The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-26 00:00:00

77, - THE QUEEN MARY RELICS AT HOLYROOD. Likr Roman catholic' relics, those of Mory Quoit of lizAs, at U.lltood, I. ma to increase and grow every year wits a Senility most marvellous Were Wa.ter 8:ott, maw pois , ed hie satire st the salmis sham of this stow, to see it sow, he would recesswies we b. liege, with difli!alty, may an edditima stsde to it. The went Este of the Mill is thus saissisily describedpspe its r famished to the eiratlisii &misty Astiquaries by Nallial7, BD. Wars : " It will be In the recollection of many members of the moiety, that, only two serious ago, the council took dean- Uwe of a favoured. opportunity to =tartish% her Majesty's Coesnewsioner. of Woody, &r., on tea dogratieful state of the royal vault in Holyrood Virg, where the reputed impair of Scottish Kines and Queens were ranged ere shelves, • ith iltspelled labels; and, in definite of every id , a of the astrodome which attaches eves to the rem tins of the nameless dead, ware converted into a vulgar show. Toe prominent attention which the re emovial of the Society received, in the Ismael.% Issue of orders to the officers of the Sontish Board of Works tor the decent disposal of these royal remains, and the proper claim' of the vault, showed that sorb idle displays receive no couatessoce from higher rottoritief. Some tempt-int, I bait.: there was from the individual whose " Hoe.'" wen thus ab et out of sight; it was, no doubt, thoueht a most mars .sonable iofticgtineut co the liberty of the subject, considering the decent showmanship which had been intro duoed in the Chapel Royal, roes the time, not long gone by. when the thigh-trues of D.mley—a ccoplete Countess ot Roxborgb, all but one hued, and shrivelled into • hideous black mummy—with sundry other fragments of r^ al and noble humanity—used to be Bong out on the press, for the special deletion of eachsocceu.so band of eighteens. Bat there is anooor nook of old Holyrood still inneeent of such veteran. It was my fortune, • very few weeks eines to coo• duet aa English gentleman, from Cambridge, through west are called 'Queen May's ApartmenUO in the fellow' and while 1 1l would have sm ile d in company oith any townsman at the trumpery display, I must own that I blushed wit!. sLams to stow an intelligent 'Tower—is a corner of the same palace where her Majesty had been lodged only a week or too bt.ore—a beggarly array of spurious and tawdry relit,. such as would be %continuo], gyred hem Madame Tuessuci's waz.work eabitition. When we go to Ragland, we 8 .d the magnificeat Palate of Wisdom thrown open, under certain reetrictioss, to the pohlie, even when occupied by ,he royal family; while, a' B .saptes to tem, a valuable coland lectioanot o oely aref works o the public f art have been foamed cad arroog, fee.• to enter without any charge, but curators and • cow pieta staff of officials are maintained by government, in order that the public may erojoy the utmost freedom of entrance, comprible with the aafsty of the collection. Why, then, it easy De justly asked, is so different a settees pursued in our thin to the only latotable Scottish palace? and bow is it that Holyrood should lave foe its sole curator • housekeeper and her underlings, who find an interest in converting it Into the present contemptible eibibittoo ? " I cannot better illustrate the Heys! Queen Mary Show stainer , id by government in the north wing of her Die jetty's Palace ot liolyrood, than by describing my rent ran. Oa entering the outer got*, we were forthwith pounced upon by one of those officials, scoots, or jaekslls, against whom the magiserstee have so reread, witted au ellet minatiog and successful warfare in their own dominions be' who still Wolfish in pristine entree within the %actuary of the old Abbey's Girth COMB. Ushered by our wet, we prebend) found ourselves in the Long Oellerv. when wo were shortly marshalled along with Bunchy other visitors, by coo of the female deputy showkeepers and compelled to listen to an elpoittinn of the beaut.es of De Witt's 106 Scottish me samba, painted at so much pee square toot. This, how ever, ie the mere vestibule. Aecending to the rat Sear, with tar running °passerine's of oar cisme* all ths while disaed tato one an, to the utter @Retries of any possible thoseht of the actual historical associatioos of the scene, we are marshalled through Made, MOSS where we are shown portraits of Lauderdale, NCB Oyu, Moll Davies, John Enos, Jane Shore, tic. doe.—the none. proving to be Imot mutable, aroordiog to the chance terbium of the peetico.ar show-woman; so that we hid the pleasure of bear"' a Queen Ant of our own erred get 4e presented to the next party, befogs we bad left the oom, as of Ports mouth; and a King James pees muster for the g rod Reoent Murray. " Bet the Presence Chamber, with Its oljacent closets, is Ho grand soma of the show. Here we were 'horn the first fire gra.* ever kaolin in ficerlani, otought hi'her, of Count, by %sees Mary, and mervelleuoy like varier others is &d -isc tag sputtering, whkh are, no doubr, the other first grates of the sistettica, though the r rodent Jenne% sale owning about tarn. Here, too, is the double chair, or throne, et re wily lase.) for the marriage of Queen Mary and burley; °omit' by • singular, and no dribt economical foresight, the royal uphoo wen have o relight on eke Q u o t a*. therm she cipher of bee grandson Charlie and of hi. Qoces 11 , einetta Pisria. Round this remarkable eintrepiete • pleasset 'oriel of rickety old furniture is reaped, see as one may tem •siosally see at • Mohr's 4 _e in U.. Colmar. Some of teem. also have the aatitips tory telpher, while the uninitiated would be apt to awoke ottoce to the frost of the Otorgeo He must be sward of bush as error, torrent Three are all moire and 'rhea. tie led Quern Many relic'. Prints in little slip , of black, some with broken gl.uea, more with no gloom at all, hut bogrimod and wormeaten, end ?von is totters, help to carry out the Id, aof • Cetera% beck- r's shop. On a side table in on. of the ',teeter recesses aro tein4ry hits of china sod dat er*, abeploceleres, rid the like, including • very nuking model of a prise pig 1-441 doubt/4es genuine Queen Mary relies. "From this we par into Queen Diary's bedchamber. re is shown, the Qiusn's bed; a basket, shaped like • store platter, bat which we were gravely assured wee King Jenee's baby bstket; a hoe, ertoth, of course was Queen Mary's workbox, though it is well known to have been intro duced within the memory of moth ermine p ee pl. than that ezetellesit authority, " The *idiot initehitant. is the south tuirst is given Mary's deeming-room; and among other of its .ises is the first mirror entendueed ioto S of:Oland—brought, of MOM, by the widowed Queen from Prase,. Tbe ratter we old be apt to hag it neitber Mort tee tele than the bock of in old s :nor, weeps of the Seemed Oeorge's reign. The vs ry holes are there in which it street to us the candlestick ha-t keen inserted, till our cicerone *slighter/4 us by its true (Olean Merl history. Tb n corn the Rini* spertment, of some twirl.' feet moue—the secret door, the trig) stair, and all the Ine inci t. which our guide uttered with the air of • tregedy Tient. Here we were shown the back a'.d breast.pi• ce of a mumps trooper of the seventh century, • Cromwell pot, toot • pair of jack.booes of Charles 11.'s reign, which are the undoubted armour of the grim Lord %Wrn. A react Ile .bland tarot', much the wise for damp and moths, roe 1.. doubt roomed Item some mouldy g a where it Lad lain no tee the ' 4i,' is the favourite shield of Lord Darnley. Bat it i needier. to go into further details. t• We saw Queeo'e Mary's private altar, • rort of modern /to j ff, tr Iteisetetool, ens earth she knelt when she was snarled to Beesley ; her primer alter piece, her portrait oh Lula, her own private witnieture, ht. • "Ono eroanine boo, however, was reserved as a finishing touch. Os 'uterine, we bad pew', untlookieg, toreugh a Oak I ebby or 'trance,' to which we were co et core tut is our egress; and here, in a solemn nice, we were hot pause, *bile the show.woortn opened the door, that by - its b orrowed light we might see the bl toely stains which not even the celebrated scouring-deep+ of Mr. errs at gry—' the infallible detergent chair, prepared sod sold by B eyes. Saubb and Rub'—have been able to awe. This bit of the K gal Queen