The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

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Prises lot the pest quarter shows as in as ocumand with Me eorresposding quarte r 0 . Tail lu part may be atismated tor by bonnets in the rations musty mart% emassiti.ents ow made from the districts of Whileabamel and the o,,,, J ers, whirr, until the County Comte Act came men tion, bad no prises to commit is, sad Ilbia c s nit ere. by the Small Debts Amendment Aet, smile l'ri. on. The prism is lieshby, glean, sad is tae year 74 prisoners MVO availed them , pt tvil.ge o f in the prison workmen', sad all {Leif carsoitiat, and 247 have bees minted Mon' diaritable Issue, either is arranging with their or by taking then tbrougb the Insolvent Dibtors !spy tame inmates of the Debtors' Pelson will el son in lots in Me lamented death of her late ..rees Adelaide. lam usable to state the average cumber of throe who ever.. reeipiente of bar &rusty, hoof eh wily being Mee is secret, and it wee only mem which 'ignited idorrastiss 1 had the honour 8 11 1 " 16 - .. Mineseting ether butiams the °Mart sajourned. INGTON CLUB AND METROPOLITAN ♦rHENRUM. evening the second anneal soiree of this insti ls held at the Cirb Howe (late the Crows add . 'raven). in the S•rand. There was a eery anew tawny, gm skid' a vary large proportion were ladies. Wee present Were Mr. Lushic pee, Drs. Norton Shaw. and Ideated. R. E. Herne, K. Hervey, E. q., Crum. thipin, E•g., &c. rindpal melte of mow, inelactaa the large bell nen. swiss sad reading rooms, and otter caldrons opera nt. devoted to tn. porpoise* of the evening. baring reorat4 opeeia:ly for the cceation. A eontiderabia 'paiatinr, engraving', daguerreotypes, statuettes, artic:es of art and vertu, rintributed by the tees their friends, were inhibited, and were wasted tame. concert 4 vocal sad inatremeatal meals was gives. in the principal perfittlatee were Mi Milit'ortts. Mn. Rase, J A. Novelle, lir. %%dims. sad Mr. ,te ulcer i a), biter which the great room was Mated to da.ritig, which was kept until an hear ,yoad that at watch the doers of the club are away • Me sieln. NCRAS FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. light public meeting wee held st the (Hobe aer e I.c the purpose effe!ski a dutriet W. Sootinavirun: I' , Is chi emir. r from Lied Dmitri Stwort was read, regretting IK •eb 0•••• • from isdiermitioo. llltlrAr, i. explainuig the (Mort. of the es. mil teat tue only reason l o maid maga for the oel inc pored Is the chat, woe that he we. ego. with Me tows where it hal its °riots. He had hewn d os the lat swam et parliament oy Mr Nesdegste teams o a the t he Lved 8 *My. list ytkiak when he istointed then t h atth Mr. n:d itio him tic wi Mr. Spme.w, and lewd Brooke, pe•ruaa of a some y lossded es • sin dor principle. of parchwitog funnel& for political par,ore wee es., biasses daring the sattseen um agitation bin r powd to parttime foiebol , r. and they were pro,. d is meth astabors is L meseliiht, Y ILA& we. tat too 'Lotions tee thew coantiee rind is imam of the liberals by that opts. Bet rt rl that swy Hera Irak that it melt, d a great outlay outlay woo r qsires all at onto. It we rewind mammas. Mr J. Tallutot, to oeigiasto tho pies nd of tap 10.41 is largo qsaitios at • incarnate pnee, e -mg is smart a mistier of todoriinale at the P pivot. Tao b'.t steeling of Mr. Tow for camp .4 ides ee..oietod el Linnets sad another lath/Loa ie, he w happy t i tell them, likely to becowe one s-at tvalportely summital m .11111111i4 ewer ori• lie had obtained votes Le he or Ws coon. mesas of ateolithu lead si ietits, mad he would use a mous; for person* who w .u!ol eves go beyond the .4 the Med wltte SJ J. WOlllll,llll y stood. (Cheers ) .peke Le hires It ouly ; omen, of e.mose, wore at hb.rty w the tree: toe in • dl rest way. He considered toe told laid isuieweut to be the taut isaiwiteely Free • mime of si teetu.e • tritorm et the Retorts Bill. H. ' open the meeting to aid themselves by Weis* the We. If they dm cot du le, let thew not complain their petitioss were rejoiced by the Bowie of Common. 'W * LEY ea-ad toe 8 a resoludim . the tart duty of *estate is o esde,vour to ?nest* king OIL, aid to make him 1.411 as interest in the tied s i the c,,liatry; that t►e remark, f.,r hint :Le trsrehi.e is the tir , t step to raise him ;a OW own a sea is la* seal mete ; sad this 'sestina deter .err to miss ia 'airtime till all men rated to the ft their rover hret►re& in I. res:otios of that At " ,E AL yeeodyll the regolotioo. The rest ob,ect of tip Yes oe hire Oh feudist to the pteple, wi i.uut A y mkt a A expect to have II 1101114 Lt Common. mule truly seirretat the opinion Lad inteliec; of the astry. (Hew. how) r. WILLIAMS said that giving h:s 'vasty con to the Free•ol4 Land B,eiety, which be thought the sat imp rant wameueots that had originated of sr, b. stead-d el: the meetings which had been Nether its (lint In a moral and social point of :bought there c.,uld be little doubt of its value and but to • poltical point of view he thoathe if was overrated, le , cauw It could be only ma le appli Me 149 musty members. (Hear, Lear.) But it it the effect of pr curing the re•uni of such Dien as mho and Mr Cobden it could not be said to be with :•litleal value. .bitioss was then put, and paned unanimously. flfil proposed the hest resolution : 1. highly derogatory for freemen to repeatedly ,si•lature to resist that which they peas se an Md.. ',seer to ce lain, sir , the elective trauchise; that it . proud that freehold land societies persist the c certain mesas of placmg men in that honourable en a. owls &saves the support of this meeting." IVTION seconded the resolution. He attributed whir', se red the country to the want of the 'ranchos. 11.1 - N --- :u . p . p3re3 the resolution. As n working man oe . icei• eriaies se the lever by which the am would memo themselves from their preetet ;writ a*Ma •as put •nd parer] unanimously. XCANN AN moved the next rceolution .1 biet-ry, enema* and widens, has proved that 11:. utm vow, he p themselves, and that every an , tat tart Isms if o obtain a rs d, does ant deserve 11..nlvm, a 1i upts al! true reformers to join some :At sxiety, in order that they may enjoy the trite , 'LEN'S 4 c)nd ed the reettintioe, which passed skean'. "WARS wolfed a vote of thanks to the Chair -6a to upon as Om of the few real friends of to the 11. t. (Hoar .IIIIIIX4IN maned *asks, sod the meeting •TECio(w PARCEL—In the COW= of lot Tuts ,r? er Pseud Stewart was d sired by Mr. and Mrs. Calton, Farnham, to call at the Reading 'the Great Western Railway and inquire if there reel I-r a lady s. a) ing at their house. He called at on the toll ming day, and Diann • one of the rail. stated that there was a parcel directed " Mrs. a he left at the Reeding station till all• d for, cirri Peloiestoei." It we. a roads►aped package, ebb anus, and sewn round the addrer. It we. to toe terrier, et, took it to toe Unicorn, hot t o the parcel expected by the land lady, 'hey deelia•d to receive it. Stewart then I it to aan.her Mr.. Smith, who lives In East ho *used ilia the preeenm 01 himself and two other thi •be casein iniag evmesed, a lMht chip bue i sal. piper, was lout The Le wee forted open, t ter found the body of a female child, wrspp d up r eoth. Mr, Newell, the constable, was called to ore old, sad cr. Mr Rerwelea, a surgeon, attending, u.t it to be the body of a newly born infant. A essesinatienshowed that it had be,• born alive, t as rtaphe at rioleace on t►e lace and head, be had • • p threat t►at it had mot he death by unfair mom. .er ►'►ter rated that the parcel reached the Rea& .r ho ise2rb of December, by the 7 o'cieek teals' .set's.. It remained to ►ie custody till fetched by II hotned that it ►ad aa offensive smell, but he deed game. le order that the police iaity opportunity of solving the mystery con. s r• tor• W. or the deceased child, the inquiry wee s fortaieht. Ot'IOANCI AT LREDS.—Th. imam •op filooday to censider the propriety of • • toe .1 t..e smoke eaneam, with a view "t. luere sa musk difference of opinion as the •r that memser. unloading that the greatest n.. 4. mad. , iaaiied from the low c►imneys of '• • h le., r which they bad so control 1 • motion on being put from the chair • • toe nod it/ seeing.. it. ' Paitm.