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--, EDIC ds and $ ur al was be InstitutloF, 1 Abinger iA dAD ATI° to gr' Id°l6f R Fe b. 1,7 London ihis ° de ,;66, I death, n•v,f annowa cisi "" talents' for beg I°l,t c tio o contraw ,o, nalice lisis e c ro d I re i c . .i t te v r le , a j ° unclog 0; 0 Aispos d° of t oo 4 0 t upon the P b ar 0' A er de hat at. 000 j t h o va p°l3 • 44 :. te d; IngUiSbed 6 roio° " I Ggril' Kam.) tO forf'r a P 4 fere sr cou'7 0 01" this A tI o n the 0 10 1 : # 4 fed bc :;,/ Ye s ' ed. erh ES. b rol ; s nesi/ l a bas f° f sfieo e Ile ° I he 3 f idea P ° cs viy. F l o ot her p) de. r i'Ma ha ,A fr ibe A "ESULTORY CONVERSATION A ON TRE RAILROAD ])':;,POSITS'I-• It appears very singular to me, that in the Bank of England weekly returns, which show an immense in crease in the private deposit account, there does flnot appear to be any material decrease in the amount of a i n li k o c i n fe e a s n i n circ u l at i on , or i ncrease in the amount of you tell me how this can happen? 18. It i s impossible for me to give you any particulars s to th e private operation of the Bank of England, but can cle ar l y explain to you how it is possible for a !sulker to show an immense increase in the deposit ac c a o unt without one single penny of cash being paid—not single bank note nor a single sovereign 1 4 ase4o show th e f act as i t i s p )ssible i n respect toth i the railway deposits. lb B. I d are say you have read in the newspapers that by the e Accou ntant -General ha s accepte d t h e c h eques drawn directors o f t h e railroad companies on their n Londobankers. A. I have. 13, has Well, then, w e w ill suppose that a London banker ..._s taken securities to the Bank of England, and made f` r o a ngernent s for opening a " cash credit" account, say r 1,000,0004, being the amount he expected to be drawn upon for. wol;,1 understend. The London banker in such case 1 ` l "' be entitl e d to draw on the Bank of England for , Goo,ooo/ 8 . Th e di rectors of the railroad company pay their Nue f or 1,000,000/, on their Londoa banker into tne 1:1 1144 f the Acc ountant General. The Accountant ,ol_rieral pays thi s c h eque into the Bank of England, I,gase cl, undo takes it t o t h e L ondon banker for payment , wi . banker having oned a cash credit account ;I'lin the Bank of England for e ] ,000,0001., does not give l for it, but draws a cheque on the Bank of England e Q i i r 1530,000/., which he hands over in exchange for the 1 ~ Nue drawn upon him by the directors of the railroad ' 3o, Pany, b. es- I see. Then I suppose the Bank of England ...7 4 nees the London banker's "cash credit" account, and risittv.e,s credit for 1,000000/ to the Accountant-General,. "'tag the banker's securities for 1,000,000/. as cash s clYancel 8 . Precisely so. the railroad deposit itanding order s of therat;y b Thusshus you perceive that the whole of c O u n l e a tisoinn sins ofe b P an n le n : Y n o t o e f s ra w 1 9 1 n 1 " e 8 rParliament without s o at . isp a e r d_ to answer the soverei England. e n y ot b b e e in d g ec p re s a id sed, gn extra get into the coffers of the Bank of s ilr t a he sin e g i l r e . A- The e xplained. operation appears to be very simple when 46 serve, Ido not sad 11. ob serve, managed in ket . w aYi I merely things have been tans.. wish to show you bow many r . 1 " 3 of this kindmay be arranged. In order further to . %lief' tbi, ) You that the payments may have been made in cci ! manner, I would call your attention to the " assets" Ens manner, the 'weekly published returns of the . Bank of tbugland, where you will find that the securities held by c , B ,ank of England have increased in amount fully t 't to the increase of the " private deposit" aocounte Eepi I s ea You are correct ; but may not the Bank of s oil 'e s tid have invested the money received by the Ac 11., ut_aut•General in securities, and in this way have got 130. f their bank -notes paid in? N u. ' ehould think not ; you will observe in the weekly i, G 'be that there are two sorts of securities lamed, uo,oevernment securities, " and securities " other than se er s meet. You will observe, also, if you compare , te... el weekly returns with each other, that their Go leis'ue,taetit securities have rather decreased than other kill and that on l y the securities " other " than Gos etrne tie% it e ris so greatl y i ncreased in amount. Such being h of th e do not think the Bank of England would invest_ th ol etaselves such deposits in private securities, although ca the not hesitate to open a " cash credit " account k imePosit of private securities. fl, / t 9 l iak your conclusion reasonable. all e oe is Rossible that rainy of these securities . entered be doe = e„ than Government securities may, in reality, A. iebr.nnaent securities. 111 Plei t , e ls appears to be a paradox. Be kind enough to g . s Lio‘v this can be ? ' l ead . tiP Mse the Bank of England enters under the 4 G Desit• asernment securities " only the amount held ;ad th a t in their own name, and their own property ,;. p.' c rrerl a , - :tile' amount of Governm . ent securities trans 'tent ce e '"eni as collateral securities, to secure the pay "' Ee ; "alters' promissory notes, are not by the Bank e the; !'ajtd deemed " Government securities," and a li nit e e- e r ti st ,td to the account " Securities other than Go- A. w''' tste rt ,°llld not this mode of making up the weekly 13, / 4 , ° e, an evasion of the Act of Parliament ? in t caki e ' ui alc not ; in fact, if they do adopt this mode be e feleiiitaP the week! returns, I consider they would Ceti lug the spirit of the Act. t_ s tele • E t he Bank of England has adopted this mode of .t u l kkiriet assistance to the London bankers, howi can l aP le th e there are -o many millions of money locked g- ti, e ban k of England in the railway deposits . ? sea,Uoff,,,eourse th y cannot be locked up in th on b I, 'll andb ni ut o r n e e mains in the hands of the Lone te l % llll tn ik e n kA r s ; they can use it, and what interest they Lo -ey w i ll - L Y the u . se of it over and above the in cdoe ban a !si to pay the Bank of England, will be the , A. I ors' profit. 1 h c , h aY the Bank of Enland interest ? For what ? kihklittigt„,-tyou explained just now that the whole thing n ' ° . N - t m° be without the use of any bank notes or coin? tad--Cl° P.Y inti , rest? Credit is . money—the Ban f , p r , c41 ,,, h.,ves the banker credit for 1,000,000/, and 6 -4 le t t,, A ccountant• General with 1,000,000/ as cash d N' ll estl '' his account; therefore interest is fairly eeo a m n .. — acle t il: clue to the Bank of England for the a A, / 4 . t i ( lod should think the " rest" will show a prett h y e goo e d . fired ckar o by the time the next dividend shall d / , A, ,"tdd think so too. 11, It 19. t is the meaning of the word " rest?" ~ i is,: it is ,only the French word reste, without the letter '' t'll;-'1'ng the remainder, or the balance—the balance 4, ZNunt, as generally written by merchants. L . de li b etournons a mitre propos. Well, then, if the el 111 4, c i,r 9. l l 4 % k il e e r _s have all the cash of the railway deposits %te ed. '3) the country bankers must be pretty well „8. the he e i il t it hei r - ' T endon bankers may not have all the money h "ds, for it is very probable that the London ll ,e :rion%have a ccommodated the country bankers just in d "'e1:13 4 , wit) that the Bank of England has afforded tt ef—'°lnenodation, and, likely enough, that great . i the securities handed over to the Bank of provinces. 4 t . :s r :re been forwarded to London from the ,, ttt ab lt_e e 4 r n altliitahi:.: m ha o s n h ey appened. and no cash locked • up,"s fl e . ed ? or discounts so " tight, as it i ep st xyl suppese that the whole amount of the rail ktir,,,_ePoiits had formerly formed part . of an immense latel 4 " o f accounts in all the bankers in England, St - lee e k' arid Ireland, gentlemen's, merchants', traders' d 'II' accounts ; it follows that those accounts must d the mopesed in the ratio of the railway accounts, 11 . . n u_y transferred to a few, the banker not knowing I ,st time he may be called up , on by the railway corn 2ny, will . only lend she reoney %►en, fourteen, or twenty-onePdays; e,ort periods. He will P e t's. s net object to lend for tareful how he employs h in his hands for very es formerly at two months' t e —one in discounting he . would . he very s date. y This naturally crip tes trade and commerce, which ere chiefly carried on by I ,4tbs of bli:.g of no less dates ; and, besides, it is gene 4t:Y suspected that many parties have unwarrantably S, °ate sh areho!dtes in railroads—l say unwarrantably, ; I :s . Z a b l e na t i ls ne ey ss i l iffaaviers itetceiepns:yobliged to take money from their railway deposits, which ,d ti tki ' ll eiryPpltd their resources • and their bills, which used up, )4, ,, to be taken in the eliecount market, are " blown bankers' profits become setbAe. Perhaps, as the London 11 ) , ~e (1 bY having to pay the Bank ot . for discounts, and it England interest, tes,,, -:eqUire an extra per centage __, is t h e real alit r 1.. that this increased rate of interesl , , A. 41 er any want of money itself. e s tate 4 .ere cannot be any want of money „,e ite lll the hands of the bankers, an L rt lltie` l6 culty i the bankers finding means for em tself 1.,,_ 4 , or the n would rather have paid the money d if there the deposits cannot "nitrit l ;'`D the Bank England than have deposited to e a With the Bank and pay interest, if t e Y. 414 11 re: i t : l t have employed the cash at a greater rate ot h , t il 4(14. 141 1 11 11 0 Yen may rest assured of, that they would not f Rleed . ,ftecommodation offered by the Bank o 4. 1,1/%44 did not answer their purposes. 4. 44 ? ed, e, ,8, la Now , how are all their deposits to get out r tel c ii rall er s : y ° cr Perniisee just as h 111 eh directors go to the t Accountant-Generalthey g ot andin. ~,: -1.8 c heque simpleas t 4 O. Th. ec l u ce Sa for 1 00 000/., on the ii!ink of Eng a - t pays this o: 4 ' Lo n dthe dire ctors pay into their account E Nile 41, 'llbanker's. The London , b , banker 4 i ' CI 1116 "cash credit account, tti titl d h of 1 el e ,, e e then draws a cheque again on the Bank for it, receives at the Bank of ski, „ end instead of being paid cash _ 4i 1, the aec ! eeitb maci unitie s he had deposited, c 't land the rate of' interest that had been agreed upon ~, A. itik'utornodation. line pays the Bank e'aieed. appears ie. D o thank you for your information. all very plain and simple when ex (2l4rete_t let me mislead you, by your imagining havethe N il ' " positively have been performed as I 44 • 1 --, u k "lo te - now lamin an out-of-the-way place, and es,, e . , ires,e rieeans of getting information—l mer.eolyg o,, 4 ete r li v nte , (l to exist/sin to you the possibility without the '',, tt 'ret, e ` r ausacti e eve of the kind alluded to, of arrangi te es.. / tk iun of q sine, twakenote or sovereign. and I l'alek yo‘ilZbeen. interesi:,'d bY 4lfes'etitsi ben, d e tlY eb f . o l r 7, your conversation, olutir4i6n.fotsnation. p. immss .... _ _ --- 6..ll;rtreZt Als° D isEAsß.