The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

-----1 DA ', .L.) 182 , 1 9 , Cr°Y 0 .ased, t°, 4 .natit jai" t!' defend an tere ° r in st p 1, c ovenanj t he origi; th itt :o nkep, t fo " ha, t l , ll s p li „ e luentlYP el i g ible Of ge e 901 niatop s.t e, OO The a c c ,s for 4 1,.. 4r re her I," a nd dt * cs. Gr e° rind 1101 low. slid and regortol Thon 3 L o ri rs. 6 7,00 reget 4P beo reef, "411 frequv gice f °° ': o° l° i fes i the Pr l ie 90 l s cOl O. nice, be Vi anj ,ccong . :l l , o , g c ep , the s tee' o have fail ri / vas itif, 5 COrri ° bl itj tY [lair foll°' . .epos;, c at" so, it• one' de he , 4 the ' Titne: s to t!i rest " ow ' h e rest. pto, Dir• d t, cP in t h 00, 4 , Ce or ;II v i oull 0 0 0 at hico in tbep . o lat if . $ W oo' h ot ; the :04, frt tirro ab id g$ go' „ and le At ict n ro- o pC' ie priV e larg o t e V; r I lot .4 0:1 0,1 ti „ ra , L PtY• Large quantities of wine were also taken ~, v uer par L !' woman begged for mercy on account of her ih e COURT seemed for some time in doubt whether Lunsband was not the criminal, and at length sentenced ;Prisoner to six months' imprisonment, and such hard th e li ras her state of health would allow—declaring at T nt s s lil le' time that if the offence had been proved k_ the husba n d, h e wou ld have been trFisported.e prosecutor recomm ended the prisoner very C ° "glY to mercy on account of her family, but the '1, 1 111 : t declined to alter the sentence. Other case of any importance occurred. 4, 1/ P, 80 W-STREET.— THIS DAY.) — `aut Edward s , a young man of 17 or 18 years of t olt :ss charged before Mr. Hall with stealing a cash 4hc,pblic-house in High Holborn.. i tt o r,`" re edY, the landlord of the public-house, said 16: 4 -11 Tuesday night and WeNesday morning,. from twelve o'clock to three, the prisoner was in the be lar!our of his house with some other pet:sons, when p,„ ad occasion to send for the cash-box, hi order to li e s overeign to a person to whom he owed that RIM klp ri ,i lV4B in the box. a 5/. note, and, he thought, end Iftei i *g n • He could not say whether it was before or e gave th e sovere i gn to hi s f r i en d t h a t he counted kil l 4Pe.Y. After the Prisoner had left the house he °4e iti . the cash-box, and immediately gave notice to ,ttit t i n ie ,,e• The box now produced was the same, and p l e u his (witness's) license, and some other papers, w i yerty, o l i a ns Bradley, a City policeman, in private clothes, b ltap ect , a t having received information, from which he 'etter lane' that the prisoner lodged at 7, Neville's-court, alg,,ht:: a n,e, he went to that house at nine o'clock last k h ",n i a was shown into the first-floor front room, by it ttelil' d Y, who opened the door with a key. On %l ett i n g the room, he found the cash-box now produced tre so ' e d in the bed. It contained the landlord's license, k eh ale other papers now produced, but no money. 14 rtiat„ A ard Hubbard, F 82, spoke to taking the prisoner ~„•- " 'Y at a .4 hell" in the Strand, at two o'clock this kip g• g; He found on him a steel purse, containing ,Thee], ein and five half-crowns. " td it i bg no evidence to prove that the prisoner kted m itt the h ouse i n N ev ille's-court, Mr. HALL de bNtort the prisoner should be put back, while a f j s 's Went to th house to tell the landlady to attend. alto,;'e meantim e , e the prisoner sent for a solicitor, in Need he had been for three years, and who Nu: 4 Would give him a good character, but this t t er, 14 41:141 said he could not give him a good charac it %V at the end of the time when he was in his service, Nty , rouded with 201. of his money. However, from 4 41 4 e Was induced to compromise the matter, and he g r etted that he had not prosecuted him. L l e,ile t Nieenian, who had made inquiries as to the pri -414; chara c t er stated that he had so misconducted P iet er Ithat his father, who gave him a very bad cha -Itd been obliged to discard him, but was now 1 , 1 1 VS rent at the house in Neville's-court. It , i 'keY, the landlady of the house in Neville's-court, t ,7 t hat the room was rented by the prisoner, and that Ved th ere a l one . Prisoner was committed for trial. UNION.-(THIS DAY.) - - numerous meeting of the members and friends ' in stitution was held to-day at Exeter Hall, for the I ke i h t b ,_?f explaining the proceedings of the Confer ,,koln at Liverpool in October last. ~,1 1 14,''EvAN, Esq., on taking the chair, said, that before Lte ld "n the Secretary (the Rev. A. D. Campbell) Ellt e - "„ft Psalm, he begged to state that it was their ilvoti o 'fiat the spirit of the meeting should he kept as : al , as possible, and he therefore trusted that ▪ t e a -°lll il be no demonstration of feeling exhibited by A e tting. e i,"'enETAnv then read the 100th Psalm, which i lt im ' l tunted by the assembly, as well as the 103 d 4,14'8 after which the Rev. Dr. Bunting offered up jh ,i4 ) ,, t .ZRATiamAN said, they would believe him that it hlkt,C,no ordinary feelings he occupied the position 1 th a - 1 . 1 been assigned to him, for their object was one Pl ea 'lghest, namely, to promote glory to God, and • , 5114 good will to man. They were limited as to it Would be inconsiderate for him, under all the • b e : t ances, to offer more than a few observations. There Net Li three objections brought against the alliance of kt. klll 4 . ll i° l 3, namely, that it was got up for the purpose of i Ne r ryn the hurch; that it had in view the ex :yl,„,' it; and by a third party it was objected that ex t, no object or view whatever. These last were I N fl i ng nearer to truth, as far as any tangible object t▪ x`°llcerned. From that alliance it coutd not 1 4 4 Noted that their would be immediately effected a 1t1 4 , 4 ,: 1 i0n, or of putting down Popery, which had such uetive effect on so many of their Christian bre -44' It was to romote objects of charity, and to Itt t 't Something analogous to what was effected by the „R o M n] , a n ce at a place of worship. He trusted, too, that ,Itts ,"`i he a rallying point for the Church in these of trouble. He would conclude by adverting Ilitceat that ex . cellent man, Dr. M'Neil, had said, !ol t , til eY should rake care not to make this union a tlit i e of disunion, an advice which he would:strongly i btr e e e at e on them. He felt assured that if this union ' 0 continue for twelve months longer, their num .,,Would be i ncreased cons id era bl y b y mem b ers o f a ll 4; kt estant and Di ssen ti n g bodies. a : 1 4v. Dr. Lieremien said, that their object was gad C re at degree expressed by the first resolution which Cad the passed at Liverpool. (The Rev. Speaker then ftblf"ne resolution, which was to the effect—that the kntiltetence regarded with great gratification the agree trn▪ ,°og the members of the union, and that it was Fte,,,7 °, 1 desire to promote as far as possible that ,011: 11t .) A great desire had sprung up amongst the d" of different religious bodies in this country to oer a union, f or w hi c h purpose a mee ti n g was held at jlool last October. He would likewise allude to ti tf i "' characteristics of that meeting. The three • ," 378 were passed in reading the Scriptures, and in fy, ,_ °l devotion, and in a devotional spirit, het "„ and:he had never witnessed anything • Which equalled it. The Council of Nice, a - " the Emperor Constantine attended, ktif, c) its equal. There was one characteristic of that ro e to to which he wished to call their attention, nt ki .') as to the perfect freedom of speech which was ~l o rk , ,,ed to ever representative at the meeting. This, having had an injurious effect, was attended ,N 1 'Lle most beneficial results.—(Hear, hear.) They la g ,° 4Bo effected an organisation, and made ar kt4ttoents for holding meetings throughout thq ttopol:Y preliminary to their great meeting in the me veris; lie would conclude by exhorting them to per thhwin their exertions, and their efforts would be Itt or ` - ‘ 1 with success. They should not fall into the ttfo O ! making it necessary, as heretofore, to make 4 4 1 1 114 y of c ree d essent i a l to un i on . Th e i r mo tto was, th °ll without uniformity o f doctrine," and by acting 1 %4 8 4 principle they would steer clear of the quick nPon which so many simil ar e fforts had been (11,"`ed----(Cheers.) ge Meeting had not concluded when our report left.) Ahr t - "UNION CARTOON EXHIBI- O n TION.