The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-10 00:00:00

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Ls 55 ow pr 6d; deoc-- • 0 1 ,0 id I 'o 9d ; is sd; Vol dem pnd Cod ,00 n ; d Wbiti 5 8d; Arell' lie A l :. 8 3 loa f 6411 r t• did solb t ° ) 104 11) .hia0 10111 1-4(1; Ld to 46 Gil 4 ° O l 8s ; 10s; t to oug lo CP e o [Os; orb 118; 60 01 .ratell Ss; Os ; rage ~Y~~~ ~0~ &.)R / nth P ° 0 11 (° n 03- iAy'at 0 13- A lt I A ,ged ot o e 11°13'1 P n i t i t fore l; r i ,ei ) ntll ter' 4 l3° 3 WD i v elj OlJ At ° ,9 le ,ilt rain C 11 1) 10 tetiaV it ? ,b0tis{10 13 11; e let oR ' sv itoe 0 0, 0 ; id 13 0 e tilrtd ler - it ell7 ll/ top,' P i jo b s' l 9 N or iersonered hinielf, he called for hel and his son and another kls o c ame to hi s assistance and liberated him. The 1 Guard n'r was then g i ven i n charge to the sergeant o f t h e i Th e with - IRAN being cross-examined by Mr. Lewis, who ap - ' nom for the prisoner, stated that the latter had a p . rivate t, th , s t the p a'lce, and that h e a tt em pt e d to force his way Itikt ed ° °M. He had no right there, however, being sus dam Trding, the King of Hanover's librarian at St. Il e r :Valace, partly corroborated the above statemnt, Pa tike T m gleton, the steward at the King of Hanover's kthe,,,,eo.ndon, said that the prisoner was suspen e y aan, u , sire of the Comptroller of the Household, but that it tiot f u r ilor a month, but for an indefinite period. He had thatila'oulden him to come to the Palace, but had requested Prim,: would riot. On cross-examination he said that the lif ti r h ad been discharged with a month's notice. % e rns, in defence, said that the prisoner being a servant to i ' l to gt t t li; r ia o c v, eLand having a room there, had a right to go Any person had a right to use moderate force t hat ;at° nis own room, and he thought it was not proved kier,'l,:( u nnecessary violence had been used. The .pri kin,,nti,!astill a servant in the establishment, having received ,P notice, which would not expire until February. haal " ) let te 7 o Pl) thought that the prisoner had u . sed more than was necessary and considered it so violent an r~aie't he at he would send - the prisoner for trial. Pri soner was accordingly committed, with the under ', that if he did not repeat the assault, the coin ' Would not press the charge. 1? -A Y MARKET THEATRE. 'l. lll. : ll4e l l ° e ",i d . J uli(t, which has been acted every night on ' k ql ev en . 4 ilssts Cushman have appeared, was repeated Ati ts , l g- The present version is from the text of i t llar le 7 re :, and introduces us to Romeo as, in the first Lgr ac e :,ne lover of Rosalind. Miss Susan Cushman ' l tTtrf u l i l l ,,3 7 acquiring confidence, and beautiful and 14PEltr a , c 4 was her Juliet on the evening of her first t t ete p i:' W e must confesi that we preferred her acting i 46 /n an ,.. There was more of unity about it. Miss oi lP r thsci R °,naeo, we repeat, the thenony Romeo we thwiat es -it y .tne English boards since youthful days tt tost - 4e albte. The Bee and the Orange Flower, 4i4 ti ons tuitadsteful. of fairy burlesques, preserves its at- Ittunished, and the house is crowded every ........-- 4 1 1and er , EXETER HALL. g,tv e , i oratorio of the Messiah was repeated here 11 5 aba ttr , l , , Mrs. Sunderland, Miss M. B. Hawes, Mr. 4 1 ' 1 Su l , - d ( ' 11. Phillips being the principal vocalists. 4 4 4 ai v ( v r 'and improves upon acquaintance, and when I, k 4 ,r4est hiL led herself of her propensity to indulge . in Oiata flourishes—a propensity in which all provincial lit a c b olui s i t e more or less wont to indulge—she will prove 4 tt • 14, 4 ". Let her model her style on that of Miss go od 'r th 4 - h ea, who understands sacred music perhaps r0 i00 , 1 , 1 3' lady singer in England. Hobbs was -611 i ) Aee / .; . unl iPs was very fine. The choruses were AT iv OF PRINCE ALBERT'S 4r eat I FARM. 4 kt 41111441, deal ex parte matter (says the Herald), has of I,4lt:,..:4ottf:thieeesitisit,nintghe public journals on this subject; the ob 1. 1 . is evidently to make it appear that Prince the claim of a rate as a right, has been t r l a desire to save an inconsiderable sum of money ; l i e fact is, that the law officers have formally- ad- Righness, that the property, belonging to "gh managed in the Prince's name, is no t:h` ll - ; h a nd that the prerogatives of the Crown were h question • the Prince, however, offered to Ne.for ° tCY required as a matter of courtesy and conside- N l lle e Nor, but a majority of the parish vestry . re- f tao hc , a to • •3' except as a rightful rate, embracing, o t llt 44,4 lihnuous rating 1 14, 14 1 , 13 .iet ait t Y atfternoon another vestry meeting was held on Adams, the Mayor and Vicar's warden, in i t gis rern ilere was a numerous attendance, and the pro k.Sliat,:sotnewhat stormy, a party being present, led 4 d 'ai at il'au . ; 'Whose object appeared to . be to place the ';s4tail (Ilya:lions light before the public. til t a ,liovh cs t he Previous proceedings was given by the 4 ' 1 r ead a memorial which had been presented . and the answer thereto by Mr. Anson, his itlavest,,ll4a4's private secretary. This reply intimated ?Ws ""„ e , (1 ) the Prince'S desire to do anything reason ' e tl brej Y t t ul courtesy ; but stating also that a case had t h Tbe i c, ell to the law officers of the Crown, and that :ainsa r and Sir Thomas Wilde concurred in opinion 4 1 ,711 1e ;', was the real occupier of the Flemish farm, .1;' good'b tis a '°re the property was not liable to be rated, as d‘ie parish vestry. of a l of speaking took place. Several gentlemen °of Pr°ceedings calculated to offend and wound the • Nt 40 l aw Majesty and the Prince ; and Mr. Sharman,. Yer; questioned the correctness of the opinion subsea . `- lee rs, moving a resolution to the effect, that the ~,.'llerati4a beneficial occupation, was therefore liable, and ; I °Ved c ught to be enforced. To this an amendment t uft Ingalson in the terms following :—" That h vestry ~lbe ~,I,c o lely regrets that the resolutions, in refer abe of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, 4 oßmeeting held on the 18th of September e t ,, 4l llyl'e been so carried, inasmuch as this meeting r k 7l:lt 1 .;", are that his Royal Highness is not in any way C l e th - " e el for the Flemish farm ; and that this vestry Nmthe:i.arbled statements set forth in the public jour ho-Neet. t ile ' : of hands, the Chairman decided that, in his tt' l essi" nl erldinent was carried; this was disputed, and 3 ,0 (1,4,11411 the rate-payers present, aye or no, were 14 a ti rtisd' h when it was found that the amendment was fedM Y a majo r ity o f two. Th e quest i on i s there is th4t legal and parochial sense; but Mr. Sharman as d t a h e himself would go to the expense of another 't % 3 t ', it w lls keep the affair alive. be „bat a s agreed to make a representation to the ija s qo do Parish tParish. funds were in a low state; and there ;P t fitx d hat his Royal Highness will cheerfully lend oti ° Itliberal and princely spirit, so that his thp,4l,ll.nclerstood as one of courtesy, and not of right is I t i t .........,,,,,_ AT LA T D ------ Tll - ' 4, FATAL ACCIDENT kr, "ill t Llv 6, 4 ; h B equ h - ' ERPOOL WATER. WORKS. kN IL , v 4 . t o al l e f f -e e ! of the death of Anne Devaney, one of the I Ph te !tli th 1.,..r5, through the bursting of the tank con '4i!teats y eer? arriugton Water-works, at Liverpool, a dais 'alie es again summoned to investigate the pain- Last, IS t„Tnnected with the deplorable catastrophe, ii; t y , th , foict' Place before P. F. Curry, Esq., on Tues- Li At r Nlle st , o c f 'wing scientific gentlemen were in attend- VlNh„al`G te „ the coroner :—Mr. S. Holme, Mr. Ken kp! () . " S e ria l er , Mr. Franklin, Mr. King, and some , I t „10 0 1sz t , did not transpire. iti t , L or t l e ckl t o ' la addressing the , said that he had !t illt 'er t g lt e t pu t - po s : e llimon the ftill number . of twenty-three, piq , kti ss de eea solely of inquiring into the cause of ' l (tios si ' triad e 'ed Anne Devaney, but from having heard kLciii, Y, f te " - reinarks made—to say the least of them fi s : si ls ,„, r ,a previous inquiry of thirteen hours' 4 bra th ose t uat the facts gone into, and the verdict li tt ltl llli s 3 dat y : a B e facts were not satisfactory to the public. 4 ti, Ist 'tit t h r ', l their duty, to dismiss from their minds ,I\N•etit i„ e facts which would be brought before them h at ti et vi ,'et. "quest, and upon those facts to determine liy h il ( .elle e, tkk i loi a i llto, ;° far as it affected the cause of death, was Mot t Ip t ett t o '. ll c l the investigation adjourned till Thurs .to ' t t i, l wit" the scientific gentlemen who were to be ti t lai sl :'e e ssa s:sses time to examine and make their re- tik l it), Lruction of the tank. , 1 4,. ' A I alr ead y resum e d on Thursday morn i ng, when the Rt , li f ,„lllo t t e Y named were i n atten d ance to g i ve ev i- , I sthhlZlrt f • of the tank, several plans, &c, were pro- X s 4; 4 alac ° e l ,:, . 14 purpose of more clearly setting forth - 116,,' 4pc -In Connexion with the bursting of the tank L ,k'', ti,` l4 t, a 9 t,l! )f th aec r id ntil ani, in his evidence, said. that he attri- e h° • ei lt to one breaking a t k r causes— th either one or , ,Litki) D t ,,h ti a r „ l4 %tal stays Nto k , trh rt li,ges ysr leavrn g g o the a side ° p n la t t s es o w r ith- • r k; , -ttio,,-00considered breaking , there was no want of care in tl i S ast ' the tank, but there was a slight want of is 1' 0 , 1 41 ii i ki t : 1 11%, 4 1 , 1 4t . ° ,.: lt ie testified as to the careful construction L . ! to ", s trli l ' t " .. eia l ; -, .._vv . hich he . considered ., would have borne ta nd e ,,ql th "'nee the weight it was intended to carry. Cllt i'tcl I , e bursting to the wrenching of the bolts. 1 11 44 4 ,tia' s a, tg 'er e had been a want of skill, or error in tt t, 'lV% qi', ar d . to the construction of the tank, but it (t:ti,t,:agsortz A t i n i t r i . t v ice e n r u q e u d a y l , ity of the materials. t aNkill e 4 , 3 ' i' and Mr. 11. Pooly confirmed L t 4 N t4 , , soli Nl's. Grantham and Holme. IntloN s Ar s ,, ei tor for the Hawarden Company, called I *it, of that the 1 0 , 0 1: th e tank or ca t tastrophe was not owing t!) . the t `4 t , ' „, 1111 cle,„ s staying, but from a deficient " -4 tt ''''lla p.,_Af;, * ;a s ed Beaumont and Burns, gave evidence Itii: fi sh did a Mr. Rumpling, architect and sur f/ i ti Lki Oro fr ot i .,,a,ja . b sut tn the CORONER, the jury retired, and ,111, 4 tl is r ,dlet o ,balf an hour, when they returned bring -4,htit;ltik4laty,„!),hanslaughter against Howell, the ma -1/44 ••ot to , "oen Iron Works, and a deodand of 1001. 