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LITERATURE. 1 E CABINET HISTORY OF ENGLAND; .ing an Abridgment, by the Author, of the Chapters aired " Civil and Military History" in the " Picto r ial li-story of England." Vols. X. and Xl. By Charles ltfae Farlane. - 1 1- .ese volumes contain the greater part of the his- Isery of James 1., with :,hat of his unfortunate son, up to the famous Remonstrance passed by the Commons in the sixteenth year ( " his reign, when his power and authority were gone and preparations were made on both sides for settling all differences by an appeal to the sword. The reign of Charles I. forms the most important era of English history. During that period was commenced the great struggle against the despotic power of the sovereign, and the foundations were laid of that constitutional liberty which has long been the boast of this island. It is, therefore, of great importance that facts involving such consequences should be correctly stated and fully elucidated, and the more so as they have hitherto been greatly obscured or grossly distorted, and written rather to serve party purposes, or suit personal prejudices, than to lay open the real causes of the revo lution, and point to succeeding generations the debt of gratitude they owe to the Pyms, and llampdens, and Eliots, and the calumniated Puritans. flume, with all his great abilities, his apparent impar tiality, and his clear insight into the motives which generally actuated mankind, has failed in this part of his history, and to a certain extent cast an odium upon the Parliamentary leaders which they little merit. lie has done justice to their splendid talents, their consummate skill in forming and carrying into effect their plans—he admits even their patriotism in re sisting arbitrary power, arid cannot deny that to the Puritans we are indebted for the most valuable privdeges we enjoy as freemen ; but still his praises are evidently forced, and he endeavours to lower these men in public estimation by turning into ridi cule some of their speeches, and by inveighing against their fanaticism and hypocrisy. That, however, is not the only defect in his history-. His partiality to the Stuarts, and the pity which he excites for the fate of t:!e unfortunate sovereign who made war upon his people to defend what he calls his pre rogative, but which all impartial men call despotic power, tended much to lower the character of the op posi,e party even among good reformers, and to de stroy all their merit in the eyes of the High Church parv. His prepossessions in favour of that worthless race of kings blinded a mind otherwise so clear and unbiassed, and made him palliate, or deny, or excuse erinies, which ought to meet with universal reproba tion. Even in the history of that contemptible and Agar sovereign, James 1., this partiality is most slating. He tells us, of course, what he could not concerti—that he was desperately attached to young favourites, that he conferred on them the highest honours, and loaded them with wealth; that they, in fact, were his chief councillors, though they followed each other in rapid succession, and that such a strange propensity caused general offence and scandal, while at the same time he not only throws a veil over his crimes, but asserts what few persons now believe, that these propensities had nothing in them "immoral or flagitious." The trial, conviction, and pardon of the greatest of his favour- Reg, somerset and his profligate wife, for the murder of Si? Thomas Overbury, are briefly described, and made to appear as little injurious to the king as pos sible, thou' is nothing can be more fatal to his character than the whole scene of this,man's life at court. The favourite seduced this woman while the wife of the injured Essex, the king granted his royal permission for a divorce, the guilty pair, with the icing's consent also were marl:lel, and though they wereguilty of an atrocious murder, for which many of the other accomplices suffered deaib at Tyburn, they were pardoned a few weeks after conviction, and the kind settled on Somerset the splendid income of 40,0001. a year for life. This extraordinary conduct is attributed to some secret cause, to some ape prehensions of the king's that Somerset might make fearful disclosures, and the whole history of the trial confirms the worst suspicions. Somerset for some time absolutely refused to submit to a trial, told Sir George More, the Lieutenant of the Tower, that he should carry him to Westminster Hall by force in his bed, and that the king durst not bring I.lel to trial. The rest of the strange scene is thus graphically described by the author of this excellent history : " This language made More quiver and shake ; . . . ' yet a vay goes More to Greenwich, as late as it was, being t we lve at night, and bounces up the back-stairs as if mad.' I,` , e king, who was in bed, on hearing what the Lieutenant bad to say, fell into a passion of tears, and said, ' On m; soul, More, I wot not what to do ! Thou art a wise man ; help me in this great st ra it, an d for a thankful master.' shalt find thou dos,' it Lieutenant told his p r i soner turning to the Tower, the . tba; he had been with the ki t : d+ and found hi m a most t.tf etionate master unto him, ant: full of grace in hi s in tentians towards him ; but, said he, to satisfy j us ti ce , t'ou must appear, although you return instantly again, 'without any further proceeding, only you ,shall know ~ ahall ',o ur . o i wer over ym at . With this trick o f w i t he (have ayed is tory, and got him quietly, about eight i n t h e ria:` - :::, to the Hall ; yet feared his former bold language iglii revert again, and, being br oug ht by t hi s tr i c k i nto &e toil, might have more enraged him to fly out into i one strange discovery. He had two servants placed n eit]..,.h side of him, with a cloak on their arms, giving .t'aem .i peremptory order, if that Somerset did any way y out on the king, they should instantly hoodwink him I ith that cloak, take him violently from the bar, sad trry him away ; for which he would secure them from *ay danger, and they should not want also a bountiful feward." elume keeps all these remarkable circumstances out v,; ,„;glit, though attested by Coke as well as Weldon, and merely remarks, " Allowing all these circum stances to he true, of which some are suspicious, if not palpably false, the great remains of tenderness which James still felt for Somerset may, perhaps, be suf ficient to account for them." Throughout the whole history of Charles the First the same par tiality in favour of the royal martyr prevails. The philosophical and elegant historian, by a singular perversion of facts, about which there can he no doubt, declares that Charles " was candid, sin cere, upright, as much as any man whom we meet in :history;" and adds, " perhaps it would be difficult to End another character so unexceptionable in this par ticular." Now, it is a matter of history that the Par liamentary leaders could place no confidence in the king's most solemn promises, and that this very cir cumstance urged them to extremities for their own preservation. It is necessary to cite only two or three instances to disprove the assertion that the ki ng w as " candid, upright, and sincere." His very entrance into public life displayed great duplicity. While he remained at Madrid he deceived the whole court, and more especially the confiding Infanta, With promises and engagements which he never in tended to pei•form. He even submitted to a course of ,nental reservation, evasion, lying, and per + Ary, says the writer of this work on -col authority. He was ready to vow vhatever they chose to get safe out of ,heir country, " fully resolving to break all these en e ligements as soon as he conveniently might ;" and `as first remark on finding himself on board one . f his father's ships was, " that he had duped the .4paniards." An o th er i nstance of perfidy occurs on e memorable occasion when he reluctantly con • .ntesl to give to the Parliament at Westminster the ppllatson of the Parliament of Englande,atinndelie.cbretly ntered an explanatory protest i n his o • retending that though he had call e d t h em a parTk' lent, he had not thereby acknowled ge d them 'f4o-r 'ach. And what justification or apology can be +lade for his shuffling, evasive, and faithless conduct .o reference to the Petition of Right ? lie at first lave An evasive answer—he at last gave it his full 4 ised, and broke every article of it either imtne tiateiy after, or during the long period that he titled without Parliaments. His breach of pro .nis, to Strafford, too, is an indelible blot ~n his memory, and proved that he was neither can- Vitt nor sincere, nor upright. Strafford saw the r torin coming, and, to escape from his enemies, asked leave to retire to his government in Ireland; but the ticw, afraid to act without him, refused his consent, ,nd assured the devoted victim that " not a hair of is h ea d should be touched." Charles basely betrayed is friend, appointed a commission to sign the war ant for his execution, and the Earl, on receiving the ,t,ll , stelligenee, and indignant at such weakness and eachery, exclaimed, in the agony of despair, " Put ~ it your trust in princes." A candid and sincere ierai would have been torn to pieces rather than ; VA to such infamy ; but he lived to repent his , soi es,3, and at the hour of his death could not for ,,t hi s treachery to Strafford. This admirable istorical sketch, drawn by Mr. Mac Farlane, id, among many other standard works, pub • shed at a cheap rate by Knight and Co., pourtrays to scenes of that eventful period in their true light, ,ad reveals many facts which Hume mysteriously l is ncealed. One of its gre at merits its impartiality. ustice is done to Chales, but no more than justice. 