Mary Show fairly spec my Cam be, Igo fileind's reedy, to the gri at scandal ot cer.aia rustic vi .tors, with whom we had heretofore herded, and who, op to this Past, had been drinkieg in the whole with open. m • steed woo ler. There was nothiag ter It but to pa , our ' net you please' fee, and escape as speedily as possible to a more vievesient localdy for tte tripe play of our somewlast one -excite l risible faculties. "This elude matter referred to hers, it is well known. is or novel tout plaint. Sir Walter Stott plied it loop ago with the rooted shafts of ridicule. Mr. Joseph Hume, M P., and other zealous Scottish members of partials. nt, have cunt pl .ined et least ot the feting tor admission to a national' prow; and stem our serous civic rulers succeeded, • tow yells ago, in getting the regalia thrown open to the pubise, They also lei. d, but an vain, to make the palace equally Oh ceriblet. So long however, sit remains only the r. peel two of Josh *lying wooden,' it is much better that the public be kept out. But sire, it is deemed compatiele with Its thirty as a royal raidence to admit visitors to impact I its rain, it may be maccably demanded that these be I tat tied of whatever is notoriously spinouts and contempti ble The actual bletorical atenciations of the anoint wing ' of Holyrood Palace, where Queen Mary's apartments are simatid, are of the most heart *tinier( description; ante it wee ewy to reneer the ace movies consistent with these. The whole array of trumpery prints and modern toll% must sae ottooly be made • bonfire ci as a preliminary step. Tie paintings must be weeded, and the really genuine Own tiomfied aid arreoged. To thew we might next *spirt to see .dad, Iron sums of the English palaces, some ot our lietittish bistorical s, which have etrayed there in %titer times. L Hespton Coon, for zaisi.le, is the re motions's tryptiek, behaved to have been origiaa lly placed in the Hopei Compel at Stirling winch contains the p roan of Jere" 111. of Synland, and ' his Queen, Margaret of Den. mark--erroneously described by Mrs. Jamie-on as Jam.* IV. and Margaret of England. This mart,* ly hes no St eam or proprbety at Hampton Court, to which it we, only remedy removed from Kensington Palace; but it would 8. d P lave eppirpriate pleat in tte ancient puerto( tits eLottiels Jamas's. It unlade' • portrait of the young Prince, &Car loads Jaw IV., sad is probably,witeout exception the most tairfeetilift Scot tish portesiopicture in existence °Acre might easily be named woich would appropriately group with nos historic portrait,end coulJ well be spared from . he crowded puolis galleries ot Bugund, But it is manliest tray, is the pr. rot state of the old apartments of Holyrool, such a imosfor amid sot be deem i. Before it is made • gallery of pa rode* motives' Metrical ;musks, we most be rtd of the pre tent' Qatell Mary Show • sad skowetomen ' and be per tooted to pas threugh them NOM when assn remarkable one: traospired, accompaided only elk the Billet com panion el a muidebook or catalogue roissoved. Whethr to in g.etieg rid of the other lions of the show, we ehou'd eho recommend another, aid promos mere effectual, epplicetion of the roaring drops to the bloody floor may eie questioned. I would 08.1 y remark, however, in further proof of the c ic teeoptible means that have been oceamonally resorted to .o increase the spurious attractions of this catch's nny show, that I am inform. 4 by a person mployed on 05..• occasion in some necessary rejoin in the ;A lice, that he had the curiosity to look carefully ter the bloody steins, bat coald hardly detest any of them • while, eu eing the suns piste aisle dope alter, it lookeel, as he. aprescoi it, as if a sheep had hies killed as the spat' Tutu marked, aquas Um rival bier., stain, U 1 mistake sot, of Olammis Castle, which has witsvivell %kris onsemelos rolowals of the &Mag. " We are, of risme, *ware of difficulties that a in the way of imesidistrly effeamg theme de•irable reforms. Were the csratorstip of the Pelee* entirely in the hands of government, or of the public hoards, nothing more would be needed, w ee, elem.*, than to expose tae present state of things at Holyrood Palace." I, 1~1"ii~ THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1860. LUNACY IN ENGLAND. The fifth annual report of thy Commissioners of Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, dated the 30th of June last, which o• the moioa of Mr. Bouverie was preowned to the Ilnuse of Commons ea the 16th of August, and ordered to be printed, has now been inued. The report, in the fist in stance, proceeds to notice the changes that have *ekes plan in the propeletonhip of private licensed establishments for the reception of lunatics, to g ive • list of new licenses which have been granted in the metropolitan and provincial districts, of establishments the licenses to which have been discontinued, and the houses to which licensee have been granted for the first time. During the past rear three additional public asylums have been opened vie the Hull Borough, Birmingham Borough , and Man chester Royal Lunatic Hospital. Al regards the latter the following statement is given : The Manchester Hospital for the receptioa of lunatics, founded in the last century, has been closed about four years. Situate is the centre of a cleanly populated town, and badly constructed, the com mittee BMW time ago determined in lieu thereof to build • new and enlarged streets» on more favourable site. Having distrinuted their patients in several of the surround• leg asylums, they disposed of the old premises and pur chased a large piece of land near the village of Ch' adle, on which they erected • building suitable for the upper classes, free from the imputation of interested motives attributable to private asylums, and which also &traded to persons of the same clam, but in reduced Mecum stances, accommodation and treatment agreeably to their station. With regard to St. Peter's Hospital at Brie MI, the commissioners observe on its extremely de fective elate, sad its being wholly inadequate to the exigencies of the community, expressing the belief that in the event of any further delay occurring in pro. Tiding • proper asylum, the authority of the Secretary of State will be invoked to enforce prompt and sub stantial obedience in the execution of the act in this respect. The visitations by commissioners and Tulin' and boards to the various establishments are then referred to, and with respect to the entries of such visitors, it is observed that th.ir general tenor has been favourable, and that it is satisfactory to report that the various Mitituthine for the insane through out the country are in an improved state, and that the con. duet of all the parties concerned in their management has been for the most part humane and judicious. In several in stances, however, the visiting commissioners and justices found it oftener, to animadvert upon the excessive ass of mechanical restraint; on the neglect of cleanliness; on inadequate ventilation; on want of sufficient attendavts ; on improper or de ficient diet; on the dirty condition, or aunty supply of bedding and clothing; on irregularities in the medical books, and on other defects. In 70 instances these defects were deemed of sufficient importance is require the special interference of the board by wham direction letters were addressed to the parties inculpated, the offset of which has been that the defects referred to have been wholly or partially remedied. The following special ezceptioaal cam are given in the exact terms used in the report : In certain eases the defects brought under our notice were of to peculiar or aggravated a character, that we think it right to advert to them more ie detail. On a visit to l'iaberton House, near Salisbury, oa the 24th January last, the visiting commissioners discovered that it had been the practice to place clean sheets on certain beds during the day, awl to remove them at night. Ot this occasion we felt it to be our duty strongly to remonstrate with Dr. Finch (the proprietor) against a practice which has the effect of deceiv tog the commissioners, junices, and other visitors of the establishment, by giving • *Minute appear ance of comfort to the patients' been. Upon a recent visit to Camberwell House, the visiting oom missioners found also that sheet' were placed on a few beds in the refractory ward during the day, end removed at