—At the orrlin.,%rY,.m. _ e . , e l t e i y n g e : f _ 41 ' , ed Ural Society , held on Tuesday, Dr. L i nd ley oft s,..4Qile SPeCitnen P f 0 potatoes grown at th e ; dis ..ii, N,tr-ym, autoustnivni ~.' 4 of-j"itY and Lad y Rolle - t Bicton. In man:" s it Via gardens die „tat site w as very apparent, and indsOfrilleemesaestes of They had been produce .; 4 4t N„ii-ewreuleh had been - but slightly affected, but showed °tad 1.,_ ver Liao vitality had been influenced the disease t ally ,1" Parpetuated—a fact which could not be too gene- I 'd bl' l L Cit known arnongit growers. In many ctptii);Zuted ~. , haulm and the decayed tuber was quite as p ns th browern -41,411 d t h ,, - 'in any of' the old specimens. - In the specime tw a t 't iffo s C U , no appearance of fungus could be detecte d. :DlAr e , 411 , 'ita microscopical examination, but this was very ‘4llssq,-;11'n those from the country, showing that it was a ZtSir p ee, and not the cause of the disease. t tl ?' Prerinei4 Hopkins has written a letter to the editor i Leery itr.4ln. referrin g t o evidence g i ve , ty hi m at trie ll i , ! c . q.' 4 aiiit ati % 431 (inter alia) the .•.—. It has been stated that I so inference a 1„` , dr 4 .„.2a of the extreme punis hment of death, and an the satity;;., therefrom that Ihd c hanged my mind rsepectinif of tile to row 4, assail ant. It le tru e that I did solicit the clem ency _ . ii , :,, to ow., py prisoner, wh, on this oCcal,l?2' 1, -"at knShag,„..- oee tithe tool of others- but l nmost solemnly a en y`" of hio-%_tssallslynt°,f...ouobt .ever crossed' my mind as to the iden 4 _ Der:noe 1 : ,,.. 1 lir twithstanding the rep th orteddying declaration th o: that he was tt, '‘..4 WI, ;, 'te Yon the scaffold, I ags affirm ight of lo :Isti, or Nr“r,ed at, and s ubsequently assaulted . me o o n d t an he 1421 , ricti,,, n ,; vvenaber last, and such is my positive a 10 first r --'l4 t4 r ft „, -a rgo of manure ever shipped to . th ain is ter p " o b r i. t ` 4v64, daring the past week.—Bridgew(it'r run°. LITERATURE. 31F VOIR S A C(►I.!J SPON D ENCE OF Til6 MARQUIS W ELLESLEY. By Robert Rosiers Pearce, Esq. 3 Yds. These memoirs, though not arranged in the best manner, nor distinguished by much ability in writing, are, however, of great value, as they embody the prin cipal events in the life of a most distinguished statesman, and furnish many useful letters and documents necessary to form a just estimate of the vast services which the Marquis Wellesley rendered to his country. With the exception if his illustrious brother and the immortal Nelson, it would be difficult to find any one who did so much to raise the character of England, or who achieved such important victories. Mr. Pearce begins from the beginning, and gives ample details of the Wellesley family, its antiquity, and even royal descent, for he traces it to one of the Kings of Ireland, the character of the first Earl of Mornington, father of the Marquis, his great love for music, and many other circumstances, with which the curiosity of the reader will be much gra tified. Till we read these volumes, we were not aware that the family name was so lately changed as during the administration of Lord Mornington in India, and that when the Duke went out to that part of the world, he was called the Hen. Arthur Wesley. The follow ing brief but interesting letter places the matter beyond doubt, and it is curious to observe that the qualities for which Wellington has been distinguished through his long career, attracted so early the attention of the Mar quis Cornwallis. It is a simple letter of introduction from a former Governor-General of India to gir John Shore, who preceded the Earl of Mornington in that high station : " Dear Sir—l beg leave to introduce to you Colo nel Wesley, who is Lieut.-Colonel of my regiment ; he is a sensible man and a good officer, and will, I have no doubt, conduct himself in s manner to merit your approbation.—l am, &c.,—Coustwarsus." It thus appears that Col. Wesley left for India a consi derable time before the Marquis was appointed Gover nor-General. These memoirs embrace the public life of the Marquis from his first appearance in the Irish House of Lords till his appointment as Lord -Lieutenant of his native country ; but by far the most important part of it relates to his Government in India. At the period of his appointment, the year 1797, the British pos sessions in India were in a most defenceless, and conse quently, dangerous condition. French influence was all powerful at several of the courts of the native princes, and especially at Hyderabad and Nizam, as well as throughout the greater part of the Mahratta territory. Tippoo Saib was plotting against England—he was in constant correspondence with French agents, and even the Government at Paris—he was enlisting French troops into his service, and the Marquis Wellesley (then Lord Moruington) had every reason to believe that is a very short period after his arrival, India would be invaded by a Fi ench army, His Lordship, with the usual decision of his family, resolved at once to defeat a project which involved the fate of India ; aid India, owing to the parsimonious system lately adopted, was but little fitted for a contest with Tippoo Saib and the other discon tented nabobs, aided by French reinforcements. Welles ley, however,would see no difficulties ; he resolved to rouse the sleepy officials appointed by the India House, and announced that nothing short of depriving Tippoo Saib of the power of doing mischief could afford the British Government security against his de signs, as well as those of the French Directory. When the fact was made known to General Harris, then Governor of Madras, it created the utmost con sternation. The bare idea of the renewal of war with Tippoo filled the members of that Government with ap prehensions, and several of them protested in the strongest terms against the proposition to assemble an army on the coast of Coromindel; even the Commander in -Chief, Lord Harris, shrunk at first sight from the enterprise, but, like a good soldier, answered—" On my part, your Lordship may depend on my following your instructions implicitly." Remonstrances, however, were still urged by the timid ; and difficulties for money, and men, and everything, were pointed out ; but the noble Governor-General could see no " lion in the way;" he saw that victory was within his reach, that the strength of England was equal to the task, and notwithstanding Tippoo's 700 elephants, 6,000 camels, 300,000 fire-locks, 200,000 swords, 2,000 pieces of cannon, and a regular army of 100,000 men, with 40,000 irregular infantry, he resolved to lose not a moment in bringing the affair to an issue. With that view, he began with Nizam ; induced the ruler of that territory to admit, in place of 2,000, 6,000 subsidiary British troops into his pay, and compelled him, by great tact and daring. to disband the whole French corps as soon as the British troops should arrive. Eleven thousand men laid down their arms on promise of pay and future employment, and the French officers com manding them were delivered up to the British com mander, who sent them, with all their property and arrears of pay, to France. The result of this great negotiation raised the spirits of the officials at Madras; Marquis Wellesley began to be regarded as a man of some ability, and its effects were visible on the rulers of the neighbouring states. Tippoo, however, still held out, and endeavoured, by deceit and 'yang, to protract the contest till he could be assured of speedy assistance from France. That the Governor-General was determined to anti cipate, and he accordingly gave directions to General Harris to put his army in motion and pursue Tippoe Sultan to his last retreat. In the short apace of two mor the the war was brought to a close, and a kingdom yielding an annual revenue of more than a million sterling was transferred in full sovereignty to the East India Company. In nearly all his other measures for the better government of India, the Marquis was equally successful, yet the directors and he never acted cor dially together. He had reason also to complain of want ' of support from the Board of Control, at the head of which was Henry Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville. In a letter to Lord Castlereagh, dated 1805, he states the difficulties he had to contend with in these words:— " The motives of the conduct of my personal enemies at the India-house are sufficiently evident; and my expecta tions from that quarter are rather disappointed by any transient and momentary gleam of justice and reason, which may acidentally appear in the general tumult of personal pre judice and vindictive fury. But from your Lordship I con fidently expect more comprehensive views of policy and early jnstica. Perhaps my long habits of familiar acquaintance with the affairs of this country may render objects clear and distinct to my comprehension, which may require explana tion and illustration for the information of others. My situation, however, is, under such circumstances, become most painful, and indeed dangerous—exposed to the most severe responsibility and pressed by the constant and urgent necessity of acting for the security of this vast empire, upon the view of local exigencies, with limited means of exertion, with a certainty of the most indefatigable counteraction from the India-house, aid with a doubt of timely, effectual, or direct support from the Crown.' In adver.ing to the conduct of the directors he uses different language., and his provocation must have been great, for with this exception he speaks mildly, and generally favourably of almost every person about whom he writes. He appears to have been a man of a most amiable disposition, with a mind totally inaccessible to envy, jealousy, or personal hatred. The following extracts, however, will show that he could resent perse cution, and also that he preferred the interests of his country to the favour of the Lords of Leadenhall-street:— " TO LOZD VIIICOUNT CASTLERIAOII. " 'Fort William, lot March, 1404. " ' My dear Lord,— * ♦ • • • " ' I request your Lordship to be assured of the deep sense which I entertain of your honourable conduct towards me. It is unnecessary to repeat to your Lordship my utter con tempt of any opinions which may be entertained by Mr. that I expect every practicable degree of injustice and base ness from that faetion.