'bere is no i n discriminate praise of the patriotic '.:tiers of th e C ommo ns, nor of the principal men who figured i n t h e c i v il war . lie justly blames the , xtravapnua and the wild fanaticism of the Puritans; ie adini..s that the Scotch Covenanters were like their eighbours, and not very nice in keeping their word .vhen it suited their purpose to break it ; and is no . ss severe against th e i ntolerance and tyraon,j7 of the 'resbyterians and Purit ans than the determined aru i pen despotism of Ch ar l es , and Laud, and Strafford. .'o Laud he does full ju s ti ce , and assertsss f his reforms in church discipline and that some ihvabits were ot only harmless, but judiciously contrived _a fro which we totally diff er. ot much good is recorded, becau se , if O fetrt‘Thteha ek:aiernnrlge m bserved, little could be said in his favour. x , is whole life was disgraced either by tr eac h erous y , o liey or by downright absolutism. No wo characters differ more widely from each ther than the character of Charles as drawn by Iftkru,e and that which h. was proved to possess by undoubted facts in history. Hume repre sents him as a gentleman in every respect, while he was notoriously addicted to vulgar language, more vulgar even than that used by his uncouth father, and in his letters was constantly in the habit of using such expressions as "rascals," " villains," and in a commission with which he intrusted the Marquis of Hamilton for reducing the discontented' Scots, he called the Presby terians " that rascally people ;" and the favourite epithet he applied to such illustrious men as Eliot, and Pym, and Hampden, was " the vipers." On readinz the trials of Laud and Strafford, as described by the Tory historian, one is astonished at the inex tinguishable hatred of the people against these two Ministers, and the savage determination with which they were pursued to death; but a correct history, like that here given, explains the mystery, and shows that no men ever were more justly doomed to death for betraying the liberties of their country. The style of the work, too, deserves great praise. It is nervous, dignified, and eminently practical. The object of the writer is not to round off a period or draw a beautiful metaphor, but to state facts in the most impressive manner, and furnish the reader with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth When he condescends to use figures of writing they are generally thrown in his way, and taken up, as it were, by accident, and in that respect he is generally very happy. For instance, the courtiers at Vienna told the emperor that Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North, was but a king of snow, who would melt away as he approached the north. " But," says Mr. Mac Farlane, " the Swede continued his course, and there was no melting away ; or, if there was, it was of that nature which releases the avalanche from the mountain, to thunder through and over whelm the valley beneath." And in a like happy figure of speech, when stating that the Pres byterians of Ulster had by Strafford's tyranny and persecution been banished to their natire country, he adds, " These preachers returned to their native hive in Scotland, whence there soon issued such a swarm as darkened the sun of the house of Stuart." The . work altogether i s en titl e d to t h e h i ghest praise ; it, in fact, forms a new era in th e wr iti ng o f hi story ; it is neither prolix nor tedious; on the contrary, the reader regrets often that the description of some great man, such as the splendid account of the birth, educa tion, and character of Hampden, given as an episode, is not more prolonged, and every possible detail exhi bited to view. No novel or romance can be more en tertaining; and, we say with perfect sincerity, that the eleventh volume of this publication, containing a his tory of the events preceding the civil war, is the most interesting book we ever read. LOSS OF AN EAST INDIANIAN. LEWES, MONDAY.—From the letters received here this morning, it appears that there has been a dreadful storm along the south-east coast. On Saturday night, the 27th inst., the gale itnreased to a perfect hurricane, and several vessels were damaged, doubling Beachy Head. About one o'clock on Sunday morning a large Dutch East Indiaman, name unknown, came on shore on the coast of Pevensey, a little to the north-east of th . e Head, the wind blowing tremendously, and the sea running mountains high ; eighteen of the crew, out of thirty-two or thirty-three on board, succeeded in land ing in safety in their own boat, and it appeared from their statement that the ship was bound from Batavia to Amsterdam, laden with a valuable cargo of coffee, sugar, and indigo. The greatest apprehensions were entertained for the safety of the captain of the vessel, who, steady to the trust reposed in him, remained on board with the mate and twelvo or thirteen of the crew ; but it was not until Sunday forenoon that any assistance could be afforded them. Their situa tion during that dreadful night, on such a shore, with a g Ile from the S.S.W., and a sea continually break ing over their ill-fated vessel, was truly awful. In the forenoon of Sunday, however, a small pleasure-boat I”lon4ing to Peven se y, name d t h e R e b ecca, manned by ; two pilots, riPmed Pierce and Wood, and three of the Coast Guard, named Oliver, Warnell, and Fleming, put off to the assistance of the crew of the East Indianian, and succeeded in reaching her. From the violence of the gale, however, and the sea continually breaking over the wreck, they were unable to effect their purpose of bringing off the captain and the remainder of the crew ; but. with determined perseverance, they laid by, watch ing for a favourable opportunity. This, however, did not speedily occur, and about eleven the life-boat from Eastbourne went to assist her. After a considerable delay the remainder of the crew, with the master, were taken on board the boat, with the exception of one poor fellow, who was lashed to the rigging, and whom it was impossible to save. It is some consolation to believe, from the appearance of the man, and the position of his limbs, that he was dead when the life-boat reached the vessel. Having been landed in safety, it is gratifying to state that the poor fellows were supplied with every necessary by two of the railway contractors on the Lewes and Hastings line ; the officers and men at the Coast Guard station also rendering every assistance. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORFOLK RAILWAY. NORWICH, TUESDAY NIGHT.—At ten o'clock this evening, Mr. Robert Eagle Clark, the Coroner fur the borough of Thetford, resumed the inquiry, adjourned from Friday last, at the Guildhall, Thetford, relative to the death of William Pickering, engine-driver, and Thomas Hedger, fireman, who perished by the rrcent v oc K lent on the Norfolk Railway. , faemas Brown, a labourer, living in Croxton parish, near Ti;.tford, was then called, and on being sworn said, on Wednes. 4 l l ) . last I was at work at Mr. Wright's farm at Kilveston, which is near the Norfolk Railroad, on the Croxton-road, el/ the right hand side from Norwich. While I was standing nee,: the farm-house, I saw the train that met with the accdeli! coming up, but I cannot , say that it was travelling at a g e e ,:ter rate than I have seen trains usually run, for I did A Lt take particular notice of it. It passed me, and on going two or three fathoms, it went behind a plantatico, and it was lost to my view for a second or so, :Olen it came in sight. Almost immediately afterwards I lost sight of it again, the end of the house obstructing the view ; and I then heard a kind of rattling which ap peered to me like the escape of steam. I ran round the corner of the house and saw a dense cloud of steam. which perfectly hid the engine and carriages and every thing near. 1 instantly made to the spot and called out if there was any one hurt. I was answered by some person that he did not know; and I then got upon the line, and discovered the deceased lying upon, or across the rails. Pickering was on the ground, with his face downwards, and I heard him groan. I lifted up his head and blood was gushing from the mouth, and he died in about ten minutes. Hedger laid with his legs on the rails, and his body rested on the earth. The engine was nine or ten yards from them, at the bottom of the em bankment, on the Croxton side. It rested on its side; two wheels were embedded in the earth of the banking, and the other rested in the field. The chimney was knocked , off, and I saw it on the same side as the engine, near ' the edge of the line. The tender was thrown crossways on the rails near Thetford. The car riages were on the other side of the line, the up side. Three of them and a truck were down the embankment. The deceased was found just behind the last carriage of those down the bank. The remainder of the train was on the line, but I think the wheel had gone off the rails. The bodies did not lay under the carriages. The first carriage of the latter portion of the train was close to on: of the men, probably two or three yards. The men were about three yards from each other. Pickering was placed in a truck and taken on to Thetford, as also Hedger. I remained with the latter until he expired. By the CORONER—Did not see the engine go off the line. Did not observe any particular motion of the en gine before it ran off. Saw no rocking of the carriages The deceased never said anything about the accident as to who caused it. Pickering never spoke, he frequently groaned. The only words Hedger made use of were, Oh, dear me ! Am sure they did not give any account of the accident in my hearing. Took no particular re., tice of the rail where the engine went over. By a juror—Was positive that the first carriage a: the remainder of the train on the line was three or four yards from the deceased. Isaac Rowe, a shepherd of Kilveston, was next ex amined —I wes about sixt • yards from the railroad, cn the C roxton side when ' ?saw the engine go over 0:2 round to seel I line. Before then, seen a train in the habit of noteive!"reaS faster than Iflui, t ti and thought it was going very fast-- ad tra i n coming, and turned travel before. I am down the line, passed me, about sixty or B r e en pe4:l4,thtiel trains frequently pass up and engine jump. The fire-wheels rose one side; it then jumped agaitnia''e yards, I perceived the or four a-day. When it went over the embankment. up, and it reeled on ' r "aed. the line, and , CORONER--NOW, be careful bow you explain Did you see any men on th e engine after it 4tii , yourscti. Witness—No, I did not, in c onsequence of ther°l3°d' body of steam. lmmense CORONER—State if you noticed any other unusu a l ' ap. pearance. Witness—After the engine jumped, the fire flew about in all directions from the bottom and side. It appearcn