The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

Clove r 3t at the Clova Whea t i d trace a nds to 493 titt '.0 1, 1 3e 1; ie m oo tQ Dole c ! )I.• The ' ni t agle 019 Ist 6°''' wo-tb ir ) di t r isla . the ! i e .; :. ,_ fgSt I f e l re l ` iv erd , an d e% t he eti S AY.) )A O. lO Mr. 3`P .is ti e - defoi to a og of ° ° ' l dti r to t be ,jo, dele)) 4 ag 3in t b, f°l Iroil' u ks o IS 1 P t 13 .-s el' " Ideu 11 0 o l e ft t ; 0 4 , bat'„o , " II AY r 0 30 ° a Jo' 1:0'e v $ O- , „ I w o •ii. do 5 0 14 " o f r , ! r g° 00; A J i r oa t o lif , ii o j''# tiff r 1 .'f IP - f 8 439 I r , r pu bs I V rce s. .... 4....., /Tr „ilt' `We, of the fi rm o f F orman and - Thompson, iron pier s, leaeal ge evidence that the ch arge t o th e pl a intiff, as a esaer, would for the d e f endant it have been 41. 15s. pe ton. v. - as contended thatrthe delivery . of the whole of the goods had not been proved, and the plain p,ught to allow the same sum - for the iron as he himself out have charged. witness was called, who said that he considered such d ,;r 1 to have been 6s. per cwt.; he had known the same kin 11:on to fetch 211. a ton. Verdict for plaintiff for the full amount. ART INAL COURT—(THTS DAY') oLD T ,91e f ore the RF.conDER and M COUR r. Alderman MusGuov . E :. ) l 44:e whole merning was consumed in hearing two triflu g "° tally destitute of interest to the general readers. NI, 31 4111allit 0- STREET.—(THIS DAY.) .r 04 ,2 „,,..,., tty,„,„-k-zuoiey„ Alexander 111Vien, and Thomas Boyd, disorderly teuch - r l " a Kers, were charged with drunken and a , and assaulting itPtleilt; the police. folic' constable, No. 25, of the C division, stated er t en t o'clock on Sunday morning the defendants lv x.cai tion .h‘itnilmill-street, Haymarket, in a state of in o i Pas.‘ "‘" making a noise and disturbance. He directed them larn..,.°Tl quietlr, on 'which Boyd assaulted him, striking the grioloule_iiit.ly in the face with bis don fist, and he fell . to A Nie flu, while attempting to rise, Boyd kicked him. tßeltedelennstable who came to his assistance was also tasm °therd "Y table On Boyd being t:sken into custody I /,, efendauts attempted to rescue him. Itt:Vfendants pleaded intoxication. tett e d i' l4l Tittr said that the police must and should be p s r i o i: ree k 4in proper execution of their duty. As a puni i NDI Lo the defendants, and an exainple to others, he should day, r ° ll the defendant Mooley a fine of 50s. or thirty-one 44 or snrninent, M'Key 20s; or fourteen days, and Boyd ,rhe 1 weeks. leell Lerendant b • un ab le t ed 3 being o up;pay the fines were w (Fro LYMINGTON. e the Hampshire Indepuidett. relstiv:llhieln another interesting and instructive etter thi s b o .. t° Mr. Mackinnon's position as a candidate for To I , 4 `t'ogh 4R3inErts or THE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY OF LIBIINGTON. G entle men Arnewood House, Jan. 27th, 1846. lett er setn e n,--I think it right to lay before you a Iron, 1p.,,.°1 Lieutenant Colonel Pringle Per/1141;4'am Hare having obtained that gent ern , Taylor, to the Co -Dt t to do so. ' I remain, yours, very faithfullt, ‘.,e a „ „ F. R. WEST. ot a letter from Lieut.-Colonel Pringle Taylor to the Honourable 'William Hare. 118, Rue de Faubourg, St. Honor 6, Paris, )4 3' d 23d January, 1846 I n° e ar Rare —I am much obliged to you for send -1 he th e ri ' 40 4 ari , s P nted correspondence between Mr. M it_ e letter he 'the • " ' ll r. West. it l th ,IntroOuctien of rn . l y d nam t e gnash,. has circu ate a la th '''' L b y y mi ll ng r ion M , a is ek r in ea n i e l3 e, fOrk ed a t letter, h e say k a t th , b !, 113 e that est called upon me, off d e says to Mr. West that he was er i e n: .orl tard e 11 L for the boro n. ugh, and urged me to com 11 4 T m ei Off;,.'pe g to st ate that Mr. West did not call upon I 1 a ' the seat, and urge me to comeforward ; eotild b in at a loss to imagine what Mr. Mackinnonhim th at he e j o hil lking of when he said that I informed Th e , 4 8 0. i/146114:Y communication that I had with Mr.. eAnntiole e(44lol,4lit the borough was in May, 1843, h Mac sad g a Y'' W ith rae on the recent death of Colonel Shedders, hideai Id, the loss was severe one to him; I replied, ti s , ° ' Perh 4 1 3 5, than a you are aware of; and I told e 2 eas er t tl ,h, e Movement that took place to organize_ the Jee t , V a "ves to support another candidate, and to _ 4 edd lol . Would h ave tePliedls,.very decid d ee • —He cl ct on the occasion. b n carried out, but for Colonel tslll4- dons know w hy West should be so hostile to me. ely iellot. mentioned Mr. West's name, havingpur: atr.instamed from doing so, and his being thus named , britf ~,alltekinnon did at first surprise me, but only fora colltg;Tl4ent, as I instantly recollected that Mr. West's h. sclfforad bees open and above board; that he had nn eiti.ndie"...%llY applied, in writing, to the Carlton, for a Aaelii,7,7 acceptable to that party, to replace Mr. m atte r and I at once saw that that application, as -ttter Mr. Mackinnon's interests so nearly, must,. as . a - " e3 e :- e°ll r , e, have been communicated to him by f eel . W11 01:11 it was addressed. a iesti,„ i t necessary to transmit copies of this commu kain, r ,", both to Mr. Mackinnon and Mr. West.--I re "'Y de ar II re (signed) are, yours most sincerely, L g tl ed) PRINGLE TAYLOR. Ter 1en,..... couoNER'S 1%4. tart E XPLOSION IN LAMBETH.—uy,s Hospital, LAMBETH.-"Last night an inqiest was held at G ie, - ' l. • -Payne on the bodies of John S h m o it p h er a i n sh d e ß d o f b m e m rt a t , A tyro of the Unfortunate individuals r 4,1,v0 in King-street, Lambeth•a k 4 were in , tlloiocke on of „Slidell deposed that the deceasedAhout two °les King rid.. ...tr. Liarl, , firework..makcr• the house, on Friday last. m 4trt,e7, witness was in the cellar of -lee of -12- of consisting making stars, • ch was A.enyon were enga g ed in antimony, which z ertt. lll til . n l eti ' iii:swinitiitbolitho;twoo n ther; of the ws andanlitip"etrTe,tiseuldpehcliera,sedand from the comp.osi ti with pan Thestars were made bout eight gum, and the whole mixed together in an nii4,.. mould. A itnes s er -1 notes when the catastroph e took place. °II by a '. 1 " Coroner — °n . fio;,''.uld judge there was about a. hundredweight of comP°Bl - the cellar when the accident happened ; there was a ela the cellar but no candle. By the jury—The nen . were tier at th e ti, ' • , they were in the habit of smoking in the tellar. but noneneof them were doing so when I left. Mr 5...... en r, the mothe r of one of those who perished, deposer . e le. was on the premises when the explosion took place; th AhleB came up from the cellar into the passae. 4 female Hailes, ancl the child Ainger, escaped through the . litanies; the two latter are now in a hopeless condition : 1 Witness, t°, minutes before the explosion, her son William (dead) came to her for a candle which she gave him, but it was the tat the time. Witness cannot account for the origin of 11_ eallintit d ot ~ Y. Mr. Darby and other witnesses were examined, 4 A,"?1!e could state the origin of the catastrophe. Verdict— rt I nent al death." ni ~, 111 °t S FIRE NEAR BLOOMSBURY -SQUA RE,- L as t for upwards oi'a,,,ii,3hortly before nine o'clock, a fire, which, itlie , our, burned w i th great force, broke out in the pre , and kr". occupied conjointly by Mr. Bishop, sittiak':l!lecott, an extensive upholsterer wheelwright, and e ca a b n ine a t-_maker, d iljoiniz% the nin,,le Gilbert-steet, Bloomsbury- a , the Inzlnsbury Dispensary. An unu s s cl u n al r light shining in th e ihrtm? floor, belonging to Mr. Caldecott, caused some . of stiiitelibours to make the unwelcoamcee ofa overv. An in -1 few niinutes the f ei,,Tratrie Royal iZ i jng w i a n s g ra to isej l , e iidii the sp Society for the f P t r h ot e e frotefirli Fire, arrived, as did also - e s n t g e in e es o kad 41„,b(3171, Crown-street,. 11 We - s these were followed . by Wells-street, t, Chandos ci ! %he ll i , est of England statum t sr i i t o r w n e e a d o t e , at ree , ol the brigade from Faynn s g ' don-street, and Watling med engine had ar •lY rid also the one belonging to. . t the na County Fire-office. ti '' h ,ed -titiiinae, however, that the firs therein being .. of an 1/Per doo r 'sines had obtained the complete possession of the ! s) , or, and the stock deposited a ahe 8a le character, it proved such P dhoti roof, and ro!e 44'e; that they speedily penetra_ Wititie alarming powerful auxiliary to time was lost in height. Portunately . Stre N g fur water, and the engines being rf I extinguished, set, a powerful nekly Ray discharged into the blazing p operty, but it was and of Leven o'clock before the fire was s Y trOyed, NI 1, 11 - notil the whole of the property inn e that part of the P4lllL i 4 be k i sging to Mr. Caldecott was lor e , Os tenanted b Mr. Bishop undern d ea es t th h , e s a e s v ee e r r t e a ly in i e n d: ~ ytt 11,,m of he 11Qrs4 Whetr ~.' tl disaster could np_ . the same street, are for- IN er the parties were insured. The more exten ttinaltire; remises of Mr. Caldecott, in 4e Y uninjured. Charlotte, Mill lir l I :It wi u... or: ALmorros.—Yesterday Mr.. i' h. Bari iTele s aTi L nq uest at the _ Qogyeenof Lucy, Rebecca oft'Plifdo"iitid Bermondsey, on the afed X 0 Millpond-stre., . the deceased Fa IN , that ' ' n last appearing greatly -to lie hat en Sunday forenoo , and - t an d n b The deceased' now ciacitedt ildroein into witnoss.s shop,l would do i ,smemdown I " hyy t ' ~4 1d , " 1 have often said that mouth. afterwards Medical `leckn lie it at last." Here yes immediatelythe 44 11 ‘ .„,' swollen and she foamed at .as , i iiik itell. ''' eni,.ekly'sent for, but . deceased died . '''it fr,,.. gr. Edward Austin, surgeon, in a !ta;es• o 4 ,. '. O see deceased. On his arrive the appearances t navi e ' Insensibility and presenting all stomach pump, tad 4 tidtert, ' • He applied the but vriti. kiniiei erussic acid. l he sa I d fo found that her wag 0 ~ and %it stcred cold water effusions ss found a turn- Iti. tfftet I , - Ipiece witne • iel i i 1 , • .pon the mantel p . Clayton, Mr. Charles e. I.liitt,,__'" lied contained prussic acid. , lie had known d NteegrY, of Ro. 4, Millpond -street, saidammonia, tum orhis eLboine time past, she having been a d some ratifee, Nilith ''''' ThUrBday I t he sold to decease Sunday he sok contains e - • as • f lmonds, and on It er tw ssential oil o a H e . had regular customer o,: l t ie(l ia 114 I°,itrall quantities cf the several times she k th e 1 ., , sonic of the same preparation Itaiat,, lq, three months, and hearticle. always Verdict—" Tem Ilorary -, it for h P A'r l i t ' ,„ - eeran ernent '' the understood that '' a of ts --Itb izslait g FOX• NT.