—l have the honour to be, &c., " ' WELLESLEY.' "Lord Wellesley speaks in a still higher strain of asperity and anger in a subsequent part of the same letter (19th of Jue'rloSuro4)L:o ,n, — rdship may be assured th a t I entertaina just sense of the sentiments of public andprivat honour and that n I which your conduct towards me has proceeded ; rely with the most entire confidence upon your Lordship's justice and public spirit to frustrate the vindictive profligacy of the Court of Directors, and to expose to the view of my Sovereign and my country, in the most distinct and per spicuous manner, the motives, principles, conduct, and re sult, of every branch of my administration in India. My sincere and anxious hope is, that every point of diffrrence between me and the Court of Directors may be fully ex plained to Parliament and to the public. Nor can your Lordship and Mr. Addington, by an act of friendship, afford me a protection so grateful tom y f!elings, or so El i vantageous to my character, as by a full disclosure to Par liament of every act of my administration, and of every proceeding of the Court of Directors, since I have had the misfortune to be subjected to the ignominious tyranny of Leadenhall-street. lam induced to hope that I shall be en abled to relinquish the service of my honourable employers in the month of January or February next. Your Lordship, however, may be assured, that as no symptoms of tardy re morse displayed by the Honourable Court, in consequence of soy recent succors in India, will vary my present estimation of the faith and honour of my very worthy and approved good masters, or protract my continuance in India for one hour beyond the limits prescribed by the public interests, so no additional outs-age, injury, or insult, which can issue from the most loathsome den of the India-house, will accelerate my departure, while the publi c ; gafety shall appear to require my aid in this arduous station,'" The rest of the work is occupied chiefly with details on the assistance which the Marquis in Parliament gave to his brother while commanding in the Peninsula, his a dministration of Ireland, and a brief account of his latter days. COUNT JULIAN; a Romance of Spanish History By W. Gilmore Sienna. The author of this fiction has been already introduced to the novel readers of Great Britain, through reprints of some of his most successful productions. Among these, " The Yemassee," " The Kinsmen," &c., identified him as not the least gifted of American novelists, while they tended much to extend his popularity. In the pre sent work, "Count Jutish,'' the spirited proprietor of the Novel Newspaper, brings ito OtifiP4l, that is to say, a hitherto unpublished romance, rom OW pen of Mr. Slams, into his clever serial, of whici, It form Flirt WOC/J. As to giving a summary of the plot, or even s mention pf the catastrophe—.we consider such a course as the most gngrateful one a renewer can adopt, destroying as it does the main allurement of the work under consideration —namely, its interest. We shall therefore content ourselves with saying that " Count Julian" is a somewhat fascinating, but also a somewhat cumbrous story. A few actual occurrences form its skeleton—imagination does the rest ; and this fact is t h roug hout too perceptible. The incients are visionary —singularly visionary. Some of the characters are too repulsive— tinctured with a Sue-like villainy that de stroys their probability : of this ckit is the Archbishop Oppas, the like of whom never existed except in a morbid fancy like thit of Mr. Simms. We may par ticularize the description of the battle-scene as the most powerfully wrought in the volume. The dust, and the blood, and the yells, and the eteam of the conflict envelope the reader during its perusal. There are glimpses. too —dainty ones and delicate—of the greenwood, with its surging tree-tops and its solemn army of grey trunks and trailing boughs. Nor Is there a lack of love passages, of trysts, and troth and plighted hearts ; the belle paasionne in in, hands of Mr. Siunns ri•sembling in some measure the golden key ,of the Calendar in the Arabian story—leading on to many episodes of other and darker passions—revenge, and hatred, and envy, and scorn, and malice. The text upon which the entire fiction is fabricated is the " glorious fault," ambition. As another illustration of that so-called crime, " Count Julian" has an almost )erplexing interest. THE NEW TIMON. A Romance o London. Part 111. In several particulars there is much improvement in this portion of our poetical romance ; it is not flawed with those churlish and unmannerly foot-notes which we notified as so ill-judged in the preceding part. Besides this very acceptable omission, the story in this, its con tinuation, is developing more passion and earnestness than heretofore, the characters are less vague and more like creatures with live nerves and throbbing pulses. Of the language in which the sentiments are clothed, we can speak in tones of emphatic admiration ; it is singularly chaste and elegant ; it is choicely culled, and forcible beyond expression. The ideas are pointed like steel arrows, and glitter with epigrammatic smartness ; while occasionally through the stream of couplets peeps forth some quaint thought of the most delicate and statuesque beauty. In this manner, when mentioning that tenderest of love-scenes between Morvale and the maiden Lucy, the anonymous poet starts off with a dainty conceit—in truth, an exquisite conceit—as to the birds that twittered within their adjacent avaries:— " Sole witnesses and fit—those airy things, That, midst the bars, can still unfold the wings, And soothe the cell with language learn'd above; As the caged bis d—so on the earth is love !" A most etherial and subtle symbol is this I It accords with our pre-conception of the God-origin of the master passion; it abstracts from it all particles of the " earth earthiness" with which to more ignoble natures it is ever tarnished. At the same moment it affords a suit able prelude to the more intense, and nevertheless the more chastened, description of the lovers' happiness—a description which loiters gently over the converse of their future, as they conjecture its perspective visions, even " where the golden dimness veiled the gaze"— . Till silence cams, and the full sense and power Of the blest Present,—the rich-laden hour That overshadowed them, as some hushed tree With mellow fruitage bending heavily,— What time, beneath the tender gloom reclined, Dies on the lap of summer noon the Mind !" Nothing, in fact, saving possibly John Dryden's choicest fantazie, " Clown and Iphagenia," nothing—and we utter this in all honesty and simplicity of heart—can convey a more pure, a more lucent, a more spiritual notion:of a love interview than the one delineated in this section of the " New Timon." There are no mawkish efforts at the sentimental—there are no strained labour ings for the picturesque ; it carries with it all the natu ralness of truth, and its diction seems to flow sponta neously. Even the introduction has (to us at least) a singular tone of fascination ; when, immediately after the damsel has finished chaunting an old romaunt about a king that wooed a cottager, the bard ejaculates, as he gazes in his imagination upon the listening Morvale— " How had the lay, as in a mirror, glass'd, The sullen present and the joyless past, Loch'd in the cloister of that lovely soul !" And afterwards, when describing the supremacy which the young girl's face—so meek and childlike in its mo desty—exercised over the enamoured Indian, he ex claims— " Lo I as young Una thrall'd the forest-king, She leads the savage in her silken string ; Plays with the strength to her in service shown, And mounts with infant whim the woman's throne !" Every one will surely trace in the peculiar glibness and exactitude which each word tallies with, and enforces its neighbour, throughout this romance of " London," a very visible partiality, on the part of its author, 'or the mannerism—the epigram of narrative—which cha racterises the most admired and classical of our native poets. Nor has our satirist manifested any feebleness while treading in their foot-prints ; on the contrary, some fragments are so richly moulded, and suffused with such a genuine poetic bloom, that we are some times fain to regard this present poem as but the pre liminary chords of some fine symphony—as but the vanguard of some vaster array of fancy. Whether that symphony will ever be audible time and the writer of the " New Timon" alone can testify. That there are indications in this rhythmical romance of a richer sub ,,tratum than is generally visible in a brockeur like the present, take the following passage, descriptive of a chamber filled with sculpture. To us it sounds like the voice of Boccaccio. "There, gleam the shapes in which, immortal, still, Live the bright exiles from the Olympian Hill ; Still mooned Dian from the breathing stone Haunts, with pure eyes, thy dreams, Endymion; Still on the vast brow of the Father-god, Hangs the hush'd thunder of the awful nod; Still fair, as when on Ida's mountain seen, By Troy's young shepherd, Beauty's bashful Queen ; Still Ind's divine lacchus laughing weaves His crown of clustering grapes and glossy leaves; Still thou, Arch-type of Sony," whose task to soothe The rest of Heroes, and with deathless youth Crown the celestial Brotherhood—dost hold, Brimm'd with the drink of gods, the urn of gold I" * Hobo. These are peeps of deep reading, and signs of a sincere relish in classic lore ; they show that the beauties of the ancient mythology have penetrated into the heart's core of the writer. His epithets like wise, in conveying to the reader some of his most fan tastic notions, are remarkably apt and appropriate: thus, when speaking of the insincerity which is so rife among wordlings, he calls it "the bland hollowness of formal life !" thus also, when alluding to the potency of kind words, and looks, and tears, upon the human soul, he says ‘. they fade from joy to anodynes for grief r —and again, when speaking of the approach of night over a great city, he exclaims— " She comes, to keep Beneath the stars her solemn tryst with sleep." These undoubtedly are subordinate parts in a produc tion of this nature, nevertheless they are deserving of mention as they materially enhance the merits of the " New Timon:" they are details—but they are such details as, to a summer landscape, are the dew drops, and the hedge-flowers, and the green " grass stalks." After perusing Part 111., much of the mystery which previously enveloped the plot is cleared away, and the characters assume a more recognisable relationship with each other. Mor vale's sullenness is nearly altogether scared away by a fresh and exultant feeling, arising from his affection for the outcast "Lucy"—their troth is mutually plighted in the interview already mentioned. Lucy, in the ardour of her happiness, unfolds to the Indian noble man the history of her misfortunes ; and, in displaying a miniature of her father, shows to the astonished Morvale the likeness of his friend, Lord Arden. With the usual egotism (if it may be so harshly termed) of love, the Indian, in his turn, pours into the greedy ears of his mistress an account of his own wretchedness ; and this narrative forms one of the most vigorous passages in the fiction. In a ball-room, his senses are startled by the voice of some unseen person informing him of his sister's dishonour—" blistering her name" with infamy, and babbling the tidings among the dancers, until " from lip to lip the dizzying slander flies," and he himself is half delirious with having no head upon which to direct a just retribution, until, in his own emphatic words, " One felt, unseen, infection circling there, A bodiless venom in the common air." Calantha dies :—a victim it proves to Lucy's father: — the perjured, the perfidious, the pernicious Arden. Fur ther of the story we are loath to divulge, as by so doing we might weaken the pleasure of many a reader. Of all the situations in this " part"—the scene in the death-chamber of Calantha is the most dramatic, the most enthralling, and the most fraught with passion. The picture of Lord Arden "fixed to stone" by the " horrid glamour" of the Indian—the vengeance boiling like a hell within the lattor's bosom—the hour, the awful presence of the corpse, re and s d e es a th tt e en da t r i o e n r dreary nd adjuncts are fi x o e f d the spectacle, upon hi s memory.rou s e author e On e h hh o o aa r tt u t f i s r b smo u fi vri r inen s e : wldy o hb f ciec g oshi r nd i cg e eer— f iev a etet i n hd d e t: hph s ee a e es n rhde t a i td m ihot en t on the part of' our is— "Butgawtf"peo smiled p 1e d below r e l Which says to Sorrow-4 Tnou canst wound no more!' Which says to Love that would rejoin—' Await !' That says to Wrong that would redeem..