as if it was forced out. By a juror —I could not say that the engine was oft the rails when she jumped. When it passed me I no ticed two men on it, but I did not see them jump off. Mr. George Goding Johnson, the master of the sta tion at Thetford, was then sworn. On last Wednesday, at about a quarter to one o'clock, I was sent for to at tend the deceased, the subject of inquiry. I iname. diately went to the spot, and found the deceased lying on the right side of the line. Pickering having died, I had him put into a luggage box, and Hedger was placed on a board, and were both conveyed to the Thetford station. The latter died three or four hours afterwards I did not hear him give any account of the accident ; was not able John Arwell, a farmer's bailiff, residing at Kilveston, neat deposed, on oath, I saw the accident, when about 400 yards on the Crouton side of the railway. It hap • pened rather to the right of me. I saw the train eorninr., full half a mile along the cutting. I did not notice the pace sa very particularly then, but on clearing the cultic I thought the speed was much increased. It appearel 1; 1 2 going very fast. CoitoNea—Vaster than usual? Witness—Yes, sir ; faster than usual. I think it was faster than ever I saw one go before. I may have seen an engine with a tend. r - go .s # but I am sure never with a train. COUGNE Yes there that excited my feat anything about the engine that attracted your attent io n more particularly than another Witness—Yes. The first thing was the flying of the fire from under ft. It shot cut marked to myself, " suddenly and rapidly , and I re Dee. I And the wort me, wh at a pac ere going at."e Lb. ) scarcely "eaPed frov: y bps before she went off tee CORONER—Now, did you see the engine jump? Wlt ness—l did. Instantly after the fire flew out it jumped as if it was passing over logs of wood laid on the rai.e, and then went down the embankment. There was r. great quantity of steam. Before the engine went off silt. appeared " full;" in fact, there was so much of it that .. did not exactly witness all that took place. CORONER—Then I understand you to say that the moment the fire fell the engine jumped ? Witness— She did, and then apparently pitched sideways down the line. The carriages proceeded until they were all of a heap. CORONER—Can you say whether you saw any man..:.11 the engine ? Witness—As soon as the engine came out of the cutting I perceived two men upon it, and I noticet. them up to the moment prior to the engine turning ove: One of them jumped off on the Croxton side of the lin_ I saw nothing particular of the other man. By the jury—The fire proceeding from the engine it: the way it did induced me to watch it more particular'y The carriages appeared to be proceeding on the rails after the engine had jumped. I cannot judge how far it went after the fire flew out—it might be 30 or 40 yen.: from where I stood. The steam and smoke were very great; the steam seemed to be issuing from both ends at thf same time the fire was falling. When I got up to tit, spot, several persons, who had assembled, were paint, a man apparently from under the carriages that were just on the edge of the embankment. He was Hedger, I believe. I never heard the deceased men speak about the accident. CORONER—Pray did you ever see any other engine with steam and swuke in such a manner as the one in question ? Witness—No ; I never did, and that was what excited my surprise. It was quite an unusual ap pearance, and I never saw anything like it before. CORONER—Have you seen many trains pass along ? Witness—l have ; four or five a day. I did not take particular notice of the speed of the engine that led to the accident. Mr. Parker, the solicitor to the Company (to the wit ness)—Respecting the unusual appearance you have been mentioning, I wish to ask you whether you saw the man on the engine extend his arm, and apparently touch something, after or before the engine jumped, or the fire fell out? Witness—What attracted my attention, sir, to the engine, was the fire, instantly afterwards it jumped, and then the man extended his arm, and at the same moment leaped off. I will swear that I saw the man on the engine move his arm after it rose. Several other witnesses spoke in support of the above evidence. Dr. Bailey, of Thetford, was then called to prove the injuries which the deceased men died from. It being now near five o'clock, The CJRONEIt said, it would be impossible to conclude the inquiry that evening, and he begged to recommend an adjournment, as, in the meantime, no doubt, General Pesky would institute his official investigation, and, by having his opinion on the subject, it would much assist the jury in coming to a verdict. The jury acquiesced in the suggestion, and the investi gation was accordingly adjourned. LAw INTELLIGENCE. SECONDARIES' COURT, Dec. :.)1. (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER) MORGAN V. CHILTON. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 7L 55., the balance of an account for the board and edu cation of the son of the defendant, who pleaded that he was not indebted, The plaintiff keeps a boarding-school at Edmonton, aad the charge for board and education was 51. per quarter. Mr. John Wilson, the manager of the school, was called, and proved that the boy was at school for half a year ; there were extras in the bill, for clothes' mending, pocket- money, &c. (one of the items for each quarter being " hair-oil, hair-cutting, shoe strings, and medicine, Is. 61") The prospectus stated that no " extras" were to be charged, but the witness said that meant no " school extras," but " accomplishments " were not part of education. lie saw defendant at the school, and afterwards on bringing the boy to town. In cross-examination, the witness said the only way he knew the defendant was the father, was by asking the boy, a rule they always observed. For the defendant, it was contended that Mr. George Chilton was not liable, but that his brother, Mr. James Chilton, a solicitor, was the father, and would have paid, but it was not likely that he would whilst an action was pending against his brother. Though Chilton, a solicitor, gvas the father, and the person liable, and would have Laid, indeed had written on the subject, by a blunder the brother had been sued. A letter signed "James Chilton" a as put in. The SECONDARY said that it was sworn that Mr. George Chilton was the defendant, and therefore the case tor the jury was clear. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-flO USE. Three boys, the youngest of whom was eight years, and the eldest twelve years of age, were brought before the Lord Mayor. They were in a miserable plight, and a gentleman, who saw one of them commit a petty theft, caused them all to be apprehended, in order to have in quiry made into their apparently desolate condition. The case proved to be one of ordinary occurrence. The boys were all the children of very poor parents, who are, probably, unable to support them, deriving a pre• carious living for themselves from vending articles in the streets. It was stated by the children that as they had nothing to do they walked about together, and their parents were, God knew where, all day endeavouring to scrape up the means of getting a bit of bread and paying for the wretched room in which they contrived to live. Fifty such cases have been brought before the present Chief Magistrate. The LORD MAYOR said it was most deplorable to see these poor children on the road to certain destruction. It was a disgrace to the great nation which boasted of charity, taking within its comprehensive grasp the dis tressed and afflicted of all classes, that the streets should be crowded with poor, half-naked children, who had no human being to guide them, many of whom were sent out by their parents to beg or steal, and others, with out parents or friends, prowling about, disregarded by the officers of the unions, and, in fact, encouraged in the practices of poverty and vice by the depraved people wiai whom they necessarily come into contact in the coursa of their proceedings. Geaman (the Chief Cleik) said, that although he been but a short time in the situation he held, he had seen sri 10014 of cases of the kind. There ap peared to be no approaeh to an abatement of the evil, which was certain: - one of the greatsgnitude. The New Poor-law j did 11,7 meet the difficu t ma lty. That law punished parents for refusal s" r I le g ie( '. t . t° su pp ort their children; but how easily were its pi -ivislo . ns eyed .. ed, Children would, when their parents were 100 k...", livelihood in the streets, wander about from place to e• atter a place, and fall in with bad associates, and it could not be said that their parents refused or neglected to support them. But those who were bound to carry the law into effect, by compelling the parishes of the poor to sup port ttiem, did not perform their duty. The City of London Union had no refuge for the miserable creatures who crowded into London, except at Peckham, a dis tance of three miles, to which they were sent at all hours, with tickets for admission. The LORD MAYOR said that he would supplicate the powerful press of the metropolis to lend their great assistance in checking the dreadful evil, by calling the attention of the Legislature to it. Of all the painful spectacles he had ever witnessed, that of the crowds of helpless children with which the streets were deluged, was the most affecting. Multitudes of them were, he knew beyond all doubt, sent out to beg by their parents or other relatives. They were thrown upon the world at the ago when the mind was flexible to any impression of good or evil, and they were imperceptibly led into the commission of crime, until repeated acts rendered them incorrigible. Society thus became responsible for the contamination to which poor children were sub jected. There was a total absence of restraint or good example, and the very ingenuity displayed in the little acts of dishonesty perpetrated by those of tender years are encouraged by the laughter, and in some cases by the approbation of the lookers. on. There was no calamity, in his mind, comparable to that which sprung from the bringing up of youth in habits and practices of idleness and vice. The Legislature spent hours and days in discussing the principle of edu cation. Could the minds of the representatives of the people be more benevolently employed than in devising the means of correcting the awful evil which was always before the eyes of the magistrate, and was almost as frequently encountered by the men concerned in the ordinary transactions of town life? He was con vinced that a blessing would wait upon any effort of the kind he suggested ; and again he would beseech the in fluential press of the metropolis to take the important qu estion into their hands for the sake of common hu manity. What could he do, as a magistrate, in the case before him? Commit these three children for stealing a Were they persons to be sent for trial to the f O e t w d peas? Bailey ? His heart revolt 'd at the thought, for his heart bled for them and the thousands of poor young creatures who, like them, were without protection, and going headlong into ruin. Mr Goodman said he had no doubt that publicity . would be given to his Lordship's observations on so vital a subject, an d t h a t some benevolent and high minded mien would apply to the Legislature, by whom alone a remedy could be administered. note, No. 94,147, and M "cat acknowledged the receipt of a 5 !. dated 11 t h November, 1845, J. J., for the poor applicants at the Mansion- house. Mr. Dashwood, surgeon, of G reen w ich obtained a summons against Messrs. 