110 pt.,s4. j of A k4 eoq a u N BO er aled them that a deodand could not be tk, 41„tlq w,ll--first, because in a case of inanslaugh eft 44ttee " admissible ; the second, that the tank Nti. Ilia aut to the 1 1 4 41' t l Of --e freehold. Ili t i NU t he jur - ( -,_ti. ain r _ 3 . stated, that nineteen of the jury 11014)N,„ returning the verdict which they had tiiii, r-11 t • 'e aid that Iv agre ed he took that opportunity of stating A with the • - Phi k t --____ dissentients. k „ „., i::t,y " coR, „, ~,,,,t,, alt gra . atARRET, JAN. 9.—The P 1 4 , 4 4 4,1 4 4 48 extre m i l are large this week. The t k , Ol e , ,er, h, t Y dull to-clay, and at a reduction t !te h ,ati l ,.kleeh n „ little business was done ; to effect i vr - rt i? wer , . cheap:nest have been submitted to. Fine fli s t, l 3 l .le tt Ju g e „__ommon and light samples ls.r ,PNItt,IA at la st ,a,'T,llO alteration. Oats and Shelling t t ' 4 taw a t oir i , 3 1-. t1i . 5....... i t' a a . prices. Malt as before.. . I.. etsf , t i tali :r ies by v rrio.ua clubs for securing ex 1,, t 4,, 11 1.wn, been f o Providing substitutes for those wh o ma t e Of' on th e ued the last few days in different i ki,,,, t r le 4 Paytne, mutual insurance principle. The 1 1 ;0 llaa! ) ,.or sur l is 2s. Gd. per month, any deficiency tti, 4 4 41 4 44, i us returned to the subscribers. The til ktt 4 14 th ou n the ti m f V 14, 4 1 , 4 , 1 141 0 g. Burin e then peace generally averages I dii tt e, 0 lt , u lar ge. ~,,g war 60/. and even 80/. was [,.1) hp, gi t h Olech an . more privileges are given to the Ital 3 ,ltt„t r seh Mak ss ~,ce s than in the regular regiments of 4 t I N 0 1 ,„" servin_L? conscription less severely felt by F yrj r ., 1 1) 4 , 4 " 0 A IP in person or as substitutes. It f, 1 ) 4 1i.:, t. °1•1 cir esseri "T° l. AT C 'at t, - , e, ' Yett --. as ar . A LERGYMAN.—James , r„ I st ,, oti .. e r , lo , , ailway labourer, was examined F k i trh , h 4 lti q r l :e ; , w'lleobargje'or present.for Borrer, Esq., the sitting [tiC kV the '4 Thuile ' with This father, a pistol at the person tti . t the , waitin f the Rev. Carter William aft er t:4 N Pa b tti eB Sti ls a,Y h. ev .en g iu - g r ° . ° T in he of the Brighton Railway htlit tlif 4 IN lt, ~nouno, it W i ll • Rev Gentleman and his Vi e Pit ~f be remembered, were, two or till l 4, llh 4li e s ,, rett h e c ha r e d , R b e y , the R . ev. Mr. Drummond, th 4r, v A f , dam, , 3 ai, as pickpockets, and who tillk iit x -o d r ter a. `e ,i r . tho lag an action for slander, tried s „Nt,, V 4 lty Oeu tue ,, thelnation had lasted for two )i . lt ii, ` l t o t ' .. lGl lii :Aturd ay ,. further hearing of the case Oi l. ' \‘, tit),j 4ll traa" s l'a i . ;, — , er l o V us e m h is a r s e ' p e re b se e n e t n ati r o e n - s t:,, t 04 ,t t Z 11 4 4 . l ' \ .t , b C. T . of thiteLisast 'i„, 4 ' l lly e ° fora Li "eve tile' 94‘rili, IN t the ONv ti ex ,2, eXPerilnelit was made by 1t41. 4 t1 ) .. e . 'it, ~.t l bt e , tl ,rnor n i47_l7. He offered to bring the 0110 . 1antit „ Jor thpeiO3,ed b 3 , (l) ;a , P n e o rsi r ,. p a a n i d d he hy d u i s d , sfoe.r the t 5 , , ,, i s _ oa , um to ,earri ags 4 ' , 11.. rck o 'v t i. ti the te ,_ rnn t our dispatch. IVe subse -11, t ri ti arie ri g , wa .2 e L o l n nial on his behalf, but that (%kelt\tbst4ilQtltil!e:iy`lg.s.sotnrireer,inifesYoli jrthne:e?crteiemadtrith services express and orantcolhoeniehsaws'iptheirn .4l4 y ''''' of e. ' an. 9. ' ° II th e 19athra.hridge returns to England inst. TUE SUN, LGND►ON, SATUR i)AY 'EVEN ING, JANUARY 10 1846 .SPOIVTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. THE DER:M.-15 to 1 agst Brocardo (taken to 251.), 300 to 10 agst lago (taken), .500 to 15 agst Fancy Boy (taken.) CHESTER CM ".-40 to lon the field. Offers to take 50 to 1 each about W olfdog, Warp, Little Cassino, The Baron, and Alice Hawthor n. Very little done, and that to small amounts. THE HEI:EFORD GRAND STEEPLE CHASE. Nominations for the Grand Annual Steeple Chase Handicap of 25 sovs. each, &c. Weights to be fixed on the 17th. Poulette, The Lawyer, Sacrifice, Puff and Dart, Lattitat, Culverthorpe, Hope (h b), Exquisite, Pull-Away, Ragman, The Roarer, Marius, 'Wilson, The Page, Tarantella, V e l u ti, Sir Edward, Barnaby Budge, Evergreen, 6 yrs; Boxkeeper, Lycurgus, Harkey Pankey, Little Tommy, Jerry, Wivarton, Peter Simple, Cracksman, Jack Shepp ar d, B rune tt e , Pio neer, Clifton (31 b), Consul, b g by Oliver Cromwell dam by Stephen, Eagle, Chance, Carlow, Vanguard. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. ASCOT HEATH, 1846. SECOND DAY. The Swinley Stakes of 25 soya, each, for three and four yrs old. Sir Rupert, 3 yrs—Tragical, 3 yrs—Thrapston, 3 yrs— Libel, 4 yrs —Joy, 3 yrs—br c by Jerry, out of Tur quoise, 4 yrs—Giselle, 3 yrs—Ebotstool, 3 yrs. THIRD DAY. The New Stakes of 10 soya. each, for two yrs old. T.Y.O Count Bathys.ny's Teresina—. Lord G. Bentinck's bl c Blackcock, and br f Slender—Mr. Boyce's Cottisford— Mr. Critchley's .A talanta—Lord Caledon's c by Simoom, out of Cassandra--Mr. Copeland's Cheapside—Mr. E. R. Clark's Miles'a Boy—Mr. Cooke's Legatee—Lord Chesterfield's c by Don John, dam by Ishmael--Mr. Clifton's Brown Bess and Conceit—Mr. Death's Camel ford—Mr. M. Dawson's b g by Camel, or Nonsense, out of the Queen of the Gipsies—Mr. Drewett na gr f, by the Saddler, dam by Velocipede—Mr. Drinkald's So Nice— Mr. Ford's Millwood—Mr. Goodwin's Adroit—Mr. Gratwicke's Joyful, and Little Julia—Mr. Griffith's Lady Lift, and Julia—Mr. Greville's Ferina—Mr. Gully's c by Sheet Anchor, out of Phoebe—Mr. A. W. Hill's ch f by Plenipotentiary, out of Twilight—Lord Lonsdale's c by Camel, out of Young Kean's dam, and f by The Saddler, out of Barbakin—Mr. Mare's f by The Saddler, out of Mayfly—Mr. G. Maug ham's o by Slane, out of Corumba—Mr. Mos tyn's b f by -Litnercost, out of Quilt Arnold's dam, b"f by Piccaroon, out of Her Highness, and b fby Lanercost, out of Miss Clifton—Mr. G. Ongley's The Maid of Athens—Mr. Payne's f by Slane, out of Elissa—Duke of Richmond's Vampire—Lord E. Russell's Eldon—Mr. C. Smith's Hornet—Mr. Stephen son's na b f by Erymus, out of Event's dam—Mr. Stubbs's b c by Camel, out of Zenona—Mr. S. Scott's Montem, Golightly, and Wintonia. BATH AND SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING, 1846. The Lansdowne Trial Stakes of 15 sovs. each, for three years old and upwards. One mile. Felix, 3 yrs—Pantasa, 4 yrs—The Crown Prince, 3 yrs—Buttress, 3 yrs—Ould Ireland, 4 yrs—Blackbird, 3 yrs—Espoir, 5 yrs—Sweetmeat, 4 yrs—Burlesque, 3 yrs—b c by Chesterfield's dam by St. Govins, 4 yrs— Cherry Bounce, 3 yrs—Refraction, 4 yrs. The Weston Stakes of 15 sovs. each, for two yrs old, &c. Lord G. Bentinck's Glentilt, and Vice-Consul—Mr. S. Wreford na Madge Wildfire—Mr. J. O'Brien's Tribute—Mr. God win's Adroit—lslr.Treen's c byEuclid's dam by Taurus—Lord Caledon's f by Simoom out of Pergama—Duke of Richmond's Vampire—Mr. Yar forth's f by Liverpool out of Redstreak's dam. DONCASTER, 1846. Nominations for the Champagne Stakes. Col. Anson's Lazarillo—Lord G. Bentinck's Projectile, Glentilt, Slander, and Blackcock—Mr. E. R. Clark's Miles's Boy—Mr. Clifton's the Field, Dromedary, and Conceit—Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp and Nerissa— Mr. Ford's Millwood and George Barnwell—Mr. Lane Fox's Whitebait—Mr. S. L. Fox's Meaux—Mr. J. Gill na Neb the Nigger—Lord Glasgow's f by Sir Hercules, out of Deerslayer's dam—Mr. Goodwin's Adroit— Captain 0. V. Harcourt's f by Lanercost, dam by Tom boy—Mr. H. Hargreave's Spem Gregis and Bit-nibble— Mr.Hesseltine's Mary Stuart—Mr. Jaques's Diphthong— Mr. Johnstone's Little Nell—Mr. E. Littledale's Whet stone—Mr.Meikla m's Deloraine--Mr. Merry's Limestone —Sir C. Monck's b c by Touchstone, out of Cast-steel—Mr. Mostyn's b f by Lanercost, out of Quilt Arnold's dam— Lord Normanby's Queeu of May—Mr. O'Brien's The Emerald Isle and Tribute—Mr. Osbaldeston's sister to Sorella—Mr. Robertson's Noiseless—Mr. W. Scott's Christopher—Lord Stanley's Meeanee—Mr Taylor's George Hudson—Mr. Worthington's f by The Provost, out of Manilla—Lord Zetland's Helias. The Scarborough Stakes. Ginger, Burlesque, Fantastic, Fancy Boy, b c by Touchstone, out of Laura ; The Traverser, Highfield, Brocardo, Sister to Robert de Gorham, Sheraton, Caprice. The Two Years-old Stakes. Nottingham, Bingham, Planet, Projectile, Devil-me care, Slander, f by Lanercost, out of Moonbeam ; Miles's Boy, Legatee, Van Tromp, Nerissa, f by Lanercost, out of The Nun ; f by Cardinal Puff, dam by Figaro ; New Year's Day, Neb the ,Nigger, f by The Provost, out of Miss Whip ; Spem Gregh;, Mary Stuart, Sir Martin, Duncan, Deloraine, Limestone, fby Touchstone, out of Caststell ; c by Lanercost, out of Miss Martin ; fby Lanercost, out of L'llirondelle ; The Liberator, Emerald Islse, f by Lanercost, out Camp Follower ; Sister to Sorella, Hyderabad, Foreclosure, Prestwich, 'Erna, Christopher, Infringe, Prince Alfred, Rayner. Nominations for the Gascoyne Stakes. Fancy Boy, Malcolm, Sting. KELSO, 1846. Nominations for the Beaumont Stakes. Mr. J. Wauchope na b f b Camel or Nonsense, out of the Queen of the Gipsies' dam, and Legatee—Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Belted Will, and Maid of Motherwell—Sir J. Boswell's t by Caliph, out of Bella, and br c by Krem lin, out of Nike—Lord Eglinton's Eryx, and Nerissa— Mr. Merry's Limestone, and Maid of Motherwell. EGLINTON PARK, 1846. The Two Years-old Stakes of 20 sous. each. Maid of Motherwell, Eryx, and fby Caliph, out of Bella. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Crawley and Horsham lids., Mon., Rusper Village; Wed., West Grinstead; Fri., Handcross Quorn hds, Mon., Alexton ; Tues., Burleigh Hall; Thurs., Baggrave Hall ; Fri., Wattenbv Pits. Mr. Meynell Ingram' s hd s ., Mon., Catton ; Thurs., Snel ston ; Sat., Loxley-10i. Donington hds., Mon., Lockington Hall; Wed., Hathern Turn ; Sat., Little Eaton-104. Rufford hds., Mon., Ley Fields; Wed., Epperstone Village; Sat., Kelham-104. Lord Galway's hds., Mon., Blyth Law Hills; Thurs., Bole Guide-post ; Sat , Gatefore Toll-bar-10i. Lord Henry Bentinck's lids., Mon., Bardney ; Tues, New bold Common ; Wed. ' Potterhill Toll-bar; Thurs., Falding worth Grange; Fri., Norton Place; Sat., Saxilby-11. Suffolk Lds., Mon., Pakenham Street; Sat., Moulton. