The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-18 00:00:00

' lll Oll t • • the ruissing it, contribute their Si. annually towards Tile o f so goo d a S oc i e ty.—(H e ar.) ne CRAIRMAN fully concurred in the views of Mr. L.P; but, be it observed, that many of those gentlemen te fight v e ry h ar d b a ttles, and spend a great deal of gre.Y in the boroughs they had contested. He had, eself on the late occasion, fought a very hard battle at %%lel]; and he could assure them that he parted with , h , N very reluctantly.—(Hear.) " u r 6 fessor KEY observed, that twenty-five gentlemen, 11140 ngst whom were some of the Vice-Presidents, had e!ltae forward, and had pledged themselves to raise, e jther br themselves or friends, the sum of 51. per an tis! ,- • each, towards the support of the Institution ; and h„ (6uad no doubt but many more would do the same. — " h 'Qrs.) pith regard to the observation of Mr. Ken- I - tt, as to throwing the Association open to Reformers, j k : : a s open to every resident of the borough contri ,ag 4s. annua lly ; an d th e p erso n paying that sum had 4 7 1 1 right an d power w ith tho s e who subscribed ten guine a s. --(H ear , hear.) No objection had ever been 4 4 ` 1 0' to any Reformer ,• and even if Chartists wished to e°4lo members of the Association, upon payment of the -55r's subscription, they were not only bound, but to tt a " and happy to receive them.—(Cheers.) i o 4 r. IvniEr said the question before the meeting was, (il w Were they to get out of their present diffie.ulties ?- 6, e , a r.) The only way to overcome it was for the Asso cc-o'n to pledge itself, in the first place, to help the Mmittee out of the 2001. debt ; and then came the questi on solv as to whether the Association should be dis thoY,, or not. It was hard that all the responsibility h i . um rest o n th e s h ou ld e rs of the Trustees and Manag ti,! Committee only. He would move that the Associa -1,_•4 agree to indemnify the Managing Committee ipst the liability of the debt of 2001. incurred up to s _ristro as Brs . noe seconded the resolution. He wished it to 4. understood that the insinuations in a certain portion th n t he public press. of this debt having been incurred by tie Association in the part it took at the late election, 410 unfounded. It had been incurred purely and ( Ile in carrying out the objects of the registration.— ti e : 4 .) The result had arisen from want of proper atten ; fi e ,' 6 in getting in subscriptions. Parochial as well as t i e re political contests had 'taken up the time of gentle , al who Otherwise would have devoted' it to that object. 14 . 72% Cox wished to know what annual sum was re- Zed to keep the Associationin an efficient state. 44 ri - ,RAIRMAN—It will require 350/. per year. r • Cox - could not see how that could be. In the first tsar it only cost 1501.—(Cries of , t No, no"):—that it r d now requ i re 3501. was all Greek to him. it, • IrtmEr —lf Mr. Cox had attended the meetings le r \ 6lll d not have been Greek to him.— (Renewed laugh- Inle 4 ; 1838 it cost 417/, and last year, which was the A t f the expenses were 3101. tl k r . Cox was satisfied upon this point ; but he wished (epi to know if there was not a split in the Association ? 1‘: 8 of " No, no.") • DYKE —Yes, there was a split a short time since. tar, Cox—Ah, I thought so. lid„ r. DYKE—Oh yes, there were about 450 on one 51 a nd Mr. Kensett on the other.—(Loud laughter.) s 44 ip resolution was then put, and adopted unanimously , Much cheering. lo. th r • N r Ewnßarir felt great pleasure in moving, " That ks e i e opinion of the meeting the dissolution of the As hor4tt°n would deeply affect the cause of Reform in the i tt g' ll , and that, therefore, it be not dissolved." to e r • SMART, in seconding the motion, said he wished Nrocirreet several misapprehensions which had gone for- Th e with respect to the objects of that Association. tetter of Mr. Kensett insinuated that .they were tied in some•partial cause. Now, the fact was, that f) e mbraced the Reform cause generally, without re -43. tti;' to any particular party. It was also endeavoured, go tee e Times and other journals, to mix them up with %l ei debts said to be incurred at the late election, k n e as they h a d no thi n g w h a tever to do with them.— li t ,n hear.) With .regard to the dissolution.of that Pla te -t iation, it would be the height of folly to contem tietlt s uch a course. By that Association was the effi tifeet„°rganization of Reformers at the last election i togl and, if they permitted it to be dissolved, they t ie i_u n ot only n e v e r be enabled to establish another, but Aretorin cause would be ruined for ever.—(Hear.) 11 0. OILLEs was of opinion that the sum of four shil as Its kb pe r annum was too small a sum to constitute a e r•—(Cries of " No, no.") bilitELL said, one of the complaints already th t i e against the Association was, that it was too * aristo- S t r(Laughter.) If 'they raised the amount of sub ottia", it might be with some truth. At all events, it N z e,shut o u t a l arge num b er o f p ers o ns whom he (Mr. kork f i e Shut Was awar e were determined to join the Associa the ;: ) . le lY in consequence of the attacks made upon it in lt,tes and Herald newspapers.—(Cheers.) 'ff,er a j d ' so Yr. believed that the editors of the Times and N if .would never have indulged in the remarks they t hey had been aware of the still more unfOrtu 'itte,ttsition of the rival Association in Wigmore trcrsid (Cries of "Hear, hear.") The Loyal and Constitu tt ' A ssociation of Marylebone, instead of being in ' tit2oo l. were in debt to the tune of 7001.—(Hear.) Quad name three public-houses in his own immediate L'ulas fu A ged the landlords of which had bad their i f k , e rked by the Tory Association at the late e t _ec a - t eo „',Pninitteei, at five guineas each; and up to h tot a i l . b io not get a farthing.—(Hear, hear.) This was 41 ,,, 141 f t " e‘ 3' absolutely indebted in the sum of one 1 , - . l l in a ' -or Services`e' f rmed, to the poor starved fellow rsi4jtel;lttheer?lsirng°s at the corner of Devonshire b: Ills isevonshire-street.—(Cries of "Shame.") With i List h " : 4 tAssociation were abused for being in debt, -" ;vet, t h e ir opponents were in a ten times worse position, ° s ending begging letters all over the borough: Th e -8 °f " Hear, hear.") r .ocolution was here' ! Mt a nd Carried without a 4 d issentient, amidst loud aCelamation. timbYttE observed, that es this wa s p r obably the last t x : they should litiVe tWe — o - frp'"Frtriiiity of meeting their tr'llent Becretary Mr. Allen; -who, was about to leave country, it was but proper that they should offer • testitnony to him of the esteem in which lie was b y '• After a lengthened eulogy, Mr. Dyke concluded S, l lloving a resolution, to the,,effect a That the present 4 4 uial General Meeting could not separate without ex eSsin" its high sense of the efficient services rendered pa r heir excellent Secretary Mr. Allen. His ability , te,pnittirer attention, and untiring devotion, under the of difficult t ' and trying circumstances in support iq„""at cause which called the Association into ex re; re, could not be too highly commended. They the r J u stified in calling the attention of the Refor the s of England to the unparalleled correctness of kh ,ostimat e of the comparative number of Reformers 14, Tories published by the Association last March, n , 4 115 4 ,, from , tables, planned and executed entirely by Mr. 4,l4Detero4-. ;btunteblyabou; and utility of which cannot be appre actual examination, embracing, as they do, ki4 IM of four entire registries, and tracing the votes 4 1 .j 1 at three different elections. In losing the valuable 1 1 5 55t t 1 Of their present Secretary the meeting are happy 411 r o that the books of the Association are in such %lic, c r L t order that by a continuation of the course pur- , 1 04 s "Y 11r. Allen at the formation of the Association, s Uccessfully continued by him during . the four ' fit °{ his conducting its affairs, the same triumphant Pr of M ay be expected in the borough." l 'etai tu ssor REY, in very flattering terms, seconded the Sub,. Which was also adopted unanimously. t ksr et riptions towards liquidating the debt were then c)t tOtat into, and in the course of a few minutes upwards ~ketuthe subscribed, and steps haring bee n taken to 41,47 1 e remainder, thanks were voted to the Chair - the meeting separated at a very late hour. WEST INDIA MAILS. bI:PARTURE OF THE FORTH. 