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" No suitors' cash has ever, to my knowledge, been funded, nor has any dividend or interest been received thereon. " The Commissioners of the Court, being 242 in nnmber, are annually appointed ; and removable by the vestries of their respective parishes. " The two principal Clerks are elected by the Commissioners for the time being, in succession as their predecessors in office die or are removed ; and Mr. Christopher Cuff, of Half- Moon street, PiccP,dilly, solicitor, was, on the 22d day of April last, elected to that office, in the room of Mr. Grojan." STEAM CARRIAGE IMPROVEMENTS EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON MR. GURNEY'S CASE. The Committee on Mr. Gurney's case have, we believe re commended a Government grant to that gentleman as some ompensation for his scientific discoveries, in the pursuit of which he abandoned medical professional emoluments arising from a private practice, and a chemical lectureship, amounting to 1 ,300/. or 1,400/. a year. It appears that since thear 1831 more than 150 statutes, establishing prohibitory tolls, have been passed, all of which legislative Acts were levelled at his steam carriages. Mr. Gurney gave up his profession for the sake of prosecut ing his inventions ten years since. Within the last four months he formed an engagement which he thus explains : In January I was employed by the Trinity House, in conse quence of a request of the Chairman of the late Committee en Li ghthouses, to make some exper i ments on li g h t for the illuminatio n of lighthouses, in pursuance of some views which I published in 1823. Those experiments were connected with the lime light, a light produced f rom li me b y t h e com b ust i on of a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gas. The Lighthouse Committee have reported that this light is of great import ance connected with the shipping interest; and in conse- Silence of the subject having been proposed by me in 1823, I was crequested to foll ow out t h e su bj ect an d reduce it to d The following are some of the questions, with their answers in Committee : " Are the Trinity Board and the Committee on Light houses, who have inspected these experiments of yours, satis fied with their practicability?—They stated as much to me. " Now what materials is this new light composed of ? Oxygen and nacent carbon. " And what was its intensity compared with the oxy-hydro gen ?--The oxy-hydrogen light produced under the best pos sible circumstances from egg shells in equal to about 290 times that of the Argand burlier. The Bude li g ht 140 ; but fro m i ts great simplicity, quantity and certainty, is consi dered to be more valuable for the purpose of illumination of lighthouses. "In what proportion ?—One hundred and forty times greater than the Argand burner. " You not only gave up your profession, but this im portant subject of light, in order to follow up the subject of Steam carriages ?—Yes. Will you give a ge nera l s t atement o f your expenditure and your losses in pursuing the subject of steam carriages? --The direct and indirect losses amount to nearly 500,000/. " What is the reason, if you conceive the practicability and usefulness of your steam carriage to be fully proved, that we hear of so many failures by other people in running these steam carriages ?—Because they are in a state of experiment only; and many h ave neg l ecte d to use the actual requisites for p r actical perfection. Could they have used those without invading your pa tent?—forldo not think they could. Some of them use sepa ration. instance, without circulation ; others use circula tion without separation ; others use large boilers, too heavy hoavperbopeeenl themselves with any advantage. And the trials made, not with a view of practically applying steam engines to general use for roads, but rather for the purpose of trying new experiments, for think swhih the inventors hope to take out their own patent ? I so. " Therefore their failure does not at all show that your in vention would not have succeeded ?—Decidedly not. " The same difficulties which have prevented your applica tion from becoming lucrative on practical application, would have prevented the success of your experiments had they got over the mechanical difficulty , eventually as completely as you did? —No doubt of it. At the time I stopped I had no expe riment to make, except what would turn up and require im provement in long practice. " All the roads were not included in those turnpike Acts ? --No. What was it then, when yo u were d r i ven o ff t h ose roa d s, that has all this time prevented the application of your in ventio to the roads on which the tolls were not raised ?-... p oss ibility of First, th e want of sufficient means mys e lf : secon dl y , t h e im vvere getting any new contracts ta k en w hil e the tolls levying, and because on the roads which were known to be contracted for, prohibitory t o ll s were i mme di ate l y put on ; an tolls thirdly, bec ause a f ter waiting to ascertain whether the would be taken off or still levied (we waited the result of the Bill which was brought into the House of Commons for that purpose, and which Bill was thrown out in the Lords), no one would now become engaged in the subject, and no one would dare to go on any road as a new contractor, from the refusal, as it was believed, on the part of the Legislature to repeal those Acts, and in the belief that as soon as they ran on the road they would be stopped, and thus the subject has con tinued ; the old contractors, as will appear from this evidence, were all bound up by tolls on their roads. " How long did Sir Charles Dance run his carriage success fully 2—Four months ; upwards of 60 miles a day. " He has run upwards of 60 miles a day for four months, between Cheltenham and Gloucester ?—Yes. " Without any accident ?—Yes. " That was your carriage ?—.Yes. All the evidence exa mined in 1831, and in the last session, speak as to the fact; and Mr. Stone gives an account of the journies, the time, mi nutes, and all circumstances connected with it. If you had the means, would you establich a steam carriage in the p u bli c serv i ce ? Yes, directly. Can you refer to any evidence given before the Commit tee in the last session as to the indisputable fact of your being the first person who brought steam carriages to run on common roads point. to a pr ac ti ca l b ear i ng ? — All t h e witnesses agree on this " Do you think that the failure of the imperfect carriages has operated so much to prejudice the public mind against steam carriages, that it would require some time and a great deal of money to overcome those prejudices ?—lt would require a great deal of time and a great deal of money. " In consequence of losses you have sustained from the im position of those prohibitory tolls, and the suspension of your carriage, have you the means now within your reach of prose cuting the su bj ect ?—No, not to meet the difficulties ; not to prosecut e it, certainly. " What sum of money do you think would enable you to prosecute the subject, provided you had an extension of your Patent for five or seven years beyond the natural term of it, 3,and provided the prohibitory tolls were removed ? I think 000/, would afford me the m eans o f b u ilding a carriage, an d means of running it for a short time, so as to establish it against local opposition again publicly in the good opinion of capitalists, and possibly then I might be able to go on. " At present, according to the particular laws that now The,exis ther e i s some limitation as to the number of partners ? au ca nnot exceed five ; s t eam i n l an d transport i s too great su bject to b e i ntro d uced by one, two, three, four or five ; it must be introduced by large capitalists, not only to meet the Mechani ca l expense of building, but the opposition that will and must arise from interested persons. " Do you conceive that the persons who are now running steam carriages have obtained any of that knowledge from the workmen you were obliged to dismiss so suddenly ?—No doubt of it. " And which dismissal of your workmen arose from the imposition of the prohibitory tolls by the Legislature ?