The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-04 00:00:00

~-~.ti.,t C(JUItT CIRCULAR. waIY.I,NetSITA, TUESDAY. —The Queen and Prince Albert ' •-ns rn,)rninr, in the grounds of the Castle. . e Their RON al Higl7riesses the Prince of Walt s, Princ , . 41f red, the 'Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took Ponv exercise on the terraces and grounds. ~ , the His "loyal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied , Dy i bulie of Bedford, the Marquis of Exeter, the Right e b").• Cha.rles Wood, and Mr. G. E. Anson, and attended 4,3citilf,e Equerries in Waiting Major-General %Vern) ~, ~aptnin the Hon. Alexander Gordon, bunted this - , orni ng .. n lier ~ Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in the aftera , - " °11 ia pony carriage, the Prince driving. In _ iritd. carriage were the Duchess of Bedford, Li j a s Y s h,arY Woud, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. lend '.'yereux. The Equerries in Waiting were in att 'ince on horseback. - Th itt th e Q Ear( and Countess Spencer are expected to arri‘e l Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. yu,Lerr I L lo z a y l i f o lif v h a n i e ti s nsg, the Duchess of Kent, attended Lady Anna Maria Dawson, t7left her residence, Frogniore House, soon after ten -:e(l,this morning for town. Her Royal Highness re • turns a in the evening; to Frogrnore House. inefil??Loyal dinner party at the Castle this evening will i t :Us , npr nee a 34 1-Fghness the Duchess of Kent, the th e l e ) a n- Duches s of Bedford, the Lady in Waiting of ii• - • :_ i r e : t e h ss e of Kent, the Baroness d!! Spetb, the Mar- Ppineand Alarcitioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Right Hon. C. and Lady Mary Wood, and Th e ban Couper. do the of the Ist Life Guards will attend during in the caster Majesty's private band afterwards attend Iler R o , 1 . by L,.., 3a Higii-------ness the Duchess of Kent, attended leelfsittrten:Yaylkiertoiamsrlarroiag Dawson, arrived at her residence YP t nee 11 , 005 51 St. James's, soon after twelve o'clock more House. Her Royal Hig n n to Fro at a quarter before three o'clock, on her retur - rogrnore Souse. coliA,•Ld.e.putationfrot the parish of St. Mar 's, Islin .. g . to . n : vi e ' a 7 . l t ri i f of clerey:—the Rev. Daniel Wilson, M A Ch api ri e ,e. t he' J Harnbleton, M.A., Ministerofth n e , St jIC Ease; Rev Ed ward Hoare, Incumbent tr of St u . jiliaBm; allowteins;lt'• .13.. Mackenzie, M.A.,_lncumben Chur h en of .`!ti Johun's; cuwardens f''af ward , t. mart.,.. Mr. Johnson, Church- Aslessrs. Jackson and E. Bailey, or St James's• Lansdowne- Ad place. ~..... ' • .I.tn ; Mr. Brooks,. .„ .a . Lis Na j W s' illtinson. Churchwardens of with i ou Mr. L .. er Ge°rge—G°;e'l y o y f es e te r rd it t -.7 at Villa , th H ha o d m a e n .n i ffi n n te e r .e vie o w n o„___,putation from the public meeting at Marylehon . _ k ee i llg the ports, including Messrs. Ramsey (Chairman), Vii:v:rl°ll.llChWaeriless' CMocr.lijranhen, Jones, Mr, Francis Curzon, in Uussell yesterday at his official residence in Down . stre q. had an int , -view with Lord .. D isnat h the Col oil e i's were sent off yesterday evening from th e ,. Goal-office fur the Gov..rnor of Canada, and also for Qkanovernors of the other North American provinces. ‘Zol in e ;I'4l P asiey had an interview yesterday with tom Russ -r, ev tirr o ttshir a Hote ady L a ?LW Levet and Miss Fraser arriveclat 4J e. tipper Belgrave-street, yesterday, from GRb —3/4AT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. tlt v tllry '-'''-'4ow, near the middle of the nineteenth cell.- ~,, wi le cac e or la competing merit has brought _the set ic, our ken `,i engineering to such perfection t thel„ eioqUent and learned councils tell us that . i nt ;are to engineering difficulties save that of fin f d r toe, „7,? t leY, it may be considered out of place o taj te i'ueri great men are in the field, to contribute e m te y apollT offering a few suggestions which, if not d a re d e b e itsell ifloating the Great Britain, may in some to ac- t otem s % in. stimulating more competent persons T he ,so desirable an object. each 1,314 a which I should adopt would be to place at of 1410 of the Ship, with circular grarit and at equal distance from the line !m d b,_ Y, , two east-iron hollow pillars, ea,bl::•„'e , and constructed of such strength, _ as. would e lk," 'nein to bear the whole weight of the ship t d h i. tile -"' nsio ta be constructed with sibs, and of . s liili i ,„ us to water.Sthe to support the upright positio u n fficl of hig th h e . e of which should stand above the eti,% ei ' l n° of spring tides), or should these bases not setbe iil _ .nt, the ground might be piled, aEd the pillars I s'll‘ntitable frame-Nvork; then at the top of these pillars itig ,414 frame-work; tie beams from the one to the other, fo s r or thai quadrangle, and using such other tie beam . . h., il WOrk • ' d to secure the vertical rvaiti on as might be require th e Ejt ,of the pillars, and from the top thotikroottrd to the opposite ones on the of the la p r i b l o la a r r s d, on l Ittron tarry zt tudor-head of wrought iro d 9 la su ch bear the weight of the ship, an ... as much D a Way as to throw the lines of gravity , c s o u n ffi s constructed the f lt k l -°s . 1)1 -.01 al aon the vertical pillars; which pressure itl a c i ll e m h e me to brace the pillars together with chains troal d " t i.Y strong to resist the outwardhen from the vertex 111 ttevsteteacreeshseasrily fall upon them. bars to the fulcrum I would suspend iron lroti r, Placed in such p !otild Z s Would act as four or five men to enable that the suspendeg powerful to lift a w° r l t ti, So constructed afsatiocorsni i t m e lo n s n tly tothe levers, which Weight"ett with a screw u t hlta B u g 2 °,000 tons. arranged the whole apparatus, I w cUld ''' ent strength, Having thus securely, and of more °therfi, attarh to the ship and with the rising tide * 1 uat'ug bodies as I could procure, atlow water as many boats or tullowi would gradually apply the co e na d bintd powers every in lifting the ship Pet of thee t ide, until 1 had succeed las uia 'ue sand ; and if the water should then be found boats at to float her, I would anchor a number of and 8 ," a short distance from her, to break off the __. eitteLortas till the next spring tides afforded me a suffi .rs ay c ) : r water, making in the meantime such repa irs v ess. ,,u d enable nie to tow her to sea ; and should . t e bas's ,1 when raised from thesand be capable of floating elf, th • in her ere would be no difficulty allowing to.. Tither. then, or at any other time, to carry "y without danger the whole of the tackle and P part of the frame -work leaving 'behind only the sketal. pillars, which could afterwards be taken al s o. I am fully aware of the position in which the Great litritain is now placed, and I b eg ho are interested in the Matter a to recommend to all careful perusal of these suggestions, which cont • that I should adopt haddl float her, which I hav , l e ic m :Tire ahnoc)nuoluiirneofofastshiestlyngsteto nitctlionoubft would be the successful result of a proper app I am, Sir. Your obeniinthtesseervmenatn, means. EDWAIM SANLS, Civil Engineer and Surveyor. Sheffield, Nov. 2,184 G. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. B.A• EXAMINATION. —lB6. EXAMINERS. k in Math and Natural Philosophy _Bev. Prof. Is ALA dG B. Jerrard, Esq., B.A. ~,, , . ~ an . ...sq l, kas,ics—Rev. Dr. Be rand and T. B. Burcham, ~ v .,.. , . 1 4 I' 4 1' At Lois and Moral Philosophy —Rev. H. Alford, I'l., and T. B. Burcharn, Esq., M.A. 111 Animal Physiology—Pof. T• Rymer Jones. k;lhIIn the Prench Language —C. J. Delille, Esq. _ ; I the German Language —Rev. Dr. Bialloblotzky! rty-two candidates presented themselves at this %illation ; of whom the following have passed FIRST DIVISION. An% 43e.„11 °TY, baniel ................ Homert.on. titraßehot W I University. t 011,,,,. , a ter ................... aw John Bornard ......... St. Mary's, Oscott. bat,'Y+ Jetnes Henry ............ Highbury. Wi lheln ....... University. 1417% -eon It • • ......... University. %IL , enjatnin ............... . t. lienkJohn Joseph ............ Stonyhuys accaks Charlesson . ""University, Quasi4li., Yijuelnas Will ...... King s. Ward ............. lieiveBi,ji.°lll:l Gooddis ...............King's....Lancashire Independent. eitihe; 44,,,,,e3'5en ..................... University. ItaCl3'ee„' "tiliatn Joseph ......... Stonyhurst. tliclr, Albert VVentworth...Carlow. ilalte,4l: illiam .................. University. Sit. -' tieurY Ryde . ..........King's.. ontiet,,,,' ,410....... ................ spring Hill. lippett''''", Idenjamin ............ spring Hl"' tc e l l' We ..' ............... King's. ' Independent. l'ilift,erili, William ............ Lancashire I'lit trat , Thomas ........................ St. Mary's, Witt on, Charles Bosworth ...King's. We 44'. Wlli,, .... university. ),, stl_, ar rancis ... W i t t o n Rieh . . ci ... ..... ! . University. Oscott. "linen James ......... St. Mary's, kl eso i: lIECoND DIVISION. liCiAtihni Wil..ern Tanner ...... University. `3,,Miih-'l„c, Charles James ....... University. Oscott. npitik: ilainnel joseph .. University. Will4tillist:eitsep.h_gPark;r .................. :, C heshh: it. -..ur an ............... Home. ton. Tu b .1. The lu t ,„- 4445 T ni.. OF CLUNY.— _. til e rtep or •:. THE BENEDICTINES Peter the Venr*, ex sfeteti this famous house, where belaid, has Ju * su 11: 1 , 4 4 hi tttitte„tufte to the celebrated 1114 titinetit viic4ges, at agethe,, fir.lt tAt.l4t ThollYellin. TECTS.