—(THIS DAY.) 4 40 the 14th Septe m b er , 1844, th e Art-Union of 4 40 n issu e d the foll ow i ng not i ce to art i s t s : bpd n order to obtain a good subject for engraving, tet the Committee offer the sum of five hundred lik t o ld s for an original picture illustrative of British ire to be Cartoon s , six feet by four feet six inches, le t be s ent in (as will be hereafter notified) by the tlo t : 4 3 r of January, 1846, and from these the selec thq,.lvill be ma d e . A r ti s t s mus t send specimens of ki l . abilities as painters, if required so to do. Th e W aa ful candidate must undertake to complete the ti e cl picture, of the same size as the cartoon, eagra e Ist of January, 1847, and to superintend the ..g. Neet h . Committee wish it to be understood that t heir "t th "o giving so long a period for the preparation kift e, c artoon, is for the purpose of affording artists tttii s l ett time thoroughly to study the various de %oooo their compositions, and to produce in the "4t he a completely finished and well-wrought study of w w Picture." e were this morning admitted to a private view to ut "e cartoons, which will be exhibited during the o ti . Be of the next week, at the Gallery of the New ile,, e e Y of Painters in Water Colours, 53, Pall - mall . Pttri car toons are twenty-eight in number, and, com - Ot v i cr i g the Art-Union Cartoon Exhibition with those Ititt l e , % t r ninster Hall, it is impossible not to be struck tio tin ' h e vast superiority of the present cartoon exhibi tion th en any of its predecessors. In the present exhibi e°l siti;:f . e is but one cartoon which is absolutely and ti:Y bad—the majority are more than respectable, "otd, -I .° are some half-dozen which are, to use the ,art,„ - „ ° ' the notice, " superior works of art." The t 4 et e d , t le i are ranged round the . gallery and num b% ~u t it no indication is given . as . to the `..011. 1 °I the artist ; neither is the decision of the krtiaalittee known, so that it is impossible for tlit t a to be treated with greater fairness %ttl„_&lose have been who have sent in cartoons for t kli4tttion for the Art-Union prize. Time will no ° * 4 11 00 113 to do more than merely indicate those ,erne v Which str uc k us as being of a superior ohs , kly• art, and we are, therefore, unwill 'Nf compelled to pass by many works i s y of merit without notice. W e will proceed ty )e order of the catalogue. ~1 1 0 , 2 ' " Saxon Almsgiving." The subject of this "%I , i n the custom of s daily bread-giving to the t bi ,, the lady of the Saxon nobleman, as practised i„` 4 ale 0- Saxon ancestors. The ladyandthe ntic ,e gateway th ,ueMbers of her family are just emerging.. 4, 44 1 1 the Centre is (/' gateway of the castle to engage in their is the lady distributing the bread da t a gl i t l e a,..bask et of her handmaid.. By her side her ~nilar e. descends. the steps, giving apples to the C her 8. ,,"• First among the applicants a young m - 40 r4 P,Peals to the loaf-giver, by showing her ne o enild. 4. 5 kici so_ . Behind_ her is a widow with her daugh "%etted u and farther back, humbly seated, is a T h female with her infant. . rnale applicants are placed by themselves, as in nt illuminati on of the subj ec t. 4 0 „, time is evening in autumn, indicated by various fueT s th - e "es, as the acorns and grapes, the bundle of he cr ows returni ng t o r o o s t, & c . subject is admirably handled. The grouping is 1846. 9 E N G-, JANU A'R'C' 8, THE SU N, LONDO N, TTI SD'~9► D'A exquisite, the flow of the drapery easy and graceful. r o 1 - I , nee ,, ssary unots introdueed into the picture—every figure is necessary to the produc tion of the effect as a whole. The children are beau tiful, and the daughter ,of the lady is one of the most exquisite female figures that the pencil of artist ever delineated ; there is something of almost angelic be nignity and beauty in the expression of her coun tenance. The artist, too, has throughout preserved the national characteristics. Every face there is Saxon, pure Saxon, unmistakeably Saxon. As an illustration of ancient domestic national manners, this is a work of very high merit. No. 7. "The Discovery of the body of William Rufus by the Country-people, in the New Forest, Hampshire, A.D. 1,100,' is the production of an artist who possesses immense power. The grouping of the rude country-people around the dead body of the 'Zing—the expressive countenances and actions of the stalvi:rt V elmnt3 ' who, having caught sight of the dead b o dy while descending a hill, are advancing tower,. -A% ti ,ix companions who are Iv land grouped around it, and the - d savage * the picture, scape which forms the back gron. L ti e s stu prove that the artist, whoever he may . died, and that to great profit, the works of Rosa. There is much about this cartoon of the tre. Salvator spirit. No. 9. " Henry 111. Renewing the Charters" is an admirable picture, illustrative of the following passage of our history :—" The Peers being assembled in pre sence of the king, each holding a lighted taper, the Archbishop of Canterbury denounced a terrible curse against those who should violate the laws, or alter the constitution of the king dom. Then the charters were read aloud, and confirmed by the King, who all this time kept his hand upon his breast ; after which, every one threw his taper on the ground to raise a great smoke, and wished that those who vio lated the charters might smoke in hell." The figure of the king is very fine. The figures are all grouped most artistically. There is one figure, a baron to the left of the king, the expression of whose Greek-like countenance is remarkably fine. This is an excellent historical picture. No.lo. " Queen Phillippa interceding for the Lives of the Burgesses of Calais " is a picture of the very highest order of art. The artist, whoever he may be, is an honour to his age and nation. Genius of the very highest order, matured by years of patient study, could alone have enabled him to produce such a magnificent composition. The figure of the king is sublime, the brow firmly fixed, the flashing eye, the agonising of those stern features, all express the terrific conflict that is going on in his mind as he listens to the pathetic appeal of his queen. The calm, yet decided dignity of the bishop, who stands immediately behind him, -and in a spirit of dignified command urges him to grant the lives of the prisoners, is very majestic. Majestic too, but yet a different character of majesty, is the expression of the noble Eustace de St. Pierre, who calmly awaits his fate contentedly, as it contrasts with the agonised expression of one of the prisoners by his side, who is evidently suffer ing the most intense torture from the suspense in which he is kept as to his fate. The figure of the jester, who is introduced into the back ground, marks the genius of the artist. He is smiling as is his wont, but smiling mechanically, for the general ex pression of his countenance is that of intense woe. Want of time prevents us from dilating futher, but this picture is assuredly one of the greatest that British art has yet produced. 23. "The Welcome of the Boy-King, Henry VI. into London, after his Coronation at Paris." A gor geous picture, but too crowded. Tim FOREIGN INIAILs.—The following notice was issued yesterday, at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand, and the branch offices :—" The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, will be made up on the morning of the 20th instant, to be forwarded via Southampton. To the British West India Islands, New Grenada, Venezuela, Bermuda, San Juan de Nicaragua, and Madeira, on the 17th instant, by the Medway steamer via Southampton. Next mails due from the West Indies, on the 22d instant; Mexico, &c., on the 7th of February. The next mails for Corunna, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 17th instant. Next mail due at Southampton, the Queen steamer, on the 15th instant. The next mail due from British North America, Bermuda, and the United States, on the 15th instant, at Liverpool; from the Brazils and Buenos Ayres, her Majesty's brig Crane, on the 23d, at Falmouth." DIRECT MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—In consequence of the official notices received by the parochial authorities of the parish of St. Bride, intimating that several of the houses belonging to the parish will be required for the proposed Di rect London and Manchester Railway, a public vestry has been called by the churchwardens, Messrs. Isherwood and Marriott, to consider the subject, on Friday evening next, in order to direct what answer shall be given. Parties in the district of St. Bride's and Farringdon Without are extremely divided upon the subject. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—FALL FROM A WINDOW. — Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a little girl, four years of age, name Anne Groves, whose parents reside in Compton-street, Soho, having been left in the back second floor alone, with the window open, she got on a chair for the purpose of looking out of the window, and, over balancing herself, she fell into the back area. She was re moved to the hospital almost in a lifeless state. ROYAL SANTIAGO MINING COMPANY. —Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the above Company took place in the board-room at the office, 7, Bread-street-build ings, for the purpose of receiving the Directors' report, and to consider of declaring a dividend. A. Robertson, Esq., pre sided, and amongst those present were Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Sir Claude Scott, &c. &c. The report was read by the se cretary and adopted, from which it appeared that the quan tity of ore raised in the half-year ending August 31st was 2,175 tons, of which 1,021 tons had been sold and produced nett 9,947/. 2s. Bd., part of the remainder would be sold at the next ticket of sale, which was credited in the account at 11,410/. 16s. 2d., the whole making an aggregate amount of 21,5151. Ils. 2d. The expenditure, including the Income tax, 5191. ls. 11d., was 22,7291. Is. 7d., making the excess of expenditure over the income of 1,213/. 10s. sd. The quantity of ore raised in the three months ending November 30th was 1,283 tons, of which 324 tons was lately landed at Swansea. Though the assets were about 40,000/. and the condition of the Company much improving, yet until their law proceedings were settled, the Directors would not recom mend a dividend at present. After the usual courtesies to the Chairman and Directors, the meeting broke up. SUDDEN DEATHS.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held two inquests on persons who had died in a sudden manner. The first inquest was held at the Golden Lion, Dean-street, Soho, on the body of Caroline Saunderson, aged 23 years. It appeared by the evidence that, on Wednesday evening last, the deceased had been at a Christmas party ; she then ap peared in her usual health and cheerfulness; the next day she complained of pain in the chest. She was attended by Mr. Marshall, a surgeon, but she died on Friday morning. From a post mortem examination it was found that there had been an ulcer in the stomach, which bursting, had caused death. It might have been accelerated by dancing or other extertion. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." The second inquest was held at the Plough, Carey-street, on Jonathan Stockam Ingram, aged 51, a licensed waterman at the Spotted Dog, Strand, who was found on Saturday morning lying in bed quite dead; a medical gentleman said from an attack of apoplexy. Verdict accordingly. SACRlLEGE.—lnformation was yesterday forwarded to the police-stations through the medium of the Hue and Cry, that the parish church of Utterby, near Louth, in the county of Lincoln, was broken into between the 28th ult. and the 4th inst., and the following articles stolen therefrom, viz., a silver cup and small silver paten which fitted as a lid to the cup, a large flagon, and two plates. o n c e l s o p c i k t a a l C out yrh r eh o W f a t h . e n o Governors a a t n t d e n f r d i e e d n , d s w , THE S COTTISH H O SPlTAL.—Yesterday at one o a f s h t h e l e d Scottishatthe . Crane-co, liddrez ur t t o F h l e ee t p - r s e t s r e e n e t t e , d to t o affix e Hall of the Corporation,toa the corporation seal Duke of Sutherland on resigning the office of president, to elect a chaplain i n the room of the late R ev. R. M‘Leod Rector of St. Anne , S oho, and on other b us i ness. Dr : Webster in the chair. Major Adair, the secretary, presented the report of the relief committee and of the Kinloch F un d, which is in trust to the Scottish Hospital. From the first it appeared that 377 persons w ere relieved on the 10th ult., with the sum of 239/. 12s. 6d. Tile latter showed that the stock, which in January last was 55,550/., had been reduced in the course of the year by the sale of 400/. Three per Cents., and that the sum paid in pen sions amounted to 11,848/. It was then resolved that the corporation seal be affixed to the address, which was very beautifully written in illuminated letters, to be presented to the Duke of Sutherland on his resignation of the presidency of the hospital. Mr. Hamilton next brought forward a motion, in conformity with a recommendation of his Grace, that in consequence of the prosperous condition of the funds of the hospital the 10/. pensioners should be increased to 100, and that there should be an addition of the number in the receipt of smaller pensions. A resolution was agreed to that there should be 30 pensioners, each above 65 years of age, who should be allowed 8/. a year, and 100 who should receive 101. a year; and it was stated that 2,6917. Bs. 4d. was distributed last year. The Rev. Dr. Cum ming then proposed that the Rev. Archdeacon Sinclair, vicar of Kensington, should be the chaplain, in the room of the Rev. R. M•Leod. Dr. Dixon seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted ; and, after a long discussion, it was resolved that the salary of the secretary be increased from 1751. to 2001. per annum. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the court broke up. THE LATE WINDSOR ELECTION.—Tickets were distributed yesterday to the whole of the working classes of Windsor, electors of the borough, to the number of eighty, who had promised their votes to Mr. Walter at the late elec tion, for the supply of meat, bread, and ale. ,Each was sup plied with meat to the value of five shillings, two loaves of bread, and two quarts of ale. The distribution took place under the . superintendence of Mr. John Bedborough. A si milar distFibutt?n on the part of Colonel Reid, to those who had promised him their support, took place a few days since. SUICIDE. —Mr. Wakley, M.P., coroner, held an inquest at the sign of the Red Lion, near Hammersmith Sus- Anne Pearman, aged sixteen n l - vh b o bridge, on sfea t n h d eb ia ody of the river, having, as it was y P e e H a years, sup posed, committed suicide, owing to the threats of her late mistress to have her brought before a magistrate for some theft with which she was charged. The deceased, however, protested that she was innocent, but exhibited the utmost dread of the proceedings with which she was threatened. Mr. Wakley remarked on the harshness of the measures adopted towards so young a person. Verdict, " Found drowned." THE FREEDOM OF ELECTION: 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 even ing the Hon. Gentleman dined with his constituents. Covers were laid for one.—Punch. There are now living no less than fourteen persons who have held the office of Clerk of the Ordnance, 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, Admiral Dundas, Hon. Colonel Anson, Captain Boldero, and Lord Arthur Lennox.. SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION. The public sales (by Messrs. Lomond and Co.) of Railway Shares, went off well on Tuesday afternoon, and very liberal purchases were made : Description. Sheffield, Buxton. and Leek Potteries Northern and Southern Connecting ... Ditto ditto ... Reading and Reigate ... •.. ••• ••• Essex and Suffolk ... ••• •.. Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Great Grimsby and Sheffield Ditto Northampton, Bedford, and • Cambridge London and South Essex ... ••• London, Hounslow, and Western ••• Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge Great Western of Bengal ..• --- Ditto Universal Salvage .•• •.. Ditto ..• ••• Boston, Stamford, and Binxingham Ditto ••• •• • ••• ••• ••• Shropshire Mineral ... Ditto ... •.. •.. Dundalk and Enniskillen ... .