111101" 1-4A mPTON, TiIUBSDAX NIGHT. -- D4rilag .. th t e o , (11 4141, 4 , 4 Y the very utmost exertions have .been used . s"" th e - "" this Vessel with strict punctuality, according 11i)41.4Ilootinceinent of the advertisements ; but at the S e e ' u i fis eur writi ng s h e s till rema ins at her anchorage itert l ,, su aropton water. At about three o'clock this she was p re tty we ll p re p are d for sea, but thels,.elosing in soon after, it was deemed prudent Z'ould "rectors, as well as Captain Fayrer, that she 4- o (l e‘!ed n t 'nue at her anchorage during the . night, and , t ra ti „ to sea at an early hour in the morning. This i'4'etllent is undoubtedly the very best that could be ' e leilstt rio. , the greatest degree of comfort and conve -are e to th e passengers, and enabling the vessel to start I me ll e a f p r °" all P confusion ' and inconvenience of a hurried e , t lls . t- t re • The harbour of Southampton has been one °,: g ai ety during the whole day, innumerable boats „ela il t i ' and departing from the Forth, and all parties t elitte into the feeling of pleasure which seem m u t s o -t teli t i e „every one in the good prospects which se oPening of this magnificent en . tepris . e. h aY,. under c_omm d an . d of Captain Britton.; . e e oo x (i, tlf r a p r t e al a n ll , and the Clyde, Captain appointed n to sail on Saturday, so that peetectira°rdinary scene of bustle and excitement is ex the be:11 that day. The Tay, Captain Haydon and tak e , Captain Oman, will shortly follow in the route c, 11 1 3 their respective stations. a of • ", at 41 ' 11431 E 7 FRIDAY MORNING.—This vessel sailed a pace b even o'clock this morning, and in a very short Par t , trine rounded the land. Shortly after her de * 4t er e, the steamer Oriental came up the Southampton ittl ltip. has taken between 20 and 30 passengers; ci• t hem is G enera l Hamilton, of Texas. LIN Q Amb l V ERSIT I INT.ELLIGENCE ' t estk r - ' ll thgE, DEC. 16.—At the Congregation held e 'olik tre r 4 , the 15 t h i nstant , t h e f o ll ow i ng d egrees were as ter of Arts.—Rev. E. Cusack, Catharine Hall. elors of Arts —William Elias Taunton, Trinity 'und Edwin Mountiford Stephen Sandys, St. ollege. e ollo e , hl c'r of Music.—James Horatio Simpson, Caius ('---This is the last day of term. ` S AI 4 4%, ''WAY ACCIDENT AT BRISTOL. The !41 AfltO{ t e ,,r B by the Bridgewater mail train, due at Bristol Ilu a,Y, at four minutes past two P.m , were thrown u licl,;" rea t alarm on th e i r arrival at the unfinished Ertl e '''ver th e A von, near t h e catt l e - mar k et , by a fear tra-•,, 11, occasioned by t h e t ra i n coming in collision with rail s °F l uggage -waggons, drawn on the same line of th e -v ex' Which the passengers' train had to pass. One ere'llductors, seated on the rear carriage . of the train, °1 th - ," h ed, and appeared dangerously injured. Several 1343 , seligers were stunned and bruised. On in it at the stati on it was stated that an erroneoussigna was eh eac on-statf was g i ven . V e ry culpable inattention 0 41 3 ar geable On some of the officials, or such a seri .lo44:ll%:f lif e wou ld not h ave occurre d.— Wilt s hi re me t, "NCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Thurs.- t l ittr4a v t e Tiing, abont a quarter past fi ve, f our persons, 'tl the etql r@eling, Cleave, W a t son , an d P au l, b oa t wr i g hts, w oy of Mr. Moorson, of Queen-street, Cheyne cheiseere towing a large vessel from Hammersmith . to Iva% e a , When, by some accident, another boat, which ith d 2rniug along at a rapid rate, ran into their vessel, drow'ri'eatlnaost instantly sunk. Cleave and Paul were both AMERICAN NEWS (EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA. By this arrival we have received New York Papers of the 30th ult., Boston Papers of the Ist, and Halifax Journals of the sth. The Cale donia has brought thirty-two passengers, and made the passage in ten days and a half. THE WELCOME TO LORD MORPETH AT .THE CITY HOTEL, NEW YORK. (From the Boston Daily Advertiser of Nov. 30.) We give below a brief and hurried account of the bril liant festivities in honour of Lord Morpeth at the City Howl, last evening. . _ DECORATIONS OF THE HALL. The decorations of the hall were most superb, and re flected great credit upon the gentleman by whom they were arranged and put up. Three tables were placed the whole length of the hall, besides a table extending cross wise, a little raised above the others, at which was seated the guest of the evening. At the rear of the seat of Lord Morpeth, was placed the coronet of his Lordship in velvet and gold, and at the back of this a full length picturc of her Majesty Queen Victoria, from the gallery of Mr. Thorburn. On the right was a colossal head of the Apollo Belvidere, and on the left a colossal head of Diana. At the extremities right and left of the upper end of the hall were various emblematical design's of St. George and the Dragon. In the centre of the room on the right, was a splendid sideboard in the form of a pyramid. On either side were arranged beautiful arbours of evergreen, in which were exquisite figures of Paris and Psyche. In the centre, beautiful figures of the crouching Venus, and on the right and left of this two columns surmounted by figures of Venus in the Bath, and. Cupid—the whole interspersed, with superb vases of flowers and other devices. 'rho background was of fine white linen, relieved by beautiful festoons of flowers and mirrors, the whole surmounted by . . the royal arms of England splendidly emblazoned. Opposite to this was a balcony in which the orchestra was placed, on the top of which was a fine transparency with the words "Princess Royal," surmounted by the Royal coronet. At the fbot of the hall was a transparency represent ing Howard House, the Castle of Lord Morpeth in York shire. On the top of the transparency were busts of Chief Justice Marshall, Boerhave, and Sir Walter Scott. On the right of this were Lord Morpeth's Coat of Arms, with the family insignia, Kilo non Valeo. On the left, the British Coat of Arms. On each side of the President's seat were two splendidly carved dragons of burnished gold, forming brackets, on which were placed miniature figures of the - Apollo Belvi dere and of Diana. MOAINING SUN THE TOASTS AND SPEECHES. The President arose after the cloth was removed, and a part of the company sun.. with force and effect Non nobis Dornine. This over, the audience were fully pre pared for the intellectual part of the entertainment, and the President again rose and said, Messrs. Vice-President and Gentlemen, our first toast •is in itself so comprehensive of the ardent wishes of every true Englishman, that no language is necessary to accompany it to commend it to your consideration. I give you— " The Queen- , --God bless her." The toast was received with enthusiastic cheering, and was drunk standing and with five cheers ; three being called, and the fourth and fifth being but two of the many voluntary and spontaneous contributions of the evening. A choir of select singers endorsed the Queen's toast by the sweet impressive national song— " God save our noble Queen, Long may she reign over us," &c. Braham, with his tremendous voice, led off in the chorus, and filled the hall. The multitude present also joined in, and the effect was eloquent in the extreme. The President then called upon the company to fill for the second toast. The goblets were charged, and the sentiment was— " Prince Albert and the Princess Royal." The toast was received with five cheers, preceded by the popular Glee of "Hail smiling morn." The third toast followed and was complimentary—" To the President of the - United States." This was received with the same number of cheers as the welcome to Prince Albert. The President here announced that he arose for a new object. "We have now," he said, "reached the most interesting stage of our proceedings. lam called upon to perform a duty at once grateful and arduous to my self in rendering honor to the distinguished guest of the evening. My only apprehensions are that occupying the place I do, I shall not only fail to do justice to my own feelings, but to your sentiments. I cannot lay claim to the honor of originating this festival, desigped to com pliment one among us illustrious not only as Noble Lord, butinore illustrious for the good qualities of his head and heart—(Applause)—to one who adds to an enlight ened and liberal understanding the sentiments of a pure heart. But before I say more in honor of our guest, I must not be unmindful of those who having won should share the honor. The tribute of respect we this day offer, was prepared by gentlemen belonging to the same county with Lord Morpeth,—by a goodly number of Yorkshiremen of this eity.