The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-20 00:00:00

THE MARKETS (THIS DAY). I CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of most kin& of Grain this week are mo derate, except of Bailey, which is large, With a fair sup- Ply of Flour. In consequence of the foggy state of the Morning, the samples of Corn cannot be seen, and the Prices of all kinds of Grain remain the same as on Monday. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Flour. Iq s' ''' ***** 32020 grs. 8,850 qrs. 2,150 gra. 6,100 sacks. For • 600 2,000 2,100 300 this. SMITHFIELD MARKET. In this day's market, which exhibited throughout about an . average Friday's supply for the time of year, Veal met with a mod era t e l y b risk sale at an advance of 2d. per stone; with Beef, Mutton, and Pork, the trade was very dull at Friday's prices. " lc " Plit STONE OF SLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. _lnterior Beasts .. . d. to s. d. . 2 0 2 2 Large Lambs s. d. to s. 00 0 0 nd 'mo quality ditto 2 2 2 4 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 pri me e large Oxen... 3 4 3 6 Large coarse Calves 2 4 3 0 Scots, &c..... 3 6 310 Prime small ditto 110 4 2 I,„_flikrior Sheep . ... 2 0 2 4 Large Hogs 3 8 4 2 nd quality flitto 2 6 3 2 Small Porkers 4 6 5 0 ' -ur se-tvoolled ditto 3 4 310 Suckling Calves 12s to 325. each. SoUthdcrsvnWethers 310 4 4 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 16s. each. • SUPPLY, AS PER CLERIC'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs. I 594 4,390 233 I 150 The prices of Mulch Cows were rather drooping, an tnleful short horns, with her small calf, being worth no --..._ no more than from 181. to 191. NEWG ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone by the Carcass. eet s. d. to s. d. s. 4. to s. d. 14,.... 0 ....."..... 000000 2 0 3 2 Veal -l utt n 2 2 3 6 Pork 0 4 10 CITY MARKETS—(TWO O'CLOCK.) ELINTATION SUGARS continue to be taken off very spa- L i " n ,glis although the holders still are di spose d t o e ff ec t sa l es , to gen offers are made, but th e b u y ers d o not appear i nc li ne d Anrchase large parcels, even where a further reduction would be submitted to, particularly of the low and l i N d dling Grocery qualiti es , w hi c h are a t presen t an d'h ave ° , • a long time been by far the most plentiful in the market: mute instanc es , w h ere b us i ness h as b een d one t hi s wee k, been at rather lower prices for those qualities, but _g and fine Grocery descriptions are without al aim tr. Two public sales of Mauritius Sugar, consisting Wholly of the low qualities, have been brought for ,„i1"1!. but there was very little animation shewn at either 1... 411 . d Only part was taken off at rather lower prices than Ca' sale. d 110 1.1 SucAas.—One or two small parcels of brown a °l ' l White Brazils have been taken off privately, about v previous prices, but the demand does not appear to be sezni.igtye,newral ; a parcel of Manilla Sugar, of strong grey as offered by public sale on Tuesday, but bought 1112 s• 6d. a 298 , but afterwards partly sold at those prices. Aterstan SoCaes.—There has been rather more busi -111168 done this week in low Lumps for packing for the u , o 4lll burg market, but at 6d. to Is. lower prices than at - L e , qunted last week, 71s. to 71s. 6d., being the prices t f h waieh several parcels have been sold, and which cop al.: to be offered ; small Lumps and law single Loaves fo„ests_tinue to be taken off freely ; the buyers of Crushed b l - , t `' Medit erranean h iv ing c on ti nue d th e ir pur c h a s e s, p ow , n ° improvement in the prices can be noticed ; fine h ot ," and Hamburg Loaves (for the Double Refined parcels have hav e b een i n ra th er l ess d ema nd, and on e o r t wo have been sold at a tilling reduction ; the fine a i 2 e r7 descriptions have been taken off rather more freely. - ,""•---The quantity of Plantation brought forward j, i ,C . ,_gam been very small, and consisted chiefly of ordinary $d tea, which has gone off freely at full prices, but at no 44 rather although the enquiries privately have this week 444 more numerous both for the home trade and Plu g; in Foreign Coffee a little business has been i i - ° t ?e , but there being only a few sellers of the coloury qua ,"Zss at th e present pr i ces prevent eny very l arge sa l es l a pl . t g h e ace ' Market for TEAS there is no improvement : the fieZ t -r " On the last Company's sale becomes due on Friday ' P •rld is understood to be large. of An the Srix Trade there is a good demand for Bengals tli tb e finer sizes, and the last sale prices are readily ob hailed,. The d e liveri e s from the Comp a ny's wa r e h ous es ns e o V ' u rn rather large, but the Stocks, both of sold and Thrernain extensive. iu`""e W ools of the growth of New South Wales and Van ••h a - ""len's Land, publicly offered within the last two d a y s , v e gone off actively. The qualities of the Wools whi c h ir r ) w arrive from the Colonies are much improved, and full P r ices are given. The greatest exertions are making to ri lni p i ro ve the growth of fine Wools; common Wools are t:t eer eds.as the charges on sending them over are too high i o -41r a r a Profit equal to that afforded on fine Wools. • antr.