„ London and York... ••• ••• ••• Midland Eastern Counties ... Ditto ••• •• • ••• ••• Ditto •• ••• ••• ••• ii,krtlaßru and Southern Connecting ... bitto ditto _ _ Paid Sold for 1 4 6 2% 1 17 0 2 1 6 42s 1 2 0 1% 1 1 0 -1 1 0 2% 1 5 0 -1 5 0 42s 1 15 0 2% 1 9 0 21 1 0 42s 1 15 0 ..• 1 4 0 13 6 - 0 13 6 5 10 0 0 10 0 0 22s 1 3 0 -1 3 0 42s 1 14 6 - 1 14 Q 2% 110 0 2 1 / 1 4 14 6 2 % 1 13 0 - 1 15 0 1 14 2% 1 19 0 7 6 4 1: (3 2% 2 6 0 •2 6 0 - 2 4 5 ''T•re4ater 1 0 11 0 -I, v 1% 215 0 2% 3 4 9 X2O 2. 5 8 0 6 2 2% 2 6 0 1 0 18 6 2% 2 5 . 0 2 5 0 -2 5 6 -2 5 6 -2 6 6 -2 6 0 -2 G 0 2 6 0 2 6 0 -2 6 0 2 6 0 50f. 1 17 1 17 d 1 17 6 1 17 6 1 17 0 1 16 0 1 17 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 5 2 6 2 9 0 2 9 0 2 9 0 4 14 0 1 14 6 5 4 0 2 13 6 2 2 6 1 15 6 1 17 6 1 17 6 O 17 6 17 6 0 17 6 6 3 0 6 3 0 6 4 0 2 9 6 2- 9 6 O 11 0 011 0 1 6 6 1 6 6 2 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 12 0 2 5 6 ,at' Bengal .., •• • •• • "''‘.l4gstgr (Rimingt.cp's) Great \A London and Ditto ditL, Ditto ditto Great N. ud S. Wales and v. Manchester, Midlands, and G. Newark, Boston, and Sheffield ... ..• Trent Valley Cont. & Holyhead Junct. Bord., Toulouse, and Cette--Mackenzie Trent Valley Cont. and Holyhead Junc. Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Ditto ditto ••• Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto ••• Ditto ditto ••• Ditto ditto ••• Ditto ditto ••• Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto ••• Creil and St. Quentin—Arnous' Ditto ditto ••• Ditto ditto ••• Creil and St. Quentin—Colbert's Ditto ditto ••• Creil and St. Quentin—Carette's Creil and St. Quentin—Kysaeus, jun.. Derbyshire, Staff. and Worcestershire... Ditto ditto ••• Goole and Doncaster ... Louvain and Jemeppes Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• London and York ... ..• Shropshire Minerals Goole and Doncaster ... Dudley, Madeley, Brosley, & I. Bridge Cornwall and Devon Central ... Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Glo'ster Italian and Austrian ••• ••• ••• Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Great Western and Uxbridge ' Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• N. Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Somersetshire Midland ... 50f. 50f. 42s 2% 42S 42s 2% 2/ 42s Ditto ditto ... Calcutta and St. George's Point • ... Ditto ditto ... Liverpool, Preston, and North Union... Ditto ditto ... Lyons and Avignon ... ... •.. •.• Ditto ditto .. •• • .. Irish North Midland ... ... •.. Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth ... Cornwall and Central Devon ... .• • London and Birmingham Exten., and N. Davevtry, Leam., and Warwick.. Goole and Doncaster ... ... •.. •• • Southampton and Dorchester ... Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Ditto ditto .. Shropshire Minerals ... Ditto ditto .. ..• ••• Ditto ditto ... . . North Staffordsh., Churnet, & Potteries Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ditto ditto Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth ... Great Indian Peninsular ... Ditto ••• • ••• ••• Taw Vale Extension and Dock ... Lincoln and Wainflt. Harb. and Boston Boston, Stamford, and. Birmingham ••• Taw Vale Extension ... .• • ..• Derby, Staffordshire, and Worcestersh. Leicester, Tamworth, and Coventry, Birmingham and Trent Valley .. Dudley, Madely, Brosley, and I. Bridge Tean and Dove Valley ... East Lincolnshire ... ••• ...- Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• Nottingham and Mansfield London and York Extension ... Gloucester, Aberyst. and Central Wales Northern and Southern Connecting ... Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... Derbysh., Staffordsh., and Worcestsh. Louvain and Jemappes ... •.. Ditto ••• ••• ••• Warwick and Worcester ... ... •.. Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge Worcester and South Wales Goole, and Doncaster ... ... •.. London and South Essex ... London and Manchester—Remington's Direct East and West Junction ... East Indian ... ... Ditto ••. ••• ... ... ••• ••• Surrey Grand Junction ... Calcutta and St. George's Point ... Ditto ditto ••• ••• Liverpool and Leeds Direct ... Ditto ditto ... Ditto ditto ... ••• Leeds and Carlisle •• ••• ••• ••• Dudley, Madely, Brosley, and I. Bridge Chepstow and Forest of Dean ... Dudley, Madely, Brosley, & Iron Bridge Tean and Dove Valley ... ... •• • Great Luxembourg ... ... Madrid and Valentin London and South Essex ... ••• York and Lancaster .•- Ditto North Kent ... ••• •• Derby, Gainsborough and G. Grimsby Ditto ditto ••• Northumberland and Lancashire ... Shrewsbury and Hereford ... Derby, Gainsbro', and Great Grimsby Derbyshire, Staffordsh., & Worcestersh. Ditto ditto ... Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymth. Coast London and Windsor . . ... Cambridge and Lincoln, New ... Northumberland and Lancashire ... 1% 2 2% 1% 42s 30 22s 1 10 0 5 3 6 33 6 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 16 6 1 16 6 1 16 0 6 3 0 6 3 0 6 4 0 6 4 0 1 12 0 0 13 0 0 13 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 0 0 1 3 6 1% 42s POVERTY'S NEW YEAR. (From the Censor, No. 1.) Hark ! the glad melody from yonder spire, So gaily pealing its confused ding-dong: With mirthful cadences, or booming fire. Courting responses from the busy throng, Their souls to cheer. Ring out, ye harbingers of promised bliss— For Want's keen agonies, what healing salve, To feel a privilege so dear as this, That hungry poverty may live and starve Another year. Yes! 'tis a messenger of joy to those Who clothe in purple, and perfume the air; But 'tis the warrant of increasing woes, To wailing Indigence enthrall'd by care, From shore to shore. 'Tis the sad requiem of twelve months' pangs In Time's inscrutable abyss entombed, — Of twelve months' misery, through want's dire fangs— Alas! of misery to be resumed For twelve months more. Peal forth your melody—loud, loud I and charm You pauper skeleton with cheering tones— see ! how he flour ishes Lis withered arm, And sucks foul marrow from half rotten . bones,— New strength it grves! See in wild exstacy bis eye-balls glare! Note the rough fissures with his tears bedewed; Hark ! how he aspirates an earnest prayer, And sobs so fervidly his gratitude, Because he lives. Britons, be merry then—shout loud and shrill : What though potatoes or your bread should fail— Gilead had anodynes for every ill, Thrice-favoured Albion has her Union gaol, The stay of Hope. There care-curs'd Industry in peace may rest, Break stones—pick oakum—on strong gruel fed; And worn out nature, by long toil hard pressed, May end its struggles on an iron bed, Not die by rope. Laugh, lab'rer, merrily I—cheer smiles around, Swedes—carrots—cabbage- stumps obstruct the way; While mangold-wurtzel and beet-root abound— And horse-beans, saw-dust, with clean bands of hay, Are piled en masse. Heav'n-favour'd Englishmen, strong, brave, and bold, Let your glad jubilees in chorus ring! And yet remember, that in days of old, Great towering Babylon's half-witted king, Was fed on grass But, hold ! ye oligarchs, who close the door Of nature's granary, to raise your rents; Who preach philanthropy, but starve the poor, To pay your mortgages and settlements, Beware and fear. Time yet will vindicate what Truth decrees— Judgment will follow for each heart you've wrung; And you, in agony, may seek of these A drop of water for your burning tongue, Ere next new year. LONDON FIRES IN :1845. —The following is the official return made by the London Fire Engine Establish ment of the number of fires in the metropolis during the past year, viz. :—Totally destroyed and seriously damaged, 276 ; partially damaged, 431 • total number of fires, 707. In addition to which there have been 87 chimney alarms and 81 false alarms, making a grand total of 875 fires and alarms during the year. This number is considerably less than that of the year 1844 ; but the loss of life has been far greater than has occurred for several years past, the number of lives that have been sacrificed by fire in 1845 being 19. A report reached us yesterday from a generally well-informed quarter, that the Marquis of Exeter and the Marquis of Granby have resigned their appointments in Prince Albert's household.—Brighton Guardian. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CHELTENILV:.I COMI'ETING LINES. CHELTENHAM, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—An important meeting was held here to-day to receive the resignation of the town committee appointed for the purpose of re porting on the various projects now in agitation in Chel tenham. Previous to the commencement of the proceed ings the Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P., apologised for some animadversions made on a previous day as to the conduct of the Rev. T. Close in connexion with railway matters. The lion. Gentleman's observations appeared to give satisfaction in the weting and his comtituents. Mr. Gwpwriry proposed a resolution to the effect that the original committee should be re-appointed with soma little alteration. The resolution was seconded by Mr, ItoWii!. Mr. LlNGwoop supported the Cheltenham and Oxford Mr. HARM proposed an amendment to the effect that the original members of the committee should be re appointed with several other additional names, with power to oppose any railway passing through or crossing the approaches of the town. 'he proposition was seconded by Mr. HEANE. Several members addressed the meeting, either dis senting to or opposing the re,soltrtion- When the CHAIRMAN desired the meeting to express their feelings as to the first resolution and amendment, a s oppp of indescribable confusion ensued. In the first instance Mr. those decided that Mr. Har per's resolution had been carried ; feeling, however, some uncertainty as to the question, he requested the meeting f lgaio to diTide, and them for some time was Unable to obtain a hearing. Ultimately, however, the CHAIRMAN decided that Mr. Harper's resolution was carried, THE BROAD AND THE NARROW GAUGE. Yeserd e a a y rr nliaogrensi,ngladanenewxpitehriml2e4nttaolntsralinl,cconsisting of tweiv‘ .. was et ,; r atched from the Paddington terminus quarter, of the Great Western Railway, the object being to as certain if a passenger el pine would propel such a weight. Precisely at 8 45 A.M., the train ? propelled by the Lion engine, left the terminus, and arrived at the one-mile post at 6 50. On the engine were Mr. Brunel, Mr. Gooch, the superintendent of the locomotive department ; Mr. Andrews, the inspector of the locomotives ; and J. Apple, the engine driver. At five minutes before nine o'clock the signal was given for the train to start, and it passed the undermen tioned stations at the times affixed : MMES. Padddington •• Eallig Hanwell Southall West Drayton Slough Maidenhead Twyford Reading ...... 4 351 Pangbourne ... ..... Goring 4 Wallingford-road... 47i ... Didcot ... ..... Thus accomplishing the distance at an average speed of 48 miles an hour. On the return trip, the following are the hours, as nearly as can be ascertained, at which the train passed through the several station yards:— H. M. 8 55 11. M. Didcot ll 10 Wailingford.road Goring Pangbourne Reading Twyford Maidenhead. Slough ll 54 _ West Drayton Sothall Hanwell Ealing Paddington l2 14 An experimental train is to be dispatched from Pad dington, carrying a weight of 400 tons, exclusive of trucks and carriage, and it is anticipated that an average speed of 21 miles an hour will be sustained. PLANS DEPOSITED WITH THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The following is an enumeration of various undertak ings proposed to be carried out in connexion with the railway communication of the country, the necessary plans for which have been deposited with the Private Bill-office :- 1. Birkenhead Commissioners Docks 2. Bognor Dock and Piers 3. Campletown Harbour 4. Clyde Docks 5. Glasgow Harbour and Monkland Junction Canal 6. Harwich Docks 7. Herculaneum (Liverpool) Docks 8. Holyhead Docks 9. Lambeth and Westminster Suspension Bridge 10. Liverpool Docks 11. London Sewage Company 12. Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company 13. Morecombe Bay Embankment 14. Plymouth Great Western Docks 15. Poole Harbour 16. Porthdynllaen Harbour and Docks • 17. Portsea Pier 18. Ranelagh Suspension Bridge 19. Severn Navigation 20. Sunderland Dock 21. Swansea Docks 22. Thames Embankment 23. Tynemouth Docks 24. Western super-Mare Pier 25. Wexford Harbour Improvement BIRMINGHAM AND WORCESTER.—On Tuesday a meeting of the proprietors of the Worcester Canal, who lately proposed to carry a line which was to pro ceed, with deviations, along the bank of the canal to Stoke Priors, from which place it was to proceed along the Ox ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, to Wor cester, and there join the Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway, and the other lines entering that city, met at Birmingham, Mr. W. Beale, in the chair, when a report was read, stating that, although the shares had been allotted, the surveys completed, the plans pre pared, and the Parliamentary standing orders fully com plied with, the Directors found it necessary, in conse quence of the panic in the share market, to suspend all proceedings, and postpone their application to Parlia ment until the session of 1847. In the interim the com mittee recommended that the whole of the deposits be forthwith returned to the shareholders free of any deduc tion, and that the entire expense attending the past pro ceedings be paid out of the funds of the Canal Company. Notwithstanding the continued low rate of tonnage, the receipts had increased 800/. in the half year, with every prospect of a continued improvement. A dividend of 11. los. per share was then declared, leaving a sufficient amount to defray all the probable expenses to protect the interest of the Company against any projects now before Parliament. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. SHEFFIELD, JAN. 7. STOCK EXCHANGB.—The sales are—Grimsby and Shef field, 12 1 / s —Ditto, Extension, 31. 17s.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 24% —Derby and ewe, 6 1 / s —Direct Northern, 2% —Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 2 1 / 9 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 4 3 / 4 —Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 21 . 16 s. 3 d.—North Western, 3%—Shef field, Rotherham, Wakefield, and Goole, 3/. 14s. 6d.—West Riding Union, 7%. BRISTOL, JAN. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and South Wales Junction, 3—Caledonian, New, 4%—Welsh Midland, 4. EXETER, JAN. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol, New, 8— Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % dis.—Eastern Counties Extension Stock, No. 2, % p.—Dublin and Galway, 4 4. MANCHESTER, JAN. 7. . STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham and Lei cester Direct, 345. 6d.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3% — Cambridge and Linccln, New, 3%—Chelmsford and Bury, I%—Chester and Birkenhead, 52—Chester and Holyhead, 174 —Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Sheffield, 2%—Eastern Coun ties, 23 1 4—Exeter and Exmouth, 12s. 6d.—Fleetwood, Pres ton, and West Riding, 37s.—Goole, DoncasterZ Sheffield, &c., 995. 6d.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 1214—Hudders field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 101%,—Hudders field and Sheffield Junction, 25—London, Salisbury, and Yeovil, 2 1 / 2 —Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 41. 125. Manchester and Birmingham, 77—Manchester and Birming ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, I%—Manchester and Bury Atmospheric, 28s. 6d.—Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 61. 19s. 6d.—Manchester and Southampton, 3 1 4 —Northumberland and Lancashire, 37s.—North Eastern, 24 —North Staffordshire, 61.2s.—Nottingham, Erewash, Amber gate, and Manchester, 3%—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 375 . —Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 47 8 —Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares , No. 1, 16%—Ditto, No. 3,7% —Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 17s. 6d.— Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 21. 14 s. — South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, 3% —Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction, 595. 6d.—West Riding Union, 71. 145. 6d.—Great Luxem bourg, 8. S 3 h 2 a s r . es, 6d N . o p: _ 3, 7 LEEDS, JAN. 7, STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are -Eastern Counties, 23 -Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 124 p.