—On es t i 5 ,.. , atri ere ,ir Hu Stehens, Sod 1. ., ^tet, of ~,?elonging to —essr 1 • 1 s. Geach, of St. fox at Luney Moor, in n Saturday last, ai,, 4 we. s. ,'Y ithiel, unkenneled a ilebee,,o,to Trti4(igs took after him in good i, back through o Ven•On'PlaritZven-wood, near Mevag ds, and from there nowt comi 11l kticl Oh ta Earamoor-woo style to Pentua , as ontinued towards T .. lim,„ th ly dark, ip'te-vroods in St. Stephens. It was now I '' hewever, being closely pursued, had ,t tlo chase was continued towards Tre ,,, •nn e , 0 A ° ns c!... get tl however ' d the valley , ilot t. ...0 , 64 ; the ;•;,tx,tilhe nha y s e a r w bein e g closely . puorfsusedr.,shre. o d to \Al e . --uombe Here, but turned ull __ h Arvose-m o „ ~. , 116 til e, k, ' 4ild back aain throug to ' ane Ule • little dogs got Op 4v 144 , lat s i z .., six hours and forty Ste holes, the u clock, after a run of six Only one a cheek- him and xinea foilCi atart c . d re . haying been scare* soon came on, and W -'- With th e but a second nor say ed throw, e fox, • no huntsman, .., on ghat 6uout the run, there being we l: -new thed ogs. —Falmouth Pac k et. signified his in -4440 e' assUred th E l Talbot has ropesed c .. 4 t o giv, h is Earl rt to the measures P a „ __ I,4r,Robert' peei!onparl su po Lord P lbot we believe, farnfildernrstlmy tePorte-0,12'°00 acres of land, o T cl a ilefly , arable. It is avowed con send- I neo t lumathat Lord Talbot, foreseeing thatffhoirsdre Agricul- A4etill pr ot Y e ,. ll z l t be acceptable to the . Sta resident, has sig•ni -4,114 wi4hArant 4:.,eietT, of which he is p to other hands.— nee. t tam office may be entrusted several days b il li success which left the river d ring her Catli' -4ving wh 'ff M r t got on shore, u h. ar , en o arga e, e of l'ltlg i ind also V to Calcutta, has, in consequenc ttedi+lit a a leak • obliged to return to the `Vest a b o • ,i, e, been sis . g tin of British produceinto tie r Tan ufiture:rowliilelrbeearrttareired, to enable her to go s, r () ek to be =e, will previously to resuming her voyage. Nltt:h"l9l-no..vr WAR ox THE RIVER.—An indictment, nry Yeat e ~"ing twelve was resented to the Grand J ae , . fri,retutY, at the Central Criminal Court, against the B_l er I s tiQ acrib' ropier,resl erected by the Corporation. The pi to the ed the indictment as a nuisance, and an obstruction navi fatio„gileen's Public highway, an impediment to the a. 14;1 114,„' on the rivr, and a s ~.u rce of danger to the publice„ z.. Several persons alsaulted by the police at the Bla k en P.,041 Pier, while attempting to land from the I'V ater kitaotol'allY's steamers, it is said, also intend to indict or br in ing na for personal injuries received. Lord in Dirairtl.ll Glenlyon has accepted the office of _ lirop - r l . t tZ, in the room of Lord Hardwicke. As there are few of or,,,,lt°rs in Scotland more deeply interested in the welfare ts of rculture than the heir to the Dukedom and the . estates cal htll2l, Lord Glenlyon's acceptance of office at this cri a i ; ee' KAI may be considered as an indication that he, a •,psti.,Fulturist, feels no apprehension of the result of s the erial measures._ Pi Committee ketlx:e litell Packet states , that two Pr ov incial rit, r it e, have each been served with about one hundred THE LATE CASE of INFANTICIDE COURT CIRCULAR. SHIPS' STORES. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting yesterday morning in Claremont Park, attended by the Gentlemen of the Household. The following new forms of bond used in pursuance of the minutes of the Customs' Board, dated July and No• vember last, in regard to ships' stores removed coastwise or left on board vessels, have been approved for the pur pose, and will be in force from this time forth:—" 1. Know all men by these presents, that we (names) are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen. Defender of the Faith, in the sum of --- pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid unto our said Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, to which payment, well and ruly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us by himself, for and iu the whole our heirs, executors, and administrators, and every of them, firmly by these presents sealed with our seals , dat ed this , in the day of year of the reign of her said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord 184 . Whereas,the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs' have by their order, dated the 25th November, 1845, directed that surplus stores left on board any im porting ship or vessel about to proceed coastwise only, be placed under teal of office ; and, in addition thereto, that in all cases where the quantity of high duty goods left on board such ship or vessel may to the proper officers appear to be excessive, a special bond for the same be required ; and whereas, the ship (name) bath on board the following excessive surplus stores, viz.,—(the quantity and description of the goods are to be inserted), —now, the condition of this obligation is such, that if the said goods and every part thereof shall be de livered without alteration or diminution into the custody or possession of the proper officers of the Customs at the port of (name), and if the duty or any deficiency of such stores shall be psid within the space of (number) days next following from the date hereof, to the collector and controller of such port, then this obligation to be void, or else to be and remain in full force and virtue. Sealed and delivered (being first legally stamped)," &c. This is the bond for surplus stores coastwise. The following is the form of bond for the removal of illegal packages, &c., as ships' stores only.—" Know all men by these presents that we," &c. (as cited in the preceding form)—" Where as the above bounden (name of the person) is the pro prietor of the following goods, wares, and merchan dise, viz. (here the quantity and description of the dif ferent articles are to be inserted), and which said goods, wares, and merchandise are now lodged and deposited in a warehouse or warehouses at (name of place) in the port of (name), under the regulation of an Act passed in the Bth and 9th years of the reign of Queen Victoria, entitled An Act for the Warehousing of Goods ;' and whereas the said (person's name) intends to remove and convey the said goods, wares, and merchandise from the said port of (name) to the port of (name), to be there re-warehoused, subject to the rules, regulations, and restrictions in that behalf by law provided,— now the condition of this obligation is such, that if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and every part thereof, shall be duly delivered, without alteration or diminution, into the custody and possession of the proper officer of customs at the said last-mentioned port, and if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and every part thereof, shall be duly warehoused at the port of (named) within the space of (mentioning the time) next following the date thereof ; and if the same be duly delivered for use as ships' stores within two years, then this obligation to be void, or else to be and remain in full force, effect, and vigour. Sealed and delivered (being first duly stamped) in the presence of," &c. The first order in July, on the subject alluded to, sets forth that a diversity in practice having prevailed with respect to the regulations under which packages of goods which were intended for shipment as stores should be removed from one port to another, that in future all legal sized packages of warehoused goods forwarded from one warehousing port to another, whether for the purpose of being used as stores or otherwise, should be for warded under the warehousing regulations ; and that all packages of less than the legal sir?, and all packages removed as stores from a warehousing port to a port not a warehousing port, should be removed under a special bond ; and the second, in Novem ber, that the authorities had adverted to the cases in which surplus stores are left on board vessels which have arrived from foreign voyages at a port of the united kingdom, and are about to proceed with or without cargo coastwise preparatory to making another foreign voyage, and being of opinion that some further regulations were necessary in order to assimilate the practice and to provide for the due account, and delivery of such stores, and directed that in future surplus stores left on board any importing vessel about to proceed coast wise only be placed under seal of office, and a particular account thereof transmitted by letter of advice from the proper officers to the collector and controller of the revenue at the port of destination ; and in addition thereto, that in all cases where the quantity of high duty goods left on board such vessels should appear to the proper officers to be excessive, that a special bond for the same should be required. These two new forms of bond have been instituted to carry these orders into effect, and are of considerable importance to the shipping and mercantile interest and all other persons concerned. ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST. This extraordinary inquest was yeste day resumed at the Morden Arms, Brand-street, Greenwich, before Mr. Carttar Mr. Wood, of Bridge-street, Southwark, deposed that or the morning of the 16th of September a person named Rey nolds called on him, stating that a lady had taken lodgings at her house who had come there to be confined. Witness called, and there saw Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Richardson, and the young woman. Finding the labour net likely - to come on, although progressing favourably, he left. About three o'clock on the following morning (the 17th), witness was sent for, when he immediately attended, and in about half an hour afterwards delivered her of a male child. Appeared a healthy child, and of full growth. Mrs. Reynolds and the young woman's mother were present at the birth ; remained about half an hour after the birth, when ho left the child in the care of Mrs. Reynolds. On the 18th he again saw the child, when witness understood the child was to be brought up by hand. Witness remarked that it would be difficult so to do, as it was a weakly child, although he had then no fear of its death. The reason Mrs. Reynolds gave for ;thr child being brought up by hand was from " peculiar circum stances." Witness continued to attend the child for five 01 six days, during which the child, although weak, was toter ably well. On the morniug of the 25th, Mrs. Reynolds called upon him to attend the child; found it suffering from inflammation of the mouth, throat, and eyes; could not say from cursory examination of the mouth whether there were any blisters. Witness told Mrs. Reynolds the child had got the thrush, and sent the usual medicine, alterative powders, comprised of 2 grains mercury, and chalk, 2 grains soda, I grain rhubarb, or 2 grains compound chalk powder; could not recollect which. On the 26th again called, lint as tin child was asleep would not have it disturbed. ➢irs. Reynolds said it had been more composed On the morning of the 27th Mrs. Reynolds called and informed me the child was dead. In the evening of that day Mrs. Reynolds called for a certificate of the child's death. Witness remarked that it was unpleasant the child had died so soon, when she said "Not so, if he (witness) knew all." As witness had seen the child and knew it had been properly attended to, did not refuse the certificate. Described the cause of death as arising from mirasmus, which means a general wasting away. It is by some termed atrophy. The inflamed state of the mouth and throat did not excite suspicion, having seen children in that state before, Her Majesty and her Royal Consort left Claremont at three o'clock yesterday afternoon for an airing in a phaeton, the Prince driving. The Equerries in wa►ting were in attendance on horseback. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay left Clare mont yesterday morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed pony and walking exercise yes , terday in the pleasure grounds of Claremont. Colonel Arbuthnot has arrived at Claremont, and has relieved Colonel Buckley in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty. Colonel Buckley has left Claremont. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, and Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Fordgn Office. Mr. E wart had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday at the Colonial Office. The state of health of the Right lion. Sir George Murray, Master-General of the Ordeance, has been mote favourable during the last few days. The Earl of Ellehborough, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Right lion. Sidney Herbert visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Earl of Eglintoun had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester day, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office, for the Governor of New South Wales, ant also for the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Dis patches were sent off on Saturday evening for the Governors of the West India colonies. The Duke of Buccleuch arrived in town yesterday morning from Thames Ditton. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Fitzroy and Mr. G. Fitz roy have returned to Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from a tour of visits. Dr. Oak Mitchell deposed to sealing up the residue to the body, and delivering the same to Mr. Huish, assistant to Dr. Leesom, at St. Thomas's Hospital. Charles Huish, chemical assistant to Dr. Leesom, deposed to receiving a jar, sealed up, from the last witness, which he delivered in the same state to Dr. Leesom. Henry Beaumont Leesom, physician at St. Thomas's Hos pital, and lecturer on chemistry, deposed that on Saturday last he received from the last witness a sealed jar, contain ing the remains of an infant In the intestines, brains, and viscera decomposition had taken place, and they had become a pasty mass. He took the whole of this mass, which he boiled in distilled water, having previously ascertained that the water was perfectly pure. After boiling it for some time, acidulated it with pure muriatic acid, and again boiled it, conducting the operation in a porcelain vessel, and then fil tered it through new calico. 'Witness then submitted it to various testy, the principle made use of being Reinche's test, that being ie most delicate test for arsenic. A portion of the liquid witness then mixed with an equal portion of muriatic acid, and taking a similar quantity of muriatic acid, mixed it with un equal quantity of distilled water, as pre viously made use of. Ile then took two pieces of bright cop per which had been carefully cleaned in nitro-sulphuric acid. These two pieces he then boiled, the one in distilled water and muriatic acid, and the other in the liquid in which the body had been boiled, the effect of which would be that if arsenic be present it would give to the copper a dark colour, similar to iron ; but if no arsenic be present the copper would remain comparatively clean and bright. (Dr. Leesom prodaced the two pieces of cop per, according precisely /with the appearances stated above.) This experiment witness repeated several times. Witness then took a piece of the copper So treated and hav ing cut it into slips, placed it in a tube of hard German glass, heating the tube and copper to a red heat. Under these circumstances witness expected to sublime the arsenic from the copper, and found it did so, obtaining on the glass tube that peculiar dark stain indicating the presence of me tallic arsenic. The heat was then continued, and a small cur rent of air was allowed to pass through the tube ; by so doing the metallic arsenic was oxydated, and thus converted into arsenious acid, or the common white arsenic of the shops. Witness then examined the white arsenical crust through a microscope, and ascertained that it consisted of small octohe dral crystals, peculiarly characteristic of arsenic and confirma tory. Witness then took a small portion of distilled water and boiled it in the tube to dissolve the arsenious acid. Having thus obtained a solution, he applied the usual liquid tests; made use of ammonia nitrate of silver, which gave a light yellow precipitate characteristic of arsenious acid. To an other portion be added ammonia sulphate of copper, which gave a green precipitate, also characteristic of the presence of arse nic, and termed" Scheele's green." Through a third portion passed a stream of sulphurated hydrogen, which gave a yellow precipitate, also confirmatory of the presence of arsenic. Witness then took a third piece of copper, coated as the last, which he placed in another glass tube, and heated it as be fore, and whilst so heated passed over it pure hydrogen gas, which he ignited at one end of the tube, inflamed it, holding over the flame a small vessel of white porcelain, on which was deposited a black spot, as in making use of Marshe's test, of which this is a modification. Witness also applied his nose to the ei,d of the first tube, and smelt the charac teristic smell of arsenic. Witness also subjected a portion of the liquid to the action of a galvanic battery. having a pole of platinum attached to the copper end of the battery, and a piece of clean copper to the zinc extremity, which obtained a silvery deposit of arsenic. Witness's impression was that, in the portion lie examined, something like ten grains of arse] sic were present, more than sufficient to cause death. Aritness judged the quantity from the facility with which he obtained the results. All the remains had been boiled down, except the legs and arms. It was impossible for the child to have survived after the quantity of arsenic he had de tected. Mr. Huish recalled—Was present during the experi ments made by Dr. Leesom, and entirely agreed with him in opinion. Charles Robins, residing at No. 1, Abbey-street, Ber mondsey, undertaker, deposed that he had seen the coffin and identified it as one of his make. In September last, about the middle of the month, on coming home from a funeral, be was informed that a person had applied for a coffin for a still-born child. About six o'clock a person came for the coffin, and as the coffin was to go into the country by rail, witness had it made extra strong; believed he said it was to go into Yorkshire. Witness had not seen Richardson, but he had seen the daughters, and recognised him from the won( erful likeress. He was talking to witness for half an hour in his shop. He paid ss. Gd. for it. He took the coffin away in a bag, either blue or green, but witness thought it was a blue one. Witness could not be positive as to the pre cise day in the month of September, but could by reference to his books. _ _ Mrs. Reynolds, the landlady of the house at which the young woman Richardson was confined, and who nursed her, Thomas Jones, Stephen Furman, and Amelia Richardson, were then examined, but their evidence was merely a repe tition of that given at the police-court last week. A host of witnesses were subsequently examined, but their evidence was merely confirmatory, without tending to throw any additional light on this most mysterious affair. Mrs. Reynolds was recalled as to any conversations that she might have heard pass between Richardson and his daughter Ann, when she stated that she could not give any evidence on that point, as they invariably conversed in French. _ _ Julia Richardson, a younger sister, was then examined. She deposed that she went up on the Sunday previous to the death of the infant. Went up with her father and mother, and was present when the body was brought home on the following Saturday. All her sisters were then pre sent, and saw the coffin. In answer to a question by the Coroner, the witness said there were seven sisters, including her sister Ann, the mother of the child. Mrs. Richardsot deposed that she is wife of William Richardson, late of the Royal Observatory. Her daughter Ann Maria was confined in September, 1845. Did not know that she was in the family way until she was six months gone. Mr. Sturtun, surgeon, was the first person who acquainted her with the fact. On being taxed she acknowledged it, and asked her not to be severe. Witness premised to do all in her power for her. A fortnight previous to her confinement, Mr. Richardson en gaged apartments in town for her. Witness with her husband went to London by railway. On Wednesday, September 17, her daughter was confined. Witness next day went to Greenwich and informed her husband. On Friday, the 26th, she received a letter from her daughter, saying the infant was dying. She went up to town. and the nurse said that she had been up all night with the child. At eleven o'clock witness laid down, and at one was awoke by the child crying. Its mother gate it gruel. Wit ness warmed the gruel over a candle. In two hours afterwards it died. The child was brought up by hand. Her husband bought a coffin : the child was put into it, and the coffin put into a green bag. Witness, her husband, and daughter re turned to Greenwich by railway. Her husband carried the coffin on his knee. The coffin was placed in the library, and remained several days, until the body became offensive, when her husband got a labourer to dig a hole in the garden, where it was buried. She could swear positively that the child was in the house from Saturday to the following Friday, before it was buried. She has no drug chest; does not think that her husband kept poison in the house. Some of the baby's powders where brought home after its death, and burnt. Her husband was discharged from the Royal Ob servatory at the end of October, by direction of the 'Lords of the Admiralty. No reason was assigned ; believed it was in consequence of his daughter having a child by him. He had been there twenty eight years and was entitled to a pension, but had made no application. Witness did not know what the child died of. The room was then cleared, after the jury had sat upwards of eleven hours, and after a short consultation the inquiry was adjourned until Friday, at three o'clock. The inquiry lasted from twelve at noon until nearly midnight. statement T HE FRENCH NAVY. — T h e followin g is a of the ten oldest ships of the line in the French navy, and which are about to be withdrawn from the list on account of their age—namely, the Ocean, of 120 guns, launched in 1790; Nestor, 82 guns, in 1810; Marengo, 82 guns, in 1810; Trident, 82 guns, in 1811 ; Diademe, 8G guns, in 1811 ; Montebello , 120 g uns, in 1812; Vil le de Marsille, 82 guns, in 1812; Scipion, 82 guns, in 1813; Jena, 90 guns, in 1814; Alger, 82 guns, in 1815. Thus it will be seen that the the oldest of thes e shi p s has been afloat fift y - six, and youngest, thirty-one years. The oldest of the French frigates is the Minerve, of 85 guns, which was launched in 1805. Galignane s Messenger. "'DEATH OF A BOY IN A C OA L PIT, rowAN4 NARRow was y the deputy; ESCAPE held OF at TH the Red Lion In IRTEEN OTHERS. — n, Quarlton, On Tuesday last an i nque st coroner, on the body of Ralph Scoles, a boy, ei ght years of age, who was drowned yesterday week in a coal. pit belonging to Messrs. Andrew Knowles and Sons. It appeared that the deceased and thirteen other boys, besides a number of miners, were working in a pit in Quarlton, when one of the men six struck into an ol mine which has been ears, w hen the d water rushed upon them, standin and g they y- were driven forward to the pit shaft. The men assisted in getting the boys out, and they were all rescued but the deceased Verdict, "Accidental deatb."