The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

VENING EDIT! ON SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL $. (I , IIOH THE DAILY ?AYERS Or TEITEaDAT.) (From the Globe.) It would be difficult to fix on an instance in which gross misrepresentation has been more unblushingly persisted in than is afforded by the statements respect ing Frost and his fellow-convicts, with which most of the Tory Papers still abound. We cannot rut repeat what we have already, in every form of language, stated, that in the treatment of these men there has been no departure from the course invariably pursued. No instructions were sent to the Governor of the colony respecting them ; he was left to the ordinary regulations which he is bound to follow in all cases, and from them there is no reason to believe he has departed. If it be meant that Frost our,'ht to have been placed in a gang of convicts working in chains upon the road, we take leave to differ fromjthe e pinion. To have subjected a man of his years, who had never been accustomed to muscular labour, to such work, ' , would have been torture, to be speedily followed in such a climate by death; and would have laid any Government -which had issued such directions, or bad allowed such an exaction, open to the;charge of vindictive cruelty. If it be pretended that there has been, in the case of Frost, or his companions, any favour, by remission of any of the ordinary rules by which the treatment of con victs is governed, or by any reward, in any form or shape, for the labour they perform, we beg a gain to deny that there has been any such remission , relaxation, or reward ; and demand of those who venture on the assertion that there has been, to a dduce the proof. We have reason to believe that the le tter which has appeared in the public papers as writter! by Frost, has undergone material alterations and interpolations ; especially as we have seen a letter from Frost of a very different kind, i n which he states that " he and his fellow-convicts were placed on board the Mandarin in the prison dress, and suffered severely from the cold, until pieces of ta rpaulin were given them, which they thre w over their shoulders." This certainly is at: variance with the statement that they were allowed, on reaching Port Arthur, to retain and wear part of their own clothes. We shall here close the controversy. If there be any Member of Parliament so utterly demented as to place the slightest confidence in the reveries in which the Tory journals have in dulged, let him move immediately on the meeting of Parliament for all the correspondence, and all other papers, which have any relation to the matter in issue, and we will undertake to say that the motion will meet with a ready assent from the Government. (From the Courier.) There is no foreign news of any importance in the P iris Papers of Tuesday, and the principal subject of interest in domestic matters is the disgraceful at tempt of the students and other revolutionary scions of . Young France to ass i s t i n an i ns idi ous a tt em pt to i nsult both the Queen and Prince Albert, through the mediu m of a th e at r i c al performance, to which we a ll u d e d y es terd a y. Thi s choice speci men of mischievous nonsense is entitled " I 1 etait sine fois un Roi et une Reiue" (there was once a King and a Queen), but the good sense of the Go vernment prevented this exhibition, which, although intended to ridicule England and the English, would probably hate been chiefly remarkable for covering its authors and all who assisted in carrying out their views, with contempt. Elsewhere we have given some inte resting particulars from the Times respecting this pre cious concoction, which appears exceedingly well calcu• fated to exhibit the character of the French agitators in its true light. They appear to be precisely the men who would injure in the dark, not having the courage to give eff.ict to their vicious imaginings in an open and direct min ner. " Willing to 'sound, and yet afraid to strike," these French patriots, as they style themselves, seem deter mined to show to the world that they merit the con tempt of all reasonable and thinking men. The journals are of course still occupied with the Fortification 11111, in which, it appears, M. Thiers intends to propose sere ral essential changes. M. Thiers was to make his re pert t 5 the Chamber on the subject yesterday. NOTEs FROM PARIS. FEMALE SCAVENGERS.—Shaine upon Prance, falsely ) led by its inhabitants " The Paradise of Woman," where the female race is degraded to occupations which England never imposed on her most worthless daughters. Orli) , the young and hardy of the stronger sex are em p',J; ed in the paria trade of scavenger in England, atone others being fit to cope with the discomfort of I,l'.9ing dust in summer, and continual mud in winter. 1. streets of Paris, however, at this moment offer 'the most distressing spectacle of age 1 and decrepit women, toning by dozens in the wet, heavy mud, with their miserable clothing also is saturated ; a drip ping broom or shovel is alternately placed in the girdle on their backs, and their wrinkled features are tearcely discernible through the splashings of crowds of e-srriages, which, whirling rapidly among these feeble yilti creatures, seem continually to threaten the rniseranle remnant of their days. There can scarcely be imagined niche deplorable spectacle than these aged worii.n tuch heavy work without 012 assistance of. and held so low in the consideration of the volatile braaxa that they are not unfrequently rhr.wn dowr. uy ficediess drivers, Another class of work which frequently falls to the lot of aged womeo is the fatiguing and chilly labour of carry ing water, luring the severe weather, to houses wh::re the fountains and pumps are froz..:n. As some :,f the supplied live on the iourt it or fifth floors of the tall le,,uses, the treadmill task of the infirm poor creatures is trdly- p by the two sous charged per baeliet. A dm d class of severe labour, often imp ose d on women 11„,e, is t h e , aw i ng aid cutting up of wood for feel, hich they do in all weathers in the exposed and owl:Lily court-yards. At the wood-stores purchasers can oon'y procure wood to larg e pi eces as i t comes from .! forest ;it is ther,,fare a trade to cut up the blocks logo convenient lengths for the fire-places, and near th • woof stores is generally seen a collection of men awl woolen, waiting to be engaged for that purpose. To: women are singularly expert with their sharp lVtle saws, which glide rapidly through the logs placed on a cross legged stand like a portable garden chair ; they then, unassisted, carry heavy loads of the cut wood to (testi:lotion in the cellars or up the eternal stairs, and ti.Lallv, with a few sous, and the mighty perquisr,e et the saw-dug - , they set uff happy and singing to seek simil tod. FAsittON OF 13zAttos.—"The hideous disgui se o f men wearing their beards unshaven is becoming very pre v in France. At. Ai times niustachioa and whis kc-• have b.-en eherisl , ed here ; but at present the us f the razor is going out of date, and it yr:u go to place, or by a public cori eyilice, you will tit,' -4i. least half the men with boards allowael g‘ow. N ,ir this fashio n ma y b e p assa bl e i n the Eait, wLitt tiie beard, never having boon cut, is fi c x;bl e , :toil of one uniform hue with the hair ; but far d flercitt is the else among Europeans, whose beards are converted into bristles from having been early shioied, and these bristles are of every tint from black, rusty, brown, red, yellow, drab, to white. In the army t'nere is no regulation on this point, and in the same ra g:l:lora you will sec some officers with small mustachios ooly, some with loos pointed ends like awls, others wish iperely a tip un the under lip, others with a fringe of whiskers entirely round the chin, and some faces in which one ma) look in vain for mouth or chin, so com pletely ,re they buried in the whole beard. Then, there ore peaked beards, and squared beards, and rounded beards ; smoothed beards and curled beards ; beards .‘ dressed with oil" (like Fontenelle's asparagus); beards polished ..sith blacking, called cirage de bathe ; beards steeped overnight in sugar and water to make thin crisp ; in Int, from the abomination of the long beards, and the abomination of the equally long hair behind, it is sorte'..'imes difficult when the hat is on to distinguish the Moat from the back l—Mornirig, Chronicle. T H E WEATHER.--This morning we have St continuance of the thaw with all its comfortless conco mitants. Yesterday afternoon we had a fall of sno.v. Within the twenty-four hours immediately preceding six o'clock, P. si., there were several remarkable changes in the weather. The minimum temperature in the Zoological gardens, in the Regent's-pal k, at six o'clock yesterday morning, was at 19 deg. Fahrenheit. At Hackney the thermometer at ten o'clock on Tuesday night was 33 deg., yesterday morning at seven o'clock it was 28 deg., and at noon stood at 36 deg. About noon there was a fall of rain, which soon afterwards turned to snow, which in many protected parts settled deep. The early thaw in the morning rendered travelling through the principal streets very unpleasant. The frost in the night, which was very severe, rendered the streets dangerous. Most of the om nibuses from the suburban districts came in with one or more extra horses. On inquiry at the Birmingham and other railway stations It was ascertained that there was no delay in the arrival of any of the trains, or the branch coaches connected therewith. State of the River.