The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There are many valuable hints in the letter of the 'Rev. Sydney Smith, which Ministers would do well not utterly to disregard. When, for instance, a whole class of men are found to differ from all other classes in the community in this respect, that in the other classes individuals are found of all shades of political opinion, while in this class all, to a man, are servile, there must be some peculiar cause to account for the circumstance. Lawyers are indiscriminately Reformers and Tories ; but Parsons are to a man the enemies of civil and religious liberty. How is this ? Why are the men who unfortunately monopolize the education of the nobility and gentry of England, Whig as well as Tory, base and servile in their politics, and in all periods of difficulty ranged against the people ? In the excellent pamphlet to which we alluded some time ago, ascribed to the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the despotism of the Church of England is loudly com plained of. A practical exemplification of that despo tism, serving to show why it is that the clergy of the Church of England are almost of necessity servile, will, we suspect, be found in the following passage of the Rev. S. Smith's letter : " What is called taking care of the Church is taking care of the Bishops ; and all Bills for the management of the clergy are left to the concoction of men who very natu rally believe that they are improving the Church when they are increasing their own power. There are many Bishops too generous, too humane, and too Christian, to oppress a poor clergyman ; but I have seen (I am sorry to say) many grievous instances of partiality, rudeness, and oppression. I have seen clergymen treated by Bishops with a violence and contempt which the lowest servant in the Bishop's esta blishment would not have endured for a single moment ; and if there is a helpless, friendless, wretched being in the community, it is a poor clergyman in the country with a large family. If there is an object of compassion, he is one. If there is any occasion in life where a great man should lay aside his office, put on those kind looks and use those kind words which raise the humble from the dust, these are the occasions when those best parts of the Christian character ought to be displayed. I would instance the un limited power which a Bishop possesses over a curate as a very unfair degree of power for any man to possess. Take the following dialogue, which represents a real event : " • Bishop—Sir, I understand you frequent the meetings of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. " 6 Curate—Yes, my lord, I do. " Bishop—Sir, I tell you plainly, if you continue to do se, I shall silence you from preaching in my diocese. Curate—My lord, I am very sorry to incur your in dignation, but I frequent that Society upon principle, be cause I think it eminently serviceable to the cause of the gospel. Bishop—Sir, I do not enter into your reasons, but tell you plainly, if you continue to go there, you shall be " The young man did go, and was silenced ; and as Bishops have always a great deal of clever machinery at work of testimonials and benedieetes, and always a law yer at their elbow, under the name of a secretary, a curate excluded from one diocese is excluded from all. His re medy is an appeal to the Archbishop from the Bishop. His worldly roods, however, amount to ten pounds ; he never tv:ts in ' London ; he dreads such a tribunal as an Arehbishop ; he thinks perhaps in time the Bishop may be softened ; if he i 3 compelled to restore him the enmity will be immortal. it would be just as rational to give to a frog or a rabbit, upan which the physician is about to ex periment, an appeal to the Zoologhhil Society, as to give a country curate an appeal to the Archbishop against his pa ride oppressor." Now the Rev. Sydney Smith complains, and we think with justice, that the Whigs do not go the right way to work to cure the servility of the Church— " The clergy themselves," lie says, " in a state of the greatest ignorance as to what is passing in the world, find their chains heavier and heavier, without ',snowing -who or wh:it has produced the additional incumbrance. A good honest Whig Minister should have two or three stout hearted parish priests in his train to watch the Bishops' Bills, and to see that they are constructed on other prin ciples than that Bishops can do no wrong, and cannot have too .mach power. The ‘Vhigs do nothing of this, and yet they complain that they are hated by the clergy, and that in all elections the clergy are their bitterest enemies. Sup pose they were to try a little justice, a little notice, and a little protection. It would take more time than quizzing and contempt, but it might do some good." One of the first acts of Lord Brougham on his ob taining the seals had no doubt for its object to cast on the tails of the Bishops, but it failed to soften their obdurate hearts, while it threw away a powerful means of influencing the inferior clergy, who were thereby placed in more abject dependence on their spiritual superiors—we mean the relinquishing to the Bishops the patronage of all livings under 2001. per annum. The men to whom such livings would be acceptable _are precisely the men to rally round a liberal Administration—they are without family patron agepand, consequently, without the tie of family po litics. Both Irish and English papers furnish occa sionally instances of most cruel oppression of unfriended curates. One case where a Beresford was Bishop, and another Beresford an incubent, filled all feeling minds with indignation. Can we wonder that such depen dent wretches should be ready tools of temporal and spiritual despotism ? The Reverend Author deems the Bishop of London in possession at this moment of more spiritual power than Laud. He traces his finger in every part of the scheme— " By this scheme," he says, " every present incumbent of St. Paul's is instantly deprived of eight-fifteenths of his patronage ; while every other member of every other cathe dral (as far as patronage is concerned) remains precisely in the same state in which he was before. Why this blow is levelled against St. Paul's I cannot conceive ; still less can I imagine why the Bishop of London is not to wait, as all other Bishops are forced to wait, for the death of the pre sent patrons. There is a reason, indeed, for not waiting, by which (had I to do with a person of less elevated charac ter than the Bishop of London), I would endeavour to ex plain this precipitate seizure of patronage, and that is, that the livings assigned to him in this remarkable scheme arc all very valuable, and the incumbents all very old. But I shall pass over this scheme as a mere supposition, invented to bring the Commission into disrepute—a scheme to which it is utterly impossible the Commissioners should ever affix their names. " I should have thought, if the love of what is just had not excited the commissioner bishops, that the ridicule of men voting such comfortable things to themselves as the prebendal patronage would have alarmed them : but they want to sacrifice with other men's hecatombs, and to enjoy, at the same time, the character of great disinterestedness, and the, luxury of unjust spoliation. It was thought neces sary to make a fund ; and the prebends in the gift of the bishops were appropriated to that purpose. The bishops who consented to this have