6;aplin and I orne, carriers, under the following circumstances ;_- Mr. Dashwood received a letter father, the Rev. Wm. Dashwood, of s u • • some day s ago from his him that a parcel containing turkeys,n&z. MAI( informing the children, should be sent from i ra money for the Star coach to London, directed to him on Christmas‘Bb thenc e n ene the 24th called at the Spread Eagle booking-af leao eve * He to where the instant accordingly, and was direated from Eastern Counties Railway terminus at Shoreditel-7 he applied for the prrcel, but without receiving any satisfactory answer. In fact, h e was j eere d with the advice to go quickly borne, or his turkeys would arrive before him. hie had a company of thirteen friends to dine with him on Christmas-day, but no turkey ap peared. On the following night. however, at nine o'clock, the parcel was conveyed to him at Greenwich, with the additional charge of one shilling, his father having paid 2s. Bd. fur the carriage. Mr. Dashwood produced the printed bill with the charge marked upon it, and the Lord Mayor seeing the names "Chaplin and Horne" at the bottom of it in printed letters as carriers, directed that a summons should be sent to that respect ' able firm, A geutlemaa attended from Messrs. Chaplin and (Lorne, and sympathised with Mr. Dashwood, but stated that the firm had not had anything whatever to do with THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1846. the Star coach for some time, and knew nothing what ever of the transaction. Mr. Dashwood said that before the establi•hment of the Eastern Counties Railroad the utmost regularity was observed in the delivery of parcels at Christmas, us well as at all other times, but that since the line was in opera tion nothing could surpass the marvellous irregularity of the whole system. He considered that he was most severely imposed upon, for he had been put to trouble and expense, and after all disappointed, and when lie did get the parcel the turkeys were spoiled. The LORD MAYOR said that over the Star coach he, unfortunately, had no control, or he should be happy to render a service to Mr. Dashwood in such a case. _ Mr. Dashwood called his Lordship's attention to the improper use made of the respectable names of Messrs. Chaplin and Horns to give authority to the additional demand which he had been compelled to comply with, or part with his parcel. The LORD MAYOR regretted that the only remedy for Mr. Dashwood lay in a court of law. Mr. Dashwood declared that he could bring forward a dozen gentlemen of Greenwich who had been treated in exactly a similar manner. The LORD MAYOR—I am very sorry for it. But Mr. Hudson. who is now chairman of the Eastern Counties Railroad, will, I dare say, cast his eye upon some account of this complaint, and his activity and zea will not be wanting to abate so disagreeable and inconl venient an evil. Dennis Shine, a young man who had been a police man some tine ago, was brought up for final examina tion, on the charge of having committed several most desperate assaults in the Bell, in Little Friday-street, on Friday evening. The person most injured, a policeman named John Monaghan, was not able, in cup sequence of the injuries he sustained, to attend until yes terday. John Monaghan (policeman 541) stated that he was sent for to the house in consequence of a very serious disturbance there on the evening in question. When he arrived there were five or six policemen round the door, and he saw the prisoner inside a room on the second floor, through a hole in the panel of the door, and asked him to give himself up. The prisoner refused, and said he would kill any policeman who attempted to enter. Witness at once pushed in the door, and on going into the room was violently assaulted by the prisoner, who struck at him with the handle of a tire-shovel, which he (the prisoner) held .with both his hands. Witness re ceived the blow across the arm and under the eye. The prisoner then levelled another desperate blow at the witness, which broke through his hat, and inflicted a severe wound on the back part of his head, but witness, laid hold of his assailant, and managed to get him down, and then the prisoner said he should submit. The wit ness was obliged to leave the room immediately after wards, and was for a time quite blind in consequence of the desperate nature of the assault. It appeared from other evidence that the prisoner had been previously quarrelling at the bar, where he knocked down the waiter and jumped upon his face; that when the police were called for in consequence of that vio lence, he ran into the tap-room, seizes the kitchen poker, knocked a man senseless under the table with a back-hrnded blow of it, cleared the room of all the cus tomers, and then ran up stairs, and fastened himself in the room, in which he was at length apprehended, and in which he very nearly committed murder. The prisoner said, that he had been struck by one of the policemen above stairs through the panel of the door, before he touched Monaghan, and that in his rage he had retaliated, without being particular as to the person whom he punished. The Lul) Mayort—l commit you for trial, and I shall direct the City Solicitor to prosecute you at the Central Criminal Court. Prisoner—Won't your Lord:hip take bail? The LORD MAYOR—Certainly not. The prisoner was then committed fur trial. John . Luba, a Dutchman, was charged with having, on the 25th of June last, stolen three watches, worth seve rally 65 guineas, 40 guineas, and 30 guineas. Mr. John Burley, of No. 56, Ernest street, R' gent's park, watchmaker, stated that on the 25th of June he was sent by a Mr. Viner to No. 3, St. George's-terrace, Bayswater-road, to show some watches and clocks to a Mr. Delara. Upon inquiring fur Mr. Delara he was sent up to the first fluor, where he saw the pris&sner,who WAS quite at his ease, smoking a cigar Lice a gentleman. The prisoner, upon being asked, said that he was Mr. Delara, and that the watches, but not the clocks, were for him; but he expected a captain would call very soon who was going to make a present to the lady of a watch, and probably his choice would fall upon one of them. The prisoner then took a watch, covered with pearls, value 65 guineas, out of the room, f,r the purpose of showing it, but soon returned, and then took away the three watches under pretence of exhibiting them to his lady. Witness waited, but Mr. Delara never returned. The servant girl, upon being spoken to by witness, in sisted that Mr. Delara was in the drawing-rootn, but the hall door being found open the matter was fully ex plained—the prisoner had absconded with the property. The prisoner—l am not the man ; it is quite a mis take. I was in Rolland in June, and I never came 'lyre till November. The Loiw MAron (to the witness)—Have you any doubt of the prisoner's identity? Witness—Not the least. Inspector Shackell, to whom information of the rob bery had been given, anti who apprehended the prisoner, said he had traced the pearl wateigfo a gentleman in Regent street, who had purchased it of Mr. Phillips, by whom it had been purchased of Mr. Delara. Witness said he had met with the greatest facilities from both the parties mined in pursuing the investigation. Mr. Phillips, of Castle-street, Houndw.litch, watch maker, said that he purchased three watches of the pri soner at the «,nd of June or the beginning of July, and the pearl watch produced was one of them. He was con vinced the prisoner was the man. The father of the last witness also identified the pri soner as the person who had sold the watches. The L _RD MAYOR.—WeII, prisoner, what do you say to all this evidence ? The prisoner—Why, I say they mistake the person. I know nothing about the watches or about them. I can write to Holland to prove I was there at the time you speak of. I was there in June and I was not here till November. The LORD MAYOR.—You mir,bt have been there in June and here too, and you might have been there in November too. Prisoner—But it is all a gross mistake. I❑spector Shackell said he should be able still more strongly to confirm the identity, and the prisoner was re manded. GUILDHALL. A butcher, named Tay/or, who sometimes retails meat at the stalls of Mr. Sadler, a wholesale butcher, in New gate. street, was summoned before Mr. Alderman Challis for vending a leg of pork, unfit for human food, on the 23d inst. Henry Gatfield, of George•street, ;Cambridge-heath, stated that he and his wife came to Newgate market to buy their Christmas dinner, hoping to fare better than if teurehased nearer home. At Mr. Sadler's stall they they •.