—The rain and thaw of yesterday considerably diminished the ice in the river, but there still remain vast fields of ice drifting up and down with the tide, and obstructing the navigation to a great extent. The tiers of shipping off the Tower, Custom-house, Rotherhithe,and Ratcliff still remain locked in the ice, which extends in a continuous sheet half-way across the river at those places, and during the last few days has done great mischief to the craft and s hipping Not more than ten steamers have gone up and d own t h e . Pool during the last five days, and some of them have worked their way along with great difficulty.—( From our Second Edition of Last Night.) TRANQUILLISATION OF THE COUNTY Ow LIIMICK.—Mr. Steele has just returned in a chaise orna mented with laurel. He has been triumphantly succes:- ful. The people of Patrickswell, Adare, Rathkeale, the Strand, Croom, &c. &c., organized themselves into O'Connell's police to put down the disturbers. This morning at day.break, the arms taken from a person in the employment of Mr. Lyons, of Croom, were returned, and Mr. Steele expects that on Sunday, at that town, he will get almost all that have been taken.—Lintrick Reporter, SUICIDE.—For some time past a number of panes of glass Lave been cut out and stolen from the large unoccupied hotel at the Queensferry-road, at the head of the new read to Granton Pier. A watch was set, and on Tuesday last a glazier belonging to Leith was caught in the act of cutting out panes. He was apprehended and brought to the Stockbridge watch-house, where shortly afterwards he committed suicide by hanging himself. Edinburgh Courant; NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ( From tho Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 13.—The new steamer, Driver, has roc ceded to the River to receive her engines, and be fitted with& her machinery. The departure 'of the Monarch, 84, from Sheerness to Spithead has been delayed, owing to that ship having driven from her moorings, and received considerable da mage, on Sunday, the 3d instant, during a heavy thun der-storm. Owing to the severity of the weather, the equipment of th-e Indus, 84, Captain Sir James Stirling, and Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, has been much retarded. Both sta'ps will, however, be ready for sea about the Ist February, The three iron steamers are assembling at Woolwica from Liverpool, and will leave this country for the Niger River, under the command of Captain Dundee Trotter, in the early part of May. The brig Rapid, 10, Lieutenant Tryon, is in the basin, preparing as a tender to the Royal George yacht. LOVE-MAKING IN CHINA. (Extract of a Letter from Chusan.) I was poking about the deserted town the day after we were assigned our several locations, when in a street, anything but a principal one, and at a window of a house anything but an inferior one, I saw, or thought I saw, a pair of eyes peeping from over a screen, and a pair of hands resting upon the top thereof. The house had its gable end to the street in which I was, and the window was the first round the corner. I caught the vision as I passed—l returned, and returned, and the eyes and hands were still there. Somehow or other I concluded that they belonged to a female, but, as it was clearly possible they might not, it would have been un satisfactory to go away wondering. I therefore looked over my shoulder, and no one being in sight, I very quietly slipped round to the door, and, not think ing it necessary to wait till it was opened, I ap plied my shoulder decisively to it, and it yielded to the persuasion. ,I had hardly got inside the threshold, when the eyes and hands I had seen made their appearance, in company with the rest of the proprietor, the whole figure in a state of evident trepidation. I believe you know I do not speak Chi nese, so I made no attempt to explain myself by words. I dropped on my knees, and would have kissed the young lady's foot, but she drew back, and I therefore kissed the ground two or three times, after which I placed myself on ene knee, and, concluding that Chinese have hearts as well as other people, and probably in the same place, I pressed mine with intense earnest ness, and looked—l am not exactly sure how I looked, bat I soon saw a woman is a woman all over the world, for her little eyes sparkled, and her little hands put back a little veil that was worked in gold thread, and her little feet pattered to wards me a step or two—l cannot say my goddess walked, and alto gether she appeared as much impressed with my ap pearance as a modest man could reasonably expect. I never was so surprised in my life at the ease with which I reassured her, for, between ourselves, I ex pected, being of China, the precious porcelain would break to pieces from very fright. I had only knelt two or three minutes, struck my left side three or four gentle slaps, and clasped my bands, just by the by as you squeeze a lemon, when I saw that I was any thing but a monster in her eyes. I would have given all possible promotion and prize money just to have been able to say a thing or two in Chinese, but it was out of the question. I had, therefore, but one resource ; I spoke English, and told her, of course, she had nothing to tear, that no one living should harm her, and that I considered she was a celestial of the first water, and no mistake, left for the express purpose of striking into dazzled bewilderment with her radiant beauty the without savages. All this 1 have no doubt she fully comprehended. In return she told me, in Chinese, that all her family had fled in terror, she supposed, for that on coming home late one evening from a tea party, she found the house empty—she was pre paring to follow, and had got nearly out of the Western gate, when her heart failed her at the sight of some of our men, and she returned. She added that there was not a soul in the house but herself, and that she had been very frightened, bet that she was not frightened any longer. Have you ever seen La 'Mate di Partici? Of course you have. Very well then, you know how I got at all this. The house was a very neat affair, indeed it looked like a large toy ; there were five or six apartments leading from one another, and up stairs, not exactly what we mean by up stairs, but yet above the others (the ascent was little more than a gentle plane) as many more. My little friend refreshed me with a luscious liqueur, which she gave me in a small glass globe, covered with gold fila gree work, and standing on a carved ivory stem, in shape not unlike our modern champagne glasses. I think it must have been decidedly intoxicating in its effects, for, though I took but two glasses, I felt en alloverishness very soon after. I might have gone to sleep, but the curiosity of my fair hostess kept me awake ; and find ing that I really was a very harmless thing to play with, she pulled rue about almost as much as if I bad been one of their own puzzles. I think I re mained nearly two hours with her, ransacking in a quiet way everything in the house, which she allowed me to do, seeing the pleasure the novelty gave ene. This whole affair appeared to me when I returned home like a dream. If women all over the world are not riddles, what are they? The girl made me un derstand as perfectly as if she had been brought up in a finishing academy near London, that I was not to tell a soul of her existence. She showed me pro• visions, dried fruits, and cokes, and wines, that would last her ten years ; and seeing that I understood I wits to be mum, which I made her do by pretending to sew my lips together, at which she laughed heartily aid clapped her hands, she invited me to call again, to which I said yes, by slipping behind a screen, spring ing forward, and seizing her foot, which this time she did not withdraw, but rather allowed me to examine, t.nd I cxn confidently say it was more like a small bag of %rainuts than anything else. I intend to keep my pro mise, and if I am not " found out" I don't think she will be, while things stand as they do at present. I have hardly time to add that I am, my dear —, your's very sincerely, —. A Madrid Correspondent of the Quotidienne states that tho Regency has ordered all the possessions of the Infante Duke of Lucca within the Peninsula to be se•• ques'ratcd. IRISH REFORMERS.