The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

MORN I G EMT' Prove the best means of obtaining the return of man to the House of Commons who would consider it their first duty to Lpea, the Bread•tax, and other obnoxious iropests, which are now pressing so unduly on the in dustrious classes. hope that you will continue to press f'orward your ' , 61 , 111 OD this subject with the same zeal and talent. I remain, your constant reader, Londe°, Jan. 1841. N. A. 3. LITERATURE. MERCEDES OF CASTILE, 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1840. The adventures and voyages of Columbus have long been the favourite theme of historians, but Until now, when Mr. Cooper has devoted to this attractive subject by far the greater portion of his Merced es of Castile, we know not that it has ever been attempted by any English novelist. We are surprised at this, for never was there a theme more ahounding in picturesque effects, and startling vicissitudes, or which presented better opportuni ties for the development of character. We need sky nothing of its descriptive recommendations, for the mere mention of the romantic voyage across the Atl antic, with the ever-shifting natural phenomena exhibited during tile voyage ; and more particularly of the first landing, and encounter with the natives at Cat Island—the mere mention, we repeat, of the things suggests infinitely more to the fancy of the novelist, provided at least that he have a due conception of his art, than we can possibly say. Mr. Coope r has not done amiss in this portion of his I°l nance ; he has detailed the particulars of the great Genoese navigator's memorable voyage with Uncommon spirit and minuteness, and we follow him across the broad Atlantic with all the eagerness and curiosity he could desire to rouse in the breast of a reader. But here our praise must stop—or rathe r we must qualify it " pretty considerably," as Jonathan would say. The greater part of the first volume is tediou s and wire-drawn ; and the ac count of Isauella of Castile, previous to her mar riage with the wily and calculating Ferdinand, might have been omitted • with advantage, for it ha s littl e or nothing to do with the story, and seems: to have been introduced as an after thought, with no other view than to fill up space. We must also protest against the intolerably prolix dialogues between Donna Mercedes of Castile and her betrothed Don Luis de Bobadilla, which are still more episodical, and are not redeemed by any f lashes of e l oquence or pass i on . Th e i n terest o•, the Story may be said to begin and end with Co lumbus's voyage of discovery ; all before this is tame and apparently laboured ; and what follows "with the single exception of the adventures of the young Indian Princess, Ozema, who is brought home to Spain by Columbus, and whose portrait is Sweetly coloured—serves only to encumber and act I S a drag-chain on the narrative. The leading event s of " Mercedes of Castile" may be disposed of in a sentence or two. Mercedes is a young and aeco.nplished Spanish lady of rank, who is attached t° 1) 011 Luis de Bobadilla, a gay, young cavalier, of equally noble extraction. Being something of an enthusiast, however, the lady will not hear of Luis's suit until he has proved himself worthy of her, by accompanying Columbus on his great expedition of discovery ; he does so, and on his return is rewarded With the hand of Mercedes, infinitely to the sur prise and regret of the poor Indian girl, Ozema, who think s i t a very hard case that he cannot marry her too, and dies of the grief occasioned by this unex pected di sappo i ntment. Throughout his story, Mr. _ onper----so far at least as Queen Isabella is con cerned —appears to have taken the historian Pres cott as hi s gu id e, who has bestowed on this Royal utly various virtues which have escaped the research of most preceding writers. In his portrait, which IS an elaborate whole length, of Columbus, the no velist h as been perfectly consistent with truth ; this, indeed, i s the only well-sustained character of im portance in the story, for the rest of the dramatis personae, alw a y s except i ng Isabella, are l i ttle b etter than ac gener a li t i es—dim outlines—like those vague s h ioNS which we see pass and repass across a magic lantern. KNIGHTAGE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Churton, London. This will be found a very useful companion to th e << Peerage and Baronetage." It is beautifully Printed, and contains a number of elegant cuts, Illustrative . of the different orders, harmers, crosses, Sec .1 carried by theknights, together with a short biographical account of each. The following is a specimen : 1 4 ( "AY, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR ROBERT WALLER, was Lieutenant of the Impregnable in Howe's " 131 1; captur e d w h en comman ding the Th orn s l oo p, after a Well contested engagement, in which he was IWounded, b y t h e Courier, French corvette of superior Itze to served in th e W es t Indies, and in the expedi- Copenh agen . This gallant officer is stated to hoe been more than a hundred times in action. He is second son of the late Cooke Otway, Esq., of Castle °t waY. county Tipperary, was born in 1772, and married in Isol, Clementina, daughter and co-heir of Admiral Holloway, by whom he has several children. ilrins.—Arg. a pile sa. a chev.countercharged. THE BOOK OF MOTTOES. This is a complete dictionary of mottoes borne, Dot only by N o b les and Baronets, b ut also b y Public companies, cities, and individuals in the _middle and lower ranks of life. They are trans lated into English, with occasional notes and illus trations, and arranged in alphabetical order. When the compiler publishes a second edition he would render the book doubly valuable by giving an al phabetical list of the names also, so that the motto of any famil y m i ght be found out at once. Thus, Wellingt on, << Virtutis fortuna comes"—Napier, " Ready, aye ready." ~. S"~ r ~~r: EXPLOSION OF G UNPowDER.---On Tuesday !zeroing last, an explosion of gunpowder, attended with serious and fatal consequences, took place at the house of a rnan named Moult, residing at Spotland Bridge, near Rochdale. Moult who is a coal-miner and sinker, hat received a barrel of gunpowder, containing upwards of thirty pounds, which was placed in an upper room in the house ; and his son, who had been in the habit of taking out email quantities, went into the room for that Purpo se at six o'clock on T ues d a y morn i n g with a lighted candle, when a spark fell upon the gun blownr,whch immediately exploded, and the roof was from the houre. The unfortunate cause of the accident was found in the garden, a distance of eight yards from the house, alive, but dreadfully mangled. Two of his fingers were blown off, and he hcd received the most serious injuries in the lower part of the abdomen. The unfortunate youth lingered in the most excruciating agonies until eight o'clock of the lame day, when death put a period to his sufferings. In the house where the explosion took place, there were about fourteen persons, all of whom escaped with out injury. But if the barrel of gunpowder had been Placed on the ground floor of the house, instead of in the garret, the consequences would have been most lamentable. In addition to the injury done to Moult's house several looms in an adjoining house were en tirely destroyed. The dwelling of the collier was the bark part of a double house, the front of which was four, and the back three stories high. The roofs of both back and front house were completely blown off; the party wall which divided the garrets of the front tenement from the back, was blown into the ft ont, amidst three looms which stood in that chamber. The warps were eonsumed by the flames, and the looms broken by the bricks ; the windows of this room were all driven out by the force of the powder. The collier's house was a heap of ruins, the whole front, as far as the lower story, had been blown into the garden. In the second chamber there were three beds full of inmates, but the floor above was driven down over the beds, and completely protected them from the falling slates and timbers of the roof. PETER PRIGGINS—EDITED BY THEODORE " "la, Itsg.—We are requested to state that the new novel entitled " Peter Priggins, the College Scout," edited by Theodore Htoke, Esq., in 3 vols., post Svcs., with numerous illustrations by Phi; is published this day, by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough -street, and may now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works of fiction.-1. Mr. Roby's Popular Traditions of England, 3 Naval ' Surg, by the Auth or of Cavendish, 3 vols. 3. Sir Thomas eon Dick Lauder's Legendary Tales of the Highlands, 3 vols., with numerous illustrations by Phiz. 4. Love and War ; or the Romance of Military Life, by Capt. Quillinan, 3 vols. 5 . Oliver Cromwell, edited by Horace Smith, Esq., 3 vols. 6. The History of a Flirt, second edition, 3 vols. 7, The Secretary of Macchiavelli, or the Siege of Flo rence, by Daniel Macarthy, Esq., 3 vols. 8. The Cash- Mere Shawl, by C apt . W h i te, 3 vols. 9- Sandron Cash ore the D..yis of Qu een A nne, b y the Hon. Grantley Berk eley, 3 vols. 10. The Banker Lord, 3 vols. 11. The Widow Married, a sequel to Widow Barnaby, by Bats Trollop e , 3 vo l s, w i t h 21 illustrations, by R. W. oR. A. 12. The Chelsea Pensioners, by the author of The Subaltern, complete for 55., w i t h portra i t of the auor ece., forming the New Volume of Colburn's Stand ard BR USSELS, JAN. 2.