The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

a PO c, e Rs ffr C ofr reo ° : elf ye ~!i ~..„ THE ART-UNION CARTOON EXHIBITION. Oa the 14th September, 1844, the Art-Union of dfin issued the following notice to artists:— . " In o r d er to obtain a good subject for engraving, 5 1 139,rids fo to induce the production of a superior work of the C r ommittee offer the sum of five hundred an original pi c tur e illustrative of British k IY• Cartoon s , six feet by four feet six inches, Ire to be sent in (as will he hereafter notitie(i) by the f 3 o t of January, 1846, and tram these the selec- I) will be m;tde Artists must send specimens of he ir abilities as painters, if required se to do. The ~ceess tul candidate inus' undertake to complete the bn;itli7d pictur e , o f t he 'same size as the cartoon, en e I st of January, 1847, and to superintend the ob:Zthe Committee wish it to be understood that their of ' l n giving so l o n, a period for the preparation iitiff 7 cartoon, is for the purpose of aff4rding artists t ail 'lent tim e thoroughly to study the various de -440.01 their cotnpo,itions, and to produce in the for. th : p a ie c t o u i r n e plf , t e ly finished and well-wrought study of were yesterday admitted to a private view course tile* c artoons, which will be exhibited during the of the next week, at the Gallery of the New iety of The "Painte rs i n W a t e r Colours, 53, cartoons are twenty-eight in number, and, corn ofw-° the Art-Union Cartoon Exhibition with those estminster. Hall, it is impossible not to be struck ti o4o a Vast superiority of the present cartoon exhibi ver an y xhibi of its predecessors. In the present e Pos 4. the i r e is but one cartoon which is absolutely and iit i P 4 , 4 lY had --the majority are more than respectable, .lere . Wo r d 4oL , are some halt-dozen which are, to use the eart i , I the notice, " superior works of art." The be re i'n B are ranged round the gallery and num ibtoratrtiera;i)ttt theb,eue tno indication is given as to the artist ; neither is the decision of the known, so that it is impossible for th zth at3 , to be treated with greater fairness oo k - ,,, t(ln se have been who have sent in cartoons for ov ,7"tion for the Art-Union prize. Time will not cart - ,; 0 43 to do more than merely indicate those ta ttep la s Which struck us as being of a superior cha loidi of art, and we are, therefore, unwill compelled to pass ,by reallY of . . manr works ceed . 11 th e merit without notice. We will pro xo. order of the catalogue. tktt o , n 2 ; "Saxon Almsgiving. The subject . of this po o ul the custom of daily bread-giving to . th d e ;Y t oth , l the lady of the Saxon nobleman, as practise ?roc, 411 00- Saxon ancestors. 'f he lady and the I nelnbers of her family are just emerging Itotk . "? Rateway of the castle to engage in their 14 at charity. fre ak , t l ) e centre is the lady distributing the bread ( 44,„ 1 :'" basket of her handmaid. By her side her tiller descends the steps, giving apples to the !tier a e r ,n• First among the applicants a young mo -41Pe,_,1115 to the loaf-giver, by showing her new -141 , 114 . Behind her is a widow with her daughter des et ,,'" ; and farther back, humbly seated, is a T h ' e eu female with her infant. 141 ow nia le applicants are placed by themselves, as in Thepit illumination of the subject. kat% me is evening in autumn, indicated by various f 4 1 i es, _ , as the acorns and grapes, the bundle u e crow s returning to roost, &c. Nai'- 811 biect is admirably handled. Tne grouping_ is . The re the flow of the drapery easy and graceful ti t h o a il pi c it tu re re no unnecessary adjuncts introduced into 0 —every figure is necessary to the produc tiftti°` the effect as a whole. The children are beau aNa'inthe diughter of the lady is one of the most • .e "'male figures that the p3ncil of artist ever tigtlitated ; there. is something of almost angelic be ttrittae/ a nd beauty in the expression of her coun ~tiond' Thy artist, too, has throughout preserved the s a idharacteri s ti cs . E ver y f ace th ere i s Sax o n, stiej e " , unmistak e ably S axon . A s a n illustration 101, hint.domestic nat i ona l manners , t hi s i s a wor k o f Rh merit. 141011; • "The Discovery of the body of William ftst im is u,.l' the Country-people, in the New Forest, A.D. 1,100,' is the production of . an th e • ",:' 0 posesies immt-nie p )wer. The grouping the lei rude country-people around the dead body oftbs ~f ..1 1€ C,---the expressive countenances and actions . of o f iryart peasants, who, having caught sight tre dead body while descending a hill, BrotZvancing towards their companions who are I t‘pr l around it, and the wild and savage land- Itov: s nich forms the back ground of the picture, 41 04, : u .. ,at the artist, whoever he may be, has stu '‘os, 4 . -414 that to great profit, the works of Salvator 4 41,, a , 'ther e is much about this cartoon of the true 11 0. 141 ' H enry 111. Renewing the Charters" is an arable 4 , Picture, illustrative of the following passage A.. lei lte o fT h t ° l V—" The Peers being assembled in pre- Zehl ) ., h " King, each holding a lighted taper, .the tse 1- : ° l 3 , of Canterbury denounced a terrible ,31%, a g ai nst those who should violate the wltti; alter the constitution of the king t°oo,„:,`len the charters were read aloud, and . tpd by the King, who all this time kept his 4lt aW ° N il !' his breast ; after which, every one ot4At a l3 taper on the ground to raise . a f te d and wished that those who vio ;: th e "Oharters might smoke in hell." The figure nip e e i ng is very fine. The figures are all b o pped t o fnc'st artistically. There is one figure, whosea On t o left of the king, the expression of Thisis ,eio e ll e c ountenance is remarkably fine. 0 4 .10 beat historic Al picture. hi the Queen Phillippa interceding for the Lives I;B6e t t 4rgesses of Calais " is a picture of the very ne ap order of art. The artist, whoever he may be, Ytr Y 1 1 "; °11°11 r to his age and nation. Genius of the rest order, matured by years of patient study, is triit"a have enabled him to produce such a %V en t composition. The figure of the king th e ' in 2 the - brow firmly knitted, the flishing exprgonoing expression of those stern features, e ss the terrific conflict that is going on 01)4 as the listens to the pathetic appeal of his 111‘41°P, The calm, yet decided dignity of the W u o stands immediately behind him, and li v th it of dignified command urges him to grant ,°,14 of the prisoners, is very majestic. Majestic qt.a s i o r a different character of majesty, is the I „,';ttij y -°4 of the noble Eustace de St. Pierre, who „th awaits his fate contrasting, as it does p t , , 041e agonised expression . of . one of the ; th 3 by his side, who is evidently suffer ,‘44 e k most intense torture from the suspense ' t te he is kept as to his fate. The figure of the We toter, is introduced into the back ground, marks Zotlrt,nus o f the artist. He is smiling as is his for the general ex- Zha'i o u n ut mech ail le qi ly, of his countenance countenance is that of intense father Want of time us from dilating ant of prevents "At L l3 ot this picture is assuredly one of the Attu L 9 Briti s h art has yet produced. The WHenrylcome of the Boy-King, V "OP, 4NOO, after his Coronation at Paris." A gor- Iv'thepricture, but t oo crow d e d. 4 4 of! ar e many o th er a d m irable cartoons, which 'Pace prevents us from noticing. Ch lie n :011 FUND.- 111; a nt quARTER OF A our lasnblicati t o e , Ikkoliriliutions of the three day s since e regate a mou nt These i l i n i. MILLION LEAGUE . . h liol k .t .0 about 1,6001. ;: and tludlrlPtions to last evening, is - - th r ee of 1001 ., u 1 1 1 / 4 ) ,k, two sums of 2001 ., two of 150 1 , They are chiefly n 7 8 4. 1 1f11. Os. 6d. rh ?. r of "farieLtlqi_a number f small amoun ts. ikanr.d land, tqc.k, -,-r number of with a few ,1,.. Henry ---rse.. _k_ ,l•P \tAlhongst the subscn ' 'bers is , ntation of EOC represe from Wigan, -'l.• Cobden's colleague in th e other held t3''-24nneloster Guardian of yesterday;,... g t hi 'lbex hos ier . ivir. a sudden manner, Ilie klaests on Persons.who had d ie d in Lion, Dean-street, 'oll()l‘,B,,t' quese ield Bedford It atehe Golden age 23 y!ars. ast, :Ns' r-,,-,t,tle body of Caroline Salmi 9 W e a s n n' esday evening l ap. t. _ . 4 cle,,Z, the evidence that, on e party ; she then t day iiiilrtil ',7 1 had been at a Christma,.!,„ess ; the tt n ended by 4, eolbl",:itler usual health and cheariecTo wa s . a morning. • ktr,athed of pain in the chest . Sh e Fy there had 0% a' duall, a surgeon, but MP? a w ir:' f oun d thathad caused (17: 4 aPur "?o,*tera examination it lle which bursting,,einff or other ,4 t i ll '. Itemtri,lltthhe stohinacha,ooelerated by causes. The second itttiss4,l Verklkt--s.:l3ie e r from natural a on Jonathan the .`°eiretti"ais held at the Plough, Carey - street , sratermanmorning q i ° ttsq ti rigratli, aged 51, a heen d on Saturday from an 11R billet, Strand, who was found gentleman °"' Att, t it I. ed. ptite dead; a medical B and to th ic''llt/attl(q)le:YLY. Verdict accordingly,e forwarde and e t Polk '''Gt.---Inforrnation has . be n m of the Ili !' the ~,,Y, tit„e-,stations through the mediti ear Loath, 11.1 ult. ‘;l4,p7tirltyZ.tilt Parish church of Utterb, u the 28ti ,4 thsltil4eeoln, Was broken into between oes 1 stolen therefrom. a ___ tot, silverlee!•, and the followinglr ar e i which fitted as lid :.ileop, a ia7gEetnfid small t_ ,9, n a d vtewop lates. meet ,,llle os ',I*GYPTIAr si ll o ' c a lETy,...._At the ordinary ive of the . ;ehib,i.:uesday e venin g , S Holt Yates took leave His 4erticQ Preparatory to ' a new expedition h to t light P npon the gee t\phy 5t.:,411 probably throw great . --P eys, travellers IN,' not bee district, as hitherto, i n their e.udiee, to emp l o y litkrr irlstZli Permitted by Turkish Pr 3 however. lately Ivi n ' l l lilac; "%ents. More liberality has, eys heir surveys make t . ' IT ' Etr '-, and European travellers can ma C o B tt Y. Irist,, 1444 0 Ni L.— •-•. the 12th L aw ns, - , ....,. C OU RTS.—On Monday ' the Common N(eite 4 the 111 tof Hilary Term, ts . Inenceinen . of The aggre gate Court br Artar. will resume their sittings. . 1 . 1 t h e ti Vilieett,' nu resume 305 consisting of 196 rules i Pleas, in ,ll(lleß uench, 50 In the Court of Common of Ex 'citte" - e regiBtr t. ap pea ls,and 49 in the Court ° L f gite e , r. , 'there is a I°-11 nt in the lists of the n Court n ob 4-vetio- 8 '.elleh. Amon tilvmprovemme time back a nomilled, it lt,e,tilii ;14tIttillat when s for s) a new trial was obtail.useenn. e;;pi"ki onl y ::a argued fo r me two. years. N . ow, howe as ver ?. _C Court 1i(.