—lt becam e a matter of necessity on the suspension of the manu factory. " These prohibitory tolls were imposed chiefly in 1831 ? They were all imposed at the time the carriages were running at Gloucester. " Did not that Committee recommend the immediate re- Moval of those prohibitory tolls, and was not a Bill passed by the House of Commons to effect that object ?—The Com mittee recommended it ; a Bill was brought in and passed the house of C ommons i n consequence, but it was thrown out in Lords. " How m any proh ibi tory Acts were passed against you upon Your c arriage in 1831 ?---I do not n ow reco l lect the number full ; there were a great many. " All directed against the running of your carriage ?—All 111 I s e h con taining th e p ro hibi tory clauses. Were p ro hibi tory tolls imposed on all the great lines for you had enter e d i n t o contracts with other people ; some •mr- more, some less. O n t h e great north contract, Ward st a t es , on an average they were Is. a mile, Para. 6 68. " Does the evidence of last year generally concur in the Practicability of your steam carriage ?—The whole of the e vidence goes to prove it ; no one differs in opinion upon the subject. Does Dr. Lardner, Mr. M`Neil, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Far “tuaY, and other scientific men, all concur in that opinion ? -All of them, and also all the engineers practically engaged. have stated that the practicability is fully proved, but...a that the circumstances at the present time are less ere to you than they were at the time when you from re compelled to suspend your experiments ?---Yes, arising the circumstances I have stated. " And all those impediments have arisen i n consequence of legisl a ti ve interference?—Decidedly. The evidence of last session concurs in that opinion ? ." all goes unquestionably to establish it. " What are the rates of toll imposed upon steam carriages g . m e ner ally ?---In most cases about ten times as much as are posed upon horse coaches. It is very difficult to make out t he toll at all, and scarcely possible to draw a comparison with hor se coach es , b ut as far as I have been able, they vary from Isix to ten times as much. Some amount to 2/. lot. ; a great rlnrnber t o 1 65., Bs., 65., Es. ; horses pay ls., 6d., Bd. These Acts have been passed principally upon the roads contracted '°r, or proposed to be. tc For running your carriages ?—Yes." MORE RIOTS IN AIRDRIE. —These riots were re newed on M onday, when the military were obliged to be ll%called in. Nothing less than the extermination of every Ca :eregTs to be contemplated by the Protestant rabble.— Chronicle. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Earl of Lonsdale with his company at dinner on Sunday evening in Charles. street, Berkeley-square. Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, and M. Tri. coupi, the Greek Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. A deputation from the Van Diemen's Land Company, con sisting of Mr. John Pearse, Mr. Cripps, M. P., and Mr. Ewen, waited upon Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Earl of Glengall and Sir T. Farquhar had an inter view yesterday with Viscount Melbourne in Downing -street. Lord Hatherton also visited the Noble Viscount yesterday. The Commissioners of the West India Compensation Fund had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exche quer, in Downing-street. Lord Auckland, Mr. Spring Rice, and Mr. Poulett Thom son had an interview yesterday with Lord Glenelg, at the Colonial Office. The Greek Minister visited Mr. Poulett Thomson yester. day at the Office of the Board of Trade. Lord Holland had a dinner party on Sunday evening, al Holland House, Kensington. WINDSOR-MONDAY. Yesterday.afternoon, the Queen and her Ladies in Waiting attended divine service at St. George's Chapel. The Rev. H. Butterfield officiated as minor canon. The musical service was King's, in B. The anthem, " 0 Lord, our Governor," was very well sung by Mr. Harris and Mr. French. Their Majesties, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and a large party, went this morning to Eton College, about 11 o'clock, to hear the speeches of the Eton scholars. His Ma jesty was pleased to grant the scholars an additional week's holyday. Their Majesties and party did not stay to lunch at the Provost's, in consequence of the fete at Virginia Water. The King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, and the Ladies and Gentle men of the Household, left the Castle this afternoon in nine carriages for Virginia Water, where they will dine and spend the evening. It is expected upwards of 60 will sit down to I ' dinner. During the stay of their Majesties in town, at the latter end of this week, it is expected that they will go by water to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Enniskillen, at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn street, from his seat in Scotland; Lieutenant-Colonel Drum mond, at his s e at, L u dbury, f r o m Wales; the Earl of Belmore, at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat, in Ire land; Captain and Mrs. Milner, in Regent-street, from Brighton ; Count de Croy sal and Count Santini, at Craw ley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Paris ; Captain Ellis, R. N., and Mrs. Ellis, at ditto, from Sheerness ; Mr. and Mrs G. Prime and family, at ditto, from Sussex ; the Right Hon. Lady Blantyre and the Hon. Misses Steuart, at the Green Park, Hotel, 103, Piccadilly, from Leamington. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Cumberland, Prince George, and the Rev. Mr. Wood, for Windsor Castle ; the Earl and Countess of Howth and family, from Symmens's Hotel, St. James's -street, on a tour; the Marchioness of Lansdowne, and Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, for Bowood Park, Wilts ; William Wyndham, Esq., M.P., for Salisbury; Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., for Coventry; E. R. Tunno, Esq., M.P., from Upper Brook street, for his seat in Carmarthenshire ; Captain Cochrane, for Ireland ; William Turner, Esq., M.P., for hlolesfield ; the Rev. C. Eyre, for Carleton Rectory, Notts ; Hudson Gurney, Esq., M. P., and Mrs. Hudson Gurney, from St. James's-square, for their seat, Keswick Hall, near Norwich ; Mr. and Mrs. William Austin, from Brook-street, for their seat in Essex; Vice-Admiral Sir Charles and Lady Ogle, from Belgrave-square, for the Continent ; Prince de Broglie, for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Leigh, from Dover-street, for ditto; Sir John and Lady Franklin, on a tour; Colonel and Mrs. Hardinge, for ditto ; Colonel and Mrs. Ravenshaw, for ditto ; Hon. George and Lady Louisa Fortescue, from Gros venor-square, for Castle Hill, Devon ; Sir Frederick and Lady Bathurst, for Clarendon Park, near Salisbury ; Sir John and Lady Shelley, from Crawley's Hotel, on a tour ; Lady Selina Bridgeman, from General Pigot's, Wilton crescent, on a tour ; Admiral Sir Henry Bayntun, for Bath ; Major Lord William Poulet to resume the command of the 7th Fusileers ; Count Hatzfieldt, for the Continent ; Lord and Lady Harberton, for Dover ; Hon. Admiral Wodehouse, for ditto. DEPARTURE OF LORD DURHAM. EAST COWES, JULY 27, 1835. Lord Durham and suite embarked on board of the Barham at half-past ten this morning, under a salute from the Battery of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and the ship, with her yards manned, immediately got under weigh, with a fine breeze from the westward. Lady Durham has left for London. SOMETHING NEW FROM THE TORY VOTE MANUFACTORY. Mr. G. Sheddon has claimed a right to vote for four of his sons, in right of a rent-charge of 40s. per annum, conveyed to them on his estate here. This part of the island is suffering much from want of water, more indeed than ever known before. The appointment of Earl Durham is so agreeable to the Emperor of Russia, that his Imperial Majesty has offered to send a ship of war, in which his Lordship and his suite may proceed up the Black Sea. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice left town on Saturday. He is to accompany Lord Durham to Constantinople. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice left town on Satur day. He is to accompany Lord Durham to Constantinople. The Right Hon. Lady Blantyre, and the Right Hon. Misses Steuart, have arrived at the Green Park Hotel, Picca dilly, from Leamington. Earl Grey's proxy is in Lord Melbourne's hands : the statement of a weekly contemporary on this subject, is, therefore, entitled to no credit. HANOVER, JULY 21.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cumberland and Prince George arrived the day before yesterday at Heldesheim, and set out to-day for Pyrmont. The Marquis of Hertford's party, on Saturday, at his Regent Park Villa, was a farewell fete to the fashionable world, previous to his Lordship's return to Italy, where he will remain six months. Lord Brougham, in expectation of a long-protracted Session, has taken the house of Lady Honywood at Peters ham. In the pleasure grounds attached to this mansion, and overlooking the Thames, stands the summer house in which the poet Gay is said to have written the greater number of his fables. BRITISH ASSOCIATION.--The meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will, as already announced, commence in this city on the 10th of August. The Provost of Trinity College is the President elect. The Vice-Presidents elect are Lord Oxmantown and the Rev. Willi am Wh ewell, F. T. C. D. The Secretar i es are William R. Hamilton, M. R.I. A., Astronomer Royal of Ire land, and the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, F. T. C. D. Dr. T. H. Orpen is Treasurer. —Dublin Paper. THE LATE RIGHT HON. J. PHILPOT CURRAN. —On Thursday his mortal remains arrived in the Shannon steamer, and were thence borne to Lyons, to be deposited for the present in the mausoleum of the Right Hon. Lord Clon curry, the friend and political colleague of the illustrious dead. The removal was attended by the son of the deceased, W. H. Curran, Esq., and M. J. O'Kelly, Esq. The mother earth has long yearned to receive the relics of the most distinguished and patriotic of. her sons. Too long has it been a reproach upon Ireland, that she suffered the remains of that great and good man to rest in another land, " unhonoured and unwept." His best energies were devoted to her cause ; his talents at tained honour and maturity in her service ; and he clung to her with a fidelity unequalled in the history of public men. The Irish people have at length relieved themselves from this stigma upon the national character, whose distinguishing fea. ture has ever been an almost idolatrous reverence of the men who have struggled with her through her difficulties, and exulted in her success.—Dublin Morning Register. The late Mr. Egerton is immortalised as Henry the Eighth in Harlowe's celebrated picture of the " Kemble family." We are glad to learn, by the Hampshire Indepen dent, the Worcester Journal, and various other provincial Journals, that registration is going on favourably for the Re formers. The _Hampshire Independent says that two Re formers will certainly be returned for that county, instead of the stanch Tory and the milk-and-water Tory who at present represent one of its divisions. TALES OF THE RAMAD ' HAN.—The stories form ing this splendid series of fictions from the pen of Mr. St. John, who has lately returned from the East, are distinguished by that brilliancy of fancy and prodigality of incident which especially characterise the fictions of the East. There is no thing in them of the cold formality of the western world—all is enthusiasm and fancy—the reader is made to sympathise in the rapture of the author ; and his marvellous inventions are the more readily listened to, because of the great entertainment they impart. Mrs. Radcliffe, it is said, used to eat indigestible suppers for the purpose of dreaming horribly ; so did also Dryden and Fuseli : and truly all these, particularly the first and last, have given ample proof of their success in their pro ductions. INTENDED ROYAL VISIT TO GREENWICH Hos- PITAL.—On Saturday next, his Majesty, accompanied by his illustrious Consort and several members of the Royal Family, intend proceeding by water to Greenwich, on a visit to the Royal Hospital, Naval School, &c., on which occasion a grand entertainment will be given in honour of the King to a large party of Naval Officers by Sir T. M. Hardy, the Governor of the Hospital. The most extensive preparations are making at Greenwich to receive his Majesty and suite, who will embark at Somerset House about noon, and, should the weather prove fine, the whole line of the river from Westminster to Green wich will present a very splendid and animated scene; for, in addition to the Royal barges, those of the Trinity House, Ordnance and Navy Boards, the Lord Mayor's state barge, and the shallops and boats of the City and other Companies, will accompany the Royal party down the stream. The pen sioners —among whom are many of his Maj es ty' s o ld compa nions in arms —and the children of the Royal Hospital School and Naval Asylum, will be drawn out in front of the Hospital THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1835. to do honour to the King and Queen. Arrangements are already in progress for preventing any interruption to the aquatic procession, and yesterday Mr. Ballantine, one of the Magistrates, and Mr: Symons, the Chief Clerk of the Thames, attended at the Home Office for the purpose of adopting mea sures to prevent the rapid speed of the steamers on Saturday, and preventing any interruption to the progress of his Majesty and the Royal Family. The whole of the Thames police will be called out, and the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the river, will precede the King and Queen. It is related of a celebrated Divine in the time of Elizabeth, that he was so devoted to smoking, that when be could not procure tobacco, he would cut the bell ropes and smoke the junk. LONG-WINDED COMMENTATORS.--HallebaCl l , a celebrated Professor of Divinity at Vienna, on undertaking to expound the prophet Isaiah, read one and twenty years upon the first chapter, without then coming to a conclusion ; and it is recorded of a celebrated Jewish Rabbi, that before he un dertook to write a commentary upon Ezekiel, he stipulated for 300 tons of oil for the use of his lamp. At the Collegiate Church at Manchester, last Sun day, the bans of marriage were published for 205 couples, who are anxious to be united in the silken bonds of wedlock. This is not considered in Manchester a large number, for sometimes the names of upwards of 400 couples are read on Sunday in the same church. There are eight other churches in Manchester where bans are published. BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON RAILROAD. —Yes terday morning an Irish labourer, of the name of Connor, who, in company with five others, was ascending the shaft No. 4, had his fingers nearly severed from his hands. He was obliged to let go hold of the rope, and was instantly precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a height of nearly 10 feet. He was removed to the North West London Hospital, where he lies without hope of recovery. THE EUPHRATES EXPEDITION.—The Sultan's firman for prosecuting the expedition on the Euphrates is made out and delivered both to Lord Ponsonby and Mehemet Ali.—Hannan Gazette. INDIAN FROG CONCERTS.—During a moonlight night, particularly after rain, these little animals exert their vocal powers to the utmost, in sounds as loud as the bleating of sheep. The burden of their song seems to be " Will you take an egg? will you take an egg ?" which they pronounce very distinctly.—Asiatic Journal. CHURCH RATE.—A meeting of the ratepayers of the Borough of Newport and parish of Saint Woolas, was held on Thursday last, the Rev. A. A. Isaacson, vicar, in the Chair. The rate was proposed by Thomas Prothero, Esq., and seconded by Thomas Powell, Esq. Mr. Frost moved that the consideration of granting a church-rate be postponed to the Ist July, 1836, when a poll was demanded. The sup porters of the rate claim a majority of votes on the vicar leaving the chair. Those who were adverse to the rate, state that, at the close of the poll, they had a majority of 37. A considerable number of the Wesleyan Methodist Preachers have already arrived in this town, most of whom have been engaged during this week in committees sitting to make up accounts and otherwise arrange business preparatory to the General Session of Conference, which commences on Wednesday. Of Dr. Warren and his case, nothing appears yet to be kno wn; a f ew d ays, h owever, will decide whether he intends to present himself in the usual way as a Member of Conference, or will wait the summons of the body to appear before them.