—The Dublin papers arc nearly filled with the names of the requisitionists for the coming aggregate meeting. In a supplemental requisi tion the names of the Duke of Devonshire and the Earl of Fitzwilliam appear. At the meeting of the Hertfordshire Magistrates Quarter Sessions, at HAAford, on Monday, a scene of a rather singular character took place, and from the vio lence and excitement that were exhibited by the lower orders of the town, who had crowded the Hall, it was feared at one time that a serious disturbance would have taken place. The Court, it appeared, were about to take into consideration a report of Mr. Russell, the inspector of prisons, in reference to two cells that have been made at the bottom of the Town Hall for the reception of male and female prisoners while awaiting their trials at the Assizes and Quarter Sessions. The report of Mr. Russell was to the effect that he had examined the cells, and he consi dered that they were fit for the reception of prisoners. The moment this was said, a tremendous volley of groans and yells issued from all parts of the Town Hall, amid such cries as " Shame on you for attempting to put men into such dens"—" They are not fit for dogs"—" He ought to be kept in one himself," &c. An almost indescribable scene of confusion and uproar ensued, and the business of the Court was completely suspended. Lord Dacre, the Chairman, at length addressed the people in the gallery and the body of the Court, and told them their conduct was most dis graceful, and could not do them any service, and be begged them to be quiet and to allow the business to proceed. The uproar still continued, and at length the Marquis of Sails:. bury suggested that some of the parties who were disturb ing the Court should be trken into custody. Lord Dacre said he was unwilling to act with severity, but he would not sit there as Chairman and see the Court insulted. The uproar and confusion still continuing, the police were called upon to interfere, and one of those who was most active in making the disturbance was taken into custody and lodged in the station-house of the Hertford police. The question ohu irsts et w sh a a a t s n dtthlayeeeni cells se I put, ds e cl a a n r de shouldd b t t he ea used C si et h d a w i a r f m so rt a ht n he , eoapmi recep tion d i o n a o vo r ll t e he y of c of prisoners as was proposed. BANKRUPTCIES IN 1840.—The total number of bankruptcies in England and Wales gazetted the last year, was 1,425, being an excess of 342 over the year lig% Of these the greatest number (or 148) occurred in March, and the least (or 89) in October. In persons connected with manufactures there were, in 1840, no less than 336 bankruptcies. being an excess of 113 over the previous year. In the pursuits of agriculture there were 126, being an excess of 21 ; and in miscellaneous pre fessions and trades, there were 963, being an excess of 208. In manufactures connected with the cotton trade, there were last year 38 bankruptcies, being 13 less than i n 1839 ; and in the silk trade there were 7, being a decrease of I. There were in manufactures connected with the woollen trade 46, being an excess of 20; in the linen trade 14, being an excess of 10; in iron foundries 29, being 25 more than last year; in various iron wares 24, being l29, an be c in x g an excess of 65. In agricult ure there were 46 farmers bankrupts, - manufactures trades 49, c b e e s i s n g of a 2 n ; e x a ac d s s i o n f m 5 isc i e n ll b a u n i e l o d u in s g department under this hea d there was an in every other in. whilst in the previous year, there viere: s ; but crease. Of corn, hay, and hop dealers and millers there and wool were 43, being an excess of 2 ; o f cattle dealers 31, being an increase of 8; of dealers in coaches and horses 12, being an increase of I ; and of brewers, malsters, and distillers 36, being an increase of 11. In miscellaneous trades there was a decr ease only amongst i nn k eepers and victual lers, o f which the numbers were 106, being 8 less than last year. In the comprehensive class of merchants, bankers, warehousemen, agents, brokers, shipowners, and wholesale dealers, there wero 247 bankruptcies, being an increase of 70 ; in tradesmen, shopkeepers, and retail dealers there were 524, being 103 more than last year ; and in miscellaneous pursuits there were 86, being an excess of 43. In the three counties of Westmoreland, Rutland, and Huntingdon, there were no bankruptcies. The largest number of 277 was in Middlesex, being an increase of 18; in Lancashire there were 261, being an increase of 15 ; and in Yorkshire 194, making an increase of 5. In the whole of Wales there were 52, giving au increase of 35. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JAN. 14. KING V. CHAPMAN. This was an action for assault and false imprisonment brought by the plaintiff, a seaman on board the ship Mermaid, against the Captain, for having flogged him, on the voyage from London to Bombay. The plea was that the plaintiff had conducted himself in a mutinous and disorderly manner, which justified the defendant. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. Mr. THESIGER now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that it was against evidence. H• contended that the evidence completely negatived any charge of mutinous conduct, neglect of duty, or inciting the crew to mutiny. Mere disorderly conduct would not justify the infliction of so severe a punishment as flogging, because any trifling breach of discipline might be termed disor derly, although it certainly would not justify the de fendant in having recourse to flogging. The COURT thought there was no ground for dis turbing the verdict.—Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, J 414. 14. (Sittings in Banco.) ALEXANDER V. BIRCHFIELD. The plaintiff in this case is an auctioneer, and brought this action to recover the sum of 471., the amount of a check given to him by the defendant, in payment for two horses bought at an auction in the Horse Repository, Barbican. The check was drawn upon the bank of Young and Co., Smithfield, on the 10th of March last. The plaintiff at the time made some objection to receive it, on account of the lateness of the hour, it being then nearly five o'clock ; upon which the defendant said, according to the statement of two witnesses, that ho would take care it should be all right. The plaintiff the next day (the 11th of March) paid the check over to his own bankers, by whom it was on the next day, the 12th, presented to Young and Co. at half-past nine o'clock, when these bankers had stopped payment. The defence was that the plain tiff had suffered by his own laches in not having pre sented the check, at some time in the banking hours of the next day, as the Lord Chief Justice at the trial decided that he was bound to do, unless specially in demnified by the alleged undertaking of the defendant to make it all right. His Lordship said, moreover, that if the Jury believed the evidence of the plaintiff's son, that, after the failure of Young and Co., the bankers, the defendant said " It is fortunate I had not much money there, but tell your father, I will make it all right," they must find for the plaintiff. They did, however, find for the defendant, and the Solicitor-Ge neral now obtained a rule to show cause why a verdict should not be entered for the plaintiff. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1841. MANSION-HO USE. A big, hard-drinking Scotchman, named James Miller, was brought before Alderman WiLsoN, charged with having turned his wife, not only out of her bed, but out of her house, at three o'clock in the morning. The de fendant had been charged with brutal conduct to his wife upon a former occasion, and obliged to find bail. She had forgiven him for the twentieth time, but she found that he was so completely given to strong drinks, which provoked him to the use of his fists, as well as to the use of the foulest tongue that ever demanded money of a wife to lay out in gin, that she determined to leave her unfortunate case in the hands of the 11Iagistracy henceforward. It appeared that Mrs. Miller was a widow in respec able business and good circumstances, when about thir teen years ago she unhappily met the hulking fellow at the bar, who just wanted the comfortable situation of husband to an independent easy woman. Her choice was objected to by her relatives and friends, and she soon found that their judgment, not having any mixture of the blind passion in it, was the more correct, for he began to exercise the authority of a lord and master in the most awful manner, soon after he did her the honour to change her name. Alderman WnsoN—We have had this gentleman more than once at that bar before. Mr. Hobler said that Mr. Miller had been frequently brought before the Lord Mayor for savage conduct to his wire, who, notwithstanding his violent and drunken habits, more than once interceded for him. Alderman WILSON to Mrs. Miller—You say he turned you out of your bed and your house in this weather ? Mrs. Miller—At three o'clock in the morn ing he draged me out of bed, and pushed me out at the door ; I was obliged to call a policeman. Alderman WILSON—What have you to say to this charge, defendant? Detendant—Why, my Lord, my good lady and I have been sleeping separate for the last six months, and I thought that was too long, so I pro. pased to come to my old quarters, and that was not agreeable