(0%,r io-trlf that penod is requirtearnd ptonweer pro: ,ie „ r b. Lo r ' —a 4 toenotrooafn term f iru h ! t is probable sem that in a short_ o tim e `;;)Ortot.4(%'s will be further reduced. The first rule l ! 'P 4 44 liloN:ltleereg Bench for a new trial remaining undecided ~._ Ptei e i e, In Michael Ter m , in 1844. In the paper for for ta4es and de "las are 14 for judgm and ent o t sr argument Turrers t he r e . al paper there are 118 t C o arg il and 18 fnor 9il d s g n m e t w n.t t m ri eking the arrears of o t t h ttZt tsarshT he arrea rs of the other two Cour e t as s e a s re t, n ot le o f M I " oF',,P's demurr. r,, new trials, ani fig 4,../ t u1t,.3 in ii;_ ileW i ris 4.4lited hara•iter, the higne,L 0 Iv -, t 11."---,- Paper ofhtara `. ier, the Court of Exchequer, the first of il l ill Hillary Term last. REPRESENTATION OF HERT FORDSEHRE The election of a Member to serve in Parliament for the county of Herts, in the place or Lord Grimstnn, who is called to the Upper House of Pardament by the tie cease of his father, Lord Vernlam, was held at Hertford yesterday. It being generally understood that there was to be no opposition, there,was, of course, none of the excitement that attended a c mitested election. The only candidate in the field, Mr. T. P. Halsey, was attended to the hust ings by itOout 150 gentlemen on horseback, and a num ber of flags and ba,ners. _ The usual proclamation having been made, and the writ real, by Mr. Lougmore, the Under-Sheriff. Sir H. MEux stood forward, and having briefly stated the object fir which they were as , embled, requested that the electors would give every gin leman who might please to ad Tress them a patient hearing. Mr. D. RADCLIFFE then proposed Mr. Thomas Plumer Halsey as a fit and proper person to represent the county of Hertfordshire in Parliament. Eleven years ago he had proposed their late representative, Lord Grim - tin. and at that period, as at the present, the con dition and the prospects of the agricultural interest ware the all-absorbing topics of interest in the public mind. At the period to which he referred a. gloom hung over agriculture, not from the acts of any Government, but because it had pleased Providence to afflict them with had harvests. Almost ever since, howev,r, with the exception of the exaggerated failure of the potato crop. the bar veqs had b-en aLundant, but yet, at a period of al most unexampled prosperity, when the country wag happy and contented, when there was a great demand for labour, and every branch of the national industry was in a prosperous condition, they had been thrown into a state of almost unparalleled excitement. And what was the cause of all this ? Why, because a monster, hitherto unknown in this country, a monied monopoly, has been suffered to rear its hideous horn, and make giant s rides to invade their hearths . and homes.—(Hear, hear.) When he had the honour of addressing the meeting at the agricultural dinner of the county, he told them that he doubted the sincerity of Sir Robert Peel. He at that time thought he could discover the small black cloud in the distance, which he expected would burst and spread destruction around ; but upon that principle of English justice which considered every man innocent until he was proved to be guilty, he would_ forbear from branding him with treachery until they knew what lie really meant to do ; but, at the same time, recent oc currences plainly showed that it was necessary for them to be on their guard. It had been truly said that ingratitude was so hateful a crime, that the man who was guilty of it could not be guilty of any other, for all were comprised in it, and he was still willing to believe that Sir Robert Peel would not be a traitor to those who had placed him in power. Upon this vital question of protection to agriculture, however, there should be no temporising ; and he was sorry to see, that at the meeting at Bedford, Lord Al therp had likened their position, with Sir Robert Peel at their head, to passengers in a train on the railway who, expecting to go at the rate of thirty miles an hour, found that the engineer was taking them at the rate of a hun dred ; and when they remonstrated with him upon the danger to which he subjected their lives, his only answer was, that there was another train behind him coming at the rate of a hundred and fifty miles an hour, and they, therefore, thought it better to go on with him, than to run the risk of travelling by the still faster train. He must venture to express his opinion that they were fools who would travel with such an engineer at all, and that the better course, if he persisted. would be to get another engineer to conduct the train, and to pay no at tentien to the 150-mile an hour train behind them, but to feel assured that the result would be that it would destroy itself, but would not injure any but those upon it.—(Hear. and a laugh. A voice in the crowd, " But it's nearly at the station.") He need not tell them that by the 150-mile an hour train he referred to that unprinci pled band of conspirators known as the Anti-Corn-law League—(Hear, and interruption)—a set of men who were denounced by the respectable persons of all parties in politics, and whom the great head of the Whig party in that county, Lord D Acre, had denounced as a monied oligarchy.—(Uheers.) It was not se much what he Anti-Corn-low League said that he objected, to as to what they did. They might get an audience together in Covent-garden Theatre to hear them spouting, the same as they would go to see a pantomime or any other exhibition, and all their talking there would have no more effect on the laws of England than dancing " Jim Crew."—(Laughter.) But what made them formidable was, that they presumed to interfere with the privileges of Parliament, that they had tampered with the elective franchise, and had endeavoured to separate the manu facturing and the agricultural interest, and .to set them in opposition to each other.—(Hear, hear.) They were tlld that the League had obtAi.ierl large sums of money ; and with what object ? Was it for patriotic pur poses ? No. Their leaders unblushingly repudiated any patriotic view , , and Mr. Het' 4-ood, at a meet ing at Manchester, unhesitatingly admitted that these sums of money were intended to be ap plied to furthering the interest and increasing the profits of the manufacturers. A great deal had been said about Lord John Russell joining the League, and de claring his adherence to what was called free trade ; but he must say that, in his opinion, it looked more like carrying out that feeling which prevailed in the mind of Lucifer, that it was better to " reign in hell than serve in heaven."—(Cheers, and interruption.) He could conceive many humiliating positions, such as being a joint of O'Connell's tail ; or the feelings of Mr. Macaulay, when he wrote his humble epistle from Edinburgh, when he expected to be indicting a high-flown document from Windsor Castle ; but, in his opinion, nothing could be so humiliating to any person of character as an association with the infernal League.—(Hear, and laughter.) There was not, however, in his opinion, any cause to fear the result. The British lion was moved, and he would shake like dewdrops from his mane the scum of the League. Let them wait patiently for the meeting of Parliament, and they would then see whether the Minister would dare to propose any measure such as has been threatened, and whether he would league himself with those who declared their object to be to destroy the aristocracy of the land. If he should do so—if he should thereby declare the legality of the exercise of this money monopoly—then, at the eleventh hour, the agricultural interest of England would come forward and beat their opponents with their own weapons.—(Cheers.) There should be 100,000/. subscribed in every county in Eng land.—(Renewed cheering.) He knew a great number of gentlemen now ready to come forward with a thou sand pounds. He, a plain country gentleman, would put down his thousand pounds, aye, and would sacri fice half his fortune, rath- r than yield to the tyranny of these democratic despots.—(Great cheering.) Nlen and money were ready ; arid if it should come to what he alluded to, he had no doubt they should scatter Bright and Cobden, and the other members of the League, like chaff before the wind. While upon this subject of the proceedings of the League, he begged leave to address a few words to the labourers, and to advise them not to be deluded by the specious argu ments that were made use of by the League, and to look upon every man as their enemy who endeavoured to in duce them to believe that those who were above them were indifferent to any privations they might undergo, or that they were the cause of their suffering them; and when they talked of cheap bread to them, they should ask them to tell them the condition of the peasantry in the countries where bread was cheap. He could tell them this, that in Italy they would see poor wretches scrambling for a piece of orange peel when a hatful of m a . iiges could be had for a penny.