—The at • 4441.. TITUTE OP BRITISTI ARCIII Its roe % To t the . of more A than 80 yea: s. ta ken b il ' s in la sess i on w t when the chair • was p resi , y kui b rosvenor-stree , s.dent. Noble The re_ fator;l44 ii4ving Grey, the i as held on Monday evening in afew announced p by the bserpatie..ltddressed thepmreeeting the cilearetery, 118, sever t al hdioenhawtieornes nwienreedrawionnges of lAthietatet:;erotertptrishnarillsaatiolefugsatic:e at New York, and West. ) i The Dean o to coricroefniribited to tthileesmeevtaing a an e. excited in 'Nin a , A. 'restrninster Abbey, which 1% Donaldson exprei' 'ltsussion or, that structure. it''' well m.odtel• thin 4 ed lus ° ses Idjacent Hou or k en nfr • Pe at by the erection of a spire seine ' IPtiri• llial might be made with the . ~. would be 44 int e latcet, and to which siich an erec,ion thu thresting relief. It had been hitherto considered Striletßro. Letth: Pier w ould be too weak for such a t r weight; whil e :110 Might be enlarged to sustain a greater teeievi e.adiition of a spire would give to the ° edifice an tii... Matical caracter, whereLs it now hadnothin g but •Ter fg , T., .. ‘ 1. 4 3 ~ 1 i• Iluckland, in reply, stated that the_ d alteration, /4 witttit'ee'Y susceptible of any such require ort of the %i pe : ever fresh enlargements for the supp . cathedral ttr e '. 4 the .interior were required, would entirely de enist_s architectural effects. 'Amu BY 'rgt ' of ONE HUNDRED LIVES IN IL-- -- Vie4.34Ek/Na op A B R I D G E . Letters received_ an niiNstitlla NIA Auatrian Friuli, contain particulars onfr..z. A ht. nate event that had recently occurred at Glt a h r i d 'Re number of soldiers and citizens were crossing t o of boats for the purpos e of assisting at a military th:llt tw. when suddenly the bridge, which was inadequate. de_uPport the weight with which it was loaded, brake , a.nd a. great many of the persons upon it fell in s to 3 tiver. According to the most credible reports, qll3lll,lrti and about 40 citizens have perished in the Itteta of Lout,. Colleges. E SUN, LON DON. WEDNESDA MOIt.NING, NOVEMBE'R that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams oi' wood. Here, a chaos of carts, overthrown and jumbled together, lay topsy turvy at the bottom of a steep unnaturet hill ; there, confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond. Everywhere were bridges that led no where ; thoroughfares that were wholly impassable ; Bable towers of chimneys, wanting half their height ; temporary wooden houses and enclosures, in the most unlikely situations ; carcases of ragged tenements and fragments of unfinished walls and arches, and piles of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of in completeness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, moul dering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream. a f Hot dilapidated walls and fiery erupt ions, the usual attendants upon t al scene. Boiling ; whence, water earthquakes, lent their contrib utions of hissedconfusionto theagnlare and heaved ;or within flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked wilisnaet,er also, up rights of way, and wholly changed the law and cuss tom of the neighbourhood. "In short, the yet unfinished and unopened railroad wra in progress ; arid, from the very core of all this dire disorder, trailed smoothly away, upon its mighty course of civilisation and improvement. "But as yet the neighbourhood was shy to own the railroad. One or two bold speculators had projected streets ; and one had built a little, but had stopped among the mud and ashes to consider further of it. A bran-new tavern, redolent of fresh mortar and size, and fronting nothing at all, had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash ent rprise—and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen. So, the Exca vators' House of Call had sprung up from a beer shop ; and the old-established Ham and Beef Shop had beef me The Railway Eating House, with a roast leg of pork daily, throu h interested motives of a similar, imme diate and popular description. Lodging-house keepers were favourable in like manner ; and for the like reasons were not to be trusted. The general belief was very slow. There were frowzy fields and cowhouses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and surnmer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the railway. Li!tle tumuli of o3ster shells in the oyster season, and of lobster shells in the lobster season, and of broken crokery and faded cabbage leaves in all seasons, encroached upon its high places. Posts, and rails, and old cautions to trespassers, and backs of mean houses, and patches of wretched vegetation, stared it out of countenance. Nothing was the better for it, or thought of being so.'lf the miserable waste ground lying near it could have laughed, it would have laughed it to scorn, like many of the miserable neighbours. "Staggs's-gardens are uncommonly incredulous. It was a little row of houses, with little squalid patches of ground before them, fenced off with old doors, barrel staves, scraps of tarpaulin, and dead bushes ; with bottomless tin kettles and exausted iron fenders, thrust into the gaps. Here the Staggs's Gardeners trained scarlet beans, kept fowls and rabbits, erected rotten summer hour, s (one was an old boat), dried clothes, and smoked pipes.; Some were of opinion that Staggs's Gardens derived its name from a deceased eapatilist, one Mr. Staggs, who had built it for his delectation. Others, who had a natural taste for the country, held that it dated from those rural times when the antlered herd, under the familiar denomination of Staggses, had re sorted to its shady precincts. Be this as it may, Staggs's Gardens was regarded by its population as a sacred grove not to be withered by railroads ; and so confident were they generally of its outliving any such ridiculous inventions, that the master chimney sweeper at the corner, who was understood to take the lead in the local politics of the Gardens, had publicly declared that on the occasion of the railroad opening, if it ever did open, two of his boys should ascend the flues of his dwelling, with instructions to hail the failure with derisive jeers from the chimney pots. As a companion piece of topographical portraiture, here is an account of Princess's- place, West-end : " Miss Tox inhabited a dark little:house that had been squeezed, at some remote period of English history, into a fashionable neighbourhood at the west end of the town, where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the great street round the corner, coldly looked down upon by mighty mansions. It was not exactly in a court, and it was not exactly in a yard ; but it was in the dullest of No-Thoroughfares, rendered anxious and haggard by distant double knocks. The name of this retirement, where grass grew between the chinks in the stone pave ment, was Princess's-place ; and in Princess's-place was Princess's Chapel, with a tinkling bell, where semetimes as many as five-and-twenty people attended service on a Sunday. The Princess's Arms was also there, and much resorted to by splendid footmen. A sedan chair was kept inside the railing before the Princess's Arms, but it had never come out within the memory of man ; and on fine mornings, the top of every rail (there were eight-and forty, as Miss Tox had often counted) was decorated with a pewter pot. " There was another private house besides Miss Tox's in Princess's-place ; and not to mention an immense pair of gates, with an immense pair of lion headed knockers on them, which were never opened by any chance, and were supposed to constitute a disused entrance to some body's stables. Indeed, there was a smack of stabling garments rll, w o.:llnii h esmte i ri c snee h uni:at w osalsl a nyto s idefa a ry ‘c t s,cei t looa h emat e rcephl b ‘a,r a htnni c aely l et s nie ) nvlgtael e nor o t: t sortemt: inht a lseom is ei f d rl eveswedlt work kea is: engaged, d s a t n a eedi3r o ne f fri i‘vtd A me t!ei effervescent in the air of Princess's.place ; and Miss Tox's bedroom ic d usually hung, like Macbeth's banners, on the outward CONTINUED.) 111AUAZINES.- 71,1 E, o is in ta ) hd U orn i i : r) L .raei rl oe V n tb U i i or V l l rma V ri E 3lei R ire:a S it iT r: 1; or G n, ,n / ds L op ' / v i e one fri-rs, who in 1821 lived with M. Mignet, in a miserable garret in the Passage Montesquieu, Polais Royale, Paris, and who now resides in his superb mansion in the Place St. George, after having been Prime Minister of France, and after acquiring an European celebrity, as the historian of the Revolu tion, the Consulate, and the Empire ; the other on Leman Blanchard, who somewhere about 1824, stood on the parapet of Westminster-bridge with the in tention of drown* himself in the Thames, and who, after nearly twenty years more of toil and anxiety ' died the death of a suicide. The memoirs of Thiers closes so abruptly that we are inclined to hope it may be continued. As an example of how much may be achieved from little, how distinction may be won from obscurity, how affluence may be acquired from destitution, this paper is most valuable. Bjrn at Marseilles on the 15th of April, 1797, the son of an industrious locksmith, Thiers commenced life without any promise of distinction, without any apparent means of elevating himself to anything above mere respectability, without patronage, money, or even expectations. Nevertheless, by the aid of his own genius alone, of his own perseverance, of his own quickness of percep tion he has rendered his name illustrious, not merely in France but throughout the civilised world. With a diminutive body, features of a common caste, - figure ungainly, slovenly and vulgar; with a voice intole rable for its nasal twang and provincialism, restless and fidgetty in his movements. and remarkable for a grotesque habit of swinging his body from