night. On investigating the matter, it was found that Mr. Paul (the proprietor) was altogether unacquainted with this practice ; but we felt it our duty to censure the con duct of the medical attendant, and we feel confident that the same or any similar practice witl not be allowed to take place "gain in this establishment . The condition of the licensed house, called Belle Vue House, near Devine, has repeatedly given us great cane for dissatisfaction. The de tects from time to time brought under our notice have been occasionally remedied in part, but at no period has the state of this house met with sue entire approbation." The commissioners then give various reasons for the an satisfactory opinions they express. They then refer to their former reports with respect to another licensed house, called Kingsland Asylum, near Shrewsbury, in which the lunatics of that borough have long been coifined, stating that it is unnecessary to detail the steps they took to bringthe very discreditable condition of this establishmeut under the con, sideration of the authorities of the borough of Shrewsbury, as they are happy to state that the molt of their commu nication has been that • union has been effected between that borough and the county of Salop, and that the borough pauper lunatics will shortly be transferred from Kings! end to the county asylum. The commissioners then proceed th state with regard to St. Luke's Hospital, that in their last report they called attention to the burial ground adjoin ing one of the airing grounds of the establishment, express. log • hope that the Bishop of L indon would interfere in the matter, now expressing ° their gatiefaction that his lord ship did as interfere in the most prompt and de. hided manner, the result being that this objectionable buryinground containing only 1,600 equate yards, and in which 200 bodies were on the average annually deposited, was elomd altosether in the month of August last year. In reference to thi management of the bospiml, the commis. donors say that in consequence of certain defects which were observed on • visit in April last • correspondence rook place between the board and the general committee of governors, and that on a further visit being made by two members of the board in the mouth of June, it was satisfactory to find from their report that some of the recommendations pre viously suggested by the board had been attended to, and express toe hope that others calculated to benefit the patients will be eventually carried out. They also point out what they consider an important error in the management of the hospital, which is, that while the act of 8 & 9 Vict. requiree that the resid. at medical officer should be styled the "superintendent" of the hospital, he is here called the resident " apethegary," expressing their hope that the governors who humanely devote so much time and attention to the management of St. Luke's will take this subject also into their serious consideration. The prac tice of placing sheets on certain straw beds during the day having prevailed in this establishment, without the know ledge of the resident medical officer or the visiting physicians, the following correspondence took place in re ference thereto. On the 16th of April last • report was for warded to the general and house committee of governors to this effect: "The commissioners have ascertained irons their inquiries this day that • clean sheet is placed upon all the loose straw beds during the day and is withdrawn at night, leaving the patient only the straw and blankets for his use. The effect of this is to give the anpearattee of comfort and cleanliness to the beds appropriated to the dirty patients which they de not possess, and thus to deceive the go vernors and other visitors of the establishment as to the extent and quality of the accommoistion afforled to these patients." To this remonstrance on the part of the board the following answer was returned by the house committee : —"The committee report that heretofore a clean sheet has been placed by the attendant upon the pillows of the straw beds of the dirty patients solely for the pupaee of giving the room a tidy appeannce during the day ; that it has been withdrawn at night simply because, if per mitted to remain, it would absolutely decrease the comfort, and, in some instances, the safety of the patients; but in order to prevent the recurrence 01 so unmerited an imputa tion as that of deception the committee have given orders that the then be removed, and Ds use altogether discon tinued for the future." With reference to Guy's Hospital lunatic ward for females, the ninitniuithers state that the defects pointed out in their report of 1848 have been materi ally amended, that baths have b. en fitted up, and b , doing of e restraint their s e :t o il: t rue u pa tien ts haTit aai .cnt greatly condition induce n d: Ice . o h htdbt. and tdh wioffaaore amount and eat dio t ne h f eteou rteim ec hanicalaabtclmrees.n t • superior description provided, that a great improve o condition ectandaihoit inmates, promote taeaddstffdiomi and tranquillity. idr n ao a vqt d a y ::tidtl ele better m eans materially eas i s olLowy a rmi b t oth u sit t n. t o p i separ a tingoinebe v,ge c at,. hhp u n an :Pdpsiarremolpvi various oc cupations—aid consider it their duty to add, that the ward appropriated to the insane in this hospital must, in their opt nioo, owing to its situation coniinue to be very defective In several important requirements, and fail to afford the inmates many of the advantages which are calculated to alleviate disorders of the mind. Under the authority of the statute the commissioners have during the past year, at different times, per mitthd the temporary removal of eighty-eight patients Mum various institutions within the metropolitan di/trims to the sea aide, or on visits to their friends for limi•ed periods for the begat of their health, which has been attended by the best regatta, not only as contributing to the health and comfort of the patients, but as affordieg a means of testing their recovery in those cases where the com missioners did not feel themselves justified in order ing their discharge until they bed undergone tome previous probation under the immediate eye of their relatives or friends. On the subject of the Idiot Asylum at Highgate, and its branch establishment at Colchester, the commissioners speak is high terms of commendation. On the head of " Wet/kilotons," during the past year 268 have been visited by the sommissionen, and they report that the cases of insanity of recent date or unto form which have been allowed to remain for a conaderable period in workhounte, instead of being promptly trrissferr. d, as the law requires, to • lunatic asylum, have been of late years sensibly diminishing in number, and are now somperatively rare ; a diminution which we believe is mainly to be attributed to the super vision exercised by the commieei ners over these establish moots. The instances that have occurred of such detention were generally to be suribed rather to the difficulty of pro curing accommodation for the lunatics in a curative asylum within • reasonable distance, than to disinclinatith on the part of the local authorities to incur the trouble and expense of the removal. A few cases, however, of that kind hate beet met with in the worse of our visitations during the last year, and in nearly all of them our representations, which have been effectually seconded by the poor law board, have led to a farther and successful effort to effect the desired re=s:Tateleohvealloo.....mmsaisissioaamn.ed.nabettleaodmatp of ro f6 d t.oo: to . vpui s a ta uo t . e : tl: : :: thame tke ho deathe whis: by wields In the asylums, &e., during the past year asiosated ts to be highly credttable to the superinmadeate. Me the lassie, to whose vigilsues and ears this result easy be mainly attributed. The cue of "Hondas v. Ripley," sal the Lord Cbief Boron's judgment relative to the themes of dm legality of confining in outages musette sot diegiveras to themselves or others" is thus re shed us. mad 40 amuse tails by the board in sowesquene• detailed. They state that such was the erroneous impression for a time produced by the promulgation of the dictum of the Chief Huron, that they cite an example where same of the pauper patients in a public asylum were examined by the guardians with a view to ascertain bow many of them ought to