—(Hear, hear.) After fburryrthperropoobsisteigrvislatit.mHs,altiehye, in the G os e o n a r i le f m or a m n . con cluded farmer in the counly, herlhaaidsst;raedait Sir. JOHN BEGG of Stanstead, saida pleasure e t n as s eaotoenndainntg tfoorrweaprdesent the county the nomination of Mr. h and obocr, doubt and in Parliament. He had coma ad honestly avowed his principles, and he would act up to them ; and he trusted that, wheu t the Parliament met, the Members would do their duty, an d ulfil the promises made by them at the last election_ (Hear, hear.) It might be said that no political ques tliiaonifiewnatswaatspresentnott ti actually t before the u ste d c o t u h n a t t r y i f.asasPwaars i•umoured would be the case, Sir Robert Pea was to iotempt to deprive the agricultural interest of any portion of that small protection it hich they now enjoyed, that the laeded proprietors of the country would iein together to resist such an attempt. At the time of the panic caused by the recent changes, when Lord John tiussell was called upon to form an Adminietration, he had sustained a loss of 8/. upon two waggons of corn, and he had no doubt lie must have continued to have sold at the same loss if he had succeeded in doing so; but for tunately he was not strong enough for the place. The eff: ct of depriving agriculture of the protection it now enjoyed must, in l opinion, be most ruinous—it would, at all events, reduce the price of agricultural produce by 'ne-third, and which must necessarily fall upon the labouring population. He farmed five Hundred acres of land, and had to fill fifty-seven mouths from the pro duce of his farm ; bat it' his receipts were diminished one-third, it would be impossible for him to continue to support his labourers, and he must discharge the greater portion of them ; and although be might be most unwilling to do so, yet he should have no alternative. The HIGH SHERIFF having inquired whether any other candidate was to be proposed, and receiving no answer, he declared Mr. Halsey duly elected. Mr. HALSEY then stood forward, and was loudly cheered. He said that if he was not able to return thanks in an adequate manner for the high honour and trust ,bat was reposed in him, it was not from any want of gratitude, but solely from a want of proper language to express his feelings. He felt that it was a great honour for him, a young man and untried, to be elected their representative, and he f could th e merit assure g at their ei responsibility he k m i that in e kindness s he bthy h a ad thai a st t:iteerodnsg. dßeteer%m, ss ie a a t v i o a n re to o 11l times was attached to the po , ition of a Member of Parliament, but that responsibily was very greatly in creased in times like the present. Still, however, he hoped that, by a steady adhesion to the principles he had espoused, he should be able on a future occasion to give an account of bis stewardship that would be satisfactory to them. and honourable to himself. He believed that his political opinions were pretty well known in the county; but on this occasion he might be excused for making a few observations upon the present state of affairs. The circumstances of the present mo m:.mt were most peculiar. A m ag they ssw a Ministry, apparently strong in itself, and posseiieg a large majority in Parliament, suddenly dissolved—not from any external agency, but from internal dissensions. They saw Lord John Russell sent for to form an Admi nistration, and although there were very few things which that Noble Lord would not attempt, yet there was one thing that he clearly could not succeed in, namely, in obtaining any portion of public confidence or sympa thy for a party that four years ago was ignumini ,, usly hurled fro-n tt ewer be the almost unanimous will of the people. Lord John Russell was, therefore, safely de livered of a still-born Administration, and he must say that it was a most happy. deliverance for the country. They now had at the head of affairs the same Minister, and eearly the save s'edministration, which teey had laced in power four y ears ago, solely upon the prin ciple of protection to native idusty.--(Hear, hear) A few days would show what they intended to do, and L although he wouLl not prejudge them, yet he certainly did think that the ought to look at the present Govern , ment with some degree of distrust and suspicion. What ; ever measures might be proposed, however, his course was clear. He should support such only as he consi dered calculated tor the benefit of the country at large; and with regard to the all important question of pro tection to agriculture. without pledging himself tai sup port through thick and thin this or that system of corn laws, he would never consent to any proposition that did not secure to the agricultural interest the pro tection they at present enjoyed (Cheers) and he would consent to no change, unless he considered it gave them a protection tantamount to that they at present possessed. A cry of famine, which had been principally rais , d by the Anti-Corn law League, - and for which he believed there was very little foundation, had be •n set on foot ; but, in print of fact, he believed the country was never more flourishing than at the present mo ment. Msnufaetures were flourishing, their shipping was occupied, trade and commerce was also flourishing; agriculture was recovering, and the labouring population hail not, he was of opinion, been better off at any period since the war ; this being the case, he must say that it would take a greet deal to convince him that any change was necessary, aial he did not believe, that under the . present law, the agricultural interest hid arty greater amount of protection titan they were entitled to. There was another, and, in his opinion, an almbst equally grave question to be answered, which was, whether the country was to be governed under the oid constitution of Sovereign, Lords, and Commons, or whether it was to be at the mercy of our irresponsible and self elected parliament, holding its meetings in Covent garden Theetre ? (Interruption.) He had no hesitation in saying, that if the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League were nut immediately stopped—(A laugh)—it would not only be dangerous to their interests as agriculturists, but also to their individual liberties, and their independ ence as a nation.—(Cheers.) If their vital interests were to be thus attacked and they were to be compelled to submit to the worst of all tyranny—the despotism of money—England would be no longer a free country. If the League gained their present object, did they sup pose they would be satisfied / Would they not, on the contrary, stimulated by their successful sedition, persevere in their course, and that they would next at tack the Church and the Throne ? But which would be the first to be attacked was, of course, only known to that Providence upon which he placed his confidence for relief from this great oppression. He therefore called upon them, by their love of their country and of inde pendence, to exert themselves to put an end to this in famous oppression ; and, if they did so, he had no doubt they would succeed. The Hon. Member concluded by again returning his thanks for the high honour they had done him in electing him as their repres. ntative. The Hon. NV. F. COWPER, M.P., begged, as one of the el. ctors of the county, to be allowed to address a few observations to his brother freeholders, in reference to the very extraordinary language that had been made use of that day by some of the gentlemen who had addressed them, particularly in reference to the League and the Minister, which appeared to have so entirely taken pos session of their mint-lea-(A laugh.) He must confess that he was somewhat surprised to find his friend Mr. Radcliffe, after ranss eking his mind for similes to the League, adopt those from the internal regions. —(Roars of laughter.) The oratory must have had quite a sul phureuus taste ; and when he talked of the British lion, he really almost expected to hear him roar.—(Renewed laughter.) When he said this, he wished it to be un derstood that he had no connexion with the League, and he candidly admitted that he disapproved of many of the acts of that body.—(Hear, hear.) He disapproved of their levying money for the avowed purpose of in. fluencing elections, and he likewise disapproved of the presumptuous and foolish manner in which Mr. Cobden and some other members of the League spoke of the landed aristocracy of the country. While he entered his protest against those proceedings on the part of the League, he did not think they deserved what was said of them by Mr. Radcliffe. He called them monied mo nopelists, but he could not see why monopoly should appear so odious iu the manufacturing interest, and yet be so d, lightful in •he eyes of the proprietors of land. —(lnterruption, and a cry of "Protection to agricul ture is not monopoly.") What did protection mean, if it meant anything at all, but monopoly?--("No, no.") It was said that the Lea g ue had an intention of attacking the Citurcli and `Throne, but he must say he had never heard anything fall from any member of it showing such ten dency, and he merely considered them as a political club, formed for a particular object. Entertaining the opinions which they knew he dii, they might expect that he should give them some information as to the reasons which induced the party with whom he acted not to con test the present election.—(" You could not help it," said smite one in the crowd.) Well, that might be one reason, but the real fact was, they felt satisfied that Sir Robert Peel would carry t'se question of free trade, and that as the battle could only be properly fought in the House of Commons, they considers d it useless to have a contest upon the point in that county. He, and those with whom he acted, were quite satisfied as to the pernicious effect of what was called " protection," not only upon all classes of the community, but upon the agriculturists themselves; but so long as it was abolished, they did not care whether this was effected by Sir Robert Peel or Lurd John Rus sell. They complained a great deal of Sir Robert Peel, and charged him with deception, but for his part he saw much more to blame in his past that in his present con duct. He remembered when the leader of the Whig Government proposed to give them a fixed duty of Bs. a quarter, the poor farmers were in very great alarm, and rejected the proposal, and now they would see what Sir Robert Peel and their Tory leaders would give them. He believed that many of those who rejected the Bs. duty would now be very glad to get it. Mr. RADCLIFFE begged to say a few words in ex planation. He yieldect to no man in a feeling of respect for the HOD. Gentlemen who were the supporters of the Wbig party in that county ; but with regard to the League, he certainly felt himself justified in using the expressions he did. He was very glad to hear Mr. Cow per repudiate any connexion with the League—parti cularly as a placard, in which his brother, Mr. Spencer Cowper, was requested to stand for the county, was sup posed to have emanated from that body. Mr. COWPER said that neither he nor his brother was aware of this requisition, or anything about it, until after it had been published. Mr. WOODLEY, an elector, next addressed the meeting at some length in favour of the present corn-laws. Mr. FALVEY, one of the Ann-Corn-law League, claimed a right to reply to the observations of the last speaker, as he had been appealed to by him. The HIGH SHERIFF said that as he was not an elector he could not legally be heard. Mr. BONTEitUS, the agent of the Anti-Corn-law League at Hertford, begged to be permitted to address a few observations to the meeting, and. as it appeared that he was qualified as an elector, he was allowed to proceed. Atter some preliminary observations, he said he regretted to find that Mr. Cowper repudiated the League, for he said. he could assure him that without their assistance his party would never be able to carry the county. lie declared that the objects of the League were both misunderstood arid misrepresented ; and as to their having any seditious or illegal objects, it was clear it was not so, for if they hal, they would long ago have been prosecuted ; for those who raked up the internal regions for metaphors, would do the same in the courts of law for an Act of Parliament for their purpose, if any such existed. As to the interference of the League with the representation of the country, let them look at toe state of that county. They had a population of 157,000, and, out of that number, only 4,500 possessed the right of voting, and he would ask whether that could be a proper state of things. All the League desired was to infuse new blood into all the never r the constituencies, and he could tell them that they would b i v e le satisfied joNuT,ot yFtf 4. unti lßti44 enrnt . 