then made a great sacrifice ; true, but they have taken more out of our pockets than they have disbursed from their own ; where then is the sac rifice ? they must either give back the patronage or the martyrdom ; if they choose to be martyrs—which I hope they will do—let them give us back our patronage; if they prefer the patronage, they must not talk of being martyrs —they cannot combine the sweets of rapine with the odour of sanctity. " And who does not see the end and meaning of all this ? The lay commissioners, who are Members of the Government, cannot and will not attend—the Archbishops of York and Canterbury are quiet and amiable men, going fast down in the vale of life—some of the memb er s o the commission are expletives —soma must- be absent in their dioceses—the Bishop of London is passionately fond of la bour, has certainly no aversion to power, is of quick tem per, great ability, thoroughly versant in ecclesiastical law, and always in London. He will become the commission ; and when the Church of England is mentioned, it will only mean Charles James, of London, who will enjoy greater power than has ever been possessed by any Churchman since the days of Laud, and will become the Church of England here upon earth. As for the commission itself, there is scarcely any power which is not given to it." The reverend author does justice to the Whigs, and he approves of their measures in all but the pampering of the Bishops— " As for my friends the Whigs, I neither wish to offend them, nor any body else. I consider myself to be as good a Whig as any amongst them. I was a Whig before many of them were born—and while some of them were Tories and Waverers. I have always turned out to fight their battles, and when I saw no other clergyman turn out but myself—and this in times before liberality was well recom pensed, and therefore in fashion, and when the smallest appearance of it seemed to condemn a churchman to the grossest obloquy and the most hopeless poverty. It may suit the purpose of the Ministers to flatter the bench—it does not suit mine. I do not choose in my old age to be tossed as a prey to the bishops ; I have not deserved this of ny Whic , friends. I know very well there can be no jus tice for deans and chapters, and that the momentary Lords O f the earth will receive our statement with derision and persylage—the great principle which is now called in for the government of mankind. Nobody admires the general conduct of the Whig Administration more than I do. They have conferred, in their domestic policy, the most striking benefits on the country. To say that there is no risk in what they have done is mere nonsense—there is great risk, and all honest men must balance to counteract it—holding back as firmly down hill as they pulled vigorously up hill. Still, great as the risk is, it was worth while to incur it in the Poor-law Bill, in the Tithe Bill, in the Corpo ration Bill, and in the circumscription of the Irish Protestant Church. In all these matters the Whig Minis try, after the heat of party is over, and when Joseph Hume and Wilson Croker are powdered into the dust of the earth, will gain great and deserved fame."—Morning Chronicle. When Mr. Beaumont began his recent coquettings and correspondence with the Irish Agitator, who seems to have turned the poor gentleman's head, we con cluded, that being young in his political teens, and manifesting such an inability to write grammatically as betrayed a yet unfinished education, his sudden rush into print was a mere passing indiscretion, which his friendly advisers would probably prevent him from re peating. But it seems we are to be disappointed in this. Another of his precocious productions has just made its appearance ; and more, we regret to learn, are threatened from the same quarter. Nay, judging from certain symptoms and intimations, we should almost infer that the Hon. Gentleman's guardians are determined to bring him out as the prime debutant of the season. It is even hinted by himself, and not contradicted by the family, that he means to lead off by moving an amendment to the address. For these reasons, we think it a pity that Mr. Beaumont's friends should remain any longer unapprised of his real con dition, or that the feelintis of a large and respectable connection should be exposed to future mortification by what might be called on our part an inconsiderate and ungenerous silence. How it is possible that this eccen tric and unfortunate gentleman can possess the con• fidence of the numerous and respectable constituency of South Northumberland we make no pretensions to divine. His checkered and changeful career, however, will no doubt be painfully vivid in their recollection : nor is it likely that they will feel perfectly comfortable under the . humiliating conspicuousness which it seems to as sign them above all the electors of the empire. The first thing for which their Hon. Whig member distin guished himself was such a total neglect of his Parlia• mentary duties, as compelled him, in answer to their remonstrances, to write a humble acknowledgment of his fault, accompanied with a promise of amendment ; thereby showing, that his passion for letter-writing and amendments is not quite so new with him as we had inadvertently supposed. Scarcely was the duty affair satisfactorily adjusted, when there issued from the learned seclusion of this senatorial mute, as patriotic a protest against O'Connell's anti-peerage mission as his contempt for good English admitted of. Whe ther animal impulse had or had not any thing to do with that protest, is no business of ours ; it was at least creditable to the zeal of a constitutional English man ; and when he showed that " he could not find " words" to declare his abhorrence of the Popish Minis terial emissary, his later inability to express himself intelligibly proves that his declared incapacity was confessed by him with equal sincerity and truth. As great efforts are generally succeeded by langour, the Northumberland patriot next dropped into a dozing si lence for more than a year ; during which the cheering belief prevailed that he had betaken himself to a course of tempet ate and profitable study. But the fact is, the caprices of genius can never be perfectly relied on. In the space of the intervening twelve months the ardent defender of the Peers becomes a member of the Popish Association, instituted to destroy their order. The indignant remonstrant against O'Connell becomes both an epistolary and a pecuniary contributor to the accomplishment of his desi:ns. In a word, the steady and consistent gentleman ships himself on a tour to Ireland, suddenly seizes his pen again, breaks out into a fit of Anglophobia, asserts to-day what he contra diets to-morrow, kisses the face which lie presently spits at, and exhibits, on the whole, those conclusive claims to restraint which admit of no other doubt than whether the commission tie lunatico should be issued against his constituency or himself. To that constitu ency his last letter is addressed. It is, in many re spects, a curiosity in its way, and being somewhat of the sententious and didactic order, a commentary on our part will scarcely be deemed superfluous. In the first place, the South Northumberland electors must doubtless feel gratified by the very flattering esti mate which their Whig representative has formed of them. From their e:orchy Member's residence in Ire land he has discovered, with Inglis and other