—Aymet, the man in • • p.i imed potty to two women, eta ed ark , the kirk.% and boa la which the Ism a Inviter on the Boulevard "' *ea aceardinely cm Saturday takes by " • I; I . vsrd, to point out, it possible, the ' ' •••I He iiidicated a woman, named ea min refused to answer the quer 141 . 0 , and heaped inadte upon them. ►attar name up at the time, like us, an, anal refuaed to sell thon articles • eoh to Aymet. The other hawken gather. d mama. it the police, and at one mommat a wd feared. One of the hawkers Tubed a hue of one ot the police, and wu shout to •' .•t.r•atod. A trawd laying easembled, the tt 'l night lose their prisoner, and lb., re ' s i rally TrileAllet end wife were urattit. THE EXPRESQ, WEDNESDAY HONING. JANUARY 16, 1850. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. Mattozarria, Jur. 16. These lea good &mud today in the market for yarns sad sloths, ►ut the must of beldame ben not been so large as was expected, owls( to the coast••tly edvancirg rave whisk spinners and ansaisfasterers feel controlled to ask i• consequence et the rise of oottoa. An other reuses far • more limited extent of busker is that the stocks et yarn' and light fabrics most in deemed are far towards being eakausted, whilst the rundown of them are already soda order—many of than for weeks and month to cone. non Is no woudet that the advance of prime has • tendency to check business, oboe it Is borne in mind that the advance within the month pest, from the lowest plat, has bees something like 16 per mat. The priacipal transaseiens are for the home trade, • rood deal of cloth being takes by misters. There bare bees scam transactions for India, but semis of our mar chants have succeeded is aiming rather ►e•vy contrasts with producers before the adeause were or considerable, and an now buying for immediate sad preening orders with con siderable caution. Buyers for Italy and tCe Mediterrasuan an operating sparingly. The very eassiderable advance spat the raw material will au cloak act as a very serious clog on our trade darts; the whole of the slater and spring; sad as this is the mond short er within • few years, it will probably draw the attention of our trading community more seriously to the necessity of sessirieg better supplies by extending, if possible, the cul tivation of cotton to o her dimes. and rendering the supply se peer:Brim than at present. Our Chamber of Commerce have • special meeting on this 'abject on Thursday, and it may be expected that the subject will then 'e brought before that commercial world in • more deflate' form. It was rumoured here to-day, on good authority, that a conmaiseion agent front the neighbourhood of Bevil) had alwcond.d, taking with hint 2,0004. belonging to his creditors. THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN SUFFOLK. Thomas MaeEutaw, Esq., baying visited the locality of Or. at Yarmouth, ua his mission threaded the 'eaters counties, at the request of some friends kindly eon. tenttAl to deliver a lecture on the principles and objtsts of the Reamed Reform Association, at Gorhaton. Handbills were accordingly issued on Monday last, announcing a lec ture to take place at the Guardian Angel in the evening, sad notwithstanding the *bonnets of the notice, the in. clemency of the weather, and a report industriously circu lated by the loflllll that half-a-crown would he charged for admission, the large room was filled. Mr. MscEnt er was aceompanied by a deputation of reformers from Yarmouth. Mr. H. Rosins, jun. (a pilot), was called to the chair, and The lecturer prod:end. d to detail the circumetances wh•eh bad led to the formation of the National Reform Society, and the emu late weeds which had attended its a Huta up to the mem lime. He took a vises of the different departments of government expecditure—in the army, navy, colonies, &e., demonstrating bons facts sad figures that the present extravagant expendi. are of the cation, was only kept up in water to preside places and pensions for the eons and dukes ters of the aristocracy. He also exposed the injustice and inequalities in our system of indirect taxation ; cor.cluding by drawint a forcible comparison between the expenses of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. Toe lecturer was badly applauded throughout. C. E. BARTRAM, Esq., meet d the first resolution : " That the press at unequal and oppressive system of taxi. tin presses unjustly on the industrious many, to add to the sfito.nee of the indolent few; and is opposed to the princi ple. o! justice, morality, sad sound national policy." (Ap• planets.) The Rev. J. PIKE (independent tainis.e-) seconded the resolution, which was sapported by Mr. T. J•ciesok, and un mucous!, agreed to. Mr. PAGE moved the a at resolution: "That the meeting, tielb.vini that a therousli reform of the House of Commons is the only means of obtaining and securiog popular rights, pkdges itself to co cpetats with the N stional Reform Assowation fir the attainment of that object." The resolution wis seconded, and also unanimously agreed to. A branch sasociation having been formed in Oseeston the first of the kind in the e misty of Suffolk), witn ?dr. Rundle for is president, and Mr. R. Dye for its secretary, tce meeting wporated. ADVERTISIMENT DUTY.—We are glad to ray that this 'obi et has gained the attention of the metropuli ma press, though we are sorry to see the Tama dealing with the matter is rather • personal question than as one affecting the mercantile and industrio-s classee—ths advertising com munity—and one of very considerable lamest to the into- M§ of all public journals. We hope yet to see a general csmbinaeion among our brethren of the provincial Dress fur the pumas of pressing upon parliament the policy and justice of repealing this tex, which yields but a small amount o. revenue, but which is adverse to the interests of news , apers, and, at the same tior., to all those who wish for publicity in matters coun.cted with their trade. We hoes plenty of men is th. House of Commons, of all parti s—from D eraeli to Colonel Thomson—to advocate the c .use of the press; and if the borough and county riper, spesk out tajon the question, the Chancellor of the Hach. quer will scarcely rteist so fair a claim.— /pew ids Eons es* TIIE WEATHER, THE PARKS, &T.—The rivet Con tloued with lIIISIO3IOi bed ity throughout Monday night,the thermometer a. the Ruyal Hum a ne S aitty's Iteceivieg House. in Hyde park, falling at toe period as !ow as ten di gr..es b. low frees ag point. Towards morning the 'Noun easterly wind which had prevailed daring the pre. nous twenty- our boors moderated. As the day adv.nced it veered round to the northward, and the temperature, thiugh still very low, became less intensely cold. The parks were fully as much crowded as on the pre , loos day, sad many thousands enjoyei the diversion of skating on the Serpentine and the various other ornamental waters During the afternoon the drive on the northern hank of the Serpentine was crowded with carriages filled with company attracted to witness the scene. The gay again passed with. .eut any accident worth chronicling. To-day the frost is sue ce•ded by a rapid thaw accimpa..ied by small rain. ROBBERIES AT LEEDS, AND DISCOVERY OP TILE STOLEN PROTESTS IN LONDON.