0 they ßrdtln rhei e. d three free traders f proposed a vote of thanks to the High Sh eriff. C. T. DUNSDE LL seconded the motion. The HIGH SHE RIFF returned thanks. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR then proposed three cheers for their new Member; and Mr. IVOODLEY, three groans for the " accursed " Corn-law League, all of which were duly given; alter which the electors separated. RAILWAY ROBBERY. LEICESTER,ses sions, h beforeJAN.o 7 . . .A p t ae t he k e Leicester E s q. M.P., Epiphany chairman,s e s at the Castle, at Leicester, this ' day, Alfred Penavaire, and Josephine Marie Huismans, were charged with steal ing a portmanteau, the property of S. Cooper. Pri soners described themselves to be of French extraction, and as travelling about the country vending articles of millinery, &c. The prosecutor is a tradesman, residing in Kirby-street. Hatton-garden. On the morning of the sth ult., he left the Euston Station, by the London and Birmingham Railway, by which he proceeded to Rugby, and was conveyed from that place to Leicester by the Midland line. Upon ar riving at the latter town he got out of the carriage, and took his portmanteau into the booking office, where he gave it in charge of a porter, intending to call for it on his i eturn from the town, where he had to transact some business ; but, on his returning to the office, he found that the portmanteau had been taken away, and, being unable to obtain any tidings of it, he pm , sued his journey to Nottingham, where he gave informa tion to the police, after which he continued his progress to Manchester. The police officer at Nottingham having ascertained that the two prisoners had offered various articles of plate to different individuals for sale, suspicion at once fell upon them, and they were consequently sought out, and taken into custody, and the portmanteau in question was found in their possession, together with all the articles of plate that it had contained, none of the tradesmen to whom it was offered for sale liking to pur chase such costly articles of persons who were entire strangers to them. • After some further proceedings, The CHAIRMA.N said he should pass sentence upon them, which was, that they should severally be confined in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour for twelvemonths. SUOCKJNG OCCURRENCE.--A llttle after midnight on Saturday, a fire was discovered in the house of Robert Hardman, dyer, Brighton-street, Red Bank; and, on the house being entered by the neighbours, the wife of Hardman, a woman of weak intellect, was found burned to death. Her husband left her alone in the house, and had not returned home when l'er fate was discovered. She was 36 years of age.—Manchester Guardian. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Duchess of Kent left Frogmore House yesterday morning, in a close travelling carriage and four, for Clarence House, St. James's. er Royal Highness was attended by Lady F ann y Ho war d. Tne Duchess returned to Frogmore to dinner. He r Roy a l Highness took a carriage airing this afternoon in the Great Park. T. , TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9,184 d. CHRISTIAN UNION, A very numerous meeting of the members and friends of this institution was held yesterday at Exeter Hall, for the purpose of explaining the proceedings . of the Conference held at Liverpool in October last. R. C. BEVAN, Esq., on taking the chair, said, that before calling on the Secretary (the Rev. A. D. Campbell) to read a psalm, he begged to state that it was their desire that the spirit of the meeting should he kept as devotional as possible, and he therefore trusted that there would be no demonstration of feeling exhibited by the meeting. The SECRETARY then read the 100th Psalm, which was chaunted by the assembly, as well as the 103 d Hymn, after which the Rev. Dr. Bunting offered up prayers _ The CHAIRMAN said, they would believe him that -it was with no ordinary feelings he occupied the position that had been assigned to him, for their object was one of the highest, namely, to promote glory to God, and peace and good will to man. They were limited as to time, and it would be inconsiderate for him, under all the circumstances, to offer more than a few observations. There had been three objections brought against the alliance of the Union, namely, that it was got up for the purpose of pulling down the church; that it had in view the ex alting of it; and by a third party it was objected that they had no object or view whatever. These last were something nearer to truth, as far as any tangible object was concerned. From that alliance it coutd not be expected that their would be immediately effected a strict union, or of putting down Popery, which had such a destructive effect o n so many o f their Christian bre thren. It was to promote objects of charity, and to achieve something analogous to what was effected by the attendance at a place of wcrship. He trusted, too, that it would be a rallying point for the Church in these times of trouble. He would conclude by adverting to what that excellent man, Dr. M'Neil, had said, that they should take care not to make this union a source of disunion, an advice which he would:strongly inculcate on them. lie felt assured that if this union were to continue for twelve months longer, their num bers would be increased considerably by members of all the Protestant and Dissenting bodies. The Rev. Dr. LIEFCHILD said, that their object was 'in a great degree expressed by the first resolution which had been passed at Liverpool. (The Rev. Speaker then read the resolution, which was to the effect—that the Conference regard( d with great gratification the agree ment among the members o the union, and that it was their strong desire to promote as far as possible that agreement.) A great desire had sprung up amongst the members of different religious bodies in this country to effect a union, for which purpose a meeting was held at Liverpool last October. He would likewise allude to the great characteristics of that meeting. The three first days were passed in reading the Scriptures, and in works of devotion, and in a devotional spirit, and in humility, and'he had never witnessed anything that had equalled it. The Council of Nice, at which the Emperor Constantine attended, was not its equal. There was one characteristic of that conference to which he wished to call their attention, namely, as to the pert ct freedom of speech which was permitted to every representative at the meeting. This, so far from having had an injurious effect, was attended with the most beneficial results.—(Hear, hear.) They had also effected an organisation, and made ar rangements for holding meetings throughout the country preliminary to their great meeting in the me tropolis. He would conclude by exhorting them to per- severe in their exertions, and their efforts would be crowned with success. They should not fall into the error of making it necessary, as heretofore, to make uniformity of creed essential to union. Their motto was, " Union without uniformity of doctrine," and by acting on that principle they would steer clear of the quick sands upon which so many similar efforts hed been wrecked.—(Chee r's.) Rev. E. lACKERSTETH, having read the next resolution passed at the comerence at Liverpool, which deplored the divisions that had taken place amongst the members of the Christian Church, as well as the angry polemical discussions that hod been indulged in, and recommending the disconenuanee of any such in future, said that they had already seen the benefits that had resulted from union amongst themselves. The powerful op position given to the grant to Maynooth was the result of union amongst them in opposition to their com mon enemy. It had been contended that they could not unite with the members of the Church. He was justi fied in the articles of that church in recognising those as true ministers of Christ who bad been chosen by the people for that office. He himself was contented to be classed among such men as Dedridge and other eminent Dissenters. Their canons, too, had undergone a change, and contained nothing to the contrary. But even if they did, they were bound only to obey what was just. It had been said they should not join with schismatics. But what was schism ? He denied that it could be shown that those were schismatics who belonged to the great mysti cal body of Christians. He had, he thought, fully answered any objection against the ministers of the Church of England joining in the union. He was gratified to see that in sev' ral of the newspapers of their different bodies there was a more kindly feeling exhibited, and he trusted that the time was approaching when they should look less at their points of difference, and more at those in which they agreed. He would, in conclusion, suggest some practical rules to effect the union they so strongly desiri d. They should not accuse Trac tarians of Popery, nor regard as too powerful the mere mechanism of a society. they should invoke con tinually the Divine assistance, and should not despond, but pursue their views with vigour and perseverance. The second hymn was then sung, after which the third resolution of the conference was spoken to by The Rev. Dr. ALDER (Wesleyan minister). He said that a few years back there was an apathy apparent in religious bodies in the country—in fast, a great indifference to religious matters. But it would appear that the inroads which Popery was making, and other jircumstances, had the effect of dis playing most strongly the necessity of union. He would read the resolution to which he had been called on to speak. (The speaker thee read the third resolution of the conference, to toe effect that, after the frank avowal of their religious sentiments which had been made by the different speakers, the meeting felt more strongly the desire for union, arid that a meeting should be held in the summer of next year to promote that purpose, to which persons should be invited from all countries.) He attributed meth of their want of union to the torpidity of their mis sionary spirit, which would also account for the progress of Popery not being more effectually resisted. The time was, in his opinion, fast approaching when religious subjects would be the chief object to which the minds of men should be directed. He was assured by a noble man, who was distinguished on all occasions for his attachment to religion and his benevolence, that in Germany and in Sclavonia their brethren would have to contend with, perhaps. a civil war or with a fierce discussion on religious themes. lie felt satisfied that the time was almost at hand when system would be brought into collision with system. It was on this common basis that they did unite, and which induced the conference to seek for the union of others with them, so as to be prepared for the coming crisis. The events around justified them in considering that a second Reformation was about to take place, which would surpass the first, great and glorious as it was, and powerful in its effects on humanity.