tourists, that the population there are sunk in ignorance, and that they are chiefly (Lstinguislied for rapine, abduc tion, murder, plunder, and fire-raising. But, accord ing to Mr. Beaumont, the South Northumbrians arc not a whit better. Speaking of the aggregate Irish community, he says to his constituency, " Their feel ings are as high, the aspirations of their mind are as noble, and their talents are as serviceable to social life, as those possessed by yourselves." Whether this coin parison between Northumberland and Tipperary be ,fully warranted or not, we do not feel ourselves called upon to say ; but, in consequence of the respectable quarter from whence it proceeds, the Newcastle Calen dar, especially as regards the indictment of electors, must henceforth be an object of suspicion and interest to a degree we had not heretofore dreamt of. Another dis covery of Mr. Beaumont's is, that " the Catholic Irishman is as loyal a subject as the Protestant. From this announcement, taken in connexion with that low opinion of his constituency which he has avowed by putting them on a level with Popish bogtrotters, we shrewdly suspect that the Hon. Member's Parliamen tary position at home is by no means in a safe or com fortable state. That he is manifestly on the outlook for an Irish borough, and that such is the interpreta tion w hich he himself expects to be put upon his con duct, is evident from the pains he takes to tell his con stituents that he " will not praise the Irish to their face, lest you might think I am courting their popu larity," in which sentence, by the way, seeing that the words " their popularity " (meaning the high repute they themselves hold in general estimation), are ignorantly used by him in place of the words " their favour," this aspiring com moner virtually identifies himself with that pecu liar style of literary accomplishment whereby the an cient popish Bishops were accustomed to grant licenses for indulgence, by adhibiting thereto their mark. But no matter : the well-appointed gentleman has set himself up as the instructor and adviser of the South North umbrians in all that concerns the character and claims of Irish Popery ; and in this capacity he so lemnly informs them that the millions of blind and bigotted Papists—of whom he knows about as much as he does of his native- language=have at length thrown aside all their notorious hatred of the civil ascendancy of Protestantism ; that they have be come passionately attached to an exclusively Pro testant succession on the throne of these realms ; and that to his Majesty, who is the temporal bead and sworn protector of the church of England and Ireland, their allegiance is as faithful and zealous as if he were a Popish King I If Mr. Beaumont mean any smaller absurdity than this, by saying that "the Catholic is as " loyal as the Protestant," he will proba bly be good enough to get some friend who can write English to point out what his meaning really is. Mean while, allowing his sagacious observation to pass down to South Northumberland with what credit it may, we cannot refrain from remarking, that the ingenious con elusion which-the worth)' Member draws from it evi dently betokens a desire on his part, not only to establish a new course of policy, but to usher in a new system of logic. Declaring that O'Connell " is right in his determination, and imploring him to adhere to it— that Ireland shall not be permitted to be tranquil until Catholics shall enjoy a perfect religious equality with Protestants"—this honourable metaphysician avows, nevertheless, that he is a decided enemy to the volun tary principle in religion, or, in other words, that lie is favourable to a State Church. This latter avowal he may think it very expedient to restrict exclusively to England ; but why the Dissenters of South North umberland should not push Mr. Beaumont to a direct and consistent application of his religious-equality system on this as well as on the other side of the Channel, there may be some difficulty in perceiving. , Unless he maintain that the English Dissenters are an ; inferior race to the Irish Papists, or that religion is less a point of honour with them than with the Catholics, the Hon. Gentleman has either bound himself to the vo luntary faction out and out, or he has plunged himself into a slough of inconsistency, from which if he suc ceed in extricating himself, his new logic will to a cer tainty become exceedingly popular. But the chief thing that frightens Mr. Beaumont out of his wits is the possibility that Ireland may actually be tranquil lized by the 'Tories ! Yes, truly ; the prospect of that great object being achieved (a very remote one on Mr. Beaumont's terms) is no pleasure to him at all. What he is distressed about above all things is, that the Con servatives may probably take it into their heads to re volutionize and ruin the country. If the Conservatives," he says, " were to get into of fice, self-interest might open their eyes to the necessity of pacifying Ireland in the only way in which it is possible to tranquillize her. Stand in the way of their profiting by a mistake of the Whigs." Poor Mr. Beaumont may sleep very soundly on this head. The Conservatives, we can assure him, will govern Ireland with wisdom and moderation ; and, what is more, they will actually attempt this without his ad vice or assistance. To conclude. Till we read these epistles of the future ex-Member for Northumberland, we were disposed to believe that Sir William Moles worth was the weakest person out of his teens in Great Britain ; but now we are compelled to admit that the North-East can show quite as simple an Ar cadian as the South-West : Et vitulii to clignus, et hie.--Times. Birmingham, with its forty-six simultaneous meet ings, affords an admirable evidence of its own perfect organization, and to all true Reformers a spirit stirring example of union and the effect to be produced by the " pull altogether." Let those who would divide the Liberal forces, and advise them to act in detached par ties, take a lesson from this cheering and convincing illustration of the good to be effected by a combination of action and unity of purpose. These are not times for Reformers to quarrel amongst themselves about minor questions, when measures affecting the first and most vital interests of the State are in jeopardy. Let the common enemy who is now vaunting in the field, and exulting in the threatened disunion of the friends of the people, first be overcome, and then the differ ences amongst Reformers may be far more easily and safely adjusted. The measures proposed by Minis ters in the last Session were rejected, nay, spurned from the Lords, as being too liberal. By some of these measures Ministers pledged themselves to stand or fall. When unable to carry them through the Hereditary Chamber, legislation stood still— Parliament was prorogued—and an opportunity was afforded to the people of pronouncing a calm and deliberate opinion between the Ministry and its opponents. The Tories, wisely appreciating their own interests, and the importance of the occasion, im mediately commenced an organized system of anti- Ministerial agitation, and scarcely anything was to be heard of through the country but " most eloquent Conservative speeches," and " grand Conservative meetings." How did the Reformers act ? They scarcely moved. For this we do not blame them, be cause the demonstrations they arc now making i n every part of the united