The Sun. — London, England, 1837-10-11 00:00:00

LITERATURE. ETHEL CHURCHILL. 3 Vol. • Colburn, London, 1837. If rare poetic thoughts, deep feeling, some wit, and uniform eloquence of expression, could constitute a good. no ve l , ,c Ethel Chu rc hill " wou ld b e th e but of its ne cessary, but t h ere are other requisites, besides these, ue eessary, and these Miss Landon does not possess— or 6 at l east, in a very imperfect degree. Her first de .:lenes is an utt er want o f t h e construct i ve f acu l ty. Sh e cannot handle a story with case, or bid it progress naturally. She sacrifices incident to a display of sell tut-rent, and halts where she should be on the move. A gain, her characters are not drawn from life, but are this mere creations of the fancy. The consequence of , is, that th ere i s a want of d i scr i minat i on i n them, fatal to the character of the mere novelist. But While we say that Miss Landon is but an indiff'erent story-teller, and knows not how to pander to the tastes of the circulating library, we must at the same time admit that in her " Ethel Churchill " she has shown qualities of which the first writer of the day may be Proud. Her thoughts often surprise us by their subtlety, and we will even go so far as to say, their Profoundness ; her wit--where she attempts wit, which is not oft en —i s b r i ll i ant ; her fancy ever fert i le and fl owing. Her best drawn character is that of Henri etta, which, however, we like best in the gayer por tlOng it does not improve as the passion rises in energy ; and in the c l os i ng scene , w h ere th e f a i r t etti Me, goaded to madness by the threatened expo sure of her errors , mur d ers, fi rst h er h us b an d , an d t hen her paramour, the character becomes simply ex travagant. L a d y M ary Wortley Montagu, w i th whom Lord Wharneliffe's late delightful publication has ltrade us all familiar, is a well-executed sketch, true to l ife, and therefore abounding in vivacity. - There is no female writer of the age, not even Lady Morgan, who t ould have wrought up a difficult character like this, with so much tact and spirit as Miss Landon has dis played throughout it. The scene at Pope's villa, I which is the m os t care f u ll y fi n i s h e d i n t h e w h o l e wor k, ' r ings out the peculiarities of the " gay Wortley" in a v ery mast er l y manner . We should not omit to men tion,that to each chapter some short poem is attached Way of m o tt o . M an y o f t h ese are exqu i s i te l y beau tLful, and all, we suspect, are from the pen of the huthoress herself. The lines concluding with this striking couplet— "No hope —n o repentance —my weakness is o'er-- It died with the sentence, I lore thee no more I'"— are fully equal, in tenderness and felicity of expression, to the best of Moore's lyrics. As a specimen of Miss Landon's descriptive powers, we quote a sketch which w ill sh ow h ow t h oroug hl y h er m i nd i s i m b ue d w i th t he genuine spirit of poetry : " It was an unusually mild and lovely evening that they Ivere loitering on the banks of the lake. The sun was just aet ti"—a con queror as h e went d own ; f or every c l ou d that had b flitted about during the day, now gathered on the w est, mantlin g w ith cr i mson an d go ld. There was some thing triu m ph a l i n t h e r i c h co l our i ng t h at arraye d every ° ".leet• The vivid green of the oaks stood out more distinct amid the scarlet of the sycamore and the yellow of the e t tnle, together with the rich brown that was covering the "nuts. The grass, too, of the park was in strong con btrast to the purple heath that clothed the distance, only olaen by t h e bl ossom i ng f urze, which intersected it like a ell sea ; a faint perfutne came on the air, more subtle oven th an t h e b reat h of flowers ; it was like the last sigh each falling leaf, that flitted by noiseless as a ghost. To The there is no season so lovely as the autumn. There is gaity ab ou t t h e spr i ng w i th wh i ch I have no sympathy : Its perpetual revival of leaf and bloom is too great a con trast to the inner world, where so many feelings lie barren, and s o mans- hopes withered. There is an activity about it, from which the wearied spirits shrink ; and a joyousness, Which but makes you turn more sadly upon yourself ; but 4 bont autumn there is a tender melancholy inexpressibly soothing ; decay is around, but such is in your own heart. There is a languor in the air which encourages your own, and the poetry of memo r y i s i n every d rooping flower and falling leaf. The very magnificence of its Assyrian array is touched with the light of imagination : even while you Watch it, it passes away as your brightest hopes have done before." YORTSEA-THURSLAY. Ep~ Ve have much pleasure in inserting the following.— s, tjx.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. The Blll, --As a pro o f o f th e s i ncer i ty o f t h e present Govern f et in not i c i ng old and meritorious officers, I beg to in ir4l you that M r . J. C. T racy , son o f C omman d er J. r4 eY, is pr omo t e d to t h e ran k o f L i eutenant i n h er Ma esys Navy. _ Capt a i n T racy ' s naval services are of such a character ;: to find a place in " James's Naval History ;" and yet L t or t lle last twenty years he could not obtain from the Tory *,• a f f op t s aon.he Admiralty employment for himself, or promo- P o am, r, Your very obedient servant, J. THE NATIONAL DEBT. (From last night's Gazette.) T he Lords C omm i ss i oners o f h er M a j es t y ' s T reasury "hecertified to the Commissione rs f or th e R e d uc ti on o f "ue National D e bt, in pursuance of the Act, 10 G eo . IV., 27 , sec. 1, that the annual revenue of the United King .l94l of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expen ult ;Ure thereof, for the year ended the sth day of July, 1837, 110unted to the sum of 1,209,5261. ss. sd. ; the Commis- Do for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give 7- °t ioe that the sum of 302,3811. 1 ls. 4d. (being one-fourth 1 of the said surplus of 1,209,5261. ss. 5d.) will be applied, of • n the provisions of the said Act, between the 11th day Octveober, 1837, and the sth day of January, 1838, to the Zo foli o • .'lng purposes ftpplied to the purchase of Stock 26,681 11 4 u. to the purchase of Exchequer Bills, made to :ut in pursuance of the Act 57 Geo. 3, c. 48. 250,000 0 0 to the payment of Slave Compensation, Pursua nt to the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 W. 4, C. 82 - 25,700 0 0 Ad d Interest r ece i va bl e on account of Dona- 302,381 11 4 tioo and Bequests, to be applied to the pur -373 7 5 "ase of Sto c k .... £302,754 18 9 Nat• S. MG HAM, Comptroller-General. - ulonal Debt Office, Oct. 7, 1037. t ere 'r r he following General Order by Government, in b e 'nee to Ma j o r D ow k er ' s d e f ence o f Mangalore, has tie on his e arned by that gallant Officer and the small bod r command : y 4Port St. George, 9th May.