—Yekterday John Akroyd, William Rhodes, Joseph Kitchen, Christopher Petler, Matthew Sellers, and Benjamin Wooller, were brought up at the Leeds Coon-hcase, before C. 0. Miele., Esq., and Thomas Hebden, Esq., under the following circumstances. Mr. Read, chief constable, stated to the bench that latterly several robberies bad taken place in Leeds and the neigh. Lourhood, the produce of which had been sent out of town without the police being able to trace out the semen A few days ago he received information of a parcel being left at the railway station by the prisoner Sellers, who gave instructh as for it to be sent t• Loudon by the night in. H. He imme. diately scot Inspector Child to make inquiries, and that cfficer ascatained that the parcel contained silver plate and other articles, which had been stolen from the noose of Mr. William Wood, a gentleman residing at Potter newton, near Leeds. The prisoner Kitchin, he should be able to show, had been in c•rresposidence with parties in London, to whom the parcel had been directed. He bad also evidence to show that several of the prisoners had been aeon together near Mr. Wood's house on the night of the robbery, but he was not then prepared to go fully into the ease. After Inspector Child had found that the parcel left by Sellers at the railway station contained stolen pr.Terty, that officer was despatched to London, where he arrived by an earlier train than the mail, and he (Mr. Read) had since received from him a letter, dated London, Jan. 12 In this letter he stated thet he had succeeded in apprehend. ing a man named Thomas Kay, a notorious character, formerly residirg in Leeds, and a man named W. Green. It appeared that the parcel sent;by the mail was delivered about 11 o'clock to the prisoner Key, the parcel being addressed to " Mr. Thomas !Wright, No. 10, Plessannplace, West. square, Lambeth ;" and, en receivi n g the parcel, Kay signed his name to the railway delivery book "Thomas Wright." Inspector Child, who was accompanied by Sergeant Goff, of the London police, were present when the parcel was delivered, and at once took Kay into custody, whilst the parcel was still in his posseesioa. On searching Key's house 18.51. in notes and gold, a gold watch, and other Yalu. able property were found. After this they went to another bones and apprehended Green, at whose bowie they found two pieces of cloth. one invisible green and the other black, which would probably turn oat to have been stolen from some of the warehouses in Leeds. The prisoners had been taken before the lion. G. C. Norton, of the Lambeth police-r ffic , who, on bearing the Ac's stated, remanded the prisoner. till Thursday. This being en, he (Mr. Read) asked the justices to remand the prisoners in custody here till Saturday The prisoners were then 'emended to that day. The prisoner Petier, who is in bad health, was allowed to go at large, on finding bail;for his appearance. Hitches is a son of a respectable innkeeper, In Marsh-lane, Leeds; but the other prisoners are all men well known to the police. EXTENSIVE MANUFACTURE OF BASE COlN.—There seem to be at present one or m.xe mints of hese cart at work upon an extensive scale in London. From tine to time within the last few weeks .be Manchester police have re solved notice from the metropolis to be oa tee alert, as parcels of base half-crowns and 6s. pieces were being de spatched ro trusty molts here. Accordingly Mr. Beswiek, the chief superintendent of pilot, set two detective officen to watch the London. road railway station. A brown parcel. evidently of coin,_ eeriest Nem London on Thareday night at the stalion. Tie direction, " Jobs Thompson, at Mrs. Heron's, Temperances Hotel, Lever street," wit. copied, sad Mr Berwick, iaith Megan. Buckley, Gee, and Porter, went to the hotel . arly in the morning. In an upper room they found a atm in bed, who gave his name W. Brown. In a room adjoining they found two persons sitting at the fire. who called themselves John and Louisa Thompson. In the lap of the woman was s bundle of bass hear-crowns, and a large quantity more wrapped up in parcels of eight cub lying OR the bed. The brawn cover of the parcel (c high had just before been delivered from the railway) was also foetal. They were taken into custody. Altogether the amount of base meaty found was 141. IN, which Tnoraps in imputed Mr. B...wick was the entire gitautity received. The coin is one of the beet imitations ever ens anted, and it is difficult to see the difference between it and the well-worn good half-crown. They are dated Grave 111., 1817; Champ 111., 1819; and George IV., 1826. The they Inorecliont in their composition is bismuth; and they are finished on by electro-pleting. Their " ring" is identical *ilk the genuine silver, which makes it all the more necessary for the public to be on their guru& We believe that the steps taken to watch these desperate Nyasa well b as e th.• arse, of eh.cking their operations in this quarter. Similar parcel.of base money have teen dropp e d recently at various 'Winne on the r.ilway between Lon. dace cad Masolester.—Mancheeter twestor. PROTECTIONIST MEETINGS. MEETING AT BOTLEY, HANTS. • A anoassou meeting of farmers and others resi drat la Heats wee held on Monday afternoon, in the Market. ball, Bridey, foe the purpose of adept's( immune for the protection of Beitish indastry. Mr. J. WAnstax, of Steeple Court, was milled to the chair. Kr. 3. BLOnwaLL moved: " The present meetug , viswirg with alarm and s pore- Itemise the losses whelk the adoption of a tree toad. in tarn has iafileted on the aelealtural capital of this emintry, and believing that the continuance of the game evil policy will materially ec:pple, if sot entirely ruin the present race of farmers, sad involve all other interests depending ea agriculture, resins sew their best exertions to remove the grievance esemplabsed of." Mr. H WOoLhaIDOn emeaded the resolution. Mr. JOHN Ts/MONGER BILESS, of Brusledon Bridge, rem tomee the following amendment " That the praukal and permanent relief for apical tarsi distress is the immediate sad total repeal of the malt and hop dative, a revision end reduction in the national and supervision in the local taxation of this country, an equitable adjustment of the tithes, a recognition of tenant right, and a total repeal of the odious, tyraesioal, and demoralising game laws." Is proposing this amendment, he did so in vindication of the priaciple which had been inculcated is his bosom aben a boy—the greatest ponible good to the greatest number. He firmly believed that promotion was clean gone for ever—(oh, oh)—that it would return till they also had a return of the belied in witches and wizards, and the restoration of the old Inquisition. He considered it thoroughly futile, end a waste of time and labour to be tslkiog about protection, and diverdng their attention from the real quest.on, which, he agreed with Mr. Blundell, was me of taxalon. They were labouring under a severe weight of taxation, national u well as local, and their ob ject snspht to be tdremove that. In 1815, when the corn laws were passed, they were promised them things—steady remunerating prices and • n spikes the Ci s, gn grower. Now in all' these they bed utterly failed. (No, no.) During that time more farmers had been ruired than et any other period of British history. During that time they had had six or seven parliamentary committees to inquietfato agricultural distress; and about the middle of the period a general scramble for bread—and this was during the glorious times of agricultural protection. Looking at his own neighbourhood, within a radios of three and a half miles, he could, in 1831, pointout 50 farms occupied by 50 farmers ; in 1845, there were only 12 farm' occupied by as many farmers. Where were the IS gone ? The small formers :had been mined, brought down to the workhouse, sr sent to the hulks. In 1846, the corn laws were repealed, and what was the predicted result? Why, that they would be all ruined, that the labourers would be all starved, manufaeturen rotund, and all the gold sent out of the country. Yet, what did they now see ? Th, it exports increased ten million during the year ; sixteen millions In the coffers of the Bank of England, a larger sum than had been known for years, and the labour ing dense consuming more of the necessaries of life than was ever before known. (Some interrup tion was here offered, which the chairman eupi res-etl.) Some gentlemen appeared to dispute this, but here was the proof. There was an excess in the revenue last quarter—in the excise department alone, as compared with the mere sponding quarter of la.t year, of 371,8991. Then, look at the vast amount of breadstuff' imported from foreign parts during the year—nearly four millions of quarters. A revision and ri titration of taxation be was sure they would all acquiesce in; audio also would they, judging from the clamo u r roc ' n tly raised on the question of county rates, in a supervision of local taxation. Then came the question of an equitable adjustment of tithes—and what said that eminent antrwrity, Baron Gilbert, on the original purpose of tithes? One-third was to go to the priest for his own support—one-third for the relief of