-he very low price at which old Currants trt Tbursday last by public sale, attracted the atten tun °f - b oth t he G ro cers and Exporters, and they were Tool opt very freely at the sale prices, viz., 655. ; on ay, however, the merchants asked an advance 7to-day the remainder has been sold at that price, f7mg the p resen t quo t a ti on 67 5 .. N e w C urran t s con ° eto be t a k en o ff s l ow l y a t 75 5 . At th e p u bli c s a l e V alentia Raisins on Friday, there was nothing sold, thetp_Whole being bought in at the same price as the day V, l( Ms ; but immediately after the p r i ce was a lt ere d t o tii ‘• at whi c h a b ou t 3,000 b o x es were di spose d o f, an d are still on t a p a t th a t price. N e w D en i a R a i s i ns ,ilso put down a 355., but at present only a small 1 1 -- " v „,TY has been taken off: of new Turkey Raisins, there im g - e - ,..,1ttk several arrivals, and some of the Importers hay cht-ra'Cled' a determination to sell, has caused a consi k_ le r eduction in the quotations, a large parcel having bee n d ivided a mo n g the trade a 435., at which price sales eA ce MtiL to be made. New Turkey Figs are still taken y e .4 flaall parcels, hut lower prices have been taken, se .fi ral Pareejs having been sold a 455. to 48s. and 5Ss for the est parcels • for fine Spanish and other descriptions of a lt u' l ty there is still only a limited demand. --In Jamaica Rum there is little doing. In Lee wards extensive business has been done ; 5 per cent. over r:f at Is . 9d. per gallon, being lower. Both Jamaica . per n " joa LeTward s are about 9d. per gallon lower than at this i n ;Htat year. • ii i .7 l cEs there is good business doing at former prices. a re C. 11 ..---The London brewers are in the market, and "Ying up all the choice bags at an advance of from i t° B s. per cwt. p er net.ALTIC PRODUCE prices were firm. Tallow is 36e. .0 t z T L he dates from St. Petersburgh are to the 4th. The al lffe remained the same. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. b; I : he odds continue nearly the same as on Monday, the p li esa yesterday being entirely uninfluential. Cetus ap i1,4,11, to be in better favour, 12 to 1 being the extent of ° u'ia offered against him. The Major is also in in leiVlsed demand. For the Oaks, the Sister to Emma is b a lY to be a rattling favourite, her running in the North been exceedingly clever. She is a remarkably fine eii h -e ' 'Lod is backed by influential parties ; Shumla de 44';'• The St. Leger was not mentioned. For the ge state of the betting see our paper of Tuesday last. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. A PPOINTMENTS THE WE W The Cambridgeshire FOR Hounds, on ENSUIN Mon G day, E at K. Hayley °p(l , iT ; and F r id ay , at Child er l e y- ga t e — a t H a lf-p as t T e n. ....Ir. "%lure's Fox Hounds, Tussday, at Stowlangtoft 1):.,13nCY ; Thur s d a y, at Kennet B e ll; and Saturday, at b 'ough Gr een — a t H a lf-p as t T en . arl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Ashton (4"; Wednesday, at Hammerton Grove; and Thurs- Y , at the Kennel—at Ten. Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Gilstone tit Wednesday, at Pevereila ; and Saturday, at Watton H alf -past Ten. ',4e Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed at th e R ace C ourse ; an d F r id ay , at t h e Dyke—at Wed- Half Ten. u i Tlle Br oo k s id e Harr i ers, on Monday, at Newmarket tit t 1" W ednesday , at Ashcombe, the alternate Wednesday put-e,retennel ; and Friday, at Telacombe Tye—at Half tairr 11 °Yaton Harriers, on Tuesday, at Barkway Toll The„, Thursday, at the Harriers,hrift—at Half-past Ten. • I,4uoddingt on Tuesday, at the Kennel; • " Id aY, at - Ze n n aF 41The Earith Harriers , on ' Tuesday, at Dog House Drove, it ;t3 n ; and Friday, at Swavesey Mill—at Ten. To wn C rp u tlennore Hounds, on Monday, at Pickworth u "'"iay, at Witchley Warren; Thursday, at Park ar id Frid ay , at L eest h orpea t a Quarter before Si r no . crti 4 • l chattl S utton ' s H oun d s, on M on d ay , a t F a lli ng - Br ; Tuesday, at Welton Mill ; Wednesday, at r „ a Thursday, at Half-way House, on the Newark. Kevitvick-thorn Bar ; and Saturday, at Stapel •'' !H oot --At Eleven. /7%,,w`d'rd Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Bradley bnr t , t , ;, W "'inesday,-at Kingsforth House; Friday, at Bly tit L el . l e l tl. H all; and .tSaturciay, at Swallow Cross-roads— . LITERATURE. EMMANUEL, 1829. In his hurry, no doubt, to improve the pre sent generation, the Editor of this religious annual has forgotten how to spell its name. Tha word " Emmanuel"—as appears by the following passage from Isaiah (cap. viii. v. 8,) — should be spelt with an I instead of with an E. " He shall pass through Judah, and the stretch ing out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, oh, Immanuel." We should not have noticed this defect, had not the Editor, in a Preface full of learning on the subject of the word Immanuel, observed, " the very title of this annual betokens godliness"—and conse quently a full and perfect acquaintance with all points of religious and biblical orthography. But this is not the only mistake the zealous Editor has fallen into. In another part of his preface, he says " the work is devoted entirely to religion, and subjects connected with religion, all tending to edification." On coming to this emphatic passage our joy was extreme. We imagined that we were going to peruse a book in which the "edification" should be both intellectual and spiritual, interesting, and it might be original. With this impression on our minds we sud denly encountered the following passage, which being one of the most " edifying" in the book, is naturally enough placed first ; " A fading scene, a filling scene Is this false world below, And not a heart has ever been That bath not proved it so." Great and " edifying" as is the discovery that this world is both " false" and " fading," we regret to state that it is not original, inasmuch as in a letter written by Ikey Solomons from Botany Bay, and inserted in the daily Papers a few months'since, the same sentiment is enforced. But this is far from being the only sample of edifica tion Immanuel contains. In the same poem oc curs another instructive morceau, which would have bcen still more instructive had it not been manifestly taken from Gray's well known line, " the paths of glory lead but to the grave." " Our pleasures