he die. &urged as "not dangerous to themselves or others," and add the following illustration confirmatory of the visas of the emantimioners promulgated in the last annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum: "The cue of • Nottidge v. Ripley.' decided in the En glish courts, excited a good deal of interest among theme °Pulsated with lunatic aeyluss, and no little anxiety on the part of those who had friends in such institutions. There seemed to be a general apprehension that all lunatics who were not actually and immediately elanw-roue t, theense.lves or others were forthwith to be set at large, to vex the world with their follies, and to expose themselves to insult, imposition, and injury. The influence of the decision re. lured to seems to have so ter affected the better judgment and experience of some parties, that not a few removals from asylum' was the consequence ; for during the pest year not lies than four patients were admitted into this asylum who had been dismissed from confinement (I should rather say, deprived of protection) under this Nottidge mania, and had subsequently been breaking windows, knocking down policemen, carrying loaded pistols on their persons to shoot doctors with, or wandering through the streets under the belief that they were royal or divine personages." The commiesiours then pus to the subject of private paeten's in licensed houses, stating, that in making their visitations to these establishments they had reason to believe that in some instances the patients had not the benefit of that suitable acesommodation and those c =forts to which they were entitled from their circumstances and situation in life. It some cues it appeared on inquiry that the relit• ns were unable to afford a remuneration adequate to the expenditure incesury tot proper acconunedadm and treat ' meet ; and in others, that they neglected to appropriate a sufficient part of the patient's income in promoting his cure or adding to his general comforts. A few cues also were brought under observation in which it was evident that the sums paid were amply sufficient to provide everything peculiars for the ra-mfort and restoration of the patienc,.but the benefit of which they did not envoy. A marked instance of the latter description having been brought under notice, the hosed issued a circular on the subject to the proprietors of private asylums in the metro politan district, and while remonstrating on the necessity of an amendment of the practice on this head, think it their duty to state, as regards some prorrieton of licensed houses, that in various instances superior comforts and accouildivion have been off ceded to pa tient', mole with reference to their former habits and station in life, than to the mere amount of money received for their maintenance. Oa the head of criminal er state lunatics, the commissioners ob serve that although the arrangement with the proprietors of Fisherton Rouse, Salisbury, has been carried out for receiving harmless criminal lunatics, yet the small number so received ones very inadequate relief to the asylum., ices much se, exclusive of more than 100 in Bethlem, 264 such patients were confined in them on the let of Jatuary list. It is also pointed:out that the effectual security against the escape of criminals cannot be provideu tor, without restricting the liberty of other patients with whom they are necessarily associated, and materially interfering with that treatment, and general arrangement which ought to be adopted for their benefit, and many instaaces have been brought under the notice of the commissioners, as well by the friends of as by the pati nts themselves, in confirmation of their obit io tions to this principle of association, that the consciousness of so being associated with criminal lunatics is considered as a great and unnecessary aggravation of their calamity. One instance is cited of a criminal lunatic who escaped for the fint time from Roston Rouse in February lost. The report then proceeds to notice the outbreak and progress of cholera in several of the asylums daring the last and preceding years ; with respect to which full details and statistics are given in an appeadix. Also to notice the detective state of the law with respect to the pro petty of lunatics, and urges the necessity of the amend. meat of the act referring to county asylums and pauper lunatics. The concluding paragraph on the subjected luna tics at large, is to the following effect :—The commissioners remind the Lord Chancellor that no amendments (though more than once suggested in their former reports) of the 49th and other sections of the 8 & 9 Vie. c. 126, have been submitted to parliament. They deem it most important that the public should be protected from the perils arising from the neglect of friends or pariah ttlieers to place lunatics under proper care. Instances have during the last year occurred which confirm their formerly expressed opinion, that danger or serious annoyance may be apprehended, especially to pub. lic charaeten or individuals of high station, owing to the defects Lathe law ; defects which they have been mush dis appointed to find no measures have been taken to remedy. The following is a summary of the number and classes of insane peis.ins confined in asylums, hospitals, and licensed nooses on the Ist of January last :—Asylums: private pcieots, melee 120, females 112; paupers, males 3,160, tamales 3,768, total 7,140. Hospitals: private patients, males 412, females 453 ; pauper., males 175, females 168, total 1,208. Metropolitan licensed houses : private patients, males 674, finagles 546 ; paupers, males 737, females 1,038, total 2,945 Provincial licensed houses : private patients, males 800, females 757 ; paupers, males 1,106, females, 1,123, total 3,788. Grand total of sues and chimes, 16,079 ; of this number 238 have been found lunatic by inquisition, 284 are criminals, and 1,036 are chargeable to counties or bereave". ECONOMY OF FOOD. (From the ardel6tre Ckreskle.) Two papers of considerablo importance on this sub join eppea to have math romped the attention of sigma] , tuna periodicals, although the subject itself is of vital inte rest to the depended and oppressed agricul.ore of the meetly. Whilst the corn grower is unable to compete with the foreigner we need was articles of culture for food less liable to c 'airtime, and net less nutritive and palatable. The green crops, which well suit our climate, produce more nourishment per acre, and IWO protected: by the greater proportionate mot of freight and perishableness on shipboard, suffer undtr other difficulties. The precious potato (however despbed) is still subject to the putrid disease ; the teraip is too inky and soft lo_or human food, alone; and in that objection sll the other largely grown edible roots and greens more or left participate. And the eonvaninn of these into beef and mutton, t.king an average of 150 I he. to asks 11b. of flesh, fs a waste, regard- Mg both as human food, which must limit its practice is a densely peopled country. The papers to question do not directly meet rale dilemma, bet they appear to establish two principles, which expend the restriction of our choice of agricultural plants, and of the modes of their pro oration for food, by considerations at ;fluent overlooked or disallowed. 1. The first relates to the incorrectness of nitrogen as a measure of nutritive power in different articles of food. 2 The second to the increase of nourishing power of the santa food, by prorating it to the digestive organs in cos - The brat of these papers was read at the British Associa tio e t e, he enti nutritive vane tled "Os the per of c f rodentage," by D of nitrogen as en index Dr. A. Vos ker. This Roes to show the inaccuracy of the role, inferred from Liebig's analogy between the vegetable and winos' protein compounds, that "the nutritive (or rather the fleshering and strengtbening) property of food is pro- portionate to the nitrogen it contains." So generally has this rale been received, that In several of the recent tables of the comparative value of food, the provrtion of nitrogen has been taken as the basis, or even se • correetion of actual experiments, is feeding; and the cultivation of different plants has been recommended accord'. gto their relative contents of this ingredient. But Dr. Voelker @bows that, in _many cases, much of this nitrogen is not in the erimpoeition of protein (the Seebeck:is principle); sad con tributes little or nothing to the formation of flesh. The discuseion welch followed, also went to infer that there was yet much to be learned respecting the assimilation of estrogen, and the relation of food to the formation of the blood (and, consequently,. to nutrition). Under these cir cumstance., arricultural improver will, for the present, not be restricted by the proportion of nitrogen, as a guide to practical feeolog ; but will put more trust in their established tables, esteeming Liebig's above quoted analogy, for occasional reference and reasoaieg, whilst the further Program; of chorales' (as well u precut:al) investigations are rendering it • surer guide to their broad saes : and produc tire plants, at present rejected for deficiency in nitrogen may be found valuable in mixture, or eves aline. The moat comprehensive table of reference, for this Purpose, that I have mat with, is given by the Rev. AIL J. 