—( hear, hear.) The Rev. H. BEieteset having offered up prayers, The Chairman introduced The Honourable and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, who read the next resolution of the conference, to the effect that all should be invited to the meeting, to be held in the metropolis, who should hold and maintain what are usually understood to be the evangelical views on points on which nearly all members of the Church of Christ were agreed, namely, as to the inspiration of the Scriptures and the unity of the Godhead ; and in making the alliance that was here meant, it was of course to be understood that they were only to unite with those who did really belong to the Church of Christ. It had been objected that their so ciety was in too mutilated a state to work any benefit, and that . they could not agree as to who should be members of the same. Now, he would submit to them a statement of what it should he understood that all should believe who were to be invited to the meeting. (The Hon. and Reverend Speaker then read the statement, which contained the . cardinal truths which are believed by all members of the Protestant Church.) He conceived that this statement, if agreed to, would obviate the objection that had been made. He could not agree with the Arminian opinions of Richard Baxter, but that was no reason why they shoud not be good friends. He also differed from Mr. Fletcher, but he was ready to unite with him on the present occasion. With the fol lowers of these two great men it would be necessary for the disciples of different doctrines to unite, in conformity with the spirit of Christianity. This basis of doctrine would be sufficient, even if they did not agree on the terms in which they were embodied, because it was founded on generally , recognised principles of the Scriptu res . He felt satisfied that if there were no practical results from their union, it would be of advantage t.) them to have the fellowship it would engender promoted, and to have those asperities with perso ns difre...ring on i m p o rt a nt e doctrinal points rubbed a wa y by the atrition to T w h h e ic y h cou th ld they would somecommon be exposed.—(Loud e could co-operate with less difficulty than th e c h a i rman , in his strict prudence, had t hou g h t. For instance, they e ob j ects, os therefore; theyd.—(L ou d c h eers .) could have the protection of persecuted Protestants all over the world, as one object ; and the conversion from Romanism in France, I ta ly, and other Roman Catholic countries, as another. The CHAIRMAN said that it would be his duty to in form the meeting that a collection would be made at the doors to defray the ex eases incurred by the society. The Rev. HoWARO HINTON (Baptist minister) spoke to the next resolution of the conference, which exhorted the members to do all in their power to effect the union. He said union was desirable as an end, as well as a means, for it destroyed disunion, W hi ch was a positive evil. The last clause of the resolution proposed that they should, by the press and all other Scriptural means, opose the progress of Popery and every other form of infidelity. The Rev. J. HAMILTON (minister of the Presbyter . = Church), in speaking briefly to the resolution, stated that there would be a meeting of the conference at Liverpool next week. The Rev. Dr. CUMMING next addressed the meeting. He considered they might be united in harmonious con cert though entertaining different views, and he believed that all the differences that had divided the Christian world were only on the surface. The cordial thank'S of meeting were then voltad to, and acknowledged by, the Chairman. The meeting then separated. TO THE PUBLIC. (From the Kurracliec Advertiser.) For some time past the columns of the Bombay Times have been devoted to trumpetting forth the praises of the late Ameers of Sinde, but as their defenders know it would be futile to attempt to upheld their conduct as rulers, after all that Sir Henry Pottinger and Colonel Outram have recorded in this regard, it is endeavoured to show that they were patterns of virtue, and most exemplars• in their private lives. Meer Shadad, in particular, is held up as a man in morals un exceptionable, and the writer who thus speaks of him, Alpha, has the hardihood to boast of his intimacy with that Prince. This is the first time one has seen an Englishman boasting of intimacy with one of the most infamous miscreants that ever disgraced manhood, and proclaiming a man to be of un exPeptionable morals who has rivalled the worst enormities of Nero and Heliogabalus. The world has with one consent con signed the names of these monsters to execration ! Yet their equal in wickedness, Shadad, is now held up as a model of purity—England, however, is not so corrupt as to consider all that is most abominable virtue, though Alpha and the Bombay Times affirm it ! and the only conclusion people of right thinking will come to is that the upholders of Shadad's and the rest of the Meer's morality must be as degraded and corrupt as the Meers themselves. To describe the infamies through which, without any at • tempt at concealment, Shadad has passed is difficult, the names even of such crimes as he has been all his life familiar with being pollution, but however unpleasant the task it is one which the best interests of society calls for. If the reader will refer then, to the annals of Tacitus, book fifteen, and section thirty-seven, and to Gibbon's Decline and Fall, volume one, and chapter six, he will find accounts of the disgusting debaucheries:of Nero and Heliogabalus which, word for word, pourtray the similar vices of Shadad. It is only necessary to substitute for their names his, to complete the picture, and for the companions of their vices Pythagoras, Hierocles, and Quoticus,—to insert the equally detestable partners in Shadad's guilt, Moorad Khan, Alla Buksh, and Manuck Sing ;—men who were raised from the lowest con dition to the highest favour on account of their success in gratifying his lewd desire,—and who are as infamously no torious to the people of Sinde, as those other monsters were to the Roman world. _ Having thus disposed of the moral character of Shadad, that of the other it eers may be summed up in a few words. Noor Mohamed, 'the father of Shadad, made the nearest approach to him in crime; but though, like Shadad, he prostituted himself to the embraces of his menials, Mo hamed Saleh. Ninda, Monsa, and others, he was at least less ( pen in his vices than his son. Sobdar was prevent'd by epilepsey from following a course of sensuality—the only excess I have heard attributed to him was in Bhang. Meer Mohamed was cold by constitution. Nusser Khan was, it is true, exempt from the most utterly revolting form of vice a man can be guilty of; but the ravished wife of Mohamed Khan Juttooee. The smock-faced sons of Aloo Memmon—the pampered eunuchs Ramjan and Gooljan, with all their de testable crew of catamites, who were at once the panders and the victims to the passions of their master—the horde of pimps who filled the Durbar, these all attest that if not the worst of men, he held a position but little more elevated in the scale; while the shameful, Shadad-like debaucheries of his eldest son, gave promise of the atrocities that would have continued to stain the country, had not the conquest of Sinde providentially cut off his suceession. Such are the set whom, for purposes best known to them selves, Englishmen are found to uphold as mode s of morality and virtue; the best of them notorious for vices held in abo mination even by Asiatics of any pretension to character or religion, the worst sunk in sensuality so monstrous as must in every country in the world make the persons guilty of it an object of universal horror and disgust. For where till now has there appeared in any realm, however wicked, an apolo gist for the infamy of a prince's self-prostitution; or where, till Alpha stepped forth, was there seen a man so base as to boast of intimacy with one who passed his life, till his de thronement, the catamite by turns of all the lowest wretches in Hydrabad. They who clamour against the conqueror of Sinde for rid ding a throne of such miscreants impugn the justice of the Almighty who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. With reference to the article in the Bombay Times of the 13th inst., on my letter regarding Shaded, at the printing of which by that honest paper the Gentleman's Gazette, the prudery of the Times is so much excited, I beg to make the following observations :- 1. The letter signed Omega was not published under the Governor's sanction or with his knowledge. 