sight of them on the road leading towards Neer castle. About seven o'clock on Friday evening last, Sub- Inspector Senior, of the Leeds police, received mformallen that a man, evidently a stranger to ased', was at the Lamb Inn, Timblebridge, and wee employing persons to obtain change ford!. Bank of England notes, of which be hid about 40 in his poasewion, together with a brace of loaded pistols and a dagger. Stator called to his aid policemen Hales and Buckle, and proceeded to the Lamb Inn, whets they found the man indicated in an upstairs room, with - a number of soldier. Senior's entrance attracted the atten tion of the men, and he at once thrust his hands into his pocket. Guessing his intentions, the *Seen rushed upon bim, and a desperate struggle ensued, the man being in the end secured. He gave his name John Gray, and is a middle-aged, powerful man, dressed like an operati ve or better sort of agricultural labourer. He was searebed, end in his pockets were found a pair of pistols, heavily loaded with powder and shot, and capped. In another pocket wee found a dagger and stiletto. Having been disarmed, a quan tity of gold was taken from him, and the landlady handed to the officers thirty-three dl. nom which Gray had placed in her care. These motes were al most exclusively Bank of Ragland, Newcastle breach, but one was a Scotch note. Gray was taken to the police-officw and brought before the sitting magistrates on Saturday, where be was defended by Mr. Ferns, who stated that the prisoner's explanation was, that he had received the none as a legaey from a brother in America, aid was going to Australia, for which purpose be had provided the pistols. The prisoner, who Wall proved to ha., obtained change for tares dl. notes, by sending out for trifling articles, was remanded till Monday. On that day an office, from Newcastle attended, and dinned to take the prisoner to that town, but se he could not speak to the identity of the notes lost by Mr. Stephenson, and those found on the prisoner, the request wee refused, and the prisoner again remanded. On Teesday, Mr. Stephenson and another Newcastle o ffi cer arrived in Lento, and though Mr. Stephenson could not identify the prisoner, yet he gave such evidence with regard to the notes that the prisoner was given up, and convey, d to Newcastle the same night. Mr. Stephenson. who had offered a reward of 30z. for the apprehension of the burglars, stated that one of his ser vants would be able to swear to the prisoner as one of the burglars. A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.—Two young men went out to Australia in the Peninsular Company's steamer Chusan last May—one a clerk in the South Western Steam Packet Company, and the other a letter• s t aurmr named Whetchar in the Southampton Post.ofiiee. The latter was a carpenter by trade. His Post-office salary was tie a week, for which he worked nearly tlr whole of the night. Both these young men settled in Melbourne. A letter was received in Southampton yesterday from the steam packet clerk, stating that Whetcher had constant work in Melbourne as a carpi ater at four guinea* a week, and that he paid 30s. a week for his board and lodging. The packet clerk wrote word that he was just going to the gold digginga. Si:UIIa:KEEN, DEC. lit —On lag night, about six o'clock, a large vessel from Nova Scotia, bound to Hull with a cargo of timber and deals, was driven on a rock neer Ceatlebeven, abut six miles from Skibbereen, and imme diately became a total - were saved, with the Thomas Bradshaw, • Esq., Lloyd's agent, all the assistance in ' lub Its Darras, Thomas from Port Wallis, Nova' Co., Berwielvon-Twestil. the . captain and crew 'tun there. lam i the scut for miles otal %reek. ller crew, 21 in number, he exception of the carpenter, named who was drowned. James . Swanton at, was quickly on .a • Aserixi tki, a his power. T "e" homes Barclay, , 111. 4 ° 7 Nova fLotia ; o C'c (.10 117 v4r Tweed. Mr. Sw • " rew to his own ho . they MIN 1 11 1•. a just after retur • • .• tisiwreis ensa. I around is cove tamilakr,—.Apaosak. r . r Kt , fi LITERATURE. PO9 W0.P11004. By CIRRI.