side to std ; this unpatronised, penniless, neglected man insinuated his way from the garret to the editorial office, from the editorial office to the fashionable salons, from the salons to the palace, from the palace to the Ministerial Cabinet—from being engaged as a writer upon the Constitutionnel, and ori ginating and editing the National newspaper, he ul timately became one of the principal instigators of the revolution of 1830, and subs'quently directed the affairs of the French Government. It must have been a startling alternation for Thiers— his journey from Aix in the banquette of a diligence to seek his fortune in the metropolis, and his entering the Cabinet of Louis Philippe, when the King sa luted him with the interrogation—" M. Thiers, are you ambitious ?" and immediately after wards tendered him the portfolio of finance. Before we close our notice of this clntribution, we would transcribe one paragraph which occurs in the outline of the revolution of the three days. It is this : " Among the most conspicuous of the journalists of that day, was an individual of tall and lank figure, abrupt but noble impulses, and serious aspect. At the first report of the fire-arms, he shook his head mourn fully, Then he went, unarmed, except with a walking cane, through the town, indifferent to the balls which were whizzing around him, and braving death without seeking for victory. This individual, destined after wards to play a sad but illustrious part, was then little known: his name was Armand Carrel. ' Have you even a single battalion?' said he incessantly to his more san guine friends. On the morning of the 28th, meeting M. Etienne Arago (the brother of the astronomer of that name) who evinced much ardour, he said to him, Stop !' and pointing to one of the populace, who w , s greasing his shoes with the oil of a broken lamp, he said, Beheld the people !—such is Paris !—ever the same levity—indifference—the appropriation of the re sults of great and important actions to the most trifling uses.' " Two accusations have been made against Thiers during the course of his political career—one of pecu lation in office, the other of poltroonery during the oneutes of '3O. Of both these he is tolerably well cleared by the writer ; but of his ingratitude to his unfortunate worshipper Schubart, too much can scarcely be said in reprobation. The history of poor Laman Blanchard is an extraordinary contrast to the successes and renown of the historian-statesman. The circumstances of that melancholy career are too fresh in the public recollection to require any particular enumeration. From his birth, in Great Yarmouth, the 15th of May, 1803, to his entrance into the Proctor's office, to his casual appearance as an actor on the stage at Margate, down to the miser able 15th of February, 1845, when he cut his throat with a razor, all the incidents of his gentle life, and of his violent death, have been already eloquently and pathetically detailed by the pen of Sir Edward Bul wer Lytton. We have ourselves paid a tribute to that beautiful and moving composition. Hood dying of a broken heart, Hayden shooting himself in a mo ment of despair, Maginn perishing in misery, Blanchard driven to madness and suicide by the ceaseless labour of his mind, have successively and recently afforded us testimonies of the neglected con dition of literary and artistic intellect. We need not recur to Otway and Chatterton, we have had in our own days spectacles as appalling and instructive. We cannot, with a vivid remembrance of these things, but participate with the writer in his expression of astonishment at "genius starving, and blockheadism and blackguardism revelling in turtle and champagne." We cannot hut feel amazed and indignant, as he is, in thinking that " Sheridan Knowles, the honest, the kind, the generous, is struggling with the difficulties of existence." We cannot ourselves but sympathise, as he does, with those neglected beings, who are " working, working, working, not by the sweat of their brows,—for that toil is light and wholesome—but by the sweat of their minds, a nd memories, and souls, and hearts." This article is admirably corroborative of the noble and winning character given of Blanchard by Sir Edward. The writer emphatically says, that Leman Blanchard's soul was " like a divine and noble temple, where truth and candour, and white-robed virtue sat eternally enthroned." He describes Blanchard as a guileless, honest, kindly-tempered creature, and declares, as Sir Bulwer Lytton had already declared, that, to his knowledge, Blanchard never made an enemy through out his life. Here is a descript ion of his disposition, and it is one the memory of which all good men must "At this other private house in Princess's-place, tenanted by a rotired butler who had married a house keeper, apartments were let furnished, to a single gen tleman ; to wit, a wooden featured, blue-faced, Major, with his eyes starting out of his head, in whom Miss Tox rccognise.i, as she herself expressed it. some thing so truly military,' and between whom and hers( lf, an occasional interchange of newspapers and Pamphlets, and such p!at.inic dalliance, was effected through the medium of a dark servant of the Major's, whom Miss Tox was quite content to classify as a " native," without connecting him with any geographical idea whatever. " Perhaps there never was a smaller entry and stair case, than the entry and staircase of Miss Tox's house. Perhaps, taken altogether, from top to bottom, it was the most inconvenient little house in England, and the crookede4 ; but then, Miss Tux said, what a situation ! There was very little daylight to be got there in the winter ; no sun at the best of times ; air was out of the question, and traffic was walled out. Still Miss Tox said, think of the situation ; so said the blue-faced Mi.ijor, whose eyes were starting out of his head ; who gloried in Princess's place; and who delighted to turn the conversation at his dab, whenever he could, to some thing connected with some of tne great pc , p'e in the great street round the corner, that he might have the satisfaction of saying they were his neighbours. " The dingy tenement inhabited by Miss Tox was her own, having been devised arid be qu athed to her by the deceased owner of the fishey eye the locket, of whom a miniature portrait with a powdered head and a pig. tail, balanced the kettle-holder on opposite sides of the parlour fire-place. The greater part of the furni ture was of the powdered-head and pig. tail period, com prising a plate-warmer, always languish ng and sprawl ing its four attenuated bow legs in somebody's way ; and an obsolete harpsichord, illuminated round the maker's name with a painted garland of sweet peas. ' " Although Major Bagstoek had arrived at what is called in polite literature, the grand meridian of life, and was proceeding on his journey downhill with hardly any throat, and a very rigid pair of jaw-bones, and long flapped elephantine ears, and his eyes and complexion in the state of artificial excitement already mentioned, he was mightily proud of awakening an interest in Miss Tox, and tickled his vanity with the fiction that she was a splendid woman who had her eyes on him. This he had several times hinted at the club : in connexion with little jocularities, of which old Joe Bagstock, old Joey Bagstock, old J. Bagstock, old Josh. Bagstock, or so forth, was the perpetual theme : it being, as it were, the Major's stronghold and donjon-keep ()flight humour, to be on the most familiar terms with his own name." love : There was about him an exuberant good nature—a tone of graceful charitableness for the errors and weak nesses of others—a distaste for satirical comment or bitter observation, or just, though perhaps severe, criti cism on the m=nds and manners of his contemporaries — a sweet and beaming benevolence of voice and gesture, which to one who had known and tried what mankind really are, and in the bitter school of experience, learned to despise, to pity, or to loathe them, appeared to be at first a mere affectation—assumed, like a robe, for the occasion—and intended by its wearer as a dress for cer tain times and seasons and companions, rather than for ordinary nse. But this mistaken idea gradually faded away as Blanchard became better known. There was evidently, in his case, no hypocritical assumption of a virtue which he did not really possess.. If his kindness were fanatical, it was at all events sincere." Here is an account of the personal appearance of that accomplished and unfortunate author " In figure he was slight and small, but fairly propor tioned. His features were dark ; but it was that soft eastern darkness ' Like the night Of Orient climes and starry skies,' which is, perhaps, more agreeable to the eye in a man, than the blended red and white which belongs to our northern races. Intelligence shone out of every line . his countenance like a light ; and there was a flash in his eye, which at times made him look absolutely beau tiful. His hair, like his eyes and features, was also dark, ar.d was as fine as silk, with a natural curl ; and his entire appearance wne characterised by a delicacy, a gen tleness, a thoroualtbr dness of manner which one looks for and finds in - an Arabian steed—all lightness, ele gance, and ease. His hands and feet too were small ; and his whole appearance was so entirely prepossessing, that the sternest critic might well pause before he in flicted pain on one whose entire nature seemed as soft and gentle as a woman's ; but who, nevertheless, was as perfectly free from any effeminacy of look, or tone, or manner, as man possibly c , .uld be." Of the paper upon the "British Theatre," we shall abstain from speaking in