—(Applause.) Hie Lordship has recognized among these some of his late constituents. But these are not all wha can appreciate the great powers of mind, and bear practical testimony to the good ness of heart of our guest. No wonder that they should have been the first to honor and welcome the arrival of his Lordship on the shores of America, and "now my Lord," said the President, addressing himself more par ticularly to the guest, "having done honor to these men of York, let me say a word for those who unfortunately for them were not born so far North—for the lazy Southrons, as we know, can come into Yorkshire too—at any rate in the admiration' of genius —in the appreciation of ex alted. worth, - We can none of us forget, the exalted sta tions our guest has occupied in the councils of one of the most powerful nations on the globe." " All here," con tinued the President, "have pledged themselves to me, and I am pledged to you, that whatever may be our pri vate opinions, our political feelings are banished here. — (Applause.) We are met here one and all to meet your Lordship, and to give you a hearty greeting and wel come. Charge, then, your goblets to the brim. We drink to " Our distinguished guest, Lord Morpeth—honoured at home and respected abroad—we give him an English man's welcome." The toast was received with nine heartyrose andenthusiastic cheeringto respond, deafening. Lord ship said : Sir. Chairman and Gentlemen,—l rise to return you, as best I may, my most respectful and heartfelt thanks, at what you will believe me is an unexpected honour on the part of this Assembly in the sentiment which has been drunk, and the demonstration which this night has been given. Although hitherto it has been my good fortune in my own country to join in many such festive scenes, yet certainly it never entered my imagination that I should find so many of my own countrymen in a foreign country—in a distant capital and upon the soil of a new world. I am fully sensible that I should not be warranted in attributing the honour of this welcome to myself. No individual claim of mine could have mustered so many men together as I see before me. You are brought together from higher considerations, by the endearing name of country, by those ties and recollections which are all-powerful in the association of fellow-citizens in crossing every sea, and upon every shore. lam aware that those feelings and recollections have been enhanced with those who originated this assembly, from the circumstance of my belonging to one especial district of my own native land, and in respect to which I should almost feel myself jus tified in laying down what is so familiar to New York, and applying it to Old York. If you will not, therefore, think I am taking too much of an advantage for a York shireman, I will christen Old York " the Empire county" of. Old England.—(Loud applause.) I can, gentlemen, well appreciate the remembrance of a far-off home, sur rounded by the commerce and enterprise of this city which has enriched so many of you, and which reminds us so much of Leeds, Sheffield, and Hull, and where the stately Hudson, too, calls to view the romantic beau ties of our own Humber and Warnside.—(Applause.) You need not be) told, Gentlemen, that I no longer hold the position of representing the National Legisla ture in my native country. I should not regret that it is so, for had it been otherwise, I could not have hoped to have stepped upon the shores of America, or to have met with this good assembly of friends. But with ,party differences we have nothing to do ; and among the , gra tifying objects of the present meeting, the most grati fying is, that we meet not of party, nor of county, nor of country.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") In the hentaired, presence of the citizens of the city of New York, I owe an apology for dwelling so long upon topics of a national, local, or personal character ; but no apology. need be offered here for feeling the emotions, or speaking the language of freedom. Lord Morpeth here in brief terms paid a tribute to the land he visits and highly respects, in connection with the land lie loves and the home of his youth and manhood. The homage rendered to the present and fair occupant of the throne was the especial homage of admiration. The voice of praise which we had heard here, he was assured, was echoed in our hearts. It was a deep and an abiding impression, but no ways incompatible with a respect for, and admiration of, the land here as well as that at home. " I cannot refrain from saying," said his Lordship in continuation, " that far from me, far from my friends, and far from my country, and the age we live in, be that tremendous responsibility which wantonly and without cause shall create discord between the two nations of the United States and England. Tremendous should be the occasion, great will be the responsibility of those who would fan the embers of or scatter the elements of strife among vs.—(Hear, hear.) I might, more properly perhaps, have spared this al lusiOn. The horizon, however, is now clear from all threats and menaces, and I could not resist the inclination, knowing as I do that all here mutually respect and favour the two countries.—(Applause.) This precious brother hood brought home to us in your daily meetings, i your business intercourse, and in ally our relations, will bring in closer alliance the community of interest between you. Lord Morpeth sat down ainidtt the loudest applause of all present, and the company tebtified their regard for the man and their admiration for his sentiments, by giving him nine hearty and unanimous ch eers. The fifth toast was then drunk as follows,—" England and the United States—Mother and Daughter—May the union between these kindred nations be as endurable as it is precious to both." This toast was received with cheers. and followed by music and a song in honour of Columbia and Old England. Mr. Hoffman spoke happily of the existing bond of union between England and the United IS :sites, and of the strength derived from a festivity like this. — The City of New York—her Chief Magistrate, and all her Municipal Authorities." To this toast the Mayor responded, expressing his thanks for the honor done to the :city and to himself. THE SUN, LONDON, SATUR He closed with the following: - 4 ' Great Britain and the United States—their Peaceful . Relations—• Honor and Justice can maintain them." " The British Constitu tion—the Corner Stone of the World's Freedom." "The Reverend Clergy, and their faitful Representative at this festival—Dr. Wainwright." Dr. WAINWRIGHT replied to this toast. He spoke of the great indebtedness America was under to England for the sacred volume. " The Floating Bulwarks of Great Britain and the United States." . Captain Perry responded to this toast, and offered a suitable toast in reply. " Our Native Land." "Woman —The last and fairest of God's creation ; the first and enduring object of man's affection." " The Rose—the Thistle—the Shamrock, and the Leek—the worthy re presentative of the Charitable Societies, our welcome guests." Mr. Edwards, President of the St. George's ; Mr. Irving, President of St. Andrew's ; Mr. Rubin, Vice- President of St. Patrick's, and Mr. Alden, of St. David's, responded to this toast. Many toasts and sentiments were offered, but time does not permit us to give them. The dinner at the City Hotel has never been surpassed in our city, and the proprietors of the City Hotel acquit ted themselves wonderfully well in all their . arrange ments, as did those who had the more immediate charge in the arrangements. The decorations were under the direction of the Messrs. Platt. The Committee of ar rangements performed their part of the service to admiration. MURDER OF PROFESSOR DAVIS, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGIN. (From the Boston Daily Advertiser of the Ist inst.) As the murder of Professor Davis has been justly a subject of much excitement, and as the dastardly wretch who imbrued his vagabond hands in the pure blood of a man that was an ornament to the State and country, seems to have taken measures to cheat the hangman of his righteous dues, I will occupy a corner of my letter with a brief statement of the facts of that infernal trans action, as I have learned them on the spot; not that I dei light in narratives.of blood more than yourself, whose aversion to such tales, when told merely to glut a mor bid taste, I have had frequent occasion to observe ; but lest you, as I did till rightly informed, should labour un der the error that this was one of those characteristic transactions of the empire of King Mob, whose behests are unscrupulously exeauted by Judge Lynch. On the evening of the 12th of November, 1840, a dis turbance was heard on the lawn between the buildings of the University, which was supposed to proceed from some students endeavouring to kick up a row in the ee lebration of the anniversary of a college rebellion. The noise continuing, Professor Davis stepped out from the door of his house to the scene of the disturbance on the lawn ; there he found but two persons ; he weft