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Draycot Park ; Wed., Cor • sham Park ; Thurs. the Bell, Sodbury Common ; Sat., the Mermaid, Christian Malford. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Red Rice; Tues., West Woods; Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thurs. Chute Lodge; Fri., South Grove • Sat., Roche Court-11. Mr. Candler's hds., ➢lon., Copcut Elm ; Wed., Martley; Fri., Monkwood-10. Shropshire hds., ➢lon., High Ercall ; Weil., Pimbill ; Fri., Atcham Bridge—lat. Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Kingerby Wood; Wed., Crosby Village; Fri., Blyborough Hall-11. Holderness hds., Mon., Brandesburton ; Tues., Evering ham Park; Thurs. Tickton Bridge; Fri., East Dale House; Sat., Bessingby Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Top of Garraby Hill ; Wed., How tham Bridge; Fri., Birdsall House-10i. Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham ; WTed., Race-course; Fri„ Dyke-11. Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Tels combo Tye-10i. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. acted very wisely Srn,—The Anti-Corn-la w League h ave in turning their attention from the old boro u ghs,hetd i lv ie hose free men will always sell themselves to the hi g h est e counties, which can be rescued from the aristocrarcs,y to o w t i h ti ease. Whilst the free traders are se r ving their country without even expense to themselves—for their investments will yield good interest—they are improving the dwellings o f the poor, who will find a great difference in having free traders for landlords instead of landholders. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE. We understand that circulars have been issued re questing the early attendance of the ministerial Members on the meeting of Parliament. The Earl of Carlisle continues much in the same state, Viscount Morpeth and Lady Mary Howard are the only members of the family at present staying with the Noble Earl. The Hon. Captain and Mrs. Edward Howard are at present on a visit to the lion. Mr. and Mrs. George Ponsonby, at Woolbeding, Sussex. The Hon. Charles D. Howard, M.P., is expected to return to town in a few days from a visit to Mr. Baron Parke, in Bedfordshire. DANGEROUS AMUSEMENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, some mischievous boys having fastened a string to the iron railing of the house about a foot from the ground in Jermyn-street, St. James's, stood on the opposite side and drew it tight, for the purpose of tripping foot passen gers, by which means a poor woman named Margaret Ni chols was thrown to the ground. The woman was completely stunned by the fall, and bled much from a wound on the fore head. She was taken into a surgeon's, when it was ascer tained that, with the exception of the wound, she had escaped serious injury. The authors of the mischief made their escape though hotly pursued. DEATH OF DR. D'OTLEY, RECTOR OF LAMBETH. We regret to announce the decease of the above-named and highly respected Churchman, who expired on Tuesday even ing, at his country residence at Sunbridge. Dr. D'Oyley has been rector of St. Mary's, Lambeth, for many years ; and we need scarcely remind our readers that it is to him, in con junction with the Right Rev. Dr. Mant, the present Bishop of Down and Connor, that we are indebted for an elaborate commentary on the Holy Bible, which has become a text book in our Universities, and has been generally recognised as a standard episcopal examination. The Rev. Divine had attained a venerable age. We believe the proximate cause of death was an accident, which Dr. D'Oyley had the misfor tune to meet with some months since. The extensive parish of Lambeth will henceforth be divided into districts, in ac cordance with the provisions of Sir Robert Peel's Act.--Post. SERVING NOTICE FOR THE 111nrrie.--Yesterd a y morning the parochial authorities of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, and St. George's, Hanover-square, commenced serving notices, to be filled up at the inhabitants' houses, for the intended ballotting for the militia. ROBBERY BY A RAILWAY SURVEYOR..--InfOrllla tion was yesterday forwarded to the Metropolitan and City police-stations, that a surveyor named Richard Davis, who had lately been engaged on the Severn and Avon Valley Railway, from Rugby to Gloucester, had stolen a valuable fowling-piece, the property of Mrs. Jeffs, wine and spirit dealer, High-street, Tewkesbury. THE FRENCH EMBASSY.—We understand that his Excellency the French Ambassador, Count de St. Aulaire, has been detained in Paris considerably longer than was originally expected, his Excellency's detention arising from family matters, or the Noble Count and the Marquis St. Aulaire would have returned to this country at least a month back. The Ambassador, accompanied by the Countess and , the Marquis St. Aulaire, is now expected at Manchester House by the leith ivat., at latest. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in an open pony phaeton on Thuresday afternoon. Colonel Bou verie was in attendance on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed pony and walking exercise yes terday morning in Claremont Park. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk in Claremont Park yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and other Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Lord Lyttelton attended at the Colonial-office yester day, and entered on his duties as one of the Linder-Secre taries of State for the Colonial Department, in the room of George William Hope, M.P., resigred. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Postaiwiter-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday. THE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. The annual festival of this Society was celebrated on Thursday evening at the London Tavern, and was at tended by a highly respectable and numerous presence of its friends and members. We believe this is its seventh anniversary, and, from its increasing strength, we augur well for its being now thoroughly established. Like its neighbour, the Royal Highland School Society, it deserves the encouragement and assistance of all who value the blessings of education, which is so liberally be stowed by its benevolence throughout the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. A great many gentlemen appeared in the costume of the Gael, among whom were Robert Hepburn, Esq. (the President), Captain Charles Forbes, Esq., George Bain, Esq., James Davidson, Esq., John Boucher, Esq. (th e Vi ce -P res id ent), W. Shand Low, Esq. (the Hon. Secretary), John Murray, Esq., Gray, Esq., Patterson, Esq., Professor Khul, &c. Among the gentlemen present we observed Captain La mont, RN., Charles Landseer, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Red path, John Mouatt, Esq., John Murray, Esq., James Wylie, Esq., &c. The galleries were filled with elegantly-dressed ladies, and the hall was beautifully decorated with emblematical devices, and hung with scarfs of various clan tartarns, which gave a lively description of the enthusiasm of this body for its " home manufacture." At the head of the hall the royal arms of Scotland were displayed on white satin, embroidered in gold. The President was marshalled to the chair by the Stewards, headed by Mr. Angus Mackay, her Majesty's piper ; and after an excellent dinner, characteristic of Messrs. Bathe and Beach, The PRESIDENT, in proposing the health of the Queen and her Royal Consort, Prince Albert, said—Gentlemen, When I look around this large assembly and see so many happy and joyous faces before me, I feel it almost impossible to enter upon the proceedings of the evening without first simply expressing to you the great satis faction I feel at beholding you all once more around this our anniversary table, and allow me, at the same time, to congratulate you on thus meeting you together under such cheering circumstances—circumstances not only peculiarly favourable to the general interests of the Cale donian Society, but to that to which it is also connected, that which is the firmest basis, the surest foundation, of every good institution, the cause of Christian knowledge and charity. To the many friends who have honoured us with their presence, and who we rejoice to see amongst us on this occasion, I am sure no apology is necessary for any display of national feeling we may ex hibit this evening, for on such a Scottish festival as this, when we are surrounded on all sides by so many em bl ems of our native Caledonia—when the claymore again seems to glisten, when the tartan of every clan meets the eye, the sound of the war-pipes bursts upon the ear, and re miniscences of auld lang syne crowd upon the memory— surely it cannot be wondered at if, in the midst of these, we should, like weary travellers meeting on a bright green refreshing spot in the midst of a great desert, forget present cares, and bestow a wandering thought on the " land we left behind us ;" the more especially when imagination, aided by these asso ciations, draws aside the curtain, and again we behold the hills and vales of " puir auld Scotland," the land of our birth, the home of our childhood, the grave of our fathers— " When again we see The broom wi' its tassel on the lea, An' hear the lintie's sang o' our ain countrie." If I were an Irishman, I should say to the ladies who throng the platform, and who throw such a bright colouring into this Highland picture, " Coed mine failte," but being only a plain Scotchman, I can only give that which is given in sincerity by every one here—a heart felt Scottish welcome.—(Cheers.)