its present state of incom pletion. Carleton's tale of " The Black Pro, het" is continued with undiminished ability. A capital series is commenced called " A Scamper in the Long Vacation," as also another upon " Guernsey," by gone and prospective Th e ent i re num b er of the magazine is the most excellent that has been pub lished for many months. Several new characters are introduced, as the mys terious Mr. Carker, and a fellow of infinite humour, called Major Bagstock, who styles himself indis criminately Joe Bagstock, Joey Bagstock, J. Bag stock, Josh. Bagstock, and even sometimes J. 8., 6 , it being, as it were, the Major's stronghold and donjon keep of light humour to be on the most familiar terms with his own name." We might, did we list, cull a number of ludicrous and touching fragments from this single number, as the account of Miss Nipper administering a lecture upon moral conduct to Florence, and " punctuating it with thumps," or Miss Nipper softening under the deferential behaviour of Mrs. Richards's sister, insomuch that " she caught up little Miss Toodle, who was running by, and took her to Banbury Cross immediately." Miss Nipper indeed is a triumph. The Marchioness is eclipsed—Miss Miggs is not entitled to any comparison—Tilly Slow boy is altogether superseded. DOMBEY and SON. No. H. By Charles Dickens If possible, the present are superior to the preceding chapters We are introduced again to Son, other wise the infant Dombey, in his morning ablutions and in his evening gymnastics preparatory to bed, when he took "a short walk uphill over Richards's gown, in a short and airy linen jacket." In his account of Miss Nipper's smothered indignation in the nursery, " Boz" writes a little grotesque sentence that reads like a quotation from Fielding : " As the knight-errants of old relieved their minds by carving their mistress's names in deserts, and wilder nesses, and other savage places where there was no pro bability of there ever bang anybody to read them, so did Miss Sthan Nipper curl her snub rose into drawers and wardrobes, put away winks of disparagement in cup boards. sherl derisive squints into stone pitchers, and contradict and call names out in the pa-sage. . IJEATII BY FIRE.-011 Monday a poor old woman, named Ann Sweeney, aged above 70 years, who lived at No. 30, Chick•lane, Whitechapel was burnt to death, by her clothes accidently taking fire. A neigh bour passing by saw the blaze through the windows, and, on busting the door open, the poor old woman was found enveloped in flames, which were extin• guished as speedily as possible, and she was conveyed to the London Hospital, where she died soon after her admission. A CATHOLIC PRIEST CHARGED WITH FELONY.— Stafford Swain, an elderly man of respectable appear ance, and who was formerly a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, was charged at the Liverpool police office on Friday, with having stolen a sheet, a pillow, and some towels, from the house of Robert Smith, the person at whose house he lodged. The prisoner, who had been in custody several times for obtaining money under false pretences, said he had given the things to his wife to pawn, on the condition that she would re deem thcm. A pawnbroker, with whom some of the things had been pledged, said they were brought by a man. Fined sixpence, and twenty shillings; or in de fault fourteen days' imprisonment. The new Recorder of Bristol, It B. Crowder, Esq., Q.O , successor to Sir C. Wetherell, took his seat on Monday. This gentleman is also appointed judge of the Tolzey Court. It was expected that in his first charge to the grand jury lie would have introduced him self to the citizens by some reference to the circum stances which led to his appointment, but he entered at once upon the cases enumerated in th e ca l endar. It is stated that counsels opinions have been taken by some parties as to the legality o f t hi s appointment, by the o vernment, to the judgsjiip of the Tolzey Court. his salary as recorder is 4001 per annum, and as judge of the Tolzey Court 2001. ; in addition to which 1004 a year is allowed for travelling expenses. The description of the christening party in the fireless parlour, with the leaves " coming down sorrow fully" in the garden, and Mr. Pitt "turning up his nose at a cold collation" from the top of the bookshelf, is admirable. The christening itself is drawn with a dismal power. Of the various adventures crowded into the after pages it would be scarcely fair to ab stract from their interest by speaking in epitome. We cannot do better than transcribe two of those descrip tions of London locality for which Mr. Dickens is already so famous. Here is a minute and truthful picture of Camden Town before the railroad was com pleted, and also of Staggs's-gardens : -- " The first shock of u great earthquake had, just at that per;oel. rent the whole neizhhourhood to its centre. Traces of its cowrie were visible on every side. Houses were knocked down : streets broken through and stopped ; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground ; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up buildinv c S , i i. l r , i C s h u a v r i l l e ( s . r Beurrareakrecln, tßhoarrt. TUESDAY NIGH T ' S GAZETTE . At the Court at Windsor, the 30th d a y of October, 1846, I Thomas L a dd P eake. present the Queen' s H ost Excellent Majesty in Council, . this day the Right H on . Si r Thomas Wilde, Kniulit, Lord Willi am H endry. pAskew. Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Right Charles Nelson. Hon. Edward Strutt we re , b y h er majesty•sncommalld, sworn The above -named Officers on the half-pay of one pound of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective pl aces at the Board accordingly. . per diem. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 3. Charles Hope Reid. The Queen h as b een pleased to appoint Lord Harris, Henry Th eo d os i us B rowne Collier. Lieutenant-Governor of Tri n id a d , to b e G overnor and Corn- John Brenton. mander over that i s l an d . William Ramsd en . WAR-OFFICE Nov. 3. John Donaldson Boswell. , 11th Light Drugoons—Lieut. Edmund Peel to be Cap- Henry Stanhope. tain by purchase, vice Cathcart, who retires; Cornet John Townsend Coffin. Frederick Henry Sykes to be Lieutenant, by parchase, vice Frederick Hunn. Peel ; Robert Dennistoun, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, Edward Curzon, C.B. vice Sykes, Nov. 3. Septimus Arabin. 15th Light Dra goons —Lieutenant John Clancy, from Thomas Ball Clowes. 57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Blake, who exchanges, James Couch. Nov. 3. fat o f Gren a di er R egiment of Foot Guards—Edwyn She. William Henry S m yth. rard Burnaby. G ent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur- Richard Sa umarez. chase . vice M unro, promoted, Nov. 3. James Mo n t agu . Ist Regiment of Foot —Ensign William John Bampfield to Thomas Priekett. be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gray, deceased, Sept. Al exan d er Dundas Yonne; Arbuthnot. 12;; Brock Carter, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Bamptield, blia•ii Fleming Ch a p man . Nov. 3. 6th Foot—Fr anc i s Wi lliam Henry M'Cleland, Gent., to b e J , din Skekel.Our J elmStreld art. Ensign, with ou t purchase, vice Sandwith, whose appoint ment has been cance ll ed, Nov. 3. George ry Lomprier e . W 13th Foot—M a j or Arthur Aueustus Thurlow Cunvng. Thomas hame to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Squi re , J , .hri Gore (C). arren:l. who retires; B reve t M ajor Arthur Philip Savage Wilkinson Charles Bog er. o be Major, by purchase, vice Culls ngbaine; Lieutenant John Geor ge Graham. Ensign George M ames Duncan L t -in to be Captain by purchase, vice Wilkinson ; John G eorge Aplin. J on , Longden to be Lieutenant, by pur- William Roch fort. chase, vice Mei n ; S tacton Senior, Gent., to be Ensign, by John Packenham. pu-chase, vice Longden, Nov. 3. Fred Pead, 16th Foot—Ensign Lovell Stanhope Richard Lwell to be Frederiels Augustus Ws therall. Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Flo o d, who retires ; John Henry Litchffeld. Parke-, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lovell, Nov. 3. William Webb. 41st Foot—Lieutenant Charles Timothy Tuckey to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sadlier, who retires; Ensign The above -named officers on the half-pay of eighteen shillings per diem. Campbell Graham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice WHITEHALL, SEPT. 12. Tuckey •; George Skipwith, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, The Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief vice Graham, Nov. 3. by4p2ndrFehoaoste—, LviieeueteGnaoindtieF, a w rq h u o ha r r et C ir a es myb E e n ll ai t g o n b A e I C ex ap a t n a d i e n r , p tr i n i s n t t i c e e d o G f e h o e r r g eMaj Cox,es n ty r t' t s h C e o n i u t r y t noff Bath,Com G o e n n y . leas,, to b i h o a n s one P o " f Bethune to be Li eu t enant, by purch ' ase, vice Campbell ; the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowled g e Ensign James Erski ne P aterson, from 72d Foot, to be En. ments of deeds to be executed by married women, under sign, vice Bethune, Nov. 3. the Act pass e d f or th e a b o li t i on of f i nes and reeoveries, and Surgeon, vice G arre t, promoted to be ., to S urgeon 49th Foot—Henry Beckwith, Gent be A ssistant- for the sub s tit u ti on o f more simple modes of assurance, in Second Class, Nov. 3. Staff of the and for the city o f B at h , a l so in and for the county of 57th Foot—Lieut. M aur i ce Lynch Blake, from 15th Light Somerset. Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Clancy, who exchanges, Lieutenant George Henry Hunt to be Adjutant, vice M'Namee, deceased, Nov. 3. 