2. Shaded may caricature all the officers of the force, the Governor included till dooms-day for all that I care, but he shall not, if I can help it, nor shall the Bombay Times make such consummate fools of the public as this monster seems to have made by Alpha's account of the unsuspecting little society of Englishmen at Surat. The Times may continue to spread his own protecting wing over the animal, but the character of his protégé shall be known over India, and will be known over Europe too, please God, on the arrival in London of the next mail. 3. Does the Bombay Times suppose that he is to be allowed to cry up miscreants as angels for ever, and that his false hoods are to remain uncontradicted, simply because the de pravity of the brutes he bepraises is so great as to defy description. 4. In describing Shadad's vices, I have avoided as much as possible detail, and referred the reader to books in which, as I have said, they are faithfully pourtrayed. The books I have referred to, are, first—the annals of Tacitus, a book in the hands of every schoolboy at schools where gentlemen are educated, and the translation of which by Murphy (the passage alluded to included) as dedicated by permission to the celebrated Edmund Burke, than whom a purer character never breathed. Second—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, a work equally unobjectionable, and third—in my last paragraph . I alluded, I trust with proper reverence to the Holy Bible. People who have not read these books will not be affected by my letter, for they will but faintly understand it, those on the other hand who have read them may read all I have written with pure minds, and fear nothing, for they have read a great deal more about other monsters than I have written about Shadad. lam not surprised, however, at the objections of the Times, the virulence of that paper has con vinced all right feeling men that its editor can have very little to say to his Bible, and we are quite sure that the reading a column of his writings will be quite enough to convince the most incredulous that he has been reared in happy ignorance of all that pertains either to a classical, or a gentlemanly education. 5. It is a mattor of no earthly consequence to me what the Times says about disbelieving what i have written, for I know he does believe it, and hence his soreness, I can produce hundreds, nay thousands of testimonials to its ve racity, among whom are the officers now serving in Sinde, —I will dispose of the matter, however, in a more summary way by calling forward a witness whom the Times will cer tainly not object to—step forth then honest James Outram in this just cause—tell the truth and shame the devil. Sinde, Aug. 22, 1845. OMEGA. P.S.—I see the Editor of the Bombay Times talks of my letter as the fruit of a prurient imagination, a libidinous libel, and a bonne bouche,—and his correspondent, a Griffin ! speaks of it as unnatural stimulants to excite feelings and call forth sympathies, as brought forward to enhance the value of that which certainly might otherwise be tame and unpalatable, and a high seasoned dish to excite an appetite. I really do not know what all this means, or what appetites the fellow talks about my letter being calculased to excite, I intended it as it started from my pen an out-burst of reprobation of crime almost unparallelled, and a warning to Englishmen to shun the company of a monster. If the Editor of the Bombay Times and his brother Griffin found its libidinous, and calculated to excite an appe t.te., all I can say is they must be in heart if not in deed a brace of miscreants as great as their pet Shadad himself. DUTCH SPIRITS.—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration a communication from the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, respecting an application from several par ties importers of geneva from Holland, praying relief in regard to the construction put by the officers of the Cus toms department upon the recent Act of the last session of Parliament, chap. 86, as applicable to spirits imported in glass bottles for re-exportation to the colonies, Mr. Cardwell, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, has been commanded to acquaint the Customs' authorities that their Lordships are pleased to authorise them to give directions to their officers for allowing geneva to be imported in glass bottles, containing not more than three pints or twelve gills each, as recommended by them. It appears that the importation of bottles containing geneva of the size and description alluded to was permitted for the especial and exclusive purpose mentioned previously to the passing of the Act quoted, but that the officers have lately hesitated and declined to permit its continuance until properly and dis tinctly authorised to do so, considering that the Act of Par liament should be so construed as to amount to the prohibi tion of their importation of such a size, even for the purpose of exportation only. This has reduced the appeal to the Treasury necessary, and which has produced an order for its continuance or re-adoption to be permitted, as an important trade has for some time past existed in reference thereto, and which has been communicated to the revenue officers in London and at every port in the kingdom for their informa tion and future government in the matter. CUSTOMS REVENUB OF THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL. —The customs revenue of this port, for the year ending the sth of January, 1846, as nearly as can at present be made out, has amounted to 3,433,1121., showing a deficiency during the past year of 1,054,552/. This would be a disheartening fact, as leading to the conclusion that the commerce of the port has declined in proportion to the customs revenue, were ' it not capable of being fully explained. On the Bth of May, 1845, a Bill received the royal assent, repealing the duties upon a variety of raw materials, including the important item of cotton wool, a quantity of dyes and minerals, furniture woods, &c. It came into operation, how ever, by an order in Council, on the 20th of March, and the Act has, therefore, had upwards of nine months' effect upon our customs. The article of cotton wool alone pro duced last year to the customs of this port about 600,000/. From this source, therefore, we may safely set down a loss of nearly 500,0001. during the nine months, or little short of half the deficiency. The other articles upon which the duties were repealed, about 200 in number, will make up a consi uerable portion of the balance, though probably not the look to whole. For the remaining deficiency , there fore, the alteration in the sugar duties, which , with sevewraloctlaieres provided for by the Tariff Act of the previous year, e only came into full effect during the past twelv e months. The loss of the revenue from these will more th an make up the entire deficiency. In addition, however, it is known that the amended corn-law has not this year pr od uced so much as last year. —Liverpool Courier. THE LATE JOHN TANYELL.—The Bucks Epipha ny sessions commenced at Aylesbury on Tuesday, and amongst twelve motions which are to be brought forward before the full bench of Magistrates to-day, is that of Dr. Lee, of Hart well House, " That the Chaplain be required to lay on the table the confession of John Tawell." This is in continua tion of the resolution which was unanimously adopted at the last sessions, " That the confession of John T awe ll b e l a id upon the table at the next quarter sessions for the county; and if this be not acceded to, the Chaplain be called upon to deliver it up forthwith." The Magistrates, in demanding the confession, do not consider that the refusal of the clergy man rests on the privileges of his order. The majority of the authorities on the subject are in favour of compelling a clergyman, even a Roman Catholic priest, as a witness, to divulge any confession made to him of a crime. The con fession is not one of privileged communication only, as the Chaplain received it but as an officer of the Magistrates, which might have been just as well mad& to the gaoler or any other official. In the case of " Rex v. the Bishop of Ely," Mr. Justice Bayley pronounced that " the Bishop should not, in order to gain a private benefit, be allowed to withhold public documents ;" but in case of the refusal of the Chaplain to deliver up the confession, it will be matter to bring before the Bishop to discharge him from his office. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident occurred on the Maidstone branch of the South-Eastern Railway to the 2 o'clock train from Maidstone on Tuesday last. The con tractor, who is laying down another line of rails, had occa sion to convey a portion of his materials front one of the Medway Company's wharfs across the line by means of slide rails. These rails ought to have been cleared away on the approach of any train, which in this instance the work men neglected to do. When the train cane up, the tender and luggage-van ran off the line, which interrupted the traffic for some time. Fortunately no injury was done to any of the passengers, who were in a very short time provided with the means to pursue their journey. LITERA TURE JTIURRAY'S 110,1lEa,d COLONIAL LIBRAKY. Nos. AX V., XXVIII , XXIX. Borrow's Gipsies in Spain—Pats 1. and H. The Fall of t.,e Jesuits. Welcome in its present, or in any shape, is Mr. George Borrow's account of the Gipsies in Spain :" it carries with it such a freshness, such an animation, and such an air of truthfulness and nature, as to arrest our attention and engage our sympathies. Hence it is, that although it now appears before us simply a; a reprint, we turn to it again with all the undiminished appetite of novelty, ready to wander once more in its wanderings, to conjecture once more with its conjectures, to laugh with its laughter, to meditate with its meditations. By its own unassisted merits this publication has acquired no inconsiderable popularity, and the secret of its success is merely attributable to two facts—first, the extreme novelty of the undertaking; and, secondly, that whatever is narrated flows from the minute and personal ob servations of one intimately conversant with his sub ject. Not only are we introduced to the moral economy and social peculiarities of the Gitanos on the peninsula, but in the preliminary chapter par ticular sections are allotted to the Zigani of Russia, the same tribe in Hungary, the Roumauni of Wal lachia, and the Gipsies who infest all quarters of the British dominions—all of these people coining unde the generic denomination of Rommany, a namer which they apply to themselves and their language. In the very outset Mr. Borrow confesses to more than a partiality for this strange and errant race, and his adventures pl ace t h ese assurances beyond a doubt, while they stamp the author as a kind of civilised Banifylde Moore Carew. Still, besides