'Berkeley, in the Agrictilf steal Gazette (Gardeners Chroatele), 1845, p. 649; where the theoretical nutritive power, computed by Bonesaingault from the nitrogen of no heathen 76 plants, sad parts of plants, cultivated for food, &e ,Is given ; in contrast with 16 other tables, drawn from practice and experiment; the republication of that table, with an additional column for that compiled by the Rev. W. !them, would be very appropriate to the suggestions from this paper of Dr. Voelker. The other paper goes • step farther; it is entitled " Alimentary Regimen," by M. °aspirin, read before the French Academy of Science, and unnoticed in any other Mulish publication that I have met with, than " Cham• bere's Edinburgh Journal." It rotates chiefly to the diet of working people, and establishes a remarkable difference in the strengthening power of the same material (bread) acconliog to the mode in which it is pretested to the digestive criteria. finds that the mining population about Charleroi (on the border of Belgium) nourish themselves fully, preserve health and great vigour of muscular strength upon a diet with less than half the nutritive principles found requisite for herd-working men in the rest of Europe. The chaise tine *pipers to be the habitual use of coffee at every meal. Their coffee is a very weak infusion of equal parts, coffee sell chicory, with about one-tenth milk. Of this the miner takes shout four pints daily ' • and little or no other drink. His rod is white bread and butter, with a supper of potatoes and greens. He eats 21U. of bread, 2 use. of butter, and 1 alb. mined potatoes and greens daily, and uses les each of the toffee sad chicory. No meat except Sundays and Nut days, when he also drieks four pinta of beer. This is lees io maz tire grail than the diet of the monks of La Trappe or of the prisoners in the French gaols; sod yet these Belgian seinen are mimetic workmen! so that the Preach miners, with • more nutritious diet, are unable to compete with them. This efficacy of the coffee is not attributable to the nourishment contained in itself, which is very small; bet indirectly to its co operation with the other food; or to its action on the vital organs of digestion and secretion. M. °aspirin also Instances the efficacy of toffee, in em eAliog soldiers and others to endure fatigue ; and adds that the miner, with bis wife and six children, lives on Is. 7d. a iy, without getting in debt. Coffee, then, though very little nourishing in itself, seems to d more attention than it receives, as an article of diet and economy, for its influence on other articles of nourieloment. Coffee we cannot grow in this climate, though we get it abundantly from our colonies; but the other ingredients, chicory (or suceory), grows wild in this COUOtry. IS of easy cultivation, a heavy bearer, stands the frost; the loaves are an excel. hut and early ',dd.?, and no contemptible dish for the table; and the root not only mixes well with adios, but when roasted forms a very respectable substitute for it. After long keeping, roasted and ground, it gets flat; bat the root may be kept dry and baked weekly in &pretty quick farm or cottage oven, brown all through like coffee, blu not Walk . For this it is best cut up, not larger than hen.' outs; and it is full as likely to increue the nourishing acid strengtheairg power of other vegetable food, as of bread and potatoes. Run our succulent roots, ea turnips, carrots, mashed or grated, and boiled or baked with meal of any kind, may be made as solid as desired ; to substitute tor, and improve on, the precious potato, or may be mixed when deemed and hot, with chopped or crumbled bread, to pretty aver the same purpose; and with this drink of chicory (fur °Wee), might make • hearty working diet, very cheap, and chiefly home grown, even whilst potatoes are dear. But this paper of hl, Ga.parlo'a, we may bops, is only the eaucciation of • principle, capable of much wider applica tion than merely to coffee and succor . / for drink, and bread and greens, or our present grown roue for food. Extending to the feedisig of other animals as well as man, in suggesting improvements in the cooked and uncooked mister, e fur that purpose. The converse is curiously illustrated in the case of cerniviwous animals, which M. Majendie toned to require as much weight of dried meat as of mist is its raw state; though the latter is at least oeven- eighths w ate r; i. re, 1 lb. will contain only 2os of dry ; s i great is the effect of Its state of preparation for the sumach. These two papers, then, taken together, seem to prove that the nutritive power does not depend upon the ele mentary ingredients of the food only, but is snub affected by their state of natural composition in the plant, sad may be still further irifluenced by artificial adaption to the digestive organs ; thus opening suggestions for more effective end, consequently, more general employment for our home products, cheaper and heartier feeding for our own la bourers, and more eusomics" prodaction of animal food.— J. Paten:tux. DISCOVERY OP TUE REMAINS Or LADY SARAH Hawienv.—lt will be in the ree.dlection of many of oar feeders. @sloths Newcastle Cittardiars, that, during the time the law-mutts were proceeding in chancery. with reference to the proper: y of this charitable and pious lady, all traces of the stone which ouvered her remains were lost. It was well known that she was buried in Saint Saviouritate Church, York, and copi. a of the inscription on the tomb were COW OOP ; bat when the church was repaired a few years ago, the fl airs were searched is a most diligent manner; all the tombs examined, and, in fee., every portico of the church rar sicked, with the exception of the altar, it being the only part which was not them renovated. Within the last few days. the altar steps and rails rays bass removed, is coder to be restored and improved; and, when the boards of the Roar and the steps were removed, at the south side, the stale was found bearing the following inscription, which exactly corresponds with the copies which were in the possession of many :—" Here lies interred the body of Sir John Howley, late of the city of Yolk, Knight, who departed this life, August 21, 1697, scut 78. Iu thefts* bed of dust are deposited the remains of Dame Sarah Howley, the virtuous consort of the same Sir John Howley. who exchanged this life for a be'ter. on the toe 23rd of August, 1710. 'Amman the dead in Christ that shall rise first.' "-1 Tries. iv. 18. It is now remembered by some of the old inhabitants, that the chancel was extended oa both ends is 1801, and that the extension en the south aide covered the tombstone of Lady Howley, which till that time formed most part of she door of the aisle. In removing the stone, about two feet deep, a lead cffiln was found, aft. Bin. long, lit side ems' the shoulders, which is supposed to contain her ladyship's remains; sad in order to allay the many doubts that were engendered in the minds of the nubile, se to where the r mains were interred, it was allowed to be pabliely inspeved for two or three days. It is Ix very pod preservation; the wooden coffin in which it had been ea ' aimed was quite decayed. FINDON HADDOCKS.