the poor—and ore-third for the repair and building of churches. Mr. T. FALVEY seconded the amendment. He said Mr. Ekless had told them that sit committees had sat since 1815, on agricultural distress. The present Duke of Buckingham said, in his place in the Rouse of Commons (then Marquis of Csandos), us the year 1835, that if something was not done tonsils,. the agriculture all the capital of the farmers of this country would be destroyed. In 1822 more farmers were sold up in this count and the neighbouring county of Sum:, than could hi again in any one year fur twerty years to come. (No.) There was a wholesale de. attraction of farmers and farming maid in that year both in England and Ireland. Mr Falvey proceeded to argue at pest length in support of a revision of both national and local taxation, a general and great reduction of efflial marries, and general financial reform, and for a repeal of ti e gsme laws, no which he renters, d with great severity. Ile also referred to the silk and other manufactures, which had grown in importance aed magnitude since they were rele , wd from the " protecting " c—re of meet. and entvended that the stamina of the English people would a'way • be found sufficiently powerful, if left to its own resources to compete successfully with the foreigner. The CHAIR id AN, in putting the rissolu.ion, said that Mr. Falvey's arguments were sound, but that until they ob.ained a revision and reduction of taxation they must have a small protective duty. The amendment was then put and lost, the original mo• ties, bring carried by a large majority. The following resolutions were subsequently adopted : " That the legislature having evinced no disposition to adopt any measures calculated to enable farmers to meet the foreign competition—having disregerded the petitions of agriculturis's for a repeal of the malt tax, and a removal or re adjustment of the enormous burden of local taxation which now so disproportionately presses upon them —are of opinion that the adopiun of the principie of a fair and just protection will be to the advantage of all deem of the cem• inanity, and the most practical remedy that can be o ff ered." " That for the reasons embraced in the foregoing ',solu tions, this meeting, entertaining no expectation of substan tial relief from the present parliament, it is resolved that an address be presented to the Queen, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to dissolve the present parliament." " neat in order to collect and express the opinions of the aglieulturiete of the neighbourhood, and preserve the com munication between 'hem and others in different parts of the kingdom, a society be formed, to be designated the Beaty branch of the Society for the Protection of British Industry." HEALTH OF LONDON DURIN9 THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JANUARY 14. (Prem the Megierzer-Oeserers `i I. lb* week ending rat Saturday, ,086 deaths were registered in the metrepolitaa districts ; ter the second week of 10 previous years (1840 9) the average inereeted for increase of poan'aties is 1480. dr deaths having ni is duo weal from 929 in 1844 to 1,467 in 1848, at which latter period the mortality was meek lammed by idles ass, ter on the decline. The deaths In the present vetoes ere, there fore less titan the average by 196. The mortality from smallpox, though it shows a tandeney to inereme, is still lass than half the avenge. Beariatina and hooping-cough also cause less than the easel manlier of deaths, only 11 having occurred last week from the fernier epido mitt, though the corrected average is 37; in tits serrespondiug week of last year the 'Laths from scerlatina FM to 63. No death froa cholera mama during the there were 24 from diorite& and dysentery. From typhus, which reseed is the same week of tea mewl.. yeas from 22 to 83, the deaths returned last we. k we re 33, or rather lees than the average; tist the mortality from measles is at present rather above 'it. The only complaint which I. now tatal to a considerable extent is bronchitis, from which 26 children under 15 years, 31 persons between 16 and 60, and 64 at 60 years and upwards, died in the week; its increasing totality daring the last three weeks, in which the weekly seen temperature hes been successively 33, Si, and 30 degrees, is marked by the number reteurs.d. namely 78, 103, and r last week I'2o. Passover was fatal to 83 perilous, one-halt of whom were children. The latter disease ie now less Pan the averse., wear the farmer is in ewes. 01 the 1,066 deaths, 303 were those or persons of 60 years old or upwards. A few farts are lel eted from the rept its made by tete It Ostrom: A child died of maxim followed by dropsy, at Priem -street, dldgate, in a small room which is " very dirty and has two months, oornposrd of eight 'weeps, living and sleeping in it." Mr. Spencer adds, that "tee deceased bed been lately under the are of the medical e ®her for scald head; the mother afterwards applied for relief, but reward to enter tee workhouse, and neglected to take the child for farther medic advise." Mr. Bow ring Matte that " the widow of a grocer. aged 47, who dial in the work house, Kiopland-rosd, of dierrticol, was found try the me diva odloar, at 14. Olossoi • eratreet. Curtain--o.d, in a very had caw from the accumulation or filth in &lama parte of h. r r• OW. while her body, of which the car rirg was an old shirt, swarmed with vermin." Me. Marth..ws states that "a child hied 01 lioopii.g.eough, at 1, Too's. beildinp, 133ineratown, in a house rote 'Wog of two fo.looli, one of which enn.ained a privy only •eparaed by a partition, n• yard b 401110.04 to Inc premises Ten persons, sad some times more, occupied the sportsmen and slept in four beds indercrimmately, sod without regard to age or ell." A child at Fulham died of " debility," home been born pre maturely in consequence of the wither being rudder 1$ sent ti peisni. Liec%ln- , ourt in St. Ilk's is re ported ss ..1 I.t 'canted ard havi: g meek dee itstiol." A hove, 21, Church• lace, is described be Mr.flimpson as. nen.cruerded, ill-eleanetd sad badly ventilate:;' and 12, Prospect-place, Stoke Newington, by Mr. Tarry, r "over crowded and aehealthy." The mean dollheight of the hartneertly was shore 30 in. on Tuesday and Wednesday ; the amen was 29 821 in. The higher% temperature was 38 der., oa Sunday ; the man was never higher than 31.8 d. ant. The lowest mean temperature oncerred on S.ti.rdsy, when it was 28 7 dea., and lower by 7 deg. than the average ol the soma day in sewn ;ems. Oa every day the temperature was lower than the enrage. The Nara of the week woe 30 3 d. g. TIM CHOLSIB ILTIDRIIIC A•li TIII TILWPIRATURE OP THI A t.ble (eppen led to theccal:roes Report) its, in wiener to tee fruits tibial were prirtted Litt welt, the prop:AC . on of deaths from .bolts in eery e Io:tndo ands r the eeverel we er compakies. It 'hove also k r each district the general asortalitt a: other times, aril the prier p 4 circumstances which elf. et the health of the people. Thm to all Liras 641 to 10,000 isksbitants died of clesh re ; the annual rate of tiontaaty tr all eaves, is strut 231 in 10,000; the attune elevatinn of the dw.lliojs above the Thames high water malt, ie estimated at 39 he - ; the persons to an sift., 30; the pairs to each inhabited house sera or eight (trinity 7.4) ; the swage Gar ettl vale. of the hours &aired rider the Mame-tax (1442.11) was 401. ; ecd the average expense of bore ad shop moon to tat& penes is 614.4. ironsally (If 12e. truly); 2.. 2.1. weakly ; 36-7 d, or somet.l at than 4d. deity. The dr.inlP, ea tiny. 4.14 poverty of eke. trate, it will be era, have 41 • carie it.tiorre es the mor tality ; aid the deaths from enolers v.n a'.eo wits the water supplies. Of the iebabit-au et utstrkte applied with Thames water taken frro a the titer above Ilammersaith, from 8 to 17 in 10,0i0 Olt d; of the int,bitso l t s of districts stn.plitd with water front the river below Battersea, war ten tarying from 31, to 111, 166, 191, tad 284 in 10,000 last their lives. The sewers/. of all these districts is bad. _ The Thane+, bird's suppling water to .1 great pardon of the inhabitants for we/Clog, tiessitiag, rod at domestic pur poen, ptesents the large eva:toracidg aortas. c 1 about 2,245 acne; which must be tek.o into aCINUCt 112 estimating the emus of the great Astray of Millers L The eoh• tents of the sinks end draw and maga, losem, are dis gorged sy the rest sewers into Om waters ; and are titil lated with the mud in dirty LAI'S in, trim which vs pours are given off day and rLht uyluantitie , which the phenomena of a " legmitin fo.: reveal. The e :Id rill air then eoi!enses. end wrists the mlt&r which st other times enters the ...tm.ophsre invisiliy. and (snipes ob sweat on. Tee mesa n'pat teas., ware us the Tnataisirom May 27M to September 13M, 1840, was 64 den ; the mean lowest observed temp rattan ot .be air was 52 seg. ; to that the wide simmering w‘tigs were breathing into the TA.