—Yesterday being N ew . Irel Lr's bay, their M a j est i es the King and Queen recei ve d " ec e'llyely the Mi n i sters, t h e D plomat i c B o d y, t h e G reat public Bodies, the Civil and Military Authorities, and the Persons presented at Court. The reception began at noon, and continued till four o'clock. The Dutch Government received in the year 1840 for toll on ships arriving at Antwerp and leaving that port by the Scheldt, the sum of 4771491 a9llllll. . ? ; -.. 4 • ~,, , ; .7.44..;-le ,!:: -,,.. , ,~. ~' ~~ COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning in the vicinity of Virginia Water, accomilanied by Baron Stockmar, and attended by Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. G. E. Anson. The unfavourable state of the weather has prevented her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent from taking their accustomed exercise. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady Holland, and the Rev. Dr. Short took their departure this morning. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, left town at nine o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at his seat Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. Despatches froM Captain Prescott, R.N., Governor of Newfoundland, and also from the Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial office. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Justice Erkine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. Miller, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Wigram, were heard on an appeal from British Guiana, " Butts and another v. Fowler, Attorney of Maria Hawes Ware." Messrs. Pemberton and Burge for the Queen. Counsel were heard for the respondent. The Vice-Chancellor, on tke part of their Lordships, gave judgment, affirming the decree of the Court below. An appeal from the Supreme Court of New foundland " Edward Kielley v. William Carson, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Island of Newfound land, and several Members of the House of Assembly" was then called on. Mr. Pemberton, Queen's Counsel, commenced his address for the appellant, but had not concluded at four o'clock when thQ Court rose. _ . In the early part of the sitting it was notified that the bearing of the will cause of the late Mr. Wood, of Gloucester, was deferred until the 2d of Feb. next SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY• THE DERBY.—The Rosalie colt was backed singly for nearly 2001. et 14 to 1, Palmmon for a small sum at 18 to 1, and the odds taken about them jointly to upwards of 300/. ; this betting and the offers subsequently made against Palm-mon, leave them in the same positions as on Thursday. the 31st ult. Marshal Souit, Eringo, Corona tion, Sir Hans, Ralph, and Prince Caradoc, were men tioned, but did not undergo any change ; in fact, little or nothing was done about either. Cameleon, however,dropped in one.but to 30 to 1, laid in ponies in conjunction with a bet of 20 to 1 to the same sum agst Eringo ; the Knight of the Whistle (Rattle's dam) bad a strong party ; a small sum,we believe, was got on at a fraction more, but assuredly the market price did not exceed 33 to 1, and this could no 4 have been obtained to any amount. Wahab was backed for upwards of 2001. at 35 to 1, Simoom for 1501. at 60 to 1, and a disposition was evinced to invest on " The Duke" at an improvement on our last quotation. Closing prices: 44 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken 9 to 2 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Batson's lot—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Stradbroke's lot 14 to 1 agst Rosalie colt—taken 17 to 1 agst Paleamon 18 to 1 agst Marshal Soult—take 20 to 1 20 to 1 agst Eringo 21 to 1 agst Coronation 23 to 1 agst Ralph—take 25 to 1 28 to 1 agst Sir Hans—taken 30 to 1 agst Cameleon—taken 20 to 1 agst Prince Catadoc—take 35 to 1 33 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle—taken 35 to 1 agst Mongolian—taken 35 to 1 agst Wahab—taken 40 to 1 agst Duke of Wellington—taken 2000 to 35 agst Darioletta colt—taken 500 to 9 agst The Nob—taken 60 to 1 agst Simoom—taken 8000 to 10 agst Knightsbridge—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mustapha—taken 1000 to 10 agst Warlock—taken 2000 to 20 agst Ben Brace—taken, and afterwards offd 1000 to 10 agst Hawk's. Eye—taken 1000 to 50 apt all the Mares—taken 1500 to 200 and 725 to 100 agst Rosalie colt and Pa lwaion—taken A report pievails in military circles that Lord Hill is about to retire from the Horse Guards, and that the post of Commander-in- Chief will be put in commis sion. We have not been able to obtain information by which to justify our confirming or contradicting the rumour. Recont circumstances, which have become matters of public notoriety, and for which Lord Hill has been severely censured, have been mentioned as grounds of the report. —Globe. CANTERBURY ELECTION.— We understand H. P. Gipps, Esq., has withdrawn a• a candidate for th© representation of this city, and that the Hon. Mr. Smythe, son of Lord Strangford, intends to come forward.—Can terbury Journal The Hon. E. J. Stanley, Secretary to the Trea sury, is expected _ta arrive in town to-morrow, to resume his official duties. _ _ _ - - Viscountess Milton was safely delivered of a son at Milton House, near Peterborough, the seat of Earl Fitzwilliam, on Saturday week. We understand her lady ship and infant are going on very favourably. The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, with the Marquis of Chandos and Lady Anne Greville, have arrived at Stowe, near Buckingham, from Wotton, with the intention of residing there until the meeting of Par liament. ERRATUM.—In the Address of Mr. Acland to the electors of Walsall, which appeared in The Sun on the 3d inst., for "to appease and satisfy," read, "to assure," &c. Some doubts having been expressed as to the precise nature of the advice to be offered to the Porte by the Allies after the submission of Mehemet Ali, we feel that we shall not be found wrong in stating that the Allies will advise the Sultan to grant to Mehemet Ali the heredi tary possession of Egypt, as the Governor of the Turkish province of Egypt, and not as vassal Prince, as some persons have been led to believe. Connected in some measure with this subject, we cannot avoid bestowing a few words upon the rhapsodies of the Parisian journals respecting some communications said to have been made to the French Government from the Emperor of Russia. Let our readers give us implicit credit when we assure them that these boastings about a projected alliance with Russia against England are merely childish ebullitions of pique, and silly attempts to sow distrust and disunion among the Allies. But Austria, Prussia, and England know the personal character and high sense of honour of the Emperor Nicholas too well not too laugh at these little stratagems of the politicians of Paris ; and, more over, common sense must suggest to the most ordinary comprehension, that if there were really any secret under standing on foot, or in contemplation, between France and Russia, the French would endeavour to prevent us from knowing anything about it, until it was completed, instead of trump - ting it forth to all Europe before it had even be gun.— Observer. NEW YEAR'S DAY.—New Year's Day was ushered in here amidst the usual noisy demonstrations of joy from the idlers upon our streets. It gives us much plea►ure, however, to add, that the numbers, as well as the unruliness of that class, appear to be much decreased from former years. The groups of people that congregated in the Mei-street, at the Register Office, and other 10. calitics, mingled great good humour with their hilarity ; and scarcely a single case of riot called for the interference of the police. During the day, numerous parties promenaded the streets, but for the most part orderly and temperate—even localities whose reputa tion for temperance do not stand very high, partook of the general good order; and an old residenter in the Cowgate remarked he had never seen so much quiet prevailing as on the present occasion. As night advanced, cases of intoxi cation became more frequent ; but, on the whole, the ge neral impression is that a more quiet and orderly New Year's Day never took place in Edinburgh.—. Edinburgh Cuurant. IN DON, TUES THE JEWS. TI3E SUN, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFoItD, JAN. 2.—The Lord Bishop of Chichester has collated the Rev. Jamie-4 Hughes, Fellow of New Col lege, to the Canonry and Prebend of Borsalis, vacant by the resiguation of Dr. Williams, the Warden of New College. The Rev. F. W. Holme has presented the Rev. Mey rick Ilolme, of Braz'nnose College, to the Perpetuai Curacy of Marston Meyscy, Wiltshire. The Lord Bishop of Lincoln has presented the Rev. John Bowstead to the Vicarage of Mcssingham with Battisford, Lincolnshire. The Dean and Chapter of Chichester have presented the Rev. Thomas Brown to the Canonry and Prebend of Highley, in the Cathedral of Chichester. The Lord Bishop of Lichfield has presented the Rev. Joseph Garton to the vicarage of Towcester, Northamp tonshire. CAUBRIDGE, JAN. 2.