--Manchester Guardian. 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Conn :ELECTION. —A second edition of the Cork Southern Reporter contains a full report of the proceedings at the Cork ele‘ction Saturday , Mr. M`Carthy, a repealer, w as elected withont 91)90911 to succeed - Mr. Sergeant Murphy as one othe rop'egilt4tim 11 parliament of the city of Cork. TUE SUN, LONDON, TUBS DAY ETEN VNG; PERIIVARI s, 1848. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held. fir. HALE gave notice of a motion for the next Court, " That it be referred to a committee to consider the propriety of founding an establishment for boarding, elothing, and educating children of necessitous freemen of the city, the management of which shall be vested in the Corporation. That it be referred to the said com mittee to consider the propriety of appropriating the whole of the redemption fees in respect of freedoms to wards defraying the charges of the establishment, and also to consider the propriety of applying to Parliament for leave to appropriate the capital and iccome of the Corporation School to the same purpose, the Corporation undertaking to provide the deficiency out of its owu funds." STERRUPTION TO PUBLIC DUSINES3, BY THE BREAKING UP OF TAE COURT. Alderman Wrr.sorr said it was the constant practice of the Court to pass as strong condemnation as possible upon the members of the Court of Aldermen, if it hap pened that the business was interrupted by the absence of the necessary number of aldermen to In:die a Court ; but he observed that when the fault lay with the com mon councilmen, they were so much influenced by a !climate feeling towards each other, that the matter passed without observation.—(A laugh.) Now, lie did not consider such conduct as very ingenuous. On t h e last day of the meeting of that Court the Court broke up, although there were four or five aldermen present, and the delicacy to which he alluded protected the mem.. rs, who were so tender of each others feelings, from ,he slightest reproach.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. R. L. JONES said there was a great difference be tween the absence of aldermen and the absence of com mon Councilmen from the Court. It was well known Jlt, as in the House of Commons, business was trans acted when there were but four or five members present, 50, in the Court of Common Council, the affairs of the Corporation could go on when there were present many members less than were necessary to constitute a Court; but unless two aldermen we represent, there could not be any Court at all.—(liear, hear.) Some member declared that it was, at all events, very Agreeable to them to be spared the annoyance of being locked in the Court, in order to facilitate the business. Mr. ASHURST said the conduct of which Alderman Wilson adverted, showed at any rate that the common councilmen were much more tender of themselves than of the alderman. It has been observed by the frequenters of the Court, that the hand of the clock pointing to the usual dinner hour is a signal equally regarded by the members of both Courts. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes end Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, FEB. 2. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL. Motion made, and Question put, " That the words And be I enacted, that whenever any such public work shall have been con. strutted,' stand part of the Bill." The Rouse divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 97. MINORITY—NOES, 3. Connolly, Colonel O'Brien, A. S. O'Connor, Don TELLERS.—Ferguson, Sir R. French, F. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. MONDAY, The following Petitions for Itailway Bills were referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills : Salton and DriMeld Junction Railway. St. Helen's Canal and Railway. East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway. Laiicashin? and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway. Leeds and York Railway. Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth Railway. North • western Railway. Leicester and Tainworth Junction Railway. Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway. Glasgow Harbour Mineral Railway. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway. London and Oxford Railway. Clitheroc Junction Railway. Blackburn and Preston, Lane-end, Lancashire Amalgamation. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway. British lind Irish Union Railway. East Lothian Central Tyne Vs ley Railway. Great North of Scotland Railway. Swansea Vale Railway. • Alford Valley Railway. Denude Railway. Great North of Scotland Eastern Extension Railway. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. SATuItDAY, JAN. 31. Ayrshire and Galloway Railwayommittee on Petition, post poned from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4. Irish Great Western Rai lway—Committee on Petition, poeponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4. Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rosstrevor Railway--Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4. • Belfast and County Down Railway--Committee on Petition, post poned from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4. Ballymena and Ballymoney R ailway — Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till Tuesday, Feb. 10. Slatnannan and liorrowstoness Railway—Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9. and Coltness"(Greenhill Branch) Railway—C omm i ttee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9. Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Knowton Branch) nail_ way—Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9. Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Improvement and Branches) Railway—Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9. Slarnannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig, Branches) Railway—Com mittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9. Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Railway—Committee On Peti tion, Monday, Feb. 9. MONDAY, FEB. 2. Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. Leeds and York Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. Leicester and Tamwm th Railway—Committee on Petition, Tues day, Feb. 10. Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway—Com mittee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Breaches (No. 6)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Wednesday 4 till Thursday, Feb. 5. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches (No. s)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Wednesday 4 till Thursday, Feb. 5. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway—Committee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 13. Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. North-Western Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway—Committee on Peti tion, Tuesday, Feb. 10. Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham Railway—Com mittee on Petition, postponed from Wednesday 4 till Thursday,Feb. 5. London and Sonth-Western Railway (Salisbury Junctioh)—Com mittee on Petition, postponed from Wednesday 4 till Thursday, Feb. 5. London and South-Western Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury Exteaslon)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Wednesday 4 till Thursday, Feb. 5. Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed from Wednesday 4 till Thursday, Feb. 5. Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. London and Oxford Railway—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 10. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, FEB. 2. Stocx Excnartoz.—The sales are —Blackburn, Dar wen, and Bol ton, k p.—East Lancashire, No. 2, 4 3-16 p.—Fieetwooj, Preston, and West !Riding, par—Goole. Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 1% p. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, Extension, 3 dis. —Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 13 p.—Lelcester, Binning ha n, and Trent Valley Junction, par—Liverpool and Bury, 17 p.— Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, and Stockport, % dis —London and Manchester (Remington's), 1 dis.—London and South-Western, New 401., 8 p.—Manchester and Leeds, 55 p.—Ditto, Sixteenths, 9%—Ditto, Extension, 3% p.—Oldham District, 34 p—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 23 p.—Ditto, Extension, 34 p.—Sheffield a..cl Manchester, Quarters, No. 1, 6t e p. —South Eastern and Dover, Halves, 1 p.—Great Luxembourg, 134 dis. HULL, FEB. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Leeds and Thirsk, 1034 — North British, Carlisle, 21. 17s. 6d.—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 12s. dis.—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 34s.—London and York. 41. Bs. 9d.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 4—North Staffordshire, 5/. 7s.—South Midland, 41. 