% sleeping 'pity tainted 'rep an, mirth the teolpira• tire of the sir would sot sustain. Unchubtedly, vegetnhle and animal mattes is water or air, however n Riau they may be, un.te.rgo decomposite At, and are ultimathy cor.vetted late their i. urga, ic I. • cuts— water, earb of acid, as mn, ia, different a &sand substances It is chiefly a preemie et (ix detion, and the rapidity of lit tranaformattonsdepenus , n ine oxygen preornt, the tempera ture and other eircum•tat.ces. Wein a view to assist e u d e _ • the 'Rests or the 1 names on the health of London, Captain D (weoa, R.E , of the litht-office, estimated tor the Registrar-Ostler ;l the arms of the severe! Jistriete, as well as of the surtac , , of the Thames in I/Paden ; and Captain Sanders, of the Dream quiet H hes since 1844 takes obsetwetions on the temp-ra.ure ut this body of water, which hate been sent to the Astronomer Royal, and inverted by him in the weekly Ideteurolcgical Table. It is a WI well worthy of attention, that after the tem perature of the Thames hazels n 'brae 60 de pees, diarrhea, chairs, and dysentry h. come preemie.% and dim; pray as the tem?erature istbsices. The cholera reeened London in the new epidemic form about October, 1848; it prevailed though the winter, and di stroyed 94 lie •in the eeeohd week of January, when the tempt rrure of the Themes was 37 deg ; it declined rap dly through April and :thy ; the night temperature of the Thames then rose t., 62 . eg. in the week ending June 2nd ; with some fluctuations it went up to 68 deg. is J nly, and remained above 60 deg. until the middle o. September (Septeneter 16) Tt.e deaths from cholera during the 16 week. were 9. 22 42, 49, 124, 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, 823, 1,230, 1,272, 1 663, 2,026. 1,G82 Tne mean night temperate'. of the Thames tell to 66 der. ; tee *tithe (Yin cholera to 839 in the week September 16-12; the tem perature gradually tell to 38 deg. ur the last week of Novem. bee, when there wee only one death trees choler registered. The seven diitriets of London ire which the mortality is highest from *refinery causes, are the West London District (between Smithfield and the Thames), St. Sivionn, White chapel, St. 0.. rge4n-the East, Chelsea, Bt. Olave, and kttherhithe. Tney all adjoin the Thames. The birt during the week numbered 1,568. REFORM OF LAW COURTS. TO TICS IDITOD OF 7/41 DAILY NEWS. . - SIR,—In your aotioe of the proceedings of the Law Amendment Sieciety at the meeting of yesterday evening, you make the committee in their report on my bills for amending the law of administration erprw an opinion that suite under my plan, " now coating 3001., may be carried to a conclusion for 161." This is a mistake wawa it is desirable to cnreect. The report instances a cue brought forward by me, in whict certain proceedings occasioned • cost of 3001, which had they been conducted before comraissiseprs of barkruptey might haws been di.prsed of as og e x p ense o f 151., hot this em was an extraordinary one. I beli eve that Rader the system proposed bye e the expense or winding up an estate, us& r ordinary eireuta•taneem. would be from 201. to 301, exclusive of court &c., TkJOS. T. A'BECILATT. No. 7, Golden-rquare, London, Jan. 16. THE BAKERS' BREAD TAX. TO THE BIATOK OF THI EXPRESS. 8114—Have we with the annihilation of the corn laws Rot rid of all monopoly .n bread ? With .he bet floor s', believe, 44,. the rick, the full pries d bvitevs are everywhere charging asvenpene. for the 41b. lo if, whale, when Bout was flge , they only de mantied slevenpence. lo this giving the poblie the till bone& of the alteratim ? If this is tt continue the b ken should have been the largest subscribers of any portiere of the community to the wit who got rid e'f the bread tax; .shies they have bean the means of increasing their profi .2. I am, Sir, &e. A LOOKER ON. 8, City-road, Finsbury, Jan. 14. RELIEF OF MITROPOLITAN Ditrfirtrriow.—Yes torday the Ci.y Kitchen was opened ref the relief of the din. Second poor, to whom bread, coals sad petw..ree were plead folly distributed. A* the Leiesste•-mpnre /leap Kitchen, Ham-ford, Great Windmill 114.01.1, 1,600 pr , rereatureswere relieved. At the Model amp Kitchen, Bath street, New road, upwards of 800 wets nitrite& At the Westminster Elttip_Kitehes, Lewissamareet, Broad Busetuary, upwards of 900 were furnished with food. .f he Marylerme, Pinnbary and Bpitodield. novoleat A-mciatleon romm,nce thdr dintsibuties of bread, meat rod coals. A mealy of biome lent Individuals an ar4ut to fit up severe of the antics of the South Western Kailir.y in L.onbeth, as • shelter for the homeless during the present iielement mama. Oa Monday nieht no fewer than 12 sudiladmas wore found is the streets overpowered bi the inte..se told. . • • FOREIGN POTATOES AND CIRAIN.—•Tho supplies of terfrom abroad e..atinue to form a very important I. ge neral list of impale. fin. foreign, countries. Th ., are principally from Franco,. Bagfuls, and Holland; and in "easy intisnors enmprise in a day several entire eargo. s tor.taini t more than • hundred tons welibt of the vegetable, the produce of thee countries. risvoral mods have also arrived from Daskirk and other Fmach porta laden with grain and floor. MEETING AT CREWKERNE. On Saturday lut, the mPmbera of the Ilmineter di.trict of the Somerset County and Conservative and Pro teetionlst Aasociat.on assembled at the George Hotel, Crew ' kerne, for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the also. that district, of considering the present distressed condition to which the agricultural interest la reduced by the mischievous operation of Ir•e trade legislation. Din ner was provided for about 160, but such was the rush on the doors being opened, that the large room was filled immediately, and numbers were unable to pin admittance. A second room was provided for their accommodation be low stain. "he chair was taken by Tuosus Ht sesy, Esq., late M.P. for Lyme, who is the lord of the manor of Crewkerne. He was snoported by about 200 of the principal and most influential agriculturists of the neighbourhood. The meeting pledged itself to "make every effort to Icarus* the parliamentary strength of vie supporters of a remedial policy, and in any future election in this divirion of the county endeavour to secure the return of such canoidates as will support a return to a system of ade quate praesetion to native industry and sound principles of MEETING AT BRIDLLNGTON (YORKSHIRE). On Saturday a meeting of agriculturists and others interlined in the prosperity of the farming interest was holden in the Corn Exchange, in this town, air T. LEOARD in the chair. The meeting was folly attended, and its distin. ruining feature wan the success of several of the friends of freictrulen in combatting the argaments of the protectionist speakm. Letters apologising for absence were read from Lord Hotham, 14 P. for the But Riding; Y. (Mune, Bsq , the late high sheriff for the county, and other gentlemen, in eluding Admiral Mitford. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, alluded to tit, dielcultin with which the farmers had to contend, and gave it as his opinion that it was the duty of all clarets, particularly the ►andlord., to come forward to do what they eeuld to prevent the ruin which seems to threaten the agri• 'altars' interest. I T. PRICKETT, Erq., proposed to lay their grievances at the foot of the throes, and read the petition which he pro posed should be presented to her Majesty. Mr. BARUCHt seconded the motion. Considerable uproar was then occasioned by Mr. Sawden moving as an amendment, " That the petition be presented to the Queen that day six months." The intendment we. received with gnat applause by a large portion of the meet leg, but was met by the original clamour of the protection ists, who, after Mr Wheldon. of Scarborough, had seconded the amendment, got it aegetived. The meeting was than dimlved. Foam= RAILWAY Taereto.