the fascina ti(n of this s i ngu l ar affection, which breathes the spirit of old story-book s , an d reminds us forcibly of theintroduction to I3ulwer's " Disowned," we possess a guarantee in this very circumstance to the accuracy and copiousness of the writer's information. And as every one must place reliance upon the de scriptions and assertions of Mr. Catlin with respect to the Red Indians of North America, in consequ ence o f his long sojournment and association with them, so must every credence be awarded to the delineations given by Mr. Borrow of the various Gipsy hordes in Spain. It were useless to particularise the plan and features of a wor k a l rea d y so f am ili ar t o th e English reader; nevertheless, we may possibly be allowed, without any accusation of detail, to make a cursory reference to the fragments of Zincali poetry ap pended to the Second Part. These fragments have a peculiar interest, seeing that the , body forth the rugged, but fiery, characteristics of a very ancient people ; and though they raise no pretensions to rythinecal elegance, they have a nerve and energy of a remarkable kind. " The Pestilence," for example, though brief almost to meagreness, contains many fine thoughts and forcible expressions. The opening, "I'm resolved novv to tell, In the speech of gipsy-land, All the horror that betel In this city huge and grand," breaks in upon the imagination with a sternness of import most appropriate to the theme; and when it remarks how God, " in the midst of summertide, his right hand on high did rear," the picture, though miniature in size, has a gloom akin to that of Mar tin ; and this is admirably summed up in the con clusion— " All a sickly a s p ec t wear: Say what heart such sights could brook— Wail and woe where'er you look— Wail and woe and ghastly care." Altogether, "Borrow's Gipsies in Spain" bears about it such a newness of tone and material, that it forms at) acceptable addition to literature, and Mr. Murray could not well have selected a better book for reprint in his serial. An accurate translation of the "Fall of the Jesuits," by Count Alexis de Saint-Preist—(a happy name, by the way, for such a volume)—forms the twenty-fifth part of the " Home and Colonial Library." Time after time have the nations of Europe been startled by a formal suppression of that wonderful body of wonderful men, the disciples of Ignatius Loyola, and time after thine have they risen uninjured from the opposition of popes and princes, to extend the influence of their wily and astute prin. ciples, and assert their claims to power and perpetua tion. The epoch of this temporary downfal, which is chosen in the present narrative, is perhaps the most important in their history, namely, in the latter part of the last century. A period more eventful in every respect, and one of more historical importance, could not have been selected, and the narrator specifies each occurrence which led to the gre:'t catastrophe of the Jesuits with precision and clearness, even to the mo ment when Pius VII. issued his bull, Solicitudo orn nium ecclesiarunz, in the August of 1814, reinstating the society in all their former privileges, and re establishing them throughout the length and breadth of Christendom. As a description of the most re• markable juncture in the status of the most remark able association on the face of the earth, this book is both valuable and interesting. ANGLO-INDIAN AND COLOMAL ALMANACK FOR 1846. To all who are either interested in or are about to visit our East Indian possessions, this little volume offers very great attractions. As a civil, military, and commercial directory over Bengal, Agra, Madras, Bombay, Singapore, Malacca, Ceylon, China, &c., it must form a necessary part of the contents of every eastward valaise. It is cheap, 'A ell•arranged, and as complete as it possibly could be under all circum stances. NEWTOA'S REPEII7 ORY OF PATENT L.V VEA TiONS. This monthly catalogue of improvements or in ventions in arts, sciences, and manufactures, conti nues to be conducted on the sane plan as heretofore. By this plan it combines clearness and neatness, while it i., moreover, sufficiently copious in its details to satisfy the curiosity of all those to whom it more particularly addresses itself. On these accounts it is worthy of every support and encouragement. EXTRAORDINARY DREAM, AND DISCOVERY OF A DEAD BODY IN CON SEQUENCE. _ An Inquest was held before George Hinchliffe, Esq., Coroner, at the Scott's Arms, King's Hill-fields, near Darlaston, on Saturday, the 13thk day of December, on view of the body of a young girl, fourteen years old, named Phcebe Devey, who was rather of im becile mind, and who had been missing from the house of her friends ever since the previous Wednesday week, and no trace of her could be discovered. From the evi dence of John Garvey, a moulder, living at Gospel Oak, it appeared that about five o'clock of the 12th of De cember he awoke from a dream, in which he dreamt that he saw a female named Mary Ann Perry, who lives in the neighbourhood, taken out of a coal-pit, near King's Hill-fields, which has ceased working, and which the witness Garvey had to pass in a morning in going to his work. He told his wile, who was in bed with him, what he had dreamt, and she desired him to hold his noise, as it was ill-luck to tell his dreams fasting. Garvey left home to go to work about nine o'clock the same morning, and when ha got near the coal-pit in question, saw the sister of Mary Ann Perry, to whom he also told his dream, and she burst out a laughing at him. Garvey soon afterwards passed the pit; but he immediately turned back and looked into it, it being only sixteen yards deep, he saw something lying at the bottom, and on throwing a stone in, it drops upon ; some thing soft. Garvey became frightened, and a ran n t to fifty foundery, where the men were at work, about k n yards from the spot, and said he thought ther e was a man or woman' in the pit, and two o f the wor km e n re turned with him- to the mouth of it. They threw some stones down, which fell on something soft. Garvey then went again to the foundery, for a light and some string, which on being lowered down the pit, the body of a per, son was seen at the bottom. A man named Michael Keeling was let down the pit, when he discovered at the bottom of it the body of a young female, q u i te dead. On being brought to the top, it was di scovered to be when knee, en t that of the deceased, Phcebe Devey, The body was con veyed to the house of her friends, wh ere i t underwent werewas b found oke n that and that her on t p h a i r g t h icu a l n a d r le e g x , a a m n i d na a ti l o s n o her th e re was a slight wound her r 9 head, all of which might be occasioned in case she had walked into the pit. There were no other marks or appearance of violence on her person; and the jury, a fter alengthened and patient investigation, ret urne d a verdict " That the deceased was found dead at the bottom of a coal pit, but how or by what means she came there no • evidence appeared to the j ur ors.” — Staffordshire Advertiser. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.-011 Friday, the 26th ult., a girl, eleven years cf age, named Sarah Ann Malthouse, who re,sidedvith her parents in Monk-terrace, in the suburbs of this city, disappeared, and has not since been heard of. Her mother had cent her on an errand, and she never returned. The girl, who has dark eyes and hai-, had on at the time a blue merino dress and a black apron, but no bon net; a light-clovred silk handkerchief was also thrown across her shoulders. Inquiries have this week been made at Leeds among her friends respecting her, but with out success, and the mother yesterday made au application to the York magistrates for advice in the matter, when they recommended her to issue placards in some of the principal :owns in the county. We hope this paragraph will meet the eye of some one who can give such information as will lead to the discovery of the girl.—York Herald. THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION. ANOTHE R DEATIL—About eight o'clock on Sunday morning another death, making the total number fifteen, was added to the list of victims by the late calamitous explosion at the mill of Messrs. Rothwell and Kitts. The deceased was a little girl, named Ann Hardman, aged eight years, who was c r oss i ng the factory yard, and had got to the door of the house where ghee lived, when the explosion took place.—Munclaster Guardian. THE FREEDOM OF ELECTlON.—Alderman Gibbs has been elected—that is to say, has elected himself again— churchwarden of Walbrook. He proposed himself, seconded himself, voted for himself, and declared himself elected. He then returned thanks in a neat speech to himself in the glass, and concluded by giving three cheers for himself. In the evening the Hon. Gentleman dined with his constituents. Covers were laid for one.—Puxch. There are now living no less than fourteen p ersons who have held the office of Cl er k of the orchuince , namely : —Lord Shaftesbury, Mr, Ward, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Per. cival, Sir Henry Hardinge, Right Hon. C. T. D'Eyncourt, Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, Colonel Maberly, Col. Sir A. L . Hay, Admiral Sir Edward Owen , A dmiral Dundas, Hon. colonel Anson, Captain Bolder°, and Lord Arthur Lennox. Val ° 4 ' du THE LATE HEAVY Gr_ Since the min , unceinent of the loss of the steamer, while on a passage from Havre n 5 2, .not.. and Liverpool, during the recent fearful gales, consider able sensation has prevailed at those ports, relative to the number of persons who perished with her, and their respective names ; and from the circumstance of the commander, who was lost, being the sole owner, there is very little probability of an accurate list of the unfortu nate sufferers ever being obtained. As was apprehended in our recent notices of the casualties along the coast, others of equally as melan choly character have occurred. A sloop laden with coal, from Newport, Monmouthshire, in a passage to Caldicot Point, was totally wrecked on the Cornish coast, and all hands lost. Four bodies have been washed ashore, and amongst them were those of Mr. Williams, of Redrig, part owner, and the master, Mr. Opton, who were found clasped in each others arms. The other bodi s seemed to be those of seamen, and being naked, it is presumed that they intended to save themselves by swimming. Near Bude, on a shoal, about two miles distant, on Saturday, was lost a schooner named the Ann, of St. Ives, laden