9s. 6d. —Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3/. Bs. 9d. ADEL PHI THEATRE. A new drama, in three acts, from the pen of Mr. H Holl, entitled Leoline, or Life's Trials, was produced at this theatre last evening. The story is soon told. Leoline (Mrs. Yates) is the wife of Charles Darville (Mr. Howe), a prosperous Parisian tradesman, a good tempered, easy man, but wanting in firmness—in short, "nobody's enemy but his own." He meets with an old schoolfellow, a certain Ensile Mongerand (Mr. 0. Smith), a regular stage villain of the regular 0. Smith school. Mongerand endeavours to seduce Leoline, and, failing in his endeavours, works upon the easy Darville, induces him to become a gambler, a drunkard, and a pro digal, and ruins Darville and his family. With his last 500 francs, won from Darville, Mongerand sets up as a fashionable swindler—a German count—and is on the point of coot, acting marriage with the daughter of a rich banker, when he is arrested on a charge of treason, and Darville, who is impli cated in the plot, is likewise arrested. Darville is sentenced to five years' exile, and Mongerand is con. demned to the gallies for life. An interval of five years has elapsed during the second and third acts. Leoline has been left a competency by a relation, and is residing with her daughter in the environs of Paris. Darville, who has passed his five years of exile as a sol dier, has regained for himself name and fame, and re turns to regain his wife; Mongerand has escaped from the gallies, and in the lowest depth of distress has been relieved by Darville and rescued from starvation. He again tries to induce Darville to turn prodigal, but in vain, and in the night he breaks into the cottage, and endeavours to rob the house and murder Leoline. His attempt, however, is frustrated by Darville, and finally he is shot by a party of gens d'armes, who are in pursuit of him as an escaped convict. There is a comic underplot, supported by Wright, Mun yard, and Miss Woolgar, which ever and anon afforded a welcome relief to the more serious portions of the drama. When we say that the two principal characters were supported by Mrs. Yates and Mr. 0. Smith, and that they were each admirably fitted, it is tanta mount to declaring that the drama was decidedly succss ful ; but it stands wofully in need of curtailment. There is a vast deal too much of sermonising in it, and the sermonising consists of the most common-place sen timentality of melodrama. If all this were cut out, the piece would then act closer, and be greatly improved. Mr. Howe, as Charles Darville, acted with taste, pathos, and judgment. The piece was announced for repetition every evening, amidst the loud applause of a very crowded house. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—I ESTERDAY. The Chester Cup was again the engrossing topic, and prices in several cases varied from last week's quo tations. Sweetmeat and Whinstone opened at 20 to 1 each, and must have been backed for nearly 2001. each, but gave way on the advance of Salopean, Intrepid, and the Baron, and closed at 22 to 1, currently offered ; the outlay on the new favourites was very spirited. Miss Burns and Mickey Free also receded, and Best Bower, coming rather strongly into play near the finish, left off first favourite. Colleen Dhas, scratched as such, but left in, as the filly, by Rust out of Annie,was in request, and a few small investments were made on Billy Purvis, Hope, Mermaid, and Queen of the Tyne. The New market Handicap was t mehed upon, but in such small amounts as not to admit of a quotation ; the only bet worthy of notice was on the fie'd against the following fifteen :—Vol au-Vent, Joe Lovell, Wee Pet, Merry man, Rowland Hill, Nike filly, De , xterons, Anti-Re pealer, Blackbird, Marquis of Conyngham, Rose, Mus catel, Johnny, Chertsey, and Queen Mab. The Derby betting was important, as showing a further improve • meet in Sting, and a decline in Brocordo. At the close no one would lay 5 to 1 agst the former. Closing prices— CHESTER CUP. 600 to 50 agst Hesseltine's lot—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Cr. Bentinck's Best Bower—t. freely 22 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweatmeat 22 to 1 agat Mr. Merry's Whinstone 25 to 1 agst Mr. Woffenden's Miss Burns 25 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free 35 to 1 agst Mr. Bennett's Hope—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Mermaid 40 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Salopiant—taken freely 40 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark's The Baron—taken freely 40 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Colleen Dhas—(Annie f) 40 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Intrepid—taken freely 50 to 1 agst Mr. F. Ongley's Roderick—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Williams us Redstreak—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. H. Stebbing's Billy Purvis—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Johnstone's The Roper's Daughter—t. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur—taken 1,000 to 15. • NEWMARKET HANDICAP. Even on the field against 15. DERBY. 9to 2 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting-5 to 1 taken to 100/. 15 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo—taken to 75/. 25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's lago—taken 25 to 1 agat Mr. E. Peel's Spithead—taken 30 to 1 agst Air. Ramsey's Malcolm—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tibthorpe—taken 1,000 even between Fancy Boy and Tibthorpe. OAKS. 8 to 1 agst Forth's Lot 11 to 1 agst Sir C. Monk's Vanish 20 to 1 agst Mr. Littledale's Fantastic—taken LIVERPOOL GREAT NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. Nominations for a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before the . 12th of February. The weights to be fixed on the sth instant. The Artist, 6 yrs Culver thorpe, aged Latitat (late Scarlet Runner)' Perambulator, 6 yrs Alice Gray Eugene Sue (late Hankey Pankey), aged Brenda Little John B g by Belshazzar, aged Cure All, aged Veluti, 6 yrs Br g by Oliver Cromwell, dam by Strephon Lady Grey Regalia, aged Firefly, aged Condor, 6 yrs Mameluke Boxkeeper Switcher Lancet (late Jellalabad) Tinder Boy, aged Ugly Peter, 6 yrs Hornihiharriho, aged St. Leger, 6 yrs Peter Simple, aged Pioneer, by Advance, 6 yrs The Hawk, aged Wilton, aged Golden Pippin, aged Troubadour, aged Single P(eper (late Spruce) Coheiress, 6 yrs Tramp, 6 yrs Coiner, aged Major A., 6 yrs Crcesus, aged The Scavenger, 6 yrs Foxberry, aged Little Tommy Eagle, aged Pickwick Carlow Sacrifice Satan Belshazzar Amalgamate (late the Queen), 5 yrs Wiverton Lycergus. CU' Final declarations oFfoTiect — iir - London (twelve o'clock, Monday night) :—Faugh-a-ballagh, Pompoy, Wolfdog. Wine sour, lonian, Morpeth, Needful, Winchester, Joe Lovell, Wil liam le Gros, Ironmaster, Astonishment, My Mary, Xanthus, Pythia, John Goldham, King Cob, Vates, Mount Charles, Pilot, Mildew, Johnny, Rowland Hill, Jenny Wren, Isa bella, Camera Obscura, Patriot, Merryman, Javelin, olleen Dbas, Portrait, Teetotaller, Satyr, Aoline, The Hero, Out cast, Pal, Laird o'Cockpen, and Peasant. At Chester :—Valiant, London, Prince Royal, and Sarah Rebecca. BATH RACES. THE SOHERSETSHIRE STAKES. Final declaration in London :—Corranna, Sweetmeat, St. Lawrence, lonian, Needful, Vitellius, ./Egis, Ajax, Due an Durres, Pugilist, Fox, Arthur, Secutor, Redskin, Wild Roe, The Hero, Astonishment, Chamois, West Countryman, Pal, Zebra gelding, Lothario, Discord, Mickey Free, Warp, Rose of Cashmere, Roderick, Clumsy, Laird o' Cockpen, Crim.Con., Best Bower, Mystery, Symmetry, Sparsholt, Warrior, Black bird, Dulcet, Jack Cade, Hope, Camera Obscure, Peasant, Eclat. At Bath :—Peasant, Morocco, Carissina, Reindeer, Regalia, Portrait, Science. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) CHESTER CUP. CHESTER, MONPAY EVENING, EIGHT O'CLOCK.-..ADDI TIONAL DECLARATIONS.—AIice Hawthorn, Yardley, What, Dr. Husband, Lancashire Witch, Turk, and Black Strap. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CANTERBURY AND ASHFORD BRANCH OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. —An investigation into the cause of this melancholy occur rence was entered into on Saturday last, before Mr. Delascaux, the coroner for Canterbury. From the evidence of Mr. Higginbotham, the resident engineer, and Mr. Cubitt, the engineer of the line, the giving way of the arch was found to have been occasioned by the late excessive rains pene trating the brickwork. The immediate cause of the accident was the yielding of the outside wall nearest Canterbury, which drew with it two of the smaller arches. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a deodand of Is. on the rubbish which fell upon the deceased and caused his death. DUTCH and FLANDERS MAIL. THE HAGUE, JAN. 29.—Yesterday morning the melan choly ceremony of the funeral of his Royal Highness Prince William Frederick, son of his Royal Highness Prince Fre derick of the Netherlands, took place at a very early hour. JAL 31.—M. Mercier, Minister of State, Governor of the province of Hainault, Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, on an extraordinary mission to the Court of the Netherlands, accompanied by M. Van der Straaten, as secretary, arrived here yesterday. The choice made by the Belgian Government may be called a happy one, for M. Mercier was formerly employed in the service of the Netherlands, and afterwards as Minister, contributed greatly to maintain a good understanding between the two countries. The Second Chamber of the States General is convoked for Friday, the 6th of February, to resume its operation. The last sitting was on the 16th of December, 1845. The second part of the sessions of 1845-46 will now commence. Many important matters will come before the Chamber. —Among the most urgent is the question of the differences with Belgium. According to an official statement the mercantile navy of the Netherlands consisted on the 31st of December, 1845, of 1,860 ships, the total tonnage ) which is 186,872 lasts (1 last equal to 2 tons). This is an increase of 81 ships built in the year 1845. The number of ships under the flag of the Netherlands (with cargo) which cleared inwards in 1845 was 286 greater than in 1844, and the ships cleared outward in 1845 was 150 more than in 1844. The number of ships under foreign flags likewise in creased considerably. His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Minister of the Interior, Finance and Colonies Commissioner to negotiate with M. Mercier and General Willmar for the conclusion of a commercial treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium. HAMBURGII, JAN. 27.—The number of ships that arrived at Riga in 1845 was 1,334, of which 444 were English. BERLIN, JAN. 21.—(From the Weser Gazette.)—lt is con fidently affirmed that very important intelligence was re ceived yesterday from West Prussia. It is well known that the greater part of the persons arrested as being concerned in the Polish plot, have been sent to Grandenz, and so removed to a distance from the scene of the events. It was hoped that by a timely intervention the actual bi caking out of the con spiracy would be prevented. It appears, however, that on the night of the 18th an attempt was made to surprise one of the gates of Grandenz, in order forcibly to rescue the prisoners. That attempt, it is said, failed. The whole surrounding country has been scoured by a detachment of cavalry, and a great number of new arrests have been made. —Harnburgh Papers, Jan. 27. BRUSSELS, JAN. 30.—1 n yesterday's sitting M. Delfossr, in the name of the Committee of Inquiry, presented the re port of the causes of the falling in of the tunnel of Cump tich. The Chamber adopted articles 8 and 9 of the pro posed game-law. The convention of the 13th of December last, which renews the convention of the 16th of July with France, has now been ratified by the French Government. A letter from Charleroi, of the 27th, says—" We are in the midst of an immense lake. The lower town is in many places five feet under water, the communications are inter rupted, and the rain continues." JAN. 31.