kingdom prove that they have reserved their exertion for the most favourable time, and that their forbearance did' not proceed from apathy. But what justification can those offer for their conduct who, instead of directing their energies against the main obstacle to a redress of grievances, turn upon their friends, whom, in the emergency, they deserted, and direct their puny efforts against Ministers, who failed in their measures, merely because these measures were too liberal for the digestion of the birthright senators ? The Reformers of Leeds have announced their inten tion of assembling at a political convivial meeting to be held yesterday, of which we expect to lay a full report before our readers to-marrow, when we have no doubt. the sentiments generally expressed at all the Reform meetings will be reiterated, and that a further testimony will be added to those already given, that all that is wanting to secure the progress of Reform and the stability of the Ministry, is a fixed principle of action on the part of the people, and a hearty ac quiescence in their just demands on the part of the Ministry. This alone can secure the speedy triumph of Reform, and the safety of a Ministry called into office by public opinion, in defiance of the intrigues of faction, and the prejudices of the Court. We have heard that his Majesty has lately stated his conviction of the necessity of yielding to the wishes of the people, and his willingness to assent to every measure intended to pi omote their happiness and welfare. This is no more than we expected from the unbiassed im pulses of his own generous sentiments ; and while ac tuated by such influence, in the bosom of his people he will ever find an impregnable bulwark against the phantom dangers with which faction would threaten his throne—a throne which he inherits from a people's choice, and which, with a people's support, will ride triumphant through the wrecks of the oligarchic in stitutions, whose members, in affecting to maintain it, would endeavour to grace their own destruction with its downfall.—Morning Advertiser. Another part of our paper contains a report of the Conservative Dinner which took place yesterday at Maidstone. If we were to believe what the Radicals and Destructives tell us concerning the exploits to be performed in the approaching Parliamentary campaign, the Conservatives and Constitutionalists must be the rashest people in the world to think of enjoying them selves at all, much more of celebrating the very cause which is just on the eve of extinction. This would be the inference if we could rely upon what some of the Journals and more of the orators in the Radical in terest have been telling us for the last six months. But there seems to be a pretty general impression that the want of a small in g redient called truth interferes most essentially with the authority of their vapouring manifestos. Neith the Church nor the House of Lords are yet on their last legs, nor has the patronage of Mr. O'Connell rendered the. Melbourne Administration invulnerable to the shock of public opinion. We therefore hail it as a good symptom in the aspect of affairs, that the Conservatives have met, and continue to meet, in all parts of the country, not only in great numbers, but in high spirits, and with every indi cation that portends a successful struggle with their adversaries. We do not like to attach too much im portance to eating and drinking, for fear of offending the Court of Aldermen, but still we cannot help think ing that there is something ominous in the late ab stinence of the Whig-Radicals. Certain it is that for some reason or other they have passed but a dull Christmas of it, and we cannot discharge our minds of the belief, that this very approaching meeting of Parliament, towards which they pretend to look forward with so much hope, has interfered not a little with the state of their stomachs and the condi tion of their digestive organs. Be this as it may, the two parties exhibit a very different spirit all over the country at the present moment ; and the tone of the Maidstone meeting may be taken as a sample of the zeal, the courage, and the perseverance with which the friends of the Constitution are prepared to take the field. If public opinion is to be sought for in public assemblies, surely we have some ground for inferring that it is favourable to our existing institutions, when we point to the number and character of the meetings that have recently taken place. Really, if the Whig- Radicals persist much longer in their antipathy to eat ing and drinking, we shall begin to suspect that they arc getting into a decline.—Morning Herald. Our readers will do us the justice to acknowledge that we are not prone to censure the conduct of the police magistrates of the metropolis upon light or fri volous grounds, or to animadvert with any excess of severity upon the errors, however manifest, into which, in the discharge of duties always arduous, and often painful, they may occasionally be betrayed. Nor, called upon as we are, by a sense of duty, to direct public attention to a recent decision of the chief ad ministrator of municipal justice in the western part of the metropolis, do we intend in this instance to deviate from our ordinary habit of caution and re serve. It is possible that we may not yet be iii possession of the whole facts of the case which yes terday led Sir F. Roe to what certainly appears to us to be a most extraordinary and a most dangerous conclusion ; and that the decision of this worthy Magistrate only requires some explanation which we have not yet received to show that it is quite con sistent with justice, good sense, and the public safety. On Monday a person of the name of Inners was charged at Bow-street (according to the police re port furnished to the morning papers of Tuesday, and not since impeached) with the offence of firing a loaded pistol at a Mr. Crisp, an unoffending pas senger, in the Strand. This assault took place at mid night on Sunday, and after no other warning to its ob ject than the word " cut" twice repeated, and accom- ' panied on its last repetition by the threat " or I'll fire at you." Inners fired, missed, and was taken into cus tody. On being searched, another loaded pistol and l i some Bank-notes were found in his possession. He pleaded intoxication, and was remanded until yester day, when he was brought before Sir Frederick Roe, who is reported to have said that as there was no proof of malice against the person fired at he should only fine the prisoner 5/. ; one half of which sum was understood, the repot ter proceeds to say, to have been given to the prosecutor. Now as there are galleries in the Strand, at which young men may practise pistol shooting without danger or annoyance to anybody, it does, we own, appear to us to be scarcely right, if it were only with a view to the fair claims of those meri torious establishments, that no severer punishment than a fine of 5/. should be inflicted upon an individual who has thought fit to indulge a capricious pre ference of the open street for his practice gallery, and the person of one of the King's lieges for his target. We wish to know in what position the inhabitants of the Strand are to consider themselves placed by this decision of Sir F. Roe. Is it to be understood as settled law at Bow-street, that any passenger in the street is henceforth to be subject to the agreeable salu tation " Cut, cut, or I'll fire at you," and that after a pistol-ball has been sent whizzing close to his ear, he is to be satisfied by the pleasure of looking in the next morning upon Sir F. Roe at Bow-street, to touch 50s. We do not deny, by any means, that, as times go, 50s. is a very considerable object to most men ; but yet we think it is rather of the cheapest for standing a pistol-shot across the gutter.