—The Norrisian Professor has given notice that his lectures in Lent Term, 1841, will commence on Tuesday, Feb. 2. John Carlen Heath, Esq , B. A., of the Inner Temple, was on the 23d ult. elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall by the Master and Fellows of that Society. Yesterday the Rev. Henry Alford, of Trinity College, was appointed Hulsean Lecturer. Tux HULSEAN PRlEL—Yesterday the Hultman Prise of upwards of 100 guineas was adjudged to Andrew Jukes, Trinity College. Subject—" An inquiry into the prin ciples of the prophetic interpretation, and the practical results arising from them." The subject for the present year The use and value of the writings of the an cient fathers, considered as auxiliary to the proof of the truth of the Christian religion and to the elucidation of its doctrines." ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE..--TIIC Christmas festivities at St. John's College have been kept up this year with the usual splendour and hospitality. St. John's Day ( Monday) wag net at all behind those of preceding years in sumptuous entertainment provided for a numerous party of friends. There were present all the heads of houses now in Cambridge, the High Sheriff, the Members for the University, the Honourable Algernon Herbert, Mr. Eaton, NI. P., Mr. Pryme, M.P., Dr. Havilaud, Dr. Mill, Pro fessor Blunt, Mr. C. Pemberton, Mr, Allix, with a large party amounting to about eighty of the elite of the town, county, aryl University. As usual the enormous Christmas pie, for which this College is celebrated, made its appear ance at supper in the Combination-room, backed by the boar's head, chine of pork, and other Christmas fare. The evening was spent as it is reasonable to suppose it would be among such good things, and we hear only one opinion of the excellent arrangements and provision for the occasion. We may also notice here that St. John's College is pro fuse in its liberality to the poor at the season of Christmas, and that to an extent which, we believe, few of our towns men are acquainted with, There is a regular distribution at the College kitchen, for several weeks, of bread and soup, made expressly for the purpose, for fifty poor per sons resident in the town; and we know, from some of those who have received this bounty, that it is most excel lent in quality, and also abundant in quantity. This, we guess, is the right way to keep Christmas, and we should rejoice to see it more generally imitated. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. We understand the Earl and Countes of Shrews bury, on their arrival at Rome, found most feeling letters of condolement on their late bereavements from her Moat Gracious Majesty the Queen, as likewise from Queen Adelaide. It is to be admired how our youthful Sove reign, surrounded by all that can render life interesting and dear, fails not to recal to mind those who labour under the pressure of severe domestic calamities in a distant country.—Standard. 'I'IIE PRESBYTERY OF STRATIIBOGIE.—A meeting of the Presbytery of Strathbogie was held at Keith on Wednesday, the 30th ultimo. The Presbytery having been constituted with prayer by the Moderator, and the minutes of last meeting read, the consideration of the Marnoch case was resumed, when the Rev. Mr. Edwards, the presentee to that parish, appeared and retaewed his ap plication for induction. A service copy of the decree, de cerniug and ordaining the Presbytery, and the members thereof composing the majority. " forthwith to admit and receive the said Mr. John Edwards as minister of the church and parish of Marnoch, according to law, and to take all the necessary and competent steps for that pur pose," was laid before the Presbytery and minuted. Mr. Cowie thereupon said, it was now their duty as members of the Established Church of Scotland, and as loyal sub jects, to give effect to the decree which had been pi o nounced against them. He would therefore move, " that the Presbytery, finding that no other course remained for them than to obey this peremptory order of the Supreme Court, or to incur the guilt, and subject themselves to the pains and penalties of disobedience, resolve to meet at Marnoch on Thursday the 21st day of January next, for the purpose of receiving and admitting the said Mr. J. Edwards to be minister of the church and parish of Mar noch, according to the rules of the Church." The motion was unanimously agreep:to.—Caledonian Mercury. VULGAR ERROR.—On looking into the throat when inflamed, the uvula may be observed enlarged, and sometimes to such a degree as to rest upon the tongue, and occasion much pain in the act of swallowing. In this state it is generally believed by the ignorant that it is fallen down, and that mechanical means must be used to raise it, such as pushing it up with a spoon, or lifting the patient of? his seat by the hair of the head. It is astonishing how prevalent is this ridiculous notion, and bow frequently the experiment is tried ; yet a little reflection and examination of the parts in a state of health may convince any one of its utter absurdity. Confinement to the house for a day or two, with the use of astringent gargles, and such reme dies as a sore th roat usua lly requires, will soon allay the swelling, and raise the little offending member to its pro per position. VEINELS SPOKEN Napoleon, London to Swan River, Oct. 27, lat. 22 S., long. 30 W. ; Marion, Bristol to Charleston, 30th ult., lat. 48, long. 18, by the Frances, Jeffery, arrived at Cowes. Eliza and Mary, Messina to Cork, lat. 50, long. 11, by the Emma, Harris, arrived off Salcombe. Brightman, Nov. 2, lat. 6, long. 23 ; Helen and Mary, Newcastle to Aden, same day ; George, Elphinstone, from London, 3d, lat. 7, long. 20 ; Van Zeelan, Marcussen, Amsterdam to Batavia, lat. 45, long. 20; a large steamer under canvass, standing to southward, 6th ; Transport, No. 10, running to the westward, 23d, lat. 46, long. 14, by the George Fife, Piske, arrived in the Downs. Flora, of Fowey, for Liver.. pool, 28th ult., lat. 48, long. 10, by the George, Milckcn, arrived at Poole. Loyalist, Skinner, to Dublin, 27th ult., lat. 51, long. 16, by the Columbus, Johnson, arrived at Dartmouth. Apollo, of Liverpool, 21st, lat, 44, long. 17, by the Nero, Jawes, arrived at Liverpool. Christiana, Dawson, Oporto to Newfoundland, Nov. 28, lat. 46, long. 63 ; Traler, of Weymouth, from Waterford, 25th ult., by the Argus, Alice, arrived at Jersey. Eagle, St. John's, New Brunswick, to London, long. 16, by the Ann and Margaret, arrived at Falmouth. Lord Glenelg, lat. 50, long. 13 ; Albion, of London, 31st ult., off the Lizard, by the Pigeon packet, arrived at Falmouth. A letter from Tripoli of the Ist, announces tha, the natives of Fezzan had again revolted, under the command of their Bey, Abdnl Gelil ; that they had re taken Towergha, and appeared in a considerable force in the environs of Mesurata. The Governor of the latter had marched against them a strong column of troops, who were surprised by the Arabs, and cut to pieces, with the loss of five Turkish officers. The Pacha, on hearing of this disaster, immediately despatched two schooners with 200 men to reinforce the garrison of Mesurata. PICTURE OF A YANKEE. He would kiss the Queen till he raised a blister, With his arm round her neck, and his old felt hat on ; Would address the King with the title of Mister, And ask the price of the throne that he sat on. A POOR ADMINISTRATION.—I spoke this day with Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Montague, but find no prospect of getting any money from them. Reedy money is so scarce, that they know not yet where to get their own salaries for last quarter. They have had Mr. Neal with them yesterday, about the country mints, and are giving the best orders they can in that matter, They kave no provision )et to pay the recompence, which is to be supplied by a Bill now depending.—James's Court and Times of IVilliant PUBLIC HOUSES.—It is not, we believe, gene rally known why publicans have the chequers painted on their door-posts. The following anecdote will, however, show it The arms of the Earl of Warren and Surrey were the chequers. This family being allied to William the Conqueror, had from him the exclusive power of granting licenses for selling malt liquor, and to enable their agents to collect the consideration money more readily, the door-pests were painted with their army, which practice has been handed down to the present day. This privilege is said to have been exercised by their de scendants, the Earls of Arundel, as late as the reign of Philip and Mary. A GOOD PARLIAMENT.—Mr. Cowper has yet further provoked them by saying, that an active, in dustrious man who employed 5,000/. in trade was every whit as fit to be a Member there as a country gentleman of 2001. a-year, who spent all his time in hawking and hunt ing, and was over bead and ears in debt. My Lord Nor rays answered him that be was one of those country gen tlemen, but thought himself as fit to sit there as those who were used to take money for their opinion. Mr. How overslipt himself, and happened to open the design further than he should have done, saying this Bill was but the first step to a good Parliament, and he hoped they should ad vance it a little further hereafter.