---His Excellency the Com 741er-in-Chief having transmitted to Government reports ie operati ons o f t h e detachment l ately commanded by tr o 4 „. l° , nowker of the 2d Regiment of Native Infantry, ei t ile advance to Pootoor, at the requisition of the prin- f jaPsal collector, to the second repulse of the large bodies o tieorgents who attacked the town and contonment of Man tauerhe' the Ri g h t H onoura bl e t h e G overnor i n Council has p er , satisfa c ti on i n record i ng his approbation of the tibt l "er ing gallant ry w i t h w hi c h t h e d e f ence o f t h at sta )lo w as maintained, against repeated assaults by cope or n i u mbers, an d i n the uncertainty of being reinforced k aj ell eved— a d e f ence which reflects great credit upon Lee rs D owker, the European and Native commissioned of te-h.,: and all ranks composing the small body under his vot . "„ ls a ,nd• His Lordship in Council directs that the fa thses:",in sentiments with which the Government are bu tt se ' r e u : by their steady and soldier-like conduct throughout the -.rkT‘'lce of so harassing a nature, may be made known to fa nt ," at ire officers and men of the 2d Regt. of Native In teyl and His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is kis s c o st ed to call upon Major Dowker to furnish for snb eniai? t:° Government a roll of those among the Native r ho --ss 'ned officers, the non-commissioned and privates, by e considers to have been particularly distinguished .t and j ell ' zeal and gallantry at Pootoor, during the :;etrca , r a ti the defenc e of the Cantonment of Mangalore. "tldr veteran Dibdin, the author of upwards of five in th e successful piece has lately opened a small shop ra,nal'lt:aterloo•roa:d, under the title of the " Lyrical and teath i Repository," where, from an announcement a S t Painted on the showboard, he offers, for the sake khr io ?jug rem uneration, to " write songs or odes for aetiee.„Mntrs or any important occasion, on the shortest nut soff.reThere was a time when successful authors were wan t o f dto remai n in that squalid obscurity ; and the *4B, 11 a erliSt a bread to alleviate the pangs of hunger 11°W it aPPil Y for the literati of that day, unknown ; but IZZ? haavVeeatnr,sts_2rils avons chang6 tol . ll cela, and whilst thr " on to fortune, there are others who seem bound to remain in its "shallows and its miseries." THE QUEEN. BRIGHTON, OCT. 10.—The royal equestrian party yes terday consisted of seventeen. They rode along the cliffs as far as Bedford -street, crossed the race-ground, and went round the hills as far as Ovingdean, which about two miles from the chain pier. Her Majesty and suite returned along the cliffs, and reached the palace at a quarter past six o'clock. From the Eastern Terrace to the Grand Junc tion Parade, vast numbers of people were congregated to greet her Majesty's return, and the carriage -way for nearly the whole distance, was lined on either side with fashionable equipages. Viscount Melbourne arrived yesterday evening at the Pavilion, and was honoured by an audience with her Ma jesty immediately on her return from her equestrian excur sion. The Noble Lord also formed one of her Majesty's guests at dinner. Sir P. Durham arid his Lady, Lord Henry Russell, Miss Murray, and Lieutenant Otway, left the Albion Ho tel this morning, for Castle Goring, on a visit to Captain Pechell, M.P., from whence Sir P. Durham and party will, after partaking of some refreshment, proceed on their jour ney to Portsmouth. Since the departure of Sir P. Durham's band, the band of the Carabineers have played every night at the Palace, and a temporary orchestra has been fitted up for their ac commodation. Her Majesty was graciously pleased to express, through Colonel Jackson, her fullest approbation of their performances. Her Majesty has also conveyed to Colonel Wildman, the commanding officer of Carabineers, her entire appro bation of the discipline and martial appearance of that corps, and the Gallant Colonel has communicated the same to the regiment in his general orders. Sir P. Durham, in company with Lord Yarborough, in spected the Carabineers yesterday, on the Downs, and ex pressed great satisfaction at the manner in which they went through their evolutions. They subsequently dined with the officers of the regiment at their mess-room. At two o'clock this afternoon her Majesty was pleased to receive the Address agreed to yesterday by the inhabitants of Lewes. The Address was presented by the High Con stables of Lewes, and Sir Charles Blunt, one of the Mem bers for the borough, who were highly pleased with the flattering reception they met with from her Majesty. The following was her Majesty's gracious answer to the Address : " I receive with lively satisfaction this dutiful address from your ancient borough, and I cannot but be deeply sen sible of the loyalty and affection which has been so gene rally expressed upon my arrival in the county of Sussex." Her Majesty rose out on horseback at three o'clock this afternoon. She passed through the northern crate, and took the London road, accom p an i e d b y h er R o y a l Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Marquis of Conyngham on her left, while on her right rode Viscount Melbourne and the Marquis of Headfort. The Baroness Lehzen, Miss Dillon, Miss Quentin, Sir d. Quentin, Mr. Fozard, and the remainder of her Majesty's suite followed. The Countess of Charlemont, accompanied by Miss Paget, drove out in a phaeton, drawn by two small gray ponies. The royal dinner party, this evening, comprised the Duchess of Kent, Visecont Melbourne, the Baroness Lelizen, the Countess of Charlemon., Miss Dillon, Miss Paget, the Marquis of Conyngham, the Marquis of Head fort, Colonel Cavendish, Sir W. Lumley, asld Mrs. Brand. ~~~ TilE REVENUE FOR THE YEA No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in AND QUARTER ENDING OC the Years and Quarters ended 10th of October, 1836, and 10th o: )ccreasc on each head thereof. OBER 10, 1837. October, 1837, showing the Increase or QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS lIND ED YEAR I Year ended Oct. 10. Quarter ended Oct. 10. ended / ......--- ended ~..-.....___-........_,.. ,-.............-••••"•"•...., Jan. s,April .), July 5, Oct. 10, - ' Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10 ' ; Oct 1 1 ', 1836 183 1 1836 1836 18311 1837 1837 11337 1837 1837 Increase, Decrease. Increase. Decrease. 3,183,' 91) 3,417,04 3,571,541 5,018,416 -- Custsims.-Cons-lidated Duties 3,207,765 3,267,029 3,121,1.'26 3,931,482 - - - - - - Sugar Duty applicable to Consolidated Fund 528,353 1,271,145 273,010 1,309,239 - - - - - - - - - - Sugar Duty applicable to Supp:ies 1,034,516 503,37.9 - 1,335,'61 - 772,173 696,466 - 1,305,034 - - - - - - ____ --- - -- -- -_ Total Customs 4,529415 4449838 4,94 0 ,397 6,353,777 1 20,16 1 ,917 40% 1 9,938 4,436,505 4,430,385 5,136,116 18,1372, 1 '1-1 Total Customs 1,793,73 917,061 Excise 3,:347,763 1,8" , 13,5112 3,215,0:9 3,862,029 I 1,257,173 3,80',764 1,831,443 2,663,5.4 3,705,4117 12, CO7 , 239 E xc i se Stamps 1 ,6 19,517 1,697,6,4 1,734,269 1,141,711 6,71 6,439 ' 1,573,329 1,618,16. 1,647,0311 1,622;252 6,461,282 Stamps 315,157 122,489 Taxes 1,575,616 183,064 1,571, Li() 334,897 3,176,747 ' 1,591,060 1.1,219 1,699,4 N 30, , ,01.2 3,03,380 T axes 22;633 26,795 Post Ottice 315,000 366 , 00 3 376,000 39:;,000 1,426,00) 349,000 367,000 3.56,737 418,00 a. 1,4,0,743 Post-office 4 , 753 19,00(i - Miscellaneous 21,576 11 1 ,743 7,074 6,240 '2,533 9,973 2 6 ,334 5,7.7 2,701 44,035 Miscellaneous-- 7,893 3,5139 ---- ----__ Total Ordinary Revenue.. 