to her, so out she started, and I suppose she was afraid when she saw me, but she had no occasion, hr it was not her that I took hold of, but her pillow. Alderman WILSON—You must find good bail to keep the peace towards her for twelve months. Mrs. Miller said that it was only two or three days ago the sureties which he had been obliged to find to keep the peace towards her had been discharged. Alderman WILSON—We shall protect you against his brutality. Defendant—l beseech you not to be so hard upoa we. Her nieces arc the cause of the differ ence between us. Alderman WnsoN—They don't make you drunk, and send you to turn her out of her bed and her house at three o'clock of the morning, do they? Defendant— I assure you, my Lord, I'd never do such a thing again. zo away to Scotland at once, if you'll discharge me. Mrs. Miller said that she was unwilling to do the man injury. All she wanted was peace. God knew she had suffered for her imprudence. Alderman WnsoN—You shall not be subject to such dreadful annoyances. He must find unexceptionable bail. Defendant—l can't find bail, my Lord, and I pray you not to be so hard upon me. I'll tell you what I'll do : I'll go off this moment to Scotland, and then there can be no occasion for bail : I'll cut off at once by the steamer. Alderman WILSON—I must take care that you do not murder your wife before you go. Defendant—Send one of your officers with me to see me off. I assure your Lordship that nothing shall pre vent me. Alderman WILSON—It shall entirely rest with your Rife, whom you have so grossly abused. I shall remand you till Wednesday week. If Mrs. Miller intercede for you in the mean time, and she states that she has reason to believe you will go to Scotland and not trou ble her again, I shall attend to any request she may make to me ; but it all depends upon her. The Defendant thanked the Alderman and looked imploringly at his wife, who arpeared to be extremely grateful for the resolute tone in which protection the most complete was offered to her. Mr. Miller was then remanded. CHARGE OF SHOOTING NEAR YORK.----A case has kAst occurred in York which has excited much interest. Tho facts of the case, so far as we can collect them, aro as follow :—On Monday night, about eleven o'clock, a person named James Hallett, a labourer, and seven or eight other persons, were going from York to Fulford, rather in liquor and enjoying a spree on the road. The former had a rail in his hand. When they had pro ceeded as far as Fulford Church-lane, they met a young man named John Moor, an articled clerk to Messrs. Sharp, architects. Hallett went up to him and shouted " Boh 1" On this Moor said, " Stand back, or I'll blow your brains out ?" at the same time drawing a pistol from his pocket. Hallett not doing so, he fired and lodged the ball with which the pistol was leaded in the left side of the head, near the temples. The poor man fell as though he were dead. Mr. Hope, a surgeon, was immediately brought to the place by one of Hallett's comrades, and Moor was detained. The ball was ex tracted, but he still lingers in great danger. An examina tion took place at Mr. Wilkinson's, the Bay Horse Inn, Fulford, before Lord Wenlock and the Hon. B. R. Law ley, East Riding Magistrates, before whom the above facts were detailed. In defence, Moor stated that he was first struck at by the rail, and that he fired in self. defence, but the comrades of Hallett give a different version of the story. He also stated that he had taken the pistol with him because he had before been annoyed on the road. After a long investigation ho was committed to York Castle, to take his trial on the capital charge at the next Yorkshire assizes, but bail was taken for his appearance, himself in 2001., and two sureties of 201. each.—Leeds Journal. ENTERTAINMENTS AT THE MANSlON usually i T v e fi o n fi r hisst public Monday, when his Lordship invites his household, con iodninntoer Lo sisting of the S wor d B earer , t h e C ommon C r ier, and others; o f wh i chc ,i s t t h h e a n r d P i l l o s u y g o h r together with gentlemen in the Chamberlain's and Town Clerk's officers, the three Governors of the city prisons, and other municipal functionaries. The banquet is one of much state and splendour, the Lord Mayor presiding, and his Chaplain taking the opposite seat at the other end of the table ; the guests being served off plate, and all the servants attending in full livery down to the postillion, in his gold surmounted cap. The dinner of Plough Mon day last was excellent; the wines, especially the Hock and Claret, were of superior quality ; and the whole enter tainment was unusually agreeable to the guests, in con sequence of the kind efforts of the Lord Mayor, and the admirable talents and disposition of his Chaplain. His Lordship had preceded this entertainment by several others, amongst which was a dinner to a juvenile party on Twelfth Night, on which occasion many young hearts, as well as heels, danced with joy. The Observateur des Pyrenees mentions that during the last week of December, an enormous bear made his appearance on a mountain near Saint Engrace. Eight hunters, headed by a miller, went i n pursuit, and con. trived to drive Bru iu to an elevated summit, whence he had no escape, but by throwing himself down a precipice. Thhe miller who was in advance of his brother sportsmen, met the beast face to face, and firing, hit hi m i n t h e head. The bear fell, and rolling forward, came in contact with the miller. A desperate and doubtful struggle en. sued, but tke weakness of the animal from his woun d, ena bled the miller to escape from his grasp, and kill him with another shot. The game was carried to Saint?. Engrace in triumph. He yielded 401bs of grease, and his skin was sold for 40 francs, KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS. " Blunt—Dull on the edge, or point." Walker's Dictionary. CLOSE SHAVING.—Paddy O'Brien, the cut of a biped who in Ireland is generally designated "poor and hearty," seized " time by the forelock," and popped into the witness-box with the alacrity of a French Minister pouncing upon a Palmerston blunder. Paddy looked in excellent humour with himself, whoever else might have incurred his displeasure, for it was as a complainant be came forward, and Mr. and Mrs. Horrigan, after some circumlocution, were, it was ascertained, the offending parties. Whether it was that the gentleman happened to be in a sedentary mood, or, which is more probable, was conscious of his error, he begged leave to absent himself on this occasion, and deputed his " rib" to do the honours. Where's your husband ?" asked his Worship of Mrs. H., who had countenanced as woe-begone a look as she could manage to insert into a face something of the hue of the inside of a new boot, with a short snub nose— what a drill-sergeant would call " well up," and a pair of wall-eyes to match. " He's lyin' down, my Lord, your Honor," returned Mrs. Horrigan," wid a grate impression on his heart intirely. I'm full sure, meself, he's in for great sick ness, if tisn't a thing the Lord puts ever id—praise to his holy name !" Paddy O'Brien pursed up his mouth, and, winking his left eye twice in succession, treated himself to a pro longed fit of laughter. "I ax pardin, gistlemen ; oh, be gor I do," he exclaimed ; " but that bates banna gcr, so it does. Well, well, but aren't they a deludin' sex ? What look I had, that wouldn't have a ready spoken woman, that way, whin I'd be in a hobble. Erra, Mrs. Hourigan, you don't forget the bar of a verse— " Lough Neagh hones, Lough Neagh hones, Goes in sticks, an' comes out stones." Eh ! warn't thim the words your husband droned out, an' he raspin' me countenance ?" The Bench intimated to Paddy O'Brien that it would be acceptable his going into a detail of facts. Paddy—To be sure, Sir, I'll ingage ; why not ? I wanted to biggin' the new year well, as in jeuty bound, an' havin' a slight thremor in me hand, be rayson ov— Iych, no matther—only why wasn't Father Matthew born 20 years ago ? Well, Sir, to shorten me story, I wint to Ned Hourigan to shave meself, an' 1 axed him to sharpen the rhazher first. " Never fear," says he, here's a hone all the ways from Belfast that a Boger gem me, 'twill give an edge that id shave a mouse asleep ;" an' wid that he repeated the rhyme consarnin' Lough Neagh, an' lathered meself, an' I'll engage scraped me to that degree that I thought 'twas an oystershell was thravellin' over me countenance. " And," interrupted his Worship, " you grew impa tient at the way in which he enacted barber, and it led to an altercation between you?" Paddy O'Brien, slapping his knees vehemently— " Well, well," he said, " be all that's good an' gracious, a body id imagine your wurchip vas to the fore—that was just the way ov id. See the state I'm in, Paddy ?' says I to Misther O'Neil, the musician ov the Garry owen steamer, "count o' this fellow pretendin' he knew how to shave rae.' Well, Paddy O'Neil paused a minit, Never pretind, Ned Hourigan,' says he, to what you don't comprehind. I remirnber a buxom young -cook maid axed meself wanst, at Kilkie, iv I liked lobsther sauce. Oh, might well, Norry,' says I. • Well, then, your hand, says she, handin' me a butthar boat full ov id. To be sure I never seen the like used afore ; but I grew ashamed to confess my ignorance, so I only put the ingradiants to me mouth, an' med one swig ov id, clane and clear. Allileu! if ever a piper ped for it I d;d. Wid respect to the company, I thought I'd never be done havin' back the thrash to the same cook. I'll be bound I was pale in the face for a fortnight afther id. Believe me, boys, ignorance is rafter than prizumpshio: Wasn't that sinsible o' Paddy O'Neil, gintlemen ?" Magistrate—Don't put yourself under Horrigan's razor again. The case is dismissed." _ _ See that, though ?" replied poor Paddy, with a look of half comical dismay. " Well, well, the world is shavin' me. Mrs. Hourigan, pace be wid you, an' a speedy relase from that impression on his heart to your husband ; all the harm I wish him is a frosty mornin', cowld wather, an' a bad rhazheer, whin he's in a hurry to go to confission."