67th Foot—Ensign Robert Charles Peel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Humfrey, who retires; Robert Blakeney, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Peel, Nov. 3. 68th Foot—Lieutenant William Rhodes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grant, who retires; Ensign Horatio Harbord Morent to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rhodes; Ralph Westropp, Gent., t o b e E ns i gn, by parcase, viceMorant, Nov. 3. 72d Foot—Archibald Alison, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Paterson, appointed to 42d Foot, Nov. 3. 79th Foot—Ensign Henry Jardine Street to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Fairrie, who retires, ; Charles Millns liar risson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Street, Nov. 3. 96th Foot—James Willi am Samuel Moffatt, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ford, whose appointment has been cancelled, Nov. 3. Commiss . oa by the Lord-Lieutenant of Southampton. John Beames, Esq , to be Deputy. Lieutenant, Oct. 8. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lincoln. The Right Honourable William John Baron Monson to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Oct. 19. WHITEHALL, OCT. 30. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Morton Barrett, of Otley, in the counts• of York, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Edwin Church Everitt, share-broker, Sidmouth Devon shire. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Henry Payne, builder, Goulden-terrace, White Conduit field.. William Smith, potato dealer, Deptford. John Boland, hardwareman, Manchester. BANKRUPTS. Sarah W'lcke, milliner, Fore-street, Cripplegate, to sur render Nov. 12, at twelve, and Dec. 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, o ffi cial assignee, Birchin -lane, Cornhill ; Pik e , Old Burlington -street. -*KAI Lydia Wood and Charles Henry Wood, carpenters, Willow-walk, Bermondsey, Nov. 20, at one, and Dec. 14, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman -street ; Peace and Jones, Tooley street, Southwark. John King, scrivener, Buckingham, Nov. 12, at half past two, and Dec. 17, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall- street ; Risley, Furni val's Inn. George Knight, dealer in manure, Weybridge, Surrey, Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, and Dec. 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee. Coleman-street buildings; Sadgrove, Mark-lane. Robert Crow, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 13, at half-past ten, and Dec. 11, at one, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Waklev, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Chisholme, H a ll, and Gibson, Lincoln's inn-fields. Joseph Hall, victualler, Carlisle, Nov. 16, at eleven. and Dec. 15, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon. Tyne; Hill and Mathews, St. Mary-axe; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Samuel Rodent retail brewer, Wellington, Shropshire, Nov. 14, a t e l even, and Dec. 8, at half-past ten, at the, Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee Birmingham ; Mottrarn and Knowles, Birmingham. Thomas Thomas, draper, Ibstock, Leicestershire, Nov. 14, at eleven, and Dec. 8, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cow dell, Hinckley; James, Birmingham. Daniel Burton and John Burton. cotton spinners, Middle ton, Lancashire, Nov. 13 and Dec. 3, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manches ter; Bower, Tokenhouse-yard, London; Siddall, Vickers, and Diggles, Manchester. Mary Dent, bookseller, York, Nov. 17, and Dec. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Jaques and Co., Ely-place, London; Wood, York. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. Rothchild, watchmaker, Bristol—a div. of Is. 2d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. R. Lewis woollen manuf ac t urer , W oo tt on - un d er -Ed ge, Gloucestershire—first div. of 6d. in the pound, on any Wed • nesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. T. Lovell, baker, llenstridge-marsh, Somerset, hire—a div. of Is. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. W. Jones, linendraper, Usk, Monmouthshire—a div. of Ss. 10(1. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton ; Bristol. 11. Marsden, linendraper, Brynmawr, Brecknockshire—a div. of 2s. 4d in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. J. 'fa\ for, coal titter, Middlesbro'—a sixth and final div. of two fifths of a penny in the pound (in addition to fis. 2d. and three-fifths of a penny in the pound previously declared), on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, gewcastle-upon- Tvne. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 31. This day, in pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, the fol lowing Captains of the Royal Navy were promoted to the rank of Retired Rear-Admiral of her Majesty's Fleet, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of Ist September, 1846, viz.:— James Wilkes Maurice. James Prevost. Spelman Swaine. Thomas White (A). James Lillicrap. Walter Grosset. Thomas Folliott Baugh. Samuel Martin Colquitt. Gustavus Stupart. Thomas Francis Charles Mainwaring. Right Hon. William Earl Waldegrave. John Hollinworth. Clement Sneyd. John Duff Markland, C.B. Abel Ferris. Robert Merrick Fowler. Donald Campbell. Sir Henry Hart, Knt., K.C.H. George Henderson. Thomas Tudor Tucker, C.B. Henry Bourchier. Robert Worgan George Feasting, C.B. George Morris. John Tancock. James Pattison Stewart, C.B. Christopher Bell, C.B. James Stevenson. Hon. Edmund Sexton Pery Knox. Right Hon. David Earl of Leven and Melville Colin Campbell (A). Joseph Symos. Honourable William Henry Percy. James Pringle. Samuel Leslie. Ede and Ellicott. Petir Rye. James Gifford. George Le Geyt, C.B. Henry Gage Morris. Edward Augustus Down. Thomas W hinyates. John William Andrew, C.B. Robert Mitford. Henderson Bain. Clem. nt Milward. John Fordyce Maples, C.B. Robert Bioye, C. B. Thomas Edward Sy monds. Lewis Hole. John M'Kerli e . John Simpson. John Bowker. George Moubray, and Alexander Barclay Branch, K• 11 having accepted th e s i tuation of Captains of Greenwich Hospital, are to be placed on the list of Captains on re tired pay. And this day also, in pursuances of her Majesty's pleasure, the fellowi; g Captains of the Royal Navy, having accepted th e rdtirement of their rank on the terms p-oposed i n th e London Gazette of Ist September, 1846, have been plat: don th e re tired half-pay list at the increased rate s t h ere i n specified : Frederick Jennings Thomas. Henry Thomas Davis. Honourable Henry Dilkes Byng. George Gustavus Lennock. Sir William George Parker, Bart. Robert Gambier. Charles Frederick Payne. Colin Macdonald, C.B . Abraham Lowe. Charles Bertram. George Hills. Henry Fanshawe. Isaac Hawkins Morrison. George Barne Trollope, C.B. Sir Tho mas Mansell, R u t., K.C.H. Thomas GI übe. Hercules Robinson. William Black. John Harpar, C.B. Weston Phipps. Thomas Dick. Bertie Cornelius Cator. Frederick Edward Vernon Harcourt. Right Hon. Kenelem Lord Somerville. Henry Jenkinson. Edward Saurin. John Hardy Godby. Christopher Strachey. Arden Adderley. James Boxer. Richard O'Connor, K.C.H. Thomas Ball Sulivan,O.B. David Scott. Richard Creyke. Nicholas Lechmere Pateshall. Rowland Money, C.B. John Sheridan. Sir Henry Loraine Baker, Bart., C.B. George William Hughes d'Aeth, C.B. Robert Ramsay, C.B. John Charles Gowen Roberts. Sir Samuel Roberts, Knt., C.B. Archibald Tisdall. Joseph Gulston Garland. Joseph Digby. Charles Ward, K.H. J W o i h l n lia l m io S be ta ri n 3 h ,. ope Lovell, K.H. William Ffarington. Frederick William Burgoyne. John Rattrap John Allen. Arthur Philip Hamilton. Robert Dn Rogers. George Bentham. James Arthur Murray. Thomas Renwick. Henry Higman. Daniel Lawrence. Jolla Gourly. Augustus Baldwin. Henry Colins Deacon. Edward Barnard. James Wallis. John George m Hewson.phers Macpherson o Ferguson. ac William Bateman Dashwood. Martin John h n George Rodney Phillott. William Wolrrge. George Brine. H o nourable Jo hn Gordon. William Popham. James Hay. CoWokheiste. by. Charles Hugh Patton. uorn c Charles Orlando Bridgeman. Sir Henry oma sJones, Rut. Robert Shiffner, Bart. Henry Forbes. Alexander Montgomerie. prce Campbell. W Honourable George y K Si . h c a h irtalierdsde Th omas Caere.Boa.d , •11 • John Gore (A). K.H. John Cook Carpenter , I Joh il n son W ß i Robert Hockings. John Ledge. lrlaiadmdyMontagu. J. J. Ayton, linendraper, South Shields—third and final div. of 4 1 xid. in the pound (in addition to 2s. Id. in the pound previ.iusly declared), on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Scott, fruiterer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —first and final div. of Is. I.ld. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of .sir. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. Robins, auctioneer, Walton, Staffordshire—first div. of 4s. 2d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. T. Freeman, fi•inge manufacturer, Wood-street, Chespside —first div. of 2s. 9d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. DIVIDENDS. At the Cour: of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Poynter, warehouseman, Saint Paul's-churchyard, Nov. 24, at twelve—E. H. Brace and J. Allen, warehouse men, Mitre-court, Milk-street, Cheapside, Nov. 24, at one— J. Graham, Aitioner, Jewry-street, Aldgate, Dec. 1, at two— W. Rowse, baker, Rotherhite, Nov. 26, at twelve—J. Thorley, cabinet maker, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Nov. 26, at twelve—S. R. Evans, beer-shop keeper, Maiden-lane, Isling ton, Nov. 20, at one—W. Kitson, soap manufacturer, White street, Southwark, Nov. 27, at two—J. Sewell, grocer, Great Dunmow, Essex, Nov. 25, at half-past one—M. R. Renshaw, shopkeeper, Liverpool-street, City, Nov. 24, at half-past one. In the Country. J. Clarkson, plumber, Barnsley, Yorkshire, Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Park, woollen-cloth manufacturer, Leeds, Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court—T. Hanson, builder, Leeds—Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—W. Watts, millwright, Don caster, Nov. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.—J. Cockroft, J. C. Cockroft, and W. Cockroft, stuff' manufac turers, Addingham, Yorkshire, Nov. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court— T. Hutchinson, grocer, Sunderland, Nov. 27, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—T. Taylor grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 27, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Holt, banlie-, Manchester, Nov. 27, at twelve ; at the Manchester District Court—J. Clarke, innkeeper, Plymouth, Nov. 26, at one, at the Exeter District Court—D. Antrobus, apothecary, Audley, Staffordshire, Nov. 24, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to A. T. Southwark,. aN 2 l o lo — av h J e . • the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. H. Browne, surgeon, Ferdinand-terrace, Hampstead-road, h e m a n a t n , , G R r e e a g t e n p t 0 - s v t e r r e - e r t o , a N d v N . e 2 w 4 l - — n g J I N V 97; s la te s a s d n ' le la rc e N3 2 Nv 5 . - 02v6 1 . V -2 . 47 7 13j i t r. c oß l o i eikrl Brooks, ci f uj u ar r er n ni e i d t r u r, arep Glastonbury, acl Chester-le-Street, t Kent-street, e.sni Somerset shire, s s e t t r r rs e ee e et t t.: shire, Nov. 27—8 Scott, seedsman, Bath, Dec. 3—J. T. Fenton, brick maker, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Dec. 3—G. England, clothier, Brinscombe, Gloucestershire, Dec. I—T. Barret, turner, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Dec. 4—M. Jones, saddler, Liverpool, Nov. 24—G. Grant, tailor, Kidderminster, Dec. B—W. M. Higgins, laceman, Birmingham, Dec. 5—S. Hawley, grocer, Ashton-under-Lyne, Nov. 26—E. Foley, licensed victualler, Stoke Newington-green, Nov. 24—E. Speller, grocer, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Nov. 24—G. Maggs, linen-draper, Bristol, Nov. 24—. J. Kirkham, butcher, Lupus-street, Pimlico, Nov. 24—R. Gill, grocer, Richmond, Yorkshire, Nov. 24—W. Tew, corn dealer, Halifax, York shire, Nov. 24---T. Shorrell, tailor, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-. hill, Nov. 24—J. Sorby, lead merchant, Sheffield, Nov. 24 J. Gill, wine merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 24. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and G. Wragg, hardware dealers, Liverpool—A. and J. Fell, milliners, Edward's-terrace, Kensington—J. Blackburn and J. Puzey, linendrapers, Dorking, Surrey—J. Spendlove and M. Butterworth, harness dealers, John-street North, New -road—E. T. Booth and G. Clarke, Manchester—G. rates and G. W. Yates,,, , ..ornmission agents, Old Bond-street— J. T. Bodstein and C. Bellamy, printers, Bread-street, Cheap side—J. Rogers and H. Cury, chemists, Newport, Isle of Wight—J. Tatham, S. Horsfall, and J. Wainhouse, worsted spinners, Warlev, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Wainhouse) —T. T. Mack, W. Mack, and G. Wiseman, corn merchants, Burnham Overy, Norfolk—T. and W. Copland, druggists, Newcastle-upon -Tyne—W. Bennett and J. East, licensed victualler, Charrington-street, St. Pancras—S. Relf and F. Burton, farmers, Framfield and Busted, Sussex—W. F. Mar shall, J. Field, and J. Barnett, grocers, Fenchurch-street (so far as regards J. Barnett) —C. Dod and G. Wray, attor neys, Great Marlborough-street—C. Horncastle and J. Hib berd, stockbrokers, Kingston-upon-Hull—J. Stubbs and E. Absolom, grocers, Rood-lane—W. Booth and B. Kellett, short wool. dealers, Halifax, Yorkshire—T. Holdsworth, W. Trip plAon, and R. Gregory, East Jarrow, Durham—R. M. Preece and T. H. Evans, stockbrokers, Lothburv—S. and B. Eastes, painters, Sandgate, Kent—W. and R. Weston, hosiers, Dudley—H. R. Stevanson and J. G. Cooper, commission agents, Manchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Andrew Mille-, coach proprietor, Stratlien, Lanarkshire, Nov. 9 and Nov. 30, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Kippen, Glasgow. Patrick Barr Parker, warehouseman, Glasgow, Nov. 6 and Nov. 30, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Hutcheson, Glasgow. James Strachan, ship owner. Aberdeen, Nov. 9 and N0v.30, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Livingstone, Glasgow. The Duke of Bedford left town yesterday for Windsor Castle. The Epoque newspaper, which was started a year ago as a half- price newspaper, dissolved partnership, and was sold on Saturday for 8,1001., to M. Deville, pro prietor of Le Droit. The Epoque, notwithstanding a circulation of upwards of 11,000, proved a losing concern. THE INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.— On Monday a half-yearly election of children to the bene fits of the Infant Orphan Asylum, which is under the patronage of her Majesty, took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, when thirty children were admitted, making 239 children in the establishment, whose ages vary from three months to the completion of their eighth year. SHOCKING MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT BRISTOL. BRISTOL, TUESDAY MORNING. The inquest upon the unfortunate man White was commenced yesterday, before Mr. J. B. Grindon, Co roner. The excitement during the whole of the day was very great, several thousands of people congregating round the police-station, in which place the unhappy woman, Ferris, who committed the foul deed, was con fined, and also round the house in which the inquest was held. The jury, after being sworn, proceeded t) view the body, which presented an awful spectacle, the gash in the throat extending from ear to ear. On their return the following evidence was adduced : Henry P. Webb, inspector of police, after deposi ng to the fact of d eceased b eing a member of the police force, with which he had been connected about seven years said that, on S un d ay eteeing, I was in the chargeroorms, at the St. Philip's station, on duty, ebout half past five and a fly drove up t o th e d oor, and Mrs. Ferris got out of it. She rushei into the offi ce i n a frantic n 'r iann - , saying, " Oh, Mr. Webb, you must take me into cus tody." I asked her what for. She said, " I hav e cut 9, man's threat." She did no t say what inan's. She lees affected with driek. I asked what she meant, when she said " The man at my house ; go to him, co to him." I immediately set out, accompanied by a ser • r oant, and on the road was informed that White was dead. Upon that I retuun, d to the station, and placed Ferris in custody. I afterwards wnt to Lion -street, and found deceased lying on a press bedstead. He was quite dead. I noticed a large wound in his throat, and also that his shirt was saturated with blood. It was evident that parties in the house had been drinking, as there were glasses and spirit bottles on the table. Charles Sainsbury deposed—l reside at 42, Princes street, and am son of John Sainsbury, publican, of that street. I did not know deceased. Yesterday evening I was at a house in Lion-street. I went with James Ed wards to see his sister. I was invited by Edwards to go there. We arrived there about four o'clock. I found his sister in the back room on the ground floor, and a young woman whose name I did not hear. We sat down, and in about two minutes the deceased, a policeman, came down stairs from an upper room. He joined our party, sitting by the fire place, and a ith his back to the window. He sat in an arm-chair, and sent for a quart of beer. Elizabeth Jones went for it, at Mrs. Ferris's request. Deceased said he ,was glad to see Edwards, shook hands with him, and handed him a glass of beer. Mrs. Ferris spoke to her brother and to me, but not to the policeman. As soon as the beer was brought in Jones had a little, and then left the room. I did not see her afterwards. No dispute arose between any of the parties. The conversation was kept up between Ed wards and his sister upon family affairs, whilst I talked with the policeman. The latter had neither coat nor waistcoat on, neither had he a neckerchief on. After I had been there about an hour Mrs. Ferris went into the back kitchen, which adjoins the sitting room. Within two minutes she returned. On entering the room she went behind the policeman, and put her right arm round his right shoulder, as though she was about to whisper to him. At this time I was conversing with Edwards, and sitting opposite to the policeman. In a short time I heard him make a sort of groaning noise. Upon looking at him, I saw he was bleeding very much. He was standing up. Edwards immediately jumped up and said, " Louisa ! my God, what have you done ?" I did not see that Mrs. Ferris had anything in her hand. It was getting dark, and there was no fire or candle. I was very much frightened, and instantly left the house. I did not assist the wounded man, because I had not power to do so. I heard a noise on the floor as of blood run ning from him. It was clear that he had received some injury, but I did not know the nature of it, neither could I state whether he had done it himself, or Mrs. Ferris had done it. It must have been one or the other. De ceased appeared to be perfectly sober. Mrs. Ferris did not make any answer when her brother said Louisa ! my God, what have you done ?" I have no doubt upon my mind but that she inflicted the injury. Sho appeared to be sober. I had never seen her before. We had half a pint