11,129,1)47 8,582,941 11,747,347 12,730,674 1 44,160,009 11,400,764 1 8 , 4 63,063 10,712,861 11,192,634 42,070,2.92 Imprest and other :Moneys, includ ing Repayments of Advances 'lmprest A- olllct for Public Works 142,591 99,702 101,538 190,253 524,124 187,99.5 159,171 270,719 200,531 317,416 Moneys 293,292 ...... 1211,78 - -- - --- --- -- -- Total Income 11,572,729 8,682,54.3 11,319,935 1 12,1590, 9 -27 144,984,931 li 11,589,759 8,022,134 10,983,590 11,693,165 1 42,887,c;1x I 320, 1 68 12,117,963 311,234 1,227,046 '- - -- -- ----- The Amount applied to th e C on- • ; il I Deduct In. solidated Fund 8,123,129 5,739,833 7,122,605 8,059,917 29,690,254 ' 8,123,535 5,730,326 7,251,669 8,7 12 , f 9.2 2 9 ;9 6,04 9 crease. Ditto, to pay off Exchequer Bills Deduct Increase 320,668 39,214 charged on Sugar Duty ...... - - - - - - - - - - ----- Ditto, as part o the Ways and Means of the Year 3,449,099 I 2,901,660 4,725,910 4,811,18) h 5,38 9 ,679 3,165,224 , 2,811,818 3,731,911 2,950,473 13,491,5'9 Decrease on 4 I _ ., 8 ~x) I ___--- - ',Decrease on the, the Quarter Total 11,57°,528 8, 6 5 2,513 111,840,935 12,880,927 ! 44,984,933 I I 11,588,7.13 t ~6--,134 1 10,643,580 111, 6 9',165 1 42,817,698 II Year i ..... \ 9,097,2'5 1,187,7)12 No. II.:--Income and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the loth October, 1.836; and the 10th October, 1837. Quarters ended Oct. 10. I Quarters ended Oct. 10. ~...--..-----...., INCOME. 1836 1837 ‘ CHARGE. 836 ------- 1 ----- . 837 -- . ----- Customs.—Consolidated Duties 5,018,1!6 3,931,042 i Permanent Deb' 3,409,530 3,409,403 Sugar applicable to the l ' T er minable AnnuitieS 1,392,118 1,38,265 Consolidated Fund !Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund 12,561 29,585 i Sinking Fund 419,1.01 3n2,381 Total Customs 5,018,116 3,931,082 , The Civil List Other charges on the Consolidated Fund, including Civil Government Services formerly paid out of the Civil List, or the Heredi- Excise Stamps 1,714,741 1,622,252 ' ---. Taxes Post Office Miscellaneous 21,191 203,232 12,025,015 10,408,676 11,30,567 10,188,131 . The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1837, and paid To Cash brought to this Account to ' off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Oct 110, 1337, after deducting 300,0001. paid off out of the Sink replaco the like sum issued, cr to , ing Fund he issued, out of the Consolidated i The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1837, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund Fund in Ireland, for Supply and for Supply Services 200,472 other Services !, 12,0..5,015 I 10,408,676 I! The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1837 4,969,636 Willie Park, from the moors of Invernesshire ; General Upton, from Newmarket, on a tour; Lord and Lady Albemarle, at Quiddmham Hall, West Harling, from Newmarket ; Lord and Lady Suffield, and the Hon. A. Harbord, at Gunton Park, from ditto ; Lady and Miss Douglas, at Brighton, from Ramsgate ; Lord Fitzallan, at the Marine Villa of Lord Surrey, at Little hampton, from Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland ; the Dowager Duchess of Montrose, from Richmond.hill ; Mr. Thomas Par ker, on a visit to his uncle, the Earl of Macclesfield, at Sher borne Castle, from Eusham Hall, Oxfordshire ; Lady Step ney, at Tunbridge Wells ; Lord Oriel, at Oriel Temple. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESOAY, OCTOBER 11, 1-i37. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess Ida and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar arrived at the Queen's House, St. James's, yesterday evening from Bushy-park. The Chevalier de Ribeiro, Portuguese Charge d'Affaires, had the honour of taking leave (on his return to Lisbon) of Lord Palmerston, at the Fore►gn-office, on the .sth inst. The Chevalier de Ribeiro also presented the Chevalier de Carvell►o as Charge d'Affaires of Her Most Faithful Majesty. The Qucen has been graciously pleased to appoint Messrs. Hodgson and Graves printeellers in ordinary to her Majesty. Mr. Stevenson (the Ametican Minister) and Lady, and Mr. Vaux (his Private Secretary), left town last week on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Leicester at Holkham. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Master of the Mint, has arrived in town. M. de Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires, tran sacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches from Lord Howard de Walden, Minister Plenipotentiary at Lisbon, were received yesterday at the Foreign-office. Workmen have been employed in completing the interior of the Now Palace in St. James's-park, and also in making a number of alterations preparatory to the return of her Majesty, who is expected to arrive on the 7th of next month. The Right Hon. Sir C. Grey left Farrance's Hotel yes terday for his seat the Oaks, Surrey. Sir Robert, Lady, and Miss Peel are gone on a tour in ;he Low Countries. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lady Browne, at her residence, Elysium Villa, Fulham, from Dublin ; Gen. J. Pinckney Henderson, Minister Pleni potentiary from the Republic of TCXLIt to the Court of St. James's, and G. S. M‘lntosh, Esq., Secretary of Legation, at Long's Hotel, New Bond-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parnell, in Cumberland-street, Hyde-park ; Major Ord, R. E., Captain Grant, 61st Foot, and Lieut. Vicars, R. E., from Colombo, Ceylon ; Lord Cantalupe, from Lord Forester's, Willie Bark ; Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, in the Ambas sador's Court, St. James's Palace ; Sir Henry Webb, in George-street, Portman-square ; Earl Cowper, in Maddox street, from Pansanger ; Mr. Greville, in Hanover-square, from Newmarket ; General Grosvenor, from ditto ; the Mar quis Camden and Lady Georgiana Pratt, from the Priory, Brecon ; Sir F. Bathurst, Bart., at Mivart's Hotel, from Cla rendon Park, Wilts ; Sir Walter Scott, from Windsor ; Mr. and Miss Williams Wynn, in Grafton -street, from Montgo meryshire; Count Hunyadi, from Newmarket; General Na pier, from Bath. DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Rosso, from Belgrave-square, for Brighton; the Countess Meyersdorff and suite, from Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Paris ; Colonel Vernon Harcourt, Capt. Cox, and Lieut. Clifford, grenadier guards, for Brighton; the Hon. Wellington Talbot, to join the 7th Royal Fusiliers; Sir Henry Parnell, from Chester-street, on a visit to Lady Henry Moore, at Moore Abbey, Queen's County ; Sir Bethel Codrington, from Park-lane, for Doddington Castle, Stroud, Gloucestershire ; Capt. Sir John Phillimore, for the Ray, Maidenhead, Berk - s ; Lord Eldon and Lady Frances Barikes, from Hamilton place, for Encombe. Dorsetshire ; the llon. Robt. Smith, for Gayhurst, Bucks ; Gen, Scheffkin, Aide-de- Camp to the Emperor Nicholas, for Hamburz, ; the Hon. Col. Anson, , on a v i s it t o C o l. an d L a d y Ali ce Peel, - at Beckenham, Norfolk ; General Hill, on a visit to Lord Hill, at Hardwicke Hon. Fred. Molyneux, for Brighton ; Sir Henry and Lady Wynn, on a tour. CHANGES. Lord Morpeth, from a visit to Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, at Wood3tock, Wicklow, for Besborough House; Lord and Lady Hillsborough, a t Hillsbor ou gh F or d, Downshire, from Malvern Wells.; Mr. Childers, M.P., at Cantley Hall, Don caster, from a tour; Lord Forester, at Willie Paak, Shrop shire, from Langshawe Lodge ; Lord