--James's Court and Times of William CEREMONY.—The French Ambassador made me a visit yesterday, which I returned to-day. I received him at the bottom of the stairs, and conducted him down to the door, as I understood by Sir Charles Cotterell was customary. But I observed he expected me at the door of his apartment above stairs ; and therefore upon cooling away, and we were upon compliment whether he should go down stairs with me, I excused, rather desiring to be left where he made it his choice to receive me. He was, indeed, very pressing yesterday that I should net have conducted him down but I would not abate anything that was due to him.—James's Court and Times of Wil liam 111. ANCIENT BOOKS.—Pausanias relates that a book by Hesiod was written on leaves of load, and Hero dotus mentions the use of skins by the lonians when pa pyrus was scarce, which seems to show that he wrote on papyrus, or the manufacture of the paper " reeds of Egypt," which grew by the brooks. Pliny mentions linen books, and Virgil alludes to books that were made of the inner rind of the elm. The waxen hand tables of the ancients are well known, which were inscribed upon with the point of the style, and smoothed with its flat end. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—We find by the London Journals that the Hon. W. Bingham Baring, the betrayer of the Liberals of Winchester, is about to retire from the representation of North Staffordshire, " in conse quence of some family arrangements." We congratulate the electors of North Staffordshire on the prospect they have of no longer being represented by this political Isca riot, who not only sold the Reformers of Winchester for a peerage in reversion, but has ever since shown, as well as his father ( the apostate Whig Lord Ashburton) the bitterest hostility to his !ormer supporters. The Grange preserves, and the Grange influence (small certainly) is placed at the command of the Winchester Toty " whipper-in," to benefit the cause of Mr. Escott ; and Lord Ashburton and his; honourable son's influence is used to place Winchester again under the political thraldom which they were for merly the denouncers of, and the latter the opposer of, at. three contested elections, at which he was one of the Whig candidates fur the representation of Winchester. We say nothing of the genuine Tory contempt for the independ ence of the electors of North Stafford implied by the term, " family arrangements," which we suppose turns them over for " a consideration," to:some other nominee of the apostate peer, who will consequently be a Member of the House of Commons, the representatives of the people ! Hampshire Independent. Woon PAVING.—TIie recent frosts have tested the wood pavements in the metropolis very severely, but with different results. That laid down at Whitehall, and in Oxford-street, and Fore-street, City, appears to have stood without any injury ; whilst the wood pavement around St. Giles's Church, and in other places, has got so much out of repair as to render :replacement necessary. Nor is the contrast less singular as respects safety ; for the very sharp frost of last night made the wood paving opposite Coutts' banking-house, in the Strand, extremely slippery, so that horses have been frequently falling upon it, although that at Whitehall has been less affected than tbe Mac adamised road at either end of it, and is considerably more safe. —Evening Paper. DEATH OF LADY HERVEY BATHURST.— We have to record, after a short illness, the demise of the above highly respected lady , which took place on Wednes. day last at Clarendon Park, Wilts.- Her late Ladyship, who was eldest daughter and co-heiress of the late Mr. 1 Walter Smythe, was born 10th June, 1810, and married 1 lith May, 1832,..0; Frederick Hutchinson Harvey Ba. thurst, Bart, bywhom she leaves issue a son and a daughter. Sir Frederick, it is needless to say, is inconsolable at his domestic bereavement. Lady Newborough was confined on Thursday last at Glynnllior Castle near Carnarvon with a son and heir. The auspicious event gave rise to a manifestation of rejoicing unusual in that retired part of Wales. Cannon was fired, and all the craft in the Barbour displayed their different flags. In the evening Carnarvon was partially illuminated. His Lordship, who resides the greater part o f the year at the above scat, is deservedly respected by his neighbours, and from that circumstance the display of good feeling towards the noble family of Wynn was mule than ordinarily enthusiastic on tUntioptis occasion. 'i AY, JANUARY 5, lB4l . TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HEBREW PER SUASION IN JAMAICA. Brethren,—lt is clearly manifest that the march of liberality is making wondrous strides among the civilized nations of the earth, and in Great Britain particularly, where prejudice appears to be fast declining towards the people of our nation; and at the present crisis, when the feeling and sympathies of Europe have been excited towards the Jews, in consequence of the cruel ties and atrocities perpetrated upon some of our brethren in Syria and Rhodes, it would be judicious to avail ourselves of that feeling, and simultaneous applications from those of our nation residing in this island, as well as in the mother country, should be made to the Impe rial Parliament, for the removal of all the disabilities to which the Jews are subjected in Great Britain, and tier Majesty's colonies in general. The Local Legislature of this island have, to their immortal honour, conceded every immunity to our peo ple, and for which our eternal gratitude is due, and af fording a bright example of liberality worthy of imitation. Thc sympathy evinced by the inhabitants of all creeds or our persecuted brethren in the East, affords us rea sonable hopes that they will join us in an application to her Majesty's Government for the total repeal of the several cruel disabilities to which our nation is subjected .n Great Britain and the other colonies. Tile enlightened, noble, and liberal sentiments which pervade the Councils of her Majesty's present advisers, notd out to us a fair prospect of relief, if now applied tor. Let us come forward at once, and thereby stimu sate our foreign brethren to join us heart and hand in advocating th rights of the Hebrew nation, and obtain ing for them the same privileges and immunities which every other class of her Britannic Majesty's subjects, including her lately emancipated slaves, now enjoy. The eyes of the world are at this moment centred in the East, and it is to be hoped that the day is not distant when Jerusalem, the ancient heritage of our race, and the tomb of the great Christian Prophet, shall be res sued from the Infidel, when Jew and Christian may pay their adorations to the Deity, according to their respective forms of worship, in harmony and good fel io.vship, unapprehensive of the attaghan or bowstring of the Moslem. I trust that this appeal to my brethren will he responded to with alacrity, and that the object I have in view may be accomplished ; that those who suc ceed us may look back upon our emotions with grati. rude, when they are admitted to a participation in the full and entire rights to which her Majesty's other sub jects are entitled. I am, with respect, your devoted servant, M. H. SAMUELS. Kingston, Nov. 5, 1840.—Jamaica paper. THE AMERICAN ENGINES ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS OF THE PHOCEEDINOS OP THE NAVY. There cannot be a Letter refutation to calumny than to meet it with facts, " which are stubborn things." For a long time past it has been a practice indulged in (there is no accounting for taste) to make it appear that our Navy was neglected, our Dock-yards barren of sup plies, seamen scarce, and disinclined to enter the Navy ; and all this was circulated in order to establish that our rulers, and more particularly the Board of Admiralty, were unmindful of the true interests of the nation and its Navy. It is truly unfortunate for the naval croakers' arguments, that the recent opportunities afforded to the British fleet in the Mediterranean, and the recent com missioning, equipping, and manning several ships of the line and others, should so pointedly belie so many oft repeated assertions that the British Navy was morally defunct ; the operations of the fleet on the coast of Syria have proved that naval officers are competent to their duty ; that the ships and their crews were never in a state fitter to acquit themselves to the satisfaction of their country ; and the speedy manning within the last few months of several line-of-battle-ships, and some of smaller closes, by a voluntary system, no bounty given, establish that the Navy has not fallen into that state of odium and disgust which some unpatriotic scribblers and pamphleteers have for near three years been endea vouring to establish. The steady and undeviating as siduity of the various branches of the naval adminis tration, has produced such a systematic organization, which works so quietly, regularly, and unremittingly, without any fuss or bombast, that it is not to be won dered the uninformed should be misled, and induced to suppose we were in stain quo. The proof that your dockyards are not deficient in the materiel, is to be found in the expedition