up to one of them who was masked, and desirous to learn who it was, made a movement forcibly to remove the mask from the face of the rowdy ; who instantly drew a pistol and shot Professor Davis. The ball entered below the stomach, rebounded from the spine, and dreadfully wounded him internally. The murderer instantly es caped. Whether Professor Davis had identified his murderer, has never appeared. He lingered a day and a half, but avoided saying anything that should implicate any one in his murder. From this circumstance and the fact that there were no witnesses but those whose comfort inclined them to keep dark, no clue could be got to the author of the hellish deed for some days. The students, to whom the Professor was justly endeared, organised themselves into a committee of vigilance, and not thinking it pos sible that the deed could have any connection with the College rebellion, but that it must have been committed by some stranger who had intruded into the grounds of the University, they scoured the woods, placed sentinels upon every road and path, made inquiries respecting every individual who had appeared in the vicinity upon whom a shadow of suspicion could light, and in short took, with caution and energy, all those measures with which the history of time in our own meridian has rendered us familiar. Meantime the Faculty of the College, though deeply grieved and excited by the event, re .edified comparatively passive, merely lending their aid and counsel when sought by the students, and trusting that from the spirit displayed by the students, the in vestigation was in good hands. So effectually did the students arrange the net-work of their vigilance that from their thoughts going abroad after dark revenge inspiring assassins, they presently reached the astound ing conclusion that the murderer was among them selves, and eventually fixed upon the individual. Sammes was arrested and lodged in gaol; for a time his employments there were recreation with his friends and efforts to " correct " public sen timent, or rather to create a public opinion that should take him out of the h an d s o f justice. So far was he suc cessful in some quarters, that by the aid of convenient fits of ill health, his trial uas deferred and deferred, till a few months since he was let go on /25,000 bail. On the 11th of the present month his trial was to come on at Charlottesville, but lo and behold, he was not forth coming. I was in Charlottesville that day, and the talk was then, that the poor inoffensive thing was in a poorly -way, and would not live a week, and an application would be made to the General Court to remit his bail. We subjoin the-money article of the New York Amerierni prepared for the sailing of the packet, , and which consa , ms the particulars of the Ame rican commercial, transactions to the end of No vember :---- " Since the sailing of the Great Western' money has become more scarce, particularly among the stock ope rators. The loans being generally called in, large amounts' , linState stocks have been forced on the market, and sold at much lower rates than have ever yet been reached in this market. Illinois bonds have been down to 26, and Indiana to 30. Prices have rallied, however, and both descriptions are in demand at our quotations—. viz., for Illinois 36 to 36k, and fur Indiana 3.4 to 35. "The pressure for money does not appear to' extend itself to the merchants generally, as little or no first class paper is offering out of doors ; and, if exchange deClines sufficiently to put a stop to the export of specie, our banks will be enabled to extend all the facilities' that are wanted. " We do not, however, look for abundant 4 tif - trioney, or much decline in the rates of exchange, fdt" sortie time to come, as•the large importations prior to the Ist Ult., to avoid/the increased duties, and which were mostly for foreign account, will continue to drain the country for some months to come, while the low prices abroad of our great staples will diminish the usual supply of bills from the south. Besides these, the present; and the expecta tion of a continued scarcity of money in England, - may induce the agents of foreign houses in good credit to draw against specie shipments as a means of placing - Cash • • in the hands of the principals on easier terms than dis- counts can be obtained in the London money market, the gain in interest on 60-day bills, usually estimated at Ito 1 per cent., now being from 11 to 2 per cent. " Domestic exchanges have not varied much since our last, the rates are rather lower, and the apparent disposi tion at the South to defer the period of resumptiOn de ters dealers from purchasing largely. " The Legislature of Alabama has virtually sanc tioned non-resumption, and the West and South gene rally are so dependent on New Orleans, that they are content to wait the movement of the banks there before taking any steps themselves, even when the ability is claimed and probably is possessed. " In New Orleans the great majority of the banks are strong, and if the managers of the sound institutions would only summon sufficient resolution to leave the weaker ones to their fate, a sound currency would be ob tained within 60 days ; hut this, it appears, we are not to expect, and a general resumption now appears farther distant than at this time last year. " Our flour market has been dull, but prices are rather higher, and as the late storm has probably put a stop to canal navigation for the season, prices may advance still more, though, the product being so great, the advance will not be material. " Advices from the West and South state the rising of the rivers, and the products shot out by the closing of lake and canal navigation will find their way to the sea board by a more circuitous route. " The vaunted safety fund of this State is now exhi biting itself in the light in which practical men have ever viewed it. They, from the beginning, distrusted the system on two grounds—first, as inducing a degree of confidence in the general circulation of the banks subject to the law wholly unwarranted by the amount of the fund ; and, secondly, by reason of the general gua rantee of all for each, as superseding in the conduct of banks the caution which, if dependent for its credit and circulatiou upon its own resources and management, each would not fail to exercise. The fund now is for all prac tical purposes exhausted, and as the process of replenish ing is slow (an annual contribution of 1 to 1 per cent. on the capitals of all the banks subject to the law, which is about $30,000,000), it will be seen that it in truth offers little security. " The failure of some of the free banks has given rise to sweeping denunciations of the whole system, but with out adequate reasons, as we apprehend. With the ex ception of two small banks at Buffalo, all the free banks that have suspended had a large portion of mortgages as part of their capital, and all men conversant with the business of banking know that assets thus unconverti ble never can, and never should, be relied upon to meet the liabilities of a bank. It was an original defect in the law authorizing free banking that mortgages were permitted to be received, an& was pointed out as such at the' time in this paper and others, but the country mem bers would not consent to a bill without such a provision in favour as-they claimed of land. " The consequences areas were foreseen. It may be confidently said, however, that free banks, to which real money capital only was subscribed, which pledged sound stocks only for their circulation, and which have been managed with due discretion, enjoy and deserve at least as much credit as any Safety Fund Bank. They have, moreover, wider capacity for good, and can adapt them selves- with greater facilities to the exigencies of the times. It would not be difficult to illustrate these re marks by examples, but that might be deemed invidious. " The Congress will re-assemble on Monday next, and all eyes will be turned to Washington for a time. The President, it is expected, will endeavour to present some plan for receiving, safely keeping, and disbursing the public revenues, which shall also incidentally aid in fur nishing a , uniform currency, and in equalizing the ex 'changes ; but little confidence, however, is entertained that any plan can now be proposed that can avail, or will be accepted. " Meanwhile, the Government of the United States is pinched for means. " The tone of public sentiment—so far as it can be judged of by private- letters from various parts of the Union and by the public press, since the result of the Mississippi election has been ascertained—may be pro nounced very sound. Some feeble. sophists, indeed, through some mere party Journals, have endeavoured to show that