and Lady Carrington, at Deal Castle, from Wycombe Abbey, Bucks; Sir Henry Hardinge, at \Valmer, from Drayton Park, Staffordshire; Mr. Poyntz, M. P., at Cowdrary Park, Petwortb, from New bury; Lady Caroline Neeld, from Bath, on a tour ; Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy, at Euston Hall, Thetford, from Shoo]. broke House, Northamptonshire ; Colonel Fox, at Windsor Castle, from Leamington, Warwickshire; Lord Alford, at DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The comedy of She Stoops to Conquer was performed at this house last night, with a very good cast of its parts, and very successfully. A young lady, named Charles, from the Dublin theatre, made her first appearance on these boards in the character of Miss Hardcastle, and acquitted herself in a highly creditable manner. Miss Charles is quite familiar to the stage, and deserves to be considered an accomplished actress in genteel comedy. A handsome expressive countenance and a graceful figure set off her other endowments to the best advantage. She was re ceived most favourably on her entrance, and, with equal warmth, complimented by a numerous audience after her trial was over. In a word, she may be considered a very welcome acquisition to the Drury-lane boards. Mr. Balls re-appeared on this occasion (after an absence of three years from this theatre) in the part of Young Marloss. A place was vacant for hi m , t oo . H e i s an agreea bl e b eau , an d represented the bold and the bashful Marlow with much tact and spirit. Compton's Tony Lumpkin at first seemed a failure. In his sharp intelligent features it was impossible to recognise the " broad thoughtless face" of the prince of bumpkins, but he had mastered the spirit of the part, and carried it through the piece, with genuine breadth of hu mour. Dowton and . Mrs, Jones, in Mr. and Mrs. Hard castle, were excellent, as usual. On the whole, this very amusing comedy was well sustained, and highly relished, as we have already intimated, by a full house. Sir John Beresford anti family have arrived at Be dale, from a tour of visits in Scotland and Northumberland. Earl Cowper has succeeded to the hereditary pen sion of 1,6001. per annum on the excise revenue, which was enjoyed by his father, the late Earl. The pensions of the Duke of Marlborough and the heirs of the Duke of Sehom berg are charged on the same fund. Queen Adelaide has presented to the parish of Teddington, which abuts on Bushy-park, 1001. towards the erection of a parsonage house. We hear of the death of a daughter of Lord Car rington. The event took place on Monday last. His Lordship has in consequence arrived in town from Deal Castle. Count de Grammont will leave the French Embassy, in Manchester-square, this morning, in consequence of being appointed by his Court resident Minister at Stuttgart]. The French Ambassador commenced his dinner parties yesterday at Manchester House. Count Maurice Esterhazy, son to his Excellency the Russian Ambassador, returned to town yesterday from r, tour. Mr. Erring,ton gave a dinner at the Clarendon Hotel, in Bond-street, on Monday evening, to the Earl of Cherie vine, Lord Augustus Fitzelarence, Lord George Bentinck, Viscount Jocelyn, the Earl of Belfast, Count D'Orsay, 111 r. Drummond, Major Cosby, Hon. George Herbert, Hon. 111 r. Baring, and Mr. George Wombwell. Gunton Park, Norfolk, the magnificent scat of Lord Suffield, has been the scene of great gaiety during the last fortnight. The mornings have been occupied by the sports of the field, and the evenings with sumptuous dinners,'concerts, or a dance. Among the company were the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord George Bentinck, Emily Dowager Lady Suffield, the Hungarian Count Hunyhadi, Hon. Mr. Irby. Most of the company will return to New market for the second meeting. The Marquis of Queensberry still remains at Kin mount House in a precarious state. His Lordship tra velled to the German Spa, but it was of no advantage to his health. The Russian Prince Nariskin, Lord High Steward of the Household of the Emperor of Russia, with a nu merous suite, arrived at Paterson's Hotel, Lower Brook street, the day before yesterday, from Aix-la-Chapelle. Count Zadoriski left Crawley's Hotel, Mbemarle street, last evening, for Hamburg, charged with despatches for the Russian Government at St. Petersburg. The venerable Lord St. Helens, formerly our Am bassador at St. Petersburg, has rallied surprisingly, hav ing some time ago suffered severely from an attack of influenza. The Noble Lord resides in Grafton-street the whole year round. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Saxony, Baron Gcrsdorff, and suite, dined with the Gover nor of the Bank of England on Monday evening. Yester day her Royal Highness and her noble attendants went over the elegant gallery of paintings of Lord Francis Eger ton at Bridgwater House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, during his brief sojourn at Dover, has endeared himself to a large and numerous circle. His Grace the Duke of Wellington dined with his Royal Highness on Sunday. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and the young Lords and Ladies Russell are expected to reach Woburn Abbey on Saturday next. About the 20th inst., they will conic up to Belgrave-square, and after remaining about a week embark for Calais. Countess Wanda de Choiseul-Gouffier, who was Countess Niesistowska, was killed by a fall from her horse on the 27th ult., at Kradrub, near Toplitz. Letters were received on Monday from Count Pozzo di Borgo. His Excellency will leave Paris on Mon day se'nnight, for London. M. de Bourqueney, the First Secretary and Charge d'Affaires to the Count Sebastiani, will depart this day for Paris, on a four months' leave of absence. - ------- Lord Glenelg visited Lord Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Marquis of Lansdowne is making a tour of visits in Wales. The Earl of Shelburne arrived at Lansdowne-house yesterday from Leamington Spa. To-morrow his Lordship goes to Bowood. The Earland Countess of Durham and family are now on a visit to Earl Grey, at Howick. They are ex pected to return to Lambton Castle the latter part of next week. The Earl of Uxbridge is to be appointed Lord of the Bedchamber to her Majesty, in the place of the late Lord Ternplemore. - The repai rs an d a l terat i ons at Marlborough-house are rapidly appr oac hi ng comp l et i on. Nearly 300 workmen are now employed to render it worthy the habitation of the Queen Dowager. Lord and Lady Frances Egerton arrived on Friday last at Worsle*Hall, their scat in Lancashire, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith. His Lordship and his Lady have also been on visits to the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, Duke and Duchess of Iticlunond, Earl and Countess of Mansfield, &c. The Countess of Mulgrave and her Ladyship's suite will leave Dublin to-morrow for tie Clarendon Hotel, becn en g age d f or their i r i e i c l e 3 p o t n io d n -s . treet, apartments havin g From the statements of Professor Henry, at the late Liverpool meeting, it appears that there are now 1,500 miles of railroads in active operation in the United States, and 2,000 miles of canals. Upwards of 3,000 miles more of railway are in progress, although they have been greatly interrupted by the late commercial convulsion. It is in contemplation of the authorities connected with the Duchy of Lancaster (of which her Majesty is the Lady of the Manor), on the occasion of the approaching Royal visit to dine with the citizens of London, to do due honour to her Majesty by forming a guard of honour to receive her on her first entry into the duchy, and see her through her personal domains to where the Corporation of London will meet her Majesty at Temple-bar. The juris diction of the duchy extends from Cecil -street, in the Strand, at both sides, as far as Temple-bar. The residents of the duchy are anxious on this occasion to join in any mark of loyal respect ; and Mr. Halswcll, the High Bailiff, has been in communication with the Chancellor, Lord Hol land, on the subject. STAMPED COVERS FOR t i tTTERS.