with which every new-commis sioned ship was supplied with all her equipment. The devotedness of the Naval Administration to the best interests of the country, may be observed by their very recently ordering to be brought forward for imme diate commission, a 50 gun frigate, the Vindictive, at Portsmouth, with a bow of an entirely new construc tion, which affords the facility of not only firing twice as many ens forward as the old plan, but likewise yields the advantage of being able to fire some of the guns from one bow across to a ship on the other bow, thus obviously affording a decided advantage to the chasing ship, previously unknown. The commissioning this ship, and testing her with one of her class of the present con- I struction, will (if successful) enable s hi p s of war of all I classes to bring twice the battery to bear right a-head that they formerly icoirsessAl. - Among naval men this is highly prized ; and we hear from all quarters that this important naval architectural improvement reflects great credit upon its projector, Mr. Blake, the master shipwright of Portsmouth Dockyard. Upon the naval de partment it reflects honour, from the wise and judicious selection made in fostering men of talent, and their readiness to afford trial to everything that can tend to strengthen Britain's best bulwarks, her " wooden walls." Naval and Military Gazette. On Thursday last, a joint vestry was held of the United Parishes of St. Antholin, Watling-street, and St. John the Baptist, to elect a Sunday afternoon Lecturer in the place of Dr. Wilson resigned, when the Rev. Chas. Culeby Roberts, B. A., one of the Masters of St. Paul's School, was chosen. The numbers at the close of the poll being For the Rev. Charles Coleby Roberts 50 For the Rev. H. Valiance Majority for the Rev. Mr. Roberts THE "FROPlCS.—lnseets are the curse of tro pical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few burs. They will not live together but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose; you cat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, got into the bed; ants eat up the books; scorpions sting you on the foot. Everything bites, stings, or bruises; every second of your existence you are wounded by some piece of *nines' life that nobody has ever seen before, except Swammerdam and Meriam. An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your tea-cup, a non descript with nine wings is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening over the bread and butter I GOOD FORTUNE.—A few days since a man named John Billings, who has for many years been an in mate in St. Saviour's Workhouse, Southwark, came into possession of 30,0001. by the death of an aunt in Berkshire. EMIGRATION TO THE WEST INDlES.—Des spite of the efforts made by the enemies to slavery—the scathing, burning denunciations and imprecations of as O'Connell and a Steele ;—despite of the eloquent ap peals of Counsellor Moore, the Anti- Slavery Delegate, and the untiring, sincere, and indefatigable efforts of the Society of Friends:—despite of the advice and exhorta tions of different Catholic clergymen from their altars, to a deluded people,—one hundred and twenty-five men, women, and children go out in the Robert Kerr this day. Dark, and dismal, and desolate did the Robert Kerr ap pear, with a few small boats plying round her, containing some benevolent individuals, who, to the utmost of their power, exerted themselves to prevent the infatuated beings from plungiag into slavery and death.—Limeriek Reporter. REPRESENTATION OF MONMOUTHSHIRE. — There is every reason to believe that there will be no contest for this county at the next election. Mr. Hanbury Trae,y, the nephew of the Lord Lieutenant, has accepted the invitation of the electors to come forward as a candi date in the Liberal interest, and Mr. Opposition him wou 5. , e completely futile. The requisition to Mr. Tracy was signed by 114 A of the leading gentry of the county, among whom are Sir Digby Mack worth, Bart., Colonel Lewis, of St. Pierre, and other moderate Conservatives. Mr. Tracy has replied to the requisition, and expresses his readiness to accede to the wishes of the requisiti on i s t s w h enever th e present Member , Mr. Williams, 5h.,11 relinquish his scat, by standing fcrward on their interest as a candidate for the representation of the county of Nlsnrnouth.—Morning drontcle. VIENNA, DEC. 20.—1 hear th a t t h e E mperor has been please d to grant to the P rotestant stu d ents o f Hungary and Transylvania, permi ss i on again to frequent the y U n y i e v a e r r s s . NEWSPAPER PROPERT Y .--O n T ues d ay l ast, at the Auctionit y of Gottingen , which has been withheld for m ar t, London, Mr. Surridge offered for ich sa l e t h e co pyrights an d en tire interest of the following Journals, which h a ve for some ti me b een i n t h e h an d s o f h the Essex and Suftolh Times, and the Ipswich Ex p ress. The nov elty of the sale did not attract a large company, there not b e i ng twenty per sons in the room. Mr. Surrid g e, havi ng desc ribed the several properties, wh wero offered in three lots, ob served that he hoped, as there was no reserve, ho should meet with a fair and liberal competition. HQ next read a letter from the reverend pr, e oprietor, in which he stated that Kent Eyre, of Dedh am, v i z. :—The E ssex , Heel llercury, as the property was advertised to b e so ld w i thout any reser vation he was dem:lied to abide by it. The auctioneer then called on those present to make a bidding for lot 1, but he did not succeed in his app ea l ; he next offered lots 2 and 3 Mr. S ur ridge then said, as there did n ot a pp ear to be a bi dder in the room, he should be compelled Co better success. to close the s a l e , at t h e same time he could not avoid expressing his disappointment at the result. He thanked the compa o y .. for their attendance, and tho business concluded.—Chelmsford Chronicle. EXTIt AoR DINARY FLOCK OF W I LD GEESE. —A gentleman residing at Woodside, near Liverpool, in forms us, that, on Tuesday morning, whilst walking in Hamilton.square, his attention was attracted by :a very loud noise, which he at first took for a mob qaarrelling ; but seeing no s uch disturbance, he looked into th.. air, and there saw a most extraordinary flock of wild geese, consist. ing o f a t loot 2,000, flying in tho direction of Bidaton. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THE INST. CIVIL ENG. SESSION, 1840. " Account of a Series of Experiments on Lo comotive Engines, more particularly on the En gland,' the Columbia,' and the Atlantic,' manufactured by Mr. Norris, of Philadelphia." By Captain Moorsom, R. E., Assoc. Inst. C. E. -,-The engines of which the author more espe cially treats were constructed by Mr. Norris, of Philadelphia, and sent by him to England, under an agreement to supply " locomotive engines of a higher power, greater durability, and less weight," than could be obtained in this country. They were to be subjected to fifteen trials within thirty days, and prove their capability of drawing " np a gradient of 1 in 330, a load of 100 tons gross weight at the speed of twenty miles per hour ; and up a gradient of 1 in 180, a load of 100 tons gross weight at the speed of fourteen miles per hour." The pressure of the steam in the boiler was stipulated by the Grand Junction Company (on whose railway the trials were made) not to exceed 60 lbs. per square inch. The construction of these engines is very simple, and the work plain. The boiler is horizontal, and contains 78 cop per tubes, 2 inches diameter, and 8 feet long each, with an iron fire-box. The cylinders, 10i inches diameter, are slightly inclined downwards, and so placed that the piston-rods work outside the wheels, thus avoiding the necessity of cranked axles. The frame is supported by six wheels ; the two driving wheels, of four feet diameter, are placed close before the fire-box; the other four wheels, of thirty inches diameter, are attached to a truck which carries the front end of the boiler, and is connected with the frame by a centre pin, on which it turns freely, al lowing the truck to accommodate itself to the exte rior rail of the curve, and with the assistance of the cone of the wheels to pass round with very little stress upon the rails. The weight of the engine, the boiler and Tons. Cwt. fire-box full, was That of the tender, with 21 cwta. of coke and 520 gallons of water, was Total weight l5 15} The engine, when empty, weighed 8 tons. The trials were made on the Grand Junction Rail way in April and May, 1839, and were con tinued over the whole distance from Birming ham to Liverpool, except when stopping short at Warrin g ton, to take loads ; and occasionally making ouble trips. so as to travel the total distance 156 miles per day. Attention was more particularly paid to the speed when as cending the gradients, which rise at the rate of one in 330 (16 feet in a mile), or one in 177 (29 feet 4 inches per mile), and as the engines approached these gradients frequently either at an accelerated or a diminished speed, the observations were made at the points most remote from the cause of varia tion from uniform velocity. Some of the trials were made with such a number of empty waggons to make up the weight, that the train attained a length of nearly an eighth