—Sheffield Mercury. Mr. Bulvver's Novel of " The Disowned" has been selected as the next work of fiction in " Colburn's Modern Novelists." Like its celebrated predecessors, the present cheap edition is beautifully embellished by the Findens, and ele gantly bound in Morocco cloth. It is revised by the author, who has added a most interesting essay on the different kinds of prose fiction, with remarks on the writings of Scott, Miss Edgeworth, the Miss Porters, Miss Austen, Victor Hugo, Captain Marryat, Mr. Ward, Mrs. Gore, Goethe, Godwin, Morace Walpole, Fielding, Smollett, Le Sage, &c. Our distinguished Novelist then takes a review of his own contri butions to this most amusing department of Literature. THE FAST DAY.—The observance of this reli gious ordinance on Thursday, passed off quietly in and around Glasgow--thanks to the good sense of the people and to the fine weather. Many of the public works being open as usual, the working population were employed at their wonted avoca tions; but business generally was suspended. The traders of the city were, generally speaking, enjoying the delights of the country. Never, on any one day, did the steamers carry away so many passengers from the Broomielaw. The coaches, and canal passage boats, and railway carriages, were all in like manner crowded with passengers, and the number of pedes trians in and around the city, was immense. In short, as we before observed, the day was a holiday marked only by the pe culiarity of a church service ; and so far as our advices go, the same remark is applicable to its observance within a circle of at least twenty miles around Glasgow.—Scots Times. CEMETERY AT BATH.—It is proposed to form a cemetery near Bath, similar to the one at Kensal-green. The projector is a Dr. Wilkinson, a physician of the town, and the plan has met with general approbation. HARVEST.—Accounts from Italy state that in that country the harvest has commenced under favourable auspices ; and in some parts of France a considerable breadth of oats and rye has been cut. MARKET AT ENFIELD.—A corn and cattle mar ket is shortly to be open at Enfield. It will be held on Saturdays. _ SALMON FISHING.-The fishing in the Tay has been uncommonly successful for some time past, except at the upper stations. The number of salmon and grilses taken above Newburgh for the eight days preceding the 22d inst., was as Shipped for London, 1,424 boxes, averaging 16 Fish each... 22,784 Sold for private use 1,000 Weight, 79 tons 12 cwt 23,784 —Perth Courier BONAPARTE'S DANCING.--" Went to the Prin cess Talleyrand's, who told us some anecdotes of Napoleon which were amusing. She confirmed the accounts generally circulated, of his delight in mortifying women. Mon Dieu, Madame, que vous etes devenue laide,' was one of his ordinary civilities. She saw him dance very ill at the marriage of the Prince D'Aremberg with Mademoiselle Tascher, a cousin of Josephine. A negro, named Julien, one of his band, called to him roughly, almost every moment, to the right,' to the left,' set,' lead down,' &c. To see a negro give orders to the absolute master of Europe made her reflect."— The Life of Mackintosh. PERILOUS DlNNER.—During the siege of Oporto by the forces of Don Miguel, in which 23,000 lives were sacrificed, " in one of the most exposed angles of the place (says Colonel Badcock), and where the shot were conti nually touching the parapet, I was amused with observing an artillery officer and his wife dining together, she sitting full dressed in the Moorish style, with gold chain, ear-rings, and other ornaments, as if for a grand entertainment." The death of the Rev. Mr. Long, the brother of Lord Farnborough, was extremely sudden, and took place from a fit of apoplexy, while showing the house and grounds at Bromley-hill, to Prince Esterhazy and a party. GREAT SHIP.—The following particulars in rela tion to the " big ship," Pennsylvania, now on the stocks at the Philadelphia navy-yard, are copied from the Philadelphia Inquirer :—" 220 feet lower deck ; 217 feet length aloft ; 190 feet length of keel for tonnage ; 56 feet 9 inches moulded breadth of beam for tonnage ; 59 feet moulded breadth out side of wales ; 23 feet depth of hold ; 51 feet extreme depth amidships ; 3,306 13-95 tonnage ; guns 140 ; 18,341 yards duck bags, hammock, boat sails, awnings, &c.; total 32,965 yards; 11 inches shrouds; 16 inches main stay; 278 feet mainmast-93 yards 1 foot; 110 feet main yards ; 82 feet topsail yard ; 52 feet topgallant yard ; 36 feet royal yard ; 10,0001bs. sheet anchor ; 25 inches sheet anchor; 1,531 yards main topsail."—Falmouth Packet. THE Swiss.—The Swiss Diet has decided that the militia of all the cantons shall henceforth bear but one and the same flag and cockade, composed of the colours of the Confederation, namely, red and white, while hitherto there have been as many flags as there are cantons. This resolu tion has been adopted by all the four States that formed the Sarnian League, which reject with alarm every measure, tending to a more close centralization of the institutions of the country. Fourteen persons have been committed to Horsham to take their trial at the ensuing Assizes, for a riot, and assault on the constables and authorities of the town. DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a melancholy accident occurred at Tolgooth mine, near Red rooth, by the bursting of a steam-boiler. It appears that while 13 men w ere c h ang i ng th e i r d ress i n t h e engine-house, for underground work, the boiler burst, killing three on the spot, and another has since died from his wounds. The re maining nine are all more or less injured, and some of them arc in a dangerous state.—Falmouth Packet. FOUND DROWNED.—Near Wandsworth Piles, early yesterday morning, was discovered floating the body of a man apparently between 40 and 50 years of age, of re spectable appearance, clear complexion, good teeth, hair ra ther grey, and scanty on the top of the head, and about five feet eight or nine inches in height ; had on a black coat and waistcoat, dark drab trousers, white stockings, and shoes; had in his pockets when found no money, but various arti cles, consisting of a small red pocket case, containing nu merous likenesses, seemingly half finished, with other little pencil sketches, and an eye-glass, bound round with a string, in his waistcoat pocket. The body is now lying to be owned at the French Horn, Wandsworth, where it will await the Coroner's inquest. FRATRICIDE.—An awful case of homicide oc curred on Tuesday, at Tallagh, in this county—that of one bro ther by another. The parties were butchers, named Neill, and had been at a fair the day before. The brother of the wife of the deceased spent Monday evening in the house, previous to his starting for Cork, to go to America, on Tuesday morn ing. Very early on Tuesday morning this man proceeded on his way, accompanied a few miles on the road by his sister, the two brothers being locked in and intoxicated. It would appear that, during the woman's absence, some dispute oc curred between the two brothers ; for, upon her return, she found her husband lying dead upon the lap of his brother, un der circumstances which indicated that fratricide had been just committed ; and the wretched man was wiping the blood from the face of his victim. The deceased, James Neill, was the owner of the house—the surviving brother, John Neill, is an unmarried man. They lived together, and were always con sidered quiet men, aad very much attached to each other, ex cept when in liquor, at which time they were apt to be quarrel some. John Neill is in custody, a verdict of wilful murder having been returned against him by the Coroner's inquest.