- Sheffield 19 cash-Ditto, New Shares, 4 -Great Grimsby Yeovil,R ugl Rugby), ) a , n 2 d 3 s. Leeds and Bradford. andsanwd s.hLefeedisd Manchester, and Extensions,Quarter Dewsbury, p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 12-North British, New, 7 1 A-Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 31. 6 5. - Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 32-Goole and Doncaster, 21 15s. p.-London and Portsmouth, 4%-Sheffield and Lincoln, 4% -Liverpool, Ormekirk, and Preston, 5-West Riding Union, 7/. 145.- p.-Chelmsford and Dorchester, 2s. 6d. p. B-üßryu,c 145.- -Buckinghamshire g 6 h d a . m p s . h_i r E e x ( e l t a e t r e , -Great Eastern:and Western, 1!. 95.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 19s, p.-Leeds and York, par-Leicester and Bed ford, 245. p.-Manchester , Buxton, Matlock, and Mid land, 2/. 14s. p.-Northumberland and Lancashire Junc tion, 7s. 6d. dis.-North Western 3 1 A-Nottingham and Boston, 17s. 6d. p.-Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 17s. 6d. p.-Nottingham and Grantham, 20s. p.-Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham , 2s. 6d. dis.-Shropshire Union, 105. p.-South Midlands, 31. 12s. p.-Wakefield and Brad. ford, 4s. dis.-Welsh Midlands, s s. p . HULL, J AN . 7. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guaranteed), 103-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, O A c. n.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 4% -North British, Carlisle, 31. Bs. 9d.-Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 1N -Buckinghamshire, 1-Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield &c., 3-Grand Union, 11. 195.-Great North and South`ales and Worcester, Ils.-Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, 455.-Leicester and Bedford, 2/. 25.-Leicester and Birmingham, 275.-Leicester and Tamworth, 3/ -Notting ham, Erewash, &c., 21,4 -Nottingham and Boston, 2-North Staffordshire, 61. 4s. 6d. -Shropshire Union, 75. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, 1 y g -Wakefield and Bradford, 2%-Wor cest er, Tenbury, and Ludlow,;2lZ Al-Great Northern of France, 14 3 / 4 . YORK, JAN. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are -York and. North Mid land Extension, 41 3 / 4 -Ipswich and B ur y, 5W i -Newcastle and Berwick, 21/1-North British, New Carlisle Branch, 31. 18s. 6d.-London and York, 4/. 18s.-Axholme, 3%- Clitheroe Junction, 3 3 / 4 -Grand Union, 2-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 3 1 4 -Leicester and Bedford, 2/. Bs. 6d.- Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham, and Trent 'Valley Junction, 3-Igancliestor, Buxton, Matlock,and Mid land, 44 16s. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 6—North Western, VA—Welsh Midland, 2./. 14s. Gh A §66iV. JAW. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Airdrie and Bath gate, 51s.—Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 475. 6d.—Ayr and Galloway, 405.—British and Irish Union, 725.—Caledonian Extension, 68s. 6 d.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junc tion, 555. —East Lothian Central, 445. —East Indian Railway, 28s. 6d.--Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 20s.— Edinburgh and Perth, s—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 2 9—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 55s.—Glasgc' and Garnkirk, 42—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Artossan, 7 25. 6 ‘ 1, -.lnverness and. Agin, 80s.—Kilmarnock-, and A7r 66a. 6(1.- 1 B he d and Hada, 6%—Perth an d .. sus ey, arr a , hark and Lothians, 555;---Eesmahago Inverness, 3)irct' 40s.—Renfrew and Ayr, 325. 6 d.—Scott: La h Cen tral, 17—Stirling and pvinfermline, 525. • NA PIER. (From the Guernsey , c ; 0 0 fR- Thu:G E rs dNa sway R A 1 . 4 dvertiser of Dec 17.) last has fulminated forth a The in Star Aj lengthy leader three columns on the subject of 11r. Guerin, in referenc e t o hi s deprivation of as captain in the G uernsey militi ' o his commission in-Chief, MajersGeneral Nar''er This s the commander article is one of great ;Ina gross attackto the • h cb ond uct and character of the Lieutenant- f 3 e vernor, and y office the representa tive of ' , rt. Majesty in the island ; and however it may dissemble its feelings in false and flimsy wording, it evinces uo much malignity and hatred towards that august personage, that we are led to doubt the oft boasted assumption of loyalty and devotion it is so con tinually prating of. Had we been inclined to favour Mr. Guerin's cause, the article we allude to would have utterly overthrown our convictions in his behalf ; but, as we never doubted that the Lieutenant-Governor's dismissal of that officer was strictly in accordance with precedent and practice, the show of rancour and enmity thus displayed, only tends to confirm us in our former opinion. But it is not with a view of casting back upon the Star —which is ever ready to renew its prolonged insult against his Excellency—the abuse which we would mark with the contempt it deserves ;—but it is because all the other local journals have thought proper to join in these malignant attacks, that we alone stand forth as the champions and defenders of the representative of royalty, whose high office and dignity seem to exercise so little of the respect and consideration they are bound to call forth. It is because his Excellency seems to have ito ad vocate amongst the local press, that we are determined to take up the gauntlet our contemporaries have cast down, and defend the cause inch by inch, and step by step, with our best energies and abilities ; and we should not take upon ourselves such an office, which we might feel some difficulty in discharging, were we not aware as well from internal conviction and ex perience, as by acknowledged facts, that the English residents nearly to a man, regard with the utmost indignation and disapproval the course of insult and aggravation which has been put in practice against the Lieutenant-Governor and his cause during a period of more than two years. Their better feelings and the spirit that in every British heart rises against such a system of petty aggression revolts when it sees and hears an English gentleman and officer, the hero of many a hard-fought field, and now the Vicegerent of her Majesty in this island, maligned and aspersed with such audticious impunity! Now, the last action of the Lieutenant-Governor in his capacity of Commander-in-Chief—that of depriving Mr. Guerin of his commission in the militia—has, it ap pears, roused in a tenfold degree the vituperative pens of the local papers. Why so? They admit that his Excellency has a perfect right to dismiss or degrade those whom he may think fit, But they want a reason : expediency forsooth is to them no reason at all ; expediency—the bulwark of political action, the shield by which so many dangers and disadvan tages are averted. Have they, as editors of newspapers, studied political economy so little as not to admit the reason of expediency? But let alone this reason, we ask, who, that is in the least acquainted with military usage, ever heard of a General giving a reason for what he did, or where should we read of those glorious vic tories England has won, if the soldiers spent their time in considering what their General meant by his orders instead of obeying those orders? But the Star gives its own reasons for Mr. Guerin's removal. It was be cause that ci-devant officer brought a charge of perjury against a private of the 27th, which was proved to be totally without foundation. But an officer of the 27th brought a similar charge against a Guernsey woman. Now the officer of the 27th offered instant reparation to the woman he bad accused. The insinuation that the Lieutenant-Governor degraded Mr. Guerin because he was a nephew of Sir William Collings, is so utterly contemptible, and so well becomes the paltry spirit in which the article was written, that we pass over it with indignant silence. But the Star, in its article of Monday, advises the militia to do nothing hastily in this matter ;—in that of Thursday, it suggests to the officers of Mr. Guerin's regiment the propriety of addressing that gentleman on the subject. We warn them to pause and consider well, before they commit an act of which they may have rea son to repent. Any overt act on their part in combina tion is, in military law, rank mutiny, and must be put down by the strong hand of