- ~- :- T fur which they , paid 7s. GI A eared to be a very suitab:e joint, a leg of found what perk, weighing 16,,e, on Christmas-day, and good blazing, fire was made u, + n be thoroughly big us it was, the leg was expecteu l'eura the roasted in four hours. At the end of two .. family were astonished that there was no savoury fumes about the premises, such as might be expected from the action of a good fire on a nice leg of pork, arid it was examined and found to be as soft and raw as if it had not been placed at the fire at all. It was curious, and in the next two hours it was looked at pretty often, but still presented the same uncooked, be-devilled appearance. At the appointed dinner hour it was taken up and strictly examined. The meat had become redder, oddly red, but it was evidently still raw. A stronger fire was made up and it was put down again, and at the end of six hours it was in the same state of rawness as at the end of four hours or two hours. It was clear the leg would not roast, and that something else must besub stituted for the Christmas dinner. When he called early next morning on the salesman, he gave him the name of defendant as the person who had the use of the stall at the time. lie produced the joint, which had an un sightly appearance and a tough skin. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said this story put him in mind of the nursery rhyme, " fire, fire, won't burn pig." What was the reason the meat would not mast ? The complainant said he was unable to tell the cause. He could only speak to the fact. It was surmised that it was the leg of a very old boar pig, fattened up fur sale, and that he had died of smother ing, and without having the blood drained out of him, upon some railway. Mr. Alderman CuaLus asked if he could show that the animal must have been infected with some disease ? The complainant said he could not. The defendant said he could prove by the clerk of the market, and another butcher, to whom he showed a part of the pig, on receiving the summons, that it was not diseased. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS asked him to look at the meat, and say if it was good. The butcher replied, he could not say. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS reminded the complainant that he had been accustomed to buy meat, and if there was nothing in the appearance of the meat when fresh cut up to excite suspicion, might not the butcher be also deceived ? If he ordered the butcher to repay the whole money, he must help him to recover it from some other party, and he did not know where the pro cess would stop. They had both erred in judgment while buying, and should, perhaps, divide the loss. Both parties agreed to this, and the matter was settled. A.B. remitted 21. for the poor•box. BOW-STREET. Richard Kean, the carman who was charged, on this day week, with running over a woman named Elizabeth Lee, and thereby causing her death, and was then set at liberty on his own recognizances to appear yesterday, came forward, in pursuance of his recognizances, when it ap • peared that an inquest had been held on the body of the old woman, and that a verdict of accidental death had been returned by the jury. Mr. TWYFORD, being satisfied from the verdict of the jury that the prisoner was not blameable, ordered him to be discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Edward Bannister and Adolphus Fully, young work ing men, were charged with causing a disturbance at the Queen's Theatre, in Tottenham -street, Tottenham-court road, making use of obscene language, and assaulting the constable of the theatre, and one of the check- t'Lkers. It appeared that between seven and eight on Tuesday evening th e defendants p resente d t h emse l v es to the money-tak er at the ga ll ery entrance and asked if there was room ; tkey were told that there was good standing room or side seats ; they then in quired, if they did not like their places, would their money be returned to them, and were told cer tainly not; they, however, paid the price of their ad mission a n d went up stairs, b ut shortly returned, com plaining that there was not sufficient room to get sight of the stage, and demanded the return of their money. The constable was sent up stairs with them again/ sad sea's were found them, but they objected to them, and coming deveu to the money-taker, violently assaulted him and knocked down the constable; they also made use of abusive and obscene language. The defendants said they had certainly had a little too much to drink, but were irritated at (imbue no room in the gallery, and the refusal of the money-taker to re turn what they had paid for admission. Mr. lIARDWICKE asked if they were drunk? The con stable said the . ) certainly had been drinking. Mr. HARDWICKH said that places of public amusement should not be disturbed bucause some persons chose to get drunk and misconduct themselves. The defendants should each pay 205., or ten days' imprisonment. Mat y Wasfold and Ellen Johnson, young women, were charged on suspicion of being concerned in stealing a gold watch and guard chain, of the value of 301. Be tween four and five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the prisoner Wa-fold offered in pledge to Mr. Wallace, of No. 51, Old Compton-street, Soho, silversmith and pawn broker, the watch and guard chain in question, asking the advance of 4/. on them. The value of the pro perty excited Mr. Wallace's suspicion that it had not been honestly come by, and on questioning Wasfold he was from the unsatisfactory account she gave induced to send for a police-constable, No. 166 of the E division, and give her into custody. She then stated that she had been sent to pledge the watch by the prisoner Ellen Johnson, who was waiting for her at No. 7, Crown-street, Soho. In a short time afterwards Johnson came to Mr. Wallace's shop to inquire about her companion, and was also given in charge. Mr. Wal lace, by referring to the maker of the watch, Mr. Dent, of the Strand, ascertained that it was the propel ty of a gentleman residing in Lincoln's Inn .fiields, at present oat of town. Johnson asserted that the watch and guard-chain had been given to her by that gentleman on boxing night, she having acci dentally met with him. in Lincoln's Inn-fields. Mr. Iteanwicie said, that much credit was due to Mr. Wallace for the steps he had taken in bringing this case forward. The prisoners were remanded until to-morrow. CLE RICEN WELL. William Jones was charged with burglary. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner en tered a house at the rear of that of Mr. Ilichhell, of Brook-street, on the previous night, and stole ther,-from a number of fowls, which he was found in possession of, in Leather-lane, by police-constable Porter, 10 G, at two o'clock yesterday. The prisoner begged "to be let go," for God's sake. The house whence the fowls were stolen is likewise a dwelling. The inmates were not at all disturbed by thethief.- T -Committed for trial. LAMBETH. Thomas Smith, William David Eales, and Ann Jones, alias Smith, who have been in custody for some days past, on a charge of being concerned in the robbery at the house of Mr. Hamblin, an aged and infirm gentleman, 3, Crayford-road, Coldblow-lane, Camberwell, were brought before Mr. Henry for further examination. The first witness called was Mr. Thomas Phillips, who gave his address at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. He deposed that he had seen the prisoner Smith before, and was perfectly confident of his identity. When requested by Mr. Henry to state the circumstances under which he had before seen Smith, Mr. Phillips said, that on the afternoon of Sun day, the 14th instant, he went to visit his sister, Mrs. Hamblin, whose husband has been a long time bed ridden, at her house in Crayford-road, Camberwell. At about eight o'clock in the evening, while sitting at the bed-side of his brother-in-law, his sister, Mrs. Hamblin, came in in a great state of agitation, and beckoned to him to follow her to the next room. He did so, and Mrs. Ham blin then informed him that there was a strange man in the house, and showed hint a letter which he had given her. His sister then commenced reading the letter to him in a low tone of voice, lest her husband should hear it; for, from the state he was then in, the slightest excitement must have produced his death. After hearing the con tents of the letter, witness went into the passage, where he saw the prisoner Smith, and, addressing him, said, " Pray. what is yoor business here ?" and while so ad dressing him, he saw that he had a dirk in his hand. The prisoner replied, " I have come for the money in the house, and if I don't have it in a few minutes I'll call in my men who are outside, and the house will be plundered." On finishing the sentence, he drew from his lefthand coat-p , cket a horse pistol, and proceeding towards the hall-door, partially opened it and gave a whistle wh: n a second man, armed as he was himself, with a pistol and dagger, came in. There was some communi cation between them, when the second man stood up in a corner shaded from the light, that he, witness, should not see his face, so as to be able to identify him again. He had, however, a perfect view of the features of Smith, and had recognised in them at the time a partial likeness to two friends of his own, with whom he had done business, and this circumstance had so strongly impressed his mind with the whole of the prisoners' countenance, that he could have no difficulty, even at a remote period, of speaking with perfect certainty to his identity, and was confident he was the man. The pri soner Smith spoke to him and said, " If you'll let me have 10/. I'll leave the house, anti take my men away," and at this time Mr. H. Phillips thought the second man had left the house. Witness told Mrs. Hamblin what the prisoner said about the 101., and she went up stairs in great agitation to look for the money as he supposed; she had not been cone many minutes, when Smith called out, " Is that lady coining ? I'll only allow two minutes before I call my men in." He (witness) here recollt cted he had a bank note in his pocket for 101_ and f,llotved his sister up stairs to tell her so, and they returned together. Witness then waled up to Smith, and ad dressing him, said, " If I give you this 101. note will you be off immediatel . v ," and the prisoner replied that he would. Witne s s then gave Smith the note, upon which he turned round, and proceeded towards the street door, and he (witness) was following him. The pri soner, perceiving this, turned round, anti when within about three feet of him, presented the pistol to his breast and vowed he would shoot him if he followed him, or even looked after him. In about five or ten minutes after witness went to the station-house and gave information of what had occurred. The inspector came back with him to the house, and on examining the place they dis covered some footmarks in the garden at the back of the house where Smith had been, and where he had presented a pistol at Mrs. Hamblin. The note be had given the prisoner he had received at the banking-house of Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., in change for a cheque for 11/. odd. The female prisoner and the prisoner Eales were perfect strangers to him. After some further evidence was given, Inspector Campbell put in the original letter presented by the pri soner Smith to Mrs. Hamblin on the night of the rob bery, and one received since the last examination, of which the following is a literal copy : "My lady,—l write these few lines to inform you that I have been sent here by a gentleman for your money, and I must proceed in getting it ; and if you refuse me the men outside (twelve in number), will come in and plunder the house, and if you make any noise your lives will be in danger. Tv the lady of the house." This was followed by a similar letter. Mr. HENRY expressed his detPrrnination to send Smith and Jones for trial ; but, in order to give the officers time to procure further evidence as against Eales, re manded all of them to a future day. THE YARMOUTH MURDER. DEC. 29.