—(Great laughter.) DEATHS FROM STARVATION. A lengthened inquiry took place on Wednesday even ing at the London Hospital, before Mr. Baker, the co roner, relatite to the death of Hannah Bagley, aged 21, who died in the Whitechapel workhouse on Monday last. It appeared in evidence that on Friday evening last the deceased went into the tap room of the Black Horse, Brown's-lane, Spitalfields. Mr. Barker, the landlord, saw that she was very ill, and he instantly sent for a doctor. He also gave her food, as she seemed to be almost starving, and then took her to the station-house. The deceased said that she had been in service in Spitalfields ; that her relations were in Glouces tershire ; and that she had not had any food for four days but that which she had received from Mr. Bar ker. By the orders of the inspector she was then taken to the Whitechapel workhouse. She was there provided with food, which she ate voraciously, but she soon became insensible, and died at three o'clock on Monday morning. Mr. Millar, the surgeon of the workhouse, said that the deceased had died from in flammation of the lungs, produced by exposure to the cold and want of sustenance. Verdict, " That the de ceased died from inflammation of the lungs, produced by exposure and want." On Tuesday night, an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at the George, Old Bailey, on the body of William Short, aged fifty, formerly a private in the Grenadier Guards, but more recentfy an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. From the evidence it appeared that for three years past the deceased had lodged at a miserable house in a narrow turning ca ll e d Bishop's court, immediately opposite Ncwgate. A person named Cliff tenanted the room, to whom d ecease d pa id one shilling per week for sleeping. Cliff an d a b oy sleep ing in the same room, but in a separate bed. The de ceased's pension amounted to one shilling and a halfpenny per day, which was paid quarterly, his next pay day being Tuesday next. When without money he was in the habit of borrowing from a person residing in the next house till his pay day. On Sunday week last the de ceased was found to be ill, end unable to leave his bed ; and although Cliff and the other persons residing in the house knew this fact they did nothing for him. The person alluded to above called on him, and asked if she should make a fire (seeing a sack containing coals in the room) ; when he replied, " Pray don't ; for if you do, Cliff will throw tne out of the window." On Satur day last she called on him again, and, on his saying he would like an apple-pudding, she made him one, but was unable to say whether he ate it or not. The boy who slept in the same room said he had never seen the deceased eat anything, and it was his opinion he died of starvation. Mr. Lynch, surgeon, said he saw the decased on Sunday morning, and found him dead ; he had never seen such an appalling sight before. The body was lying on an old mattress, and was covered with vermin and filth ; it was a mere skele ton ; the knees were drawn up towards the face, appa rently for warmth. There was no covering on the bed, and he was stark naked. He found the deceased had laboured for some years under a severe stricture, and his opinion was that death arose from an organic dis ease, greatly accelerated by the want of warmth and the necessary comforts of life. Verdict—That the deceased died from an organic disease, accelerated by the want of warmth and the comforts necessary to life—the Jury at the same time censuring the conduct of Cliff. KIRIALDY B URGHS.—We understand that 110 signatures have been appended to the requisition to Dr. Bowring; of which three were from Dysart, twenty-four frotu Pathhead and St. Clairtown (which are both included in - the Parliamentary boundary of the burgh of Dysart), and the remainder from Kirkaldy and Linktown ; but it does not appear that any of the electors in Kinghorn or Burntisland are friendly to him. The general feeling in Kirkaldy is, that the Doctor has no chance even though be come forward, as it is well known many have given their names in the hope of hearing Dr. Bowring, but do not consider themselves pledged to give him their votes. The original intention was, not to send the requisi tion unless one-third of the electors subscribed it, but it has been despatched with little more than a fifth, though the most active means were used to obtain signatures. Should Dr. Bowring be so ill-advised as to present him self, he will find that the unanimous support of his requi sitionists will not be forthcoming. The opponents of Col. Ferguson are getting fiat on the matter; but he is no friend to the Colonel who represents him as indifferent to the opposition. Such cannot be the case. He wishes to be Member for the burghs—and unanimously if possible . as he is well aware that a contested election creates ani mosities and heart-burnings which even the lapse of many years seldomentirely obliterate —.Edinburgh Observer. The lower we descend into the scale, the greater tolerance of violence and the greater powers of reparation and renewal do we observe. When a salamander's head has been cut off, the wound has healed. If the head of a planaria from our p on d s i s divided longitud inall y a cer tain way, the wound h ea l s ; if completely , other new matter will be deposited and join the two heads into one of great size, with one or two additional eyes; or each half will become a new head. If the whole body is divided, except at the tail, Siamese twins are made, which pull discordantly and tear asunder their bond of union, and become inde pendent. Not only does a planaria acquire a new head after decapitation, but, if the two beads which have been produced by division are removed, others have sprung up three times in succession, and, the animal being then di. vided throughout and its head cut off, one head only was now produced. If the animal is divided across, the an terior half swims off, and even sends forth a tail; the tail sinks, but after a few days sends forth a head. If cut across into three, the anterior and posterior proceed thus, and the middle part shoots forth both a head and a tail. Nay a planaria has been cut into ten pieces, and each has become a perfect animal. —Dr. Elhoison on .Huntan Phy siology. FALSE ALARMS.—Either some pettifogging politicians, or some penny-a-liners, have been mischievously misleading even the leading journals of London, with Chartist wars in this county. There is as much truth in such reports, as in Mr. At' rood's vi;wa of a KtLisian fleet at the Nore.—Menntouthshire Merlin. THE KING OF THE FRENCH. The Gazette de France publishes letters which it declares to be written in 1808 by the present King of the French. In these letters the Duke of Orleans shows himself naturally attached to England, and op• posed to Bonaparte ; and it is for this reason that the Carlist print publishes them. The principal letter is dated Palermo, April 17, 1808. Its chief burden is the difficulties thrown in the way of the Prince seeing his mother, who was at Minorca ; and shows how large a part his family affections bore in the life of the Duke of Orleans. " I detest the life of an emigre," he writes, " and am doubly enraged to be condemned to the humiliation of inutility and vegetation, when I see so clearly what I could do were people to come to an understanding with me, instead of keeping me a prisoner at Hampton Court or Twickenham. lam a French prince, and an English man also—for what country but England can protect me ?