The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-19 00:00:00

~, xr 1 04thi --.,,0R,5H1P OF BOM BAY. . kt,frot: subject tr , We have received the following polite 0 1 4 Ir t ii ii i , 'lon. 'Member for Wolverhampton . 1, - 11 le /l'!„;; I : e rs Presents his compli ments . to the editor k % 40t b e en "19 era d , and begs to inform him that he 1 7has ror I , PP ointed G . oyernor of Bombay, and that 14 tezd ed. ' 4 -°lk for believing that such an appointment "tavell 'We revellers Club, Oct. 15, 1846." $ are ver . i t t, for th e 7 E orry if this be so, for two reasons: — e gentleman, -°14 4 of t a lent 84 k eof Mr. Villiers, who is a ..e d se • :411 3 . f• and a consistent politician ; an ' , w , ' 4) te' r : ' or t h a n ' credit and character of Lord J. Russ' S. %clt ri'ttlent, rhat there has, however, been a talk t in :71 et ,:l!pel'atrnent for more than a month paClub, '' ill 6b 9n London—in Brooke's, in the Reform 1, 4 ti lka kno°t,',l7 Travellers' whence . he dateshis letter— ,' 41 (lon, I 's better than Mr. Villiers him self. T . he w r e e ~"°Tiot b - : iNolte says the proverb, without fire, an d _ ith''' vi t t, `4le's the appointment was so gen,rally talked , 4 gh°4t3eTitae. warrant and foundation. . That Lord ' , Att e • , vrho lam always been friendly towards and to , With -4 • • Li. PPOin t , - 'lr. Villiers, creditably contemplated wn such izt , e th glet? t within a very recent period, verily fiat f ac ' l' °4 o , we may not be in a condition to prove d i4ttiiitelitteletitlYl ofhl aeouV . of ie j r u s stice It will be observe kr,V?r•lf Press. Mr. 1 1l is More diplomatic than kill, ilmbeizi aing, 1 a lawy r of some twenty years' sta y o lle4 itli vr o: t uoyou hi eunderstand us when we sthat tilh'tlist;Ltravie;rs4 no .Y r u a n voids with convenient certa int y l dot -7,1 allegations of our statement. He mere ly 'loa"e a a.s net been appointed, and that he has no 4 414' for be ll ' such an appointment itit_4_tded. eying that 11 1 ; detl t o 4 lat he d oes not say t h at i t was no t to N u in 4i 4 Prioint hi m to Bombay at any time I t til °,,ll.f'h o f September. Still less does he liti:4-titltytiiell:tolliianirn.atu2lieofuh appointment was at any W a dh ere sc to our previous r stat.- . - t 4 40] Ilt the a, • was contemplated. IN hy . 1 p ott er co. pePoityanent. best ( 41 ti e ,tnelit . i i ,! . rinPlatO is known to the Whig kil . Ne arp4erunap.i. thatG A o l ver y nm il G o vernme nt can safely count Villiers, and there fore wlii e l l Pitpo ne •: PPo:rt o f . Mr. more convenient time, q litil aY b slat Lu i s till a to conciliate Sir N rt p„, , urge' itiy necessary 1 t Ge o , `',,,u3' th e mi.illtirlo-F4tea'‘deientrit'ittid appointment of Lord Dalho . usie . l o , r Loid Dalhous f ieis, unquestionan ), business, and so far 4 4 4 4 4 4tt e d fur the n !, ood in m tm an en o t ; but we can see no s fei a Zh e Y , Mr. a ppo intment p •s po should be held to haveal 4 th e , - c t lira than the, man of all work of Scotland.Str yf e Robert r s . o'o l o % is n o il ta n ie': mar iager of cannie 4 tlg lill ek 11 and jld_ pa mot—nor a sordid agitator like be, 114 11 ~ "" st iloe'adiary staff of the League—nor 1 0 tile 'efor all3\ ""i the henchman of an opponent ;. and I.lrety„,, Will Probably have his honour and v irt ue Net'ski:'' and g o wit bout the goverment of Bomb ay. .................- 'N E _ IJUT(off MAIL. • tbiu, aqtrik t'von ' 14.--On Monday there . was a 1 --q t tli e • -nei l, which sat very long ;at which were IP % It itoil ir zeellenci es the Minister Van Hall, who 101 4 .44- tecovered from his indisposition, and R lll4. W ' Yk ' t he neialy appointed Minister of the tr,,z, 0 2v, h e l'• 1 A informed , by a letter thN'°,le ; *---- `.J I we are Ahro ,_°` t he 7th , that numbers of sheep have tha P t e to 1 1 ) 1 g 4 the pri,vii ice of Overyssel to Harlingen, lit,h tn atiy de embarked for England, we can state 'l ) e Y r s 4llt bar e of sheep from Gilderlatid and North 'l,Vl+( t . th ey Passed thr , augh our province to Flus g, Z ed l ire re ,: e z n:l e. b V , d for France; most of them by th .any sheep have likewise been e stea,:aier to Gorinchem, to be tent ' t eh i a ThOi, I, ll '' larqe proportion of them for Eng 10f0abl4mi, t ! l e exp er iseTof conveyance is very high, Yek;;•---Thr' realised,ou them. t kii , .14,t , Oh. the te crop is not so abundant this gr„t 111 'd th yet r nay. are dug up in very good con d . 1- goottd- as lasteref.ore the fsuarcity will be by no means so e ttii,Years ; Th.e . price is, indeed, double that of ' e 2 • th e PftPle I Lave learnt to be more economi h,,'eLLt n uf this invt sluable vegetable. Ve have already announced that t th.,utch '?migrants were to sail for North 140 , ol e e Dianna for emigration increases to such it b., b ebesid e s a th'iri I ship will sail during this O a sail on the ' lse belle, fur New York, which the Bth or 10th of this month, with n 4 , 14 t11 ;4. grants G ilderland, Oberyssel, Gremh w)hl ah A'" ship , which is to sail on t e the'ovierican fri. 'ate bound to New Orleans, and ke, *ll 3', yell,stsengers general are averse from taking k4,7 4 tent ei t ne desire to emigrate is so great that they spri„ ee ttie 4 ," to take thit 1 less desirable route. The . an of b,%. are t, Persons intending to emigrate in the al oe pert et? eunaereu s, and they are chiefly persons nrair /sT° c annot so speedily arrange their eaten qtri:liasßea'tll,oeg thiam is a farmer of the province tereC t ttia ose pr operty is estimated at too,oo t o o as ; ast 14 1 ' 10 has n C orr imissioned another emigrant he Par;`!ett North America, for whi?li purposetat the ofo,ooo arins. It is self evident to the Where ti a su c h pt. , rsons i s a great support kid see" excites others to partake in landed Every fefir advertise, Dents of sales of property, ll4 j 4itnun iti‘ an to the strength of t t h e e d e t o h u a n t country. OCT. 14.—1 t has been asserted of some 1614°41 °F fl eiit 11-en(l3, n order to cover a deficit e ah Of t wei olln s • Stat V- .uttl florins at four per c • A ...i ll ae public revenue, to negotiate ehtlv a e e on „ into -''s of ate on an tbority that the Government has n) Jietu L,,li,Ptaeting a loan. F - UNDS.—BaussELs, Our. 14. 1/I.°t hi- id per Cent •••••••• • • • • - • -° , 4lleh F,:'L c, ' • in p ,Flve per Cent •• • • • •oitto Th„ r t: millions, Four per Cent • • Ditto,, 117 e, sper Cent •• • • y-seven Millions, ditto • • • • • • - oitto',,•,'•. ~1840.. ................ 10 - 0% 102 1) 111Ditt0:',,It,;1 Ditto, 183 •• • 734 Ditto Of t c - ii .• 1 • 1;32 .• •• • .... •••• 94v Ditto ig ne Y '• •• • • "' • 2 . 0 " Pa Pers. fill'. ** ** ‘1414 -4 : 1 131 °6 :1 . 1 . 8 0 - i c l . ls T . .. 9 9. Money. Austrian spc a. Cents •..•••• • • • • • II I Bank• 1 1 •• • • 1570 Shares ••• • • • •••••• • • • • • Abglo-Russiz m Loan .......,......... 10756 Russian spe r Cant.. Hamb. Certificate. 101 Ditto Ist ser. ies loser iption •• •• 182 Ditto, tiope Lod Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96% Ditto, in Cer.tificate • • •• • •••• • • • • • 97 New 4 per ( .lent., • •)pe and Co. •• •• • • 90 Ditto Stiegl. itz ........ ..... 88 , tPanish Nei v• 5 per ;_lent ••••• • • • • • 181 1 Ditto 3pe r Cent . ••••• • • • • 31% - Dutch 10-Portu gum ; an, 2% per Cent • • Actin tlDebt, : 1% 58% Ditto 3 per Cent. • per Cent ••••••• • • • relish New 4 per Cer it. loan, 1844 7B 411 ,, 810-Danis 3 h Loan, per Cent •• • • S S U ziational Bank Share s•••• • • • • AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 10. " Per Cent. Metalli goes .••• • • • ...... • 109 % 1 1 . Per Cent ditto.. • • • • • • • • . • . 99% 4 Per Cent. ditto.. - 72 "an, 1834 ....• • • • • • • • • • . • • • • 157 Ditto, 1839 •• • • .. 127% Dank Shares • • • . • . .......... 1562 Xsttrhazy's Loan- 1 : :• • • • I ▪ • ILWAYS. Ologgnit z •• ' A • Th e Northern • or R qerdinand •• •• •• •• • • • 175% • .. 12 .ritilln—Milan •• • • ••• • •. .•••.•.• . • • • • • 111 8 % s l'; see gsritnh7. .. ... ••• ........ :": •• •• •• ▪ • • • .. ••• 109788 ,rose ri bu 132 tto • • ..... ••••• • • • • • ••• • " Older •• •• •••• • • • • " ft n lleinun,• •••• • • ' • • .••• • • • • 'skit reat Zeh itunz-•-• • • • Oct. • 1 • J. . .... • ..... •• • • ridze • • . • • • • • , theTijg A --zu-,--_____ . 11 - ''lsl'l'LAGtin A T UTE WEST-EN 44" in Pall 'ina2:l, says a correspondent weer,illtlare infested by ants, simikr in form i to n tho*e we 13.—END. '3l°ll r • 4 , - e°4ll trY, but much smaller and o n ~cr n e s V ishn inibh,ryney swarm in such multitudes, as to th b e w e u warmest Par4(34fule nuisance, g, snerally frequenting . alli tt. .. the house, at) 4 finding their way , into sugar stietilis, he übc Ards, &c., , (41 6 /1 11 4 ,t end edible. • The unwelcome intruders do not and covering all that is 'lke ,'uenaselves to inanimate substances, but intro the I, leniselves into wearing apparel, crawling about ilble.°tY, thereby pro icl . ucing a titillation far from agree- N t tne e Beetles that al )ounded previously to their appear ia,lllllve nearly disappeared. Some est the mum, of your cor appear of c.ti r : ° t! luny ha \ .e the charity to sugg t ki j _ Stip p. 4 ',. 'lothl/411,, eg Or THE how STEAM-SHIP . MINE -14. r iZ p t h co e l ril b a u g i n kli ifi n e g en .3 t • w iron steam-ship was launched lar n d e of Messrs. n Vernona t n a d he U p 11 Pen th ten Saturd ay week. It is intended of f ac th e a d e l 4 eat e ec elt and Glasgow line, and it is one litruetePleels those eminent builders have n ever con immense srober'' ofhe la un ch was witnessed Ptlssbh, persons, who were accommo b d y at a ed as far as %l e i, it - utthe yard., and the other adjacent places from taitil. gninpse of rations havi t4 b4t half -past 4 leven o'clock, all the c * axe, interesting spectacle could be ob btlt ne'LL,l en nt ude, ti• Le unique fabric was se p t r in pa motion, th , i --.„ ,y si x _ v sn ub as elapsed before she had traversed The tiet*ltt l ea th wa " u f ;elided into her future element. che er : d , --e vessel was crowded with spectat T o h rs e , who cere keit, uneartily as sl le descended to the water. 44 4111 °1 ehr lStelli l ig was performed by Mrs. Pike, e stes._er of 4L b 1., ..