are but fainting hues Reflected o'er the waves— Our glories—they are phantom views That lure us to our graves." In another poem, entitled " The Sceptic Re. proved," occurs n third specimen of edification which the Editor had doubtless in his eye when he composed his prefatory homily " There is a God to whom all bow _By whom all being's given ; Whom seraphs love—whom angels dread, God of the living and the dead ; Whose power is every where outspread O'er earth, o'er bill, o'er heav'n." Without meaning for an instant to im pugn the dazzling originality of this sweet stanza, we would just beg leave to ask its author—a gentleman who rejoices in the name of " \V. H. Leeds,"—what he means by the line " whom seraphs love, whom angels dread ?" Does he mean to insinuate a scientific distinc- tion between the two grades of seraph and angel, or does he mean to put them in juxta• position with each other, or has he any meaning at all ? Seraphs, it seems, love, but angels only dread the Creator—a nice discrepancy, which forcibly impresses upon us the truth of Pope's line, " Your true no-meaning puzzles more than wit." A fourth specimen of edification occurs ii " Hospitality, a simple Tale ;" in which, after exhibiting simplicity to an extent that ruder critics than.ourselves might be apt to term fatuity, the Editor goes on to say, " I record this legend for the public good :"—a, truly praise worthy resolution, and which the public will no doubt appreciate as it deserves. There would be no end to our notice, were we to go on enu merating the many samples of edification in which " Emmanuel" abounds; siffice it to say, that from the " Essay on Marriage," in which we are assured, with a gravity worthy the occa sion, that " lovely woman was abstracted from man himself, and is therefore part of his very existence," down to " Lines spoken by a Cha rity Girl," in a bib and tucker, at a dinner in Somersetshire, wherein the author informs us that " crowned charity" is " The Queen of virtues all, The grace and glory of a Christian mind, The God ralected on distressed mankind !" from, we repeat, the marriage down to the dinner party—from . the word " Emmanuel" in the first page, down to the word " Finis" in the last— all is brilliant, novel, and versatile edification. The contents, too, have a very sparkling character. We have an " Acrostic upon Adam and Eve," thrust in between " The First Grey Hair" and the " Ark on Mount Ararat ;" " Lullaby" placed cheek by jowl with " Holy Associations ;" " Marriage" with " Come my Beloved ;" " The Conflagration of York Min ster" with the " Opening of the Fourth Seal,' and a " Hymn of Charity for the Poor," ii which occurs the sonorous couplet— • " Let me endure when inerc•iiess The inward gnaw of hungriness;" with the " Beauty of Holiness, by the Rev. W. Shepherd." Nor tilust we, while summing up the graces of " Emmanuel," forget its em bellishments, which consist of a front view of a Methodist Chapel somewhere near the Me tropolis, and the figure of a fat cherub flying down from Heaven with a damask table-cloth in her hands. On the whole, whether we look to the exceeding discretion that h as selected 50 awful a subject as Religion to fill up the pates of a seven and sixpenny pocket book annual, or the tasteful reverence that has thrust a drawing-room Acrostic betwee❑ a poem on the " Beauty of Holiness" and a " Paraphrase" of a " Chapter of St. John," we shall find abun dant reasons to coincide in the sagacity,of the sati rist's (pinion, that " Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread." In this spirit of unqualified re spect we take our leave of the Rev. Mr. Shepherd and his poetical flock in " Emmanuel." THE WINTER'S WREATH. ---LONDON, 1529. This, if not the best, is among the best of the present Annuals. in the elegance of its letter-press, the variety and grace of its prose and verse—to which the names of some of our most popular living authors are, we perceive, attached—it is fully equal to any of them, while in its embellishments, especiaPv its landscape scenery, it is little. inferi r PVeit the " Keep sake" or the " Landscape Annual." We have seen few engravings more delicate and highly finished than the " View near Derwentwatcr," with the fine cataract of Lodore in the distance. The small fragment of the Keswick Lake gleam ing like silver in the lbre-ground, with the cattle standing mid-deep in its waters, and the husband man carelesslyreclining beside it at the foot of stall and branching elm ; the glen-like little walk by its left bank, opening a sweet and chequered vista into the depths of the wood beyond ; the dis tant peak of Skiddaw, half shrouded in vapour, and embellished by the sparkling cheerful tor rent that leaps headlong down it ; these various objects are worked up, by Mr. W. Havel], in a spirit worthy of his eminent abilities as a land scape painter. " II Cavaliere Pittore" is another exquisite engraving, full of grace, and ease, and variety ; a praise which, with equal justice we may extend to the " Sunset View on the Welch coast." It is astonishing what life and animation a glimpse even of the human figure will throw into the most tame and monotonous landscape, and Mr. Stephanoff has judiciously availed himself of this advantage. The old fisherman bawling in his net., while he stands chattering to some rustics near him, gives infinite relief to what would otherwise be an insipid sun-set—even with the bold Welch coast, and " old Conway" in the distance to give it animation. Of the literary articles, illus trative of the different embellishments, we may speak in high terms of commendation. They are for the most part neatly and eleverly penned, and will no doubt " win golden opinions" for the Editor and Publisher of the Winter's Wreath. THE ENGLISHMAN'S ALMANACK FOR 1830. This Almanack is framed on a plan alto- ther novel, and we think extremely useful. The old aphorisms for the management of health are abandoned, and we find highly important direc tions substituted for treating persons who are apparently dead from drowning, or who have taken poison. This is a species of information that we should think ought to be within the im mediate reach of all families. " The English man's Almanack " does not confine itself to lists of Officers, Places, &c., but gives in addition many curious particulars, which will be found no less useful than interesting. We allude to the ages and crests of the Peers—the jurisdictio►i of the Police Offices, &c. &c. The following extracts will point out some more of the many useful articles of intelligence in this deservedly popular Almanuek " MAY.