—besides being English in principles, opinions, and habits. Still lam not English in the eyes of foreigners. They do not listen to me with the same mistrust that they listen to an English General ; and I might bring about that conciliation and good intelligence which has caused the failure of so many enterprises in which the English have joined. I might be useful on the continent, instead of being a burden—driving my curricle from Hampton-court to London, and from London to Hamp t on-eourt." The writer regrets not having had a frank confe rence with Mr. Canning on the affairs of Sicily, " the unfortunate affair of Prince Leopold having spoiled all." The following views on the state and policy of the war at that period proves bow fully the writer under stood them : " Austria has sent an officer here (Palermo). I have spoken with him. Austria has 420,000 men, without counting the militia. But, then, will they dislocate their armies. They are sending 120,000 men to Poland under the Archduke Ferdinand. Why send a single man to Poland ? To drive the French out of Saxony, and pay a compliment to Russia, and show its own disinterested ness. The compliment will cost dear. Such compli ments are not to be made with impunity before Bonaparte. He never makes any one complimen's. He concentrates his forces on the weakest point of the enemy, and when sure of victory at the important point —when, in f a ct, he has pulled the key-stone from the arch—everything tumbles to ruin, and he triumphs everywhere. It is on Bonaparte you should concentrate your forces. If you don't beat him, 1'20,000 won't beat the King of Saxony. If you do beat him, a picket of 120 men will annihilate the Grand Duchy of War saw. The fault is greater, since there are great hopes from Russia, although I do not share in these hopes. But I would not have a man less in the armies of Ger many and Italy. The Grand Duke alone is mistrusted. It is feared he will adhere to Bonaparte. Austria wishes to aggrandize the King of Sardinia, to give him Genoa, Milan, and Lombardy, Austria taking merely Venice and Mantua. Bavaria, it is hoped, is disgusted with Bonaparte, who took Wurtemberg's part against Bavaria, and who has offered to restore the Tyrol to Austria. The Archduke Ferdinand is to have Modena. There is one little state that no one will have, viz., the lonian Islands. The Queen bade me establish myself there. I have no objection, if permitted. England went twice there, and has declared to the deputies at Malta she does not want to provide a garrison. But the islands themselves would furnish troops if there was an active Prince to govern them. Nay, a corps might be raised there to act on Italy or Turkey whenever Turkey shall fall asunder ; the moment of this is not distant, and England ought to be prepared for it. The Russians don't want the Seven Islands either ; they cost them too dear. A grand English expedition is expected. It ought to go to North Italy, disembark at Genoa, &c." _ . Another letter is dated Cagliari, May '2O, of the same year. It commences with the news of the Arch duke John having beaten Beauharnais, the Tyrol being evacuated, and of the high hopes entertained of the suc cess of the Archduke Charles : " The campaign of Suwarroff has overthrown the Di rectory, but it has opened a way to the throne for Bo naparte, because they have not profited by this great event to re-establish legitimate monarchy. It is a fault which they must have regretted sufficiently to take this time measures to preserve it. The English Government, master of the sea and of all the riches of the world, is and ought to be the central point, the soul of all those armies which are now rushing upon the Imperial Co lossus. No power can do without its subsidies to make war ; thus, as long as they are in a state to resist France, the English Government will always have a larger influ ence upon their political conduct than the others upon each other. But England must feel her power, and make use of it, as much for her own safety as for that of Europe. She must take in hand the great question of the overthrow of Bonaparte ; she must decide and speak : for if she leaves to each Cabinet, to each indi vidual, the care of making its little plan of political campaign, we shall have no doubt millions, and conse quently we shall have none, and the change will nei ther be so complete nor so firm as if it had been the re sult of a uniform plan embracing all sides. " Already they are cutting up Italy, and without doubt they will also cut up Germany, without England having been able to give her advice. This hopocratic system, which England often adopts. is very well for those who only think of not compromising themselves ; but it is pernicious in him who is by the force of cir cumstances, and by the nature of ,his power at the head of a crisis like this. The responsibility is only to be feared when one does not succeed. It is the not suc ceeding which compromises, and the best of all argu ments, in Parliament as elsewhere, is success and vic tory. In order to succeed you must have boldness ; you must know beforehand what is required ; in fine, circumstances must be mastered, instead of being mas tered by them ; the grand question must then be taken up and the characters distributed. I foresee two possi bilities : one, in which the imperatorie shall be over thrown at Paris by spontaneous outbursts ; the others where the same will take place by provincial risings ; where the refractory conscripts will unite themselves in a body, where the troops, the officers, the generals, will all take different sides. All this must be thought of and prepared for. There are in Spain, at Naples, in Dalmatia, French troops, which will find themselves in disastrous positions. That it is the moment to speak to the passions of men. An army which may be inac cessible when its government is formed, and which cer tainly is when victory leads its colours, becomes very accessible and easy to be treated with when victory. turning against it, delivers it to the just venueance of the people, and when the overthrow of the Government and the internal discord of their country leaves them un supported, and throws them, without compass, upon so stormy a sea." The following is very prophetic. It is part of a letter dated Twickenham, Nov. 5, 1806 : The fate of Russia, as well as of Prussia, depends on Poland. I don't know whether Bonaparte will try to force the Oder this winter. If he does so and succeeds, this movement may and ought to cause him to meet his Pultowa. Alexander may then avenge Aus terlitz, and repair Jena. Celerity, vigour, and resolu tion, are alone ranting." The intelligence from Texas represents that Re public to be progressing to a more wholesome state, and no doubt when the news of the Commercial Treaty nego tiated here gets out there and in the United States the standing and credit of the Government will be greatly im proved. The first necessity of a new Government aiming to take its place in the number of indepenient States is clearly the enactment of laws for the security of property, by which the confidence of foreigners may be attracted as well as that of its own citizens confirmed. Since the gua rantee of Texan independence has been formally sealed by the Act of the Foreign-office here, which cannot fail of ratification by the Legislature of the new country, it is quite clear the Republic is placed in the firmest position possible. For the necessary consequence must follow by the recognition of Mexico, without a full and good understanding upon the leading points of which before hand no treaty would certainly have been concluded here. The acknowledgment of Texan independence by Mexico, may therefore be regarded as a conclusion in fact foregone, although minor points may have to be con cluded, and the temper of the Mexican Legislature and people consulted and propitiated on a moat repulsive ques tion to both. Some vague reports had indeed got out to the United States of the conclusion of the Treaty now consummated between Texas and this country, but they seem to have been imperfectly credited and but little approved. As one among other efforts to a nearer ap proach towards European civilisation a Bankrupt Bill bad been passed by the Congress, and an Act repealing that passed by the last Congress for compulsorily funding the treasury notes issued. A bank was talked of, as about to be established at Galveston upon a charter from the legislature of the preceding year. Thi s d oes not appear to be a provident step, notwithstanding that other banks may have been established before. The worst feature of the bank too is that its notes are to be redeemed only, so far as appears and is stated, in Baltimore Bank bills to the extent of 250,000 dollars, that is one sort of paper discredited is to be redeemed by another scarcely less so. .Now banks are a consequence , an d not a cause , of civilisation and social progress, and therefore Texan hanks are not likely to succeed better than New Zealand and those Australasian Banks which are started without adequate population and production, and which manufacture more paper notes than, if the whole property of the colony were put up to auc tion, would purchase the fee simple ten times over. Otherwise the Texan Republic was going on well and measures were in progress to extend the lucrative rela tions of trade with Santa Fe in Mexico, and to perfect the road constructing between the Red River and the Nuecea to Santa Fe. Although the distance from that place to Austin was 600 miles, the gigantic project was proposed and urged with " great earnestness by the Secretary of War to Congress."—Morning Herald. A QUAKER BARRISTER.