—!tl'orning Post. CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL ExpERIENcE.—No experience is so fertile in themes which powerfully arrest the curiosity of man as that which is consequent on the practice of a physician. Human nature abounds in pheno mena ; almost every individual is, either morally or physi cally, a riddle to himself, and the medical man is a kind of father-confessor to all. What strange things, what pro found mysteries must, therefore, constantly be presented to his observation ! The author of the present volumes is Dr. Millingen, a gentleman whose professional experience has been considerable, both here and on the Continent. Among the subjects of which he treats the following are exceedingly curious :—Unlawful Cures, Ecstatic Exaltation, Inhumation of Dead in Cities, Lunar Influence, Medical Powers of Music, Love Philters, Ventriloquism, Dmmono mania, Causes of Insanity, the Night-mare, Incubation of Diseases, Dreams, the Homoeopathic Doctrines, Animal Magnetism, Affections of the Sight, &c. HORRIBLE DEATH BY HYDROPHOBIA.--We can conceive nothing more dreadful than the state of sus pense a man must be in who is hourly apprehensive of an attack of hydrophobia, and whose suffering is prolonged for months, and finally ends in a most horrible death. An eye witness gives in the Morristown New derseynran the fol lowing account of such a case :—" Nathan Smith, a resi dent of Stanhope, Sussex County, New Jersey, was in a store in that town in June last, when a mad dog ran in and bit him on the back of one of his hands. The wounded part was soon after cut out - and cauterized. From that time until the 21st of November last nothing occurred to relieve or increase his apprehensions respecting the issue. During this interval he partook of skull-cap tea. The wound healed, but was at times sensitive, and occasional exercise or passion would cause it to ,break out afresh. The first symptoms of malady appeared on the above day, when ha complained of a pain in the head and in the wounded part. The following day, restlessness, fever, and increased pain came on. Toward midnight appeared alarming spasmodic affections in the throat, and a feeling of suffocation, at tended with a general agitation of the system. These oc curred at intervals, and increased till Thursday evening, when an abundant flow of saliva began, and the spasms in creased in violence. During the intervals, he begged his attendants to hold him more firmly, as he should probably run raving mad, and he did not wish to injure any one, which lie might do if not prevented. The last spasm oc curred on Thursday evening about 9 o'clock, and termi nated his existence. He lived but two days after the first attack, and all that time presented a spectacle of horror be yond description. His countenance was vacant and un earthly, and his sufferings extreme. He begged in the most imploring manner for some one to put an end to him, and rid him of the misery of being choked to death, such was the extent of his sufferings. His thirst was extreme, and when drink was presented to him he was seized with inde scribable horror, and ordered it away. If he did attempt to drink, violent spasms ensued. He left a wife and two children, and was 25 years of age." The Dublin Evening Post says that the heads of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland will most energe tically oppose any arrangement for a State provision fo their clergy. THE Two DELAMOTTES.—A singular case was heard one day last week, in Paris, before the justice of peace of the second arrondissement. It appeared that on New Year's Day a Madame Delamotte expected a small party of relatives and friends to a family feast. The cover was layed, when a ring was heard at the bell. It was the porter of the diligence, who brought a hamper from Amiens, con taining a huge pie, three young partridges, and a fat duck. Such a present could not have arrived more apropos, and Madame Delamotte hastened to pay the carriage, and to serve up for her company the game so opportunely brought. Everything was consumed, and pronounced to be delicious save the duck, which it was suggested might have been a grandmother. Two days after the porter of the diligence reappeared, but, instead of bringing another hamper, claimed that which had been left before at Madame Dela motte's, of No. 13, instead of Monsieur Delamotte's, of No, 23. "It is all swallowed up," chuckled Madame, " and I have nothing to restore. If you left the good cheer by mistake so much the worse for yourself." This reply not being satisfactory, Madame Delamotte was sum moned before the Tribunal, to pay the sum of thirty francs, the value of the hamper. The Counsel for Madame ar gued that she was fairly justified in consuming the 'huge pie, three young partridges, and the venerable duck ; whilst the opposing advocate contended that, according' to article 1,376, whoever received, by mistake or knowingly, anything which did not belong to him, was obliged to make restitution. The Judge acting upon the point of law, condemned Madame Delamotte to pay to the diligence proprietor the sum of 18 francs, at which lie (the Judge) valued the huge pie, three juvenile partridges, and the an tique duck. This decision gave satisfaction to all concerned. GRESHAM LECTUREL.—Tuesday the Rev. Mr. Pullen, the Professor of Astronomy to this endowment, concluded his course of three lectures on this sublime and interesting science, on which, as well as the two previous days, his audience were numerous, consisting altogether of nearly 200 persons. From the limited period allotted to him, the lecturer very judiciously chose for his subject the history of the science ; glancing at the probable degree of knowledge possessed by the ancient inhabitants of the world ; tracing every successive early and modern develop ment which have added to our fund of scientific information down to the present moment, and reconciling the apparently opposed systems and epochs adopted in former periods of time with that which is in use by ourselves. The lecturer was greatly applauded at the termination ; and a gentleman present proposed the thanks of the audience to him for the liberal manner in which he alone amongst the professors had advocated the removal of these lectures to a more convenient and available situation. The motion having been seconded, was ultimately withdrawn, at the request of Mr. Pullen, who remarked that such a course would be in vidious, his colleagues by their exertions being equally well entitled to their approbation. SIR HANS SLOANE.