—PolsoNs.—This is the time to remind ❑n- wary persons of the danger of eating or chewing herbs or plants indiscriminately. The following, which are finni- • liarly grown in our gardens, are very poisonous, and have produced death :—Monkshood, wind-flower, bryony, tra yellers' joy, meadow saffron, totter-worth, spurge, olive or widows' wail, spurge-flax or garon, wild cucumber, imperial crown, black and white hellebore, euphorhiutn, hedge hyssop, daffodil, Barbadoes nut, crowfoot, solanum, savin, squill, stave-acre. If any unpleasant symptoms should arise from eating any of these vegetables, it will be neces sary to produce vomiting ; by giving plenty of sugar and water, milk, gum-water, dissection of linseed or mallows. When the poison is thrown off, give strong coffee. " Deadly nightshade, the fruit of which is easily dis tinguished from a black grape, by the former being double and the latter single; purple fox-glove; rose bay ; rue ; hemlock, which is distinguished from parsley only by hav ing no odour until it is bruised in the Sneers, and then having a disagreeable one ; henbane, and opium-scented lettuce, are all narcotic poisons, and require the same treat ment, when taken as opium or laudanum. " CnNTAGION.-In case that any disorder of a con tagious nature should make its appearance in any hospital ship, boarding-house, or other place where large numbers are assembled, it becomes necessary to give the healthy persons every chance of escape from it. Fumigation is one of the securities. Indeed, throughout the summer, there are few large structures, thickly inhabited, which do nut require that the air should be relieved from impu nities of one sort or another. To guard against contagion, as also for the general purposes of puri fication, the following has been found an admirable receipt: —Take two parts of powdered manganese, elitto of com mon salt; sulphuric acid, three parts; and water, one part. Put the manganese and salt into an earthen vessel into the room or building which you wish to purify ; then pour upon it by degrees the sulphuric acid, and next the water. Fumes will ascend in great abundance. If you cannot procure the manganese, the other ingredients will do by themselves ; and if you put some fire under the vessel, the fumes will come off id greater quantities. This is a fumigation which families might also use in summer in houses not very much exposed to a thorough air. " Porsolcous Musmtooms.—ln cooking mushrooms for the table, always boil with them an onion stripped of its outer skin. If in the process the onion becomes either black or blue, do not use the mushrooms ; if they are harmless, the onion will remain white. But cases may occur in which poisonous mushrooms are taken. Observe that they do not manifest their action until from 12 to 24 hours after being swallowed. You must excite vomiting by giving doses of tartar emetic (six grains in a tumbler of water, of which two table-spoonsfull are to be taken every five minutes.) When the stomach is evacuated, give castor oil. Should you be unable to produce vomiting, give a clyster of tobacco-water ; also make the patient drink sugar soil water. Should any pain be felt in the stomach, apply fomentation, of decoction of mallows, lin seed, camomile, &c. Use also the hot bath. Give a few drops of te ther in water when the poison is evacuated, " A RMY. —The amount of the land forces voted for the service of the year 18i9 was 89,723 men, exclusive of the men employed by the East India Company. The sum voted for the whole expences of the army, including every charge connected with it, was 6,336,2311. The British army is composed of 103 battalions. About 20 of these are in the service and pay of the East India Company, and 54 more are disposed of in the Colonies. Four battalions, on the' .iverage, are constantly on their passage to relieve the regiments on foreign stations, leaving 25 battalions (exclusive of Guards) for the service of the United King dom. The casualties in the army, according to Sir Henry Hardinge's estimate, amount to about one-eleventh or one twelfth of the whole forces annually. The Mutiny Bill underwent an alteration in the Session of 1829. The clauses, which used to amount to 168, are now condensed to 77, and the Bill is rendered more concise and plain. It enables General Commanding Officers in a district to order district Courts Martial instead of regimental Courts Martial. The oath is the same for all members of Courts Martial." The Earl of ABERDEEN, 'Viscount MEL viLLE, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, had interview,, with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury. The Austrian Ambassador had a long confe rence with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday. The Ame rican Minister had an interview with the noble Earl yes terday at the Foreign-office. Lord HILL, as Commander of the Forces, held a levee yesterday afternoon at his office in tln Horse, guards. This being the first levee held for several weeks, his Lordship'having been absent from town at his