—Monday the fol lowing Gentlemen were called to the Irish bar :—J. J. Quin, M. Synnot, jun., T. Sanders, F. M`Carthy, R. Foley, G. F. Hodder, F. Somers, J. S. Blake, J. C. Ogle, 0. M`Causland, W. A. Chaytor, and T. J. White, Esqrs. Mr. Chaytor belongs to the Society of Friends. This is.the first instance of a member of that Society being called to the bar. Under the 2d and 3d William IV., Chaytor was entbled to .oaks affirmatiGn, in place of taking the oaths prescribed by law.-. Dublin Mp THE TIDE HARBOUR, (From Patchwork, by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.) I hardly know two things more different in appear ance than what is called a tide harbour when the sea is in, and the same harbour when the sea is out. At high-water we behold a beautiful basin, brimful, and bearing on its surface numberless vessels, all of whose masts, ropes, and sails, loosed to dry, are reflected in the mirror upon which they rest so gracefully, that we know not which to admire most—the bold originals, in all their pomp and bustle, or their inverted and soft ened representations beneath. The little boats which pass up and down, or flit across the harbour, and the ships arriving or departing, some dropping their anchor with a thundering plash into the stream, and others la boriously heaving up that ponderous mass of iron to their bows, give an endless variety to this busy scene. The cheerful voice of the seamen, singing as they work, mingling with the anxious word of command spoken by the cautious pilots, form a fitting music for the scene. Even the brawling of the noisy boatmen has its cha racteristic and stirring interest as they cross and re cross the port with hawsers, which they tie and untie, or pass along from post to post, with an address that astonishes the ignorant and delights the profes sional eye, netting the whole space over with cords, with the industry of spiders, as if their mischievous purpose were to catch and retain the ships, not to expedite their departure, or aid their entrance into the port. 'lle adjacent wharfs and piers, at that busiest, because the most available, season of the tide, called emphatically the " top of high-water," are generally crowded with spectators, composed either of persons eagerly welching the arrival of long-looked-for friends, or bidding an adieu to those who are departing ; or, finally, of that large majority of idlers, who, having no precise business any where, are attracted, unconsciously, by the inherent beauty and interest of this ever-varying scene, and who, without having either taste or knowledge enough to analyse their feelings, are yet moved by what isso essen tially picturesque, that the dullest senses are made to feel its charm. Nor is this a scene which palls on the observation, for it is scarcely possible that we shall dis cover it to be alike on any two days of the year. On one day there may be either a faint breeze or a dead calm. The vessels, in that case, drop out gently to sea with the first turn of the ebb, while others enter the harbour with the last drain of flood : each being aided by a little tiny boat, connected with its parent bark by a cord, alternately dipping in the water and jerked out of it, as the seamen, with a loud huzza, strain their backs to the oar. Or it may happen, that an entering or de parting ship is drawn along by a rope, or warp as it is called, kept as tight as a rod of iron by fifty or a hun dred hands, lining the long projecting pier, at the end of which stands the lighthouse—that lighthouse of which, in the bright blaze of sunshine, it has been sati rically remarked, we take no more note than of a friend whose assistance we require no longer, though it pro bably crosses the recollection of some of the more re flecting of the spectators, that the time has been when, in a dark and stormy night, a single glimpse of this now neglected beacon was held worth a ship-load of silver On such a fine day as I am supposing, dozens, or even hundreds, of ships and vessels of various sizes and des criptions, from all the mercantile nations of the earth, are seen jostling one another, dropping out, or dropping in, towing, warping, sailing, steaming, on their diffe rent courses, "a mighty maze but not without a plan." Even to inexperienced observation this appa rent mass of confusion is very pleasing ; though to such it must seem as inexplicable and beyond control as that of the planetary movements or the vagaries of the moon, which all admire, though few understand. When, however, there happens to be a brisk wind blowing, the scene is totally different. The elements now meet in op position, for the wind, instead of slumbering as before, and letting the silent tide have its own placid way, is roused up, and having set itself against the current, sorely puzzles, but rarely baffles entirely, the skill of the seaman. Then it is, that the talents and local knowledge of the pilots, and the hardy intrepidity of the captains come into play ; and men who, in the calm of the day before, we should not have discovered to be much above their fellows in courage or capacity, now claim their due superiority. At such moments the commander is cheerfully and even eagerly obeyed by those very men who, in the pride of ignorance and the presumption of security, were far less docile in the calm. If we watch a ship coming in we shall see the anchor all ready to let go—the cables ranged along the deck—the leadsman in the chains taking cast after cast as briskly as he can, and singing out the sound ings to the anxious pilot, as the harbour's mouth is neared. On entering it the tacks become shorter, and are made with more smartness. The helm is put down quickly, the head. sheets let fly in a moment, and about she comes. The yards spin round, ropes crack, and sails shake, as if the whole machinery of seamanship was going to pieces. As she heels to the gale, under the unrestrained leverage of the masts, the old ships creak from stem to stern, by the friction of the timbers and beams against ono another, and to sh , ,re-going senses it would seem that the danger was great. But if we now take notice of the weatherwise glance of the pilot's eye, or mark the tranquil deportment of the captain by his side, or observe the cheery laugh of the dripping crew, as the waves curl or break over them, we shall under stand, although we cannot tell how, that in the midst of what seems tumult, and hazard, and difficulty, all is order and safety. Thus at moments when in our ignorance we fancy the vessel is to be driven against the rocks, or absorbed by the seas, as she gradually forces her way in or out of the harbour, we discover that the people most concerned know that all danger is past, and are chatting, at their ease, about indif ferent matters Instead of a whole squadron of great ships, and a mosquito fleet of small craft, coming and going, when the weather was fine and the sea smooth, we now detect only one or two of the sturdiest class venturing to face the gale, and urged by competition or the love of gain in some of its mul tifarious shapes, determined, at all risks, to commence their voyage. Or we spy in the distance, returning to its native port, a white sail, well bleached by the al tercate sun and rain of many a tropical day. To the accustomed eye it is nothing but a pleasing spot of light, relieving the black angry sky behind ; but to the anxious ken of the merchant, whose soul is afloat, it tells another story. He sees in his richly-freighted argosie in the offing' the cent. per cent. of well-directed enterprise, and as his darling ship enters the port, cheered on her way by the j lous shouts of a thousand welcomes, the grateful owner blesses his lucky stars, and as he returns the hardy captain's salute, he ap plauds his own discrimination in having selected so fitting a commander to conduct his distant adventure. The weather-beaten ship herself, dashing past like a meteor, enters the harbour before the wind, and is soon tightly lashed in security, after all her perils, by the side of her master's warehouse. Careless observers may contrast, to her disparagement, her battered ap pearance, her dirty, grass-grown sides, spliced ropes, and threadbare and many patched sails, worn thin and white by long use, with the smartly-painted hulls, the stiff and gummy canvas, the well-tarred shrouds and unstretched cordage of the departing ships. But all these, though scarcely noticed by the uninitiated, being characteristic marks of protracted hard work, are respected by all those to whom the scenes with which they are associated are familiar, and bring back a thousand hardships, as well as joys, to a sailor's mind In like manner, the well-tanned countenance of the ex perienced commander, and the iron grasp of the rope worn fist, are right welcome to the grateful " owner," who receives his officer net as a servant but as a friend, when he leaps to the shore, and reports that he has made a successful voyage. The anxieties of both par ties—the hazards of the voyage, the doubts, the delays, the difficulties, so painful at the moment, are so no longer, but, on the contrary, furnish topics