—Mr. Wal lace, M.P., in a letter to the Aberdeen Herald, says, " It is not intended that the stamps shall yield any return to the Exchequer ; and it is confidently believed that the quantity of paper which will be taken from the few indi viduals to whom the manufactory necessarily must be en trusted, will be so large as to enable them to sell it at a very small advance indeed, if any at all, on the usual price of the same paper when unstamped. I have carefully studied Mr. Hill's indisputable plan, and have anxiously looked at the consequences of adopting the stamp-covers all over the kingdom. The result is, my firm belief in the positive cer tainty of the success of both ; my belief is that, under the operations of Mr. Hill's plan, by far the greater portion of the revenue of the Post-office will be collected from stamped paper sold in stationers' shops, and in every shop in which a mixture of articles is sold all over Great Britain and Ireland. Stamps are to be used on all sizes and kinds of paper, from thin banker's post to pasteboard. It ie on weight only that postage is to be charged ; and letter senders, or parcel-senders, will choose for themselves, sheets of three feet square or three inches. COMPASS TO SI/EW MAGNETIC VARIATION.— Thelhanks of the Society of Arts were voted to Captain Courtney for the above compass, of which the following is a description :—The invention is for determining the variation of the compass without the aid of amplitudes or other tables, and without any calculations whatever, merely by the shadow of a perpendicular, erected over the centre of the card of the common compass. It is obvious that when the sun is on the meridian, which may be determined by it timekeeper, the shadow of anything erected perpendicular to the plane of the earth must point to the true north of the world. The present compass has a perpendicular wire erected over the centre of the card ; the compass being placed in the rays of the sun, the shadow produced by the said wire, when the sun is on the meridian, will fall on the compass-card, and at once point out the variation of the needle at the place of observation. The opportunities of determining the variation by this method more frequently occur than by the amplitude compass, inasmuch as the sun is oftener to be seen at noon than at any other time of the day. It too frequently happens when the mariner is desirous of ascertaining the variation of the compass at the place he may happen to be, that he is disappointed in getting an am plitude, or the bearing of the sun at its rising and setting, as that luminary is more frequently than otherwise obscured by clouds immediately at its emersion from the horizon, or its immersion into the same at rising and setting. The method of determining the variation by the azimuth compass is a tedious process, and recourse must be had to tables and cal culations ; besides the azimuth compass costing so much money is seldom to be found on board any but large ships. An excitement of a most painful description has been caused at Chelsea, in consequence of the sudden and mysterious disappearance of a youth named Joseph Pearson Collins from a school in the above place. His parents, who reside at No. 4, Moleworth-place, Camden-town, are inconsolable on account of his loss, and it is much feared he has been enticed away for some bad purpose. From a de scription of him, which was yesterday sent to the various police stations, it appears that he is slightly formed, of fair complexion, and blue eyes. He had on a brown jacket and trousers, light waistcoat, and cloth cap. The police hare also received information of several other children (mostly under six years of age) having within the last few days been missing from their parents' homes. Monday, the wife of the Rev. T. Stevenson, of Loughborough, Baptist minister, who had for some time been in a low state of mind, showed such decided symp toms of mental derangement, that her husband consulted with one of his sons as to the course to be pursued. To wards night she became somewhat better, and retired quietly to rest. Mr. Stevenson rue in the morning at six, and went to his study, and in about an hour after it was found that the bed-room door was locked. One of Mr. Stevenson's students broke open the door, and Mrs. S. was discovered hanging by a silk stocking from a rail at one end of the bedstead. She was instantly taken down, but life was extinct. An inquest was held, and the jury found " that she had destroyed herself in a fit of derange niz:nt." She was highly respected in Loughborough, being ever foremost in works of active benevolence and charity. Leicester Chronicle. A singular but melancholy discovery has been made this week in the village of Buttington, near Pool, Mont gomeryshire. In digging the foundation for a school-house, near the Church, the workmen's labours were interrupted by the discovery of immense quantities of human skulls huddled together in holes, with other bones of the human frame scattered around, to the amount of several cart loads. Ninety skulls were taken from one hole, and upwards of three hundred are ranged in grisly show in the Church. In many the teeth are perfect, and most of them exhibit symptoms of having belonged to men in the prime of life. How they came there is a matter of inquiry ; but scenes have been enacted at Buttington sufficiently horrible to account for even more ample tokens of " man's inhumanity to man." Nearly a thousand years ago, namely, in the year 894, the English obtained a decisive victory over the Danes at this spot, and the remains of the vanquished army shut themselves up in some fastnesses in the neighbourhood, where the horrors of famine overtook them, and in an attempt to cut their way through the army of the victors they were all destroyed. Still more recently, nearly the last of the sanguinary struggles of the Welsh for national independence was made on this spot ; and the grinning skeletons now upraised from their huddled graves may be the remains of men who thought even life too poor a sacri fice for independence ; and who died on the threshhold of their native soil rather than permit the foot of a proud oppressor to tread it. Even the withered bones of such men demand a patriot's homage.