‘'ne lat je Lieut. Watson, of the St. Genrg 4 sho luttl..e‘ Coin! air% / After the vessel had remained nr.. tulli tY of te t i u t he . water to allow the builders an opp - - in t ow 6° 11'.1rviut upon her appearance, she was taken the dock. fh a river et 'earner ' and safely introduced into_ lays is 190 eleti.t. tom , of the Minerva between perpenelic th u e 11.. - 7 ,, ~ 0 feet ; °I Tor all, 217 feet ; breadth inside . e. FIZZ les coa t ii pt, depth of hold, 16 feet. She is r 4627 tons, and her engines, constructed li i e w 4 er e . sSr ° B ,in A -1117,, Curtis, and Kennedy, are of 420-horse of i so Afte r fl. an conclusion of the ceremony, upwards kess r „ e v ' t he Pr iricip 1 guests were entertained by the vfhe - a - ' erl ien, 'in thea model-room of the establishment, b dttli a l sti i: ka:llagoi! acent dejeuner was spread. After the k amid to rats, "Prosperity to the Minerva" was . PO w I 4,4 !ates g b neral enthusiasm ; a f ter wh i ch the com- Ls all tt, S. T VIRZI T DOWAGER AND THE FAMILY OF THE LA.TE zficuTme ANT PEARSE, RN., ELDEST SON OF MS Of t h '" - ' s •JUTI • WILLIAM TOE FoIIRTH.—By the death tw., e late Liei itenant Pearse, his family, consisting of 04' d'aughters, were reduced to comparative destitution, le t o t e , t c° uot of ' their late father having contracted a I , lid„ - : elarria ge, and settled all his property upon his i t i "w• As v,,t Kna after his death as decency would per t° till aPplicatlfm was made on behalf of the two daughters tlit4 M ajesty the Queen Dowager, who almost imme in , Y Upon the receipt of the communication, caused ctillr Y to 1 354 made by Lord Howe of the rector of the -1 131413 4 where the two Young ladies resided, as to their r.-111.8eter, B cc., and having been fully satisfied upon that ti‘c'ellt_she irmnediately forwarded to the Misses Pears, for upon Messrs. Coutts fora sim of money each, What their present wants, and requested to be informed •„0 thZ37 ivished her to do for them, and whether they b....elti accept situations in the household, as if they i a r_ 111( 1, elle would procure them for them. The late biten ant Pearse was the eldest son of his late Majesty " m aerieui lady of the name of Pearce, or Door ~ "ai LIT. ,HATURE. CO URT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. - Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, walked in the morning on the terrace and grounds of the Castle. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Berkeley Drum mond and Colonel Sey moor, enjoyed the sport of shoot ing yesterday morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual exercise yesterday forenoon in the groun4 around the Castle. The Royal Family took a carriage airing in the af,ernoon. - Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, left the Castle yesterday. The Earl of Auckland also took his departure yesterday. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne ;arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince. Albert rode out on horseback, attended by the lion. Miss Dawson. Maid of Honour in Waiting, yesterday after noon. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Colonel Seymour, also attended on horseback. The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday in cluded the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Mr. G., E. and the lion. Mrs. Amon, and the lion. and R w. C. Leslie Courtenay. The band of the lst Life Guards attended during dinner. Her Majesty's private band was afterwards in attendance in the Castle. This morning the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household attended Divine service in the private chapel. The lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour tenay officiated. THE TEMPLES AND TOMBS OF EGYPT, NUBIA, AND PALESTINE. 2 Vols. By Mrs. Romer. __ _ Already known as an observant traveller and as a picturesque writer by her work upon " The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquivir," Mrs. Romer carries her own passport to public favour. To say that these two volumes are remarkable for purity of composition and for an intense appreciation of what ever is beautiful or admirable in nature and art is merely the utterance of facts which the most super ficial reader could not fail to recognise. This pro duction, however, claims attention on much higher grounds. In perusing its pages we not only find clever delineations of scenery, shrewd observations upon a remote and extraordinary race, and sagacious rejections upon African and Asiatic society; but we find the work to possess infinitely nobler charac teristics. The authoress enters upon her pilgrimage with a foreknowledge of the wonderful regions in which she is about to make a temporary sojourn. She beholds a spot hallowed by some celestial reminiscence, and her mind is at once crowded with a thousand memories of the occurrences by which its very name has become a household word in every corner of the globe. She sees, for the first time, some other locality memorable for some deed of earthly great ness, and a flood of historical associations streams over the page upon which she is describing its appearance. This of itself would alone tend to render her account of the three renowned countries which she has recently visited, most welcome. But beyond these advantages, the writings of Mrs. Romer possess others. Ancient and modern authors appear to be equally familiar to her, and are referred to with equal felicity. The Book of Books and Diodorus Siculus are recurred to just when such a recurrence is most suitable in referring to the times of antiquity. Lane and Chateaubriand are quoted with similar felicity in relation to what may be termed contemporary days. While, however, we acknowledge the various excel lencies of these volumes, we must likewise observe that the subjects of which they treat bear about them selves a fascination which is altogether irresistible. Egypt, for example, is luminous with an historic glory, which perhaps no other country in the world possesses to such an astonishing extent. From the despotism of the Pharoans to the benignant govern ment of Mohammed Ali—from the period in which the subjects of Cheops were engaged in fabricating imperishable structures in the wilderness, to our own age, when steam vessels are plying between the Nile and almost every European port—the soil of Egypt has been the arrena of a succession of marvellous events. Not to journey back so far as the epochs when Moses vied with a necromantic priesthood, and when Joseph was its wise and salutary lieutenant, we discover the renown of Egypt in more recent times. Here it was that Thebes, with its hundred gates and streets of palaces, out shone all other cities ; here Alexander founded the great city which- he intended to be the metropolis of the globe, and which was to perpetuate his name to posterity: here Julius Caesar acquired a vast propor tion of his warlike glory, and became subservient to the charms of 'Cleopatria • here Marc Antony, for a similar reason, " lost a world ;" here Pompey perished, and Cato committed suicide. We should, however, ex ceed all reasonable limits were we merely to enumerate all the facts associated with this region, of which the asetic labours of St. Jerome are not the least memo rable, when he was receiving the houselessiatriciars of Rome after the invasion of the barbarians. It is from the recollection of these mighty occurrences that Mrs. Romer's work possesses such an exceeding charm, and because, moreover, she revives most of those occurrences in her lucubrations. Everything in Egypt reminds her of, or suggests to her reader some antique or modern glory; the Nile, the peregri nations of Bruce; Aboukir, the heroic victory of Nelson ; the Pyramids, the wonderful prowess of Napoleon. In Palestine, again, the authoress is most fortunate in the subjects of her contemplation. Pales tine, the most venerable region of the globe, the land trodden by the foot of Divinity. The sentiments inspired by the recognition of the different spots most renowed in the Holy Land are worthy of her woman's heart. Her weeping on the threshold of Jerusalem, her awe on passing the valley ofJeremias, her profound feelings on the summit of Golgotha, everything is consonant with the scene of the pil gritnage, and everything fastens the attention of the reader, from page to page, from chapter to chapter, down to the " finis." It must not be supposed, how ever, that this work is altogether of a sombre or me lancholy cast, on the contrary it is as variable as the climate with which Mrs. Romer is most familar. Many passages are peculiar far their vivacity, as others are for their reflectiveness. We will transcribe from the first volume a narrative of very singular interest, and present it as a specimen of the liveliness of description and picturesqueness of detail for which Mrs. Romer is remarkable. The following is an incident in the romantic life of a Circassian slave, who under the auspices of Mohammed Ali was created a dignitary of Egypt, and is now governor ~of the upper portion of that country, under the title of Selim Pasha. As a mark of the Viceroy's regard the latter offered Selim a wife from his own harem, a young slave beautiful and accomplished. The offer is accepted. Selim makes inquiry secretly as to the personal ap pearance of his future spouse. He is , told that she was " beautiful in face and form, young, gentle, and accomplished—that she wrote like an Effendi, sung like an Alme, and danced—not like a Ghawazee—but in the more graceful and less immodest fashion of Stamboul." Then follows the narrative in Mrs. Romer's language. " This was more than enough to inflame the imagina tion of the young man, and he became enamoured of the image described to him, and sighed for the moment that was to render him the possessor of such a treasure. " At last it arrived. The lengthened preliminary cere monies of Egyptian marriages, which generally consume several days, commenced and appeared eternal to the impatient bridegroom. The day of the bath, when the bride, accompanied by all her female friends, made her ablutions ' • the day of the hen n a, when her hands were dyed, and that she received the wedding gifts presented to her by all her late companions, the inmates of the Pacha's harem ; the agreement pronounced by the bride and bridegroom on