= Rana. Bentley. The celebrated Peg Waington, fair and frail, witty and wicked, one of the traditional celebrities of the stage, is just now being made to contribute handsomely to the amusement of the public in a double capacity. AN the leading character in " Masks and Facet" she draws nightly crowds to the Hay market, while in the brilliant novel before us, she appears in propria persona., and will, wo have no doubt, create an equal run at the circulating libraries. It is a book that ought to be popular for several rea sons, first, it bas a good purpose, the r-scue of a repute- Lion secondly, it is clever; and thirdly, the author has had the courage to concentrate his good thinp into one volume, instead of spreading them in a dilute form over the orthodox three, which inflict so many weary penances on critics and novel readers. We subjoin one or two extracts. Here is Peg's portrait : A! his very elbsw wee a lady, whom his beast recognised, though her back was turned to him. She was dressed in • nrh silk gown, pearl white, w,th flowers and sprigs em broidered; her beautiful white neck and arms were bare. She was sweeping up the room with the epil.,srue in her hand, learning it off by heart; at the other end of the room she turned, and now she shone full upon him. It eertainly was • dealing creature : she had a head of beautiful form, perched like • bird upon a throat massive yet shandy and smooth as a column of alabaster, • symme trical brow, black eyes full of tire and tenilerneu, • deli• C:Ot11 mouth, with • hundred varying expressions, and that marvellous faculty of going beauty alike to love, or scorn, a sneer or • smile. But she had one feature more remark able titan all, her eyebrows—the actors feature—they were jet Ilick, strongly marked, and in repose were arched like a rainbow ; but it was their extraordinary flexibility made other faces upon the stage look sleepy beside Margaret wordneton's. Is person she was considerably above the middle height, and so finely formed that one could not determine the exact character of her figure. At one time it seemed all stateliness, at another time, elegance personi fled, and Ewing voluptuousness at another. Bhe was Juno, Psyche, Bebe, by turns, and for aught we know at will. Colley Cibber is thus gently taken off Pope's toast ing iron: This Cibber was the only actor slue Shakespeare's time, who had both acted and written well. Pope's personal re sentment =Wends the reader of English poetry as to CPoieee real place among the wits of the day. The mans talent was dramatic, not didactic, or epic, or pastoral. Pope was not so deep in the drama as in other matter,, and Cibber was one of its lumiaariis; he wrote some o f the best comedies of hie day. He also succeeded where Dryden, for lack of tree dramatic taste, failed. He I tampered successfully wi h Shakesrare. Colley Cibber's version of " Richard the Third" is impudent and slightly larcenic, but it is marvellously effective. It has stood a century, and probably will stand fir ever; and the meet admired passages, in what literary humbugs who pretend that know Shakespeare by the closet, not the stage, accept ea Shakespeare's " Richard," are Ciblier's. Mr. Ciober was now in private life, a mild editinn of his own Lord Foppington ; he had none of the snolifop as re- presented on our conventional stage ; nobody ever bad, and ' lived. Re was in tolerably good tate ; bat he went ever gold.laced, highly powdered, scented, and diamnoded, die pealing graceful bows, praires of whoever had the good luck to be dead, and satire of all who were here to enjoy it. Colley's account of the rivalry of Mesdames Old field and Bracegirdle looks nearer romance than real—at least, it to very unlike the reality in modern I I green rooms. Shrimp* have tho souls of shrimps," resumed this censor castigaiorque oninorwm. "Listen to me, and learn that really great actors are great in soul, and do not blubber like a great school girl beam , . Anne Bellamy has two yellow silk dresses from Paris, as 1 taw WoMngton blubber an this room, and would not he comforted; nor (unto Lk* Kitty Clive, because Woffingt n has a pair of breeches and &little boy's rapier to go a playing at acting with. When I was young, two gime:ease' fought for empire upon this very stage, where now dwarfs crack and bounce like parched pees. They played Rotuma and Statics in It. ' Rival Queens.' Rival queens of art themselves, they put out their strength. In :he middle of the last act the town gave judgment in Linty of Statira What did Rosana ? Did she spill grouse on /Retiree rote as Peg WoMniton would ? or stab her, as I believe Kitty here capable of doing? No! Statire was killed as that night : she owned this to me. Roues hole the theatre farewell that night, and wrote to Stalks thus— ! give you word for word : Madam, the beet judge we have has decided la year beer. I shall rover play seeped on a stage where I have Mee Amt se long, but I shall often be a spectator, mad maseldeks .ewe will appreciate your talent more Ma I, 'erlee have felt its weight. My ward robe, see of the bas la Metope, is of no use to see ; If you will homer me by seMelles a few of my dresses you will gratify me, esti tirmy I see myself upon the stage to greater