—The Chamber adopted, yesterday articles 10 and 20 of the proposed game-law. We receive, from all quarters, the most afflicting news respecting the inundations. DUTCH FUNDS.—ANSTERDAM, JAN. 30. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent • • • • • • • • 6034 CON Aitto, 3 per Cent .......... •••• • • • • 75 75% Ditto, 4 per Cent..• • . Amort Syndic, 434 per Cent Ditto, 334 per Cent.........• • • • 8934 90 Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 164 165 East India Loan, 4 per Cent.......... 9434 95 Excnaneeon London, at sight . ...... 12 22 Two m0nth5............... 12 10 On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35 56 Two months... ...... . 35 32 —Dutch Papers, Jan. 31. HA.3IBURGH BORSENHALLE, JAN. 27. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents .. •• . • •••••••• • ll3 Bank Shares • . . 1600 A ng l o -Russian Loan •••. • • • • lOB4 Russian 5 per Cent., 'lamb. Certificate 103 Ditto Ist series Inscription. ••• .• • 104% Ditto, Hops and Co., 3d and 4th series• — 99 Ditto, in Certificate New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• 91 Ditto Stieglitz —•• • • • .... .... Spanish New 5 per Cent •••• • • —....— 20% 20% Ditto 3 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 214 per Cent .• • Ditto 3 per Cent. Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 B3 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• National Bank Shares.• •• •••••• • • •• •• BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussms, JAN. 31. Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. •• • Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto . . Ditto, ditto, 1840 . . . Ditto, ditto,1842 Ditto, 1844.... ..... .............. Ditto, 1836.. . Ditto, 1838 .• .. • . 74 Ditto of the City, 1832 • • Ditto, 1843 .•...... Bank ofßelgium.... • • •,••.• • , • • • —Brussels Papers. Feb. 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENra, JAN. 24. 5 per Cent. Metalliques.• ...... • • • • ...... 113 4 per Cent. ditto.... .............. ...... 101 3 per Cent. ditto— . Loan, 1834 ....... ...... ............... 121 Ditto, 1836 ........ . . Bank Shares ....... . Esterhazy's Loan • ..... •• . • RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand ............ 190 Gloggnitz • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 146 N Vienna—Milan • • • •••• • • • • 126)4 Leghorn • • •••• • • • • ........... ..... 11814 Pesth . Sienna ...... Grosetto ........... Oldenburg Apenninen ................... ..... —Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 27. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, JAN. 24. B ills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent ....... Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.• •• • • Foreign Exchanges . • ........ ............ Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 2 Months. 6 25% Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 150% Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months .....• •• . 80 On Paris ................ Two months. • • • .-trulyersalyruallan Gazette, Jail, 25, LEEDS, FEB. 2. Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon, 22% — Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 4/. 6s. 3d. p.—York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 60 —Ditto, (East and West Riding), 8/. 18s. 9d. p.—East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 4U, p.— Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 934—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 3/. Os. 6d.—Waketield, Pontefract, and Goole, 39 c. n.—Lon don and Portsmouth, VA—London and York, 4%—Sheffield and Lincoln, 3% —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4 % —West Riding Union, —Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, ss. p.—Clitheroe Junction, Is. p.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2s. 6d. dis.—Lei cester and Birmingham, 2s. 6d. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1% p. —Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, Bs. p. —Manchester and Southampton, 2%—North Western, 2)4 —Shrop shire Union, ss. dis.— South Midlands, 21. its. p. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEB. 2. STOCK Ezell/wk.—The sales e're—North British, Halves (Car lisle), 345. p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 11 34 p. SHEFFIELD, FEB. 2. STOCK Excuswuz.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 2% Grimsby and Sheffield, 95% —Ditto, Extension, 21. 185.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2/. 35.—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal,: 1% --Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 4—Ditto, Extension, 2%- 1 South Yorkshire Coal Itailway,2%., YoltK, - FEB. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.— Tho sales are—Leicester and Bedford, 11. 14s. —London and York, 4%—Manchester, Buxton. Matlock, and Mid land, :IN—Nei/castle and Berwick, 21%—Ditto, Extensions, 111 ti Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, New, 10%—York and North Mid land, Extension, 39% cunt all—Ditto, New (East and West Riding), 10%. BRISTOL, FEB. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Bristol and Exeter, New, I I% -Midland, New, 28%—South Devon, 36;-8. EXETER, FEB. -2 STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are —Bristol, New, 11 1 4 —South Wales, 6 —Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 4 A correspondent describes to us a very singular case of spontaneous combustfon, for which, perhaps, some of our scientific friends can account. A fine beast upon the farm of C. T. Tower, Esq., at South Weald, was choked by eating mangold wurzel, and was sent to the premises of Mr. Bell, butcher, of Brentwood, to be killed; on cutting the throat of the animal a body of blue flame rushed out four or five feet high, singing the whiskers of the butchers employed, and sending them scampering back with alarm. The hypothesis of the learned in such matters in the neighbourhood is, that gas had been generated in the stomach of the animal, which from its peculiar nature exploded in coming in contact with the air.—Essex Herald. ROBBERlES.—Yesterday information was received by the police of the following robberies having been committed : —Stolen, between the hours of half-past 11, A.m., and 8, r.m., on Sunday, from the house of Mr. Morris, grocer, Boling broke-row, Walworth, about 401. in gold and silver, and a 51. Bank of England note, with the name of Hudson written on it, by means of skeleton-keys, during the absence of the family. From the counting-house at the powder-mills of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, Hayworth-road, Hounslow Heath, a japanned tin cash-box, containing about 2/. in gold and silver. Also, that on the night of Thursday last, the Rec tory house of Newton St. Leo, in the county of Somerset. was burglariously broken open, and a large quantity of silver plate, and other articles of great value, carried off. The plate consisted of two dozen and eleven silver table forks, three dozen table spoor.s and two dozen dessert spoons, fifteen dessert forks, seventeen tea spoons, four gravy spoons, two salt spoons, two drawing-room candlesticks, a snuffer and tray, a pair of sugar tongs, and a butter knife, all having a crest of a tiger, with a kind of griffin's head. A reward of 50/. has been offered for the discovery and apprehension of the burglars. On the same night the House of Mr. Green wood, at Springfield, near Chelmsford, Essex, was broken open, and a 10'. note, 11/. 4s. 6d. in gold and silver, a silver teapot, four table spoons, six dessert spoons, six tea spoons, and other articles of property, were carried off. THE MURDER AT JERSEY.—THE PRISONER NOON. — No day has yet been fixed for the trial of this ill-fated man before the petty jury. Two months have nearly elapsed since he is said to have committed this fatal deed with which he stands charged. During this long period he has borne the torments of his position with the most extraordinary fortitude. He has been eight times dragged through the streets of St. Helier, from his prison-house, to the Court house, a distance of half-a-mile, with tremendous crowds of men, women, and children, hooting him on his way. We understand hat frenzy has at length come to the relief of the unhappy prisoner, and it is but a Christian hope that God will soon put a period to his sufferings. lie has already gone through one stage of his trial, and two more await him—the petty jury, and the appeal to the grand jury. And what then ? He may be hanged ! This is the Inquisition re newed.—Jersey Times, Jan. 30. - - CORNUBIAN MINING COMPANY.—Yesterday a special general meeting of this Company was held at the office of Mr. Stainsby, in Finsbury-square, for the purpose of consi dering on the propriety of winding up the affairs . of the Com pany. The chair was taken lv byl e l t fr. er Lea, seconded Mr. when it was resolved. on the motion of Scott, that the Company be dissolved, and that the directors be authorised to dispose of the mine and sites belonging to this Company, and that if no purchaser be found within four weeks from the confirmation of this resolution, the said mines and sites to be surrendered to the respective landlords; that they also be authorised to dispose of the machinery and all the other property and effects belonging to the Company, and out of the purchase money to discharge all expenses against the Company. Several other resolutions were also passed unanimously. It appears that this Company has ex isted about four years, during which period about 20,000/. worth of lead was realised from the mines, but the expenses were so great as to admit of no dividend to the shareholders. The ore having been getting worse in quality, and the costs extremely heavy, it was thought more advisable to dissolve the Company than to continue operations. THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL—The following is a ge neral statement of foreign shipping of all nations (British excepted), arrived . at the port of Liverpool during the year 1845 Number of Ships. Tonnage. • 590 362,051 ••• 136 35,544 ••• 119 20,268 ••• 112 14,824 ••• 35 5,562 • 31 9,848 •• 29 3,962 • 29 4,438 • 28 7,528 ••• 26 2,647 • 22 4,326 ••• 7 2,188 • 16 2,799 12 2,692 ••• 11 1,868 393 540 442 850 ... 2 450 ▪.. 2 300 1 180 1 207 • 2 834 1 240 American ••• ••• •••• Prussian ... •• ••• Belgian ••• •• •.• ••• Netherlands ••• ••• ••• Spanish ••• ••• Austrian ... • • ••• ••• Swedish and Norwegian ... Danish ••• ••• ••• ••• Russian .. ••• French ••• Neapolitan and Sicilian ... Portuguese ••• ••• ••• Mecklenburg ..• ••• ••• Hamburgh ••• ••• ••• Wismar ••• ••• .•• ••• Hanoverian ••• ••• ••• Bremen ••• ••• ••• ••• Lubeck ••• ••• ••• Sardiaian ••• Grecian ... Peruvians, say Chili Hayti ..• Texas Venezuela Uruguay, Monte Videan ..• 1,223 03,99: Total .