either side of a closed door, and witnessed by the Cadi, to take each other for man and wife—all had slowly passed by, and the long-sighed - for day, in the evening of which the bride is conveyed in state to her husband's house, was at length ushered in. The gifts prepared by Selim Bey for the fair Hafiza, consisting of diamond ornaments, cashmere shawls, pieces of gold and silver stuffs, mirrors set in jewels, cos tly perfumery, and a profusion of the most delicate sweetmeats, were arranged in silver baskets, placed upon tra y s covered with scarlet cashmere fringed wi th g old, and a light veil of azure gauze thrown over them ; and were borne upon the heads of Selim Bey's slaves, in magnificent new dresses, preceded by a black eunuch on horseback, through the principal streets of the city to the bridegroom's house. This ceremony took place in the middle of the day, and it was remarked that never had greater splendour or better taste been displayed at a private marriage. Some time afterwards Selina Bey p r oceeded privately t o his new residence, in or der to be there to receive his bride. " A little before sunset the fair Hafiza was conveyed from the Pacha's hareem in the citadel, to her new home, attended by a number of female slaves, who were to form her household ; all mounted upon magnificent asses splendidly caparisoned, and escorted by her fet l oe guardians, the black eunuchs of Selim Bey. She was met at the atttanee of the house by her husband, whose gallantry prompted him to pay her the honours reserved for princesses alone ; he lifted her in his arms from the saddle, carried her up-stairs to the hareem, and after depositing her upon the square of silver damask spread over the corner of the sofa, in s splendid saloon, pro strated himself before her, and kissed her feet. Then rising, and taking his place by her side, he eagerly un fastened the circlet of diamonds that bound on the long scarlet cashmere which had hitherto completely concealed her form, face, and even her eyes, from his view ; and the envious veil falling to the ground, revealed to the happy bridegroom's gate loveliness which surpassed even the description that had been made to him of it, and which was enhanced by the emotion betrayed by the fair creature heeself. Pale and red by turns, her eyes cast to the ground, and fatthhlinit under the scrutinising glance bent upon her , she sat in silent fear 1 est the first view in gaging his tion that the rapture 1 / 4 7`f the o bsy h ti m t r a s p i t n ar r e t d hu yth b . y of ot 4 h trh e ee r 4 h se u sx s uc b fl n dm d ha had ir a o, d na f n a od i moment was rendered ddftilalsite by Hafiza confessieZ that fNin the !lateen) kttices she had often contemplated w h e a fió f e lleifeci in the train of the Pacha, S th e a l ittni in her Nli and grace; and that she knew, from the joy others Ike had ex eyes he had long excelfod oin beauty perienced, when told that he was to become her husband, that his image had long dw&t in her heart. s uch happy (circumstances — never tm.'fore did such inter change" Never did Mithometan ma:T ia g e commence under of tenderness and sentiment ea; hellish c' the en tfanee ofmoslem bride into her husbb: d s house. with and Their muted tosVs *ere interrupted by "wiz' , bring brining in the nuptial re ; and in conformtmeeit? Turkish usages, the bride 'arose and prepared to o f l ' .lt NI slaves upon her husband to a handmaid, while h e part oo k, it. The morose pride of Turkish husbands, and ill. Inferior scale in which all females are classed by there, and which p , events their distinguishing between a wife and a slave, not only permits such a violation of the laws of gallantry; but exacts that these services should be performed in silence ; and when the bridegroom has been thus served, the bride is allowed to retire, and make her repast in another room. Something chival rous, however, in the sentiments of Selim Bey, added to the honour he was desirous of paying to the wife be t t wed upon him by the Pacha, forbade his complying with such a custom. He compelled Hafiza to seat her- i self once more by his side, and while he selected for her the most delicate morsels from the luxurious repast that , was served to them, their mutual confidences recoin - mewed, made up of tender questions and avowals—th e unwearying tautology of a new-born love which ap - peered to them to be the precursor of a long career o f reciprocal affection. " And now for the first time Selina bethought him of asking Ilaiza where she was born, and was answer( d, in Circassia. "In Circassia It was a new bond of union bow(' en them—the same land had given them birth, for he Km Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended by Baroness Scheel, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Baron Meysenbuch, arrived in town on Saturday morning from Cashiobury Park, Herts, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Princess visited and in spected Westminster Abbey and the Colosseum. Her Royal Highness left town at four o'clock in the after noon by the London and North-Western Railway, for Watford, on her return to Cashiobury Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz returned to Kew on Saturday from Windsor Castle. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts, on Saturday, for Windsor Castle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING- (CONCLUDED). SATURDAY.—Match, 500, Bst 71b each, Ab M.—Mr. Brien's The Traverser(Marlow) beat Mr. Clifton's Valerian Sutler). Valerian made the running to the bushes, when The Traverser passed him and won in a canter. Match, 500, 200 ft,7st each, Ab M.—Mr. O'Brien's Needful received forfeit from Mr. Clifton's Nottingham. NORTHALLERTON RACES. —FRIDAY. Match, 100, h ft, 1 Ist each, four miles—Mr. H. Smith's Seaweed (Mr. H. Scott), beat Mr. Cookson's Barton. Match, 50, h ft, one mile—Mr.. W Lonsdale's b f by Kremlin, 3 yrs, 7st 61b, received forfeit from Mr. Walter's Ratcliffe, 5 yrs, 9st 31b. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 10 added; for two yrs old, 6st 81b ; three, Bst ; four, Bst 61b ; five and upwards, 9st ; fillies allowed 31b. Once round. (6 Subs.) Captain Williams's Jinglepot, 4 yrs (Lye) 1 Mr. Harland's Cossack Maid, 3 yrs Captain Pat's Isabella Noel, 2 yrs 6 The Selling Stakes, of 7 soya, each, with 10 added, two years old, 6st 101 b ; three. Bst 10Ib ; four, 9st 51b ; five v 'upwards, 9st 121 b. The winner to be sold for 100 , if demanded. &c. One mile and a dis. (7 Subs.) Mr. esseltine's The Slayer's Daughter, 3 yrs...(Bumby) 1 Mr argreave ' s Bit-nibble, 2 ryrs 2 SOW, Mr. Peari's Volga, 3 yrs 0 The Silver Cup by subscription of 5 sovs. each. Three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst 31b ; five and upwards, Bst 10Ib. Mares and geldings allowed 31bs. Heats two miles. Sir J. Gerard's Curiosity, 3 yrs (Lye) 0 1 1 Mr. Fleseltine's The Helmsman, 4 yrs Mr. Yea's Little Jack Horner, 3 yrs 1 2 dr Mr. Lamb's Lady Flora, aged.... Mr. Meiklam's The Parson's Clerk , 4 y rs 2 dr Mr. J. Scott's Waxholme, 3 yrs Mr. Smith's Charley, 3 vrs ....... ..... 0 dr COURSING. BIGGAI. CLUB. The Puppy Stakes (8 Subs.) were won by Mr. Handy side's Fairy and his Hotspur. The Challenge Cup was won by Mr. Dickson's Friday beating Mr. Gillespie's Huron. The Stirling Stakes (6 Subs.) were won by Mr. Woddrop's Lochinvar. Mr. Dickson's Johnnie Fa ran up. The Castlecraig Stakes (8 Subs.) were won by Mr. 'R. Gillespie's Tecumseh. Mr. Dickson's Maid of the Mill ran up. SOUIIPORT (SOUTH LANCASHIRE) CLUB, OCT. 14 AND 15. The Annual Dinner Stakes (16, all aged dogs) were won by Mr. Craven's Clarina. Mr. Robinson's Difference ran M up. The St. Leger Stakes, for 16 puppies, were nee a r. Adamthwaite's Dusty. Mr. Taylor's Bru es, tus w ere icon .up by Mr. The Produce Stakes , for 16 p u pil i Eden's Euterpe. Mr. Rouchette's Rosey ran up. The Churchtown Stakes, for 16 (all aged dogs), were won by Mr. Slater's Sentry. Mr. King's The Baron ran up. The Consolation Stakes (8 Subs.) were won by Mr. King's Supervisor. Mr. Coupe's Clara ran up. The Crosser's Stakes (8 Subs.) were won by Mr. Bradley's Burgundy. His Ben Hart ran up. The Marshside Stakes (8 Subs.) were won by Mr. Ardern's Monarch. Mr. Coupe's Handy ran up. AMESBURY MEETING. The Produce Match was won by Captain Wyndham. The Druid Bitch Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Law rence's Lucy Neale. The Druid Dog Puppy Stakes were won by Captain Wyndham's Woggarwolfe. The Stonehenge Dog Puppy Stakes by Captain Wynd ham's Winks. The Amesbury Cup by Mr. Lawrance's Camlet. The Beacon Hill Dog Puppy by Mr. Parkinson's Pic caroon. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Somerset Subscription Hounds—Tues. Buncombe Hill ; Fri. Black near Williton—half-past 10. B. V. ll—Mon. Baghere Common—half-past 10. Taunton Harriers—Alon. Wal ford Gate ; Thurs. Knapp-10. Cheltenham Stag Hounds —Mon. Beach Tree, Westwood; Wed. Elstont ; Sat. Shipton—half-past 11. Devon Hounds—Mon. Oxton Lodge; Fri. Ogwell-11. Clevel and Hounds—Mon. Kilton Mill ; Thurs. Hutton Low Cross. Durham County Hounds —Mon. Elemere ; Wed. Plows. worth Bar; Fri. Esh—half-past 10. Mr. Horndon's Hounds—Mon. Trebartha Village; Thurs. Hornisote Chapel—half-past 10. H pa a r r k ew — o h o a d lf. B p r a i s d t g l e o! Wed.Collingham Bar; • A n ' g on well Earl of Harewood'sFHri osuenadrst—hi Mr. Roe's Hounds —We— K ennel; Hounds —Wed. Sat. Batisborough cross Lerefordshire Hounds —Fri. Westhide England -gate. itadstock Hounds--Tues. Radstock ; Fri. Postlebury. York and Ainsty Hounds—Mon. Melbourne; Thurs. (M -ing; Sat. Skipwith-bridge—half-past 10. Sir Henry Seale's Hounds—Thurs. Mount Boone Kennel. Mr. Trelawny's Hounds—Tues. Leather Tor; Fri. Bitta- Ford -bridge. Sinnington Hounds—Tues. Ovingham ; Fri. East Newton- gate. Tiverton Heands—Mon. Stockley Pomery-wood-bridge ; Thurs. Tucker's Moor (Oakford)—half-past 10. Mr. Fane's Harriers--Tues. Dashwood-hill; Thurs. Ips. den-field; Sat. Bagnage•way. Glynbourne Harriers—Mon. Newhaven Barn ; Fri. _Ripe Brighton Harriers—Mon. Patcham ; Wed. Race Course Fri. D 3 ke. Brookside Harriers—Mon. Newmarket-hill; Thurs. Tels combe Tye. Dulverton Harriers— Mon. Nightcott ; Fri. Kingsbrompton Farm. Eastbourne harriers—Mon. Paradise ; Thurs. Friston Mill ; Sat. IT illingdon Old Mill—quarter to 11. THE INQUEST ON THE WOMAN AT BIRMINGIIAhI. FRIDAY EVENING.