Measles, thew " "And whet Ili &UM mower, err?" acid Mr. Vane, ragsdre " Oho sineeleed thus: Mahn, the town has often been wrong, set my have been se lest night, in supposing that I viol ememetiolly with your melt • but thus moth is cer aln—emd Me, maim, I ma the 'beet judge—that off the stage yea have jest sioqueesl ses. I shall wear with pride my Item yew have hemmed, and shall feel inspired to by year weesese some our spectators, un- Slidsmi. Os mite of year sesgeesimity and the reed et me least *mid =ne by the dread of isedwas pales efisur owl Wit • wok ennead thins," said Mrs. Clive. Pep Waage= hoaxes Libber and the whole rroes by personating Ronan& in the following e e l l ; nom : " This way, madam." A clear aul somewhat shrill voice replied ; " I know the way better thee yes, child," and a stately old lady ap peared°. the threshold. Bawislifdle , " said Mr. Cibber. It asp well be supposed that every eye was tuned on his new eases*—that Ileums for wham Mr. Cibber's bed pawed a peculiar interest She was dressed in a glees eldest gees_ with gold fringe. Cibber ream it ; she W &wet thu " Masters Omen" is it. Hamm forgive all .massed I It was fearfully plaited I. at the waist sad ribs, was to give the idea of wood imedis, see Her hair sad eyebrows were iron-grey, sad ehe lot lost a fame Mee, fir sis wadi dill have been saimently les& same.. Ills MB Isl end slsaight as a art, end her Nide pert Mimed ea fettles asse of age, only keen be be sees het her heads even a little week. Ind the gold-Mead mash musk the gessad rather sharply, as if it did a Mita leek was the lady who marched into the middle of bbd nem, with a " How do, Cady ?" and looking over the naps ' s heeds as if she did act see thew, regarded the bar IN/le wide nose interest. Lae a eat, she seasesd to think use ef&se than of folk. The pegs obrujoesly eared hen • Maid Ole. lesai siet t li Vr. Ohba , will you try and pre, mil se Km le &Me es with a recitation ?" Chan hashed a a small actor. Brim. girdle the . sime; set Ibe anodes that had VWeb In their day, iseleineed out of the et ' two et revs • wide& I gracioualy =the seam of this Ode. Their was east dad ; bee Mom Mt NM dia way !i . e.* speak in•streets, pious, lielk suede, and rams. • nil is dew." tided Cibber; " let as show the mug people how hides sad gentlemen saved Any rare ago, deareess." A fiddler was aught, a beautiful slow minuet played, sad a bit of " solemn &Mai" dose. Certainly, it was not gay, bet .it mist be inmedit was beautiful ; it was the dame of kit., tie poetry of the owed, salmi. The t.Wsi same!, however, bad Milder mdse. left itt her : y This Is dew, slid she, sal bade he Whit p&a " Thp wiallbse shakes the bedey," as sashed Pg nine • this she de and te in a *style that utterly selsualed th; spsea nes She aseredilhea whet ha was ; her feet ell her stick were sr mem le the met ask out went Me keel be llied, end absesiag, drew ha lust yards horsed. Shit =Me unimmeelekle sleets, mai set them o 8 me is tura if the ist wet ;p rip hr it. Am of isespegabhable dos sr ssi saes. would have wade es oyster . Bud- aid pat her bawls to bee iii m ss, ay and soon ran she pee are awn& The k a vehement my of pods. ragb Ohs gas swim wry of suck spay, that they were all meet bee le a moot. " Oh ! bap as ladies," screamed the poor woman, in teem as felimi se they were heartrend ing and piteous. " Oh, my Mk ! my loins! I suffer, gentlemen," said the poor thing, Wetly. What was to be dose. Mr. Vane offered his penknife to eat her laces. "You shall est my head off sooner," mind she, with sudden energy. ")'t pity me," said she, sadi " I don't deserve it ;" then lifting bar errs, she eaelaimed, with a sad air of eelf•reproseh. "Oh, vanity! do you lisams a woman?" !" whispered the gego,.who was s good hearted girl ; "'twee your great somplatlanoe for sob sot vanity. Oh oh ! oh !" and saw Nips to blubber to oake matters better. " No, my children," said the sad lady, "'twee vanity. I wanted to show what aa 11111 %NM genii de • sad I hove ha • abyss'', trying le enithine = t er folk. I am justly humiliated, as you see," mad she to try a little. " This is very painful," said Cibber. Mrs. Bracelprdle now raised her eyes (they had set her In a chair), and looking sweetly, tenderly, and earnestly ea her old companion, she said to him, slowly, gently, bat ila• mainly " CtAly, at thus-score years and ten this was ill done of us! You and I are here now—for what? to cheer the young up the hill we mounted years ago. And, old Mewl, Jwe detract from them ws discourage them. A great sin In the old ''• 1;;y dog his day." We hare had ours." Here she waned, then 1• her , bead tenderly in the old sea's, .ha added, aids -salsa