— Interlard Mail. HULL ELECTION COMMITTEE. At the sitting of the Committee this morning, Mr. Serjeant Spankie, on the part of the p e titi oner , s t ate d, t h at h e an d hi s Learned Friend, Mr. Wrangham, had come to the determi nation of offering no further opposition to the sitting Member, as they did not wish to take up the time of the Committee needlessly, or put their client to any further expense, unless they saw a fair chance of success. The Committee accordingly resolved that Colonel Thompson was duly elected for Hull, and that neither the petition nor the opposition to it were frivolous or vexatious. IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL The following are the material provisions of the Bill for the Reform of the Irish Corporations, in which, it will be per ceived, contrary to statements hitherto made, the city of Dub lin is included. The Bill will declare, almost in the words of the English Bill—that " Whereas divers bodies corporate at sundry times have been constituted within the cities, towns, and boroughs of Ireland, to the intent that the same might be for ever and re main well-regulated and be quietly governed. And whereas, partly by defects in the charters granted and conferred to the said inhabitants of the said cities, towns, and boroughs, and partly by change of circumstances since the said charters were granted to the said bodies corporate, for the most part have not for a long time answered the good purposes intended, and are not now useful and efficient instruments of local go vernment. Be it therefore enacted, that so much of all laws, statutes, and usuages, and so much of all royal and other charters, grants, and letters patent, rules, and ordinances now in force relating to the several boroughs in the first column of the schedules A. B. and C. to this Act annexed, or to the inhabitants thereof, or to the several bodies, or re puted bodies corporate named in the second column of the said schedules, or any of them, as are inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed and annulled." The Bill then enacts that after the passing of the Act, Cor porations are to be styled Mayor and Burgesses, the said Mayor signifying the chief officer of a borough by whatever name he is now called, and burgesses shall be construed to mean citi zens in the case of a city. Occupiers of houses and shops of the value of 101. in bo roughs named in schedule A, and of the value of 51. in sche dule B, to be burgesses if resident within seven miles. Burgesses who cease to be occupiers or neglect to pay their rate, are to be omitted from the burgess-roll; but may be re. stored at any subsequent revision of the burgess-roll. No person shall be admitted or enrolled a freeman or bur gess of any borough, or a member of any body corporate, by any right or title other than by residence, occupancy, and pay ment of taxes. Churchwardens of each parish are to make out alphabetical lists in the present year of persons qualified as burgesses, and deliver the same to the town-clerk, who shall keep a true copy, to be perused by any person without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the 14 days next following. In boroughs divided into wards (such as Cork) the alder man of each ward is, after he is appointed, as hereinafter pro vided, to make out a list of all persons entitled to be burgesses, sign the same, and deliver it to the town-clerk, and in places not divided into wards, then by the town-clerk; and where there is no town-clerk, then by some person to be appointed by the mayor. List of claimants and persons objected to be punished—the mayor to revise such lists upon due proof, and insert and ex punge names. In every borough there shall be elected a certain number of persons who shall be called "the council" of such borough, and one person who shall be called " the mayor" (the number so to be elected of the council for each place or schedule is not yet fixed). No person to be qualified to be elected mayor or councillor, or a charitable trustee, who shall not be a bur gess of the borough, or during such time as he shall hold any office or place of profit other than that of mayor in the gift or disposal of the council or charitable trustees of such borough, or during such time as he shall have, directly or indirectly, by himself or a partner, any share or interest in any contract with such council or trustees. Every burgess who shall be enrolled on the burgess-roll shall be entitled to vote in the election of eouncillors for such borough, and no person who is not enrolled can. The burgesses enrolled in every borough shall openly as semble and elect the council on a certain day (not fixed) in every succeeding year ; one-third part of the council to go out of office annually—those to go out in 1836 to be those who were elected by the smallest number of votes in the preceding year • those who are to go out in 1837, who had the next smallest number of votes in the present year; and thereafter those who have been for the longest time in office without re election. Provided always, that any councillor so going out of office shall be capable of being forthwith re-elected, if then qualified. - The 'elections are to be held for the time being before the alderman of the ward in the presence of two assistant inspec tors to be appointed by the mayor and council, the voting to commence at nine in the morning, and to close at four in the evening. Every burgess may vote for any number not exceed ing the number of councillors then to be chosen, by delivering to the alderman or mayor a voting paper, containing the Christian names and surnames of the persons for whom he votes, their places of abode, being previously signed with the name of the burgess voting written in his own hand, and the property out of which he has enrolled stated. There is to be no inquiry of the voter except as to his iden tity, and whether he has voted before. The boroughs in the first division of schedule A to be di vided into wards—the limits and numbers of such wards to be ascertained by Commissioners, to be appointed by the Lord- Lieutenant, and to contain, as nearly as may be, equal aliquot portions of said cities and towns respectively. Upon the re turns being made to the Lord-Lieutenant, he is empowered to declare the number, &c. of the wards in schedule A. In these wards so divided, the burgesses of each ward are to elect the councillors before the person whom the mayor for the time being shall appoint, and in every succeeding year before the councillor whom the councillors chosen in such ward shall yearly appoint in that behalf, who shall be called " the alder man" of such ward. The election of Mayor in the present year is provided for thus :—That on the day next after the day in this year on which the council of any borough shall be elected, the said council shall elect out of the councillors of such borough a fit person who shall continue in office till the year 1836 ; and so in every succeeding year. The election of aldermen of the ward is to take place on the day next after that upon which the councils are chosen. Mayors or councillors are not to act until they have made a declaration of acceptance of office to this effect : " I, A, B, having been elected mayor (or councillor, or alderman of the ward), do hereby declare, that I take the said office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties thereof, according to the best of my judgment and abilities." If any mayor or councillor shall be declared bankrupt or insolvent, or shall absent himself from the borough, he shall lose his office. Every burgess who, being elected to the office of mayor, councillor, or alderman, shall decline to fill it, to pay a fine (not fixed). The mayor is to be a justice of peace for the county, as well as the borough, and to be the returning officer at elections of Members to serve in Parliament. The councils of the cities of Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny, Li merick, and Waterford, and in the counties of the towns of Carrickfergus, Drogheda, and Galway, are to elect a sheriff annually, who is to have the same powers as the present sheriffs ; and also a coroner in every borough in which a sepa rate court of sessions shall