Mississippi, because her,agents were unfaithfu', is not bound by their acts; but the mass of honest men of At,' n all parties look with h o r r o r upon a ny suc h palliattOns for roguery. Until they can rail the seal frl off the bond,' and until they can show cause why' u tlit signature of 'Governor M'Nutt to the bonds he i now calls unconstitutional should not bind the State;Theyci not only offend their own-lungs, but the public setae; by{ l mouthing about repudiation. Our own hope has" been, and is, that the Legislature of - M i ss i ss i pp i itself, when once convened, and acting in the face of the world, and under the sanction of a solemn oath, will not carry out the doctrines proclaimed at the polls; and that, although they may ; and very probably will, denOnnce . the acts of the Union Bank, and of its agents, as•unlawful,lhey will nevertheless pass a law, canfirming,'as ..teinhpeent third ,:• parties, the validity o f t h ose acts. ettch -- a cenrse'Would at once replace the State and its Legisilitart'tiptm'ti•foot ing of honourable equ a lity with ifithecitchiesll.Btates. • " We may not conceal, howevetyftAirolir readers, that this hope of ours is cont ra di cte d. by'Scnt))information we have from that State, and in token . thereof we copy the annexed paragraph from a letter received yesterday from a distinguished in Mississippi:—• JACKSON, Mrstiussym, Nov. 6. "' The election having. been heard from officially, to a sufficient extent to know that the anti-bond paying de mocratic ticket has prevailed by a large majority, the Legislature will repudiate thi s w i nter , an d having found that so convenient a way •to pay debts, God only • knows where they will stop,- I heard a member say he was opposed to, and should move to stop, the taxes laid to pay State warrants, on the ground that they were bills of credit,' and forbidden to be 'emitted' by the constitution of the United States. Several Judges have run and been cleated on the ground of its being honourable and right that the State thould not pay its debts: So we go — where will democracy stop ?' " Statements that have been published show that Mary land may have difficulty yet in meeting the interest on her debt. The assessment of the real and personal pro perty of the State will fall under ' 1 00,000,000 dollars. This, at the rate of taxation imposed •by the Tax Bill of the last session; will product. under 400.000 dol. annually,: leit . ving a deficiency to be 'made up which is estimated at 600,000 dol., and which must be met by an increasedtax.". UNIVERSITY IF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.—It is a source of real satisfaction to the friends of this Institu tion, to know tint it advancing. gradually and perma nently in the cause of science and learning ;—and that it bids fair to become one of the most popular and useful literary establishments in our country. The Professors devote their best talents to the advancement of the scholars, and all is peace and harmony. There is no single individual to whom the public are so much in debted, for the erection, completion, and success of the establishment, as the late Chancellor, the Rev. James M. Mathews—and but for his individual exertions, that beautiful building, now the ornament and pride of 'the city, in our opinion would never have been erected. It must be a source of Instill.. a satisfaction to him, after the many slanders that have been circulated, to witness the work of his labours, in its present prosperous and per manently growing condition. APPROACH OF WINTER.--Six of the last ten days have been rainy and disagreeable, but mild. Tuesday' and Wednesday were exceptions, however,; for the glo rious sun shone brightly, and the atmosphere was as mild and balmy as in May. On Friday night it cleared up cold, and yesterday morning the gutters and the small ponds in the vicinity of the city were covered with ice more than an eighth of an inch in thickness. About half past six o'clock last evening, it comn.enced snowing, and the downy flakes fell without intermission until twelve o'clock. Old Winter has put off his covering until a late period, but from present indications ho is deter mined to assert his sway over the seasons, and has laid his icy fingers on any vestiges of vegetation that yet re r main. We fear that the navigation on our canals has been closed for the season by a natural embargo.-.-Phila delphia North American. SNOW IN THE INTERIOR.—On Thursday and Friday there was quite a fall of snow in the mountainous regions of this State. At Hollidaysburg and in Northumber. land county, the storm was very severe.—Phdadelphia North American. SOUTH CAROLINA AND NEW YORK.—Mr. A. Rhett, of the South Carolina Legislature, gave notice of the introduction of a Bill relating to the pending controversy between New York and the Old Dominion, about re claiming fugitive slaves. It is understood to be a simple transcript, with a few alterations, of what is called the Virginian Inspection Law, and, it was presumed, would be unanimously passed. MORE RESIGNATIONS.—We learn from New Orleans that Judge White intends to resign his seat in Congress, as a member t f the House from Louisiana. The resig nation of Mr. ;,lay, the Senator from Alabama, was re ceived by the Legislature of the State on the 15th. Go vernor Bagby is expected to succeed him. MISSING.—CoIoneI William H. Hunter, formerly Member of Congress from Ohio, while hunting on the 20th strayed from his company, and had not been heard from at the latest dates, although several parties had been searching the woods for him for several days. MURDER OF A FATHER BY HIS SON.—A man named Pomainville, a respectable farmer near Montreal, was recently killed by his son. After some dispute, the son, aged about 28, drew his knife, and stabbed his father in five places. He died soon after. The son has been arrested. VERSIONT ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. —Some un known friend has sent us a copy of the fifth annual re port of this institution, by which it appears that its suc cess continues to be very flattering. There have been, daring the year, 165 patients, 28 of which were from New Hampshire ; and there remained on the Ist of Oc tober 95 ; the rest, 70, having been discharged. Of these 70, 41 recovered and four died. Of the 35 recent cases discharged, 31' have recovered, three not recovered, and one dead. Of the 35 chronic cases, 10 have recovered, , 22 not recovered, and three dead. The above statement shows the very great necessity of prompt measures in cases of insanity. Delays are dangerous, and friends should not hesitate in placing the unfortunate victim of it under proper and skilful treatment without delay.— Nashua Telegraph. The Norfolk Beacon gives an account at length of the proceedings of a great meeting of " the Old Dominion An ti -S tay-Laci ne• Society." Old women of 70, and young girls in their teens, took part, and talked wisely and well of what they call the prevailing epidemic among women. After the organisation, the following resolutions were read and adopted ;—Resolved, That as women professing . godliness, we are bound to set an example of Christian forbearance with regard to stay lacing—and instead of expending money for these use less fixtures, to appropriate what may be thus saved to the furtherance of our stupendous cause, in the distribu tion of pamphlets, &c. &e. Resolved, That woman is in her appropriate sphere when endeavouring to beautify SOciety, by refusing to countenance stay-racing in any form, and by that means p romote the i nterests of health, intellectual worth, and primitive loveliness. Hurra for the Virginia women ! These abstractions are but healthy expansions of the system, and the contraction of it here is clearly the great evil of the day. Tight-lacing is 'as bad as a " tight money market," a legitimate phrase, by the way, in Wall -street—but the expansion in one case is no evil, and in the other a great one. ACCIDENT. — On Friday night last the steam-boat Cleo patra, on her passage to Hartford, came in contact with a small sloop boat, off Essex, sinking it almost instantly. The boat was owned by D r . S weet o f G u ilf or d. was loaded with brick, and bound down the river. One of the Doctor's sons and a coloured man were on board the sloop, but by some means they managed to save them selves by clinging to the steamer. They state that they discovered nothing of theapproach of the Cleopatra until she was close upon them._New Haven Palladium. In Vassalborough, Me. there are four large tanneries. which employ a capital of $lOO,OOO. In the neighbour hood of that town, there are also seven tanneries, managed by a single firm, who employ a capital of $150,000, and spend $lOO,OOO a year in the purchase of hides. The tanning business has always been carried on extensively and profitably in Maine. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—The Freeman's (Pa.) Register says, "We regret to learn, that on Sunday the 14th instant, the barn of Dr. Davis 'Porter, situated about five miles from West Newton, in the Forks of Yough, was consumed by fire, together with four horses and two head of stall-fed cattle, 120 tons of hay, 300 dozen of wheat, about the same quantity of oats and some rye. The loss is estimated at not less than $4,000. The Uniontown (Pa.) Democrat of the 16th says, " Colonel Evans' valuable mills, situated within two miles of this place, were reduced to ashes on Saturday last." REMOVING A CITY.—The St. Louis Republican of the 16th instant' says, "The buildings in Marion city on the Mississippi river, the same town in which so many eastern purchasers got their fingers burnt, a few years since, are beimg removed to Hannibal, a town some twelve miles below, on the bank of the river. Lots which sold at from two to six and eight hundred dollars, and frame houses which cost eight to fifteen hundred dollars, can now be bought at less than a hundred, lot and balding included. THE NEW POLICE COURT, CLERKENWELL. —This Court was opened yesterday, and is not liable to the objections made against that at Hatton-garden. It is built in a handsome and unpretending style, and forms a considerable additional ornament to that part of the metropolis in which it stands. The front of the building extends along a space of about 250 feet. Upon this there are two erections almost perfectly square : that to the north containing within it the court-house, toge ther with all its appendant offices. The other, which is intended to be the principal police station of the district, .is so constructed, with respect to interior arrangements, as to . afford full and complete accommodation for gravelled connecting spac ew theewell e . e area behind, the large body of the force which is to be constantly a a cn n o d ne s . archway, l; u to i r n sa e endeeo it.oaagrla Over the archway is stationed i s o t n r e u d a t u h r e e r s e , around this area run wide asphalte walks for exercise, .for A ms h rolledtli e middle and cemented. n k tc i c n i . g placed a well executed representation of the Royal arms of England. The cells are four in number, and lie at the other side of the quadrangle. The court itself is equally commo dious, being 35 feet long, 24 feet wide, and 18 feet high, and exceedingly well lighted throughout. The dispo sition of the various parts can suggest no complaint. Provision has been made for the press. Similar accom modation has been afforded to all who attend on busi "-less, whilst a large space in the body of the court is kept open for the free admission of the public. The court stands directly opposite Frederick-street, a new and open line from Gray's Inn-road, and forms a sort of neucleus for several other much frequented highw ays. DR. DICKSON'S FALLACIES OF THE FA. CllLTy.—This work (we quote the review of it from Tait's Magazine) "has at last been 'fairly,Traised and sbused into fame." It must be gratifying to• Dr. Dick son to know that a French translation of his admirable little volume will appear in Faris early next month, under the title of "Erreurs de Medicins. German and Italian translations are also in progress. m ews. simp . kin and Marshall, the London , Publishers of the " Fal lacies" of the Faculty,".millsupplY.the trade and the pub ho w ith th e foreign *did= as they come out. HER 18, 189,1, MEMOIR OF THE LATE EARL OF WESTMORELAND. What cloth he get, who e'er, prefers The scutcheons of his ancestors ? • This chimney-piece of gold' of brass ? That coat of arms blazoned in glass ? When these with time and age have end Thy prowess must thyself commend. The sooty shadows of some one Or other trophies carved in stone, Defaced, are things to whet, not try Thine own heroicism by. True nobleness doth those alone engage Who can add virtue to their parentage. (Poems by Mildmay, Second Earl of Westmoreland, 1648.) The above words do honour to the Westmore lands. Throwing aside to emptyvaunts which one halfot our worn-out aristocracy superciliously and vainly adopt, the manly author taught that man should stand upon the alone grounds of his own worth and virtue, and cast aside with praise. worthy disdain, all the adventitious blazonings and hollow boasts derivable from pedigree and ancestors. The motto of the late Earl s who has just been gathered to his fathers, was equally remarkable for the just and honest sentiment it contained. " Ne vile fano"—" Bring nothing base to the temple," or with the ,feu de 7nots " to Fane," which is the ancestral name of the Westmore land family, stands conspicuous for the stately idea which it embodies; and when it is consi dered that the Barons of this house date their origin from the simple and frank-hearted abori gines of Wales, it may, without prejudice, be said, that they lay claim to higher estimation in the minds of Englishmen than many of the upper houses. Long. antecedent to the Conquest, the old pro genitor, of the late Earl was Howell ap Vane, of 1119nmouthshire. Henry, the son of the eighth Earl, married,Charlotte, the only daughter of Nicholas Rowe, the celebrated poet. 111ildmay, whom we have noted above, was himself no in different poet; and in the list of Parkes's royal and .noble authors, stands as the author of a very scarce volume, printed only for private circulation, in 1648, and bearing the title of " Otia Sacra," from which we have given an ex tract. Thomas, the eighth Earl, who was also M.P. for Lyme Regis, married the daughter of William Swyminer, a merchant of Bristol; and indeed, it is pleasing to observe that the amalga mations of this family, in a variety of instances, with the middle classes of the country, entirely takes from it that imperious and exclusive air which so often disgraces the intermarriages of, the aristocracy. The most noticeable occurrence in his Lord ship's life was his acceptance of the administra- • tion of the Irish Government, committed to him by Mr. Pitt, and which office his Lordship un dertook in January, 1790, continuing to fill it for five years. _ _ _ As successor to the Marquis of Buckingham, who had been twice sent out to govern Ireland, but who as a moderate, hard-working Viceroy, with a Popish wife, did so little to conciliate the Irish, it was difficult to find a sterling and effi cient ruler. Mr. Pitt, however, pursued his object with indefatigable industry and persever ance. A Nobleman of high rank, undistinguished and inoffensive—neither proud nor humble — talented or otherwise—extravagant nor parsimo nious—was sought for a Viceroy, and was found in the late Earl. According to Mr. Pitt's expectation, the Earl of Wpstmoreland was by no means ill-adapted to the Irish people. He was sufficiently reserved to command respect, and splendid enough to up hold his station. His moderate conviviality pro cured him rational partisans, and his hospitality engendered, at least, temporary friendships. He ' was honourable and good-natured whilst among the higher orders and his intimate associates ; he was a popular Viceroy. The period of Lord Westmoreland's Govern ment was certainly the summit of Irish prospe rity. Though he met with a strong opposition in Parliament, it was an honest opposition—the guardian of public liberty, and not a faction. Only two subjects of importance were intro duced during his administration, most of the others being plausible demands, calculated rather to gratify the people than to produce any radical change in the system of the Government. A Place Bill, a Pension Bill, and a Responsibility Bill, an inquiry into the sale of Peerages, and into the Police of Dublin, were amongst the most material measures of his Vice-royalty .The Place Bill, however, eventually became the most important that had ever been passed by the Irish Parliament. The three other Bills , were proposed by Grattan, acceded to by the Viceroy, and passed into laws. During the administration of Lord Westmore land, the first question, which so deeply affected the subsequent events of Ireland, was the partial emancipation of the Irish Catholics. All that they then required the Catholics obtained. The concessions were most important, and greater than could have been credible before Lord Westmoreland's Administration. The elec tive franchise was the act more of his Govern ment than of himself. The 40s. franchise was then granted to the poorest, most illiterate, and most dependent peasantry of Europe, who might one day be influenced by one motive, and the next by its reverse. Strong doubts, how ever, were then, and still are, entertained as to the wisdom of this extraordinary measure. Mr. O'Connell, the most earnest and able advocate for the general