country seat near Shrewsbury, it was numerously attended, up wards of 40 general and other military officers being present. The Duke of WELLINGTON returned to town yesterday morning from Hatfield, Herts. Earl BATHURST has left town for his seat at Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Sir G. MURRAY returned to town yesterday ,rom a shooting . excursion, "7 ,, TERIOUS DEATH. Yesterda r aL eleven o'clock, an inquest wa. held befoie .1. Esq., at the Duke of Gloucester pu:.lie IJnion-row, in the Kent road, to inquire into di, death of Maria Evans, who, it was reporyd, hed through starvation, on Sunday n;glit l-ast, of which a short account ap peared in our Paper. Skillmn. with whom the deceased had been living ati his wile, had said that the deceased was his wife; but seemed very indif ferent about her; and afterwards denied this state ment, and confessed that his real wife lived in Isa bella-place, near the Coburg Theatre, where she kept a school for young children. Skillman, in for mer years, had been a law-stationer, carrying on an extensive business. The deceased and his real wife, at the time of their marriage, had been on the warmest terms of intimacy, which was requited by the former eloping with her husband, both of whom afterwards were reduced to the most miserable state of want. Mary Ann Payne was the first witness examined. She deposed—l am sister to the landlord, James Payne, occupying No. 29, Union-row.. My brother carries on the trade of a brush-maker. He is a married man. About ten weeks ago the deceased, and a person of the name of Skillman, came to lodge in the house. She represented herself as his wife. The deceased died between eight and nine on Sun day evening. Their family consisted of one child, about four years old. I never was in the apartment until Friday morning last, as the deceased kept her self so very distant and reserved. The room they occupied was taken unfurnished, and always kept locked. I have no knowledge how they procured provisions, nor in what manner they lived. Skillman used to go out in the morning, and it was frequently very late before he returned. On Friday morning, about eight o'clock, he called me up stairs from the kitchen, and asked me to go up to look at his " good lady," and see if I could assist her. I went immediately, and found the deceased lying on a mattrass on the floor, with part of her clothes on. There was scarcely any bed-covering. It consisted of a piece of old carpetting, a sailor's jacket, and a tattered shirt. She had a sock on one foot. There was no bed or bedstead. Jam not aware that they ever had any bed furniture. None had ever been carried out by her husband, nor had any ever been seized for rent. The deceased was at that time speechless. I told Skillman she must be perishisgwith coldand hunger. He replied that he was going into the King's Bench upon business, and desired me to make her as com fortable as I could with the things that were there; and, if he succeeded in his expectations, when he returned he would provide otherwise for her; he then left the house. I then went down stairs and fetched up a cup of tea and some hot roll; as well as I was able, I raised the deceased upon the mat trass, and sat sideways behind her to support her; with one hand I held up the cup to her mouth. She attempted to swallow the contents, but she was un able to open her lips. I then replaced her on her back, and put down the cup of tea close beside her. The deceased looked wistfully at it, and stretched out her hand towards it, but her strength was gone, and she could not reach it. I then fetched my mother. •We got a quilt and some blankets to put •on the mattrass, and also lit a fire. Mr. Skillman did not return until eleven o'clock at night. On Satur day morning Mr. Skillman gave 18d. to purchase some coals, and then went away with a Mrs. Green. and I have never seen him since; but a female,who said that she was his real wife, came about half past three in the afternoon. This lady kneeled down, and said " Evans, do you know me ?" but no signs of recognition were made. She then arose, and said " Poor creature, I forgive her from my heart ; she has been my greatest enemy !" Mrs. Skillman then departed. I did not know that the deceased was not married to Mr. Skillman. The real Mrs. Skillman used to call occasionally and ask for him. If he was not at home she always went away. 'When that lady called on the Saturday, she stated that her husband had been to her and told her that Maria Evans was in a dying state, which had caused her to come and render her every assist ance. Mrs. Skillman returned about seven o'clock, and remained with the deceased until the time of her death, which was about eight o'clock on Sunday morning. Mr. Thomas Payne, the brother of the last wit ness, corroborated all that his sister had stated. Mr. Boddy, surgeon of Newington parish, was called upon to attend the deceased on Friday night, about a quarter before eleven. The deceased was insensible, and labouring under an attack of locked jaw. Witness expected each moment to be her last. There was some vestige of clothing on her person, hardly worth naming. The whole frame was in a state of paralysis, arising from cold. Wit ness instantly remarked " Here has been very cul• pable and gross neglect." Skillman was standing at the foot of the mattrass at the time, with such careless and dogged indifference, that Mt. Copeland asked him if he knew any thing about the poor and friendless creature before them ? lle answered very sullenly, " Yes, I do know something about her. Witness's surprise was excited, and asked if she was a relation ? Skillman replied she was something of a relative, and afterwards, he carelessly owned she was his wife.