be holden. Persons in office at the time of the first election of council lors under this Act, and who shall be removed, shall be entitled to an adequate compensation, to be provided out of the borough fund for the salary, fees, and just emoluments of the offices which they shall cease to hold, regard being had to the manner of his appointment to the said office, his time or interest therein, and all other circumstances of the case. All acts to be done, or questions - to be decided, by town. councils, to be decided by a majority of those present, two thirds of the whole number to be a quorum. Excise certificates are to be granted by the town-councils ; they are to have the same power as justices, under the 3d and 4th of William IV. ; to appoint charitable trustees ; to become visitors and trustees of all acts of which corporations were, ex officio, trustees, &c. They, with the mayor, are to be a watch committee, to appoint constables for the borough, who shall be constables fo r th e coun t y a l so , w h ose powers are d e fi ne d . On notice of appointment of constables, the present provisions in local Acts, as to watching, are to cease ; the arms, accoutre ments, &c., of present constables, are to be given up to them, under a penalty; and the council are empowered to assume the powers of commissioners, under 9th Geo. IV., for paving, lighting, or cleansing towns. All corporate property and all fines to be a borough fund, out of which the salaries of the recorder, town clerk, treasurer, and other officers are to be paid. The councils of the boroughs in Schedules A and B may name persons to act as justices of the peace, and recommend them to the Crown—the parties to be resident, or within five miles of the borough. SCHEDULE A.--DIVISION I. BOROUGHS TO BE DIVIDED iNTO WARDS, AND TO HAVE SE- Belfast Carlow Clonmel Cork Drogheda PARATE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE. Dublin Londonderry Dundalk Newry Galway Sligo Kilkenny Waterford Limerick Wexford This Division contains all the Boroughs visited by the Muni cipal. Commissioners, th• population of which exceeds 10,000. DIVISION 2. This division contains the Boroughs, the population of which is under 10,000 and exceeds 8,000. BOROUGHS NOT TO BE DIVIDED INTO WARDS. Armagh Dungarvan Tralee Bandon Ennis Youghal Carrickfergus Kinsale 4 4, SCHEDULE B. BOROUGHS WHICH ARE NOT TO HAVE A commissiox OF THE Athlone Castlebar Callan Coleraine Cashel PEACE, UNLESS ON PETITION AND GRANT. Dungannon Mallow Downpatrick New Ross Enniscorthy Portarlington Enniskillen Tuam Lisburne * This schedule contains the Boroughs visited by the Commis sioners; the population of which is less than 8,000, and exceeds 5,000, and those under 5,000, which return Members of Parlia ment. We learn from the Cheltenham Free Press, that a railway between Oxford and Cheltenham is projected. THE BALTIC TRADE. In consequence of the delay which has frequently taken place in the delivery of letters by the Hamburgh mail, a letter was addressed by the Secretary of the Committee of Merchants in the Baltic and other trades to Sir Francis Freeling upon the subject. The letter stated that on occa sions of late nearly four hours bad elapsed from the time of the arrival of the Hamburgh mails and the period when the letters were delivered, which had occasioned great inconve nience to the merchants, and that on the arrival of the last Hamburgh mail the letters were not delivered until seven o'clock in the evening, by which numerous orders were left uncompleted till the following day. The following letter was received from Sir Francis Freeling upon the subject " General Post-office, July 21, 1835. " Sir—lmmediately on the receipt of your letter of yester day, I made the necessary inquiries upon the subject to which it refers, and I beg to acquaint you that, in consequence of the large additional influx of foreign and ship letters, the de parture of the letter-carriers from hence, which is always later on Monday, was still more so yesterday, and the return of a part of them to prepare for a second delivery was proportion ably retarded, which prevented an earlier hour being fixed for the distribution of the Hamburg') mail. " The Postmaster-General is most anxious to afford all possible facilities in this respect to the merchants of London, and, since the former occurrence to which you allude, he had ordered arrangements to be made to facilitate the delivery of foreign mails arriving late in the day. His Lordship is also adopting measures by which it is hoped a second distribution by the letter-carriers of foreign letters received at the Post office, while they are engaged in their first delivery, may be accomplished earlier than it has hitherto been, and you may rely on our best exertions for that object.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, ( Signed) " F. FREELING, Sec. " To W. Wilson, jun., Esq., Baltic Coffee-house." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. In consequence of the absence of all the subscribers at Goodwood Races there was no attendance yesterday. GOODWOOD RACES. Goodwood, Monday Morning. The number of horses already arrived is so much greater than has been known at any former meeting that the promise of sport held out by the calendar cannot fail of being realised. The following is as complete a list of them as the difficulty and fatigue of obtaining information in this neighbourhood have permitted us to procure : Duke of Richmond's Leopoldine colt, filly by Camel out of Gul nare, brother to Holkar, and Arbis colt ; Marquis of Tavistock's Oak Apple ; Marquis of Exeter's Beiram, Datura, Aurelius, Gla diator, Albania, and Ceta (Lamia filly) ; Earl of Chesterfield's Glaucus, Valiant, and St. Julian ; Earl of Jersey's Glencoe, Fly Catcher, Nell Gwynne, and Musquito ; Earl of Egremont's filly out of sister to Wanderer; Mr. S. Herbert's b. c. Forward; Mr. Finch's Cecilia, Blenheim, and Outcast ; Mr. Fox's Tipple Cider and Partridge ; Mr. Goring's Bentley and Pholus ; Mr. Etwall's Rustic and Revenge; Mr. Kent's Baleine, Whisper, and Gemappe ; Mr. Greville's Dacre, Preserve, Lieutenant, El Pastor, and brother to Stockport ; Mr. W. Edwards's Grenoble (Maiden f.), Chatter box,-Prince Llewellyn, and Tritonia ; Colonel Peel's Nonsense, Silvan, Castaway, and Bubastes ; Mr. Chifney's brother to Glau cus ; Mr. Wreford's Freedom and brother to Hester ; Mr. J. Day's Venison, Foozool, and Diana ; Mr. Kirby's St. Giles, Mr. Sower by's Rioter, Mr. Bloss's f. by Mameluke, Mr. W. Day's Came leopard, Mr. Robertson's Olympic ; Mr. Houldsworth's Festival, Mr. Gardnor's Skirmisher, Sir L. Glyn's Galatea colt, Mr. Theo bald's Rockingham, Mr. Forth's Lady Fly, Marpessa, Cetus, and Louisa ; besides twenty others which have been sent for the plates, &c. &c. The ground is so dreadfully hard that the horses' legs must ine vitably suffer ; indeed it is hinted that one or two have already given way. It is the impression here that Glencoe will not run for the Cup, but that he will be kept for Brighton. The list of visitors at the Duke of Richmond's house is this year confined to gentlemen ; it includes the following : —Lords Tavistock, Verulam, Jersey, Exeter, Wilton (the steward), Conyngham, Al bemarle, Uxbridge, Fitzroy, G. H. Bentinck, Lichfield, Orford, Villiers, Stradbroke, G. Lennox, and W. Lennox ; Colonels Peel and Udny ; Hon. Captain Byng ; Messrs. Greville, Payne, Irby, and Cosby ; and Captain Hunter. It is more than probable, how ever, that the debate in the Lords on the Municipal Corporations Bill will occasion several alterations in this list. The following arrivals have also taken place in the immediate neighbourhood, or are hourly expected :—Marchioness of Exeter, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Lord Southampton, Sir Francis Goodricke, Lord Rokeby, Count D'Orsay, Sir M. Wood, Lord John Fitzroy, Sir W. Cole, Lord Audley, Hon. Captain Spencer, Mr. Poyntz, Mr. Standish, Mr. Lyne Stephens, Hon. B. Craven, Colonel Peel, Lord Andover, &c. Bognor is filling rapidly, and most of the lodgings at Chichester, Little Hampton, &c., are engaged. The races commence to-mor row with the Drawing-room and Levant Stakes, Innkeepers' Stakes, &c., particulars of which we gave some time back. No change in the betting. MID-LOTHIAN YEOMANRY RACES, JULY 18 Barnton Squadron Cup.—Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Currer's Goliah 1 2 1 Mr. J. Laing's, jun., Linkboy 2 1 2 Edinburgh Squadron Cup.—Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Bonar's Allegro Mr. Walker's Scapement Mr. A. T. Blackwood's The Troubadour... Mr. Cheync's Rocket 4 4 Mr. Connell's Matilda 2 6 Mr. S. R. Fergusson's Catton Dalkeith Squadron Cup.—Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Wilson's Maggy Lauder Mr. Harper's Jessie Mr. Watson's Cock Mr. Taylor's Vestuve. Dalmahoy Squadron Cup.—Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Glen's Little Johnny Mr. Buchanan's Juliana ... 2 3 Mr. Fontaine's Independent ... Musselburgh Squadron Cup.—Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Gray's Tamworth J 1 Mr. Aitken's True Briton Mr. G. Grieve's King David... 3 dr I3arnton I2st. Cup.—Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. James Laing's York Mr. Croall's Creeping Jean Mr. Inglis's Hcxham A Cup, value 50/., given by the Duke of Buccleuch. Once round and a distance. Mr. Currer's Goliah Mr. Connell's Matilda Mr. Blackwood's Troubadour Mr. J. Laing's Linkboy Mr. King's Cashier Edinburgh Squadron.--Sweepstakes with 10 sovs. added by the Officers. 8 subs. Mr Bonar Mr. Gordon !epstakes for horses the property of Troopers. Once round 8 subs. Mr. Bonar Mr. J. Campbell Sweepstakes for horses to be handicapped and ridden by Members of the squadron. Half a mile. 14 subs. Mr. Walker Mr. Campbell 2 Sweo AQUATICS. LIMEHOUSE WAGER.—he inhabitants of the above place gave their annual present to the watermen of their stairs yes terday. It lasted all day, as below-bridge wagers usually do. Dison (scarlet) and Kirby (yellow) were in the grand heat. The swell from a steamer swamped Dison, and the managers deemed it prudent to allow them to row the heat to-morrow. SCL'LLERS' WAGER.—Never was so great a disappointment as that experienced yesterday in the scullers' wager between Godfrey and Watts. Sporting men had taken much interest in the match, but if ever they anticipated for a moment that Godfrey was " a good card" they were much mistaken. Our prediction hrs been fulfilled. Godfrey started, but at the Horse ferry, the very moment that Watts was drawing on him, he failed in his pluck, and gave in. Watts rowed his distance pro forma. THE OARS WAGER.—The cutter match amongst the can. naile for the silver cups given by Mr. Lowan, of Wandsworth, came off yesterday. It finished, as these things usually do, by a wrangle amongst the Wandsworth men (the Union). They went in shore on coming to their destination without rounding the boat, of course losing the wager. The old Diana was the winning boat in fair play. The following were her crew :—. T. Green, W. Pullen, R.Wilmott, and B. Crowther ; T. Fader, coxswain ; colour, green. The match was well rowed. THE RIGHT HON. S. R. LUSHINGTON, M.P., AND CAPTAIN HANCIIETT.—Captain Hanchett came yesterday before Mr. Dyer at Marlborough-street :Police Office, from Tothill-street Prison, where he has been confined since Wed nesday last, to enter into the required sureties to keep the peace towards Mr. Lushington. Bail having been tenderpd and accepted, Captain Hanchett was liberated. A Voyage down the Danube by Steam, is the most interesting journey which an Englishman can take at this sea son of the year. It is but recently that steam-boats have been established on the chief of European rivers, and we believe that Mr. Quin is the first of our countrymen who has made an excursion by this conveyance through Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, &c., to Constantinople. This gentleman is about to publish a narrative of his voyage, embracing sketches of the countries through which he passed, and of the manners of the inhabitants, including practical instructions for such as may be inclined to enjoy so novel a route through parts of Europe of which few among us have any personal knowledge. His work will furnish an invaluable guide for the Danube and its shores. -------- CARVINGS IN WOOD.—At the Cosmorama, in Regent-street, there are now exhibited ten pieces of sculp ture in wood, by Peter Vaudermeulen, a Flemish artist, and brother to the painter of the same name, who is known by his battle pieces. Four of these pieces of sculpture, all of which are alto-relieve) are called the " Elements "—air, earth, water, and fire, They might just as well be called by any other names, as they have little to du with what they are said by the exhibitor to represent. They are, however, most elaborate specimens of sculpture in wood, and are equal, if not superior, to what in this country have been generally esteemed the chef d'ceuvres of the art—namely, the sculptures of the celebrated Gibbons. They represent dead game, flowers, fruit, fish; mu sical instruments, warlike instruments, &c. The remaining six pieces which form the exhibition are frames of pictures, carved so accurately as to resemble fruit, leaves and vegetables. These are equally well executed with the " Elements." These ten alto-relieves are said to have been brought from the Abbey of the Benedictines in Belgium, founded in the 11th century, under the invocation of St. Adrian at Grammout. This abbey was abolished by the French republic in 1797, and these works of Vandermeulen became, in consequence, private property. They are now exhibited gratuitously to the public; the pro prietor is desirous of selling th'em, and they are well worthy the visits of all lovers of high art, and of all collectors of rare specimens of the labour of the carver. EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL IN PARIS. We yesterday gave some account of a case which has excited considerable sensation in Paris, relative to an indi vidual named Bancal, a surgeon in the navy, who was ac cused of having murdered a woman, with whom he was in timately connected. It appeared from the act of accusa tion that in his capacity as a medical man he had endea voured to procure both his own death and that of the fe male, but that the latter only had fallen the sacrifice. Our readers will learn the result of this trial with some surprise. The prisoner is a young man, twenty-seven years of age, of rather attractive appearance ; his height about the middle size : his head fine and expressive, his dark eyes and hair, and arched eyebrows, contrasting forcibly with the fullness of his complexion. His demeanour was perfectly calm and resigned. The act of accusation having been read, the prisoner was closely interrogated, from whence it resulted that he had for some time been acquainted with the lady, Mad. Priolland, of whose murder he was now accused ; that he had kept up an intimate correspondence with her previous to his leaving France for Senegal ; that during his absence he had formed one of those connections common in the latter country ; but that on his return in 1834, he had renewed his intimacy with Mad. Priolland. It appeared further that the idea of mutual destruction originated with the lady, and that he had himself been only consenting to the act. After entering into lengthened details relative to the mode in which their deaths were to be effected (by adminis tering poison and bleeding), and which, though employing the same means, was successful only with the female, The PRESIDENT demanded whether he persisted in stating that Mad. Priolland was desirous of his putting an end to her life, and received an affirmative reply. The following witnesses were then examined : The first was a M. Casmecasse, a friend of the prisoner, who seemed to have been the witness of the last acts of the two intended victims. Mad. Priolland wrote to him in these words :—" This evening, after you are gone, we shall enter Charon's bark. The money we leave will meet the necessary expenses, and procure us a wooden cross a ith our names, Zelie and Prosper inscribed on it ; nothing more." He it was who received a bulletin written by the prisoner, describing the dying moments of Mad. Priolland, and who first ran to their assistance and opened the door of the chamber of death. The witness stated that he