--The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, though he expended prodigious sums in making a collection of curiosities, was of a most penurious disposition. At the age of 90 he complained bitterly to Dr. Mortimer then secretary to the Royal Society, that all his friends had deserted him ; upon which the doctor observed, that Chel sea was at a considerable distance from the residence of most of them in London, and therefore they might probably meet with much disappointment on finding that he kept no table, but usually dined on a boiled egg, to which, indeed, a half-starved fowl was added, when Dr. Mortimer was de tained several hours in showing Sir Hans's famous collec tion to distinguished foreigners. This gentle remonstrance put the old Baronet quite out of humour, and he exclaimed, " Keep•a table ! Invite people to dinner ! What, would you have me ruin myself ? Public credit totters already, and, if there should be a national bankruptcy, or a sponge to wipe out the national debt, you may yet see me in a work house.!" His landed estates at this time were considerable, and his collection was estimated at many thousands beyond the price given for it by Parliament, to incorporate it with the British Museum, which, however, was 20,0001.—Pin flock's Guide to Knowledge. Considerable excitement was occasioned in the village of Abridge on Wednesday last, in consequence of the dis covery of the head of a child upon some green sward, near the 15th milestone upon the high road in that parish. A shoemaker, named John Hyde, who was on his way from Navestock to Latnbourne, was 'horror-struck on perceiving the trunkless remains, which appeared to have been recently severed from the body with a sharp instrument, in rather a skilful manner ; he carried it to the White Hart Inn, where an inquest was held on Friday last, but there being no evi dence beyond the discovery above mentioned, the inquiry teas adjourned. The head has a large quantity of hair upon it, and is supposed to be that of a full-grown child, which, it is the opinion of a neighbouring surgeon, bad been born alive.—Essex Paper. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 18. The Isabel, Chesser, from St. Michael's. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. The Westbrook, Freeman, for Jamaica; Hero, Allen, Val paraiso; Union, De Jonge, Ostend; Fox, Fox, jun., Ter ceira. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Iberia, Middleton, for Lisbon; Effort, Bruen, Trini dad; Giraffe, Burn, Sydney. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Jane, Davie, for Oporto; British Tar, Addison, Sierra Leone. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17. The Caledonia, Coffin, from New Orleans; Gertrude, Si cily; Vandalia, Sprayne, Charleston; Cintra, O'Brien, Alicant. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Henry, for Guernsey ; Hebe, Field, Monte Video ; Westchester, Perris, New York ; Konahasseto, Davis, Charles. ton ; Charlotte, Fisher, Savannah ; Laurel, Trinidad Dili gent, Hartson, Trinidad ; Bee, Cornish, Valparaiso. CLEARED OUTWARDS. The Orpheus, Bursley, for New York; Strathmore, Hew son, Africa; Prince Regent, Burt, Mobile; Montreal, Tel bury, New Orleans ; Mary, Walker, Malta ; Bruxelles, Dall ries, Antwerp ; Killermont, Smith, Africa ; Experiment, Drinkwater, Nassau, N. P. ; Chester, Lawson, Savannah ; Tennessee, Maluson, New York ; Charlotte, White, Jamaica. SAILED. The Shakspeare, Collins, for New York ; Orpheus, Burs ley, New York ; John Scott, Reny, Tortola ; \Vaterwitch, Butcher, Naples; Luna, Breeding, Odessa ; John Walker, Black, Mobile; Heyworth, Grant, Africa ; Pearl, Stevens, Tampico. TELEGRAPHED. Off Holyeead, inward-bound, the Mary, from Jamaica ; Star, New Orleans. Off Holyhead, outward-bound, the Henry Hoyle, Oporto ; Winscales, Demerara. Wind at Holyhead —N. N. W. THE DUCHESS OF LA VALLIERE AND MA DAME DE MAINTENON.—These are two noble historical tales of misfortune and splendour, with so much only of the tincture of romance as renders them more agreeable and touching, and they appear to us to be the best which have proceeded from the pen of the distinguished authoress. The entire history of Madame De La Valliere, the celebrated and enchanting mistress of Louis XIV., is here given in the detail which so justly belongs to it. The history of this unhappy favourite is here related with pe&et accuracy ; some appendant circumstances are rather filled up than invonted or imagined ; but nothing is omitted, and all the facts are drawn from authentic documents. CA RNA RVON.--It is now ascertained beyond doubt that Mr. Assheton Smith retires from the representation of Carnarvonshire ; and we understand an under canvass is going on for a Tory candidate either in the person of Mr.' Ormsby Gore's son, just come of age, or the son of Mr. Wynne, of Voelas. We never expected from Mr. Smith on his retirement, the same open candour as Sir R. Bulkeley evinced towards the constituency of Anglesey. It is in perfect keeping with his sense of propriety that he should attempt to nominate his successor. But we can tell him that Carnarvonshire is no more Tory than Anglesey. The next election will prove that the freeholders are determined to be represented, which will only be the case by a thorough - going Reformer being elected. We warn the freeholders to reserve their votes, and not to be cajoled into pledges, nor even into neutrality. Their suffrages will be solicited as early as is necessary, on behalf of a respected resident landed proprietor, of liberal politics, an ardent Reformer, of high personal character, and second to none in respectabi lity, ability, energy, and devotedness to the cause of rational Reform, and civil and religious liberty. We make this an nouncement advisedly and on authority.—Carnarven Herald. PARRoTs.—They could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the Ohio as the great Kenaway, the Scioto, the heads of the Miami, the mouth of the Mani mec at its junction with Lake Erie, on the Illinois river, and sometimes as far north-east as Lake Ontario, 'and along the eastern districts as far as the boundary line be tween Virginia and Maryland. At the present day few are to be found higher than Cincinnati, nor is it until you reach the mouth of the Ohio that paroquets arc met with in considerable numbers. I should think that along the Mississippi there is not now half the number that existed fifteen years ago.—Audubon. Miss E. TREE'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN AME racA.—A New York Paper, speaking of the debut of our favourite actress, Miss Ellen Tree, at the Park Theatre, on the 12th ult., says :—" The appearance of Miss Ellen Tree at the Park Theatre, on the 12th ult., drew to gether one of the most brilliant audiences ever witnessed there. For several days previously every available box place had been secured. Her reception was most flat tering. She opened in Rosalind, and on the following night she played Lady Townley, in the Provoked Husband." The New York critics speak highly of Miss Tree's ap pearance and fascinating manners. They pronounce her a finished and engaging actress, but declare that she wants power and energy. Mrs. Hamblin, the daughter of the late Mr. Blanchard, of Covent-garden, and the wife of the proprietor of the late Bowery Theatre at New York, had taken a benefit at the National Theatre there, for the avowed purpose of enabling her to proceed to England, to institute legal steps against Mr. Wood, the singer, for having, during his recent visit to America, defamed her character. On Tuesday night the engine-house belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Saye and Sele, at Erith, Kent, was broken into, and a large quantity of leaden pipe and other articles stolen therefrom. A reward of 101. is offered for the apprehension of the offenders. Between six and seven o'cicck on Monday evening the neighbourhood of Munster -street, Regent's Park, was thrown into a state of strong excitement by the discovery