—The overseer then reprimanded him in severe terms for his want of feeling, and told him that every as sistance might have been obtained by a proper and timely application, and that it would be disgraceful to treat even a dog in such a shameful manner.— Witness then said it was useless to attempt restora tion of life, as the deceased was dying lom appa rent want, cold, and starvation, which, in all cases, produce a degree of stupor, called a compression of the brain. If the deceased had been made to take food, it would have instantly killed her, as all power of deglutition was gone. Some warm brandy and water was given to her, merely to alleviate pain.— Witness was in attendance until the deceased ex- pired. Next day witness saw Mrs. Skillman, when the latter hoped that an inquest would not be held, as it would ruin her husband's character. Around the mouth of the deceased was a black secretion of a most fetid and unpleasant nature. By a Juror—Has her death been hastened by poison ?—Witness—l will not undertake to answer that question either one way or the other. Mrs. Ann Evans, the mother of the deceased, was next called in, who stated that; about four years ago, her daughter was married to Skillman, at Christchurch. Deceased had shown her the certi ficate, because witness desired to see it. The de ceased was about 33 years of age. Skillman for merly kept a law-stationer's shop in Copthal-huild ings in the city. It is only lately that they became so very reduced ; formerly they had plenty of fur niture, and other requisites of life. The last time witness saw the deceased was about a fortnight ago. She was then in good health and spirits, and was making some beef soup; nor did she ever hear of her being ill. (Such was the contradictory manner in which the last witness gave her testimony, that some of the Jury objected to receive it.) Benjamin Skillman was next called in. He stated that he must recall the statement that he had made to the overseer, when he denied the deceased was his wife, as.he.had been actually married to her in October, 1824, at Christchurch. The deceased was aware that he had a former wife living at the time, because she had visited her, arid was friendly with her, but he had been separated from her a month or two previously. (Hereupon, it was sug gested that the witness's evidence could not be re ceived, as he hid acknowledged himself guilty of bigamy; but the Coroner said, that as one wife was dead, no prosecution could be entered into, of which circumstance the witness was doubtlessly aware,) Examination resumed—Witness, on Wednesday week last, went to seek the deceased's mother, but, as the latter had left her lodgings the Monday be fore, without leaving any directions, he could not find her. Another person was called in to assist, but the deceased refused to accept her services. Witness then wished to have medical advice. De ceased said the nature of her complaint was such that medical advice could be of no use to her, but she hoped her mother would come. Witness used to make her tea and gruel. The tea was made in the morning., previou.ly to leaving home, and the gruel when he returned at night. Juror—Was she aide to get np to adjust herself in the interim ?—Witness did not think she was. Did not dine at home unless meeting accidentally with a friend. Frequently went without dinner. Always dined at home when he had money. Had not dined at home during the week before the death of the deceased. There was no one to assist the deceased during his absence ; so that, from morn ing until late at night, the deceased was without food. Witness had no means of sending for medi cal attendance ; he had not a shilling in his pocket. On Thursday morning the deceased appeared to be growing insensible. Witness was not aware that he could have had parish assistance. Witness went away on Saturday, and, in consequence of distress of mind, never returned. Deceased was ill about a week. Juror—Are you now living with your former wife ?—Witness, after much hesitation, acknow ledged he was—that he slept with her on the night when he left his second wife in a dying state.—(A general burst of indignation was here expressed by the Jury.)•--Witness then contradicted himself, and said he did not cohabit with his first wife until the Sunday night. Juror—Did you purchase any medicine for the deceased ?—Witness, after great prevarication, at first stoutly denying that he had, at last admitted that he purchased a fever-powder on Monday week, at the shop of a druggist near the Elephant and Castle. Does not remember what was the mixture, but can point out the shop where it was purchased. The deceased took the powder herself. Does not know whether it was white or black. Could not afford to purchase any soup for the deceased. — Bought some gin and porter on Friday night for himself and Mrs. Green. Was aware that if he had applied for parish relief it would have been granted. Witness washed the cup in which the powder was mixed. At this stage of the proceedings the Juay ex• pressed an unanimous wish that the investigation should be adjourned, in order that the body might be opened. The Jury assemble again this day. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 20.