of a mile. This required some allowance, which was esti mated at from one-eighth to one-ninth in ad dition to the actual weight of the empty waggons. The extreme limit of working pres sure of the steam in the boiler was 62 lbs. per square inch, except for a few minutes on one oc casion, when it rose to 641bs. The usual pressure for the locomotive engine boilers on railways now generally at work is from 501bs. to 751bs. per square inch. An analysis of the tabulated results of the several trips give these general results : That on a plane of 1 in 330, with a load varying from 100 to 120 tons, the speed varied from 13 miles 8-lOths to 224 miles per hour ; that on a plane of 1 in 177, with a load of 100 tons, the speed varied from 9 miles 8-10ths to 13 miles 8-10ths per hour. From the analysis it appears that allowing in five of the trials the stipulated amount of performance to have been made, and that in fire other trials a doubt may exist, still in the re maining eleven trials the exact amount of duty demanded was not pet#orined. A comparison of the journeys up from Liverpool to Birmingham, with those down from Birmingham to Liverpool, gives rather a singular result. The aggregate rise of the gradients from Liverpool to Birmingham is about 620 feet, that from Birmingham to Liverpool is about 330 feet (exclusive, in both cases, of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway) ; the differ ence, therefore, up to Birmingham, is 240 feet. In seven journeys of 596 miles up to Birming ham, the engine conveyed 682 tons gross, evapo rated 12,762 gallons of water, and consumed 177 sacks of coke (li cwt. each). In seven journeys of 596 miles down from Birmingham, the same engine conveyed 629 tons gross, evaporated 12,379 gallons of water, and consumed 177 sacks of coke. It would thus appear that the consumption of fuel was the same in both cases, and the only difference was the evaporation of 326 gallons of water more in the journey up than in the journey down, conveying nearly the same load both wad s. The author remarks, that in the early stage of his observations on the engine, he would have inferred, that from the mode of construction, it was not cal culated for high speeds, such as are required for the mail trains ; yet that he has often seen it travel with apparent ease at the speed of 30 miles per hour ; and he thinks that, with some slight modifi cation of the working parts, engines of this con struction may be made to do any duty now required from locomotive engines ; and, from the small quantity of repair required during the trials (only renewing the firebars which were originally intended for turning wood, and putting nine stronger ferrules in the tubes), he is of opinion that the present construction is exceedingly well calculated for heavy loads—that it may be modified for attaining high speeds—and will prove a durable and econo mical machine. Captain Moorsom, in reply to some questions from several members, stated, that although the American locomotive engines had not strictly com plied with the stipulated conditions, yet he consi detedthem good, serviceable engines, and it was the intention of the Directors of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company co have ten of the: on their line. The price of the engine complete, including the import duty of 20 per cent. is from 1,5001. to 1,6001. One of the greatest advan tages of the engines is the facility afforded by the truck for going round curves—the same en gineers managing indiscriminately the ordinary six wheeled engines ; and the American ones are ob served to go faster round the curves with the latter than with the former. Round a curve of ten chains radius, they had gone at a speed of twenty miles per hour. They run also quite as well on a straight road. He had travelled on them between Whitmore and Crewe at the speed of from thirty to forty miles per hour. They appeared less likely to be thrown off the rails than other engiueE, as, in some instances, they had run over the short pointers of the Grand Junction Railway— the engineer had merely felt a slight jar, but no acci dent had occurred. He attributed this to the truck adapting itself so readily to the rails. The coke used in the trials was the same as that in daily use on the Grand Junction Railway, and was of average quality. The mode of attaching the tender to the engine was peculiar, and he conceived it to be ad vantageous, as it threw a portion of the weight upon the engine, and was an assistance in starting. The engines, as they are now constructed, will do well for all ordinary speed ; but if higher speeds are required, a greater expense must be incurred, and certain alterations must be made in them. [Our readers will remember that three of these engines were recently tried on the Gloucester and Birmingham Railway, and failed. If, however, the Americans, amongst whom labour is well paid, can compete with us in the manufacture of engines, and send them here, paying the duty of 20 per cent., it will become the Legislature to look about it. Vari ous branches of industry are already leaving the country, and, even now, it may be too late to stop them. At least, let every thing that is possible be done, and let our manufacturers not have to cope with a single difficulty beyond those which nature, and the peculiar condition of the society, throw in their way.—ED. Sun.] BELGIAN P UNDS—Bansente, JAN. 2. Actual Delot, 2%, per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent ......«.«.«.« iRS% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ..... 8 8 (1640) 95%. 3per Thirty-seven , Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent.. Society of Commerce, 454 per Ce Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent..... National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vzstrusa, DEC. 24. live per Cants. Metalliques • ••••••••••••••••••••••• 1064 Foar per Cents... ......... .......•••••••••••••• ........... ••• 99 S Three rr Cents. ........ ..... ••••••• ..... •••• ........ Bank h am .... ....... 11•11110.•••••••1111.1.. 3535 ...411(g6tneinc 4ilting, 110 87 OLD COURT. The January Sessions of the above Court commenced yesterday, at the Court House in the Old Bailey, before the Right lion, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Sheriff-, Alderman Sir George Carroll, the Under Sheriffs, and the usual civic authorities. The Grand Jury having been sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to address them ; after stat ing that although the calendar contained a smaller number of offences than usual, yet that some of them were of a serious character, he proceeded to draw attention to one case, in which a party was accused of the offence of ex torting money by threatening to accuse the prosecutor of an attempt to commit an infamous crime. Now, on read ing over the depositions, it appeared to him that the prosecutor had given the party accused the money more with a view of obtaining his conviction than through actual fear of his threats—it did not appear that the money had been actually extorted by fear, that it had been parted with under an apprehension that the character of the party would be affected by the accu sations threatened to be brought against him, but that it had been given in concert with the officer purely with a view of apprehending and convicting the party ; therefore he was of opinion that the case did not fall under the pro visions of the statute of 1 Victoria, cap. 8, sec. 4 ; but by the Act 7 and 8 Geo. IV., cap. 29, a party sending threatening letters accusing any party of the commission of au infamous abominable offence was liable to punish ment as guilty of felony ; and to constitute the offence under the provision of the Act of Geo. IV. it was sufficient to prove that threatening letters had been sent—in that the offence consisted, and it was not necessary to constitute the offence that money should have been actually extorted. If therefore the letters set forth in the depositions, and which would be produced before them, could be clearly proved to be the handwriting of the party accused, and it should be shown to their satisfaction that he was the party sending such letters, then he would advise them to put the case into the course of further investigation before Petty Jury. There were other cases of serious offences in the calendar, but as none of them involved any question of law, he did not consider himself called upon to detain them longer from the performance of those important duties which devolved upra them. The Grand Jury then retired. The calendar contains the names of 138 prisoners. The usual formalities having been gone through, and the several pannels of Petty Jurors having been sworn, the Court proceeded to business. John Baxter Peace, 24, was indicted for stealing a watch, value 31., the property of James Baird. Mr. PAYNE defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor was a labouring man, and that in the month of No vember he was lodging at the Welsh Harp public house, Essex-street, of which house the prisoner was the potman. On the 15th of that month, the prisoner being the worse for liquor, the landlord, Mr. Eason, directed the prisoner to see him to his bed. At this time the watch was safe, but the next morning it was missed. Some suspicion was subsequently created, and the prisoner's box was searched, and among a number of other duplicates one far the stolen watch was found, and it appeared that it had been pledged at the shop of Messrs. Tarrant, the pawn brokers of Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road, for 2/. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen tenced to be transported for ten years. Sarah Roach, 24, was i ndicted for stealing eleven pinbefores, thirteen napkins, forty socks, and other articles, the property of Mr. Robert Snow, the banker. Mr. PHILLIPS appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. CLARKSON defended the prisoner. Mrs. Georgiana Snow, the wife of the prosecutor, deposed that the prisoner had been in her service at the private residence of herself and husband, 72, Portland place. Having missed some articles, witness asked the prisoner if she had taken them, and she said she had not, and that she knew nothing about them. Witness in particular questioned her about some Irish linen, and told her she would forgive her if she told her about it. Slie was questioned about some other things, and ultimately her boxes were searched by a policeman, and several articles were found in them, which witness identified as her property. Among the things found were some children's frocks, a pair of silver child's sugar.tongs, and other articles. The prisoner was pre sent when the boxes were searched, and when witness recognised the property she began to cry, but did not make any remark. Cross•examined—The prisoner acted as under nurse in the family, and had filled that situation for two years. The prisoner came into her service with a very good character from the Rev. Mr. Towers, of Essex. Some of the things that were found had been worn, but they were not old. Did not know that the box in which some of the things were found belonged to the pri soner, but she did not deny it. The prisoner said that things had been given to her by the head nurse, and sho repeated that statement in her presence. The prisoner readily consented to have her boxes searched. The whole of the articles alleged to have been stolen ware not of any great value. Re-examined—The prisoner said that the children had given her some of the things that were found. Allen Horatio Garland, a police-sergeant, proved that he searched the prisoner's boxes, and before he did so he asked the prisoner whether she had any objection to his examining them, and she said she had not, for there was nothing in them but what belonged to her. W hen the articles were found the prisoner cried and begged for forgiveness. Cross-examined—Mrs. Snow was present when this occurred, and must have heard it. Susan Beard, a servant in the employ of the prosecu tor, proved that she was present when some of the arti cles were found, and she heard the prisoner cry and beg her mistress to forgive her. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury at some length, and remarked upon the absence of the head nurse, whose evidence he said would have been most material to the present inquiry. Several highly respectable witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner an excellent character, and it also ap peared that she had lived for severa l years in the ser vice of the Rev. Mr. Tower, of South Weald, Essex, by whose family she was held in the highest estimation. The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Not guilty. The Learned JUDGE told the prisoner that the Jury had taken a most merciful view of her case, and he hoped it would prove a warning to her for the rest of her life. Susan Nune, 25, was indicted for stealing three handkerchiefs, value 13s. 6d., the property of Messrs. White and Greenwell, her employers. Mr. Phillips conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. The prisoner was engaged as shopwoman to the pro secutors ; she was seen by another servant to take the handkerchiefs from a box and put them in her pocket, who gave information ; the prisoner was charged with the robbery, and the articles taken from her person. She was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Cor rection. The recognizances of the Earl of Cardigan and Captain Douglas were again respited until the next session. In POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A little girl named .Margaret Davis, who was stated to be no more than 14 years of age, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged by a policeman with having attempted to drown herself. The policeman stated that the girl jumped from the pier at Queenhithe into the river, on Sunday morning, a►►d that she must have perished if it had not been for some bargemen who saw her floating, and picked her up. She said, upon being questioned, that she did not wish to go back to her master and mistress. A person named Jones said that the girl, who, he was given to understand, was older than had been stated to him, was put apprentioc to him by the parish on which her mother and she had been dependent, that she was exceedingly lazy and sleepy, and that in fact her mistress was obliged to look over her regularly on her work, and even then it was not done properly. I❑ consequence of the impropriety of her coaduct, for she committed every impropriety with the exception of sauciness, he boxed her cal s. The LORD MAYOR—You ought not to have beaten her. _ _ Jones said that she had been sent out for some meat, and that she brought home less change than she ought to have brought, and told falsehoods about it. She had also thought proper to lie upon a bag in the kitchen with a few shavings in it, rather than go to her com fortable hed. Indeed he could not manage her at all, and he was desirous to have her indentures cancelled. The Loan MAYOR said that the conduct which the man had described appeared to him to proceed rather from imbecility than vice. His Lordship feared that she was not likely to be benefited by remaining at her master's house, and asked her whether she wished to say any thing ?—The girl said No. The officer stated that the girl told him she thankful not to be sent back to her master's ho ". tr e e. The LORD MAYOR—I do not think it is place her for her. The little girl appears to be weak in mind, and her master does not seem to be qu alified too uld be to i le r e m p treat that sort of infirmity with skill. Jones said that the girl wasistproesactded to go sleep instead anf kindness, but she was always d instead of work. days, and be that the girl should be The LORD MAYOR or dered for a few taken back to the Cm"te t r liat prison. named El iza incready, was visited by the Chaplain of 1. An Irish girl, imme diately afterwards brought up, c h at ged with having at rowlbg herself from a boat into the river. who ha d tempted to dro wn herself, byth rowing • The policeman who ha the girl in custody, stated that a waterman brought her to him, and said that she had just esca p ed drownin g. She had engaged him to row her towards a steamer, whi c h was goi ng o ff, and w hen they got close to the vessel, she asked a man on board some question, to which the man replied. No." At that instant she threw herself into the river from the boat, It was with difficulty her life was saved, MORNING EDITION and then she expressed regret that she had not been allowed to go to the bottom. The unfortunate creature, who appeared to b e a b out eighteen years of age, stated, upon being questioned in a soothing manner by the LORD MAYOR, that she had come to London with a recruiting sergeant from Cork, and that she wished to return to her friends, not having a friend in this country or the means of support. The sergeant, however, abandoned her, and refused to take her back to Cork, to which place he was at that moment on his voyage. She could not bear the thought of being left desolate in London, and in despair had made up her mind, if he refused her last request, to destroy herself. The policeman said there was no doubt as to the destitute condition of the poor girl. Ho had found several duplicates in her pocket. The LORD MAYOR asked her whether she was not anxious to go home to her friends. She replied that she wished for nothing else. His LORDSHIP then sent her, in the custody of a policeman, to Mr. Thwaites, the relieving officer of the City of London Union, with a particular request that she should be sent to Cork as soon as possible. WORSHIP-STREET. M nn Eno us Ass ULTS.