being made that a married lady, named Savage, who was living in a style of great respectability, and had for the last twelve month resided at No. 48, in Munster-street, had committed suicide, by nearly severing her head from her body. It appears that a female servant was proceeding to the upper part of the house, when, in passing the door of the deceased's bed-room, she heard a noise like the sound orwater dripping on the floor, and, on entering the apart aunt to ascertain the cause, she observed a dark-coloured str !am on the carpet, and, approaching the bed, was horror struck at discovering her mistress, with her clothes saturated with blood, lying extended across the foot, and having a frightful wound in the throat, reaching nearly from ear to ear. Surgical aid was procured as promptly as possible, but in the lapse of a very short time the deceased had ceased to exist. The wound, which has completely divided the neck to the bone, must have been made with uncommon determi nation, and was, it appears, inflicted with two common table knives, which, with a steel, evidently used to sharpen them, were found on the bed, covered with blood. No cause can be assigned for the dreadful act. The deceased was living separate from her husband, but possessed an independency of her own. She had complained of feeling slightly indisposed two or three days ago, but on Monday nothing remarkable was observed in her manners or appearance. A Coroner's inquest will be held on the body. Letters from Hamburgh to the 11th inst. state that the complaint called the grippe was very prevalent there, upwards of 50,000 persons having been attacked. It is not, however, represented as fatal. INDIGO SALE.—The quarterly sale of Indigo, con sisting of 5,070 chests, co mmence d on T ues d ay . Of th e 722 cests which passed, 360 chests, at the beginning, were bought in at prices generally above the October sale ; those, however, which were sold, brought par to 3d. advance for good and fine sorts, about par for middling, and 3d. discount for ordinary and undecided qualites. Two men, named Daniel Pope and David Parkins, were committed for trial at the Watford Petty Sessions for poaching on the estate of Sir John Vaughan, th e L ea rned Baron of the Exchequer. Tuesday se'nnight an inquest was held in Sampford Arundell, on the Rev. Edward Houlditch, who destroyed himself. He had for a long time been subject to aberrra tions of intellect, accompanied by extreme depression of spirits. During the last three weeks this g reatly increased, and terminated fatally on the mornin g of the 27th ult., when he cut his throat with his razor while shaving. The jury returned a verdict of " Insanity." Deceased was in his 73d year, was of high religious principles, and superior mental endowments, and respected by all who knew him.— Plymouth Chronicle. THE POTTERIES.—Hiring has, we understand, been progressing on the manufacturers' terms at Tunstall, Hanley, and Stoke, so rapidly that several of the manufac turers have engaged their full compliment of hands, or at least what they at present intend to hire. It is said that, should the hiring continue as it has been going on this week, the manufacturers will be able, very shortly, to re commence business, which they intend to do as soon as they have a sufficient number of hands to carry on their manufactures, oven on a very small scale.—Stajbrdshire Advertiser. SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.--OR several even ings previous to the late severe snow storm, Mr. J. Clark, of the 'Plume of Feathers Inn, Nettleton, Wiltshire, and keeper upon the manor of A. Carrick, Esq., observed a most extraordinary number of starlings alight on the branches of a small plantation belonging to the above named gentleman. On one of the evenings, having got some men and boys to accompany him, bearing lanterns and a sack, he repaired to a spot favourable to his purpose, and fired 26 times at random among the branches, and brought down not less than 802 birds. In addition to the above, there were found the next morning upwards of 100 more wounded. So that, at a rough estimation, there could not he many short of 1,000 birds killed at the 26 shots l—lfestern Lu minary. qORONERS' INQUESTS. MELANCHOLY INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATIL-.---YOS.• terday an inquest was held at the White Hart Tavern, King's road, Chelsea, before Mr. STIRLING and a respect able Jury, on view of the body of Mrs. Mary Brooke, aged 36, the wife of Mr. Wm. Brooke, the extensive hardware man of Tothill-street, Westminster, and Kingsland-road, Chelsea, whose death occurred under the following very af flicting circumstances : Rebecca Thorpe, nursery-maid in the family, deposed that on Saturday morning the deceased rose in her usual health. About noon, witness passed her mistress on the stairs, coming down to the kitchen. On her return to the drawing-room, witness heard her mistress fall on the first floor stairs. She (witness) was shocked atdiscovering that she was apparently lifeless, and with the help of the other domestics removed her to a couch. Mr. Barnes, a medical man, was instantly sent for, and pronounced her quite dead. lie considered the rupture of a vessel near the heart the cause of death. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." The deceased has left a family to deplore her loss. SUDDEN DEATH OF A PRISONER AT QUEEN-SQUARE POLICE -OFFlCE.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Hoop and Grapes, Queen-square, Westminster, before Mr. HIGGS and a respectable Jury, on view of the body of Ro bert Barnes, aged 48, who died suddenly on Tuesday morn ing, while waiting for a re-examination at Queen-square Police-office, on a charge of felony. The deceased was seized with a violent palpitation of the heart on his way from Horsemonger-lane Gaol, whither he had been, a few days ago, remanded. Shortly after he reached the office, he seemed to be better, and he was placed by the fire. Some brandy and water was offered to him, but he was unable to take it. A surgeon was sent for, who tried to bleed him, but only a few drops of blood could be obtained, and lie died in a few minutes. Verdict " Died from natural causes." EM B EZZLEM EN T.-A clerk in the Argus Insurance Office has been within the last few days, apprehended upon suspicion of having embezzled property to the amount of 1,000/., belonging to the Company. The accused was in the employment of the Company as an accountant and book keeper, and great confidence was reposed in him. Mon day, the 12th of December, was the last day he was seen at the dice, and the next day had been appointed for auditing the accounts, which it was his duty to prepare for the audi tors. On Tuesday morning, however, he never made his appearance, and what excited a good deal of surprise was the cash-book was not to he found, although the most dili gent search was made for it. When the accused went away on the preceding day he did not appear to have any book in his possession ; but he might for what those in the office knew have had the book in question under his cloak. His mother and brother had been at the office in the course of the Mon day, and had a box or bundle with them, and departed in a coach, after having been up stairs in the apartment which the accused occupied. It is stated that on the Sun day night previous to the last day's visit of the accused to the office he had been there, and that he had all the books and papers strewed