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. The result of the registration i, most satisfactory,to the Reformers of Hereford ; the gain on the Liberal aide is much greater than the majority which beat. Mr. Biddulph at the late election. Would that the battle was to ight over again immediately. Be patience is a virtue, and we have only to exercise it until the next. election, when thr majority of the citizens of Hereford will, as the Constitu tion directs, be reprssented by two Members; and as that majority is composed of Reformers, it follows that its Re presentatives must also be Reformers.—Her eford Times. The Viceroy of Egypt was still in Candia, accord ing to the last accounts, but was expected to leave the island the Ist or 2d of this month. The English brig Con- Once has returned to Malta, with despatches from Lord *Ponsonby. The officers state that the Gapudan Pacha has been recalled from Tripoli, so that, of course, he will not go to Tunis. LITERARY PROSPECTS. Some of our Contemporaries, we observe, speak of the publishers being about to awake from their summer slum bers, but we do not think that they have been particularly idle oflate. One alone (Mr. Colburn of Great Marlborough street) has produced at least *dozen books within the last few weeks ; and the same active publishce has now,we are informed, no less than fifty works in a very forward state for the ap proaching winter. Among them are, the eleven Years' Voyages of his Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, by Captains King and Fitzroy, with the Journal of Mr. Dar win, Naturalist of the Beagle ; Memoirs of the Court arii Times of George IV., from the original papers in the possession of- a distinguished Nobleman ; The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Earl St. Vincent, by Captain Brenton, R.N. ; Portraitures of his Contemporaries, by Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esq. ; Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Alban's, by Miss Sheridan ; Memoirs of the cele brated Irish Rebel, General Holt, written by himself ; The Travels of Marshal Marmont, Duke of Ragusa, in Hungary, Transylvania, Southern Russia, the Crimea, &c. ; Travels in Egypt, the Holy Land, &c., by Prince Puckler Muskau ; the Fanqui in China, being the Narra tive of a late Resident in that Country ; The Rhone and the Carthusian Deserts, by Miss Pardoe, author of The City of the Sultan, &c. ; A Year in South America, by the Honourable P. Campbell Scarlett ; Woman and her Master, by Lady Morgan, &c. &c. ; besides works of fic tion, by the author of Tremaine, Mr. Theodore Hook, the author of The Subaltern, Douglas Jerrold, Esq., M. J. Quin, Esq., Lady Charlotte Bury, Mrs. Gore, Lady Step ney, Horace Smith, Esq., Captain Marryat, Captain Cha mier, R. Sullivan, Esq., the author of Cavendish, the au thoress of the Desennuyee, the authoress of The Peeress, &c. &c. This list furnishes, we think, pretty conclusive evidence that Mr. Colburn, at all events, is not slumbering. —Morning Chronicle. GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTAL DISTILLERY. The extensive premises formerly the Hope Brewery, in Brown's-lane, Spitalfields, having recently been fitted up as an experimental distillery upon a large scale, under the superintendence of Dr. Birkbeck, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, for the purpose of fully testing the efficiency of Mr. Rudkin's apparatus for taking the excise on spirits in process of distillation, several preparatory distillings have taken place within the last fortnight, and yesterday the dis tillery was set at full work. The experiment so far has been in the highest degree satisfactory, and in the opinion of Dr. Birkbeck and other scientific men sufficiently con clusive as to the utility of the invention. Its object, and _ _ its great importance in a financial point of view, if it should realize the expectations of the inventor, and of the scientific gentlemen (Professor Breed, Dr. Birkbeck, and Mr. Lub bock) who have recommended it to the Government for universal adoption in room of the present de fective system of Excite, may be rendered intel ligible as well as interesting to the public by the follow ing particulars. The instruments at present in use for de termining the amount of duty which the distiller is re quired to pay are the sacchrometer, by which the officers of Excise are supposed to ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter contained in the liquid before it goes into the still, and there from the quantity of alcohol which the distilla tion should produce in the thermometer for ascertaining the temperature, which is important for determining ultimately, by comparison with the bulk, the actual strength of the distilled spirit ; and, lastly, the bunging rod, by which the contents of the vats, puncheons, &c., are ascertained in Gallons. _ _ . .... Now the utter inefficiency of the sacchrometer and ther mometer for the purposes for which they are used has long been well known, and indeed universally acknowledged ; so rno e l, so that in the last report ef the Commissioners of Ex cise Inqulry it is declared that " there is at present no se curity for the collection of any portion of the revenue, ex cept in the conscientiousness of the distillers ;" and 2.5 per cent. is allowed to the distillers to compensate for the errors of the instruments, by which it is calculated the Government loses from 2 to 4 millions sterling per annum ; but notwith standing this liberal allowance, or rather unwilling sacrifice, a far greater quantity is actually distilled and brought into the market than the excise officers, with all their vigilance, have ascertained to be produced, even in distilleries where no freed is at tempted or desired, respectable distillers, as, for instance, Mr. Smith, of Whitechapel, often paying to the Exchequer the duty upon 60,000 or 80,000 gallons in a year which had escaped the calculations of the Excise, over and ebeve the twenty-five gallons in every hundred which they are ellewed free of duty, on account of the imperfec tions of the instruments: The Government, chiefly through the medium of the Royal Soclet,•, has long applied itself to remedy this evil. About seventy years ego Lord George Cavendish carried on a series of laborious experiments for this purpose, which led to no result, and upon his failure the matter was committed to Sir Joseph Banks ; but his labours were attended with no better success. Several others, amongst whom the most remarkable was Mr. Pat tinger, have since attempted various improvements on the system, but all the expense that the Government has hitherto incurred has been literally thrown away. But, to use em phatic declaration of Dr. Birkbeck in reference to the pre sent experiment, " Mr. Rudkin has solved the great and im pertant problem." If his instrument eventually realises his pro fessions, and bears out the results of yesterday's trials, as well as previous experiments, it will do away with all the inconveniences of the present system and prevent the pos sibility of loss to the revenue, as it registers the quantity, temperature, and strength of every gallon of epirits as soon as it is produced, and before it comes under the controul of the exciseman and distiller. It will also relieve the distiller from the interruption to which he is at present subject, and which one distiller, Mr. Smith of Millbank, states to be at tended with a loss of 3,000/. a-year, being obliged to pre pare the wash at one time and to distil at another, besides other interruptions not easily explained in a newspaper