—Air, "The Royal An. them," by Mr. Sinclair. The other loyal toasts followed in succession, and wore received with cheering, and Highland honours. The " Army and Navy" were given in eloquent terms by the CHAIRMAN, who said that, in Campbell's words, " England needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep," while she had her gallant defenders by "sea and land," the " army and navy." Captain LAMONT, R.N., returned thanks on behalf of the naval branch of the service, and dwelt on the effi ciency of the officers and non-commissioned officers com prising that body. Captain FORBES thanked the company for the welcome manner in which they testified their esteem for the army, and he could assure them that nothing pleased soldiers better than to hear such encomiums given them by their countrymen. He would reiterate the assurance on their part that his gallant friend gave of the navy,t hat the British army never was in a higher state of discipline than at present, and when an honourable opportunity pre sented itself they would maintain the high stand they had hitherto held among the nations of Europe.—Air, " Rule Britannia." The VICE-PRESIDENT rose to propose a toast that he was sure would be responded to in a manner worthy of its merits—" The land we live in." Mr. SHAND Low trusted that the company would show their attadunent, their love, and sympathy with their sister island ; for in doing so that evening they would at least prove that they all esteemed the kindness, the talent, and the honest bravery that was so charac teristic of their brethren of Ireland ; and, remembering the sentiments of a favourite poet, whose stirring effu sions had been quoted, exclaiming, " Is there a son of generous England here, Or fervid Erin ?—he, too, shall join To pray that in eternal union dear The rose, the shamrock, and the thistle twine." They were all types of a race who would the invader scorn, and in this great metropolis they all lived as brethren. He would propose to them, " Long may the shamrock be entwined with the rose and the thistle."— Drunk with all the honours, the piper playing " St. Patrick's-day." Mr. MURRAY rose to propose " the Health of the President," who had so ably and eloquently acquitted himself in the discharge of his duties. He had been re sident in London for many years, and took great delight in institutions such as they were that evening met to countenance. He belonged to those men who came from the " hill side," where honesty and singleness of mind were characteristic of them—where the men of " God's own aristocracy " were to be met with ; and, therefore, as a Highlander, he called upon the company to dedi cate a bumper to Mr. Hepburn.—Drunk with the High land honours. Mr. HEPBURN returned thanks. Mr. BOUCHER was called upon to propose another toast, and in doing so he dwelt upon the services of his countrymen in both the civil and military departments, and referring to the glorious deeds of the Highland regiments whenever they were railed upon to defend British honour, he instanced Alexandria, Corunna, and Toulouse, down to the crowning victory of Waterloo, as battles in which they were mainly instrumental in not only:checking, but in defeating, the " tried soldier's of Napoleon." He would announce to them a toast, in which all, he was sure, would join--" The Land o' Cakes." —Drunk with Highland honours, and every demonstra tion of enthusiasm. "Auldr Professor Mr. Sincl a i r f o ll owe d t hi s nat i ona l toast b y s i ng i ng rose yope "prosperity j o o s iningincho o two rus i roii sync," the roo to kindred institutions, and dwelt upon their use and assist ance to natives of Scotland —"The Royal Highland School Society, and the Scottish Hospital.' Mr. THomPsoN, as Honorary Secretary, returned thanks for the former institution, to which he more im mediately belonged, as did Major Adair for the latter. Mr. WYLIE reminded the company that there was another institution worthy of their consideration, and one, he was sure, all of them were acquainted with. Its object was that of educating boys and girls, the sons and daughters of soldiers, sailors, and poor men, natives of Scotland —" The Caledonian Asylum." Captain FORBES returned thanks on behalf of the governors and friends of that benevolent institution. He was thankful for their kind notice of this useful and benevolent society, and be was proud to say that its merits were worthy of their extensive patronage. The PRESIDENT gave " Prosperity to the Highland Society." GEORGE BAIN, Esq., returned thanks. Before sitting down he proposed "Success and prosperity to the Cale donian Society of London."—(Cheers and Highland honours.) The PRESIDENT then, in an impressive and highly eloquent speech, gave the " Memory of Burns." In con cluding his address, the President said that, instead of drinking to his memory in silence, he proposed that it should be done with acclamation.—(Applause.) A Highland Reel was then danced by Captain Forbes, George Bain, Esq., James Davidson, and Mr. Bruce, to a strathspey played by Mr. Angus Mackay. After which, by an unanimous call from the company, the Sword Dance, or " Gillie Callum," vt as skilfully per formed by Mr. Davidson, to the delight of all present. We cannot forbear expressing an opinion of admiration at the very splendid and unique Highland garb in which this gentleman appeared. For a combination of taste with splendour—(the splendour subservient to taste)—we never saw it excelled. Tlie greatest hilarity prevailed throughout the even. ing, and the Caledonian Society were — unremitting in their attentions to their friends and visitors, who will all remember with lively pleasure the evening of their " Festival." We, cannot finish our account of this en tertainment without mentioning the delight felt by the company with the charming singing of Miss Birch, whose talents and graceful manners are well known to all. Her songs drew forth loud applause, and her will ing acquiescence to an encore showed her anxiety to please. She was relieved by Miss Lucombe, who also sang several favourite ballads with considerable taste. Mr. Sinclair was in excellent voice, and we only regret that he does not favour his admirers more frequently. Mr. Guiness, with his excellent band, occupied the orchestra, and played several appropriate airs during the evening. They were occasionally relieved by her Majesty's piper's thrilling gatherings and marches from the national instrtunent, I. ETERA TIME. A GALLERY OF LITERARY PORTRAITS. By George Gilfillan. Second Notice. Without exception, this is the most eloquent volume that has appeared for years • and in the twenty-six Portraits w hi c h it contains, 111 r. Gilfillan has poured out the whole flood of his admiration and idolatry of his favourite literary contemporaries. Gifted with great analytical sagacity, and a strange abundance of lan guage, the author groups around each of his subjects the intensity of his love for them in words of the most peculiar and appropriate beauty. His style has the impress at once of youth and age youth in its hot enthusiasm, age in its discrimination of merits. With this unpretending-looking book in our hand, we would hazard the assertion that George Gilfillan is a man of the most masculine intellect, the most tender sympathies, the most catholic taste, and the most genuine earnestness that has for some time adventured in the school of criticism. His sentences are the gushings of a heart filled with an affection for everything noble, and beautiful, and good : they are occasionally overloaded with magnificence, but that very failing proves them to have burst forth honestly and spontaneouly. He is cramped by no rigid rules of composition ' he is retarded by no dread of the hypercriti c , hi s soul is stirred to the innermost with new thoughts upon each of our great modern minds, and his gratitude to them rolls forth in all the sincerity of an ardent nature,' But what renders this volume so strikingly original is the audacity with which its writer seizes upon all sorts of epithets, rugged or euphonious—hap -hazard—without a mo ment's pause for selection, anxious only to clothe his sentiments in just such expressions as may recur to his memory on the instant. And though, at first sight, this peculiarity . might savour somewhat of a blemish, it imparts, such an air of truthfulness and fervour to the entire work, that we should regret the diminution of such a characteristic. In this respect same passages resemble the florid energy and glitter of oratorical displays, rather than the disquisi tions of authorship—the impetuous music of the lips rather than the out-flowings of a pen. He heaps allusion upon allusion, he iterates iteration, he gra diates step by step up the complication of a climax in defiance alike of length, intricacy, and obscurity, yet sustains throughout such a brilliancy of meta phor and force of language, as to rouse the interest and startle the imagination. As an evidence of this singular and really fine propensity, take the following synopsis of Carlyle's " Sartor Resartus :" " We have only of late become acquainted with this singular production, but few books have ever moved us more. It turned up our whole soul like a tempest. Who ever has struggled with doubts and difficulties almost to strangling—whoever has tossed for nights upon his pillow, and in helpless wretchedness cried out with shrieks of agony to the God of heaven— whoever has covered with his cloak a Gehenna of bitter disappointment and misery, and walked out, nevertheless, firm, and calm, and silent, among his fellow men—whoever has mourned for all the oppre l isions which are done under the sun,' and been ' mad for the sight of his eyes that he did see'—whoever has bowed down at night upon his pillow, in the belief that he was the most wretched and God-forsaken of mortal men— whoever has felt all the wanderer in his soul,' and a sense of the deepest solitude, even when mingling in the business and the crowded thoroughfares of his kind—whoever at one time has leaned over the precipices of Mount Danger, and at another, adventured a step or two on that dreary path of destruction, which led to a wide field full of dark mountains, where he stumbled and fell, and rose no more ; and at a third, walked a gloom amid the gloomy of the valley and the shadow of death-- whoever has, at last, attained not peace, not happiness, not assurance, but child-like submission, child-like faith, and meek-eyed blessedness let him approach, and study, and press to his breast, and carry to his bed, and bedew with his tears Sartor Resartus,' and bless the while its brave and true-hearted author. But whoever has not had a portion of this experience, let him pass on, the book has nothing to say to him, and he has nothing to do with the book. It is above him like a star—it is apart from him like