—The inquiry relating to the cause of the death of the unfortunate woman Keefe, terminated in two hours after the dispatch of our last account, in the acquittal of her husband. It appeared from the con cluding testimony that the unfortunate woman's death was caused by lobs of blood arising from an injury re ceived in the scuffle, but there was no evidence to show that her husband inflicted those injuries upon her, as there was nu oae in the room with them at the time of the occurrence. The jury returned a verdict of homi- THE SUN, LONDON, MONI‘A MORN ING, OCTOBER 19, 1846. was a Circassian ! and Selim tenderly clasped the fair hand of his bride. " Did she know from what part of the country she came ?—She was but eight years old when she had been sold, and sent to Constantinople, but she still remem bered the place where she was born. and she named it. —The village inhabited by her family ?—She named it too. What was her father's name ?—Kbosrew. What her mother's ?—Ameneh. " These questions had succeeded each other with in creasing rapidity, and every answer returned had ap peared to heighten the eager emotions of Selim. " Had she any brothers ? he continued with still deeper earnestness.—One. What was his name, and how old was he ?—He was called Halil, and he was an infant in ar►ns when she had been sent from her country. " Selim appeared to breathe more freely. And had she never had another brother ? he resumed.—Yes, she had had an elder brother, named Schamyl, but she had no recollection of him, for he had been kidnapped shortly after she was born, and her parents had never heard of him more. " As Hafiza pronounced these last words the counte nance of Selim assumed a deadly paleness ; he gazed at her for a moment with wild and haggard eyes, then violently dashing fi om him the hand he held in both of his, he arose and rushed from the room. " Unable to account for the sudden frenzy exhibited by her husband, the trembling Hafiza followed, and found him in an adjoining chamber, leaning against the wall for support, his face hidden in his hands. " What means this violent emotion ?' she inquired, timidly approaching him. 'ls my Selim ill ?' " With a gesture of impatience he bade her begone. " Selina, you are angry with me,' she persisted, cast ing her arms round him ; how have I offended you, oh my husband ?' " He struggled to break away from her, but in vain, for his strength appeared to have abandoned him. ' Leave me, as you love Heaven !' he faltered in a tone of anguish. Hafiza, our dream of love is at an end— I am your lost BROTHER "' God is great !' ejaculated Hafiza, shrinking back in consternation ; he has scattered ashes upon our head, but he has spared us the commission of a dreadful crime 1' " The unnatural union was immediately dissolved, and both brother and sister eventually contracted more fortunate marriages. Selim Bey in progress of time be came Selira Paella, and his long tenure of office as Governor of Upper Egypt, proves that to this day he continues to enjoy the favour of his patron, Mohammed Ali." This is precisely such a story as Lord Byron would have revelled in " singing in immortal verse." Mrs. Romer, we regret to observe, has her prejudices as well as most other people. Sometimes, too, she evinces an ignorance of history which is lamentable. She says, in vol. 11., p. 178, " Jaffa has been lament ably celebrated in modern times by Napoleon's butchery of his Turkish prisoners and of his own sick and wounded. It is absolutely intolerable to see this old blundering calumny revived again and again in just such a flippant sentence as this, after it has been extinguished on the most conclusive evidence. We cannot afford either the time or space to give a detailed refutation ourselves, but we confidently refer every one who is not already satisfied upon the sub ject to Hazlitt, to Montholon, to Rovigo, to O'Meara, to the MSS. of St. Helena, to W. H. Ireland, and a multitude of unanimous witnesses. Sir Robert Wil son and Mr. Goldsmid have long since been proved to be romancers ; and among our own countrymen, besides Ireland, O'Meara, and Hazlitt, the calumnies have been discountenanced by Mr. Warden and by Dr. Clark, of Cambridge. Mrs. Romer will then find that the French soldiers were not poisoned, and that the Arab soldiers were punished as they richly deserved. Before leaving this very admirable work, we must observe that it is embellished by several characteristic lithographic plates. Mrs. Romer has written a beau tiful book upon a magnificent theme. THE REV. JAMES SHORE AND THE BISHOP OF EXETER. The following statement of facts respecting this case of ecclesiastical oppress;on has just been made public : The Rev. J. Shore waQ, in the year 1832, appointed minister of a chapel at Bridgetown, in the parish of Berry Pomery, Devon, then lately erected by the Duke of Somerset ; and having received a nomination from the Rev. J. Edwards, then vicar of the parish, he was licensed, by the Bishop of Exeter, to officiate in the chapel, which was not consecrated, but was opened as a chapel in connexion with the Established Church, under the license of the same Bishop. In April, 1834, Mr. Edwards died, the Rev. E. Browne was inducted to the living, and Mr. Shore continued to officiate in the chapel without any fresh nomination being required by the Bishop or given by the Incumbent. In the year 1843, Mr. Brown (the Vicar) wishing to exchange the living of Berry Pomeroy for another, obtained the consent of the Duke of Somerset to the arrangement, and in Sep tember, 1843, the Rev. W. B. Cosens was inducted to the COMMERCE AND COMIVIERCIAI RELATIONS WITH SWITZERLAND. Statistical science has at length been more directed in the Helvetic federation to the investigation and clas sification of positive industrial facts. To the depressed state of some branches of Swiss industry we owe the re port of a commission of practical men, appointed for the purpose of investigating the causes of depression, and, if possible, of suggesting the means of remedy or of preven tion for the future. With an intelligent impartiality, the protectionist party was admitted by its representa tives into the commission. We find that a minority of members dissented from the free trade laissez faire re port laid before the diet by the majority. That report, however, was fully affirmed in its conclusions and princi ples by the Diet. As a well-written, ably-reasoned do cument, it is highly creditable to M. de Gonzonbach, Se cretary of State to the Confederation, and a distinguished economist, to whom was committt d the task of preparing it. Although in some respects not so complete in its statistical details and information as might be wished, the returns embodied in it will establish, for the first time, a basis from which the industrial statistics or Switzerland may start, and hereafter be gradually per fected, like those of other neighbouring or advanced countries. We proceed briefly to notice some of the chief points and figures relating to textile industry. Of the various manufactures, that of cotton ranks first in the order of importance. The first spinning factories date, it is said, from the continental system of Bonaparte. We are rather inclined to question the accuracy of this statement, for we have beard, on competent authority in Lancashire, that some, if but few, spinneries were esta blished in Switzerland before that period. One of the oldest cotton spinners, if not the oldest, yet living in Lancashire,. a contemporary of Sir Richard Arkwright, Sir Robert Peel, &c., who was lar ge ly concerne d i n t h e supply of cotton yarn to the Swi ss mar k e t s, assure d us some short time since that he had an offer made, about the year 1795 or 1796, as nearly as we can recollect— say ten years or more before the continental system—to undertake the establishment of a large cotton mill, to be built, filled with the best machinery, and conducted under his own superintendence, with a large allowance for management, in addition to one half-share of the profits, for which a capital of 100,0001. was to be supplied by, or under the guarantee of, the Government of the Canton of, we believe, St. Gall. Frcm patriotic motives, and himself largely embarked in spinning and mercantile concerns, with the interests of which it might havein terfered, he declined the offer. But he had the means of knowing, through his travellers and agents, that factories, though certainly on a much smaller scale, then existed in Switzerland. The continental system communicated, doubtless, a powerful impulse to the spreadof the factory system. There were, according to the report of the Commission, in Switzerland, in 1844, 131 spinneries, of which 70 were in the canton of Zurich, turning 660,000 living on the presentation of the Duke of Somerset. Shortly after the induction of Mr. Cosens, the secretary of the Bishop of Exeter informed Mr. Shore that it was necessary for him to obtain a nomination from the new vicar, and that unless he obtained it his license would be withdrawn. Mr. Cosens refusing to give the nomination, the chapel was closed in October 1843, and after many attempts to procure from the Bishop and Mr. Cosens an arrangement of the affair, the chapel was, in the month of February, 1844 (after an interval of nearly six months), by the direction of the Duke of Somerset, certified in the Archdeacon's Court of Totnes, as a place for religious worship of Protestants, under the provisions of the Toleration Acts, and Mr. Shore resumed his duties as the minister of the chapel, conducting the services nearly in accordance with the forms of the Church of England as before. On the ISth of March, 1844, Mr. Shore was served with a document, withdrawing his license, whereupon a correspondence ensued between Mr. Shore and the Bishop, in which Mr. Shore stated that he could no longer conform to the discipline of the Church of England, and had se ceded from the establishment ; and requested to be informed if anything more was necessary to complete the separation which he desired. To this inquiry he received only evasive replies. Mr. Shore