•• '.Liverpool Albion. -•• WEST RIDING ELECTION. LEEDS, FEB. 2.--Owing to ill health, Mr. G. Lane Fox, at the advice of his physician and friends, has declined the honour of representing the constituency. Mr. Fox has addressed a letter to the electors announcing his resignation. He gives his reasons for so doing in the fol lowing words : " TO TILE ELECTORS OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSIIIRE. " Gentlemen,—Since my interview with Mr. Busfeild Fer rand, on the 28th of last month, I have consulted with my friends and medical adviser, and it is their decided opinion, that in my present state of health it would not be advisable for me to take my seat in Parliament if elected. Under these circumstances, I beg leave to thank those friends who have interested themselves on my behalf, and hope they will put themselves to no further trouble on my account.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant, " Bramliam, Feb. 2, 1816. " G. L. FOX." Mr. ' , errand has addressed the following letter to the friends of native industry "At a moment when our success was approaching to a cer tainty, we are doomed to the bitter disappointment of being deprived of our leader, Mr. Fox, by the decided opinion of his friends and medical adviser, that in his present state of health it would not be safe for Trim to take his seat in Par liament when elected. " He has just laid this decision before me, and I consider myself in duty bound to inform the inhabitants of the West Riding that, under these circumstances, I do not consider I should be justified in taking any further part in the present contest, fer I could not introduce (now that the election is so near at hand) any other candidate to their notice, with a suflicieLt prospect of success, to justify me in going to a poll. "This being the case, I shall withdraw from further oppo sition to Lord Morpeth, consoled with the conviction that I at least have done my duty in endeavouring to rescue the Riding from becoming A 1 in the listof nomination boroughs at the disposal of the Manchester cotton lords. "I cannot conclude this address without expressing my warmest and most grateful thanks to the working-men of the West Riding, who have so nobly, so gallantly, so de votedly rallied round me during the last week, although ' the black book' was suspended over their heads. "Their conduct at Leeds I have already proclaimed to the world ; at Bradford they boldly and successfully defended the platform on which I stood against the repeated attempts to invade it that were made at the expressed orders of the mill owners and their supporters; at Huddersfield they rose as one man and rescued me from the hands of the millowners themselves, after they had attempted to push me off the plat form, and had commenced a cowardly and brutal assault upon me ; but net content with this expression of old English feeling, they formed themselves into a body-guard, and es corted me to my hotel. "I need not inform them that through good report and through evil report I will stand by their order, and continue to expose the tyranny and oppression under which they groan. "Lord Morpeth will now go to Parliament, not as the re presentative of the West Riding, but as the tool of a body of men whose cruelties to, and oppression of, their factoryslaves, he, on the 27th of June, 1832, thus denounced in the House of Commons There have been revealed to us (before Sadler's Ten Hour Bill Committee) facts not of single occur rence, but of established practice, of which I cannot speak in any t. rms short of horror.'—l have the honour to be, fel low-countrymen, yours very faithfully, "W. B. FERRAND. "Central Committee-reom, Royal Hotel, "Leeds, Feb. 2, 1846." TILE CITY TOLLS. The Loup MAYOR said, the Chamberlain had re -eived a note from Mr. Patterson, one of the Members for the City, requesting to be informed of some parti culars relative to the City tolls, and that officer wished to receive instructions from the Court upon the subject. After some conversation upon the means of supplying the most satiseactory information to Mr. Paterson, whose object was to furnish some Member of the Housef of Commons with answers to questions respecting the va rious tolls and their several amounts, it was agreed, that the Markets, Committee should forthwith prepare the most accurate information, and communicate it through the Chamberlain to the Hon. Gentleman. The re-election of all the officers appointed by the Court then took place, and The Court in re-electing the Rev. Dr. Mortimer head master, and Mr. Edkins, second-master of the City of London school, greeted these gentlemen with rounds of applause. Mr. BEDFORD brought up the report of the Naviga tion Committee, upon the subject of removing the whiting shoal, which bad been many years a serious obstruction to the navigation of the Thames at Lime house. It stated, that in about a month the whole of the impediment would disappear, and that already steamers of very large size could pass over the place in which lay such dangerous impediments. Mr. Bedford work. The who b y e a r d y b w e e a n r l em y p p l o r a y i e s d e d t t o s h u e p e e r x i n e t r e t n i o d n s t h o e f The report, which recommended that the necessary funds should be granted to accomplish the undertaking, was unanimously agreed to. The Town Clerk having announced that a document relating to Christ's Hospital was awaiting the hospital seal, Mr. TAYLOR said, that as the bond to be sealed might have the effect of excluding the children of the citizens from the charity, he hoped the Court would postpone the Act until some explanation should be given. —(Hear, hear.) Sir PETER LAURIE hoped the Court were not going, in the year 1846, to plunge into the foolish crusade of 1845, by which the privileges of the corporation were endangered. The Court of Common Council was not a court of control over the royal hospitals. The best legal advice had been that it had no power to withhold the seal. He wished that the Corporation would never move on any thing on which it could show nothing but its weakness. It had been an object of ridicule in 1845, and fervently did he desire that that unlucky incident might be blotted out of the records for ever.—(Hear.) Mr. R. TAYLOR said Sir Peter Laurie had very good reason to congratulate himself that he happened to be the president of one of the royal hospitals. No doubt he would not let the privilege be idle. The seal was affixed, and after some business relating to a petition to Parliament for certain city improvements the Court broke up. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TED. I.—Her Majesty's steam-frigate Cy-clops arrived at Spithead this morning from Ply mouth ; she is to be inspected by the shipwright de partment of the dockyard, and her defects reported. If unimportant, they will be made good here ; if other wise, she will be sent to Woolwich. Her Majesty's steam transport Dee is expected at Portsmouth with volunteer seamen, who have been col lected at Liverpool and Bristol. She is to transfer them to the St. Vincent, and then return to her station at Cork. The Admiralty are anxious to have the Amphitrite, 26, undocked these spring tides, and her fitting com pleted in the basin. On her going out, the Alfred, 50, will be brought down, and put in dock, to be inspected and prepared for immediate commission. The Java, 50, is in a more forward state, and will be fitted in the basin. The Amphitrite and Trincomalee are to have the same armament of 68-pounders and two shell guns each. The Scourge mortar steamer has been brought along side the dockyard, and an additional streak of copper has been put on her, but that is already nearly under water abaft, and she has to take in about sixty tons of coals, besides additional stores and ammunition, which will estimate forty more. She has but two species of armanent, a mortar and a 56-pounder long gnn. A trial of her qualities at sea will be made before the squadron of steamers is sent out to cruise. The Rattler steamer is quite ready for sea. The Carysfort, 26, when ready, is to go to Sydney with the newly-appointed Governor. The steam - ship's funnel, perforated by shot and shell from the Excellent, has been brought to the dockyard, there to await the in spection of the First Lord and the Board of Admiralty, upon their official visit to the arsenal. An officer belonging to one of her Majesty's ships at this port has during the week visited and inspected the Ter rible, first-class steamer, fitting at Weolwieh. She is reported to be, in every respect, a most efficient man-of war, both as respects her armament and stowage of coals, provisions, and water. She is capable of conveying troops to the West Indies with great facility and this officer, whose judgment is undoubted, asserts that a finer steamer has not been introduced into the British navy. The Terrible, Sampson, and Gladiator, will all rendez vous ut Spithead in March. The Grampus, 50, will be ready to go out of harbour in a week or ten days, if the weather will admit. The Harpy and Myrmidon, two of the new steam vessels built at Blackwall, are intended for service at the Brazils. The Oynx and Garland are for the packet ser vice at Dover. Her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, and the Barretto, jun., transport are at Spithead. The latter, with convicts for Bermuda is detained, with a large fleet of merchant ves sels, by the very stormy weather which prevailed all the week. The schooner Ana and Elizabeth, of Cardiff, is still in the Swash, filled, but the agents at Lloyd's hope to get her clear this day, having a high spring tide in their favour. INSURANCES FROM FIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—itisa matter of surprise to me, and no doubt to many others, that among the numerous and various articles from which the duties are proposed to be reduced or removed for the benefit of the community, one alone (if I mistake not) remains entirely unnoticed, or perhaps not intended to be so removed—l mean that most unjustifiable and heavy tax on insurances from fire. Surely, if the insurance offices are willing to afford protection from so destructive an element, on the lowest possible terms, it is but right and reasonable to expect that, among the many other reductions or removal of duties, the entire reduction of this most pernicious tax may be one of the first from which.the public (the agricul turist particularly) will or may derive a real benefit. Millions of property are sacrificed as a consequence, and thousands of persons annually incur the desperate risk rather than pay the enormous duty. Should this important subject, therefore, not have been already noticed, perhaps you will do me the favour to insert this in your paper.