a spirit. Let him laugh at it if he will—abuse it if he will—call it German trash, transcendental Neologism, if he will—only let him not read it. Its sweet and solemn Evangel' —its deep pathos—its earnestness—its trenchant and terrible anatomy of not the least singular or least noble of human hearts—its individual passages and pictures, unsurpassed in power and gr an d eur , as th a t of the Night Thoughts' of Teufelsdrockh, when he sat in his high attic, alone with the stars'—the description of bis appearance on the North Cape, behind him all Europe and Asia fast asleep, and before him the silent immensity and palace of the eternal, to which our sun is but a porch lamp,' the discovery to him of the glories of nature, as he felt for the first time that she was his mother and divine,'—his wanderings in vain effort to escape from his own shadow'—the picture of the power and mystery of symbols—with all this, what has he, the reader of Martin Chuzzlewit' and the New Monthly to do ? These' he may comprehend and enjoy, but the other l-- Still from a mere fragment, glorious though it be, no conception can he formed of the copiousness, fire-like emphasis, splendour, elaboration, and tumultuous en thusiasm, with which these portraits are conceived and developed. Loving Shelley for his dreamy mysticism, and Carlyle for his Germanic forcefulness, and Brougham for his vast capacities, and Coleridge for his density and solid range of me t ap hysics ; paying heart homage to Wordsworth in the forest walks, and Wil son by the lonely tarn, and Elliot with his golden music -reeds, and Hazlitt with his sad pale face; breaking out alternately in paragraphs of stormy eulogy and words of solemn mourning —Gilfillan throws a lustre round him as he writes—the lustre of high sentiments expressed in language of the loftiest character.. To every wor shipper of recent or living genius —to every one who can appreciate the sterling sense of Foster, or revel in the wild and wizard day-dreams of De Quincey— this volume will afford a treat beyond expression. It is a work to be feasted over by the fire-side, or on a flower-bank in the sunshine. As a companion, to and a commentary upon, our modern heroes of English literature, " Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits" will have a corner on the bookshelves of the future. It, is the honest and splendid ebullition of its author's heart. SKETCHES FROM LIFE. 3 Vols. By Laman Blancha2d. What pleasant and gentle recollections are con nected with the name of Laman Blanchard in his long association with the magazines and floating literature of the age ! What tender and mournful reflections, when we call to mind the gloomy and desolating character of his death ! Now that this amiable writer is snatched from us for ever, now that his ever-welcome outpourings of quaintness have sent their last gush into the monthly periodicals— now that, like his contemporaries and co partners, Tom Hood, and Barham, and Hook, (alas for the catalogue !) he may be enumerated among the bygones, a collection of his effusions, scattered over a variety of sometimes unattainable pages, is at once a fitting monument to his memory, and a mark of extreme value to the many with whom he had become a favourite. In the three elegant volumes before us these articles from the pen of poor Blanchard are admirably arranged, beautifully printed, and exquisitely embellished. Honour to Daniel Maclise for that evidence of his genius and his friendship in the frontispiece, a likeness of Laman Blanchard " drawn from memory !" Honour to Kenny Meadows for that touching group of the dead author's children weeping over his tomb, the lyre traced overhead, as a symbol of his fate, with its strings rent asunder ! Honour also to Buck stone for the anecdotes which he furnishes, bearing testimony to his late friend's sweetness and amenity of disposition ! But a triple honour to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton for the tender and melancholy earnestness of the memoir prefixed to this compilation ! There is something eminently pathetic in the tone which characterises this biography, whether it arises from a predisposition to sadness in the reader's mind, or the sorrowing heart of the biographer breathed over every sentence, or the constant presence of the catastrophe which more particularly led to its production. Our regrets for the departure of Laman Blanchard are, if possible, doubled, on learning the real character of the man as delineated by one of his intimate associates, a character fraught with such a self-forgetful generosity, such a winning suavity of manner, such a never-flagging gaiety of disposition, such an unjealous admiration for his various and more fortunate rivals in the school of letters. In the early portion of his career he appears to have battled up the steep and rugged acclivity which every literary aspirant encounters at the outset, and to have done this, moreover, manfully, resolutely, courageously. Not the least acceptable part of Sir Bulwer Lytton's narrative is that in which he interpolates some deli cious sonnets written by Blanchard at his commence ment of authorcraft, and assuredly did they justify the biographer's augury of still higher achievements of their composer. The sudden and terrible calamity, however, which, in the February of 1845, stilled his heart and shrouded his imagination, for ever pre vented the accomplishment of his own views and as pirations—in the production of some substantial effort of dramatic poetry, a class of writings for which he wa which ssoeln tit eminently gifted. there ted th .lnth " Sketches from Life," e volumes, we neverthe less possess sufficient evidence of his capacity as an essayist to entitle him to our unqualified regard. They body forth his own peculiar and charming tem perament, namely, a great shrewdness and sagacity of observation, a erva t t o i t o a n l , ab a se v n e c r e y doeflibgihtttfeurineassn, and an d genial excel lentmerri- ment, purity in thought and language. For these characteristics they are valuable additions to the library of modern literature. As Addison and Steele reflect their own stilted and furbelowed generations, so has Larnan Blanchard, in his " Sketches from Life," mirrored forth the variable and motley pecu liarities of the present day ; they have but to be read to be admired, and admired they will be read again. Thousands must remember the pleasure they have derived from articles in the Monthly and in Ainsworth identified with the name of Lamtm Blanchard, pour. ing forth, month after month, in lorg succession. These articles are here assembled together in a con crete mass, and, consequently, the disjointed pleasure which they excited is condensed into a compact and more austailied gratification. Let all lovers of our British essayists, all worshippers of our Goldsmiths, and our Lambs, and our Hawkesworths, and our Leigh Hunts, add these three volumes to their pre vious collection ; they are good, honest, sterling, healthy " studies from the life," and as such we com mend them, with a God speed, to the public. WADE'S LONDON RE VIEW. The editor opens the present number with the in troductory chapters of a new romance, entitled the " Phases of Love," which promises well. The next article contains some interesting biographical anec• dotes of List; the great musician. We have, in ad dition, an excellent paper on Persian poetry, and some good reviews. THE POST MAGAZINE ALMANACK for 1846. We perceive by the title-page that this work has already reached a second edition, and we are not sur prised at it, for, considerin g the immense mass of in. formation which it contains, and the reasonable price at which it is published, it is a marvel of cheapness even in these days of cheap literature. THE SPORTING 1?E r VIE The present number is rich in embellishments. We have, in addition to a beautifully -engraved title page, illustrated by a bijou of a vignette by Rucker, the subject of which is wild duck shooting, a beautiful line engraving, by Beckwith, of Phillipps's Portrait of R. M. 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St oc k . - 142% Guardian Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 240 Imperial Life • ....... 12s. 100 0010 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine. • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29 Law Life ...... . ..... 40/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal and General Life - 50 • 0 2o 0 6% London Fire 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 lbu zy London Ship Marine .. ..... •• • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 lON Med.ln vlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 a National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 234 National Life.. .. ••. • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 1 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s. Phoenix .... ...... .. . • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 210 Protector Life.... .• • • 51. p er cen t . 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 33. Provident Life -.... • • U. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life 4s. 50 0 010 0 44 Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 180 Sun Fire ......• .• • • • 61. 10s. - - Ditto Life ..... .... • 11. 6s. - - 18 Universal Life LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividead Amount Name of Company per of Paid. i Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. X' s. d 1 Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per c e nt. .- 100 0 II , 165 British Linen Company 81' per cent. - 100 0 0 225 Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 9 166 National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7341. pr cent. - 50 0 0 9834 Western Bank --.• • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 8434 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7% Clydesdale Bank .. - 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank ..... •• • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 114 Caledonian Bank - 2 10 11 6 Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 50 I 74 City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 815 0 15 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 14 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1434 Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur.. • 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1934 Edin. & Glasg. Railway 5/. per cent. 50 0 11 50 0 0 65 Ditto, 4 Shares 5l. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 1538 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 2134 GI eager & Ayrshir Rail. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70 Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21 Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 3534 Standard Life Assornce. 151 per cent. j5O 0 0 210 0 8 DOCKS. Dividend 1 Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. I Price. 1 I Annum. Share. ; X I. d. 1 X s. d. ' I Commercial .• • . ... • • 3/. per cent. Steck. - 1 East and West India - 135 4 ( 1 East Country • • - 21 4 L mdon • St Katharine .........5 per cent. Stock. - I 108% Southampton ••••• • • • ! 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 WATER-WORKS Dividend Amount Name of Company. ' per of I Paid. Annum. Skare. X a, d. East London..—... • • 81. 100 0 0 Grand Junction —. • 31. 46 13 4 Kent ...........• • • 2/. 10s. 100 00 i Vauxhall ••••• • • • • ... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 ~ West Middlesex —— • • 41.168. pr ct. 63 12 9 I THE JANUS STEAM-SHIP, Price. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Stn,—The frequent articles inserted in your universally circulated paper relative to the Janus, indicate that the suc cess or failure of the engines, boilers, and lines of construc tion are subjects of public interest. Being thus confirmed in my opinion, I enclose to you the last report made on the original revolving engine erected by the late Admiralty in Portsmouth Dockyard, the performance of which engine gave to the present Board the confidence they have manifested in promoting the at tainment of an object highly interesting to the naval service. Those only who attempt to introduce an important no velty can estimate the effects of jealousy and prejudice. I confide, however, in your liberality to aid in their removal, and beg that you will inquire whether any reciprocating en gine has ever performed duty equivalent to thirteen conse cutive double voyages from England to America (as the Portsmouth engine has done), almost without repair? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Portsmouth, Jan. 8. D UND ONALD. REPORT ON TEE EARL OF DUNDONALD'S ROTATORY ENGINE ERECTED IN HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARD AT PORTSMOUTH. On the 22d of December, 1845, two years and nine months of constant performance of the rotatory engine expires, during all which time it has been working in the most effec-. tual and satisfactory manner, no derangement of consequence having ever taken place, It is presumed that these two years and nine months of constant and laborious operation (requiring no more than slight attention by the workmen) have gone far to establish that quality which, until now, had not been sufficiently de veloped—namely, durability, and consequent continuity of operation.. _ The principal repair the engine has required was taken in hand about nine months ago. This was so trifling, that six men could have accomplished it in one day, but having been much pressed with work at the time, one man only could be spared, which consequently protracted its comple tion for one week. Thus after four years and nine months constant working as a prime mover, two years and nine months of which have been so successfully performed, nothing more can be wanting even by the most sceptical to establish its merits as a powerful, economical, and durable engine, equal in point of efficiency to any reciprocating engine in he r Ma jesty's service. Should additional evidence be sought to establish further claims as a rival in steam mechanism, it is to be found in the simple fact, that this first essay on the Earl of Dundonald's principle, although at first altered and mutilated to bring it to perfection, is nevertheless at the present time perfectly free from those indications of weakness and declining energy s, might which any other engine, under similar circumstance probably evince, as is proved by its exhibiting a vacuum at principle v is its fre e d om f rom liabi lityesgreat confidence i n t h e utility d applicabilit y all times equal to 28 inches of mercury. Another fact w hich of this e h r i a c n hgi ement, and con sequently the service n to internal d erangement, in which it is engaged is scarcely ever inconvenienced by to engine has not been op ene d for examination since s T p h p e a g e e n s g . July last. Her Majesty's Dockyard, 'l rrA P igrt,smEonugtihn,eer Dec.an d 3 11 , 1, 1a 1 c 8 h 4 i . BUCRFASTLEIGH.—The woollen trade of this town remains exceedingly dull, numbers of workmen are out of employment, and in consequence of the high price of provi sions and the scarcicity of potatoes, numerous families are suffering the greatest privations.— Western Timis. THE " GENEVESE TRIVELLER."--MattheW L. Davis, Esq., of New York, is the writer of the letters which, under the above signature, appear in the Times. He is also the author of " The Spy in Washington," of the " Biography of Aaron Barr," and is now the writer of a series of articles, signed " A Calm Observer," which appear in the Washington National Intelligeneer. RETIREMENT or MR. EVERETT FROM POLITICAL LIFE.—The Hon. Mr. Everett, the late Minister to this country from the United States, will shortly quit the arena of politics for the peaceful paths of learning. The Corporation of Haward University, near Boston, Mas sachusets, a short time previous to the return of Mr. Everett from England, addressed to him a letter, re questing him to be put in nomination for the office of President of the University in place of the Hon. Josiah Quincy, resigned, and informing him that, in that case, he would receive the unanimous vote of the Board for the appointment, which, on the meeting of the Board of Overseers, would be laid before them for their confirma tion. Mr. Everett has recently given an answer to the application, in which he has consented to receive the ape?intment. FEARFUL ACCIDENT WITH VlTRlOL.—Yesterday morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a young man named Samuel Holmes, residing in Church-street, Padding ton, was lifting a large bottle of vitriol off a shelf, when the chair on which he was standing slipped from under him and he fell to the ground, the bottle breaking upon his head, and the burning liquid flowing over his face and person. So dreadful is the injury he has sustained, that no hopes are en tertained ef his recovering the sight of both eye-s• It is understood that this year the Parliamentary dinners on the eve of the assembling of both ' • , liament will be confined to those nurusterial Houses of Par- meetings at the . Duke of Wellington's and Sir .Robert Peel's.. ' THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND - THE PROVINCIAL DIETS. The Berlin, State Gazette gives the following, as the replies• made by the Government to the demands addressed to it by the Diet of the Province of Prussia : "1. Participation of the lay members of religious commu nities) in the discussions and resolutions on ecclesiastical affairs. Reply—The Government has already decided that laics should be called to form part of the first general synod,. which is to be shortly convoked ; but as it has been deter mined not to accept any proposition on the changes to be introduced into the organisation and constitution of the Pro testant Church, except from the ecclesiastial authorities themselves, it cannot decide anything relative to the future organization of the provincial synods, before having heard the prepositions of the general V synod. 2. Amelioration of the revision of the codes and the introduction of the jury. Reply.—Considering the importance of the question, prepa ratory studies of great extent are required, and they are not yet terminated. The Diets are therefore recommended to wait with confidence the result of the deliberations of the competent authorities. 3. Meeting of the States-General, and proclamation of a constitution for the whole kingdom. Reply-.—The Diets, in their address of March 10, 1845, having expressed their confidence in the promise which we made in 1813, relative to the development of their constitu tion, we do not see why they make mention of the petitions addressed to them on this subject. We thank the minority for having shown the Inutility of such a proceeding. 4. Pub licity of the discussions in the Diets, within certain limits. Reply.—We refuse to comply with the prayer of this petition. 5. To communicate to the Diets at least six weeks before the opening of the session the propositions which the Government wishes to bring forward. Reply.—We shall communicate to the Diets such propositions as we please, and when we think it advisable. 6. To reduce the amount of ten years of terri torial possession, required as one of the conditions of eligibi lity for the representatives of towns in the Diets, and in ge neral to increase the circle of eligibility in town.!. Reply.— Peremtory refusal. 7. Reform of the legislati o n rb.!ative to the press, and less severity in the censorship. Reply.--The complaints of the petitioners are anything but well-founded; The press, in fact, needs an amelioration, but only to pre vent in a more efficient manner the transgression of the limits which are imposed on it, in the interest of public order and of the reputation of private individuals. 8. Emancipation of the Jews. Reply.—The Government is busied with a general system of legislation for all things re lating to the Jews, in a civil as well as a religious point of view. 9. To replace the duties OR the grinding of corn and the killing of cattle by a direct tax. Reply.—Not at pre sent; but the Government will see if it be possible to lower by degrees the amount of those imposts, and to prepare a general modification. 10. The Diet pronounces against pro tectivo duties, and demands the free entry of iron into the province. Reply.