of rum as well as the beer. After I walked away from Lion-street, and had reached the St. Philip's police-station, I heard a fly behind me, and on turning round I saw Edwards driving, having his sister inside. Sbe put her head out of the window, and called out, "Jem, stop at the station-house." At the time the injury was done, that is at the time Mrs. Ferris put her arm over his shoulder, I believe the policeman was smoking. James Edwards deposed—l am brother to Mrs. Ferris. lam not aware that I ever saw deceased in my life before yesterday. My sister is a married woman, but her husband and her do not live together. They have been separated about twelve months. My sister had several times invited me to see her, and yesterday I went, accompanied by a friend, Charles Sainsbury. I was let in by my sister, who appeared to me to have been drinking. She also appeared as if she had just got up. I said, " Honor, what's the matter?" when she replied, " Oh, it's my birth-day, Jem."A bout five minutes at ter I got into the house a policeman, who appeared to be lodging in the house, joined us. He Ras without coat, waist coat, or neckerchief. We talked together, and drank some beer and rum, and, apparently, everything was friendl3 amongst us. After drinking some of the beer, Elizabeth Jones, who had fetched it, left the rocm. About twenty minutes afterwards the policeman also left the room. A few minutes after my sister also left the room, leaving ir.e and Sainsbury and a little girl in the room. In a short time she returned, in a dreadful state of agitation, and said, "Oh, that vvie teh, is this your promise? they be both upstairs on the bed." My sister again left the room. White returned, and seated himself where he had sat before. My sister soon also re turned. She kept on exclaiming, "Oh. you wretch, you nasty wretch, is this your promise?" She rushed behind me as I was in the act of pouring out a glass of beer, and as I went to put down the glass of beer I saw her hand coming from the policeman's throat. I did not see anything in her hand, it was done so quick. She immediately left the room towards the front. Sainsbury was frightened, and ran out of the back door. I was left alone, and saw and heard the blood flowing from deceased, and I hastened to assist hizn. He was falling forward. I tried to hold him upon his chair, but he would not be held. He crept on his hands and knees along the passage into the street, the front door being open. I looked for Sainsbury, but could not see him. I saw the neighbours, five or six, or more, coming up to assist. I stated what had taken place, and whilst I was so employed my sister came from the back of the house, and said, " Jem, drive me to the station-house." Considering that the policeman would be taken care of, and in the agitation of the moment, I did so. She surrendered herself at the station-house, and I went to tell my mother, who is the housekeeper at the station-house. Deceased had been smoking, but was not smoking at the time. I believe that my sister was very much intoxicated. Elizabeth Jones deposed—l live in Lion-street, and am a single woman. Ilodged in the house of Mrs. Ferris. William Stone and William Ferris lived there, also a policeman named Patrick White. Yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, I was at home. I did not hear any quarrel between Mrs. Ferris and the police man. I dud not hear her express herself angrily towards him. After giving evidence as to the arrival of Edwards and Sainsbury, she proceeded to say—l did not fetch any liquor for them ; as soon as they came in I went upstairs to bed. I fetched two quarts of strong beer at half-past one o'clock, and a third quart between three and four. This the policeman and Mrs. Ferris had been playing at dominoes for, and he had won it. The beer was forced upon Mrs. Ferris and me by White ; he took very little. What I had drank affected my head. I was iesensible when I went to bed. I recollect afterwards seeing Mrs. Ferris holding the door of the room. White was at that time standing at my bed side. She left the room instantly, and so did White. I did not hear her speak. The next time I saw White he was crawling on his hands and knees on the causeway outside the front door. I went into the next house, and from thence into a house oppo site. As I was coming from my own bed-room down stairs, Mrs. Ferris met me nearly at the bottom. She caught hold of me, and said she had a mind to serve me in the same manner, but she did not say in what manner. I then ran out and found that there was blood upon my 'neck, but Ido not know how it came there. (The wit ness took off her bonnet, when it was evident that a wound had been inflicted just below the back part of the right ear.) Robert Combes said—Yesterday afternoon I saw a fly in Lion-street. Two young men who were with it inquired for Mrs. Ferris. I directed them, and they went there. They remained about half an hour, and then went away, returning in about ten minutes. Between half-past four and a quarter to five I heard the rattling of the doors of a pony car. I went to the door of my house, and heard a flyman say, "Oh dear, he's a dead man !" I looked round and saw deceased crawling across the road. He muttered something, but I could not tell what. As I ran towards him I saw the blood flowing from a wound in his neck. By the time I reached him Mr. Griffiths caught hold of him, and was wiping blood from his neck with a handkerchief. Deceased at tempted to speak. Mr. Griffiths pressed the wound closely with his hands, and then White said, "Mrs. Ferris hies cut my throat with a razor ; pray for me." Mr. Griffiths said, " Pray for yourself, my good fellow," and he then said distinctly, " Lord have mercy on my soul." He muttered that three times afterwards. We placed his head on a pillow in the streets. He was then dying fast. Mr. Griffiths and myself went to search the house. We saw a great quantity of blood on the floor of' the back parlour, and a razor on a chest of drawers. When the razor was opened I saw some hair and marks of blood upon it. We then returned to White, and saw that he was dead. A medical man had arrived in the mean time, but could render no assistance. Richard Griffiths gave similar testimony to that de posed to by the last witnes. The CORONER remarked that, though no doubt pro bably existed in the minds of the jury as to the cause of death, yet it was desirable that an important point should be proved, namely, that death was not occasioned by internal disease, for which purpose it would be neces sary to have a post mortem examination. The inquiry would, therefore, be adjourned till the following day. Louisa Ferris was brought up in custody, and re• moved to Bridewell to abide the result of the inquest. Most of the nailers in the neighbourhood of Dudley and Kingswinford have remand work. A rise has been given by some nailers on small work, bat the large Dudley masters have not agreed to the scale.— Staffordshire Mercury. Sergeant Major Lesslie, of Albany Barracks, New port, Isle of Wight, lost his life owing to being thrown out of a gig, by the horse running away, and the gig coming in contact with another vehicle near the barracks. Mr. Thompson, who was also thrown out of the gig with deceased, sustained serious injury. THE POTATO DISEASE.—Baron Liebig imagines the essence of the disease to consist in the conversion of the albumen, a usual constituent of healthy potatoes, into caseine, a principal which, by its great instability of composition, is supposed to cause the potato to putrefy rapidly.— The Plough. DEATH OF MR. P. M. STEW/RT, M.P. FOR REX. FREwsraßE.—ln our publication of this day fortnight we noticed the dangerous illness of the Hon. Member for the county, but in the hope that he was past danger, and in the way of recovery. From that period Mr. Stewart lingered on in a very dangerous state, but still leaving his aged mother, and the circle of near relations who at tended him, with occasional glimpses of hope that he might recover, till about the beginning of the present week, when the fatal symptoms of the disease continued more markedly to develop themselves, and yesterday morning at eight o'clock he expired. There are few men in the country whose death would be more genera l ly re gretted than th a t o r M r . St ewar t ; o r who, es ac tiv e po liticians, will leave fewer enemies behin d t hem. In the it thatn n t p w aL brought forward ; and we have heardt i I n I o t u h s e e o d f is C cu o s m si m on ons of M e r v . er S y te w p a u r b t i t c o o k g uaespt promi nent 1 1 House, that no other represent a ti ve Members of the admitted by from Scotland possessed the same influence in it as the for Renfrewshire. The deceased gentl eman was Member active and most judicious as a man of business ; atten tive to his duty, and his affability and good humour, accompanied with an incessant flow of unlaboured wit, , secured deference at all times for his remarks, and kept all around him, including his opponents, in the best of humour. In addition to filling the distinguished post of representative for his nativo county, Mr. Stewart, at the time of his death, was chairman of the Oriental Steam Navigation Company, vice-president of the Lon don Scottish Society, an institution which ranks the highest names in the land amongst its directors ; and was also, now or recently, chairman of the West India Steam Navigation Company, the London and Westmin ster Bank, a director of the Caledonian Railway, and many other institutions. The late lamented Member was a decided Lib era l i n hi s re li gious, as well as in his poli oen of Churchth e privateablest f l i fe . movement,nd Somost far, a or u : n h fl ai t ihn icil issu v ep ie op w fo s cr . toerm H sm e o of w nt a hs s ea : E n d r e ei n n theh so. disinterestedly, did he carry his opinions on this subject, that he gav e much offence to his many of best friends during the non-intrusion controversy, and by several of them was considered to have perilled his return to Par liament in the cause. In this county, the notice of Mr. Stewart's severe illness, and now of his decease, has been received by a universal expression of sorrow. Rich and poor, men of all ranks of life and of every shade of political opinion, mingle in one general feeling of regret at seeing a gentleman possessed of such great and varied qualifications cut off suddenly, in the midst of his usefulness and in the very prime of his life. Mr. Stewart was unmarried, and only 48 years of age.