—The curing of these delicious ash, says the North British Mail, is .ot coodned am to the district which has gives its aims to this particular mode ot preserving haddocks. They are now prepared all along the Best Coast, end more recently the West Highlanden bane takes advantage of the increased demand which has art•ss for this important adjunct to the breakfast table. Lem week, no lees them slaty-five barrels of Finnan Meddles " urn brought here by the mum from Stornoway, Lewis. The upon has been progressively ieereasing for some time, and now the natives have set t►emselves in smelt to runty the erer.eraving demand of the 400,000 Inhabitants of the mpital of the west. It the Berra people would cooly ge and do so likewise, we should have lam dike everlasting be esti starvation yid* bow nada, base wmehed islssdne • by..wmd is the sosatiy. EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA. Letters from Dr. Overweg to Professor Carl Ritter [ emststa the follow's, portiesdars of the proceedings of the expedition: A'tn having safely named the Desert between Ghat and Alt (Attest) its progress was suddesly arrested by the &flecks et considerable sambas of lesions Tsar Lake, sod the lives of the °Aeolic,s were saved Daly by showing a determination to defend themselves and by the parnimt of a large ransom. Is • rawer letter,.da.ed Toradthit, August 24, Dr.•°ear wig had written three days we shall, with God's help, be at Seluett, the ant plaits of the kingdom of Air. Alarming rumours of pureeing Hagen, probably 'woo. rated, neve sadly disturbed our caravan ' end for the last few days we have considered ourselves in a rata of arse. The Haloes, who form oar escort, and the Testasm. Tonic's, who have our effects and interehendin under their charge, are, however. I. excellent 'virtu. Hitherto we ben seen nothing of the Hagan, and we shall very soon be is tr • end of the Heloes, end altogether beyond their reach." Toe feats thus entenained were, nevertheless, but too well founded. At Ghat the travellers remained a week, which time tau by no means one of rut or recreation, as they were eon• tinoally hammed by the greedy demands of the chiefs and by the 'wistarias of the inhabitants; so much so, indeed, that they had but few opp , ftilltitite of raptorial( the town awl iliffrevading country, except when their medical =Maw happened to be requires. Even old Hetita proved • faltidese triend of the English " Oa the 25th July the I expedition left Ohat ; and on the 27th they joined a Keloe caravan, under whose protection they were to proceed ea far es Tin Tellus, In Air, the ft eidsnce of the Keloe prince. During the first fortnight their progresa was very rapid, as they travelled from ten be twelve boon ver diem ; a rate of fling under an African sun, which, coupled with their hiving to make their various scientific obeervatioes on the rcad, was alaret too much for the llen, who bad seemly time to recruit their strength with the necessary rest and sleep. The camels, too, began to show symptom. of exhaustion, so that the letter portion of the journey had to be performed at a lux nil", rate. In a subsequent letter, dated Sell:diet, Aug. 28, Dr. Overseen thus describes the termination of the i urney sous the Sabers At length we have the great desert behind us, and have arrived .AI the frontiers of Sudan ! We are in a new world, surrounded with new plants of lexurigot verdure, of white we have been 90 long deprived ; we see new animals, and our tents are pitched vitenn the encampments of the people of Air. Bet though the tedions journey arrow the Desert is accomplished, our thoughts are net yet sufficiently collected, and the state of our minds is as. yet sufficiently quiet, to allow us to look back calmly era all that we have had to undergo. The 'vests and dangers of the last few days are still too vividly before us— ing even now we have not yet reached a place of safety. Daring the last ten days, our march has been one of constant warlare—ace we have bad to paw the dangerous frontiers between the Asger and Hagar•Tuaricks and the Keloes (another tribe of Tunas). Day end night we were followed sad surrounded by numbers of Hague, on their Mantis, with the intent to murder and plunder us. On the 25th of August, we were attacked by about forty armed men, mounted on camels—sod last night our Guava" had to with stand 100 of the enemy. In both instances the result was the same. They first demanded nothing lees than the lives of ell the Christians in the caravan ; they then required that the Christians should either become Musulmano on the spot, or else should return to Ohat; and even tually we had to pay a high ransom, consisting of all our best merchandise. That we did not low all our effect., iastrumeats, and even our lives, we owe to the conduct and exertions of the Keloes and the bravery of the Teuelkunt-Tuarics, who had our effects under their charge. These latter had among them in all fourteen gone (muskets), which rendered them an imposing force easiest the enemy. Here, at Saufiet—a place consisting of huts built of grass— there is a sort of government, under some religious Mar stamens (Marabouts), with a Sherif of Mekka at their head ; and at this plea we are infer than in the Wedis, where every Hagar considers himself a sheikh. In three days we hop to be at Tin-Teltus, the residence of En-hour, Sultan of the Keine., where we trust we shall be in greater safety." The Sudan route from Ohat to Air is described by Dr. Overweg as a mountain path, leading over ridges, table lands, and deep cut rocky valleys. Vilt the Wadis bosoms broader, and, through the agencies of rain, are covered with disintegrated rocks and 'and, they show a scanty vegetation of grate and trees. The geognosticalcha racier of the country is here of much greater in , wrest. From Mursuk to Ghat, and five days to the south beyond Ohat, the prevailing formation consists of sandstone of various colours—with, throughout, the same petrographical aspect of the rock., the same slopes of the mountains and intersections of the valleys, and the same horizontal strata. At Aggeri, the entire wens suddenly changes. The mountains &renew rounded—and strata form ing projecting terrines are no longer wen. The travellers found themselves all at once in the regions of granite; the whole country between Aggeri and Air cusisting of crysta lise (so culled), primitive rooks —with mica slate and:enor- MOM maws of granite in great diversity of mountain forms. From Ohet, the general surface of the country continues to ries, and et Salufiet the traveller' saw around them the highest mountain manes met with on their journey. Attu the middle of August they experienced the influence of the Sudan rains—the atmosphere thee beginning to be humid, and the eveniege or mornings being accompanied by fogs. Fre punt thunderstorms and heavy rains also occurred. Under the influence of these rains the aspect of the Wadies became complott ly changed—luxuriant plantations of palms being everywhere met with to the south of Taradahit. As cording to the natives the rainy season lute till the end of Sept, other. The information received respecting the present political wadition of Sudan and Borne prognosticates well for the success of the expedition. Peace reigns everywhere. A powerful government is maintained in Sudan by the Fella. tabs and their Sultan at !helium—and in Borne by Arab Tribes and their Sheikh, Amur el Hanemy, at Kooks— whereby the caravan roads in those countries are rendered quite safe. 0.,e of the wealthiest of the Arab merchants, who has travellt d a great deal, informed Dr. Overweg that the Sheikh et LTIIII is on friendly terms with Wads', and that earavens continually go from Bornu to Egypt by the way of Waal and Dirtier. • postscript of the 29. h of August says :—" The inhabi tants have shown themselves hostile, and taken all our wangle; but the Marabouts, having found in their book (the Koran?) something in our favour, have afforded us their protection, and promised to see us safe t 3 Tin Whir teencrrow." From information received from the English Consul at Munk, it appears that the Expedition has reached Tin Tells' in safer. TARING A GENTLEMAN'S LOGOAOII TO IRELAND. - At the Chaster County Court, on the 20th inst., Mr. Bower, barrister. 