—ne following an the last mum , Ot L 4 grow esoolpb prinalpal Pres& railways Noontitut.—itosJaa. 1 toJaa. 7: Paswagers, 137,3107.; good., 11111,78'L ; total. HOWL Itoows.—Prunt Dee. 31 to Jan. 4: Peaseogors, 31,611.; goads, 77AV. ; total, 1211 . 1 131. tisvaa—Mean Dee. 31 to Jan. 6: Psmagers, 17,162?.; goods, 34100 L; taftl, 386611. ORIAAJW—Prou Dee. S 4 to Dec. SI : Psoriases, 106,64/11.; goods, tga,asa.; total, 233,7611. DORDIAVIL—Foos Deo. SO to Jan. 3 : Passengers, 54,161.; good., ,3 . 36 ; ' 0 44 37,7121. - linutasa.—Yrow Dee. 24 to Deo. 31: Pawengorii, /11,844 L ; goods, 3411045 L :. total, 7 0 ,576 f. wa.—Proat Ds. SI to Jaa. 7: Prosagoes, 21,11211 f.; good., 7,1331.; total, 114,4114 L Dtarra—Frall Dec SO to Jan. 4 : Powwows, %OHL ; goo* 6,1411.; 10111 1 1 .11 7 7 Naar— ow Dn. 28 to Jan. 4 Passenger', 11,7411, ; goods, 4,261; total, R,11751. Oranwoott.—Yeaa Deo. 31 to Jan..: Paseeestee, 41,881 E ; goods, 26,7141. ; total, 416,4681. WATNITOILD AND Limaatex.—lt will be a matter of gratification to the public generally to learn that this moat aria: undertaking, from which so mach we. reasonably an ticipated, is new in a fair way of being speedily accost gashed. A meeting of directors was held at the Globe ilutel, cionnsel, on Tuesday, at which the Earl of Meagan presided, and although the swath.' was not open to the press, we oars gate that the inach-wished-fer junction of the Bair and Shannon by railway, for which his lordship hr so 'seismal, .nd creditably exerted bins , lf for mazy years, will be forthwith of. cted between Tipperary and Clouse!, if no barley be pled d in the way by the landowner* of the line Tipperary Free Prem. THE TRAGEDY OF HELEN ABERCROMBIE. As old gentleman in some sequestered part of Wales, to whom the "death of • ealetnatod literary alu mnae," mentioned • nos* slam in the Atheneum sad espied into various josses* has eal7 now found its way, gives the following account of his personal kaewleige of that Individual, which we (the Globe) print, se possibly the details say be sew to the present generation of readers, wbo only keow bin as the prototype of 81r Edward Belem's hero, the father of " Luerssia.' The article headed ~ ' Death of a Celebrated Cha racter," is inaccurate is more particulars than in *O leg infamy celebrity In that most cold.blooded of murderers. Happening to hays Nen twice in his company (in the year 1820, not long before poor Mies Abercrombie's death), I think a little history of hor and Mat may interest your readers. Thomas Griffiths Wainwright never was a literary " lion"—he never drew any " circle" at all, far less a " brilliant" London one. 8o far was he from meriting the description of " profound acquirements" that he was utterly supetficifil in literature and the "fine arts," to which ha pretended. Chula Ltmb certainly never thought him " profound," only erring In the quality of his heart—" the warm though light hearted June," as he in ►is good nature described the hypocrite. "Janus Wrath, renek" wise his literary Immense de risers in the London Magazine. Assuredly, those who understand the "lit y enaracts r," as so marvellously dissected by the late Disraeli, will admit that humanity in a higher degree, rather than its almost bestial deficiency, is one of its charac teristics. Mkrder for money would be the last crime which an observer of mankind would MA for in that peculiar nature and temperament. About the year 18t0 started the Losidoe Magasirte, enlist ing amocg its contributors the most gifted of the calor/sky s of the time. Serjeant (Judge) Telfourd has done justice, in his " Me morials of Lamb," to the merits of that periodical. Hardin (the only one with whom the writer of this had much at. quaintaace), Shelley, Godwin, Leigh Hunt, De Quinsy, Mr. Proctor (Barry Cornwall). Reynolds, friend of Keats, formed the corps. John Scott, the editor, fell in a duel springing out of • literary quarrel, not long attar the maga sine commenced. It was at the house of this gentlemen nin York-street, during an "official" breakfast (that is, a sort of cabinet council in the wagged' administration) that the writer fell in with the skis:want in question. Conceive erelong the plain low-voiced, diffident young men, soon re tiring from the breakfast table to one of greater attrac tions, piled with all works of the day, fresh from the press, or to the loaded bo k•shelves of their short-lived " great captain," whose days were about Crewing to the dote, • figure, so ostentatiouely " well-dressed," with excess of " toggery," frogged coat, jewelled fingers (not gold chained vest, for at that time displayed ter tele guards were not), evidently affecting the military dash, • form so incongruous es to almost seam an apparition ih that calm and prneve atmosphere. Ile was of middle height ; Out as to his features, what with the gloom of a London street in winter, sail:el to that of curtains, and more than all, a certain disgust that led the writer to rather avoid thee court acquaintance with toe self-tomplrceut candy, I have not the least ncollection. All I beard of him, being (at Taylor and lelepecy's, Flit-street, publishers then of the London) " tba..'s the nephew of Dr. Gritfithe, of Turnham eraen, the youug nom who writes the articles signed Janus Weathercock. The port lolio of drawings that was on the side table was hi. own execution." He appeared about 2.5, or rather more, and seemed to be regarded as a fashionable row by the real litterat tura en the streni f th of his supposed connexion with Fashion ; it seemed that modest genius almost cowered wider the pretender's coudeecencling hauteur. Newspaper drainae.e. critic (ouch as Leigh Hunt), srtireical critics (such as Haslit9, were poor studious canaille ab u• him he to attend& b is seine, aid stoop to ecci F t 201. • sheet for his '7U:deli—it was • sulking profit of the inee k nese ae well as tbe whimsicality of ama of high eashion ; held hirneelr ,aloof from Hemline, who was a painter by pees lession, from secret fear of Has tit's sturdy intolerance of eip• pery in every shape, and who was deceived into respect fir him, as L.reh was into some degree ot regard. In tact, Wainwright, by cool effrontery, had somehow almost usurped the proper funere en or llaz'itr, by giving a showy sort of ex teenier to criticism on the Fine Arts, , fascinating treee reader:, superweled the sterling merit u 1 that roort think, r, Led the book-allers tacatly . sequierced in this peeler ence of flippant c'.wereess to sober pude meat. His " kind heartedness" was betrayed in rather an odd fashion, that of en-rting at most of the articles that cams f,erth in the same number with his own, sac(' and except " Herr> Cornwall's "—a favour which I fear had its iefluence on the sensitive mind of the amiable author of " Hermetic Sketches," in bit sing i:, so far as to become puriit.d to the frightful guiit of his '• kind-heared" orotter cor.trii bu'or. One feature of Wainwright's trifles was conctinit egotism. In all, he regret tailed to describe the luxurious elegance of the wri•er'er studio, his eases, his shaded lamp', status, pictures, retry comeivable nicknack ot vertre, • wi:h which supreme "Iron ton" tould be supposet to surround the happy scribbler. Horace Walpole at Straw eerry-bill hardly eur, - -seed the Paradise of Taste whit*. eurt4uoded (it he was to be ar.derstood in earnest) the mos very few years atter to be seen the companion of the inmate s of the criminal side of Newgate I clanking his chattel it: concert w.th theirs. lie merited and settled at Turnham green, in the honse of Lis deceased uncle. 