with copper ore, while proceeding from De veron to Swansea. The gale at the time was blowing very high from the \\'.N. W., and one of the crew, in attempting to take in a reef of the mainsail, was blown from the yard arm, and, falling on the deck, was in stantly killed. The crew, by taking to the boats before she struck, succeeded in saving themselves. Another of the crew, however, was shockingly injured by being jammed between the boat and the ship's side, and is not expected to survive. The vessel became a wreck. A brig called the Dorothea, of nearly 300 tons bur th( n, belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked about the same period off Hayle, on the Devonshire coast, but, fortunately fur the crew (nine in number), they were rescued by the pilot boats that were put off from that place. Two fatal collisions are reported to have occurred in consequence of the violence of the gales. One hap pened on the night of the 28th ult., about four miles south-west of Beachy Head, to an Oldenburgh schooner, named the Aurora, of Riga, and bound for Bordeaux, wl:i(4). was run down by the Thorwaldsen, barque, on a voy:,ge from Copenhagen to St. Thomas's. The collision aas of that fearful character that the schooner sunk within a few minutes after she had been struck, one of the crew going down with her, and was drowned. The remainder, consisting of the master, his wife, a child, and several seamen, managed to get on board the Thor waldsen. The latter vessel lost her bowsprit, and seriously damaged her rigging, so much so, that she was obliged to run into Portsmouth to repair the injury, when the survivors of the sunken vessel were safely landed. The other collision was attended with more fatal results. It occurred off Brighton, on the 27th ult., when the ship Donor, from London, bound to Trieste, came in contact with a French lugger and sunk her, the crew perishing with her. The ship was immediately brought to, and rendered what assistance they could ; but through the darkness that prevailed, nothing could be seen of the unfortunate creatures. The Unicorn, of Seaton Sluice, Mr. Lunisden, master, foundered on the morning of the 22d ult., when within 120 miles E.S.E. of Flamborough Head. Her crew took to the boat, and were picked up by a vessel belonging to Yarmouth, which landed them at Sunderland. Wreckers have made their appearance along the Devonshire coast, and we regret to say, in considerable numbers. On the Ness ludiaman going ashore, as already reported in this journal, near Padstow, the coast-guard, seeing the disposition of the crowds that flocked to the beach to plunder the wreck, promptly gave notice to the Custom-house, and the military were forthwith called out to protect the property. Unfortunately the gale con tinued, and the ship, during the two succeeding nights, broke up, and became a total loss, when, notwithstanding the vigilance of the men on duty, the pillage was carried on by the miscreants to a large extent. A man and two women were found dead on the beach, having drunk the rum washed ashore from the wreck to such an excess as to cause their death. For several days past the coast guard have been searching the cottages for miles round, and in many instances have found portions of the pro perty secreted in the dwellings. All the occupiers are lodged in prison. THE MURDER AT YARMOUTH. EXAMINATION OF YARHAM. (Abridged from the Bury Herald.) After two remands for a week each, Samuel Yarham was brought up before a full bench of magistrates, assembled at the Gaol Hall, on Monday last, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on the charge of being a princi pal in the murder of Mrs. Candler. Mr. Tolver con ducted the prosecution, and Mr. S. B. Sherrington at tended as his solicitor. A large concourse of people assembled in the street outside the gaol, although the examination took place two hours earlier than had been very generally annoui:ced by the authorities. Amongst the crowd we observed Royal, who was acquitted at the trial last year for the same offence. The Mayor having informed us last week that the examination would be a public one, our reporter applied for admission ; but his 'Worship sent a message stating that the examination was a private one, and that no one would be allowed to be present but those necessarily engaged. We believe that the subjoined will be found a tolerably correct sum mary of the evidence adduced against Yarham, but we cannot pledge our elves to any great accuracy. The superintt ndent of our police narrated the particu lars of his attempts to apprehend Yarham, and of his taking him at Blakeney, in Gloucestershire. The principal testimony against Yarham will be his own evidence when admitted a witness against Royal, drill, and Mapes, and a conversation which Mrs. Dick, on oath, states that Yarham volunteered to her " about three weeks after the trial." It will be the object of the prosecution to prove that Yarham, when admitted approver, did not state the whole truth, which, if they succeed, according to the opinion of the Attorney-General, will subject him to a prosecu tion for the murder. Mrs. Dick adhered to the statement which she has re cently, though not until to-day on oath, made, which statement we have recently published. Mr. Sherrington cross-examined Mrs. Dick on. the improbability of her not knowing Yarham, having been examined in each others presence before the magistrates on several occasions and at the trial; on her talking with him for a quarter of an hour in the most public part of the town, and making a confession, the effect of which, if true, jeopardizes his own neck. _ . A witness was called of the name of Sims, a boy in the service of Mr. Hume, of this town, as chimney-sweep, for the purpose of strengthening the statement of Mrs. Dick, as to the fact of any conversation at all having passed between her and Yarham. We understand that this boy failed to corroborate Mrs. Dick's statement as to the time when she alleges the conversation to hay* taken place. The boy Sims states that he climbed up on the barrack palings the day after the murder (not three weeks after the trial) and saw Mrs. Dick and Yar ham in earnest conversation together. Mr. Catchpole, solicitor, was called, who proved that he came home from the Angel Inn, where he had been dining, about half-past one on the morning of' the murder, and was let in by Yarham, who was dressed. Yarham made no communication to him about anything having happened at Mrs. Candler's (whose house, it will be re membered, was separated only by a thin boarded parti tion), nor was he made aware of it until the police came and called him up shortly after he had been in bed. Yar ham went with him into the shop, and saw the body of deceased ; he said he had been awake all the evening, and had heard no noise of any kind. counter, ac stated that th e d ay _e, Police-constable Johnson, and ea-police officerx-po in li dq ce utesentert u and and p finding rovedth the ttryinghebodoyf o M f r d s e .an ase d d lees tteh ll n oor h and s hutters, W tr a ia : l L r a t-m J. B. Bales, sergean t- _ e . n the manner described by them at after the murder he w ent to the Denes, where th e money w as found, a lid examined several foot- mas k s, some of w hi c h, on comparing them with r ar h am ' s shoes, he be. Hared to b e his. Yarham bad a small foot, and the im ressions, from his (B a l es ) k nowledge, fromlaving been a shoemaker, agreed very much with the • sun of the prisoner's. The remaining part of the evidence given up to half past five on Monday, when the Court adjourned, was almost literally th e same as deposed to on the trial. We have been shown a letter, dated Maidstone, April 24th, 1845, and bearing the London post-mark, the con tents of which prove that Mrs. Dick must have erred in stating that the conversation between Yarham and her took place three weeks after the trial. The trial was on the 9th, and he must, according to the date of this letter. have left Yarmouth on the 23d. COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM. CHATHAM, JAN. 7.—A district court-martial as sembledat the General Court-martial-room, filthrln,i Te.yiehddes. by yester d ay at this garrison, for the trial of Colour-Sergeant Wm. Gordon, No. 223, of the 18th Regiment of Foot, by order of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, in conse quence of his Grace having received certain communica tions from Colonel Thomas Weare, K.H., commanding the provisional battalion. It appears that a Jew named Lucas, at Chatham, lately obtained the serving of the depot of the 18th, and in the month of December last, in consequence of a recruit joining the depot, Lucas sent in a military kit for his use, and it being the first received by the pay.sergeant, the kit was inspected by Sergeant Gor don and the captain of the company, when it was found not to be in accordance with the pattern kit kept at the depot, and therefore it was rejected and returned to the out-fitter, Mr. Lucas. Mr. Lucas, finding that the sergeant was the principal in the cause of the rejection of the kit, wrote a letter to Colonel Weare, intimating that he could not supply a better re gimental kit inn account of his paying the hergeant a per t, fro p m roduced r tentage. From this the sergeant was placed under arrest and brought to trial. Witnesses havini , been examined, exact Captain e G s e o o r . certificates F :C al high and distinguished officers who ha d known th e l,of of th g for honourable and upright conduct as a militaryrn an pri soner-Sergeant Gordon, some 23 years, and others 20, the esteem of every o ffi cer whom he has had the worthy e ood lB cp tl nd F uc o t o many their testimonials that the honour of serving under both abroad and at home, itintheir bounden duty and that in case of his retiring from the service, several esaoftonnhraaoolhvifriettssihenwseGieegCsintfiofaiaefiurreeerdldis.willnotbe known until con to do their Mr. Newman and his friends will remove from Littlemore to a college near Birmingham, where they will pursue their ecclesiastical studies under the superintendence of the Right Rev. Drs. Walsh and Wiseman, Bishops of the Midland District. The Rev. Messrs. Capes, Coilvns, Neave, and Estcourt, remain at Prior Park, near Bath ; Mr. Oakeley enters at St. Edmund's College, in the diocese of London. Mr. Simpson, of St. John's College, Oxford, has, we under stand, been received into the Roman Catholic Church.—Post -He S 1/ 7 x j i.•,• : , :-.1.-: - .4pc „...,.....1„, ..4, 2r. -4-.-c--,-- 11.44ek zr 4-- T,il ttel, p '....-.._...,..._