—At a congregation on Wednesday last the following degrees were con ferred : BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. Wilbraham Bootle Guest, Catharine-hal!. MASTERS OF ARTS• Rev. William Hill Tucker, Fellow of King's Coll. John Shapland Stock, St. Peter's Coll. John Decchs, Trinity Coll. Robert John Bartlett, St. John's Coll. (comp.) Rev. Henry Pratt, Corpus Christi Coll. Rev. Henry Crane Brice, Christ Coll. Rev. John Robert Hopper, Christ Coll. (comp.) Edward Raikes Edgar, Downing Coll. BACHELORS IN CIVIL. LAW. Thomas Wilkinson Hill, Trinity-hall. Richard Chawner, Trinity-hall. BACHELORS OF AETS. Robert Tetlow Robinson, Corpus Christi Coll. Evan James, Corpus Christi Coll. Thomas Borroughs, Christ Coll. THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH WHIST PLAYERS. It appears by an article in the Courrier Francais which we subjoin, that a late English Ambassador at Paris has humbled the French whist-players, by a challenge to play a hundred rubbers for 50,000/. in twenty days, besides 1001. on each rubber, in or der to decide the superiority of play, which he claims for the English. He had the money ready, and his partner named ; but the Frenchman, who took up the glove for the honour of his country, could neither get his stake subscribed, nor the partner he %visited to play- with ; he could not there fore fight. " To shut one's self up to cut pens and appear deep, when one is, as folks say, only empty and hollow," this is, according to Figaro, one of the chief occupations of diplomacy. The portrait he draws of the Statesmen of his time gives us more than one feature of resemblance to those of our own days. This may be judged by the following fact, on the details of which reliance may be placed:— A Noble Lord, who has spent many years in Paris in the capacity of Ambassador, instead of applying himself to remove the old causes of rivalry between France and England, has only employed his leisure in a new one of a species quite peculiar. He has only, while staying here, made such observations as enabled him to rase this strange pretension—that the English have maintained over the French an im mense superiority in playing the game of whist.— Let nobody believe that we are at all exaggerating the singularity of this opinion. It was uttered in the circles of the Court; and as an excess of urba nity has always prevented good company from con tradicting it, it has become in his Lordship's man sion a sort of established idea. On his return into his own country, the Noble Lord was beset with it, even to his domestic fire-side ; and wishing to verify, by a solemn proof, the pretension he had maintained so long in the form of an axiom, he hit upon an expedient which deserves to le made known. Like a true Chevalier he has recently sent to one of the saloons at Paris, where the rich idlers of all nations, who live in that capital, meet every even ing, a challenge in due. form, in which he defies the best players at whist to undertake a match of one hundred rubbers, to be played in twenty days, for 1001. the rubber, and 50,000/, to the winners of the greatest number of games. If this challenge should be accepted, the combat will take place at Paris or London, at the pleasure of those who are chal lenged, and his Lordship announces that he has al ready made choice of one of his countrymen as a partner. It is generally thought that the glove thrown with so much arrogance has been taken up in the arena into which it was thrown. Happily he who picked it up, and who believed himself called upon to avenge the national honour, has more baldness than wealth. It has been necessary for him to have recourse to a subscription to raise the stake required. There has been au assessment, and in a few days 900,000 francs (36,0001.) were obtained. But this is not enough, and beyond it the subscribers will not go. There is another disappointment also, for the champion who thought himself s.O strong that he could measure himself with his Lordship over a green cloth, could not procure the support of the second, in whom he placed his confidence ; the lat ter, who occupies a place of responsibility, would not take part in this joust, for the benefit of an other. We are forced, therefore, if not to confess the inferiority of France, at least to admit the ina bility we are under of fulfilling all the conditions ref the combat. Dr. 1 EID, well-know:A 1 .4 his medical reports in the Monthly 21...t4aine, was requested by a lady 0 literary c:minenee to (1;11 at her house. " Jia care you re ctileet.the address," said she, as 40 quitted the room ; "No. 1, Chesterfield-street." " Aladam," said the Doc tor, •‘ I an to:; great an admirer of politeness nut to re :op-Iher chesterfield, and, I fear, too sehi•iti, ever to for get nuirebtr, curt"' GETTING UP CHEAP GOODS.-A vommer cial traveller being in conversation with a tradesman t f Cheltenham, a few days since, a+i the Fleece Inn, EICA to his friend—" yot know, Sir, that trade is et so low an ebb ; in Birmingham, that they can absolutely get op the inside of a watch for twelve shillings. " Pool, r' replied the other, "things are worse in Cheltenham, for here they will pet up the inside of a chiamey for sixpence." —.Cheltenham Chronicle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have seldom met with any man who did not feel a little peevish at being reminded of his past absurdities ; and, acknowledging some share of the general soreness which must affect the great body of our countrymen at the indifference with which they have at various times submitted to be gulled, we are loth to turn the attention ( f our readers to the report of yesterday's proceed ings in the Court of Exchequer, connected with the famous case of the Custom-house. The factc of the matter few people can have forgotten. Mr. Peto, an architect, undertook to build, on a spe cific plan, a durable Custom-house for 160,000/. Fie did build a Custom-house, which cost from first to last not far short of 500,000/.. and which had the additional merit of being, not a durable, but a tumbledown one. As the scandal hen, upon both grounds—viz. the length of the bill and the short-livedness of the building—was so obstreperous that it could not be stopped or silenced, a counter-movement took place by order of the Government of that day, and a law• suit was got up against Mr. Peto. We hardly recollect the precise particulars of the verdict, but from certain proceedings in equity, we gather that on a bond, or some effective legal instru ment, the Crown has