—Sinen the announcement of Yaamot, --ion, a variety of circumstances have Yarham's apprehen— light upon this murder, transpired tending to dirt,- " e"'" the .amount of which stands almost unparalleled _ -- -anied it. brutal and unnecessary violence which accoe.,. In consequence of a statement made by Mrs. Dica, alleging that she had had a conversation with Yarham, in which he admitted a guilty participation—indeed, that he had inflicted the wound that terminated the existence of his victim, the magistrates of the borough determined to take the first advice with respect to any ulterior pro ceedings that might be required to satisfy the ends of justice. Their great difficulty arose upon the following. points :—Whether Yarham, having been originally in cluded in the indictment, and subsequently admitted as evidence for the Crown, could be afterwards indicted as a principal. With a view to adjust the question, instructions were given to Mr. Holt, the clerk to the bench of magis trates, to prepare a case for the opinion of counsel. Mr. Charles Evans was first applied to, and that gentle man recommended that the opinion of the Attorney General should be taken. Mr. Holt accordingly pre pared a case for the opinion of the Crown adviser, under ,s the sanction of the town council. The opinion returned was to the following effect:—That the fact of a man having ,euti been obas aprincipal, admitted ai if .vas could be ba p r r t o o ve a d n afler prosecution satis factorily that he broke faith with the prosecution , and did not reveal all the facts within his knowledge. Upon the receipt of this opinion a warrant was placed in the no hinds of Captain Love, the superintendent of police, who, accompanied by Sergeant Coleman, proceeded in search of Yarhatn. In consequence of a rumour pre valent here that Yarham was living in Gloucestershire, under the feigned name of Samuel Young, the super intendent proceeded to that county, but was not suc cessful in obtaining any tidings likely to lead to the ap prehension of the suspected person. He afterwards visited London, Deptford, Chatham, and other places, and was continuing his search when he received a com munication from the deputy Mayor, stating that the father of Yarhatn had called upon him, and intimated that it was the wish of his son that his name and address should be given up to any person in authority who might require it. Captain Love proceeded again to Gloucester shire, and apprehended Yarham in the manner that has been already announced. He was brought to Yarmouth on the following Sunday morning, and on Monday was remanded until this day. To-day the magistrates met in a private parlour at the gaol, for the purpose of again remanding the prisoner. The examination was to have been in public court, but at a late hour yesterday even ing an intimation was made to the Mayor, that in conse quence of some fresh evidence another remand would be desirable. Capt. Love stated in the presence of the prisoner that he was unprepared to-day to complete the case, but that he believed, if the prisoner was remanded for another week, E.dditional materials would be ready to be pro duced against him. The following letter to his father and mother shows the state of the prisoner's mind, and the line of defence he will probably adopt, should the magistrates determine to send him fur trial. The letter is a verbatim copy:— " Dec. 7, 1845. " Dear Parents,—We received your welcome letter, and was glad to hear that you where all as well as could be expected under the circumstances, though you did not send us word the particulars ; but yesterday week, Nov. 29th, I received a newspaper and letter from Sarah's sister, in Chatham, and on looking over it I was thunder. struck to see a long paragraph of a confession that I was said to make to Mrs. Dick previous to my leaving Yar mouth; in fact, three weeks after the trial, when at the same time I was not in town but a fortnight, and can truly say that I never saw Mrs. Dick after the day I came down in the train from Norwich. But it appears some per- i ~.~ :ry^ ~y ,+;.~ snos have nothing else to do but to invent .I.es ; and who- ever it was that are so base and wicked I that the ' Almighty would strike them dumb, and then we .‘hould be able to discover who are our friends and who are e';'ir I enemies; but, however, it is no use wishing t hat. I should think their own conscience, for knowingly inventing a lie, is sufficiently to punish them ; but let them say what they like, bless the Lord, I am as innocent of that as the child unborn ; and the reason that I did not wish you to tell, or let my address be known, was not on account of any guilt that my enemies and yours should not know, as I believe some of thew would glory in letting my employer know, or anybody else, when they could annoy me by so doing, and that is the reason I have not wrote to any body besides you and Sarah's sister, and her only once. Tell Mr. and Mrs. Freeman that is the reason I have not wrote to them ; but if they know my address I should like to hear from them at any time, but not to keep it from anybody that is in authority, as I have written to Mr. G. Palmer, to Mr. Cufand, and Mr. Kemp, some time since, and about the railway, there is one from London to Gloucester, and it is 16 miles from Glos'ter to me and there is a mail coach run through every night and -a van every Saturday, but I cannot say much more, thanks be to God our health is as usual I have got a very comfortable master, he is a member of the Barbtist connexion N e attend the Chapel with him, give our love to all If any body ask you where live tell them close to Gibralter as there is a hill close to us called Gibralter and that wont be a lie Remember us to all inquiring friends I know that James is in the habit of going to Old (Bicks in Swan-street) and I can prove that he was one of the worst Enemies we had for what she told Sarahs sister you would not credit and that is where a certain vagabond got most of his in formation from, but enough of that, they have got to answer for themselves before a higher tribunal than any earthly one. I must conclude with one line to you all and believe me to remain your affectionate son and daughter, S and S. Y—. " Address as Usual. " P.S. I wish you all a happy Christmas and a prosper ous new year if the Lord See so fit as to spare us if not may we be found prepared for a place above. When you write send the name of the new Mayor, write soon and let me beg of you not to make yourselves uncom fatable and prepare your mind for any thing that may be Said for you may depend upon it there will be many re portiraised until the truth come out." Yarham conducted himself before the magistrates with the utmost composure. His personal appearance re mains about the same as when he appeared in Court at the time of the trial. The public will be admitted to hear the next proceedings. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30. STOCK EXCHANOE.-The sales are-Aberdeen Railway, 10s. p.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, s'h2 p.-Birken head, Mold, and Llangollen, 12s. 6d. dis.-Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, New Shares, 3% p.--Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, ss. p.- Boston Stamford, and Birmingham, 2s. dis. -Buckinghamshire, 15s. p.-Caledonian, 5 p. -Cambridge and Lincoln Extension, 1% p.-Chester and Birkenhead, 494-Ditto, New 201. Shares, 20s. p.-Clitheroe Junction, 20s. p.-Derby and Crewe, 3% p -Dereham and Norwich, 7s. 6d. dis.-East Lincolnshire, 1 1 4 p.-Glasgow and Dum fries, par-Grand Junction, 249-Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 36 p.- Ditto, Eighth Shares, 18 p.-Grand Union, 2s. 6d. p.- Great Grimsby Dock, 2 1 4 p.-Goole and Doncaster, 13s. 9d. p.-Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 5 1 4 p.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 17 p.-Leicester and Bedford, 16s. p.-Leices ter and Birmingham, 2s. 6d. p.-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 2s. 6d. dis.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 2% p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 p.-London and York. 131 4 p.-Direct Northern, Bs. dis.- Leeds and Thirsk, 3 3 / 4 p.-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 21s. 6d. p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, par-Manchester and Leeds, Extension Shares, 6% p.-Manchester and South ampton, 17s. tid. p.-Matlock and Midland ,3-North Kent, 10s. p.-North Staffordshire, 78s. 9d. p.-North Wales Mi neral, 4 p.--North Western, 2 1 4 p.-Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, ss. p.-Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolver. hampton, 3s. p.-Sheffield and Manchester, 123-Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 4% p.-Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 p.--Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, 17s. 6d. p. - Somersetshire and Midland, 1 1 /$ dis.-South- Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2,4% p.