—Michael Shaughnessy and his brother John, two athletic Irish labourers, were charged with having committed several savage and un provoked assaults, and with having so severely injured Police Constable Peat, G 1"5 , an d a man name d Ge evidence, that, shortly before 12 o'clock on Saturday night, the complainant Mayhew that thei r li ves are placed i n d anger. Tt rg appear ed la}. lew, f , rom the was passing through Tabernacle-row, City-road, when he met the two prisoners, the first of whom exclaimed, Here's a b—y Englishmen," and Instantly knocked him down. Both of them then kicked him about the body in the most brutal manner ; and upon his raising the cry •f " Police," one of the prisoners called out, " Kick him in the mouth." His head had fallen between two scrapers, and the prisoner Michael, in making a kick at his mouth, struck one of the scrapers with such force, that it snapt in twain, and the sharp end penetrated his (Mayhew's) forehead, inflicting a deep wound. A cousiderabx crowd having by this time assembled, the prisoners made off ; but, after they had fled a short distance, the po liceman Peat attempted to seize one of them, upon which the other knocked him down. He got up again with the blood streaming down his face, and having drawn his staff he pursued them into an adjoining court, but the moment he reached them the prisoner Michael wrested the staff from his hand, and felled him to the ground, where he lay sense- less. The prisoners then kicked and trampled upon him ; after which they struck out right and left among the crowd, and speedily opened a path into the street. The prisoner Michael led the way, flou rishing the poli ceman ' s trunc h eon, an d k noc ki ng d own every one he met, amongst whom Police-constable, G 187 sustained severe injuries. Several other officers at length reached the spot, and after a desperate con flict, the prisoners were overpowered, and conveyed to the station-house. The poor man Mayhew was brought forward in a state of dreadful suffering. He stated that he had never before seen the prisoners until the moment when they attacked hint ; and he did not offer the slightest provocation, but was walking quietly along with his hands in his pockets. He had been attended by a surgeon, who found that besides the wound in his head two of his ribs had been broken, and he feared sonic internal vessel had been ruptured, as he had been spitting blood ever since. Mr. BROUGHTON strongly recommended the poor fellow to get into the hospital without loss of time. Inspector Robinson stated that the constable Peat had also ruptured a blood-vessel, and his head been beat about in the most shocking manner. Ile was in a very dangerous state, and had been several times visited by the police surgeons, but the latter had not had sufficient time to ascertain the extent of his injuries. Police constable G, 187, said that he saw Peat that morning, when he was in great agony, and unable to move in his bed. 1110111,1 S Carnell, a respectable looking young man, said that lie sar the policeman, Peat, struck down with the truncheon, and it was the general belief that he was killed by the blow. Between thirty and forty persons were present, who.n the prisoners immediately after wards attacked with such irresistible fury, that they drove all before them, and knocked down +al trampled upon several. Witness was one of those who were knocked down. 1 nspector Robinson stated that several other persons who had been assaulted were in attendance. Mr. Baoucirros said that it was unnecessary to trouble them at present, as he had heard quite sufficient to convince him that a more atrocious outrage could scarcely be committed. In answer to the charge the prisoner, John Shaugh nessy, declared that the complainant Mayhew com menced the affray by attempting to kick to pieces a jug which he was carrying ; and the other prisoner accused the police of having bribed the witnesses to ap pear against them. The MAGISTRATE said that he should remand them to await theissue of the policeman's injuries, and if they terminated fatally the charge against them would be that of murder. Whatever might be the result they would be sent before a Jury, the utmost punishment he could inflict being quite inadequate to such aggravated offences.—The prisoners were remanded for a week. BURNS'S EARLY DAYS.—Burns, before his visit to Edinburgh, had, at all times and places, been in the habit of associating with the best men of his order—the best in everything, in station, in manners, in intellectual character such men as William Tell and Hofer, for example, associated with in Switzerland and the Tyrol. Even the persons he got unfortunately too well ac quainted with (but whose company he soon shook off ), at Irvine and Kirk- Oswald—smugglers and their adhe rents, were, though a lawless and dangerous set, men of spunk, and spirit, and power both cf mind and body ; nor was there anything the least degrading in an ar dent, impassioned, and imaginative youth becoming for a time rather too much attached to such daring and adventurous, and even interesting characters. They had all a strong poetical smell of the sea, mingled to precisely the proper pitch with that of the contraband. As a poet Burns must have been much the better of such temporary associates.: as a man, let us hope, notwithstand ing Gilbert's fears, not greatly the worse. The passions that boiled in his blood would have overflowed his life, often to disturb, and finally to help to destroy him, had there never been an Irvine and its seaport. But Burns's friends, up to the time he visited Edinburgh, had been chiefly his admirable brother, a few of the ministers round about, farmers, ploughmen, farm servants, and workers in the winds of heaven blowing over moors and mosses, corn fields and meadows, beautiful as the blue skies themselves ; and if you call that low company, you had better fling your copy of Burns's Cotter's Saturday Night, Mary in IL even, and all, into the fire. He, the noblest peasant hat ever trod the greensward of Scotland, kept the so ciety of other peasants, whose nature was like his own ; and then, were the silken-snooded maidens whom he wooed on " lea rig and 'mang the rigs o' barley," were they who inspired at once his love and his genius, his pas sion and his poetry, till the whole land of Coila over flowed with his immortal song--so that now to the proud native's ear every stream murmurs a music not its own, given it by sweet Robin's lays; and the 'elk, more lyrical than ever, seems singing his songs at the gates of heaven for the shepherd's sake, as through his half closed hand he eyes the musical mote in the sun shine, and remembers him who " sung her new awakened by the daisy's side,"—where they, the blooming daughters of Scotia, we demand of you, on peril of your life, low company and unworthy of Robert Burns ?—,Professor Wilson's Essay on the Genius and Character of Burns , THE I.,:reiAarNec;rl,,ad We have seen that the Otomacs eat little else some months of the year than large quantities of earth, and that some brutes devour earth. I may here add that not only the Otomacs, arc so fond of it, as, when well sup plied with food, to take a little, but that many nationleict, the torrid zone have a propensity to geophsgism. 1 t_ . negroes of Guinea, the Javanese, the New C a led . en t T r ns and many South American tribes, eat clay as carryluz freely ti and the Guajerocs, (grebe west of Rio da la Ilscdtice4layriniann. a little box of lime as sailors do a tobacco -hex, "c gll t ei l t rsome tribes t. workmen at the mountain of Kiffhonser spread ith inipueity at home " stein batter, and fi st n e d ad it of v b e u r t y te s r r o ti n sfy th in e g ir abnideaeda,saynodf cdai a th n e d astes macs do not suffer by the practice, ins too in thet. I p u e x o u p r l 3 e , . grow Ai sick a n s a n v; l thin ge: b p y h a i n s e d d u I w g . Nest Indies. The red clay eaten in Java de, on a yellow clay, severely s was opened AND LEEDS ( P i t t t h e 2 Ph siol if :treys the hp -t . to learn, from two reports of the en rsindatyhela, the 31st RAILWAY. the body.—Elliotson This railway ii s ' s s 1 ./: k .i : o ßd ni a a y ogy. Summit Tunnel) on excep tion of the Ist and -Jth ult., that the failure of the en gineers, I, in a portionof I , inverted arc .. the tunnel, is likely to prove l oss serious than was at firs` apprehended, both as ult.. ; the expense of repairing ' " r egards it, and the time which w ill be lost thereby . It is now expected that the defective work will be finished early in the month of February, inf/ . of the line anddated the - and that the cost will not exceed 3,0001. The open. has strikingly verified the anticipations of the Directors. It appears on reference to their re port of the 17th Sept. 1838, it was therein stated, that "during the present year the entire line may be expected to be in the course of execution, and it is hoped should nothing unforeseen occur, will be opened to the public within the year 1840." Considering bow diffi cult it is to state, so long beforehand, the probable period when works of even ordinary magnitude may be completed, this affords an extraordinary instance of the literal fulfil ment of the expectations held out by Directors to their Proprietors ; and it appears the more remarkable, when the gigantic character of the works in question is taken into account—the difficulties in which were pronounced by many to be insuperable.—Manchester Guardian, SINGULAR FACT—BELLINGHAM, THE MUR DERER OP Mit. PERCEVAL.-In our obituary of the presen t week we have recorded the death of the Rev. W. Brookes, by whom a servant girl was shot in this town, in the year 1812. On this occas io n we have been reminded of the striking i c k unfortunate servant, and expressed the utmost horror at the ac t by she was destroyed. Little was it then expected by t hose who heard him, and perhaps as little intended by at fact, that Bellingham, who was staying in War vi the time, was an eye-witness of the death of the himself, that he would, even in a few days afterwards, be come the assassin of a Minister of State ! IVarwick Adv. ~~ ~ I re tba ear the of the car toi nal tea• cal the Cu'- for con', 01 LW ° pr 50501,16 ous e ' l !.21 as 6