11:s wife had two half-suters, each with 101. per an , um, as their sole means of suleidence. They came to value with the young couple. Wainwiight obtained a smelt sum by the death ct tie neck; t re vegans habits were al:e ruining him, yet he expended a gro-t part, if not the whole of this woidfell, in a manner not to he *mooted for with the belief of his unity, but on the supproition of a f tit acd inhuman purpose ; that admitted, quite rational, and t:.. whop is a. c'ear as the sun at man tis,. One cf the siste.s, Miss Bel! n Abercrombie, was then in her 20 Is year, in heal: Is, and happiness, and beauty. So uniform had been her good health, an I so s•roegly was that depleted in her blooming face, that a gentleman, catuslly lookiog at her from his post in a life assurance office!, said, "Toilets a young lady for insurance! We iniaht take her by m.ly looking at her!" Yct teeth and hale girl, by whose death no leas was to arise to anyone, as by her life no gain (both girls being almest penniless), did her brother-in-Lw persuade to insure her life (or rather to let him insure, for the payment he was to nuke) a• many office', to an immense amount, conc.-sling from each (stab ishotent the tact of eer being inured at many ',then. By what vile pretence poor Helen !mei( was induced to concur in the falsehoods told is not known. One inducement to tempt her was reversionary usio to her sister, but one large sans was expiessly its his own lay Ur, and the whole to came under his handling as her trustee. At some of the ((dices two years, at others three, wig the term insured; so that in the event of her living but that little period, every farthing of the money paid fur the policy would have been los.; yet in this wild speculation did this embarrassed man actually embark above 2001. reedy motley. This would have been madness; but taken with the un timely death of innocence and beauty—the madness &Guinean—the murderer looms dim, dreadful and detest able in the mystery ! No less than 30,0001. was to accrue by her death. So rapacious was his avarice, that other policies were attempted at other officer, but refused, not without kind and solemn hints of warni , .• from one princi pal, to which the trusting, artless young creature replied only by laughing at tLe idea of any one plotting agaiust her harmless lite. Thus this cold-hearted wretch crested for himself a lottery in the dark—in the shadow of death, of the friendleu, fair trusting being, whom he 'seemed to be protecting the question was one of utter ruin sacrifice of the whole sum paid, or attunes (the capital prize of 30,0001. !) Her domestication, her conli• dente, her youth, all conspired to give istal facility to the execution of a horrid tragedy, without witness but God! Talk of the Mantling, ! There was some touch of other passions, besides lucre, in them. Some idea of injury, some ge, in the woman ; some degree of jealous aversion, in the man. Imagine this vile plotter, shari , g for many monies the same fireside, root, table, amusements, with his smiling victim, all the while familiar with the sad image, is the near future, of her beauty in its shroud—her early grave already yawning to his mind's eye—and surely the horrid pair yield the palm of devilish treachery to T. Griffiths Wainwright. Whether or no, the tragedy here recorded, as in the recent one—a horrid " pair " ought to he the expression—seems left in darkness, never now probably to be dispelled. Whether his wife yet sur vives I know not. And now the curtain begins to rise, the tragedy to unfold its plot. The villain hero is expelled from has unpaid home and its contents by bailiffs. Yet we find him (u ever) "light hearted "—in good lodgings at t►e west•eud (Conduit-street) frequenting the theatre during ell his troubles, and poor He len, following his and her notate§ fortunes, still under the same roof. At this (to him) critical time • slight illness affected her. Medical aid was rather officiously called in— even a physician was sent for. (Excellent precautions, these.) Dr. Locock saw nothing at all serious, far lees any death symptoms, but prescribed, of course. Mr. and Mrs. Waiawrigbt, it was proved, administered to her • medicine in powder, apparently to his order, and directly went on a very long walk (in Loud, n reets.) Very quickly Helen fell into convulsions. The doctor coming in haste pronounced her labouring wader affection of the brain. lla did not remember to have prescribed any medicine under the form of powder. In au interval of the fits sl.e reco vered sense enough to say, " Oh, doctor, these are the rains of death." On the return of her two pro tectors, from their long walk, Helen was a corpse. The doctor, however, hardly conceiving the possibility of foul play (they were all strangers to him) to • harmless young creature, seemingly cherished in the bua•m of her family, even her medicines piecing through no hands bat those of her only friends—imputes the death to natural causes. It is important here to obs.ru that any progressive "pressure on the brain," reaching the stage of con 'ninon', could not b vs allowed an into real of reason, coma would have followed as the hub-tiger of death ; but such strum le between reaton and its invading destroyer, admitting even partial recovery of speech and intellect, is quite incomparable with "affection aft the Main" produced artificially—that i., by exhibition of • deadly narcotic, or such drugs as act un the memoriam entirely through the nervous system, the brain it self remaining without physical alteration. Now, such insidious destroyer is strychnine, an intense extract of the drug oucculus indictor To connect the links of this terrible tale, we must here anticipate • little in the course of events, to record that some three years after, Wainwright, who had been loag skulking abroad, was seised and earned (under oiromestane e to be presently told) hetet. , ;he COM. cti..nal Tribunal of Paris : secreted ea his person was found this very poison, of fearfully secret activity—strychnine ! To return; poor Helen Abercrombie "in her ould grave," Wainwright claimed the enormous aggregate of all the sums due. Every one of the offices resisted his claim, nominally, indeed, waiving the darker ground of defence, and relying on the well-proved fact of false ri presents. Lions having been made to effect the insurances. Wain wright, thus baffled, became • wanderer on the continent during three or four years (I forget the precise data), all the while prosseatiog his suit against the insurance companies is the law everts. At last, after cm* trial 'Refinished, and one jury diacharged, because they could not accede to Lord Abinger's dinetica (" to throw out of their coesideretioa the darker isisiateation") • final trial ultimately blasted the hopes of the audacieus claimant, who happily never toadied a farthing of t h e l ong expected p •II of blood." It was merely ore jormo, as a legal technicality, that the judge excluded the criminal charge from a Nisi Pram maw, the defence being deemed peglege without it ; yet so strong was the feeling of the first jury against even the appearance of acquiring him of the darker" charge, that they separated without a verdict, as has just been related. Folloeiag the "felon at balm," we find hint living ander the roof ammo half.pay English officer at Boulegue. This gentleman, at his instigation, insured his life at some London oars, but survived to pay only one halt year's policy. The sum insured was paid at his death; Mr. "Janus Weather cock" had something tc do in the case, but the circumstances have not relished the public. Suspicion, of course, has ample mope. Those who put faith in " particular providence'," may find the interest of a solemn romance in the brief seque l Shortly after we find him seised in Paris, on the (not very serious) charge of bearieg a false name, and be it g without a passport. Tula he could easily have got over, hut there was lotted on his person • mortal poison (that already men , tinted), which bringing ham within the category of " pee -1 sons armed with the =ears of destroying human life," sub jested him, by the law of France, to six months' imprison ment. The Englishman woo identified him in Paris as con ! ceiling his real name, was Forrester, the Bow street officer, who happened to be in Paris, and recognised him. His term of durance pact, the lontexpatriated vaga bond ventured to step on English groom! ; he even dared to appear in a London street, where the first "old familiar fate" he met