for the most delightful converse and mutual congratulation. Such are one or two of the thousand scenes which a tide harbour, such as Leith or Dieppe, presents at high water ; but when the tide has ebbed out, a very diffe rent set of objects strike the eye. Almost all the pic turesque beauty of the spot is gone. The beautiful overfllwing basin is now a huge and almost empty trough, for the only water which can be discovered is a slender dirty stream, struggling through a meadow of mud. The shipping, instead of riding triumphantly, like " things of life," o❑ the bosom of the sea, and casting their reflected images deep into the tide, are now flung about at random ; and, instead of point ing their tall masts to the sky, like so many Gothic spires, are inclined over at every angle to the horizon. Some are fairly Jaid prostrate on their beam-ends ; others thrown out of the perpendicular, like the trees of an American forest after a hurricane ; all of them seem ing more or less deranged from the naturally erect posi tion, and sticking, as if ashamed of themselves, in a bed of silt ; there, all sailorless and disconsolate, the poor ships lie, as if they were nothing but wrecks, rotting and useless, in the dirty, sludgy, impassable slime. The pretty little boats, which an hour or two before skimmed merrily from side to side of the harbour, are now half-buried in the mud, with their noses down,their sterns up, their ours tumbled about, the rudders unship ped. The only visible things at this dead season are a few wretched, amphibious-looking personages, " mud-larks," as they are emphatically called—booted to the thigh, struggling like flies through a glue-pot, knee-deep in the silt, in the dirty hope of picking up birts of cordage, or other scraps of stores dropped from the ships. All is now silence, both on ship-board and on the shore, for as most of the vessels cannot be reached, the wearied seamen profit by the occasion and go to rest, while the process of loading and unloading is intermitted. At suchi times, too, the usual group of idle spectators, even if there were anything to look at, would be deterred from approaching the spot by the offensive vapours, which the heat of the sun sends up from the horrid accumulation of dirt in the waterless harbour. THE YOUNG WHEATS.--The severe frosts and heavy fall of snow will prove most beneficial to the grow. ing crops, should no sudden and great change of tempe rature take place. Owing to the extremely mild weather at the COrnmencernent .)f the 'car, the plow was begin ning to eXUWit a teulicliey to rankness, which was checked by the frost, and fresh strength and vigour were imparted. EVENING EDITION. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. ' Oats. Berms. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. t s. Bath ,60 72 30 33 Blandford 56 (3 i 3O 33 S. SO S. R. to R. 24 28 ' 40 60 24 26 48 - Bridport 68 ' Chard 59 64 I.'B 22 22 24 44 48 Gloucester 56 f 4 28 37 i 2O 28 46 50 Exeter Guildford 68 71 32 37 32 .:16 46 50 Newbury 50 67 27 38 19 36 44 54 Reading 4i 72 28 22 42 52 Salisbury 52 65 28 35 1222 28 4,:t 48 Shtrborne 54 62 30 36 22 30 42 50 SheptonMallet 56 64 32 40 22 28 40 52 Uxbridge 37 43 23 28 Warminster 1,6 66 31 43 25 32 48 56 Winchester 6O 64 (eovil '56 60 30 34 22 30 42 50 _-• 4 s i - 48 ‘ b 4E4 b 4 4 - 6 45 36 b e 4 0 /.. .... 44 gl --• -- - .0 -- - , WIMP LEEDS CORN MARKET. Wheat, Norfolk and Suftblk, 6014. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding . 2 7s. to 21s. 1 A o Beans Onts, I'otatoe —Mailing, For. --d. to—d. Eng. Ild. to lad. per st;f l t,, shelling 2Bs. to 295. per 103° MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC MEMORANDA' —The approaching season at her .Nlajesty's Theatre, which will form the last of Laporte's lesseeship, portends an extensive revolution in the standard company, fro° which Grisi, Rubini, and Lablache are said to be the se' ceders, M. Marliani, manager of Le Paris Opera, who monopolises the services of these great singers, with' holding them on account of our London impressario's fusal to conclude engagements with the mass of lsis coma' pany. It has been finally fixed, between Messrs. Bu:tu an, Hamlet, that the forty-eight forthcoming representtrtie n ,; of German Opera shall take place at the Princ,'s9.l' Theatre on a scale of unprecedented numbers and mag' ficence. During the recent concerts in Dublin, given 11 Liszt, his Grace the Duke of Leinster, who is Presiden t of the Anacreontic Society, assisted in the orchestra as s violoncello performer. A tragedy on the subject of Tous' saint l'Ouverture has been postponed in Paris, becaus e Wile. Rachel, its intended heroine, refused to aPP eat with a black or coloured face. Miss Delcy is now cote cluctng a brief but brilliant career in Dublin, where be t splendid personation of Rossini's Cinderella, has bees twice repeated, and on each occasion with increased erkt The Edinburgh papers speak warmly in praise of a yoUns harpist, named Dibdin, nephew, we believe, to the vete° dramatist—who imitated a thunder -storm, among elle r marvels, upon the instrument of which he seems to be I ° great a master. PRIVATE THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR.'" In consequence of the assistance rendered by the Misses Mordauat, when the officers of the 60th Rifles gave amateur performance for the benefit of the poor at win or, it was determined that another performance sh ould take place for the exclusive benefit of those ladies, sa last Wednesday night was fixed for the oc casio% Charles the Twelfth was the first piece performed, . an „ afterwards a comic scene from the farce of Perfeet' ° ''' followed by two scenes from the opera of La Sonnara bl e; and concluded with Colman's farce of The Review.. ,11 characters on this, as on the former occasion, were semi rably sustained throughout, and the house was erolid e with fashionables. THE HISTORY OF A FLIRT, WRITTEN HERSELF. —To analyse and lay bare the secret and i , l tr' ; cate workings of that easily besetting sin of human natter ' vanity, is the laudable object of the authoress of these sec t lumes, who has furnished forth a biography that may w e y be placed upon the quicksands of the human heart, 01 beacon to warn those just budding into life from the pe rlo d of conceit. The authoress of this most useful, and m!, agreeably and elegantly written novel, is entitled to CO rnendation upon three separate grounds. In the first p la fi, all her circumstances, or to speak theatrically, her te ' ll o dents, arc natural and most probable. The reader bs a .so unreal mockeries to contend with—no Banquoll'of glidings to watch and remember. The main currents the tale flow smoothly on to a final confluence, bearing c c ,, them the memory and feelings of the reader. Secon,yl: the language is at once piquant, sprightly, and dialogu e ' oo as free from bombast on one band as it is from vulgarit9 the other. Lastly, the object, or rather the moral of work, by which it and all similar productions sho uld d 1 tested, is unexceptionable, for no thoughtless or it woman can rise from its perusal without feeling & It o must be her own fault if the lessoa it inculcates is Oro away. —Morntng Post. for The climate of Britain, so remarkable fickleness of temperature, has given rise to an infinitu ue sr e ingenious inventions for the protection of those wil ° us b constitutionally predisposed to suffer in health from causes; but, while every other part of the human frame re , by some laudable application of the arts to manufaetnsio rendered impervious to weather, the face must still re o , exposed ; and the peculiar delicacy of the Female ec n a f„ plexion undoubtedly undergoes great, though g redn i - d, change from the action of excess, either of heat (ono( upon its surface ; in this instance, Rowland's riali s . affords the so much desired and valuable protection ; taining, unimpaired, that peculiar brilliancy of tinte r , mired beyond all other possessions; and, as a preservstlii, is equally efficacious, whether against the injurious dego of heat felt in crowded assemblies, or exposur e to ha' winds, and the low temperature of the winter season. 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Catalogues gratis .... s t, RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Ozferd-str__,„ • BIR THS. t i l e P At Park Village West, Regent's Park, on Friday , inst., the wife of James \ I V, id, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst, Mrs. T. Teape, of a son. h t.se °4 On the 12th inst., at Cambridge 'street, Connaug o rs Mrs. C. S. Drewry, ,oat a daughter. J . Wilt" On the 13th inst. Clapham Lodge, Mrs. o„ g daughter. Skiff" Oa the 13th inst., in Russell-square, the lady off . Esq., of a daughter. o ss i° MARRIED. 'l ll°. Car On the Ist inst., in the Island of Jersey, Mr. L. l a te e f• to Miss Elizabeth Adel: ide Stewart, daughter of the, i idel i k tain W. Stewart, formerly Town Major of the island or lid, Po, On the 12th inst., at Skirbeck Church, Sir Ala° c oati e io . lingham, Bart., of Castle Bellinghavn, Ireland, to only child of H. 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