then having consulted his legal advisers, took the oaths, &c., required by the Toleration Acts, and qualified himself in a way it had never before been denied a clergyman could do, to preach and teach as a protestant dissenting Minister. But the Bishop of Exeter would not permit an evan gelical clergyman thus to throw off his yoke, carrying with him his church and a large congregation, and ac cordingly commenced legal proceedings in the Eccle siastical Courts. After a Commission, under the Church Discipline Act, had sat on the case at Totnes (at which Mr. Shore appeared under protest), and had reported, in the first instance, that Mr. Shore was liable to punish ment as a clergyman disobeying his Bishop, Mr. Shore was cited in the Arches Court, and he appeared to such citation under protest. This protest, although ably argued by Sir John Dobson (the Queen's Advocate) and Dr. Twiss, for Mr. Shore, was overruled by the Judge, and Mr. Shore assigned to appear absolutely. He did so, and prayed articles. These exhibit and charge no other fault or crime, but that Mr. Shore was, at the time of exhibiting such articles, a priest in holy orders of the Church of England, and that being such, he, "on the 14th April, 1844, and 28th July, 1844, took upon him to read prayers, preach, administer, (to wit on the 28th July, 1844) the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and perform ecclesiastical duties and divine offices, according to the rites and ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland, in the said un consecrated chapel or building, situate in the said parish of Berry Pomeroy, in the county of Devon, &c., without any license or authority for so doing, and contrary to, and in spite of, the aforesaid injunction or monition of the said Bishop of Exeter." To this Mr. Shore presented to the Court a responsive allegation, setting forth the license of the chapel as a dissenting place of worship, and his having taken the oaths, &c., &c., under the Toleration Acts, the protection of which he claimed against this prosecution. This question was ably urged in the Court of Arches, by Sir J. Dobson and Dr. Twiss for Mr. Shore, but the allegation was dismissed. Mr. Shore thereupon in Michaelmas term last, moved, by Sir F. Kelly, for a prohibition in the Queen's Bench, to restrain the Arches Court from proceeding further with the case. A rule nisi was then granted, and in Hilary Term this question was ably and fully argued by the late Attorney-General, Dr. Adams and Mr. Montague Smith, for the Bishop, and Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Sergeant Manning and Dr. Twiss for Mr. Shore • and in the term following , Lord D enman pro nounced judgment, discharging the rule, notwithstanding the able and energetic arguments of Mr. Shore's counsel, and deciding that no clergyman could voluntarily quit the establishment ; and Mr. Shore was consequently driven back to the Court of Arches, where he has been sentenced to abstain from again preaching, &c., and to pay the costs. At the commencement of this unprece dented prosecution, a committee of the friends of civil and religious liberty in Totnes, and its neighbourhood, was formed, and considering that the great question of religious liberty was directly assailed in this attack on Mr. Shore, they determined to support him in resisting to the utmost this unconstitutional invasion of religious rights, and set about raising subscriptions. These, at present, we hear, amount to about 2001., but Mr. Shore has already incurred upwards of 4001. for his own ex penses, and as he was determined, with the advise of his counsel, and at the request of the committee, to proceed yet further, a larger amount will be required.— West Briton. RECENT VISIT OF THE FRENCH MINISTER CrF PUBLIC WORKS TO MANCHESTER.—At the latter end of last month M. Demon, the French Minister of Publi c Works, accompanied by M. Teiserene, inspector-general of railways, and M. Didson, engineer-in-chief of the " Posts et Chauete .s," and also engineer to several rail way companies in France, visited this town and neigh bourhood, in the course of a tour they are making through England, with a view to inspect our public works, and especially those connected with railway con struction. So quietly did they execute their mission, that their presence in Manchester was only known to a few persons. Bringing letters of introduction, they re— ceived every attention from the engineers and other officers of tho several railways which they visited here. So far as we can learn, the first railway they visited was the Manchester and Leeds. They expressed themselves: highly gratified with the peculiar arrrangements of the Victoria station, especially with the mode by which the arrival and departure platforms are both placed on the same side of the main line, without causing any centu sion or intermingling of arriving and departing passen gers. They ascended the incline by a departing train, and proceeded to the goods' station for the purpose chiefly of witnessing the operation of the hoist, by m eaos of which the whole of the merchandise is raised from the station yard, on the level of the streets, to the railway, which is on a viaduct of considerable elevation at t his point. Having seen the mode of working the hoist, and examined its mechanism, and having heard that the ho ist at the station of the Manchester and Birmingham Rain way, in London-road, was worked on a different prin ciple, they proceeded thither to inspect. It was fou ad, however, that the difference was not remarkable ; but the engine which worked the hoist was found to be of greater power than that used for a similar purpose on the Leeds line. The party next examined the arrange ments of the Manchester and Birmingham Station, and also the skew bridge by which the line is carried over Fairfield-street, and then proceeded to the Bolton Rail way station, New Bailey-street, Salford, which they in spected, and especially examined the long viaduct by which the Liverpool and Manchester extension line is carried along on pillars, for the entire length of Upper Booth-street. The gentlemen expressed themselves much gratified on the whole, by the various architectural construction, and mechanical and other contrivances an el application% which were in use on tle various lines al id stations which they visited here.—Manchester Guardia n. A VETERAN CRIMINAL.—The following is give in as a summary of the character and history of the ma n named Cutmel, now in custody for the attempt to murder Madame Morand, at Taugirard :—He is about forty-tv to years of age. He was condemned in 1828 to five year is' imprisonment for an unnatural crime. He was liberate d on the 22d of May, 1333, and in November followin g. was again committed to prison for a few months for rob • bery. In 1834 he was arrested for a highway robbery in the night, and sentenced to hard labour at the hulks: for ten years, which he passed at the Bagne at Toulon, and was discharged in March, 1844. Since that time he, has lived by petty robberies, and in January and June, 1845, was again sent to prison for a few months each time. Since his present arrest, finding that the evidence against him is too strong to be resisted, he has openly avowed that, when he went to Vaugirard, it was with the full intention of murdering both M. and Madame Morand, and stealing 800 f., which they had acknow ledged to their nephew they had in the house. To this he has added a confession, that ho had concerted with Coulon and the nephew of the Morands, the murder and robbery of a woman at Montrouge, who keeps an eating house, and her servant-girl. To all this he further stated, that only a few days ago he killed a drunken man, and after stripping him, threw him into the river.. On being asked how he could be so cruel as to take the life of a man who was incapable of making any resist ance, or of appearing against him afterwards ? he re plied—" Ok ! it was only getting rid of one grumbles more."—Gulignani's Messenger. LOSS OF A CLERGYMAN, NEAR SNOWDON.—An event, which has, without doubt, terminated in the death of a most promising young gentleman, a clergyman of :he Established Church, recently occurred at Llanberris. It .3pp‘ ars that the Rev. Mr. Starr had, for some weeks, been ,en A pedestrian excurs i on throu g h the most roman tic p or tions of North Wa les, a nd that he had been in the regularly corresponding with his friends and re l a tives at Northampton, h a bit of of one of the parishes of - which _ tow n he is a ca. -ate. Not having heard from him for some his mother fi nd sister became alarmed at his long time, co ntinued silence, 0 2d ultimately determined to :set out f o r Llanberris in sears'of him. Mrs. and Miss Starr rris on the afternoon of Sun reached the inn at Llanbe day, the 4th instant, and on inquiry learned that it gen tleman, answering their description of Mr. Starr, had passed the night there about three weeks before ; that on the following morning he left the inn, and a scendec Snowdon ; was seen en his descent fro en the mountain, and was again seen at the top of the pass, where he stopped at a house, and obtain , ed some water to quench his thirst. He then ascended another mountain on the opposite side of the pass, tern ied the Glyder. He was next observed on the summit by a man named Hughes, living at Llanberris, who, at his request, accompanied ac companied him full half-wa y on the descent, and pointing out the path left the unfortunate gentlen lan t• nursue his way alone. After going some short di: tance is'zighes warned him to keep to the right hand, was the even. g As the becoming very misty, n an; 131's danger' of Llyn cwm Fgnon, a dangerous spot , to be ed. Mr. Starr was ne ver seen afterwards, and no avoid doubt is ee't er tained that he perished on the mountain, i h av ing lost L.' s road on the bleak and barren g ro and he had to traverse. The grief of his unfortunate volatives on hearing the 1 ; articulars of the sad catastrophe. may be magined, the more especially as no ground for _hope is left, the proof of identity being further supported by the fact that the gentlemata seen on the Glyder had only one glove on, the fellow to which was found in the baggage of Mr. Starr. Search has been made for the body with dogs, but hitherto without effect. 