held a claim against Mr. Peto for 20,0001. or 30,0001., of which that person is endeavouring to suspend the operation by virtue of a " bill in equity." The arguments used on behalf of Mr. Peto, both at the trial and before the Court of Exchequer, were sub stantially these—that his increased. charges beyond those acknowledged in the estimate, were caused by enormous deviations from the original plan ; that such deviations were ordered by Mr. Laing, the Government surveyor, whom be (Mr. Peto) was bound to obey ; and. that the destruction of the building arose from another circumstance, of which Mr. Peto was altogether innocent—namely, the exclusion of the river water from having access to the piles, which were of beech timber, by means of a wall which the Government agents erected without Mr. Peto's privity, and which occasioned the piles to rot away. Now all this may be very well, and, though not at all amusing to us who pay the piper, it will not, we hope, be absolutely unin structive to a nation who have been called upon, time out of mind, to place a liberal confidence in his Majesty's advisers, acting upon their re sponsibility. Let us see what " responsibiliv" has done for us in this remarkable case. The King's Attorney-General attacks Mr. Peto, the contractor, for the downfall of the mighty edifice. It does not appear that any idea was entertained of attacking him for the tremendous overcharge, until the crash of the tumble made such a noise as caught the notice of every man in England, and could not be passed over as a mere, item in Parliamentary estimates. Peto throws the blame on the Ministerial agents, and between them the country is choused of its money. If Peto re ceived orders contrary to the original specification, it was his business to demur, without the fram ing and executing a new estimate in correspon dence with the change of plan. If Lord Liver- pool sent a message, that he must have Portland, stone ends instead of brick, there ought likewise to have been, quoad hoc, another. estimate. If a house•keeper was too dashing a lady to look out upon Thames-street, preferring to improve her manners by a contemplation of Billingsgate stairs, and dale Commissioners of Customs were such gallant gentlemen that Mrs. Slipslop,—or Deborah Wilkins, or whatever name she 'juiced. in,--must have the house turned upside-down for her personal " gapeseed" and deli!etatilll, why still we say that Mr. Peto, ;:s a man of sense and honesty, was bound to send in a pre vious calculation of the expense. But the truth is, that the builders and their tribe are not often troubled with many scruples on that score there is nothing tickles them like a command for vast and manifold alterations. They are at once, by such means, released from every fetter imposed by the original contract, and may exercise the most spacious and costly imagination, in' in venting fresh articles of charge. We do ILA say that Mr. Peto did so, but we aver, that if he did not, the Government and its subalterns have no great merit from his forbearance. Our view of the case is, that Mr. Peto ought to have been called to a strict account —a strict legal account—for every shilling by which the final expense outran the cost agreed upon, for every year and hour by which the premature downfall of the edifice came short of Cfr . .te average duration of buildings of the clas s of solidity which he had promised. If t l . - .ls was a hardship upon Mr. Peto, who only neglected to take care of himself,—how much harder inust the loss be considered upon the public, who could not take care of itself, by being, as is usual on such occa sions, kicked out of the room by the might: ) , Peto official underlings, whenever the l eas t atte.,pt is made by the uninitiated, s o muc h a 9 to inquire what we, the people, are t o be 'called u p on t o pi over-ruling equity wherewith dory,';ad a the case ag a in s t hi m , l et pad. r th l‘ t i o r. beat b him turn his equity against the Government surveyor—the Government Commissioners, of Customs—the Government First Lord of the Treasury of that period—or the other old wornan, the Billingsgate loving housekeeper, if he will ; but why force the innocent people to contribute even one shilling to the discharge of such harpy claims ? The thing is iniquitous— it has grown, by our habitual and most con temptible submission. into a regular piracy upon the nation::.) purse. Only look back at the millions out of which this easy nation has been ". done," having to pay the piper, whatever squabbles may arise between master and journey men taste-mongers. Between the collection of China articles at Brighton % and Carlton-house, and Buckingham-house, and the Custom, or more properly, Billingsgate-house, _and all the rest of them,—with their raisings up and pullings down, anti down tumbling, and patchings, deco rations, reparations, agglomerations, their masses of deformity, inconvenience, and confusion, certainly such a race of gulls as all foreigners must fancy us for tolerating such rubbish under the name of " public buildings," and throwing away upon them almost a guinea for every brick, never was heard of in this world, We recommend the last lona paragraph in the report of Mr. Ku;4it's speech to the serious notice of our readers. The system of. Subaltern meddling is there beautifully described., The result of th e whole is as we have said. Enforce the law against Foto, l e t him enforce, his equity, if he i t , against the blunderers who interfered and spoiled his work ; but let not the public go to the dogs between them. it is not our business to suggest to. the Beneli what its duty is—we have no doubt of their upright discharge of their office ; but we call the particular attention of the Duke of Wellington to this case, as a sample of numerous others which demand the application 1