'tiger, of Birkenhead, brought an action against the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company for compensation in damages for inconvenience and dawn tint at Holyhead, is consequence of the negligence of the servants of the defendants. It appeared that the plain tiff, Mr. Bawer, was an extensive cotton-spinner at Man chester, and that he brought the present action not for the sake of damages, but on public grounds. Mr. Bower, with 'friend named Griffith, his wife, and a party of ladies, were one tour in North Weiss in August last. On the 13. h of August they bathed themselves at Bangor by the express train for Holyhead, and before starting saw that thew luggage was properly placed for transit. When they arrived at Holyhead, the plaintiff and Mr. Griffith got out of the carnage to look after their luggage, intending to proceed with it at once to the hotel at Holyhead. A portion of the luggage was then on the platform. end the remainder on the luggage van. Mr. Bow. r sad Mr. Griffith advanced to the van, to get the remainder of their luggage, when Mr. Mamie/sherd, the station master at Holy head, told the:tato stand out of the way, or " he would hurt them," or "they would be hurt," as all the luggage must go down to the pier. Mr. Bower remonstrated, bat ineffectually : and the luggage wee taken to the pier. The plaintiff and Mr. Griffith followed it, and when they got to the pier the luggage had been stowed in the packet amidst a greet deal of other luggage. Mr. Bower got on board the packet and endeavoured to god his own • bat while doing so the landing stare wee pulled away, a nd the pocket was set in motion, and Mr. Bower, finding himself on his way to Ireland, got on the paddle-box, and with some difficulty managed to jump on to the pier, and save himself the journey. Mr. Griffith sad the plain tiff then went to the station, where they sow Mr. Mender herd, with whom they remonstrated on the impropriety of his conduct. He told them, after some rudeness, that if they would describe the large's, he would send for it, and they should have it the next day. At six o'clock the next eve,.- Jag the luggage was returned. Mr. Bower sad the patties had bees much incionvenieneed. Mr. Bower bad no change of linen, Mr. Geiffith had to he in bed while his shirt war washed, and the ladies of the party had neither eombs, brushes, or anything else, in consequence of their lug gage Worths been tam away. Had the luggage not been taken away, it was probable that the party might have returned home the same night, as Holyhead was soon found to be a vary inconvenient place, end instead of the sight of a fine open sea (as was expected) there was no.hing but • mud bank. For this detention, and the inconvenience consequent thereon, the plaintiff laid his damages at 201. For the defence, it was sworn by the witnesses that the ex press train on the 13th of August was from 40 to 80 minutes late ; that there were about 60 pentagon, all of whom except plaintiff and his party were going to Inland, and many baying luggage then we. nommeny mach contu sion ; that when the plaintiff athed for his luggage out of the Tea le wee so covered up that it would be impossible to remove it then without great delay and inconvenience, bat that Mr. Bower had been told by Mr. Mmeingtard that he should be roamed to the pier by en omnibus fra or charge, Lad himself and his luggage brought bath. (This Mr. Bower denied) That when Mr. B weer returned be was very abusive ' end threatened Mr. Masabigberd that an action should be brought, when the oethe of his eight witnesses would put oat of court his unsupported testimony ; that Mr. Measingberd behaved most civilly, and that the greatest diligence had been used In obtaining the restoration of the lost luggage. A porter wig called, who deposed that ha had received Inetrustioas to give up a portmanteau at the pier to a gentlemen who was to apply for it, hut that no such application was made, or it would hays been given up. His Honour, in summing up, said it was clear there had been negligenth oa the part of the servants of the company ; for they had no right ro take the leggege to the steamer, wises it wee may going to the station. The verdict ma t t i n log the eteintlF, bat the dantessie the jury meat New then ordeen—Verdist ar the pleint4 deny. 201, WINDING-UP OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. THE BOSTON, NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. —The affairs of this company have just been referred to his Honour Master Rickards, to ascertain by a preliminary inquiry whither it Is expedient that the undertaking should be wound up under the act. From the state of facts just crought in by the petitioners, it appears that although the directors deposited two distinct sets of plans and section'', they were both grossly incorrect, and were so declared by the House of Commons. A large portion of the line was never surveyed, and nu books of reference lodged, and petitioners allege that the attempt of the directors to go on in par;iament was a reckless and unjustifiable expenditure of the funds of the shareholders, and that for these and other reasons they ought to be call. don to account for the 168,0001. they r. ceived in the shape of deposits. The petitioners on the ground of gross twin/. ace, protest against the engineeri sig and s urveying charges of 23,1511. and of the legal and pa rlimeetary of 31,2961. The directors in their account with the sharehaders charge themselves with • return of 11. per share out of the deposit of 21 12s. 61. on 64,000 shores, whereas it appeared by the affidavit of Mr. Balmond, the chairman of the company, made in this matter on 2nd February lot, that the 11. was paid on 56,271 shares only, the remaining shares, as he all, get, having been either lost or transferred, a that the direct.,ll, it is aheged, must still nave in their hands 7,7291. in ream ct of this item alone. The petitioners allege that the directors are chargeable with a sum also of 3,5281. in respect of the proceeds of some Midland stock, exchanged for 160 shares in the Mansfield and Pitigton Railway, for which they debit themselves with 13,5284 instead of 10,0001. The peitioners also chugs them to account fur ether GUMS respect vely of 3,8641 and 3,6281 on transactions with the company's funds in respect of 60,0001. Midland Stock, and consequent on negotiations with the Baron and Newark Company to abandon part of their scheme. The peti dont is protest spinet the leg dity of this applica tion of the company's funds, and contend that the directors received a far larger premium on these transac tions .han they showed to the shareholders. Returns of the reinsinl r of the deposit were made in the shape of a divi.ion of 11. of Midland stock for every two Boston and Newark shares, acid subsequently a final return of le. 6d. per share, but which the petitioners declined to e ceive. NEW RAILWAY AND JOINT STOCK COMPANIES UNDEIt Till WINDI.IIO 111. ACT.—The following new references, in connexion with companies to be wound-up, have been referred to the following masters :—Pe , erborough, Wl' , colt, Lynn, and Boston Railway, to Master Senior ; Southern Counties Union Railway, to Master Kindersley ; Oland J.nction and Midland Union Railway, to Master Brougham; Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Walsall Railway, to the same; Patent Concentrated Tea Company, to Mister Ferrer; Hall Came Company, to the same; Union Grocery , Company, to Master Yindersley. 119 ARKETS. CORN.-BTOCKTON•ON•TKII, Dee. 24.-We base rood arrivals of grain °mewls*. This Morning we lad a moderate show of grain, owing to the market being held off the usual day. Wheel meta glow sale, at • decline of 1.. per qr. clo best-oonditicsed lam. plea, whist inferior and out-ecooditbood meta were 21. per qr. lower. Grinding Barley in steady demand. Beam the turn lower. Oats without change from last Wedriesday's prime. New Year's-day being kept a holiday, our market will be Mooed on Tuesday, the 31st instant. Ma felowing are the present quotations:- Wheat, British, pee qr. of 63106. to the bushel, Durham and York shire, red, 395. to 435. ; white, 43.. to 42e.; old, white, 46a. to 48a.; red, 42a. to 44a.; South country red, us. to 43.. ; white, 44.. to 46a. ; old, white, 40a. to kb. ; led. 44a. to 43e. Osts. feed, 16s. to Ila. ; potato, 20a. to 274. Beans, new, We. to 306.; old, 3ls. Peas, boilers, 32a. Od. to 34e. OIL Flour, per seek el 20Mha, One, 29.. Od. to 30s. ; gamine, 32a. bet. to 335. Oatmeal, dootels, 28. to 29a. Fine Pollard,2l. 161. per ton ; scene, 41. Bean, 41. Wheel, foreign, pee qr., of 6.31ba to the bushed, Dentate, Konigsberg , and Elbing, 43e. to 465.; Roebuck. Wismar, and Stralsund, 44a. is 45e. Hamburg and Stettin, 430. to 445.; Hobtein and Danish, 41.. to 44a.; Gala, Dutch end Frio:eland, 16e. to 20s. Pees, he 30s. to SU Guano, Peruvian, 101. pm ton.