dined with them on the evening of the fatal attempt. Mad. Priolland was very gay ; she sang a romance which had some reference to the wooden cross for which she wrote. When questioned which of the two appeared to have the ascendancy over the other, he replied Mad. Priolland. Another witness, M. Mascrey, stated that a few days before he had paid Mad. Priolland the amount of a bill for 3,000 francs. He was well acquainted with the lady, whose gentleness of disposition he described as being one of her greatest charms. He did not conceive that she was a person of an excited imagination ; that, brought up by a mother who was very religious, she was not in the habit of reading romances. The same witness had never heard of domestic disagreement in her house, nor did he ever hear of Mad. Priolland entertaining any aversion for her husband. Four medical men successively verified the exactness and sincerity of the declarations of the prisoner, relative to the various circumstances connected with the long and frightful homicide, of which Mad. Priolland became the victim. All were of opinion that she made no resistance, and felt at a loss to explain how the prisoner could have survived the two attempts made by him to commit suicide. The ATTORNEY GENERAL (M. Plougouln) then ad dressed the Court. He said that Providence had withheld the suicidal hand of the prisoner, that he might be brought to the scaffold, to offer an example to the miserable parti sans of new doctrines. Without, however, dwelling on the acts of those who sustained this fatal theory, he energeti cally declared that no consent on the part of the victim could extenuate the crime. This consent must have been given in a moment of frenzy, which should have had no weight or authority with one who preserved his reason. Moreover, suicide was an excuse which was not admissible ; in such a case, the act of suicide is merely an endeavour to escape from human laws. He cited different judgments of the Court of Cessation, in which it was laid down that homicide was never admissible save as a means of legiti mate self-defence, and that suicide itself ,cannot be urged as a plea unless the object attempted be completed. M. Plougouln concluded by calling upon the Jury to condemn the prisoner in the name of morality and of civil law. " Our justice," he added, " may extend to indulgence ; but it will be no longer justice if it extend to impunity." The prisoner's defence was conducted by M. HARDY, who said that he saw only madness and fever in the acts now brought forward for judgment, and threw the blame of these acts on the state of public morals and literature, which Government did nothing, he averred, to repress. Nothing, be urged, could be effected by Courts of Justice in attempting to re-establish the moral code. Without, how ever, developing his ideas further, or admitting the power of religion to produce that restriction of morality, M. Hardy sustained that co-operation in suicide was not murder. He admitted the extent of the evil, but declared there was no law which could punish it, and affirmed that Baneal could not be condemned. M. PLOUGOULN, after some interval, again renewed his accusation and argument, which was eloquently answered by M. HARDY, and the jury retired to deliberate. At a late hour they returned into Court, and the foreman, in the midst of the most profound silence, stated the finding of the jury :—" Upon my honour and conscience, before God and before men, the verdict of the jury upon all the questio ns of the case before it, is, No ; the prisoner prisoier is Not Guilty. The prisoner heard the verdict with perfect calmness, and appeared only affected when his friends approached to congratulate him on his escape. Thus ended this remarka ble trial In future the defence of a prisoner, when accused of mur der, may be rendered a very simple affair. He has nothing to do but state the concurrence of the victim to the act, and the matter is settled perfectly to his satisfaction. At Copenhagen great precautions are taken to pre vent the introduction of the oriental plague :—" In conse quence of the purchases said to have been made by English merchants of the stock of cotton in Egypt, when such cotton is brought from places not suspected, without, having been duly purified at an acknowledged quarantine establishment, our Supreme Board of Health has instructed all boards of quarantine in Denmark and the duchies not to allow ships with Levant or Egyptian cotton on board to enter.—Ham burgh Paper. FORCED INSTRUCTION: How TO LEARN FRENCH. —A friend of ours, on a recent visit to Paris, thought it well to make a virtue of necessity ; and, in order to practice only the language of the country, so as to acquire facility in speak ing it, resolved to board in a house where no English resided. Being satisfied on his particular inquiries in this respect, ho agreed for his "pension" for a month, sent in his luggage, and occupied his allotted apartment. The first day's dinner-hour arrived, and he had brushed up his French to meet the nume rous party who sat down to it. Besides the head of the esta blishment, there were twenty-five at table, and they were—all Americans !--Literary Gazette. LORD BYRON.—The admirers of our noble bard will be not a little surprised to hear that an original Poem from his Lordship's per of nearly 300 lines will appear in the forthcoming Number of the New Monthly Mayazine—and, when we add that the subject of the said Poem is " The Na tural History of Love," we think we have said enough toraise the reader's curiosity to the highest pitch, and we doubt not it will be most agreeably satisfied. A twofold accident of a distressing nature happened within the last ten days at Reading. Mrs. Young, wife of Mr. Young, surgeon, met her death by jumping from a four-wheeled chaise, having been alarmed by the restiveness of the horse. At the funeral, on Tuesday, in St. Mary's Church-yard, some poor children ran to look into the grave, when the leg of a little boy, named Goddard, was broken, by falling in upon the coffin.—Berks Courier. CHlLL—During the recent earthquake in Chili, the earth was in some places moved in waves: in proof of which an English merchant ship, which was 94 miles front the land, and going seven knots, in a moment seemed to ba arrested, and her bottom grated as on a hard sand. So per fect was the illusion, that the master was in the act of lowering his boats to save the crew, considering the vessel ir revocably wrecked, when it was ascertained that there were no soundings even at 90 fathoms. The number of omnibus carriages for the interior of Paris amounts to 256, namely, 54 omnibuses, 26 Dames Blanches, 20 Tricycles, 48 Favourites, 22 Orleannaises, 14 Diligentes, 24 Bearnaises, 18 Citadines, 18 Parisiennes, 6 Ecossaises, and 6 Batignolaises. Their gross receipts during 1834 is said to have amounted to 11,000,000frs. (44,0001.) On Saturday morning, at six o'clock, a number of male convicts were removed from Newgate to the hulks, at Chatham, preparatory to their transportation. Among them were the Rev. James Sevencroft Blomfield (convicted of steal ing a gold snuff-box), Octavius Smith, and Charles and Wil liam Mann, and several others, formerly moving in a highlY respectable station in society, who were tried during the sit tings of the Central Criminal Court held this month. THE SWAN OF LOCH OICH.---A solitary wild swan may be seen on Loch Oich. It has sailed there for 30 or 40 years, in summer and winter " with arched neck be tween its white wings mantling." It had a mate, but about b 2 a o rb y a e r a o r u s s a t g h o a , n t h master th e epuke of a of Cumberland tradingN'esnsehl (more wantonlyenheb urned the old Castle of Invergarry), shot the bird. The Glengarry swan, however, kept its solitary range. Last winter, three other swans lighted on the Lake ; they remained a month or two, and it was thought the recluse would depart with them. But it had apparently no desire to change its wonted station. As swans have been known to live upwards of a century, we hope this faithful bird will escape accident and cruelty, and live through two or three generations more t o grace the shore of Loch Oich.—lnverness Courier. I