emancipation of the Catholics, and many of his friends, seem to have been of this opinion. Though Lord Westmoreland was powerfully opposed in Parliament during the whole of his government, he was zealously sup ported by the friends of the Administration. Had he not been recalled, for reasons which have never been stated, it is but fair to suppose that his place could not have been much better filled. The Westmoreland patrimonial estates were delightfully situate, the one at Brimpton, in Somerset, the other at Apthorpe, or Apel thorpe, in the county of Northampton. The latter was the Earl's most favourite and noble seat. It is a fine quadrangu lar edifice of free-stone. On the south side of it, a statue of King James the First commemorates a visit paid to the family by that Monarch in his journey from Scotland in the year 1603, and he is said to have contributed the timber towards the completion of the building. It was here, too, that the King first noticed Villiers, afterwards Duke of Buckingham. The various apartments are richly ornamented with numerous paintings, among which are two full-length portraits of Philip and Mary, said to be painted by the cele brated Holbein. In the adjoining church of Ap thorpe there exists a truly gorgeous monument of a member of the Westmoreland family. LECTURES ON SCOTTISH SONG AND MUSIC. A second lecture, as richly interspersed as the pre ceding with song, anecdote, and reminiscences, was deli vered by Mr. Wilson on Thursday evening at the Music Hall, Store-street. The numbers of his audience were trebled, and his reception throughout enthusiastic. Oral tradition appears to have handed down from re mote antiquity most of the Scottish airs and songs. Transmitted from one generation to another, they were sung "at the wheel and at the flail"—by the spinster in the cot, and the shepherd on the hill. The first collec tion of printed songs in 1547, under the title of the " Complaint of Scotland," was composed of songs which had " theretofore been sung in the wholesome green field, and by the rinnin' brook." The earliest instru ments which accompanied them were the bagpipe, re corder, trump, and corn-pipe : the last was the calamus of the Roman shepherd. The trump was the plain jews'- harp—the recorder was an instrument whose soft and mellow tone had.smote the harmonious heart of Milton, and led him to make "flutes and soft recorders" warble in his verse. Rut the bagpipe was leader of all. At Waterloo its tones, powerful as those of the " shrill Spartan fife," cried aloud for the victory. Clarke, the piper of the 71st, when sorely wounded, called out to his fellows, "Hold to't, lads, ye canna' fight without music ;" and a Highlander, who met a regiment playing the fan tastic airs of the Rhine, cried out to them to cease their " German jinglings," and strike up " Over the hills and far away." Even upon brutes themselves the pipe has operated with the "voice of the charmer." A Scotch piper was pursued by a wolf—he threw him scrap by scrap, every individual content of his wallet--still the wolf followed ; having no other resource be struck up his bagpipes—the wolf fled incontinently. " Ho, ho ;" cried Davie "if I'd known ye to be so fond o' the pipes, ye should had the music before your supper. In 1666, Forbes printed a collection of Scottish songs, the chief curiosity of which was the preface, which being dedicated to the Provost and Aitigistrates of Edinburgh, expressed itself as " an harmonious and heavenly concert of as many musicians as Magistrates." But the publi cation of the famous " Tea- Table Miscellany," by Allan Ramsay, and the music subsequently adapted to it, brought on the true " golden age " of Scottish song. Haydn was an enthusiast in this department of melody, and the immortal harmonist had the walls of his room covered with Caledonian songs and airs. The "Begga r ' s Opera " had, on its first appearance, most of its catches and roundelays set to Scotch airs. In truth, the— ,, were about this period universal favourites, and Allan Ramsay attests, in a passage of his poems, that from "Lady Char lotte" and "Lady Jane," down to "Bonny Bess dancing barefoot on the green, they were trilled by every tongue, and sweet-warbled by every lip. The first air sung by Mr. Wilson, being the first of the ten in his evenings programme was " Ely love is like the red, red rose '—a song which, though now addressed to a blooming, bright-cheeked beauty, originally sung to an ill-natured set of words, most crabbed in their im port, commencing " My father is a cankered carve," but filial piety and parental love has happily found forget fulness for these by its sweeter and fairer substitute. The slow and mellowed progression of "Roy's wife of Aldivalloch " cadenced most harmoniously to the ear ; strange, hOWever, to say, this equable flowing tnelo4 was anciently adapted to a set of words called "The Ruffian's RanL" Arcady might be ransacked, and the Bucolica of its shepherd-singers tasked, before a more beautiful pastoral melody than " The Broom of Cowdenknowes " might be discovered. Its antiquity manifests itself in its etymology. The song alludes to two little hills situate in Berwickshire, and its compound syllables are expressive of those " wooded mounts" which existed at the period when the Celts occupied those regions. Mr. Wilson's method of singing it, combined with its euphonious lines, made one dream of Drummond of Hawthornden, as he distilled the sweetness of his Doric pipe. The finest string or wire could not have surpassed Mr. Wilson's tenor. The - sighings of the fond shepherdess after her true-love swain were most felicitously expressed in "'Saw ye Johnnie cumin', quo' she ;" and no lint white singing in the broom could have warbled it with more simple and .delicate beauty. In contrast with the liveliness of the preceding, " John Anderson, my Jo," proceeded in a slow and mournful measure. But the wildness and sprightliness of "Up in the morning early," removed the shade of melancholy from his audience which it produced. Assimilating itself in simplicity to the Swiss,—" Up in the morning early," was first committed to paper in 1578, being in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and in a MS. still extant in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, it is set as a country dance, with an injunction at certain bars that stoppage was here to be made for the couple "to drink." The Puritans when they adapted their sacred psalms to music adopted this for one of their devotional tunes, and Queen Elizabeth had it frequently played before her by Purcell, while Mrs. Arabella H un t sang i t w i t h touches of the 1 lute. It is bold, jocund, and spirited. The flinging forth of the vocalist's voice in some passages was royal ; and the tripping trochaic movement at the words " gang supperless," exhibited a most masterly and skilful variation. To give it with due execution, much lusty strength of voice is required ; and it is told of Abram the singer, that he was lifted up in a chair by order of one of the Stewarts, ever a court-yard filled with bears, and so compelled to sing it as heartily as ho could, whereby he confessed that h never sang it hatter in his life. The exquisitely pathetic ballad of Barns's sweetheart, or " Highland Mary," in addition to its sadness of melody, has a painful history attached to it. Mary Campbell, when Burns first plighted him self to her was a dairywoman at Codstield House, and on a subsequent visit to him at a distance, vas attacked with fever, and died before she saw him. Burns dearly worshipped her memory in Isis heart, until one night his hallowed remembrances clothed themselves in words. Agitated by his thoughts, Mrs. Burns describes the poet to have left the house, and throwing himself on the top of a corn• stack, laid upon his back, with full face gazing on the mid night skies. The stars were bright, and almost lumi nous as the moon. After two hours in this situation he came in doors, and then wrote these lines, and his ode "To Mary in Heaven." "My Boy Tammie" was a choice little niorceau descriptive of a robust little boy squireen who goes wooing the " White Ammie," with her " dimpled cheek and cherry mote." In addition to the naivete and artless beauty infused into it by Mr. Wilson's manner, the sweet and simple touches which make up the unsophisticated "Ammie," compose a more beautifully delineated character than even Moliere has achieved in his " Innocent Maiden." Mr. Wilson, on conclusion of his lecture, informed his audience that at his third lecture, to be delivered on the 27th instant, he should treat upon Highland as well as Lowland melodies. This subdivision will afford his powers an opportunity for greater versatility, and even richer variety of display. I MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MA