about the place. It was soon ascer tained, after be had decamped, that there were deficiencies ; but the disappearance of the cash-book has occasioned some embarrassment amongst the Directors, the accused having evidently disposed of it, in order that if any mischance ' should happen to him that sort of evidence might not be producible against him. It is, however, notwithstanding this trial of skill upon the part of the accused, believed that a strong case will be made out against him. The accused was two days ago privately brought before two Magistrates, but it oddly enough turned out that they were both Direc tors of the Company. The most active measures have been adopted by the prosecutors for the purpose of bring ing the delinquent to justice. On Friday a man named Scott, about 70 years of age, was found dead in a ditch in a garden at Warley. He had left his house in the night, which was near a quarter of a mile from the place where he was found—it is sup posed to procure a light at a cottage he was in the habit of going to, and from the inclemency of the weather, and not having all his clothes on at the time, fell down and pe rished. He was an extremely parsimonious man, and de nied himself the common necessaries of life, although he bad at his death, and has had for some years past, 6001. or 7001. in the funds. He was in person loathsome, and was in , the habit of picking up pieces of bones, sticks, &c., and filth, to save firing : the loss of an egg or two was terrible to him. Some time since he lost eleven sovereigns out of his pocket ; a neighbour found them and took them to him in the night, and with the utmost difficulty he screwed a trifle out of him to drink. The same party took him to London to receive his dividend at the Bank, and he could hardly be got away from the cashier, as he hoped he would give lien a little more interest, as he was such " a very poor man." No inducement could tempt him to part with his money to purchase any new clothes. He vas in every thing a second Elwes, and was the butt of the boys when- • ever he visited Brentwood.—Chelmsford Chronicle. TH E DRAMA AT PA RIS.—A considerable in- 4 crease took place last year in the number of new pieces and authors. In 1834 there were 148 authors, and 188 new pieces, 127 of which were vaudevilles. In 1835, 183 authors, 221 new pieces, 159 of them vaudevilles, being an increase of 43 pieces and 35 authors. At the Grand Opera there were 4 novelties (2 operas and 2 ballets) ; at the Francais 7, (2 tragedies and 5 comedies, besides 25 revivals) ; Opera Comique 12, besides 12 revivals ; Italian Opera, 1 ; Odeon, 3 ; Gymnase, 17 ; Vaudeville 22 ; Va rietes, 25 ; Palais Royal 28 ; Gaite, 32 ; Ambigu-Comique, 27 ; Porte St. Martin, 12 ; Cirque Olimpique, 4 ; Theatre Choiseul, 14 ; Folios Dramatiques, 14 ; Pantheon, 40 ; St. Antoine, 34 ; making altogether 296, of which 218 are vau devilles. SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICES.L T. COX SAVORY, 47, Cornhill, London, offers for selection ani elegant and most extensive assortment of Silver Tea Services, vary— ing in price from 151. to 301., the service of Teapot, Sugar Basin, and Milk Ewer. The ground-floor, and first, second, and third floors, are fitted up expressly for the display of Plate and Plated Goods an rr. d C a O P x. a. m s p h A I e v t ( is )R given G gr o a d t s is m t w h t h D wat r e a h w m i n ai g s e , r n a d nd a I s i s i t l v o e f r p s n r t e h s P : 47, Cornhill, London. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., in Brunswick-square, the lady of J. Cortazzi, Esq., of a (laughter. On the 15th inst. Mrs. James Ormerod, of Halliwell Lodge, near Bolton, Lancashire, of a son. On the 17th inst., in Upper Norton-street, Portland-place, the lady of W. A. Greatorex, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst., in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, the lady of R. Plimpton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Hastings, the wife of J. G. Shorter, Esq., of a son. On the 15th inst., in Huntley-street, the lady of F. J. Prescott, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst., at Hatfield, the wife of the Rev. B. Peile, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., at Morton Kirby, Kent, Josiah Rolls, Esq., Old Kent-road, to Helen, only daughter of the late W. Ray, Esq., of Farningham, Kent. On the 17th inst., at St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Thomas Bless Pugh, Esq., of New Dorset-place, Clapham-road, to Eliza, second daughter of the late T. Allpress, Esq., of Kensington. On the 17th inst., at Limehouse Church, Henry St. John Joy ner, Esq., of Avely Hall, Essex, to Frances, eldest daughter of A. Batson, Esq., of Limehouse. On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Maryielone, Major Mair, 99th Regiment, to Miss Margaret Grace Palmer, of Upper Seymour -street. DIED. On the 11th inst., at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at Fingask Castle, Sir Patrick Murray Thriepland, of Fingask, Bart. On the 16th inst., at Shanks House, Dorset, the Right Hon. Viscount Weymouth. On the 10th inst., at Thornham, Suffoll., aged 61, the Right Hon. Mary Dowager Lady Henniker, relie,t of John Alinet Lord Henniker. On the 16th inst., at Worthing, Mr. Eflmunds, aged 65. On the 13th inst., Evan Pugh, Esq., abed 86, father of the Skin ner's Company. On the 16th inst., at New House, Watford, Peter Clutterbuck s Esq., aged 55. On the 3d inst., at Dresden, aged 20, Geerge Cooper, youngest son of J. Baines, Esq., of Shooter's-hill. On the 13th inst., Susannah Snell, wife of Mr. H. Woods, of Bayham-terrace, Camden-town. On the 15th inst., at the Forth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mrs. Hodg son, widow of the late John Hodgson, Esq., of Buckden, Hunting donshire. On the 24th ult., at St. Petersburgh, Sophia, wife of John 'Wil son, Esq., merchant, of that city. On the IGth inst., in Soho-square, John Green, Esq., late of Preston, Lancashire, aged 78. On the 14th inst., Mr. Thos. Mansell, of Castle-street, Blooms bury, aged 80. On the 16th inst., in Guildford -street, Miss Heylyn, aged 73, daughter of the late E. Heylyn, Esq., many years an inhabitant of Islington. On the 16th inst., Francis Charles, third son of the late Alex. Gibb, Esq., of Russia-row, aged 14. On the 16th inst., at Rochester, Mrs. Calder, wife of Mr. Geo. Calder, of the Crown Inn.. On the 14th inst., at Hintleshone Hall, Suffolk, Miss Lloyd, in her 77th year. On the 15th inst., in Charles -street, Grosvenor-square, Frank Upton, Captain, R.N., and a Commissioner of his Majesty's Dock yard, at Trincomalee, Ceylon. On the 16th inst., aged 83, Catherine, wife of John Eckersall, Esq., of Portland-place, Bath. On the 16th inst., at Notting-hill, aged 30, Clara, wife of Wm. J. Keene, Esq. On the 15th inst., aged 44,, Anne, wife of Mr. G. Creed, or Great Russell-street, Covent-garden. On the 13th inst., aged 44, Charles Ely, Esq., of Nottingham place, Marylehone. On the 13th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Lieutenant John Reade, of Bridge road, Lambeth. On the 13th inst., Elvira, wife of Mr. Thomas Dodsworth, of' the Colonial Office. On the 14th inst., Mr. Thomas Wizen, of Hampton, Middlesex, aged 87. London : Printed and Published by AI U RICO YOUNG, of o 112, Strand, at The Sun 011 ice, No. 112, Strand, in the unuotyr of Aliddlesex..Thursday, January 19, 1t337. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, tsn.