—' Too late!' That lingering halo of oar closing skies Cold with the sunset, never more to rise !" Scarcely less excellent is " the iaterruption,"—the girlish hand that stays the upraised dagger of Morvale, and, in doing so, unconsciously protects her parent ; is there not a virgin brightness about these four lines—are they not lustrous with beauty ? " Her airy clasp upon the murtherer's arm, Her pure eyes chaining with a solemn charm, Like some blest thought of mercy, on a soul Brooding on blood—the holy image stole 1" We could hardly do better than conclude our notice with that simple extract, but that the justice of criticism obliges us to cavil at one great blemish in the pre sent effusion. Its author cannot surely suppose us to be in any manner prejudiced against him ; in deed, the positive terms of panegyric in which we have conceived it to be our duty to particularise this, his anonymous production, will, we feel assured, screen us from such an imputation. We have endeavoured to illustrate the merits of the "New Timon" by quotations, and have accompanied those quotations with comments ries most eulogistic to the author, because we considered him entitled to that recompense in all fairness. Never theless, as impartial critics, we could not close our eyes to whatever imperfections lurked among those passages —seeing the sunbeam we could not be blind to the mote. Our allusions are directed against many intolerable blun ders or oversights in the rythm—defects which cause several verses to hobble most wretchedly. How, for ex ample, could any one, laying pretensions to a rigid taste and a keen ear, be guilty of couplets so crippled and mal formed as these : " Not to the crowd in cold detail allow B§ delicate worship, its mysterious row For the sich fragrance and the delicate dies Which art calls forth by walling out the skies!" They are essentially false and unmusical, and their de formity is so apparent that we marvel at their being ad mitted to such good company. These, however, are not solitary instances, but have " fellows" of a number quite inexcusable. We cannot induce ourselves to consider this condemnation of ours as anything at all bordering upon hypercriticism, since it com prises one of the chiefest requisites of the divine art —symmetery. Besides which, no one—excepting always (and reverentially) Shelley—has ever attained last ing popularity, or indeed any share of real fame, without a strict adherence to the rules of rhythm; or, as we may indeed term them, the rules of musical intona tion. In the author of this " Romance of London," we recognise the ore—and, in speaking as we have done, we are only anxious to see it purified from alloys and moulded into just proportions. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNINO, FEBRUARY 23, 1046. THE PHILOSOPHY OF WEALTH. Second By John Crauford. The first edition of this work was published anony mously at Paisley, by Mr. Crawford, in 1837. Mr. Crawford says he had then only a vague knowledge of the question of the currency, derived from those authorities or supporters of a metallic currency en the one hand, and of a paper or credit currency on the other, of which the late Mr. Cobbett, and Mr. Attwood, of Birmingham, may be considered the respective representatives. Within the last eighteen months, however, the author having become a member of the Society for the Emancipation of Industry, got acquainted -vith the writings of Mr. John Taylor, author of " Currency Investigated," whose views the Society was instituted for the purpose of carry ing int) practical effect. Mr. Crawford acknowledges that it is to Mr. Taylor's writings he is indebted for any sound or correct knowledge he now possesses of the sub jects of money and currency ; and his book professes to be no more than a digest or compendium of Mr. Taylor's doctrines. The leading doctrines of Mr. Taylor are, that gold is simply a commodity, dependent fur its value on the same laws which regulate or determine the value of all other commodities ; that is, the labour or cost of its production, and its scarcity or abundance in relation to other commodities ; that labour being estimated in corn, corn therefore becomes the standard of value, whereas gold is merely the measure of value ; that the relation betwixt gold, silver, and corn is as one ounce of gold to fifteen ounces of silver ; each being equal to 2% quarters of wheat, but that if the corn be taxed this rela tion is destroyed; for instance, if five dwts. of gold, or a sovereign, and fire bushels of wheat lite natural equiva lents, and a tax of 20 per cent. be laid on the wheat, that then, if gold be not appreciated in proportion to the taxation, the sovereign will now come to purchase or exchange for 245. worth of wheat in place of 20s. worth; that hence the depreciation of the pound of account during the war, in place of having been an evil, as all our political economists have cenddered it, was an excel lence, as it only preserved the equation which gold pro perly bore to all other commodities, enhanced as these were by indirect taxation ; and that therefore the appre ciation of the "standard," as it is falsely called, by Peel's Bill of 1819, has inflicted incalculable mischief on all the industrious and productive classes of the country, by preventing the necessary rise in prices, and so throwing the whole burden of taxation on their shoulders, and, by the low prices, doubling and trebling the incomes of all those who live by the taxes, rents, annuities, interest. and other fixed burdens of the country. Mr. Crawford illustrates this by the following note : " The secret lies here: the aggregate quantity of money has been gradually lessened during the existence of Peel's monetary policy; but the quantity composing each aliquot part of which the whole is composed, has not, at the same time, been lessened. The pound, or unit of account, is kept at 5 dwts. (3 grains), whatever the aggregate quantity of gold may be. For the sake of illustration, suppose 100 to represent the whole gold or bullion which forms the basis of the circulation-5 dwts., or a sovereign, being the unit, and therefore the 100th part of the whole ; but suppose bullion reduced by a foreign drain 20 per cent , or to 80, the 100th part would then no longer be 5 dwts., it would only be 4 dwts. But we fix the unit, and therefore in the case sup posed the 5 dwts. are raised from the 100th to the 80th part ; that is, it is enhanced in value 20 per cent. So that we see how, by this juggle of a fixed price for gold, the money power maintains its unjust ascendancy." In this paragraph Mr. Crawford has condensed the whole question of the Currency, and after reading it, we should like, to hear any man attempt to refute the position that gold ought not to be fixed in its price, which Peel's law, either in folly or wickedness, has done. Mr. Crawford comes to the same conclusion as Sir James Graham does in his celebrated pamphlet en titled "Corn and Currency," when he says— " Since we must have a free trade in corn, let us have also a free trade in money, and destroy that fatal connexion be tween the Government and a single chartered bank, which facilitaies the prodigality of Ministers, and invests an irresponsible body with the most delicate and important function of the state—the control over the circulating medium." Sir James says—" Rescind Mr. Peel's Act, and restore the paper circulation to the highest level of the war and of 1817. The price of bullion would then rise, and the war standard of depreciation be distinctly indicated—that standard of the great mass of our debts and contracts, the measure of the rise of our greatest interests. .We then might debase our metal standard to the precise level of the depreciated paper currency, and, having lowered our measure of value, adjust it to the existing interests and contracts created in paper money, and issue, for the ordinary purposes of circulation, coin of less intrinsic worth. But this is an indirect way of doing the same thing: it possesses all the evils of delusion." Let Sir James, however, read the above paragraph we have quoted from Mr. Crawford, and we venture to say that he will no longer designate the depreciation of the pound of account in the degree of taxation a " delti sion. ' Ho will see it is the only just and necessary way in which the equation of gold with other values can be preserved. Monetary reform we hold to be essential to carry out Sir Robert Peel's adopted free-trade policy with advantage to the country, and we have not the slightest doubt there will soon be as strong a popular agitali in for free-trade in gold as there has been for free-trade in corn ; in fact, the monopoly of gold is a more grievous monopoly than the monopoly of corn. Mr. Crawford'e preliminary definitions of the terms wealth, capital, gold, silver, cash, money currency, standard of value and measure of value, and value and price, are the most accurate we have seen, and they must be great helps to all students of political economy. The work, in short, is an admirable compendium or digest of Mr. Taylor's writings, and we congratulate Mr. Taylor on having so able a commentator. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the Hues of Commons.) FRIDAY, /hill: 20. The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills ordered to be brought in by the underuamed Ilea. Members : Colchester,Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead, Sir H. Smyth and Mr. Sanderson. Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Dock—Mr. Liddell, Mr. 11. Hinde, and Mr. Hudson. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canal Purehase)— Mr. Parker, Mr. M. Philips, and Mr. Buckley. Eastern Union and Hamlett Railway and Pler—Major:Bereaford and Captain Gladstone. Great North of Scotland --Mr. C. Bruce and Mr. Bannerman. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction (Extensions and De - - viations—Sir W. Wynn and Mr. W. 0. Gore. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chaster Junction (Crickheath and Wem Branches)—Sir W. Wynn, and Mr. W. 0. Gore. North Wales Mineral Deviations and Brs.nchos—iiiir W. Wynn and Mr. W. 0. Gore. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield Branch Diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch)—Viseount Morpeth, Mr. Stanstield, and Mr. Aldam. Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junction—Colonel Rol leston, Mr. Christopher, and Mr. T. Hussey. Huddersfield and Manchester Canal and Railway (Oldham Branoh)— Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Stansfleld, and Mr. Aldam. Enfield and Edmonton—Colonel T. Wood and Mr. Hudson. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardroesan—Mr. Bouverie and Mr. Stewart, Scottish Midland Junction (South Inch of Perth Branch) —Mr. IL Drummond and Viscount Duncan. Great Grimsby and Sheilield Junction Railway and Grimsby Docks Consolidation—Lord Worsley, Mr. Christopher, and Mr. E. Hannan. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction (Humber Ferries)—Lord Wands'', Mr. Christopher, and Mr. G. lleneage. Scottish Midland Junction Branches—Mr. H. Drummond and Vis count Duncan. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Polio. and Govan Branch)—Mr. 11. Johnstone and Mr. Stewart. Mitcham and South-Western—Mr. Kemble and Mr. Introbus. Newcastle-upen-Tyne and Carlisle Branch—Mr. Bell, Mr. P. Howard, and Mr. Ord, West Riding Union—Viscount Morpeth, Mr. B. Denison, Mr. C. Wood, and Mr. Entwisle. The following Resolutions were reported from the Standing Orders' Committee : That, in the case of the Deeside Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. That, in the case of the West Biding Union Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispersed with:—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. That, in the case of the Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Pareham Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. That, in the ease of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amendment and Branches potitioa (No. b), the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS. 110XDAT, rail. 23. Exeter and Exmouth. Taw Vale Extension. Eastern Union and Iladlelgh Junction. Slamannan and Borrowstounees. Wilson town, Morningside, aad Coltness (Improvement and Branches). Slamannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig Branches). Wishaw and Coltness (Greenhill Branch). Wilsontown, Mornlngside, and Cohues' (Knovrton Branch). Edinburgh and Northern (Pottycur and Perth liarbeur Braachei and Deviations). and Northern ( Edinburgh and Northern (Branches from the Dundee and Arbroath Rinati;rnay Tay Ferry and L lmprovement). Edinburgh and Northern (Strathearn Deviation). Ed Edinburgh and Northern (Kinross, Woodmlll, & Newburgh Branches). Edinburgh Edinburgh and Northern (Newport and St. Andrew's Branch). Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern. Perth and Crieff Direct. Ayrshire, Bridge of Weir, and Port Glasgow Junetioa. London and Croydon (Thames Junction Branch). North-Western. Saint Helen's Canal and Railway. East and West Yorkshire Junction. Midland Railway (Syston to Peterborough Deviations and 'makes). South Midland (Northampton and Bedford /A nsa). London and Birmingham (Newport Patnall Branch). London and Birmingham (St. Annals and Luton Brandt). - Cheltenham and Oxford. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle. West of Scotland Junction. London, Hounslow, and Western. South Midland (Huntiegdon Branch). Exeter, Topsham, sad Exmouth. South-Eastern (Tunbridge Walls to !fasting' an d Rya). South-Eastern (Braseh from Reigate to Dorking). South-Eastern (Maidstone to Strood, near Roehestor). South-Eastern (from Canterbury to Doter). South-Eastern (from Chislet to Margate). South-Eastern (from the God tone Station to Bast Grinetead). Sout h-E as t e rn (Rye to Rye Harbour). Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Amendment and Bran , (No. 1). smock and A Glasgow, Paisley, Um lmendment and Branches (No. I). Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock. and Apr Amendment and Dramatise (ro. 5). Norfolk Extension (Dereharn, Wells, aad Blatea s .) . North British Railway and Branches (N o . I). North British (No. B—HawicB Branches). North British (No. B—Carllslo Extinction). North British (No. 4—WOWS. Branch). 111.811 DAY, CM. 24. Mahon ant Driftloll Junction. Cambridge and Oxford. 'fork and North Midland (East Riding Bram:2l4 4 _ll o. Great North of England Purchase. Great North of England and Boroughbridge iit rush. Great North of Englaid and Bedale Branch. Blackburn, Preston, and East Lancashire Am a l gamation. WEDNEsDAY, rEtt. 25 . Bridgewater and }flathead Railway and Pi er. Carnwath and West Linton. Ballochney (Shotts Branch)• Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction. Monkland and Kirkiutillock (Chapel Han Branch). London and ilouth-Wastern (Ronmay a n t Redbridge Brandi). Gloucester and Doan Forest. Swansea Yale. COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR RAILWAY BILLS FORTHISvcrEEK. moxruir, rs ik 2s. Direst Landon and Manchester. Rugby and HantingdolL Grand 'Union. Cornwall. Shrewsbury and Hereford. Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Shrewsbury and stnabrd). London, Warwick, Leamington and Kidderminster. East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junatica. Dartmouth, lirixham, Torbay, and kzeter. Boston, Newark, and Sheffield. Nottilighi t al, Mugged, And IndlitudJuneticu. London and South-Western (Salisbury Junction). London and South-Western (Basingstoke and Salisbury listeneden). Edinbursii and Glasgow and Dumbartonshire Junction. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches (No. 6). Cork, Blackrock, and Passage. Liverpool and Leeds Direct. Northumberland and Lancashire. Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford. Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester. Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction. Chelmsford and Bury. Great Southern and Western (Cork Extension). Mountmellick Junction. Dablin and SsaAymount Atmospheric. Ely and Bury. Ely and Huntingdon (Bedford Extension). Ceckermouth and Workington Extension. Lynn and Ely (Extension to Spalding). Lynn and Zly (Extension to March). South Union. Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leeds, Sad Bradford. Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby. Dover and Deal. Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds. Stamford and Spalding. 'Monmouthshire. Huntingdon and Wisbech. Wear Dock. Derby and Crewe Junction. West Lancashire. Congleton and Crewe. Glasgow and Belfast Union. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway and Pert of Qv.la. Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester. Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction. British and Irish Union. Monmouth and Hereford. Eastern Counties (Hertford to Huntingdan). Bedford and Cambridge Extension. Eastern Counties (larch to Lincoln). Eastern Counties (Epping Extension). Exeter Great Western. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth. Midland (Claycross to Newark). Midland (Nottingham to Mansfield). Eastern Counties (Tottenham to Barnet). West Cornwall. Grand Trunk and Peterborough. West London Improvement and Extension. Norfolk Extensions (Yarmouth Extension). Norfolk Extensions (Thetford and Reedhana Brawl:tee). Taff Vale. London and Brighton and London and Croydon Consolidation. Midland (Burton to Nuneaton). Worcester. Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester. Midland (Leicester to Swannington). Midland (Darned to Eleecar). Chichester, Portsmouth, and Farnham. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Staler Talley (Stour Valley Line). Birmingham, Wolverhampton. and Stour Valley (Birmingham, Wol verhampton, and Dudley Line). Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Lincoln). Eastern Counties Stations Enlargement. Eastern Union (Ardleigh to Colchester). Midland (Swinton to Lincoln.) Midland (Newark to Gainsborough.) Midland (Purchase ofOakham Canal.) Sheffield and Lincolnshire 'Catenalan. South Wales (No. 2). South-Eastern (No. 7—lsliffird Stations Enlarsament-) Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Staines and Manley (No. 2.) Worcester and Portia Dynliaan. Vale of Neath. Great Eastern ►nd Western. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton. Eastern Counties (Tottenham and Farringdon-attest Eitaaalon),. Eastern Counties (Thames Junction Railway BransheS). Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley. Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Ely Extanalcut. with itranchui therefrom). Menkland and Eirkintilloch Gravesend and Rochester Railway and Canal. Lowestoft and Beccles. Midland Railways (Erewash Valley Extension). Midland Railways (Erewash Valley Branches). South Wales. Great Western. London and Birmingham Railway &Birmingham Canal Arrani•Maat- Birminghsun and Oxford (Birmingham Extension). Birmingham and Oxford Junction. Huddersfield and Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds Railway Companies Amalgamation. Southampton and Dorchester. Trent Valley (Alrewas Branch). Liverpool and Manchester and Lanai Ansalgasuatien. Chard Canal. Preston and Wyre Railway Harbour and Doak Company. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway. Cornwall and Devon Central (Hale, Lelant, St. Austell. and Bodatin Branches). Manchester and Birmingham Continuation lad Welsh Janstion. London and South Western Railway ♦cts Araeadment. Trent Valley Midlands and Grand Junction. Liverpool and Bury. Warwick and Worcester. Runeorn and Preston Brook. Northern and Southern Connecting. Cornwall and Devon Central. Direct Birmingham and Leicester. Thetford, Bury St. Edmund's, and Newmarket. Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth (No. 2). London and Birmingham Extension (Northampton, DaYeatry, Loa- mington, and Warwick). Rochdale Canal and Manchester and Loa'. Shrewsbury and Herefordshire North Union (Horwish Branch). Leeds, York, and Junction. Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland. Manchester aid Myde. Bristol and Birmingham and Midlands. Buckingham Railway (Triug to Banbury). Bristol and Birmingham Hallway (Ashattureit, Towtesbary, mad _ . Malvern Line). . . Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Glouctotar. Bristol and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester suad Stannous. Junction). Chester and Birkenhead. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction. Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Tontop ant &oath fibirlds way Purchase). London and Birmingham (Birmingham Extension). London and Birmingham (Coventry and llaneaWn). South Devon (No. 2). Leicester and Birmingham. Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Stamford to Wisbecch. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Salisbury to Yeovil). Hull and Barnsley Junction. East Coast. London and Windsor. Hull and Lincoln. Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction. Tean and Dove and Eastern and WesternJwistion. Halesworth and Norwich. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation aid Railway and Manchester and Leeds Railway Amalgamation. Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe. Whitehaven and Furness. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction and North W e /as 111- neral Railway Amalgamation. London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct. Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham. Northampton and Banbury. Ipswich, Norwich, and Tarmoutk. Furness Extensions. Northampton and Bedford. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation itxtsasions. Buckinghamshire (Oxford and Bletchley Junction). London and Birmingham (Weedon and Northampton Branch). London and Birmingham (Leamington Extension, Coventry and Rugby Stations Enlargement). London and Birmingham (Aylesbury purchase). Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Com,pany, LC. Amal gamation. Midland (Birmingham Extension). London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manahaeter and Bir mingham Amalgamation. Warwickshire and London (Hampton and Banbury Line). Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction. Warwickshire and London (Worcester and Weedon Line). Bideford and Tatistock. North Wales. Manchester and Loads and Leeds and Bradford Amalgamation. Merecombe Harbour. Leeds Central Station. Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction. Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton. itudderifield and Sheffield Junction (Mullen Branch). Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafferdahird (We. 1). Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Soutk Staffordshire (No. 2). Bridgwater and Taunton Canal Railway and Harbour. East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junctian. Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway and Chesterton and Giant borough Canal. Lancashire and North Torkahlre. Scottish Central and Caledonian Janetlan. Edinburgh and Hamilton Direct. Lesmahagow, Dalserf, and Ceatbridge Mineral Junction. Scottish Southern. East of Fife Paisley, Barrhood, and Hurlet Hamilton and Strathaven Banffshire. Dublin, Coleraine, and Belfast Junction. Omagh, Dungannon, Armagh, and Belfast Junction. Preston and Wyre, Harbour, and Decks (new Dock and Ball Way.) North Grayeeend. TUESDAY, EX.E. 24. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Basingstoke to Tamil.) Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilgen Direct (Branchui to Tbornliebank, dieusehill, and flurlet.) Glasgow, Barrhead, and If eilsten Direct (Branches to Paisley.) Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Bridge of Weir *roach). Glasgow, Strathayen, and Lesmahagow. Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction Terminus. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston. Chester and Manchester Direct. Furness and Windermere. Manchester and Poole (Lugperahall, Salisbury and Peoie). Macclesfield and Lichfield. Great County Down. Clonmel and Thurles. Dublin and Enniskillen. Londonderry and Enniskillen. Portbury Pier. Edniskillen and Sligo. Newry, Armagh, and Londonderry halation. Edinburgh and Bathgate. Glasgow, Airdrie, and !danklands Janstiaa. Glasgow Southern Terminal. Scottish Midland Extension. Lanarkshire and Lothians. Dublin and Belfast Junction. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin. Irish North Midland. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Monklama and Yirkintalook, Ballosainv, and Slamannan. Edinburgh and Glasgow and Wishaw and Caltnus Amalgamation. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Fortis aid Cilia Natation Amaliamation. Morayshire. Arbroath and Forfar. Oidledonian, Pollos, and Govan and Clydaklais Junatioa Assal,ga- Ovation. Scottish Central (Allos Braneh). Scottish Central (Crieff Branch). Scottish Central (Denny Branch). Caledonian Extensions. Polloc and Govan and Clydesdale Junction AgMAgealatiOU- Caledonian (Clydesdale Junction) Deviations. Caledonian (Carlisle Deviation). Caledonian (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge litroaatl). Caledonian (Glasgow Termini and Branches). Caledonian (Langbohn Branch).! Caledonian (Mid Lothian Branches). Caledonian (Leith Junction). Caledonian (Dumfries Branch). Caledonian (Dundrean Branch). Caledonian (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Tarchase). Edinburgh, Leith. mil Granton Ext•asion ant Branskes. Stirlingshire Midland Junction. Strati/say and Breadalbane. Scottish Grand Junction. Caledonian Northern Direct. Perth and Inverness. Inverness and Elgin. Ayrshire and Caledonian JUlletloll. Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Ceatbridge Nxtonalan. Scottish Central (Perth Termini ant Stations). Forth and Clyde Junction. Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct. St. Alban's, Luton, and Dunstable. Kilmarnock and Troon. Goole and Doncaster. South Yorkshire Coal. Tannlemon , and Benagla. (treat Iwinster and Munster (EQ. 1). brat Letneter and Munster (No. 2). Tork and Lancaster. North of Norfolk. East Dereham and Norwich, Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton. Chichester and Bognor. Bdinburgh, Leith, and Granten Amondment. Danblane, Donne, aid Callander. Neweastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh. ant Direct taw. Great Grimsby, Loath, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Mk Janctton. Oxford, Coventry, and Burton-on-Trent. Launceston and South Devon Railway (No. I). Eastern Counties (LLueolia to Milford). Leeds and Think (St. Helen's Branch Deviation). Leeds ant Think (North-Eaatern Extension, With to Hartlepool). Leeds and Think (Knaresberough Branch Extension). Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scottish Central Amalgamation. Mallow and Fennoy. East and West of England Junction. Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin. Manchester, Ilidland„ and Qroat GrtmayJuniition. Welsh Midland. Etinburgliand Perth. Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worm/ternhire. WIIDZIBaDAY, 11/1. Carlow ExtensiOn. Cork and Passage. Dublin, Dunadrum, and linalskany. Cork and Waterford. Sligo and Shannon. Galway and Ktlacany. Midland Great Western of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway). Midland Great Western of Ireland (Longford and Sligo). ..didland Great Western et Ireland (Liffey Branch and Longford De viation). Cork, Bandon, and Kinsale. Horbury Bridge and Calder. Forth and Clyde and Monkland Navigation Junction. Birkenhead and Llangollen. Warwickshire and London (Hampton and Ishchureh Line). Glasgow and Dundee Junction. Cameron's Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and Lougbor. North Devon Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Whaley Br** and Hayfield Branches). Dublin and Kingatown Extension. Belfast and Helywood Atmospheric. Great Munster Cork, Macroom, and Killarney. Bandon and Bantry. Preston and Wyre Extension and Darwen Junction. ThITJESDAY, FEB. 26. Wexford, Waterford, and Valencia. Surrey Grand Junction. Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool. and Birkenhead. Midland (Birmingham and Gloucester Branches). Dublia and Sandynaount Atmospheric. Cork Possage, and Kinsale. Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth. Norfolk (Norwich Branch). Manchester to Bury Atmospheric. FRIDAY, FEB. 27. Direct Northern. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, Lancaster, Feb. 18. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice ParrasoN.) Catherine Hacking was indicted for the murder of her in fant child. Mr. Halton conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Whigham. The prisoner, who is a middle. aged woman, had been, it appeared, fur six or asven years before this occurrence, in the service of a Mr. Sharpies, at Blackburn. In the latter part of the year 1845 it was observed by Mrs. Sharpies, and by some of her acquaintances among the servants in the neighbourhood, that she increased very much in size. Mrs. Sharpies, on more than one occasion, taxed her with being in the family-way; but this she always denied, raying that Mrs. Sharpies knew better, and that she (the prisoner) had formerly been tapped for dropsy, and was then labouring under similar symptoms. On the 17th of January last Mrs. Sharpies saw the prisoner corning in from the yard. She went into the kitchen and told Mrs. Sharpies she war very ill, and would be glad to go to bed. Mrs. Sharpies allowed her to go up to her bedroom. About half-an-hour after Mrs. Sharpies went up stairs. The prisoner was standing near the bedroom door with all her clothes on except her gown. She said, she was better, and asked Mrs. Sharpies to snake her a cup of tea. From some appearances which Mrs. Sharpies saw in the lobby, she went across into a room oppo site, which was imperfectly lighted by a borrowed light. She went to a closet and looked in ; but it was so dark she could distinguish nothing. In the meantime she beard the prisoner call out—" Why are you going there, mistress ?" and she also heard her going down stairs. Mrs. Sharpies went for a light ; and, on entering the closet, found the body of a child in a pan, covered with a cloth. She imme diately went back to the bedroom, to which the prisoner had by this time returned, and asked what she had been doing. The prisoner then exclaimed,—" Oh, mistress, don't expose me l' Mrs. Sharpies immediately sent for a surgeon. She said the father of the child was a man she met once in Rushton-moor, when going to her father's. It appeared from the evidence of the surgeon, Mr. Morley, that on going to the house he saw the prisoner in the bed room. He said to her, "Catherine, what is this?" She re plied, "Oh, Mr. Morley, I am very sorry for it, but the child was born dead." On examining the body of the child he found a cut in the throat, and a portion of the gullet and wind-pipe cut &war by some thin-bladed sharp instrument. On the prisoner being asked what she had done it with, she said she believed with a pen-knife, but she could recollect nothing about it. She said when she came to herself she found thy pen-knife covered with blood on the floor—that she wiped it, and put it in her pocket. A penknife, on examina tion, was found there. It was then quite clean. Mr. Morley stated, that from a post mortem examination, he was able to say that the child had breathed, and that he was inclined to think it probable it was born alive. On further examination he stated that a child may breathe when only partially born, and die before it was wholly born. The effect of such a wound inflicted before death, or immediately after, would be very similar. In this case would