11CLASS WAsn-liousES.—A. very careful 'nate. says " A Member of the Parent Committee," 1 eat, ;, • e Builder, shows that the washing expenses of the ill ' oils, in the course of the year, amount to mare rnetrole s p r operty and income tax 000/ fto -yehe whole ar king y - than ;Z: -iderahly above 5,000,0. . `thy (loin —co, t have wash-houses for the middle should we us e ' as for the labouring classes ? classes as wets and motley, much might be In time, trouble, ..,ash-houses constructed on 'gone-square. I d o not save d to them by , * has been tried and the plan of thos e at Gou., i ic -ominoua propose a was hin g com p any. Th.. - tems . t be thrown failed. But mi g ht we not have washing . -.-. and su pplied by compan ies ? Do not let this hi 11.,,,, away. We are as yet in the infancy of the subje, _.,, that 5,00 0 , 000 / . A y ear is an untouched field. Let it ..., prudently broken up, anti I am much mistaken if it e ill 1 not be found to produce an abundant harvest t:, careful speculators. If the cost of bathing be reduced 1,500 per cent. why should not the cost of washing be reduced 20 per cent.? That would be a saving to London of !Apra than 1,000,0001. a year. spind!es, and producing 160,000 quintals of cotton yarn. The imports of raw cotton for their supply had for several years been in constant progression: in 1842, the last year cited, the quantity was 228,000 quintals. The number of factory operatives employed was upwards of 10,000. Of power-loom factories there were eighteen, in which yarn was worked up into 100,000 pieces yearly. But the far larger portion of the fabrics was still woven by hand, in common looms, of which there were not far from 100,000. The canton of Zurich alone reckoned from 18,000 to 20,000 hand-loom weavers,who wove each year nearly 1,000,000 of pieces of all kinds. The situation of the hand-loom weavers was, however, becoming very precarious, in consequence of the fearful competition of the power-loom. Their wages had fallen to 16 batzen per week, or less than 2s. On such a miserable pittance it was not possible long to exist. The remedy looked to was in the extension of power loom works, and their gradual absorption of the desti tute hand-loom labour, or the exclusive transference of the labour to the fabrication of fancy tissues, which could not be so easily executed by power-looms. Jacquard looms had recently been introduced into several cantons and it was hoped that the operative crisis in the cotton manufacture might thus by degrees be alleviated and pass away. Next after cotton ranks the silk manufacture. It em ploys about 40,000 wot:Teople. Silk-worms are culti vated in the cantons of the Grisons and the Tessin, which yield a product of about 50,000 pounds.(the Swiss is rather more than the English pound) of silk. The quantity of raw silk, and of silk, and half silk fabric im ported besides, was, in 1842, 28,300 ; and, in 1843, 29,900 quintals. In piece-goods, the manufacture is chiefly in plain silk, from the strongest taffetas to the lightest fabrics. The ribband manufacture, the chief seat of which is at Basle, although largely extended also in Berne, Soleure, Argovia, Thuringia, and Zurich, is, however, the principal branch of silk industry, and en joys a great repute. Exported to Paris, the ribbands of Basle are so alike to the finished products of Lyons and St. Etienne, as not unfrequently, it is said, to be pur chased and re-exported to Switzerland, as the choice fa brics of those famous places. The manufacture of flax and hemp, although no longer of the same consideration as formerly, was not, and is not, without importance. The raw material for working is amply produced in the cantons ; flax is grown in Berne and Argovia, and hemp everywhere. But flax-spinning machinery was operating the same revolution in the linen as had been similarly accom plished through the same causes in the cotton manufac ture. Flax was no longer spun by the Swiss female peasantry, except for household use. Foreign machine spun yarns were imported from all parts, but particularly from England. The imports of linen and hempen yarns and fabrics amounted, in 1842, to 14,600 quintals, and in 1843 to 14,000. The transition from spinning by hand to machine spinning was a great diffi culty in the way of the establishment and extension of flax-spinning mills, and, again, Swiss linen fabrics were repulsed by the prohibitive duties of all the bordering states. But several spinning mills had been established, and every confidence was felt that the linen manufacture I would progress and prosper like that of cotton. The woollen manufacture occupies the least important place in the textile industry of Switzerland ; it is far from sufficing, indeed, for domestic consumption. Flocks of the ovine race are extremely rare, and agriculture furnishes but a small quantity of raw material, and that is worked up in the places where produced. The greater part of the wool consumed is imported from Hungary, Bohemia, Wirtemberg, and Italy. Each can ton possesses one or several manufactories of wool. There are twelve in the canton of Zurich, employing 500 or 600 workmen. The quantity of wool imported in 1843 was 13,000 quintals, a portion of which, however, only enters the country in transit. But the consump tion of Switzerland still requires, in addition to the home manufactured products, a large importation of foreign-made woollen fabrics ; in 1843, more than 28,000 quintals were thus imported. The report refers with just pride to the fact of the wealth and well-being which such an .extent of consumption implies. The workmen of the towns, and the peasantry of the country are always seen well clothed ; there is not the humble proprietor of the most modest cottage who has not, be sides his holiday suit, good and warm clothing for work days, and who does not renew it often. THE SHUTTING UP OF HIGH LAND PASSES. (From the Glasgow Argus.) We are glad to see that the illegal attempt of the Duke of Leeds to shut up the pass to Glen Lui Beg, amid the Cairngorm mountains, has excited so much at tention throughout England and Scotland. There has been a growing disposition for soma-years, on the part of great Highland proprietors, and the English sports men to whom they let their shootings, to exclude the people from the mountain paths, to which the people have as clear a right as any landlord has to his estate. Fortunately, this last attempt of the Duke of Leeds, and the odd defence made for it by the Duke and his eccentric friend, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, have put matters in such a train as will bring the question to a speedy issue. The Duke of Athol, imitating his southern compeer, has, it seems, determined to close Glen Tilt, which he has no more right to do than any Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones of London has to take possession of the best bed-room or drawing-room of Duakeld House. These great Nimrods have yet to learn the great fact, that in the eyes of the law their fondly cherished deer are not " game," but " vermin "—a fact which was very elearly proved not many months ago, to the great discomfiture of a Ross-shire laird, whose deer were very summarily dispatched by a lowland farmer, now settled in Ross-shire, in whose turnip fields they had made depredations more extensive than welcome. They have yet to learn an equally indisputable fact, that no landlord has any right of exclusion over the wilder ness. Waste land, if not free for the plough and the spade is free for the foot ;—at least there are very good lawyers who maintain so, and any doubts that may exist upon the question will soon be set at rest. The right of way is in England a right most dear to the people—a right which the common law has ever enforced. One John Lewis, a brewer of Richmond, tried this right against the influence of the whole Royal Family of Eng land, and beat it triumphantly. The 'Princess Ansel:a, daughter of George the Third, was ranger of the Royal Park at Richmond, and thought fit to shut up a footway that had been used by the inhabitants from time imme morial. Her father and all his court supported her. The brewer, backed by the people of Richmond resisted the oppression ; and after a long suit, vexatiously defended, won the cause. The Scottish law is not less clear and de - cisive. If there is not public spirit enough in the few Highlanders yet left amid the magnificent glens and mountains of Perth and Aberdeenshire to re sist these autocratic deer preservers, there is sufficient among the tourists of England and other parts of the world to try the point. It will not be difficult to found an association for the preservation of the rights of way, and to depute half a-dozen sturdy pedestrians next season to force the passes, if need be. We fancy the Dukes and their gamekeepers will be rather shy of laying forcible hands upon any pedestrians sent upon such a mission ; and we would advise the instant formation of a society for this very purpose. It will be well supported ; and funds will not be wanting for a cause so noble. We invite the co operation of sight-seers, of the admirers of the grand and the beautiful in nature, as well as of the friends of popular rights in this cause. Such a society would soon bring the Dukes to reason, and show them that what roy alty could not do for a few acres of ground in Surrey, aristocracy shall not do for whole counties in Scotland. td - - A MEMORIAL AGAINST THE ASSOCIATION 01' .RCA AND STATUE.—If Lord Morpeth and the Government were sincere, when they stipulated that if the appear ance of the Wellington colossus on the arch was not satisfactory to competent persons, after being "on liking" for three weeks, it should come down—down, unquestionably, it must come. We would suggest that a respectful protest against its continuance on the arch, addressed to her Majesty, should be forthwith drawn up for signature, and should lie, during a specified time, at some public place for that purpose. The accom plished professor (Cockerell), whose personal protest we commented on a short time since, would but perform a duty he owes the public were he to imitate this mea sure, and would thereby entitle himself to the thanks of every lover of art, and of every man jealous for the re putation of England in matters lof taste. — The Builder. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN. —Mbnday last being the 49th anniversary of this glorious battle, which gave the first check to the hitherto irresistible prowess of revolutionary France, and anni hilated the fleet which Na p oleon had dest in ed for the subjugation of Great Britain, was celebrated at mCaenar: perdown, the seat of the Earl and Countess o Ct?, p o _ down. A large party of the friends and connixions the . of Tho tinguis the occasion. m A a m r9 o u n i g s the dis tinguished Viscount and Viscountess Duncan, Sir Henry fami ly *hed v a i s s s i c to m r b s le w d e o r n e niLii°dny' Johnstone and family, the Lady H. Allen, Sir H e w Dalrymple , S ir John Ogilvie, Bcc. The party sat down to a sumptuous entertainment at seven o'clock. Tho dinner table and sideboards were ornamented with the splendid service of gold plate belonging to the family. The large suite of rooms was thrown open. In the saloon, round the portrait of the distinguished Admiral were displayed the colours of the Dutch fleet, and in the grand staircase hangs the celebrated painting by Copley (father of Lord Lyndhurst), representing in full-length portraits Admiral de Winter delivering up his sword (0 the victorious Duncan. The company did not separate latetill a hour, and nothing could exceed the hilarity mirth of the party. In the early part of the day she visitors who were fond of the sports of the 'he atniis , _ment of a baitlie in the park. ' , cad . of game were brought home 'Ay consisting of pheasants. ftiltt - tbust , . of ti , , Id eiljoyea Upwards o 1 within four hourF,, Olxk OLYMPIC THEATRE• This pleasant little snuggery was opened on Saturday evening, by Mr. George Bolton, with a very strong com pany, including (in addition to the lessee himself) Mr . Henry Betty, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Leigh Murray, Mr. John Howard, Mr. J. Cowell, Mr. S. Cowell, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. H. Gordon, and several other ladies and gentlemen well known on the metropolitan hoards. He has likewise engaged a nume rous corps de ballt.t. The piece chosen for the opening was the Hunchback of Sheridan Knowles, which was very strongly cast. Mr. H. Betty was the Master Walter, who has been practising assiduously in the pro vinces since his debilt at Covent-garden some two years since, and who is greatly improved since that period. His Master Walter is an earnest and a feeling performance,. full of energy and vigour. It is certainly the best thing he has - done yet. Mrs. R. Gordon's Julia is exceedingly beautiful ; she has studied the character, and understands it thoroughly. The simple trusting maiden of the first act, whose whole soul is wrapped up in Master Walter, was pourtrayed with a most touching simplicity, and then, when she finds that CliWrd, believing her affected waywardness (for after all her waywardness is affected) to be her na tural character, casts her off, the intensity of passion which she exhibited was sublime. Very fine, too, was she in the scene in the last act with Master Walter, where her pride, completely subdued, she bids him find out some mode to escape these nuptials. Indeed, her delineation of the character throughout was perfect, and henceforth she takes her rank as one of the first tragedians of the day. She was loudly applauded throughout, and was, with the other principal artistes, called for at the fall of the curtain. Mrs. Walter Lacy resumed her original character of Helen, and acted as she alone can act it, for though others have attempted the part, Mrs. Walter Lacy still re mains the Helen unapproached and unapproachable. Mr. Walter Lacy's Lord Tinsel was admirable. It was worthy of Richard Jones himself ; and Wilkinson made more of Fathi‘m than we have ever yet seen made of the character. His quaint stolidity told admirably in the part. Mr. Leigh Murray acted Sir Thomas Clifford carefully, and Mr. John Howard made a great deal of the bookworm Modus. The comedy was preceded by the following address, which was spoken by the lessee, Mr. George Bolton : Ladies and Gentlemen — Pray tell your friends our little boat Is christen'd, launch'd, and now afloat, Bound for whatever•haven you And they incline to waft it to. We'll try to speed it to sutees— Unto which end I now address • All present, with solicitation, To aid us by your approbation. D'ye wish to know our claim to this? List, and I'll tell you what it is. Our boat is built of English wood, And mann'd by English flesh and blood ; Our rigging is of wisdom made, By the best workmen in the trade, Set with such judgment as alone Our mighty authors could have done ; Our masts are of the strongest sense, Fix'd with most solid arguments; Our flag the name of Truth displays, Surrounded by poetic rays; Our anchor is determination, To keep in sight of honour's station ; Our rudder's your support, which, lost, The ship must be to ruin tost. And last, to tell with what we're stor'd, We no bad feeling have on board, But bring, in perfect preservation, Peace and goodwill to all the nation; We'd quarrel with no class of men— ' With us let no class quarrel then— But treat us as to what we do, Giving us help, if help ba due ; We need the breath of every one To urge our vessel safely on ; Ourselves will do our best to steer Of all the town's displeasure clear; The Scylla and Charybdis shun Of least offence to any one. This fortune, then, to us befal— But Hope's our grog—so " Health to all l" The comedy was followed by a new grand burlesque entitled The Civil War of Poetry, a strange mixture of doggrel, singing, music, spectacle, and dancing. The music, spectacle, and dancing were good. The doggrel and singing very, very bad. It is intended to satirise the prevailing taste for spectacle and ballet, but the ob jects of the others aversion to the spectacle and balbt, which are introduced solely to be turned into ridicule, are the only portions of the piece which are not too dull to be even ridiculous. Let the lessee cut out all the talkee talkee, and trust only to the spectacle and ballet, and the piece may run, otherwise it will have a very short life, but by no means a merry one. As it is, the audience last night not only passed judgment, but seemed inclined to move for speedy execution. The house was crowded. tide per misadventure. MAR FOREST.—Some days ago, as a young man, from the parish of Abernethy, was crossing the hills on his way to a market at Braemar, and whilst within some distance of Mar Lodge, he was met by the Duke of Leeds's gamekeepers, and conducted by them— although much against his inclination—to the Lodge, where he was ushered into the presence of his Grace. The poor Celt was threatened with the severest vengeance, and took his leave promising, almost upon oath, never to retrace the same path. The practice of annoying the enthu siast who seeks to admire nature in her wildest forms in that sublimely b. autiful part of,our country, which his Grace of Leeds at present occupies, is bad enough ; but the interruption and delay caused to a pedestrian on business, unarmed and alone, is an actien quite unworthy of the dignity of a titled Nobleman.— Inveiness Courier. SKYL—A correspondent writes, that in this island, up to the 7th inst , the weather has been favourable for leading, and nearly all the oat crop has been safely got in ; and from all accouuts the crop is a good average one in weight and quality. Meal brought from the south is readily purchased, and several vessels have this sea son unshipped cargoes of it. Herrings have appeared in considerable shoals on the southern side of the islaw!,, a nd great quantities have been t; k , n, but fro:, t h e scarcity of potatoes to eat with them, the d eman d i s great'y lessened. The poor p e ople are, besides, anxious to buy what meal their stinted income a ill allow. Our correspondent aids, that a great number of the men who quitted Skye for the fishing in the east, and the harvest work in the south, have procured work on the railways, and have not returned home as usual ; and others are ready when the crop is all secured, to leave Skye for similar employment. Macleod of Macleod, Talisker, and Lord Macdonald, arc said to be making great exer tions for supporting the poor throughout the winter and spring, since there is no prospect of receiving aid from Government.—lnverness Courier. THE POTATO CROP.—AII surmise as to the yield of this year's produce is at an end by tbe general gather ing of the crop. On lands in this neighbourhood the potatoes are found to be small in size and 'deficient in quantity, but the epidemic does not seem to have ef fected them to any greater extent than last year. There is every reason to believe that the disease was arrested by the fine harvest weather of September ; and it has been stated that the identical potatoes which were known to be diseased in the beginning of August n iw turn up sound. The immediate planting of potatoes for next year is strongly recommended, and many farmers in different parts of the kingdom are adopting that r' Agriculturists who tried the experiment I- - found it answer admirably—and it se'. the accounts given in the new little whether the seed ,- grew luxurianit sou.nd.—' NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL TO MR. VILLIERS. (From the Edinburgh Chronicle.) We continue to receive letters, from various parts 01 the kingdom, communicating the gratifying fact, the but one opinion prevails concerning the strange neglec of Mr. Villiers 's claims, witnessed in the Free Trade Testimonials. !A number of influential gentlemen, in Manchester and elsewhere, are hem upon repairing this neglect at the earliest possible moment ; but they state that it is deemed advisable to postpone any general movement with this object until the Cobden tribute and Bright memorial are completed. In the expediency of this view we are disposed to concur, although we retain our original opinion that Mr. Villiers's earlier services should not have bean suffered to remain the last for ac knowledgment. There can be no doubt that, whenever a committee is formed and subscriptions commenced with this object, it will be found that Mr. Villiers's claims are estimated far more highly by the public than the delay . to offer him a testimonial hitherto has indicated. The intimations we have received satisfy us that a large number of those who have already subscribed so munificently in the case of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, are prepared to contri bute with equal liberality in honour of Mr. Villiers. There is a class of free-traders, too, who have been far more backward than they should have been in the case of the Cobden and Bright testimonials, who may confi dently be expected to contribute largely in the case of Mr. Villiers. We allude to the Whig aristocracy. With the exception of Lord John Russell, Lord Morpeth, and a few others, the members of this body have not testified as they ought to have done their sense of obligation to the distinguished leaders of the great movement which has placed the Whig party once more in power. Whether this backwardness has pro ceeded from unworthy Whig jealousy of the merited po pularity and political position acquired by these illus trious members of the formerly-derided " cotton-lord'' fraternity, or whether it has arisen from a mere ex cusable sense of the slight offered by the free-traders of the manufacturing and mercantile classes to a member of the aristocracy who had worked so long, so hard, and so ably in their cause as Mr. Villiers, we will not un cl,rtalce to determine. But we believe no such back wardness will be exhibited when a corresponding testi monial in behalf of Mr. Villiers is set on foot. The Whig aristocracy must feel anxious to testify the pride they feel in possessing at least one member of their order who can fairly lay claim to share with Messrs. Cobden and Brigkt, and the principal leaders of the League, the applause and gratitude of the public. Now that the principles which Mr. Villiers had so long and so ably advocated have received the sanction of every enlightened states man of the age, the Whigs must turn to him with admi ration of his judgment and prescience. Although the political ambition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton is not of a selfish nature, it must have been discouraging and mortifying to his feelings to see his services thus remarkably overlooked by the public. At a period when the press has been industriously hold ing' up to public admiration the individuals who have most prominently contributed to the triumph of free trade, and when the various popular constituencies of the kingdom have vied with each other in offering tributes of public gratitude to these patriots, the apparent total unmidfulness of Mr. Villiers's claims could scarcely fail to be painful to that gentleman That, with a few important exceptions, such unmiudfulness has been dis played, is obvious. These exceptions, however, must have been peculiarly gratifying to Mr. Villiers, emanat ing from the quarters they have. In the case of the newspaper press, writers pre-eminently distinguished for their talent and ardour in the cause of free trade have been found to call to mind Mr. Villiers's intaluable services, at a period when all others appeared to have lost siccht of them. Wo allude to the Time s , the Ex aminer, and Douglas Jerrold. In the ably written re marks with which the Times some months ago noticed the farewell articles of the League newspaper, the writer took occasion to render a well-merited tribute to Mr. Villiers, and to express satisfaction that the important aid which the ne mber for Wolverhampton had rendered to the anti-corn-law agitati n Appeared to be adieitt. d by the org: a of • the League. More recently the tallented editor of the Examiner signified his sense of Mr. Villier's claims anti his regret at the apparent neglect thereof, tit ft leading aricle, headed " T'2.e Overlooked Servicest' and bonglas .Terroki's Wee',,iy Newspaper still more recently reminded the tgenfiemen of Manchester and other manufacturing c Thniureties of their somewhat unbecoming exclusive -1 ness in acknowledging past services in their cause, by the eloquent biographical memoir which we transferred to our columns. These testimonies, we have no doubt, hihst hate been peculiarly gratifying to Mr. Villiers, under the cirtuna stance of the singular rarity of such refhrthces to his services on the part of the preset of latel and the tee/ personal acknowledgments which hate been afforded must have been equally so, froth the same dense. Of these latter we are sorry to 'MO noticed only tsto instances since the period when, in the course of their united struggle, Mr. Catlett and the delegates to the great Manchester and London gatherings of` free. traders were necustomed to proclaim their sense of Mr. l q a u w e n A t ss o votes ci a o t i f 0 i t l h , a a n n k d s . a are the. e oft e late ilrneictaetinctestre: Villiers's brilli an t a bili t i es an d Parl i amentary serv i ces resolutions of the Glasgow A nti mThoree b C y e r f n r e beurtee!efri.otmo the pen of Sir Robert Peel. Compliments from a com munity so important as the ci •ty of Glaspw , and from a statesman so disti ngu i s h e d as Sir Robert Peel, ert Peel, must have gone far to recompense Mr. Villiers fez' the ' paucity of such acknowledgments from hot er quarters. THE N „ SCREW-PROPELLED STEAM FRIGATE. I w .team-frigate, now building in the dock) ar 1, . 00l wicb, is rapidly approaching completion. Ihe workmen are at this time engaged in planking her. Her Oci r ober tonnage is 997 tons, N.M. She is constructed of wood, according to from the lines of Mr. Laing, master shipbuilder of the -papers, that it mattered dockyard. Her length is 200 feet, breadth 36 feet, hold ..as diseased or not—the tubers 30 feet 6 inches. The screw will be set in motion by a and the crop is found to be perfectly double condensing engine of 25Q-borse power, acting _- , ..7tafferclehire Mercury. directly upon the shaft. EXTENSIVE BRIGHTON. A burglary was committed on Thursday night, or Fri day morning, on the premises of Mr. Morganti, jeweller, 50, Grand-parade, and property to a large amount car ried off. It seems that Mr. Morganti retired to rest on Thursday night soon after eleven o'clock, leaving every thing safe. He sleeps himself at the top of the house ; the floor immediately above the shop is used as an office by Mr. King, solicitor ; and the floor above that is let to lodgers, who state that they heard no noise during the night. On Friday morning, however, on the servant corning down at half-past six o'clock, she found the shop in a state of great confusion—the glass cases open, the glass-sash in the front window drawn aside, the shutters of the room behind the shop undone and two panes of glass broken. Here, it was apparent, the thieves had effected an entrance ; and indeed no very formidable obstacle was opplsed to them. They had to get over a wall (facing into Circus-street) about seven feet in height ; the shutters were only fastened by an ordinary bolt, and this being forced, and the glass broken, the window of the back parlour was opened. There was a door separating the p arlour from the shop.; but it was left open. The thieves must have taken their time ; for they literally stripped the shop of its most valuable contents, taking them from their cases, which they left behind, and sweeping th?m from the rods on which they hung. Watches, rings, and chains were their principal aim. Seven gold watches were carried off—the only remaining one escaping by being covered over by some other articles, also several silver watches, four gold chains, a gold box and several silver ones, 3 silver guard-chains, 18 gold pencil cases, five diamond and ruby rings, and about 100 lady's and gentlemen's gold rings, with stones, about 36 gentlemen's pins, 8 gold lockets, 5 gold brooches, 6 gold cord guard-chains, a diamond earring, silver spoons and forks, and a variety of other articles of value, which the owner estimates altogether at upwards of 500/. Many articles of value, as cameos, gold brooches, &c., were left behind ; the object of the thieves evidently being to get as much booty within as small a compass as possible. They left by the same way they entered, leaving the back-door unfastened. At half-past two, the policeman on duty in Circus•street states that he tried this door, and that it was fastened ; he was again on that beat at half-past five, and saw nothing to exeitiethhtihsesruoThiceiroyn.anOn offitcheer police being made acquainted asptc%ed by an early tr w ainto London robbery, as yet no traces have been found of the offenders.—Brighton A YOUNG DISTILLER.-011 S aturday a little boy, known by the name of " Billy," whose chin scarcely touched the upper part of the dock, was brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with having been found in at tendance upon an illicit still, at work, in Marybone. Mr. Walker, an officer of the Customs, said that " Billy" was an acquaintance of his, of pretty considerable stand ing, for that he had met the young . gentleman in almost every house he entered, where illicit distillation was being carried on. He bad always taken the principals into custody, and allowed " Billy," on account of his extreme youth and apparent innocence, to go at large. but that day he had found him the sole tenant of the house in which the still was. He had, moreover, seen him attending sedulously to the illicit occupation of keeping the still at full work. Mr. Rushton ordered thil lad to be remanded, observing that he was manifestly aninstrument in the hands of the other parties.—Gore's Llverpool Advertiser. TUE NOTT MONUMENT.—Government has offered sufficient metal for a statue in bronze of the late gallant General Nott, in Carmarthen, but it is doubtful if the Committee can avail themselves of it, on account of the great expense of the casting. Colonel Trevor still seems to think that Llangunnor Hill, facing the town, is the proper place for the site ; but to look anything et that distance, it should be a colum n of considerable height, and of imposing appearance and the amouut collected precludes, it is found, anything of that sort.—Camirion. BURGLARY AT