Government. Whatever reasons may be assigned for the cancelling of Mr. Guerin's commission, for ourselves we little care to fathom the secrets of our superiors in command. As for the Star we need only say its shafts fall blunted and harm less on the armour of integrity in which his Excellency is incased. Honest and impartial Guernseymen—and a vast proportion, we repeat, of the English resident gentry—look upon the paltry conduct pursued towards his Excellency, who blends in his character the warrior, the able politician, and the high office and dignity of representative of her most Gracious Majesty in this island, with disdainful indignation. RETIREMENT of MR. GLADSTONE FROM NEWARK. TO THE ELECTORS OF NEWARK. GENTLEMEN,—By accepting the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies, I have ceased to be your repre sentative in Parliament. On several accounts, I should have been peculiarly desirous at the present time of giving you an opportu nity to pronounce your constitutional judgment on my public conduct, by soliciting at your hands a renewal of the trust, which I have already received from you on five successive occasions, and held during a period of thirteen years. But as I have good reason to believe, that a candi date recommended to your favour through local connec tion may ask your suffrages, it becomes my very painful duty to announce to you, on that ground alone, my re tirement from a position which has afforded me so much of honour and of satisfaction. I shall ever retain, Gentlemen, happy recollections of your confidence and of your indulgence; and though I may no longer stand in any formal relation to you, I shall continue to feel a lively desire that every blessing may attend the borough and its inhabitants. Independently, however, of any such prospective rela tion, it is my duty to render to you some account of that step by which my seat has been vacated. I regret that, at the present moment, I must even here make an appeal to your confidence. The obligations into which I have entered, as a Minister of the Crown, forbid me to do more at this time than to state in gene ral outline the considerations which have governed me, and which I should have been prepared more fully to sustain upon again appearing before you as a candidate for re-election after the meeting of Parliament. The events which I had immediately to regard, when I was invited to re-enter the service of the Crown, were these :—The Administration of Sir Robert Peel had re tired from office. The party opposed to that Adminis tration, and led by Lord John Russell, had endeavoured to form a Government, and the endeavour had not suc ceeded. On the other hand, as I am given to under stand, persons favourable to unrelaxed protection were not prepared themselves to undertake the conduct of public affairs in conformity with the views which they entertained. It was in the critical juncture thus brought about, that Sir Robert Peel had unhesitatingly resumed the exercise of political power. When invited to fill the vacancy caused by the la mented retirement of Lord Stanley, I had to ask myself the question, whether it was to be desired, on account of the exigencies of the general welfare as they stood, that the Queen's Government should receive support. Gentlemen, I judged that such was the case, and there fore felt it was for those, who believed the Government was acting according to the demands of public duty, to testify that belief, however limited their sphere might be, by their co-operation. Nor is there anything I could so much have coveted, except for the cause to which I have adverted, as the opportunity of vindicating before you the judgment at which I have arrived, and of in viting you to record your approval of it by your votes. That vindication would have rested, and when ever and wherever it may be offered, it will rest, upon no merely apologetic plea, but upon the assertion that I have acted in obedience to the clear and imperious calls of public obligation, and with the same purpose which I have ever sought to follow, of promoting the permanent interests of the community and of all the classes of which it is composed. Gentlemen, with strong sentiments alike of gratitude and of regret, I remain, your obliged and obedient ser vant, W. E. GLADSTONE. 13, Carlton House-terrace, London, Jan. 5, 1846. FUNERAL OF THE LATE REV. R. ASPLAND..... On Tuesday the remains of this eminent divine were interred in a vault erected on a spot selected b y himself, in the burial ground of the new Gravel-pit Chapel, Hackney, of whi c h he had been pastor upwards of 35 y ears. A number of carriages, and about 200 membe rs of the c ongregation, fol lowed the mourning coache s containin g Mr. Aspland's nu merous family and some distin g uished D issenting divines. The children connected with the schoo l appeared in mourn ing Thomas Rees, wh o delivered an address, in which he drew a strong armlet p s o . rtrai Theture funeralof theservice scan t e d with peculiar effect upon his exertions in the cause of civil and religious liberty. Dr. Rees stated that the reveren d deceased's high chara c t er h a d b roug h t hi m i nto i nt i ma te connexion with ma n y o f t h e em i nent sta t esmen o f his time, and that the Test an d C orporat i on A c t repea l, t h e passing of the Dissenting Mar r i age s A c t, a nd other liberal measures, were owing i n no sma ll d egree t o hi s exer ti ons . At the close of the add ress th e b o d y , prece d e d b y D r . R ees , deceased's wasconducted ant e r y Dr. and hd and the Rev. T. Madge and Dr. Hutton, was consigned to the earth. Upon no occasion since the death of the Vener able Archdeacon Watson, have the inhabitants of Hackney evinced so much respect to a deceased parishoner, many of the shops being closed, and a large concourse of persons, of all religious and political views, joining in the mournful procession. GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE, JAN. 2.—Firmness among holders has been very general within this few days past, and we do not hear of any iron offering under 80s., al though we are not aware of any transactions at these figure. —Glasgow Argus. TRADE OF MANCHESTER.—Since Tuesday last the market has continued to improve, and, within the last few days a large business has been done in yarn, both far present and future delivery, at slightly improved rates. For goods, too, there has been more demand ; and, in same cases, a trifling advance has been paid.—M, Guardian. TO THE PIT:i3LIC. (From the Karr 1 For some time past tLe , ',cliff Advertiser.) been devoted to tnur,;„ ,unthb of the Bombay Times have Ameers of Sinde etting forth the praises of the late futile to attertie tut as their defenders know it would be that Sir thsr-ry- to uphold their conduct as rulers, after all Pottinger and Colonel Ontram have recorded in thia re ,- lard, it is endeavoured to show that they were Patere .is of virtue, and most exemplars in their private lives. er Shadad, in particular, is held up as a man in morals an '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 exceptionable 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, Shaded, 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 Tunes 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 'Paeans, book fifteen. and section thirty-seven, and to Gibbon's Decline and Fall, volume one, aud chapttr 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, liierocles, and Quoticus,--to insert the equally detestable partners in Shadad's guilt, Moored 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 Meers 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. nude, Monsa, and others, he was at least less open in his vices than his son. Sobdar was prevented by epilepsey from following a course of sensuality—the only excess I have heard attributed to him was in Ithang. 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, ho 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 succession. Such are the set whom, for purposes best known to them selves, Englishmen are found to uphold as models 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 Shadad, 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. Shadad 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 lie 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 I 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 tite., 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. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Vicountess Jocelyn, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Colonel Bowles, Major-General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie, arrived at Claremont, from Windsor Castle, at twenty minutes before five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. The royal party occupied four carriages and four, and was escorted by a party of the 4th Light Dragoons. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con sort took their accustomed early walk in Claremont Park. Prince Albert afterwards went out shooting, - at tended by Mr. George Edward Anson and Colonel Bouverie. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken out on ponies in Claremont Park yesterday forenoon. The Duke of Buceleuch arrived in town yesterday: Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview with Sir James Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo nial-office for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also for the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar. THE TORT.—This vessel, which has been the of w theatre of so many alleged atrocities, such fearful and revolting scenes of bloTdd n b° m ard acres hich are said to have been enacted, having discharg ed her rich cargo of silks, teas, &c., estimated at 80,0001. value, cleared out last week from the West India Import Dock, and is now lying in the Limehouse Basin, where she is an object of great curiosity. The chief attraction is the after cabin, wher e Captain Johnston sat when he wa s said to ha ve cut at Mars, Cone, and the others. It appears to be about ten feet by twelve, slanting upwards about twelve inches, so as to give the person sitt in g on the ben ch beyond the table entire command over any person entering. A beam run ning across, an d which compels One to stoop, is marked with several cuts, which appear to have been planed away, and then fresh painted in patches. There are also several marks. a s of prodding on the door of a locker near the entrance. Owing to the tragic events which have taken place on board, and the superstitious dread which sailors entertain as re gards vessels so fearfully signalised, it has been resolved to change the name of Tory on her arrival at Liverpool, pre paratory to a voyage to Singapore. Notwithstanding the disorganised state of the crew, the cargo has been turned out to great advantage, and, taking the same circumstance into account, the good condition of the ship is equally surprising, as she will not require to be put into dry dock. Captain Johnstone, her late commander, whose trial was expected to have come on yesterday, is in a very precarious state, and is said to have undergone two operations. There is not the least likelihood that he will be able to take his trial at the present session of the Central Criminal Court ; and the ru mours from Tothill-fields prison would lead to the conclu sion that he cannot survive until the next. ROBBERY OF CASH, &C., FROM A TAVERN.—On Sunday morning, Mr. John Ratcliff, of the King's Arms Tavern, Harefield, Middlesex, discovered that a box, which had been kept in his bed-room, containing bank-notes and other property ; amounting to 1,6801., had been stolen there from during the previous night, viz., ten 201. Uxbridge Old bank notes, and six 51. ditto, a cheque for 1001. on the Mines Royal Company of Harefield, an Exchequer-bill for 7501., and a bond for 6001., besides a number of title-deeds relative to some property at Denham, and other deeds. The numbers of the 201. notes--F. 2,171, 2,242, 2,052, 2,096, 2,212, 2,241, 2,248, 2,042, 2,138, and 2,049. The number of the 51. notes —A. 8,161, 5,561, 5,556, 6,115, 6,296, and 5,849. No clue has yet been obtained likely to lead to the discovery of the thief or thieves. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE,--A little after midnight on Saturday, a tire 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 her 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. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Fanny Howard. The Duchess returned to Frogmore to dinner. Her Royal Highness took a carriage airing this afternoon in the Great Park. 2% 22s 42s 2% 1% 14 2 2%% 25 1 42s 1% 22s 42s 42s 2% 2% 42s 42s 1% 42s :.;...„. o ,‘ 4414 ,6 . 1-4 1 - THE LATE HEAVY GALES. 4 1 ,-;Alt: ; 11.-, Since the announcement of the loss of the St. David--.s steamer, while on a pa ssage 'f rom H avre to Plymouth ---.,:. and Liverpool, during the recent fearful gales, consider= - ,T4 -7 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 out 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 bodies 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 W.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 then, belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked about the same period off Hayle, on the Devonshire coast, but, fortunately for 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 Beaehy Head, to an Oldenburgh schooner, named the Aurora, of Riga, and bound for- Bordeaux, which was run down by the Thorwaldsen, barque, on a voyage from Copenhagen to St. Thomas's. The collision was of that fearful character that the schooner suck 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 wit% 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, nothi ng coul d be seen of the unfortunate creatures. The Unicorn, of Seaton Sluice, Mr. Lumsden, 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.l Wreckers have made their appearance along the Devonshire coast, and we regret to say, in considerable numbers. On the Ness Indiaman 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 announced 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 ourselves to any great accuracy. The superintendent 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, dall, 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 must public part of the town, and making a coafession, 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 have 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 beea awake all the evening, and had heard no noise of any kind. Police-constable Johnson, and ex-police officer Waller, proved the trying of Mrs. Candler's door and shutters, and finding the body of deceased behind the counter, in the manner described by them at the inquest and trial. J. B. Bales, sergeant-at-mace, stated that the day after the murder he went to the Denes, where the money rafhol ratfoot-marks, rh a ko n se d , somethhee of i was found ,and examined severa ys been which, on comparing them much with the size of the I lc v n t o b w edge, froralhaving be lieved to be his. Yarham bad a l foot, im pressions, res shoemaker, sion s , from his e s e ( Bales) avleersy) The re maining part of the ev id ence given up to half pastprisoner's- five on Mond a s y a , m w e h a e s n de th po e se C d o t u o r o t n ad th jo e u t r r n iaL ed, WAS almost literally the 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 sembled yesterday at the General Court-martial-room, 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 on account of his paying the sergeant a per tentage. From this the sergeant was placed under arrest and brought to trial. Witnesses having been examined, Captain Geo. F. Call, of the 18th Foot, produced exact copies of certificates of good conduct from many high and distinguished officers who had known the pri soner—Sergeant Gordon, some 23 years, and others 20, for honourable and upright conduct as a militaryman, and worthy the esteem of every officer whom he has b a d the honour of serving under b oth abroad and at home, and that in case of his retiring from the service, several Field-officers have signified in their testimonials that they should at all times feel it their bounden duty to do their utmost for his welfare. The decision of the Court will notbe known until eon firmed by the Horse Guards. Mr. Newman and his friends will rtmove 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, Collyns, Neave, and Estcourt, remain at Prior Park, near B a th ; M r . O a k e l ey enters at St. Edmund's College, in the diocese of London. Mr. Simpsou, of St. John's College, Oxford, has, we under. Wind- 'een received inW the Roman Cetholic-Chtur.h.—Posts