article. The Government anticipate a saving of several millions a-year, should the new plan succeed, besides the total suppression of illicit distillation. DARING ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER. —lt is our painful duty this week to record a most atro cious outrage, committed in a close, near to the neat little village of Barwell, in Leicestershire, on Wednesday even ing, the 27th ult., on a young man of the name of Joseph Barnes, a printer, from Londonderry, by a person of the name of Robert Harrold, alias Moore, of Leicester, for merly of Earl Shilton. Barnes arrived in Leicester on Tuesday afternoon previous, and proceeded the next morn ing on his way to Hinckley. On reaching the end of Braun stone-gate, and while noticing a newly-built publichouse, kept by Mr. Johnson, Harrold accosted him with " That's my brother's house, young man;" this led to a conversation, in which Harrold expressed a wish to accompany him to Hinck ley, which was agreed to, and they forthwith proceeded. They arrived at Barwell (11 miles from Leicester) about six o'clock in the evening , where Harrold was well known, and called at the Queen's Head. It being Barwell feast, they took a little ale with the villagers, but both were quite sober, and after calling at a friend's house in the village, they started about nine o'clock on their way to Hinckley. They took the foot-road across some fields, and before they had crossed the third close Harrold laid himself down, and said he should proceed no further, for lie had lost his way. Barnes then said he would return to Barwell and leave him, which he was in the act of doing, when Harrold sprung from the ground and gave him a dreadful kick in the small of the back, which brought him to the earth ; he then kicked or struck him in the most brutal manner over his head, eyes, nose, and mouth ; the upper lip of which also was completely cut in two. This . demon then left him for dead, first dragging him by his coat from the foot-path, where the deed was committed, towards the hedge, the coat being torn completely off his back. His victim being now sense l es s, he took his shoes, hat, umbrella, bundle, and about twelve shillings in money, and in this miserable state left the unfortunate man. Barnes remained insensible till the village clock struck one ; he then crawled, in the most dreadful agony, through an aperture in the hedge, into a dry ditch on the other side ; about three o'clock he heard voices coming from the spot he had left, and the exclama tion of " He's gone ; I'd give twenty guineas if I was out of the country !' Barnes, in his own words, says, " It's impossible to express my feelings at that time, not doubt ing that he had come back either to finish his bloody work, if not complete, or to bury me." He lay in this dreadful state in the ditch, more and more exhausted from the loss of blood, until five o'clock, when he was seen by the villagers, who conducted him to the house of a Mr. Harrold, a distant relation of the perpetrator of the dreadful cruelty just committed. The head, as described by a witness, " was more like a mass of putrid liver than a human head ;" and such was the effect upon some females in the house, that he was immediately re moved, to Thomas Clamp's, the constable, who, vith the asiistance of a Hinckley constable, apprehended Harrold the same morning at his mother's house in Hinckley, and conveyed by him to Barwell, where he was committed by the Rev. G. Mettam, for trial. Of the prisoner's charac ter we have nothing good to report, and shall therefore re frain from prejudicing the minds of individuals against him. Some months since he kept a beer-shop, called the " Staff of Life," in Belgrave gate, Leicester, and since then has been travelling round the country with his brother, vending fancy bread and confectionery. When apprehended, Barnes's hat and bundle were found upon him, and the shoes were discovered on the road near Hinckley.— Leicestershire Alercu) y. WRECK OF THE TIGER MER CHANTMAN. CREW AND PASSENGERS SEVENTY DAYS ON A CORAL ROCK. The following brief account of the wreck of the Tiger, .which sailed from Liverpool, bound for Bombay, in June last year, in company with another vessel called the Tigris, is from a youth of 16, a son of Mr. Wrightson, of the firm of Wrightson and Webb, booksellers, Birmingham. He was an apprentice on board the vessel, and his account of the wreck, as related to his friends, was to this effect : " Nothing of more than ordinary note occurred for the first few weeks. We hid brilliant weather, and held on stea dily ; the Tigris getting a-head sometimes, at others we look tLe lead. Soon, however, the 7V,/ is shot away ra pidiv, and After a few days, we lost sight of her. Upon this, the Captain, who before had been all life and activity, was observed to gr.;w gloomy and reserved ; and the sur mise was rife among - the crew, that some heavy stake ryas pending on the sailinz powers of the two vessels. To allay his chagrin, the Cai:stain drank spirits in large quantities, and symptoms of insanity were speedily discerned. One night, pacing the deck, and talking inco herently, he suddenly stopped, and lifting up his dog, who crouched at his feet, by the neck, flung him overboard, saying ' Poor devil ! I shall soon follow you.' After this he was watched narrowly ; the surgeon of the vessel not considering himself justified in putting him under arrest, nor did he think it absolutely necessary. He contrived, how ever, to elude our vigilance, and a few days after his ex clamation threw himself overboard, and though a boat was instantly put out, he sank before it reached him. The command of the vessel now devolved upon the mate, named Spurge, a well-conducted but inexperienced seaman, who . _ got out of his latitude ; and after many weeks of wander ing and anxious pain, were eventually wrecked on an uninhabited island ; which, as we afterwards learned, was 10 deg. S. of tha and between 600 and 700 milt s E. of Madagascar ; crew and pasFengers, twenty-six in number, including one lady, the wife of a naval officer on board, all being saved. The island, called Astovia, was a coral rock, and nowhere could we discover any vestige of ve getable matter. After hoisting some remnants of can vas from the wreck in three different parts of the island, which was about six miles long, by three or four wide, we set out in quest of fresh water, but to our inexpressible anguish the search was without success. Our thirst became intole- rable ; and to appease it, we were compelled to ring off the heads of Bea fowl (with which the island providentially abounded, and which were not by any means difficult to catch), and drink the blood. Our food was turtle ; and we used to take it by going out in small parties of six or seven in number, and wading through a creek, on the banks of which they congregated. Here we were in constant danger of oar lives from the sharks that paddled slowly and stealthily up the creek ; and on one occasion a poor fellow, too daring and adventurous, was seized, and torn piecemeal among them. After the lapse of two weeks, fourteen of the crew agreed to take the long-boat, with a single barrel of biscuits, the oaly provision saved, with a solemn pro mise to touch at the first- island to which they came, if possible, to procure aid, and return