—ln the changes which are to be effected in the tariff, the Government will take into consideration the interests of the whole kingdom. As to the free entry of iron, it cannot be granted." THE FREE-TRADE MOVEMENT AT NEWCASTLE-ON -TYNE. NEWCASTLE .ON-TYNE, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The meeting held in this town, on Monday evening, has produced an effect which it is impossible yet fully to estimate. The immense and highly respectable multi tude that assembled on the occasion completely puzzled the opponents of the League, who have been in the habit of asserting that Newcastle felt indifferent to the free trade question. That they are unable now to repeat. Throughout yesterday and to-day little else has been talked about than the " demonstration," as it is here called, which appears to have exceeded the anticipations of the most sanguine of its promoters. In the account it was mentioned that many were present who usually display an utter disregard of politics, and not a few who belong to the Conservative party. As one of the former, may be mentioned Chevalier Dillon, the French Consul at this port, a gentleman enjoying in a high degree the confidence of the mercantile portion of the community, and who necessarily avoids all ex pression of political opinion. The presence of gentle men of this class, and their evident sympathy with the cause of commercial freedom, adds to the impression produced by the admirable address of Mr. Cobden. This evening a meeting has been held at the Claren don Hotel, for the purpose of giving effect to Mr. Cob den's recommendations. Mr. G. Crawshay occupied the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, suggested that Newcastle should be made the seat of an auxiliary to the League, having its separate council, and 'corresponding with, and directing the operations of, the surrounding district. The speaking at the meeting was purely conversa tional. Arrangements were made to carry on the quali fication movement, and a considerable number of appli cations were made by persons desirous of securing votes for South Northumberland and N o rth D ur h am . . . Subscriptions were afterwards opened for the League quarter of a million fund. Amongst the sums contri buted were—Mr. Crawshay, 1004; Messrs. Pow and Falcus, North Shields, 504; Messrs. J. Lee and Co., Newcastle, 501.; Messrs. Bell, 301.; Mr. H. C. Arm strong, 25/.; Mr. John Shield, 211.; Mr. James Shield, 201.; with many smaller sums, the total subscribed on the spot being upwards of 310/. SUGAR DUTIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Lord Stanhope, and he is a great authority, has threatened, that should the corn-laws be annihilated, and protection be withdrawn from agricultural industry, he will be amongst the first to assail all other monopo lies. He has declared that he will not stand with his arms folded and see the farmers and labourers paying a protection price for the articles they or their families may require, while the produce of their industry is obliged to be sold at its real value ; and he is perfectly right and just in the view he takes of the affair in that respect. His Lordship will very soon probably be in a position to carry his excellent threat into execution, and away goes protection to hats, shoes, waistcoats, and a long et cetera of other articles which the farmers and labourers are obliged to purchase. Perhaps the better way for his Lordship to adopt would be to commence his task forth with. If he be really the friend of the agriculturists and their labourers, he will not fail to do so—to talk wildly, as some Noble Dukes have recently, about the propriety , of maintaining these starvation corn-laws, is all moon shine; their fate is determined, and they know it. Far more rational would it be to place the agriculturists in a secure position, as Lord Stanhope declares they shall be, before the corn-laws are abolished, than after that period. The farmers and labourers ought in fairness to have the opportunity of supplying themselves and families with all commodities at their actual value before they are compelled to part with articles, the result of their own industry, on the like terms. To advocate this practical right is far wiser and more prudent than to abuse their understandings by flourishing speeches about their theoretical rights—the right to plunch r consumers of food by forcing them to pay more for it than its actual worth. First and fore most the colonial monopoly stands for clearance; can any person adduce a sane reason why the agriculturists should be obliged to pay fifteen pounds a ton more for the sugar they purchase than it would fetch anywhere else ? or why they should give thirty-seven shillings and fourpence per cwt. more for their coffee than is necessary? Remarks to the same effect might be made upon all other colonial articles. Supposing this colo nial monopoly destroyed, as well as other monopolies which enhance the prices of wearing apparel, the farmers and labourers would be gainers by the loss of the pro tection new given to food. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Brighton, Jan. 9, 1846. B. S. R. THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE IN LONDON.—The following statistical account of the several offices filled by the undermentioned officers may prove interesting to our read ers :—ln the principal or secretary's office, exclusive of the Postmaster-General, there are 64 officers, thus classed Secretary, assistant secretary, private secretary, chief clerk to secretary, senior clerks—first class 3, second class 8 6, juniors—first class 9, second class 14. Surveyor's office, ; third solicitor'sditto. ryeyor and clerks to ditto, 16; surveyors—Scotch, 2; clerks to dit to, 3, In the mailcoach-office there are 43, viz messenger. Account superintendent, first clerk, seniors 2, juniors ; inspectors office,ofma 4 il , c v o i a z c ._ he s s o , 1 8 ic h or rai fi lw rs e t y cl e e l r e k , N sec 2 o 7 n . d the d ln itto, ars office, 17—receiver-general, chief clerk, Receiver-Gener al's Account ant-General's office, 31 : accountant-general deputy, chief eputy, chief clerk, principa clerks 3, seniors 6, juniors 19. Money- order-office, 170 president, chief clerk, first classseniors 3, juniors 9, extra clerks 2, senior clerks, 4, second class 25, ditto 50, junior pro bationary class, 89. Inland and foreign office, 645—Super intending president ; presidents, 4 ; assistant presidents ; vice presidents, 3 ; senior clerks, 9 ; assistants, 33; clerks, 36 : junior clerks, 50 ; clerks to superintending presidents, 3; inspectors of official correspondence, 4; officers in charge of Indian mails, 3 ; packet mail clerks, 2 ; officers at paid windows, 4 ; clerks of letter carriers' accounts, 2 ; instructor of junior clerks; senior messengers, 2; junior ditto, 49 ; watchmen, 2. Inspector of letter carriers' office, whick is an adjunct to the inland office, contains an inspec tor, assistant inspectors, 7 ; sub-sorters, 147 ; letter earners, 281. Ship letter-office, B—lnspector, chief clerk, senior clerks, 2 ; juniors, 4. Dead and return letter-office, 21— Inspector, first clerk, seniors, 5; juniors, 14. London dis trict, late twopenny-office, 623—Superintending president, chief clerk, assistant clerks, 5 ; surveyor, remittance clerk ; sorting offices—presidents, 2 ; vice-presidents, 4 ; window men, 2 ; clerks of divisions, 14 ; first assorters, 12 ; second ditto, 12 ; sorters, 10 ; sub-sorters, 31; inspector, assistant-inspectors, 2 ; junior-inspectors, 8 ; stampers, 16 ; letter-carriers, 500. This makes a total of 1,626 persons employed in the London Post• office, and within the circle of the district post delivery. The increase of business in the various offices during the last few years has been very con siderable. Money-orders have increased about thirty-fold, and in the newspaper-office not less than 100,000 newspapers are dispatched nightly, besides a great number which are now sent by the many morning mails out of the metropolis. The considerable reductions which have recently been made in the rates of foreign correspondence have tended very ma terially to multiply the duty in that department, and it has been found necessary to afford additional facilities in con nexion therewith, by taking down the stone staircase at the eastern entrance to the portico from Foster-lane. The space which it occupied is now fitted up with pigeon-holes and boxes, to be used for the purpose of facilitating the duty. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, Lord and Lady Seymour, and a select circle, have been enjoying the hospitality of Mr. R. B. Sheridan, M.P., and Mrs. Sheridan, at Frampton House, Dorset. The Duke of Cleveland will take the chair at the meeting of the County of Durham Agricultural Protection Society, to be held in the city of Durham , OnMonday to adopt a memorial to the Queen, and petitions to both Houses of Parliament, in support of pro t e ction to agriculture not less than at present existing L ARREST or OLE B U LL.—Phis em inentviolinist was recently arrested at Baltimore, Ohio, under the follow ing circumstances : —A contract was made by Ol e Bull's agent with Mr. Barton, of Philadelphia, for Ole Bull to play four nights at the Arch-street Theatre. Mr. Barton agreed on his part to furnish a full and complete orchestra to accompany Ole Bull, who went to Philadel phia from Boston to fulfil the engagement, taking with him Signor Le Mauna to conduct the orchestra. 'Upon his arrival he found Mr. Barton could not procure the orchestra, and wished him to play with a piano accom paniment, which he refused to do. He.thereby was at considerable expense in going to that city to fulfil the contract. Thus the matter stood for more than a year, until, not long ago, in Baltimore, Mr. Barton had him arrested, just as he was about leaving his hotel for the purpose of performing at his concert. _ SIMAIONDS'S COLOR !AL MAGAZINE. The Colonial for the present month contains, as usual, much valuable information on the present state of our colonial empire. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. Harry Hienver concludes his valuable series of papers on the "Edu:cation of Horses," which we hope to see republished in a cheap form, so that they may become the wade mecum of horse owners and grooms in the realm. He also contributes a spirited hunting song. " Phiz" has joined the artistical corps of the Sporting Magazine, and gives us a grotesque, but spirited, engraving of a French sporting turn-out. The other illustration is a portrait of Echo and Hornet, engraved by Hucker, after Laporte. UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. The present number opens with a most valuable article, illustrated by mathematical diagrams, on the submarine propeller, or Archimedean screw, an article worthy the study of every marine engineer. The paper on the " Military Feeling, Institutions, and In struction of Great Britain," furnishes matter for grave thought. There is no doubt but that mere attention must be paid to the military instruction of the people generally, and that we must have some in stitution analagous to the Land Wher of Prussia, or the National Guard of Fra nce , if we w i s h t o defend our country against an invader. Capt. Airey con tinues his interesting narrative, " The Cabul Cap tives ;" anti Colonel E. Napier furnishes some valuable remarks on the Egypt and the French expedition of 1798. The remaining articles of this number are all good. THE MEETINGS OF THE MONTH. (From the Almanack of the Month.) During the past month great numbers of meetings have been held upon the subject of corn. These meet ings have been divided into two sets, and the business of each set has been to contradict, in the gross and in detail, everything the other set had said. But, as Euclid justly remarks, two parallel lines can never meet, and two parallel meetings can never do any good by meeting. It was at last suggested that amalgamation, so successful in railways, should be tried with the railers, and the happiest results followed the adoption of this course. A deputation of agriculturists met a deputation of free traders ma the stage of Covent-garden Theatre, their re spective adherents dividing the house between them. The extreme courtesy and relevancy ,of the arguments which both have so long adduced in reply to each other, cannot fail to strike the contemplative reader. A fight of course took place as to who should be Chairman, but ultimately Mr. Eisenberg, the chiropedist, was chosen ; a distinguished nobleman vouching for him (as per advertisement) that in his corn operations Mr. Eisenberg " displayed the skill of a scientific practitioner and the care of a humane man." The question being one especially needing science and humanity to solve it, no selection could be better. Mr. COBDEN 'Commenced the debate by remarking that corn was an article Mr. MILES denied that. Corn was a noun. Mr. COBDEN acquiesced. Corn was a noun, and he hoped soon to see it a noun of multitude. The Duke of RICHMOND said that it was of no use offering a penny roll for a halfpenny to a man who had only a farthing. Why did not the manufacturers raise the rate of wages ? Mr. BRIGHT inquired why the landlords did not lower the rate of rents ? Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL said, because the farmer was the sou of the soil. Sir B. H. INGLis said that no person was blind to some person's designs. Even potatoes had eyes. Mr. COBDEN threw back the potatoes in the Baronet's teeth with disdain. Dr. BUCRLAND said that good peas were very nice. Mr. BRIGHT agreed, and said that so were pine apples. But how were the poor to get them ? Dr. BUCRLAND said that such an objection was un worthy a candid disputant. As for decomposed potatoes, why should decomposed potatoes be more objectionable than decomposed partridges ? The CHAIRMAN objected to the introduction of the game question. Mr. COBDEN said there could be no doubt in any reasonable mind that the repeal of the corn-laws would make bread much cheaper. Mr. MILES said that no rational being could hesitate in believing that the abolition of the duties would double the price of bread. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said that things were not so bad• as bad been represented. He had that day dined with WLord - Mayisr, and could assure the meeting that he had found plenty of bread and very good potatoes. The newspapers exaggerated everything. Lord MORPETH was for doing everything reasonably. He would instance the corn in bond. Mr. BRIGHT would have no corn in bond—it should be entirely free. The Duke of RICHMOND did not doubt the benevolent intentions of the Anti-Corn-law League. Mr. COBDEN was much obliged, but the League wanted bread and not butter. Colonel SinTnonp said he would be hanged if he coin cided with the ;Duke. All the manufacturers wanted was to make corn cheap, that they might have an excuse for paying low wages. Bother the League. Mr. R. R. R. MOORE said that there would soon be a general election, and then Government must choose be tween giving up the corn and receiving the sack.; The Duke of RICHMOND said that so far from giving up the corn, he hoped the Government would not even lend the League an ear. Resolutions embody ing the spirit of the above speeches having been put and carried, the agriculturists rushed off 0.P., and the. free-traders P.S. The Chairman was about to propose a vote of thanks to himself, when he suddenly disappeared through a trap. Then the meeting went away. NEW CLAIMANT TO E HEIR AT LAW TO THE LATE JAMES WOOD, ESQ., OF GLOUCESTER.—The following account of the proceedings of a person claiming to be heir at law to the late Janes Wood, EEq., of Gloucester, the great millionaire, out of whose effects the lawyers have already had such pretty pickings, has been handed to us for publica tion. We print it exactly as it was received, without note or comment :—" We ar hap yto Steate this day the Sixth of Janarny 1846 that Mr. John Wood of Moorlane nr Brirleyhill Stafordshiro have duley Served his ejectments on the Steates and Propertay Belongen to the late James Wood Esqr. Gloucester cleaming hear at law and allsoo the Steatment of the dockement Gives him credet For his cleaim, it has Bin neoumorousley Steated Some time agone upon Kr. John Woods cleam, But By Some tredgeroua and Ea-real Perseed ings caused adlay in Bringing forward the dark and Smugled Eveal to light, and to pas Judgement upon them accorden to Gods lawes. Further it is considered By herbet Jenners Judgement, one of the aponeants hung him selve, its Soo posed he did not consider the tredgreay `'Vold of carried on Foolded So long, But the other aponeants may not have the chance, if the Shold Get in to the hands of Jack catch. Further it is considered By the Exameneashion of Sucb Wittness at Gloucester, and Gloucestershier, in the late James Woods afears, Will Prove Fetal and honnereate the hear at law to John Wood Esqr."— Worcester Chronicle. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE PONTOP AND SOUTH SHIELDS RAILWAY. SOUTH SHIELDS, THURSDAY. —An accident had just occurred here by the falling of an im mense heap of ballast, whereby two men employed in re pairing the Pontop and South Shields Railway. have been killed ; one was severely injured, his thigh bo ne being broken, and about a dozen others narrowly escai ed. The men, who are all railway labourers, were engaged in procuring ballast from an enormous bill, accumulated during a long series of years, having been brought from various parts, but princi pally from the Thames, by light colliers in ballast; and, in order to facilitate their operations, a temporary rail was laid down in connexion with the Shields branch of the N ewcast l e and Darlington Railway,. and running along an excavation close by the side of the bill. On this rail a train of ballast trucks was placed for the purpose of being filled, which was done by the men throwing the ballast from the hill side, on which they stood, into the waggons. The hill sloped very little, and its height was not less than about forty feet from where the waggons stood, and consisted of ver y l oose mate rials, being dry gravel, with but little clay mixed with it While the men were so engaged a large portion of the super incumbent mass suddenly descended, burying three of the m en, and partially covering several others. It completely tilled up the space between the bottom of the hill and the waggons, several of which were covered also. As soon as those who had escaped recovered from the momentary shock, they exerted themselves to rescue their comrades. All were got out alive except two, who were not found for some time, having been crushed in behind the waggons. Another had his leg broken, and he is not expected to live. One man was a long way up the hill-side when it fell, and he was carried completely over the waggon, and alighted on the ground without receiving any injury. The accident seems to have arisen entirely from want of due caution in undermining the superincumbent mass, and it is fortunate the loss of life was not greater than it has been. A LAWYER'S PICKINGS.—We understand that in the recent arbitration inquiry as to the sale of the Corporation land in Cheshire, the Solicitor-General's fee was 250 guineas with the brief, 300 guineas for coming down, and 100 guineas per day during the continuance of the arbitration. —Liverpool Mercury. CANALS. • I Names of I E nd l Divide Names ef '° Names Companies. A per , Price. Companies. 5 per Price. co i Annum. J O r d am ' Xi X Ashtn & Oldh, 97 51.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 81. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z l ll3 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 8!. 98 Barnsley.. -1160, 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 95 Basingstoke ,100 - - Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 365 Brknk&Abrgllso 51. 85 Nottingham . 150 121. 260 Cromford lOO, 181. 150 Peak Forest. 76 31. 40 Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's .. .. 33 11. 26)t, Derby .. •• • • 100, Si. 103 Rochdale .. • • 85 41. 54 Ellsmre&Chs 133' 4/. 80 Shropshire .. 125 81. . - Erewash •• • 100; 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd,loo' 4/. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. o. 11 GrandJunctn ' 100 j 71. 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440 Grand Union 100, 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh .1721 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. - Glstr&l3rkly,loo l - - Strtfrd on Av 79 1/. 10s. - Grantham • .1150 121. 100 Severn and/ 26 11. Bs. - Huddersfield., 57 20 Wye Rail. Kennt St Avn, 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1 c ,, ~,, Lancaster .•• I 47 11. 11. 40 sey, IA sh. j "" ' v. ' - Leeds& Livrp,looj 341. 525 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester .• • rl4O 101. 105 Worestr & I 78 41. 49 Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 62 Birming. Loughboregh,l42! 70/. 850 Wilts & Bilts 67 11. 4s. 11 iland• 1