think the wound, if after death, must have been inflicted within four minutes. A wound inflicted on the throat when the child was partially born would produce appearances s i m il ar to those observed in this case. Nothing could be inferred from the appearance of the wound as to whether it was par tially or wholly born at the time. (This witness, in a lengthened examination and cross examination, gave his evidence with a scientific precision and accuracy, divested of all unintelligible technicalities which received the strong praise of his Lordship in sum ming up.) Mr. WRIGUAM addressed the jury for the defence, con tending that no evidence had been adduced which could satisfy the jury that the child had been fully born alive, a circumstance without which the charge of murder fell to the ground. His LORDSHIP summed up, and The jury, after some deliberation, acquitted the prisoner of murder, but found her Guilty of disposing of the dead body with intent to conceal the birth. His LORDSHIP, in a most feeling and impressive address, sentenced her to be imprisoned for two years. Joseph Townshend was indicted for embezzlement. In one set of counts he was described as servant to the overseers cf the Preston Poor-law Union, in another set as servant to the guardians. Mr. Brandt and Mr. Hulton conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. James. The prisoner, it appeared, had been for soma time as sistant-overseer to the union, and in that capacity had re ceived considerable sums of money, which it was his duty to pay over to the treasurer of the guardians. He made up quarterly an account of his receipts and payments, and in the last quarterly account, dated the 20th of October, 1845, there was a balance of a few shillings to his credit. He had given, on his appointment, a bond conditioned for his duly accounting for the several moneys received by him in the execution of his office. In the month of December last the sureties were about being changed, the former ones wish ing to be relieved from their liability, but, in the mean time, the prisoner having received considerable sums of money, absconded. He wrote from London to a relative at Preston, stating that there was no vessel at that port for New York, and that he would go by Li►erpool, requesting that his wife should be asked to collect his clothes that they might be taken with him. This letter was communicated to the police, and in consequence he was apprehended at the house of a Mr. Jones, in Drummond-street, London. There was found on him a sum of 1341. 6s. sd. in gold and notes. The prisoner was brought before the magistrate at Preston, and sentenced for some of the embezzlements, under the provisions of the Poor-law Act for summary proceedings against defaulters. The present case was sent to the as sizes. lir. .4lots, for the defence, contended that the pri soner was not the servant or clerk of the overseers, and that his duties as assistant-overseer were of a totally different kind. The office WSJ one, the duties of which are specified in the 59th George 111., cap. 12, s. 7, and the office of the present prisoner was of a similar cha racter. He was a public officer of the several townships for which he was appointed, but not a servant to the over The remedy against him for a default was either a summary one under the Act, or a suit on the bond. The Learned Counsel also contended that, even supposing him a servant to the overseers or guardians, there had been no em bezzlement, as he was not obliged to account until his usual quarterly period, and it did not appear but that in the books he might have debited himself with these very sums. His LORDIRIP thought, supposing him to be a servant, there was a clear case of embezzlement. He thought, how ever, there was equal doubt whether he could be looked upon as the servant of the overseers. He might, perhaps, be a servant of the guardians; but that. in case there was an other difficulty as to how far the money embezzled could be said to be theirs. Ho should direct the jury, however, that the prisoner was a servant of the guardians, and the matter, in case of conviction, might be considered afterwards. The prisoner would suffer no hardship by this course, as he was already undergoing an imprisonment on the summary con viction, which would not have expired until the points of law could bo determined.—Verdict, Guilty. THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. (Sir John Rennie, President, in the Chair.) The paper read oa Tuesday was " On water for lo comotive engines and its chemical analysis," by William West, Assoc. Inst. C. E. The author commenced by commenting somewhat severely on the want of precaution manifested in the choice of the watering stations on railways, where he contended that previous analysis o f not only considerable quality of the water would have a voided en considerable expenditure, in subsequently teprd great ocuring fit kinds of water, but wou ld have prev destruction of the boilers and inconveniences froT the tendency to prime which was induced by certain substances being either in solution or held in sus pension. He then treated of the various kinds of earthy crust or " fur " deposited by evaporation ; these he showed the various composition of the principal components being carbonate and sulphate of lime, whose powers of conducting heat were so in ferior, that when deposited upon a metallic plate or tube, which should be in contact with the water, the caloric traversed slowly, diminishing the evaporating power of the fuel in proportion to the accumulation of deposit, and at the same time oxidating the metal with great rapidity. The various substances present in spring or river water, such as soda, lime, magnesia, as bases, and sulphuric acid, carbonic acid, antichlorine, which represents hydro chloric or muriatic acid, iron, and organic matters, were then reviewed, and the discrepancies in the results of ana lysis by , different chemists were treated of, and it was shown that although there were apparent differences of as opinion m existedaon g among eng chemists, ne e t r he s wereoyn the not relativei n reality merits so of f r t e h a e t locomotive and atmospheric systems, th e screw an d th e paddle-wheel, and the broad and narrow gauge. In treat ing of the modus operandi of analysis, the imperial gallon was recommended as an uniform standard of quantity for the chemist, as being a measure known to and under stood by all, and enabling the engineer to discard the minute fractions of the chemist, and to attend with exac titude to whole numbers in results. As an instance, it was stated that an engineer might be tempted to disre gard the presence of three-quarters of a grain of de posit from a pint of water ; but the deposit from one thousand gallons of such water would amount to four teen ounees avoirdupois, which was a very tangible quantity. Ii examining the tendency of different com pounds to deposit, it wasshown that sulphate of lime was more disposed than the carbonate to attach itself to the plates; that a mixture of the sulphate caused a harder de posit than the carbonate alone, and therefore waters containing much sulphate should be avoided. It was shown, also, that although what is generally termed " hard " water might be considered inferior to " soft '' water, yet, in the question of deposit, hardness and softness were only vague terms, and could not be accepted as positive rules, inasmuch as muriate of lime which imparted great hardness to water, and therefore rendered it unfit for domestic purposes, was a very soluble salt, and therefore did not form any detrimental deposit or crust during ebullition. It appeared that the author could only recommend , al!a means of precaution against incrustation, the se lec tion of waters which by analysis were found to contain o nly soluble salts, or in situations where bad water cou l d "blown alone be obtained, that the boiler should be frequen tl y through," in order to get rid of the dense toshaetudreap; deposited d art of the water, before the cru st had ti n e ; t o los preventpotatoes, i leather n crus t incrusta tion, ings, &c.—into the boiler, the introduction of substanc i e o s particles in a slimy ---.orduecrh to • locomotives, because of the coat ing,ion , being envelopingng inapplicable th3 earth y . tendency to induce priming. The paper noticed slightly t h e va rious patent., for preventing adhesion in boilers, .S TT INT a t eu rf-..,, and in the appendix gave the an ••, 0 • — ~. kinds of water which had been su b itted , t 4, ,, c 1 , %.0 c i k author professionally for his opinion. I diiiiii Ir-Isris x which ensued, Mr. Gooch demonstrate 111 . 0 ' ' - i'i-t..: •• • 1 of the subject to railway and steam-boat ~ stated that his attention had been called e' ' s - _: vented by Dr. Ritterba n d t , f or preventin • in boilers. That process consisted situp ants ienAtaile dition of a small quantity of muriate of ammonia to the water in the boiler. It had been found that this process not only effected the object proposed, but that it disintegrated and removed the incrustation already formed. In all the locomotives in which it had been used, the steam was much more readily generated, so that the blast pipes of several engines had been en larged without diminishing this facility. There was, therefore, no doubt of a great saving of fuel being effected by the process, the expense of which was stated to be about 3d. per hundred miles run of a locomotive engine. In sea-going steamers, the success of the ex periment had not been less remarkable. In all these cases the water had been tested by practical chemists, with out the slightest trace of iron or copper being detected, showing that there was no injurious effect upon the metal of the boiler, &c.; he looked upon the process as perfect. Dr. RITTERBANDT, in a concise and lucid manner, stated the results of his investigations. It appeared that carbonate of lime was the only substance which formed a solid incrustation; the other substances being merely mixed with, and cemented by, the carbonate. That the muriate of ammonia acted as a perfect solvent on the carbonate of lime, converting it into the soluble muriate, without acting upon the boiler. He gave a practical demonstration of the action of the muriate of ammonia, calcareous water, to the satis faction of the President and members, who expressed themselves in terms of approbation of the great practi cal utility of the invention, and of the manner in which it had been brought before the Society. SEDUCTION OF CHILDREN. On Friday two men were charged by constable Phillips, at Bow-street Police -court, with having harboured and co habited with several little girls in a wretched hovel, occupied by them jointly, in Gilbert-street, Clare-market. The constable informed the magistrate, that in consequence of the representations made to him by a mechanic named Walker, who had lost his daughter, aged thirteen years, he went to the room occupied by the prisoners, and knocking at the door, which was fastened, demanded admission. He heard the voice et a child inside, and he woe asked by a man, whom he heard getting out of bed, what he wanted. Wit ness insisted on being admitted, and the door was eventually opened. He found one of the prisoners standing in the room, in his shirt only, and saw three little girls, under fourteen years of age, crouched together, completely naked, and having no other covering than that of a dirty rug. The other pri soner was not undressed. Walker, who accompanied the policeman, identified one of the children as his daughter, whose absence from home he had been unable to account for. The constable ordered the girls to put on the scanty clothing which was lying about them, and, taking the prisoners into custody, conducted them all to the police station. MrAwyford observed that those disclosures were very horrible. To think of men going about and decoying young children like these to their dens of depravity was horrible In deed. But, as the children were more than ten years old, no offence had been committed in the eye of the law, and it was not in the power of the magistrate to interfere. There was nothing to show that violent means had been used to get *e children away from their parents, or that they had bee. retained by the men contrary to their own wishes. The constable remarked that the door of the room was kept locked. Mr. 