-Ditto, Consolidated Thirds, Half Shares, I% p.-South Stafford shire Junction, 20s. p.-Tean and Dove Valley, 2s. 6d. p.- Welsh Midland, par-West Riding Union, 6% p.-Belfast and Ballymena, par-Dutch Rhenish, 3 1 / a p.-Great Paris and Lyons, ss. p.-Paris and Lyons (Ganneron), 6s. p. MANCHESTER, Dxc. 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 8 1 4—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 2% — Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7 3 / 4 —Ditto, New, 2 5 / 8 Cambridge and Lincoln, 34—East Lancashire, No. 2, 10% —East Lincolnshire, VA—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 32s.—Glasgow and Dumfries, 525. 6d.—Goole, Don caster, Sheffield, &c., 57s.—Grand Junction, 40/. Shares, 61— Grand Union, I%—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 11—Hud dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 10—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 545. 6d.—Leeds and Thirsk, 12 3 / 4 — Leicester and Birmingham, I—Leicester and Tamworth, 435. 6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5 1 4—Liverpool, Warwick, Manchester, and Stockport, 37s.—London and York, 4 1 4—Manchester and Birmingham, 78—Ditto, New Quarters, 11 —D 1 tto, ditto, 93—Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 61. 17s.—Manchester and Southampton, 3 1 4 — North Staffordshire, 61. 2s.—Nottingham and Boston, 2-- Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 3 3 / 4 —Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 42s.—South-Eastern and Dover, 39 1 A — Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction, 47s.—West Riding Union, 71. 12s. LEEDS, DEC 30. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—London and Croydon, 22 4—York and North Midland Extension, 30 1 4—East Lan cashire, No. `i (late Accrington), 10 1 4—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 10 1 / 2 —Huddersfield and Sheffield, 24—Leeds and Bradford. 57—Leeds and Dewsbury, 20—Liverpool and Bury, 24 ex , new —Ditto, New, 2% p.—Newcastle and Ber wick,l6—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 3%—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 15—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 3 1 / 2 —Goole and Doncaster, 4s. p.—London and Portsmouth, par—London and York, 4 1 ,4—Cambridge and Lincoln, 3 v,„—Ditto, Extensions, V A —Direct Northern, 2/. ls.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, s—West Riding Union, 7%—Grand Union, % p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 7s. 6d. p.—Leeds and York, ss. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 18s. 6d. p.—Leicester and Tamworth, ss. p.- -Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 41A—Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh June., par—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 7s. 6d. p.— Midland and Thirsk Junction, 12s. 6d. dis.—Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 10s. dis.—North Western, 3%—Nottingham and Boston, 2/. Is. 6d.—Nottingham, Erewasb, and Ambergate, 7s. 6d. p.—South Midlands, 3 3 / 4 p.—Wakefield and Harro gate, 15s. p.—Welsh Midlands, 2%. HULL, DFc. 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, No. 2,2 s. 6d.—Hull and Selby Half Shares, 21 1 / 2 —Black • burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7% 2 Leeds and Thirsk, 11—New castle and Berwick, 15 1 / 2 —North British (Carlisle), 3% — Ditto (Dalkeith), 6%—Arma g h, Coleraine, and Portrush, 1% —Axhulme, 2k—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 2 3 / 4 Buckinghamshire, % p.—Derby and Gainsborough, 1 1 / 4 Direct Northern, 2—Grand Union, 335. 6d.—Hull and Barns ley Junction, 40s.—Leicester and Birmingham, 22s.—Lei cester and Tamworth, 1 / 2 p.—Liverpool and Leeds, 2 1 / 2 — Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 51. 2s.—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 2 1 / a — ? Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 2 1 / B —North Western, 3 1 / 2 —North Staffordshire, 61. 4s. 6d.— South - Midland, 61. 2s.—Shropshire Union, 42s.—Tean and Dove Valley, 21s.—Wakefield and Bradford, 1% —West Riding Union, 814. YORK, DEC. 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—York and North Midland Extension, 30 1 i—Inswich aid Bury, s—Newcastle and Berwick, 14, —North British, New Carlisle Branch, 3 1 4 —London and lork, 4 1 4—Grand Union, 11. lls. —Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junc tion, 2/. 12s.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 474, —North Kent and Direct Dover, 3/. ls.—Welsh Mid land, DA. BRISTOL, DEC. 30. STACK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Liver pool Junction, 15 1 4,..Midland New, 32. GLASGOW, .Dgc, 20, STOCK ExcuANGE.--The 3a . le - s — a'r;—' Airdrie and Bath,. • sccq.—British and Irish Union, 7is.Z-Caiedonian, New, gate, - ^ l, lll Extension, 6d.—Caledonian and 725. 6d.—Calew,.... ^^ l .donlan and Dumbartonshire Ayrshire Junction, ^ --Iv. and Iroftßridge, Junct ion, 495. 6d.—Dudley, Madeley, , 475. 6d.—Dundee and Perth, 81. cum new—East Central, 40s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New,l6—Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 17s. 6d.—Edinburgh and Northern, 74s.—Forth and Clyde Junction, 41s. —Glasgow General Terminus, 8 1 / 8 —Glasgow and Belfast Union,-475. 6d.—Glas gow, :Dumfries, and Carlisle, 475. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 72s.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 385.—Les mahagow, 65s.—Midland (401. Shares), 31—Perth and In verness, 40s. 6d.—Renfrew and Ayr, 30s.—Scottish South Midland Junction, 40s.—South Mdland, 5%. —On Tuesdatir ST. LEONARD Sll f o t ß h E e n D in i h T ant E h s47f ouseholders was hel y d afternoon a meeting o at the vestry, to make a poor 's rate for the current quarter, and als to make a church-yard rate. Mr. J. Bewley, senior churchwarden, who presided, explained the objects of the meeting. Mr Ware, the vestry clerk, then proceeded to read over the estimates, amongst which was one of 1,950/. to defray the expense of enlarging the workhouse. Upon this item a long and animated discussion took place. After some discussion one of the trustee party proposed that the vestry do now adjourn, which motion was secoaded amiist vehement execrations from the ratepayers. The Church warden called for a poll on the question of the adjournment, which was carried under a protest, and the vestry dispersed, several of the parishioners declaring that they would appeal against any rate made by the trustees. INTREPID CONDUCT OF A FRENCH GENTLEMAN.-- DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.— Tuesday afternoon, about four o'clock, a respectably-dressed female, apparently about thirty-eight years of age, leaped into the ornamental water in the enclosure, immediately facing the Horse Guards. Au alarm was raised by several persons who witnessed the occurrence, and (me of them, a French gentleman, divested himself of his coat, and dived in after her; in a moment afterwards he appeared at the surface of the water with the female in his arms. Both were evi dently in an exhausted state, and by this time a large num ber of persons were collected, and, with some difficulty, they were brought ashore. - The female, who was quite insensible, was conveyed with the greatest promptitude by the park keepers to Westminster Hospital. Some hopes are enter tained of her recovery. The gentleman was taken home in a cab. THE BOARD OF TRADE AND THE POTATO FAILURE. —The Board of Trade is at present collecting information re lative to the potatoes, so far as that is known in the port of London. Some of the merchants think the Government Is thereby preparing to justify itself before Parliament in pro posing the abolition of the corn-law. Others think not, from the limited and partial nature of the inquiry. It seems to be confined, in most part, to persons not particularly well acquainted with the subject. On Friday the Board selected some of the fruit-meters for examination. They are also meters of potatoes, and as such may know how many have arrived by sea in the port of London. Whether any other persons connected with the potato trade are to be examined, does not yet appear. But those who could best give evidence as to the quantity now In existence, which is th e question at issue, are, the agents of the London dealers, who go into the country amongst the farmers to buy, or the farmers who grow them. On Friday, while a messenger from the Board of Trade was waiting at one of the wharfs to conduct the meters to Westminster to be examined, the said meters were running from one dealer to another, from one agent to another, and from one Goole captain to another, and among the York shire sailors, to inform themselves of what the probable state of the potato crop in Yorkshire is. This was proper conduct on their part, as it showed they were not willing to speak of the potatoes actually in existence from what had passed through their hands for measurement ; but it also showed that they are not the persons best acquainted with the subject. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM• PANIES' STOCK. From tle Official List, 111BLISIML ZVERY TIIERDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. a. d. 4 a. d. Australasia •• •• •• •• •• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 21% Britsh North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 46 Commercia of Lond 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21U C010nia1.........5i. per cent. 100 0 9 25 0 0 15% Londe and Weatminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 London Joint-Stock... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45% Ditto, New... ••• ••• Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 :1 g National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 19k Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 36 Ditto, New.•• •••• • • M. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 24% Union of London... 51. per cent. 50 "0 0 10 0 0 12 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. el. Albion ......... ••• • • 3/. 101 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Unit. and For. '6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 in Ditto Marine... -• • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 65 Atlas 13s. 6tl. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16 British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7 1 A L Clericl,bled.& Gen. Lift 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County ........ ~,, .. 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Crown 98. and 40 0 0 50 0 - 1 .............. 1 6k ss. loci Eagle . Economic Life. -5 per ct.,} 1000 0 0 250 0 0 t& 30s.bs. Eng. & Scot. Law ••• • •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 European Life .... • • 534 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .. ••-• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe - 142% Guardian ••••-• . • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 51 Imperial Fire ..... •. • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 240 Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine... • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29 Law Life ......... 11. Os. 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6% London Fire ...... -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% London Ship ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 1534 Marine .. .... ..... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10% 3led.ln vlid& Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 234 National Life. Palladium Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s. Phcenix .. .. 31. p. ct. & be. - - 210 Protector Life........ 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 3s. Provident Life....... • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life.. Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 180 Sun Fire . - - Ditto Life - - 18 Universal Life ..... • • 10 %/. pr cnt. 100 0 615 0 18 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES . Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. --- -- - - £ a. d. £ s. d Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 165 British Linen Company 8/' per cent. - 100 0 0 230 Commercial Bank - 100 0 0 166 National Bank ...... - 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7 34 1 . pr cent. - 50 0 0 98% Western Bank.... -• . 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 84% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7% Clydesdale Bank .. •. • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank .... -• • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 6 Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7 4 city of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 815 0 15 % Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1% Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% [rester. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10% North British Incur 5% /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% Caledonian Fire Inner lel. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1934 Edin. & ellasg. Railway 51. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65 Ditto, 4 Shares •- • • 51. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 1534 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21% fllasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70 Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21 Gisgw & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36 Standard Life Assernce.l Si per cent. 150 0 0 I 2 10 0 8 DOCZS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. X s. d. X 3. d. Commercial - E ast and West India 6%1. pr cent. Stock. - ' 1353 i East Country ••.• • • • - ' 21 Lyndon 434/. pr cent. Stock. - , 112 St Katharine 5 per cent. Stock. - ' 1083 i Southampton •••• • • • • 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 CANALS. .; I ii Dividend Names of 1. , ; Dividend ~,, Names of Annum. Price. er Companies. 2, per ~ .? -' Companies. m Annum. ca , -... Ashtn & Oldh 97 51.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 41. ,70 Mntgomrysh 100 5/. 98 Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 160 Macclesfield . 100 - 95 Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath .... • • 100 201. 3G5 Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 °Hingham . 150 121. 260 Cromford ... • 100 181. 150 Peak Forest .78 31. 40 Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's ... • 33 11. 2638 Derby Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 80 Shropshire . • 125 81. - Erewash Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.LkEd St 12 61. p. c. 11 GrandJunctn,loo 71. 100 Stffrd &W ore 140 281. 4 40 Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh .1172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 201. - Glstr&Brklyi •00 - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11.10 s. -- Grantham • • 'l5O 121. 100 Severn and 1 26 11. Bs. - Huddersfield., 57 20 Wye Rail. Kennt & Avir 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1 50 301. - Lancaster 47 1/. 10. 40 Bey, 4 sh. Leeds& Livrp, 100 34/. 525 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester ...• 1 140 101. 105 Worcstr It i Leicstr & Nth l 83 4/. 62 Binning. 78 41. 49 Loughberogh,l42 70/. 850 Wilts &Bt ks 67 11. 4s. 11 WATER.-VZORIES }Tame of Company. Dividend Amount per of Paid, Annum. Share. Z s, d. East L0nd0n.......... 81. 100 0 0 Grand Junction ...... 31. 46 13 4 Kent .......... ••• • •• 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 Vauxhall .......• —5/. per cent. 100 0 0 West Middlesex —— • • 41.165. pr ct. 63 12 9 MARKET NE WS.-(YESTERDAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE. The supply of English Wheat on show this morning was small ; hence the demand for most descriptions was steady, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday. The best parcels of free foreign Wheat were quite as dear. In other qualities, as well as bonded sorts, next to nothing was doing ; Malting Barley was quite as dear. Grinding and distillinif had a downward tendency. Malt and tats, Beans, VeaS, and Flour, the supplies of which on offer were moderately good, were held at full prices. ARRIVALS. Barley. 400 qrs. Wheat. 480 qrs. English • • • • Irish Foreign ...... Oats 2u qrs. 1,240 3,290 Flour. 730 sks, 470 Malt. 2,130 qm WHITIRMAPEL I The supply of meat on offer to-day heing small, the ge neral demand ruled heavy, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 81; Mutton, as 4d to 4s 6d; Teal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per 81bs. REFUGE FOR THE HOUSELESS.— Orders were re ceived to place the three establishments in Whitecross-street, Foley-street, and Glasshouse-yard, open last night, but in con sequence of the continued warmth of the weather they have been countermanded. On Tuesday night last the unfortu nate emigrants of the ship Robert Isaacs, upwards of 131% In number, en route , from Southampton, were accommodated, and amply regaled with hread and coir - ce, at the Whitecross street Asylum, front whenee they were sent, at five o'clock on Wednesday morning, in three vans, to the terminus pf thu Birmingham Railroad, at Euston-square, Nothing could he better devised than Nicoll's Re gistered Paletot to suit the ever-varied nature of our climate, forming, as it now does, not only the sine qua non of the railway traveller, but Is equally so adapted for any gentleman tahing oat-door exercise. It may be said distinctly to mark the PoSIIIITIP Q f the nineteenth century, if that rightif called marked which i; only pouspieuens fu; an unprptetiding and graceful bearer, the wearer feeling so much at ease. Certainly as an over-coat it Is patronised hlghlz, and Is all* a general public favourite, being so peculiarly .c.nglish, and avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ger knowledgt4 as a vast imnroverntlit °Tor the Rld gfe4t coat i associated in Ltur reinemaance with an uncomtortsblp sow.: tion of tight buttonings, which, from its very clumsiness, defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as interfering with the proper circulation of the blood. The principal hues are black, blue, browii, ; aISP the pi er ip 4 l i n io 4f s c alled Oxford, and can be had of the patente e s, or only a the most respectable clothiers out of London. Every winter paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining with the words, "Registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. H. J, and p, Nicoll, 114, Itegent?strept, London. [ADYERTISEMENT.j—The garl of Aldhorough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding Cure by this miraculous Medicine after every other means had failed. See extract of his Lord,hip's letter dated Villa Messi na, Leghorn, Feb. 21. 1845. "To Professor Holloway. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in nif liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty at home and all over the Coptinent had not been able to effept.. Nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. ( gigned) Aldborough."—These wonderful Pills will cure any disease of the liver and stomach, —Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's . establishment, 244, Strand and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. BIRTHS. On Dec. 27, at Wharnclitre-terrace, St. John's_WOOd•roadi Mrs. T. Southey, of a daughter. On Dec. 27, at Hackney, Mrs. Conrad Loddiges, of a son. On Dec. 28, at Camberwell, the wife of Jeremiah Gilea Filcher, Esq., of a son. On Dee. 27, at Stockwell, Surrey, the lady of George Gay/ Esq., of a daughter. On Dec. 27, at Belford, Northumberland, the lady of W. Brodrick, Esq., of a,daughter. On Dec. 28, the lady of D. Meinertzhagen, Esq.,of Deiror/;• shire-place, of a son. On Dec. 21, at Bounds-green, Southgate, the lady of F. Maples, Esq., of a daughter. .51.4.FIRLED. On the 20th of October last, at Landour, Bengal, Lieute• nant Charles Need, of the 7th Native Infantry, to Marla ! daughter of the late T, B. Robinson, Esq„ of the Bengal Service, On Dec. 23, at Trinity Church, St. liarylebone, Lieute nant Henry Need, of her Majesty's steam-frigate Terrible, to Jane, eldest daughter of J. M'Dowell, Esq., of portigna. place. DIED. On Dec. 28, Thomas Watson, Esq., of the Long-room, Custom House, in the 81st year of his age, dearly beloved by all who knew him. On the 29th of October, at Colombo, William Brown, Esq., civil engineer. At Southfield, Frome, Somerset, Major G. Warburton. On Dec. 13, in Eaton-square, Lady Harriett Payne Gallwey On Dec. 13, at Holdfast, Worcestershire, Lieutenant- Colonel William Lewis Herferd, C.B. 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