was the dresaful one of Forrester again! And again the fearful cry "you are my prisoner" sounded in hie ears. He was now seite,d on a more serious accusation (though short of what he actually de served)—forgery. It was not of the deepest dye, consisting is affixing the names of some trustees to • trotting property acteruiag from his uncle's death, which his conscience stricken flight sad prudential exile prevented him obtaining. " Transportation for lite" was now his damn. Thus, the fact of hot merely carrying about the very poison which, in all human probability, de.troysd the young unfortunate beauty, Helen Abercrombie, be ca m e th e means o f c h arg i ng a slight trouble into a six months' misery —that again (through the strange übiquity of Forrester) led to perpetual exile, chains, and the "death of the wicked," in fury, squalor, and &their. With the vanity, effrontery, and overweening 'elf love inherent is this " Celebrated Charac ter," while yet awaiting in Newgat e his dismal voyage, he petitioned the Home Secretary for certain relaxations of rules in his savour, and it was then that Mr Proctor (presuming upon his power it " Barry Cornwall," the post) was weak enough to also pray government favour for probably the foulest of the foul human cargo which the country was about to vomit forth. The result was curious, Inquiries made forced on the recollection of the Rove. nment the vs hole history of the insurances (that vir , ual conviction nor murder by Re duction), and the only reply to his insolent compiaint and claim oi personal exemptions from panel nitre, appeared in the shape of heavy irons; arid in coavict dere. to the music of their clinking, the ei defiant " Sentiment.list on the Fine Arts," the dandy and the murderer, made his last appearance on English gr. nuns. I). —it u DRAMA. HAYMAKKF.T. A " new and original comedy," called "Leap Year, or, the Ladies' Priviloge,' from the ptn of Mr. Buck ato,:e, was pi odor ed at this thetitr last evening. The author sires, in the playbill, the following Lotioe of the origin of tl e pieee: The comedy wee a gosted by an extract from an old volume dwell 1601, &oil .mithd "An Act to &mend the Lsws of Courtsaip and Mcrimonirt " :—" l!beit it is now beecme part of the smaison law in regard to the a .cial relation, of li:e, that as often ae every Sieseril• year doth return, toe lady** have the mle privilege of making love unto the men, which thi y doe eihir by word,, or Ll[kes as unto them seemeth pr ; sod no atm will be entitled to the benefit of clergy, who doth reluse to the offer of a lady, or who doh is any wisp heat her proposal with neglect or eintumPly.". The traditional privilege of the fair sex to take the ieitiative in matte's of courtship during leap-year is familiar to everybody, sod has of, en been made the subject of literary pleasantries. In the pres rat in s:eines Mr. Buckstone has turned it t) good account. Mrt. Flora Flotrerdew is the young widow of an old husband, who has het a will containing the ec centric co- dirion that should she not m .rry again within two years Wter his death, his whole property, otherwise left to her, shall go to a distant relation. The two 3 cars are on the ere of expiring ; the die cant relet on has sent notice of his intention t, de mand immediate rote , stion cf the house and property, and the lady is making preparations for yielding them up. She has a ftitnd, Miss Sally O'Leary, a warm-aearted, quick-wated Irishwoman, who has been exerting herself to save her friend's tenni& by provioing her with a husband within the fetal period, and for that purpose has band for her a variety of suitors, but cannot get her to fancy any of them. (tie lady has a domestic named William who, by hie devotion to her service, and his constant and deli cate retentions to her wishes and comfor t, tas made himself very agreeable to her; and his language, always respectful and becoming his station, but ex iaibit,ng gleams of sentiment and refleentet,t, has gradually given him an interest in her heart of which she hersel at first is not aware. In the situa tion in which she is now placed, almost driven to marriage by the ?read of absolute poverty, her feel ings towards William become intelligible even t 3 heiself, but the d.scovery only makes her struggle the more violently against them. Under the influ ence of pride,shtme, and self-condemcatien, contend ing with growing passion, she treats him now with distance and hauteur, now with relenting softness, till at length, having gained a momentary victory over heiself, she suddenly requires him instantly to leave her house and service. Ifrilliatn obeys without a murmur, and departs, after expressing his feelings towards 12.. r more warmly than he had ever done be fore, while she, leftalone, bursts into an agony of tears. In hopes of making a compromise with her husband's heir, she has written to him, offering to resign her rights at once if he will conse:A to allow her a mode rate independence, sufficient to m,intain her as a gentlewoman ; but his answer is that lie will listen to no terms, but must have the whole or nothing. In this extremity she resolves to reveal the secret of her heart to her friend Miss O'Leary, which, after many efforts, she succeeds in doing. The lively Irishwoman takes the liberal view of the matter. ridiceles her friend's scruples, and, reminding her that it is leap year, advises her to use the prescriptive privilege of her rex. The result is an admirable scene, in which the lady, without overstepping the modesty of her nature, gives If encouragement enough to draw from him a passionate declaration of hopeless attachment. She is thus enabled to avow a recip rocal feeling; but this, after all, is not a leap-year courtship on the lady's part. But now comes the denouement, for which we, and probably the whole audience, were prepared long beforehand. The ar rival of the dreaded claimant of the est rte is an nounced : he appears, and turns out, to the lady's joyful amazement, to be her servant and accepted lover, William Walker. All these scenes were admirably acted by Mrs. Charles Kean, her husband. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Mrs. Keen's personation of Mrs. F7owerdeto was de lightful—full of truth, feeling, and all those feminine graces for which this charming actress is so distin guished. To her captivating performance the play hes been mainly indebted for Its success. Mr. Kean acted the part of if Milker with great quiet ness, and with the subdued bat earnest feeling which the character requires ; and Mrs. Fitzwilliam's Sally O'Leary was full of wellness and vivacity. The incidents which form the substance of the play are mixed up with an immense quantity of the broadest farce. One of the lady's suitors is Mr. himpk, a fop, but a shrewd fellow. He pays his addresses with groat familiarity, the lady being his cousin ; and a paction is made between them (in earnest on his part), that he shall be " taken on trial " for three days, and live in the house in the chae raster of its master. Accordingly he commands the servants, bolds matrimonial dialogues with the lady about household arrangements, and,:tinally, goes out to a bachelor's dinner, and is brought home drunk at midnight. Buckstone himself played this part, in his usual amusing wry ; but the whole conception is in delicate, and out of keeping with the lady's character. Then there is a Capt. Mouser, an attorney's son, who, on being rejected, preNews his mistress, in sober sad nes*, with an enormous long bill of costs ! And there is a certain Sir Solomon Solus who desires to marry Mrs. Floicerdew, that he may escape from the clutches of a lady who wants to marry him—which lady, Midi Desperate by name, is as desperate a bore to the audi ence as to Sir Solomon. All these personages, and the incidents connected with them, though sometimes Indictors enough, are quite out of the province of self alac° m n a imd T httyteton'eedoroy ; r matter. a ha ls il y 7ef s d w a "s u b to j ht e le c ree e po t nPl , agiye u i c e woul d plays), and after the curtain fell, Mr, would be repeated eeery'evening ould have been much better, it is longer than • di mie ad the author • ii• - r**• Mr Ka~ 11 ..30' 47( ^ •••••••• • s „, avening . 20 to 11 11