-Imports during the pest week: Wheat, coastwise, 1,670 qrs. ; Barley, 200 ; Oats, 410 ; Beene, 20. WORKINGTON, Deo. 24.-At this market to-day we had • good supply of Wheat and Data ; priors nearly as last week. Beet white Wheat, 17.. to 18a. 13d. ; red, 14s. to Ifs. Barley, 98. W. to 19s. 6d. Oats, 17e. to 7s. 6d. Flour, hest, per stone, Is. 106.; se. ands, la Bd. IllarleySoar, le. 2d. Oatmeal, Is. W. Ryeflour, is. Id. CATTLE, &e.—ElotrraeLL, Dso. 25.—This being Christ. ma day, no bnainesa Irma trannaotad. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY A PARISH OFFICER. —Leterd .y information was receieed•by the metropolitan police thrt J Guises, one of the parochial officers, had absconded from Petrrhorough with upwards of 4901, the money of the ratepayers. The bench of magistrates have issued a warrant for his apprehension, and officers have been despatched to the oatpor•.s to prevent him from quitting the kingdom. - - [AderrtiallOtellt] —AN ADMIRABLE REMEDY ARE Betaowat's Pn&m PO& MUMS 0011/LAINTS AND Imotonenox.— The demi of those lavehabie pine le the eure of bile, indlgestioo, Esteleagy, let beedgebee, seaveme•e„ sad debilitated coeititelleolk bee tberougidyestellilebed iM eintetevery put of the worid, dart** wry stood preredmstes MelMlet seeMelme env tepee Re IMP empieW% eal t =t e res bp pm= et Ell epee sod to nary 'time& They Meolletbee die iheulties of the WA Weems ebe appedleorl wit, Ur bind. Then who emit kern imp beet& ea bp whaler, eiseolimee e. 7 rety Wee MOE= If am r= o rt reltralls• 1,11. ice. Larks. SIIIPPINO INTELLI:IMCE. (hoe <iv Comeposeteara,ll.• CASUALTIEB. Florence, of Liverpool, to Old Ca 1.1,4, el., n r , her rudder in a pale on the lih i• n 10..1150, when she was abandoned by t•, transferred from the Montreal, (eh) at Vg , „ e p,' ( ~ K for • passage to &Wald and n 22nd Dee. the Elorerce wse ab out . ward of Coruna', the lti.ing $4.1 (uPti ri eo mouth to Cadiz in ouspany, when the lAN • crew returned to the sh i p f rom of the rudder is the Deny detect. sn. bilk .1. in of all vessels grossing thel t 13ty of 11•.e.v, ‘• may be get into port. ie the s her value and cargo are esti:w.f.' it r Helen (brig). M'Greger, trent .r ly • during thick wecti.r and light tenni., Sand, but came off, and wee smivte4 she will oome into the hubrue ' t o o t Norfolk, Dec. 23. John fit'Kenxie, for New Orlou the sth instant a men named ;; yard and WU drowned ; anieh,r fell from the maintop, but he 'A ; A . although ly hurt may rvc., - shrouds gave way, her fore Yr. I ma i n t op and foretopeaasts retold a• , 1. .. quarterboate lost, her carp, sfkat pearance of an improvement en the Pr. self, the muter resolved to p u t 114 e, a . Lady of the Like, Duncan, ft •ro Q • I , L .' the 22nd, experienced .tint,; „ , On the 4th instant eocount,r,.. At 6 a.m. a tremendous .en side, and swept the d. eke, carrea, house, jibb oat, figurehead, was hove on her beamsn h.; of the cargo and the rao r The gales continued for 1 r Lord Hemline, from Cis instant, has put b►ck Iv.re • memo g►le WSW. W.o a , o , rigging by a h soy sea, cookhouse, end part of bole will have to discharge cargo a:. l t ock, Dec 24. Maraeret, lit'Hersie, which saii: the 18th instant, when to the w . leak, and was obliged to bear night making a good deal 01 Sobratin, tbodger, from L v. this pert with Lois of f..n minus topmast, sails sad tißtir t and bulwarka lost, and estg.. S' 100. 9W. A steamer has hen mouth, Dee. 24. Tagliafiero (Mal!ese ship), tr m abaadoned by crew, D.c. 8, :u SEABORNE 'JAI Illay at , e m COUNTRIES. in Genera; I Oflke Lots America (via New York by British packet)....N Jim. 3 kmerica (via Boston byl British packet) h' i lan. 17 America(byOnited Staten Be packet) lgium Brasil dl "9th of the Beaten Ayres .113:9th of th. Caliturnia(naChagesslll l l7th of the non' Cape of Good Hope Pi:January IF Central America M,lndal7taiii r.. Channel Ines ...... non., a t. Chin Milan of :I:. France Mt N. Nice 4.1 r Hamburg 5 Tuegda! h 3'61. Holland M.Wedata. ie Su , 3 Hominess s,l7th of the :nub. Ireland MB N Twice India (via Bouthasai t )31.20th India (via Marseilles) 24:7thit2Bci : Itediterranaus(via South' amnion) N lntl{ of the mon Meditemsnean (via Mar-i wires) N:7thit 21th Healed 31 hat th. 1.1 Penland* 3l 70117th'27..1: , .f Peru 7th the Wept ladles 7l' 17th of the Wept lodis Inapt na.l vanna.and Same) 11 1 ,7nd of the moo • N slandlealbal the moon are rent by the night- and IR on menus., - •EtKIVk,l, AUGUSTA Jlllllla—Off LOSICIOIII, D I • n.' ADRIAIDE- at Groverend, Decench• r. • Buns—at Gravesend, December 23 I Esteems Cams- at Deal, Demo . CMANCL--off Southrold, treemuhr r 14, CALEDONIA—at GraTeALSO, Di ere. r Etas—at Graveeend, Decernbr r .1, Eo.—at Gravesend, December 23. Preo—at Qtxceetown, Decembr r I'. GALILEO —off Queenstown, Decern'er Guareca—at Gravesend, Demur., Ilaso —at Crayoned, December 2 Hamer DUNCAN—AL SOLObETOO:011, I t Ica—off Dungeness, December 24, fr Joan COESULli—at Gramme!, Der , r Lbrorobo--eff Southwold, Decrial" r . Mesa.—at Glorgoor, December /2, : MEDUSA—at Quorastowl, Menne r MONO CASTLE—off Dungeonne, IM, •• Nauron—at Lynn, Dees nber 14, fn Ificouu—at Deal, December 23, • OSSOON—at Greenock, December 11, Preece Enwacw—off Deal, Dreernt , PROVIDENCE—at Penzance Rearm, If PETITE IMMUNE —at liravercod, Utt QVIESS —at Gravesend, Dt,.•mber „ thrt E. 130063—at Gravesend, IM c. Trumann -st Gravernend, Decemln t - Tverlent/TH CA.TLE —off Inel, In •••, • Yawns—at Yarmouth, Decrenher Virsarroa—at Gravesend, Downie r SAILER liarrevea—from Granoek, Dre nrho ALaraTMI —tram Swansea, Deorrnh r . Ainwirra—from Swansea, Arouw—from Gravesend, literally. Drawn—from Gravesend, Dram's r 2' Brawn[—from Gravesend. Dare. r VILOVLIM—from Cardiff, Dram , or 2. Fsvorarra—from Yarmouth. Dresmnr Jaws from Bt. Maws, Dee. LtalUlPOOL—from Graveetod, Dr.vmh. MallatlNl—from Newport, @amt., Oocsa—tram Falmouth, Deerroher 23, QUaltdlTOlrsl—titao Newport, lkorirt Itoecouseon —beim Gramma, Fara—from Gravesend, Decemba 2' STA DT DOIDI AEC r—trum Grarrara . BUTI ILA —from Graveand, Deovert SUILUMA —from Bideford. Grombrr TVOII Aa Jaws—from Llanelly, Dam Taros. -from Gravesend, Dee. 23, ti VESSELS SPOkk:ti Echo (French three-masted sch,,,: N., lon. 31.10 W. Presto, Wilson, from limes for lon. 14 38. BIRTHS, MARRIA'i HIRIHS OILER.—Dec. 21, at Weal& the wik 011411Atd.—Dee. 23, at Paris, the s daughter. GRAINGEB.—Dee. 23, at Glumester.o, I Uraiager, of a daughter. KINGSCOTE.—Dre. 24, at Chester , o:. daughter, LAW.—Dec. 22, at 13oulogocaur.3/er, th daughter. 21AN&IA.—Dee. 2e, at St. Mary's r• Much; 01 a daugbter. SITH. 7 Deo. 21, Jim J. 0. Eledl2, of •lal. TARRANT.—Des. 23. Mrs. H. Tam', .4 1 - 12aen, - Ot; dialbter. TRENCIL—Dee. 21, at Itchenotote B. C. Trench, of • rem. MAILIt BOWEN—N UNIV.—Deg 1111, at Otoexh chttra. Fan., to Catherine B.U. only danyni.r , Nunn, of H.R.'s 66th Rest ORISVILLE—MICHAEL.—Dee. 23. S.• equate, by the Rev. W. V. Short. At A., i... Janwes.erware Notting-hill, second run ••! LL.D., Edinbu r gh, to Rosa, eakut dutlV-:` of Re! Ilou-square, London. WALTON—WILCOX.—Oct. la. et Ita‘ ui of H.R.'s 3.3 rd Rest., fourth in of the lir the 4th Light Dragoons, to Jessie, se re eon, of the 4th Rest. Bengal Native Inlan! ,, WOOLLET—KERIL—Dtc. A, et Trinity race, by the Be.. P. N. Marti S. Woolley, Esq., of the Inner Tt.mpte. Nary of the !ate Capt. H. Kerr. DbAT:ig , BROWN.—Dee. 32, at New Bytb, nee 11.1a.d, V.O. daughter of the Rev. O. Brown. BULKELEY.—Oat. 28, at BM* Bomtur, Lew . 03: the 2nd Ormaadier Native Infantry, el if: FLIP 0. Bulkeley, Esq., late of Newbury, lerb. ,se cAgritt.L.—Dee. 23, Mr. J. Pemba. of Fri square, and Peterborough Lodge, tlaeMey i i , p a . DE MALAIIIDIL—Dee. 20, at Bremer.* James Load Talbot de Malahld attire. DOWNING.—Dre. 23, at Canadatmterrace, Co", Bladed, Soo Of P. Downing, ta.u, vet t wo 1 "7„:i 01113ENLAW.—Deq, 22„. et th e itmt, 0, Woo! Oreenlaw, ILA., Reece of that nrieb. HOWISON.—Den. 40 at Frodertek.street. Edile Howboa, OSBORNIE.—Oet, 92. at Reeundera.,,, I, Made. 4100 00borIN, 19th Rep Manna) N.,, dad da ThuMier, of PAYNIL—IMO. 23, at Saat-ead ROLLS'S, raittoedd AE9304441114 of 0. A. Payne, EN. STERLINO.—Dee. 19, at Corea - we 1 4 . 21 4 bwiing, Fag, Druntaelller. ea , d 71 STEVENSON.—Dee. 20, at AmarivA-Kuar e, venom, aid 49. TUIII4EI4.—Dee. IS, at Briptco, J. H. Tamer, a 5 mow, Epp, 1 * tidaratoe,TWOW a Tivo il"" priatad andbowthy of music mind drag.