— Glasgow post, SINGULAR ESCAPE.—For some time past there hare been works in progress to elevate the syphon of the waterworks in Battersea-fields, the scaffolding for which has been raised to the height of 190 feet. Last evening, a little before six, one of the men was placed within a piece of the suction-pipe, for the purpose of adjusting it with the part to which it is to be connected, when just as it had reached the requisite position the gearing parted, and the pipe fell to the groan(' from the height o 125 feet—the man inside of it —and although the pipe was much broken, the workman escaped with only a little injury to one of his ankles. GUN COTTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The great excitement created in the minds of the scientific portion of the community by this discovery should create regret for th e i n j u di c i ous publicity given to the means of producing it; thus enabling every chemist's shopboy to become an explosive compound manufacturer. The effects will be accidents as " plentiful as blackber ries." One, unfortunately, has already occured to a gifted young man which every one must regret; to prevent a recurrence of this, and to lay bare this specious but very doubtful benefit to science, I ail], with your leave, endeavour to put the public in possession of the rationale of this mechanical distribution of explosive matter ; for, in reality, it is but a mechanical discovery after all. In endeavouring to do this, I will use language of the plainest description, and convey my explanation as briefly as possible. The two agents in the production of gunpowder of all qualities are nitre and charcoal. Sulphur is an adjunct not absolutely necessary, save as an agglomerating substance, to give an enduring consieteney to the grains of gunpowder. Experi. ments have shown gunpowder to be equally pro pellant without this agent as with it. Sir Iluinphry D.evy discovered that gunpowder, formed mechanically into the smallest state of grain or granulation possible, gave a much more instantaneous explosion than when in a larger grain. The principle is, that the smaller grains present the greatest amount of surface, a greats r nutribA- of interstices to be acted upon by the 11. one, and hence the whole c .averted into explosive 11 rid siintiltaneomly. Experience figs shown this dis covery to be perfectly worthless in practice, as cone ic ti m has grLdually returned to the fact that gunpowder, to be beneficially employed in the expulsion of projec tiles, must be made of a grain proportionate to the size of the gun used. In sporting gunpowder there are three or four sizes of grain ; in artillery a very much larger grain is necessary ;—why ? That the grain may burn longer, to keep givi ng ou t f resh expulsive matter, until the larger mass of projectile is put into motion, and to continue this generation of force until it has reached the highest state of velocity. This slight introduction brings us to the fact that gunpowder, to be beneficial, must be a propellant, moderated in its explosive tendency by mechanical means. We possess a knowledge of explosive materials vastly more powerful than gunpowder, but, from this very tact, quite useless as a projectile force. This has been sufficiently tested on many occasions. The discovery of the gun cotton is the extreme diffusion of nitre in immediate contact with char coal, or, more properly speaking, carbon, the ingredients of which exist in the most minute portions that can be conceived, the nitre in solution, the carbon in the smallest particles, many thousand times more minute than ever attempted (or possible) to be obtained by any other means whatever. The action of the acid upon the cotton, when immersed is it, is to remove the small proportion of vegetable matter, and to impregnate the remainder, which is nearly all carbon, with nitre; thus forming by the simplest means the most perfect incorporation of the explosive agents, and exposing an amount of surface to the action of the flame greater than obtainable by any other means yet discovered. It will be perceived this is but the exten sion, to an enormous extent, ef Davy's scheme of small granulation ; for it is but the simultaneous libe ration of, the gases of gunpowder by mechanical agency; there is no new power obtained ; its action is thus powerful by its instantaneous ignition. The low tem perature at which it is ignite I arises from the minute ness of the particles brought in contact with the beating agent. The reason of its being exploded over granulated gunpowder without igniting it is, that its explosion does not endure sufficiently long to raise the particles of gun powder up to 600 degrees of heat ; but could the gun powder be reduced to the most impalbable state of pow der, similar to the cotton wool, it would explode with the same degree of heat. Sporting powder explodes at a less temperature than cannon powder, and so on, all depending on the quantity of matter heated. Another point, that 40 grains of the gun cotton effects more force or gives more velocity (to small projectiles) than 50 grains of gunpowder, may be explained by two facts—firre its instantaneous explosion, secondly, filling a greater space, or being more bulky than the gun powder in g r ai n , it ga i ns t h e a id o f the expansion of the air contained within its interstices, and a corres ponding velocity acquired. But that the same weight of the one will generate the same amount of perma nent gasses as the other is a chymical certainty; there fore, we are justified in assert i ng t h e di scovery to be a really mechanical means of diffusing and incorporating the agents of explosion. The just estimation of these facts must impress us with the conviction that, save for very limited purposes, this discovery can never benefit the human race, and is certain to cause many lamentable accidents; no gum ever made will long withstand its use, if quantity is employed, as the intensity of its velo city brings it on a perfect similarity with the fulminat ing compounds; these will project small projectiles with great velocity a given distance, but to obtain an ex tended range is impossible, with safety; its application to cannon will (if very great caution is not used) be the means of destroying many valuable lives; for sufficiently do I feel conversant with the subject to affirm, that there is not a gun in her Majesty's service but would burst if charged with anything like the same weight as is used of gunpowder, and under no circumstances will an ex treme range be obtainable. Time will show this view to be correct,. I am, &c. Aston New-t own , Birmingham, NovILLIov. 2GREENER.. PEDESTIIIANISIII. JAMES BRIAN AND THE BRECKNOCK Nov:cE.--The match, tre,iously announced, i❑ which the above-men tioned men were nweed as competitors for 201. a side, and as much as their reepective friends might please to bet at odds or evens, came off on Monday, the New Inn, Bedforr, being the rendezvous. The distance to be walked, fifteen miles, was very aptly chosen, between the fifteenth, and sixteenth mile-stones on the Staines and Windsor -road. The day grew old ; in plain English, time was wasted till three minutes to three before the pedestrians started, at which time both put best leg foremost. For the first eight miles the longer man (he of Brecknock innocence) kept the lead ; it was thought, nevertheless, by the cognoscenti, that the tiny one (Brian) showed most wire and lasting in his pace. This was shortly afterwards proved ; for although bets had been made that at nine miles the novice led by nine yards at least, at the turn of coming down, Brian showed the way. Shortly after the Novice was first, and so kept, till half-way down the thirteenth mile, at which point Brian again passed him, and came in a winner by 200 yards. The time was not great, namely, two hours and thirty minutes, but the diminutive stride of the winner must be taken into consideration. He is, we should say, at a guess, 41t. ROBINSON AND JohiEs.—Joseph Robinson, of Huck nall, and William Jones, of Marylebone, were some time since announced as being matched. They also ran a race, which was eventually disputed. They have now agreed to run 120 yards, Robinson staking 30/. to Jones's 20/., on the 16th November (Monday se'nnight), on a fair turnpike road. To meet at the Swan Inn, Mitcham. THE Foun MILE HANDICAP FOOT -RACE.—For this event, which we trust will put the best leg foremost with the bipeds, now that the last meeting at Newmarket has placed the quadrupeds in the straw, a brilliant muster of the fleet footed ones will assemble. William Jackson (the American deer), Sheppard (of Birmingham), Mosley (of Derby), and another or two whose names dwell not in our memory, are among the long-winded ones for this entry. For the shorter distance (200 yards), Seward (the Cockfield putter), Robinson (of Newton Moor), and a numerous tail, are entered. The entries close to morrow night. at ~ / i j .• ' 5 4 164