--I am, Sir, respectfully yours, J. CBAMPHORN. Belle Vue-terrace, Southsea, Feb. 2. • RED HILL CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. containedd O S n l e n t — o Y th o ea u rc most hpau church ch r e ax o tfa exaggerated a u r Ht sd eidl a l y , ab , cy t c h ot e uh ne 2 t2gd of Ire tohfe January tdha ema last, ge pre ceding Monday eight ; and I shall feel greatly obliged, if you will, at your earliest convenience, introduce the following statement of facts, for the truth of which I can vouch, as I have recently had an opportunity of examin ing the building. Instead of part of the steeple having fallen down, one stone from the upper part of a pinnacle to a buttress was dislodged by the violence of the wind ; and, instead of the injury occasioned by the falling of this stone, being of such a nature as to render it uncertain when the building can again be used for the performance of Divine worship, the damage was repaired at a cost of three pounds ten shillings, and the performance of Divine worship neither has been or will be prevented for a single day. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, JAMES THOMAS KNOWLES. 1, Raymond-buildings, Gray's inn, Feb. 2, 1846. ®THE WEATHER.—The unusual mildness of the present season has brought forward the early flowers, and hastened the fruit-trees to such extent as will hardly qualify them to sustain late frosts without injury. The benefit of such weather to the poor during the present scarcity of food 440 bwn yeri 4-reg.—Bath gburnql. LORD FARNHAM. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of a Dublin paper by Lord Farnham, who, it will be remem bered, declined to second the address in the House of Lords:— " TO THE EDITOR OF TILE DUBLIN EVENING PACKET, "My dear Sir,—l ber , to call your attention to a passage which occurs in the D u blin Evening Post of Thursday last. I do so in justice to my public charackr. " The passage which I refer to is as follows lie (Lord Farnham) had just set his seal to the I'rotestant Alliance— he had just issued a manifesto to the Orangemen of Ireland —he had just (apparently) declared war to the knife against the pro-Popish Premier.' " The above statement is, in every respect, totally at vari ance with the truth. " 1. I have never 'set my seal to the Protestant Alli ance.' lam not a member of, nor am I connected with, that body. "2. I am not a member of the Orange Society, nor have I been so since 1834, when I was one of the most strenuous of its members in recommending its dissolution. Since that time I have never issued any manifesto (or address) to the Orangemen of Ireland,' unless, indeed, to urge upon those in my own county, on several occasions, the advice of a former member of their body—that they should abstain from their annual processions, and from any conduct which (without compromise of principle) might tend to irritate their Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen; and I have had the satisfaction of feeling that my advice has invariably been attended to. " 3. I beg to disclaim having, either actually or ' apparently, declared war to the knife against the pro-Popish Premier. My steady attachment to Protestant principles is well known. I never have compromised them, and I have no intention of ever doing so. At the same time I claim to myself the right (without incurring the distrust of those whose good opinion I value) of giving my support to her Majesty's Government, as far as I can do so consistently with my own conscientious principles. " I do not consider myself at liberty to state the reasons which induced me to decline seconding the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne; but this I may say, that they bad reference solely to the question of corn. " Believe me, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, " London, Jan. 27." " FARN HAM. ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLANDS.—On Saturday nigh an accident occurred on the Midland Railways, near the Clay-cross station, which, had not the train been going very slow at the time, must have thrown the carriages elf the li ne , when in all probability the most serious results would have occurred. The Parliamentary train left the Derby station at five o'clock, for Leeds, and as soon as the train had emerged from the tunnel at Clay-cross, about five miles front Chesterfield, it came in contact with a large bar of iron which was lying across the rails, supposed to have been dropped from a luggage train; the bar struck a door of one of the carriages, in which there were several passengers, and broke it completely off, without injuring any person, and afterwards twisted round one of the axles of a carriage. The accident occurred close to the station where the train was about to stop; the steam being shutoff at the time, the train was consequently going slow. The passengers were greatly alarmed, but were immediately transferred to another car riage, when the train proceeded towards its destination. ___ ; IDE ROYAL STAG HOUNDS.—The celebrated deer Snowdrop afforded an excellent run yesterday, the meet :aking place at Sunninghill-wells, and the turn-out at the Obelisk: Upon being unCarted, Snowdrop took away towards Swinley, crossing the bog on the Bracknell-road, to Chevy downs, and thence to Sir John Walsh's Park, where after running a ring, it doubled to the right to Lady Mal colm's, on to Hawthorn-bill, through Sheerlock-street, to Twyford, where the hounds were called off in consequence of the country being under water in almost every direction. The run up to this point, which was at a racing pace, over a country rendered extremely heavy from the late rains, occu pied upwards of two hours and a half. The deer was secured at Hare Hatch, about a couple of miles from Twyford. The fixture for to morrow (a bye-day) has been appointed to take place at Garrard's-cross, at half-past eleven. The meet on Friday will be at Salt-hill. SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT IN PARLIAMENT. Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, a cab accident occurred in Parliament-street, to James Bradshaw. a cabman. He was driving a spirited horse along Charing cross, when the animal set off into a furious gallop, in spite of all exertions of the driver, until it arrived in Parliament street, opposite Charles-street, when the wheels of the cab came in violent collision with a country waggon. The shock was so great, that the poor driver was thrown with great violence from off his box to the ground. At the moment an omnibus passing, the wheels of it passed over his legs, caus ing a shocking compound fracture of the right leg, and frac turing the other. He was removed to the Westminster Hospital. ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR LIVERPOOL.—(From a Correspondent.)—On Saturday evening, about seven o'clock, as a young gentleman, named Collinson, aged 19, was pro ceeding along the road to Cabbage Hall, a village two miles from Liverpool, he was suddenly attacked by a tall man who ' gave him a blow on the temple, which instantly a prostrated flash, and him. A blacksmith coming up at the time, pursued, but the ruffian es heard a slight report, and at the samectai away. He that Mr. Collinson was shot; but. At first, it was supposed. tpnede"ainwrotoanthreunfineiindgx n o w consequence was given with of th : but by a blunt instrument, was not caused by a gun - shot , on examination, there is reason to conclude that the wound e f .'ner pistola nd the w i police tli concussion. Robbery, it would appear, was not the object of ae a p re o n°,ft opinionh cap e L x h p a l t od th i n e g b i l motive, for the young gentleman has not an enemy .in the the assailant, and yet it is difficult to suppose any world. It i s possible, from that, h e may h ave been 'mistaken fur another. S A LMON FISHING.—The fishings for the season, north of the Tweed, commence on t h e Ist of Fel, glad to say that the p rospects are good, z it Y gail l iff d e w on e t a h re s Conon report that they never saw more clean fish, and the accounts from the Ness, &c., are equally encour ing. W e believe there is n o i ce north of Aberdeen, which will be a great inconvenienc e . C apta i n Munro commences on the Conon on Monday. —Ross-shire Advertiser. A. NEVI CULINARY VEGETABLE.—We have been in the habit of eating the leaves of the rhubarb plant for many years, and seeing that the fruit stalks of this vegetable were counted as waste, I thought it very likely that they were the better part of the plant, and I now find that the pouches of unopened flowers bear the same relation to the leaves of rhubarb that cauliflowers do to cabbage leaves, and may be obtained in great abundance, and that at a time (April) when all kinds of vegetable are valuable. The pouches of flower buds are of a beautiful colour when dressed in the same manner as rhubarb is dressed, and resemble the inside of a fig; the flavour is milder than that of rhubarb stalks, but I do not look upon it so much in the light of an article for making tarts of, as I do for its use as a boiled vegetable, to be used like brocoli. Let no man take my opinion of this matter, but let every one judge for himself as soon as the flower stems show themselves. As a matter of course, the plants should be grown in rich ground, and the pouches to be crisp should be got very young, and will require some care i n cooking.—Correspondent of the Gardener's Gazette. ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE GOVERNOR OF A. GAOL. —On Monday the Police Gazette contained the offer of a reward of 2001. for such information as would lead to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons who, on the night of the 9th ult., maliciously shot at Mr. Shep pard, governor of the Wakefield House of Correction, whilst he was proceeding along Back-lane, at Wakefield. 100 L by Mr. Sheppard, and 1001. by her Majesty's Government- DOVER CLIFFS.—The late heavy rains having d 4!: tacked small portions of the cliff overhanging the bottom signed.o Snargate-street, and the Admiralty-yard, a memorial by several of the inhabitants was sent to R.N., who forwarded the same with a to erc th er e , reP veye d by the Board Admiralty. The cliff has since been su ed to scerpe oft of Ordnance, and we understand it Prof is we hope to see shortly chalk, which es about 40,000 tons of __. carried into effect.—Dover Telegra7 re Ga segtation M during the week hart passed as. Scared,' a ay THE WEATHER.— , and the land, in consequence, is Passed over without rain ater The weather continues es_ with w • . . quite saturated open, and vegetation is all astir in all parts tremely mild and , Early leafing shrubs are as forward in b ud of the count * - we have -' i n o ears , N\ itnessed them at the be ding as ' March. Primroses pol nning a , yanthuses, snowdrops. Vanflowers, d o the are in full bleom, "wasting their fragrance on the desert air."—Preston Chronicle. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON Doc s.--Of Saturday afternoon Mr. Chapman, one of the dock lock masters belonging to the London -docks, accidentally fell late* the dock, a height of twenty feet. Drags were prommd, and every endeavour was used to recover th e bod y,, bat without effect. Yesterday quisition, and, after three hours' incessant dragging, thet.,ody was found, and removed to his residence to await the Coro uer's inquest. ...0- 0 Y .)