'rwyford—Very likely; but it was no offence to lock a door, and, although he wished to say nothing in faYonr of the krisoners, it was only reasonable t o su pp ose th at t h e p l ace was ept locked by them from feelings of delicacy. His worship wished to see one of the girls. The three children were then brought into court, and one of them, aged thirteen, was placed in the witness-box. •Pala, thin, and consumptive in their appearance, barely covered with ragged clothing, and dirty in the extreme, nothing • could exceed the apparent wretchedness of these poor creatures. The father of one of them (Walker), and the mother of another, were well-dressed and respectable-looking people. The third, who was put under examination, stated that her father's name was Barrykin, and that he was a bricklayer's labourer. She had not been living all the time with the men at the bar, but, for a short period, with Lucy Roach (a well-knewn prostitute), who lodged in the same house. She said that she should be glad to go anywhere to be protected. Phillips, the officer, said that the parents of a great many other children were prepared with similar complaints against the prisoners, if his Worship wished to hear them. Mr. Twyford repeated that he could not punish the men, and although he did not blame the officer for taking them into custody, it was his duty to discharge them. A gentleman here stepped forward, and begged his Wor ship to use his influence with some philanthropic institution, in order, if possible, to rescue the children from the depra vity into which they had been plunged at so tender an age. fay the direction of his Worship, however, they were handed over to the constable to be taken back to their pa rents, and the two miscreants at the bar, whom, it seems, no law could reach, were discharged. DARING BURGLARY NEAR LEAMINGTON. During the course of Friday morning last inf„,r. mation was received by Mr. Roby, superintendent of police, that a burglarious entry had been made into the residence of H. E. Landor, Esq., a gentleman living at Teitehbroke, It appears that about two o'clock in the morning, two of Mr. Landor's servants who slept in a bed-room over the kitchen, in the rear of the premises, were awoke by the breaking of glass, and the entrance through the window of the apartment of three men successively, whose faces were covered with black crape. A scuffle ensued, and one of the servants made his escape into the dining-room, the window of which opened into a front garden, and as he was about to retreat in that direction, in order to give an alarm in the village, he caught sight of a man who was standing sentinel, armed with a bludgeon. He immediately proceeded up a back staircase to Mr. Landor's bedchamber, to inform that gentleman of what had taken place ; and, having done se, retreated into the kitchen, where he secreted himself in the chimney, and there remained until all chance of danger had passed away. From this hiding-place, however, he heard the burglars making search for him, and, in foul language, expressing their regret that he had escaped them. Returning to the other servant (Morley), who was left scuffling with three of the thieves, we ascertained that, after some considerable resistance, during which time he was fbrced from room to room, and struck a most serious blow on the forehead, he was finally overcome, and compelled to lead the robbers to the bed-room of his master, who had been previously aroused by Cleaver, and had been looking for fire-arms, one of which he held in his hand as the plunderers entered his chamber. One of them, addressing him, said—" Now, old fellow, we've found you, have we ?' and commenced wrestling with him for the blunderbuss with which he had armed himself. The party ultimately forced him to the floor, exclaiming, "Your money er your life." Mr. Landor, with great self-possession, to this threat replied, " Here, then, as you are masters now,' at the same time handing over his pulse, in which there were six or seven pounds, principally in geld. The thieves, according to Mr. Landor's own statement, shook the purse, evidently surprised and disappointed at the trifling booty they had gained. At this period both Mr. Lander and his occasions 1 servant (Morley), seeing that all further resistance would be useless, abstained from offering any, and seated themselves by the bed. The perpetrators of this violent attack upon life and property next wantonly forced open a small cabinet by the bedside, and took out four watches. These, together with the money above mentioned, appear to be the whole of the property carried off by the thieves, who, however, compelled Mr. Landor to go with them to the dining-room, there to deliver up the key of his plate-chest.. On unlocking this iron safe, they (turned suit all the plate,as if money only was th e i r object, anit at length, pounced upon a pocket-book which they eagerly took to the wax lights whict, they had ignited, and examinee the con tents minutely, which consisted of bankers accointable bills upon Messrs. Taylor and Loyd, of the Birmingham Old Bank, for between 6,0001. and 7,000/. They turned them on one side as of no importance whatever; and from this fact, as well as from that of not a single article of plate being taken away, it may fairly be presumed that their only object of plunder was money. The servant-man, who is wounded, lies in a very precari ous state ; and we regret to state, that up to the moment o f our account leaving Leamington, at e ight o ' clock last n i g h t, the police had been unable to gain any listelhgence of the thieves. THE FATE OF MUNtiO PARR. At the Geographical Society's meeting, London, last week, a letter from Mr. Duncau was read, dated Cape Coast, Oct. 4, 1845. Mr. Duncan states, that though the King of Ashantee had refused him permission to pass through his dominions, ke had been enabled to penetrate into the interior by another route. Being at Whyddah he had ingratiated himself into the favour of Senhor Don Francisco de Buz*, a Portuguese slave-dealer, who had been established there be tween 40 and 50 years, and whose influence with the King of Dahomey was paramount. This gentleman obtained for Mr. Duncan an invitation from the King to visit him, and a promise of his protection. He accordingly prepared suitable presents for the King and his cabareers, and started on the 6th June. Having arrived on the 10th, he presented himself to the King in his Life Guard uniform, and was most graci ously received. At the Kiag's desire he went through the sword exercise at gallop, which greatly astonished and interested the monarch, who in return, next day, showed him a review of 6,000 female troops, whose arms, accoutre ments, and performance, the traveller says, were try surprising. Mr. Duncan rema i ne d at Abomey, tie capffod of Dahomey, until the 17th, when the King, having had the road cleared for hi m f or more than a hundred gave him an escort of a hundred men, and permission to travel over any part of his dominions he pleased. Every where the traveller found provisions in abundance, all ready provided for him, and ready cooked. Mr. Duncan having been informed of the existence, in the interior, of persons who could give him information respecting Mungo Park, proceeded to a large town, named Adofoodie, in thirteen degrees six minutes north, and one degree three minutes east. Here was a large market, with artiolee from the Mediterranean, and others from Bomon. At t his place he found a fine-looking Bornouese, who spoke Span*, and who told him he had been twenty-one years a slave in Bahia, to the firm of Busby and Johnson, of Liverpool.Ee also met a Tripoli merchant he had seen at Eggs, wn en th "' s the Niger expedition. Amali Fatuma was, it h :pP_ nod to the principal cause of Park's death. Having • terrogated upon out paying him his full wages, Park w " denied the charge. King or chief of Yaouri that Park had disch ccu L P g the subject, and, of course, indignan tly detain the canoe, to the bank with a piece which was at the time moored_an discharged him with t, cut off the w of he r r o e p u e p:Dn pa a r n k, attempt was w ri ss unmcan rna t d .n e ig 7 :2 Weea, fiirther which ended in of pthie ~fray which the canoe; IMMO years ago, a white man from Con-. T papers ; that s h aa Park ' s nt e a d o that, of doe about of b. o u t thTe. hffour u r people he, the stantinople cams search h a m, at a high price, a long tin sheets of p a o a t tft h r F r a i r r n i k c ' e s i tt;oobluittu that and made d t e k a e this was the the co pe m rs m o :u p c o e ul m rdc en p t riest, t p u r b ie e s , t, w im itn w large anb6;kwseriet ap pears, pu rchase, the King declared e p iobnutethdeinpthoothr.ffinereerncthaht hands; m any d sold as amulets, and some were carried to Boks i sa, where they remained a very long . time. This priesrbed been more than twenty times to Timbuctoo, l'hich he de scribed as not so large as Adofoodia, and famed only as a great exchange mart for goods, in consequence of the facili ties for transport afforded by thirty-six tributary strelfbas, which enter the Niger within one league of Timbuctoo. Roes. Adofoodia Mr. Duncan, was obliged to return. He recoiipdp on his way back, the same kind attentions from the K i Arot Dahomey. • 'IKIE AGITATORS.—Certain of the landholders may new fairly claim the title of being "the great agitators." They have long and loudly exclaimed against agitation, but whoa it, suite their intermt and ends, c an bl ow th e s t or m of a g itation strongly. They have had things "all their own way" se very long, that, to put theta uut of their course, is alitioat like taking their life.