to us. Their parting shout was the last we ever heard of them. A day or two after they had left us, two of the crew picked up a barrel of spirits which had been washed ashore, and for sometime kept it to themselves, and upon Spurze, the mate, discov ering it, and upbraiding them with the selfishness of their conduct, they, in their inebriation, drew their knives and would have despatched him on the instant., had not some of us rushed to his rescue. The poor lady, the only fe male, suffered dreadfully, and notwithstanding we did all that was possible under the circumstances to alleviate her condition, and whilst she endeavoured to bear up with a seeming fortitude, it was evident her spirit was completely broken. With the canvass and spars from the wreck, we erected a sort of tent, where she was in some measure pro tected from the intense heat of a tropical sun. We had been three weeks on the island, and our only drink was blood, and, for the last few days, the spirits which had been secreted by the men and discovered by the mate, when to ohr infi nite joy a fresh-water spring was at last discovered, and one and all scoured away, yelling like bedlamites with delight at this priceless Godsend. Week after week passed away, and still no sign of deliverance. To mark the days, we cut, like Crusoe, notches in a spar. At one time we were buoyed up with the hope of rescue, at others steeped in the lowest depths of wretchedness. In consequence of the nature of our diet, many of our number suffered greatly from diarrhoea, though ro fatal consequences attended it. At the expiration f seventy days our signal was discov, r d in a South whaler, by which we were taken to Mahe, an island, or rather clus ter of islands, the Governor of which supplied us with ne cessaries, and forwarded us to the Cape, from whence we tcok passage to England, in a vessel that touched there shortly on our arrival." A SAD MISTAKE.--A man employed by some medical students to procure a subject dug up his own wife by mistake, and has been inconsolable ever since.—Wor c,yter Journal. Tile subscription for disputing the validity of the Braintree liturcii-rate, we find, is proceeding. On Mon day, a meeting of the Hackney Church-rate Abolition So ciety was held, when five guineas were voted towards the fund for defending Mr. Balder. FEMALE TURN-OUT.--,Nt the Public-office on Thursday, Charlotte Wain, Emma Read, Anne Eadren, Ellen Minshull, Sarah Turner, Elizaiiseth Whittall, and Robert Basford (a master manufacturer). were charged with creating a disturbance on the 26th ult., ud offering in timidation to Mr. Weaver, bone button manufactorer, of the Aston-road, and his workpcople. The case was ad journed from Monday by Dr. Booth, who having heard the evidence against the prisoners, and the defence set up in their favour by Mr. Smith, observed that the Magistrates did not think they ought to pass over the matter as a com mon assault. It was of too serious a nature, and of too much public concern, for them to do so. It was evidently a case of combination on the part of the defendants to pre vent Mr. Weaver's servants working at their present wages, and the Magistrates would deal with it under the Act. of Parliament relating to such offences. On Thursday the evidence was resumed before the same Magistrates, and Mr. Spooner having consulted his brother Magistrates, ob served, that with respect to Basford, his case was of an ag gravated nature, inasmuch as, being the master of one of the girls, he ought not to have encouraged them to acts of violence, which, but for his example, they might not have attempted. They, therefore, ordered him to be taken to the House of Correction, and there kept to hard labour for three months. Anne Eadren had been guilty of very excit ing and dangerous conduct in carrying about an effigy, and throwing it in a burning state on Mr. Weaver's premises ; they therefore senteuced her to two months in the House of Correction and hard labour ; and with respect to the rest, they were aiding and assisting, and were therefore responsi ble ; but not having committed any distinct acts of vio lence, they would pass upon them a more team: nt sentence, and adjudge them to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour.—ilirmintsbant Grnette. On Wednesday, while the steam-plough was a work, on the farm of Grain, in Lochar Moss, one of the numerous spectators, Mr. Gawn, an extensive land-proprie tor, and.banker in the Isle of Man, became suddenly un well. As pear as may be about eleven o'clock, he was standing close to one of the turning points of the steam plough, conversing with Mr. Smith of Polmadie, Glasgow, when all of a sudden he raised his hand to his head, and muttered, as is believed, in an under tone, "my God." A little before this, he remarked to our friend---. o ' there is more water in that ditch than a neighbour of mine could muster on his whole farm, and who, in fact, as far as the boiler is concerned, set the steam-plough in motion ;" and scarcely had these words escaped his lips when he stag gered and tumbled into the very ditch to which he alluded. For a few moments he disappeared amidst the depth of water ; but was instantly rescued and laid on the bank, and at the same time attended by medical gentlemen, who attempted to bleed him. But the effort was vain, and after a few convulsive motions, the unfortunate gentleman ex pired, to the deep regret of all who were stationed near the spot, or made aware of the oc currence. The deceased, who was in the highest sense rest;ectable, and one of th e most influential characters in the hit; of Man, was, per haps, of the age of sixty, and so stoutly rn„:de and heavy, that the general impression is, that he died in a 5t of apo plexV.—earlisk Journal. GAMBLING.—A desperate attempt at suicide was made a few days ago at Boulogne-sur-Mer, by a young English musician who had lost 2001. at a gaMing-house in Paris, and the same sum at Boulogne, on the very day of his arrival. The unfortunate but misguided young man went into an apothecary's shop in the town, and asked for a small quantity of laudanum, to lull the pain arising from a pretended local irritation. While the druggist was ithel ling the'phial intended for his customer, the latter seized the large vessel containing the narcotic, and swallowed considerable. portion before the master of the shop was able to snatch it from his grasp. The instantaneous application of a powerful emetic prevented immediate danger, and the rash young man was with as little delay as possible conveyed to the town hospital, where he received such further assis tance as his case required. He was soon pronounced out of danger. On his removal to the hospital, not more than twelve anus were found in his packet. On Sunday se'nnight, as a boy 11 years of age, the son of William John, labourer, of Cartlett, Haverfordwest, was amusing himself by swinging on the triangle used for loading timber in the yard of Mr. .1. Jardine, merchant of that borough, the machine was thrown down, and falling on tc t i h iire e c rt boy ~,f , ne a el s l e o :i tv r h, o alk t v killed th ed in at hde :o 3s n , te t ;o‘ l , l te e el e s w p me o io t in . th brook, sl t.ais sister n a t o sit o l : . ;:t i l i c a l h e r she had fallen in the attempt to I reac t some blackberries that hung over it.—Cartibrian.