GISTRATES. Yesterday there was a full attendance of the County Magistrates at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, in consequence of its being known that the Report of the Visiting Justi ces o f th Hanwell Lunatic Asylum was appointed to be discussed upon that day. Mr. Sergeant Adams took the chair. Mr. EDMONDES, the Deputy-Clerk of the Peace, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, addresses to the Queen, Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent, on the birth of the Prince of Wales were unanimously agreed to. HOUSE OF CORRECTION. The Report of the Visiting Justices of the House of Correction was received and read. It stated that the number of prisoners now was 1,117, viz., 833 males and 284 females, besides 18 children. The prisoners were stated to be generally healthy, and it was stated that there had been but two deaths in the prison during the last three months. NEW PRISON. It appeared from the Report of the Visiting Justices of this Gaol that there were at present confined there 96 prisoners, viz., 54 males, 27 females, and 15 boys. MAXWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. Mr. P. LAURIE requested the Magistrates would pro ceed to the consideration of the Report of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, and also the Report of the resident physician thereunto an nexed, and which were laid before the Court on the last county day. From the length of time that has elapsed since the system of non-coercion mentioned in the Re port had been adopted at the Asylum, the Magistrates had had ample opportunities of judging of its effects, and were now fully competent to decide whether it should ' be continued or not. He was about to propose a resolu ' tion to the effect that the Magistrates approved of the present system. He confessed that he felt a very con siderable degree of anxiety as to the result of his motion convinced, as he was, that the question about to be discussed was among the most important subjects that had ever been brought under the notice of that Court, and the result was looked forward to with considerable anxiety by the people of France, Belgium, German . ), and America, and if the present system was sanctioned by the Court, there could be no doubt that it would have a considerable effi!ct in those countries. It was only fifty years since that the treatment of lunatics in this and other countries was that of criminals of the very worst character, and the places appointed for their reception, were neither more nor less than ill-constructed and badly-arranged prisons. The French were the first who endeavoured to ameliorate the condition of these unfortunate persons. Mons. Pinel made the first attempt, which was attended with the most beneficial results. His plan was soon after introduced in this country, and had been attended with success. In fact, receptacles for insane persons werenow hospitals for their cure, and not as formerly, mere places for their safe custody.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, great and important alter ations were effected by the late Sir William Ellis ; but Dr. Conolly, soon after he had been appointed the resident physician, went farther, and said, that all mechanical restraints might be altogether dispensed with, and accordingly, ever since September 21, 1839, they had been altogether discontinued. A period of two years had since elapsed; and, in an asylum that, on an average, had contained about 1,000 patients, restraint had not been applied in any one instance, and the altera tion had been attended with the happiest results. He did not intend to call upon his brother Magistrates to pledge themselves to a continuance of the present system, but merely that , as far as it h a d b een t rie d, i t h a d b een attended with the most beneficial results. The worthy Magistrate here read several extracts from the reports of the Visiting Justices and Resident Physician ; and proceeded to remark that many persons considered that patients disposed to suicide. -and those subject to epileptic fits, ought at all events to be kept in some degree of restraint, to prevent them from injuring either themselves or others. In answer to that, he would ' state that, within the last year, eight patients, who were disposed to commit suicide, had been admitted into the Asylum ; that no restraint whatever had been imposed upon them, and that no bad consequences had resulted.—(Hear.) He was happy to state that the success that had attended the anti-coercion system at Hanwell had led to its adoption in several other asylums, In conclusion, he would call the attention of the Court to the Adelaide fund which had been established by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen Dowager, for the pur pose of providing for the future welfare of persons on their being discharged from the Asylum cured. Il 0 much i d regretted that the report of the Visiting Ju st i ces did not contain any notice of that theit excelle nt t.t unchari ty —(Hear, hear)—and that indepcßtja,t4 o f th at d a sum of money was not placed by ,the ,c!) . u i nty, at the disposal of the Visiting Justices, to . be distributed as they might think fit among moro u , un ftortuna th te personseex penses who were discharged from the Asyimo defray of their return home. The V i si tin g J us t i ces of the ssts different nee t g o a olsh dischargeda d the power in os criminals, e surelying thish t k e l kink of ° a o frt u s : nate • persons who were discharged from the County Lunatic Asylum had a much stronger claim to that sort of assistance. The latter had been rendered destitute from no fault of their own. On their return to their miserable homes they found them completely deserted. their They had no friends to whom they could apply , f or as sistance, and it not unfrequently happ ol N y wretch thatfact i a C t i r m a nyci - im first effect of returning reason was to re gret their restora tioninstantcoehealth, relapsean d wereit waos owing g e melancholy c theh s t a n c es in which unfortunate lun at i cs found the Asylum. The Learned Gentleman' con c l u d ed 'by moving lowing resolution the fol . That on a full consideratio n Resident tHanwell ysici presented of the s Visiting Justices and o f the of the reports of the County Pauper Lunatic Asy lum, a on the county day of the last h sions, this Court i s o f opinion tha t ie ti a le elmas i g n u o ar f n w l r s ana,e- Physician ment pursued th ere i n for the last two s 3 ) -e 's a t r e s has been at tended with highly beneficial results and affords strong evidence in support of the opinion that the personal co ercion of th e pat i ents may be safely a bolished, by the substitution o f uniform kindness, efficient superintend ence, and constant vigilance ; and also that such system tends greatly to the amelioration of the condition and the increase of the comforts of the patients, and on these considerations this Court now express their confidence in the advantages, and their sanction of the continuance, of the system of non-restraint as now practised in the Hanwell Asylum." Mr. Sergeant HALCOMBE opposed the motion, •on the ground that the discussion ought not to be gone into pending certain proceedings that had recently been in stituted in the Court of Queen's Bench. After a strong discussion, the amendment was nega tived by a majority of thirty-two, there being seven in favour, and thirty-nine against it. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, other Magistrate s, eloquently several eloquently addressed the Court in favour of the non coercion system,the resolution was carried by a l ar ge maj and ority. • Mr. cuarles Wright nes. elected housekeeper of the Sessions-house, in the room of the late Mr. Richards. There were sixty Magistrates voted, and there were three candidates. Mr. Wright had fifty-seven votes. The Court then adjourned, after the transaction of some other business of minor importance. MORNING SUN I:Cgt3)lV, tIUNDLING, THE COURT' FOOL. The trinity of Chatnbetlain was destined to experi ence the satirical humour of the King, who, in 1726, conferred the token of it, on Baron Gundling. At a full meeting of the smoking club, the appointment was deli vered to him, and the gold key fastened by the riband to his coat. Gundling was vain enough to feel highly flattered, and never went abroad without his gold key. But, se his daily course led to the wine-shop, and be frequently slept off his debauch in filthy places, some officers one day, for a frolic cut off his key, and carried it to the King. Next day, when Gundling appeared at Court without his key, the King took him severely to task, and intimated that he must expect to be treated in the same manner as a soldier who parts with his musket for drink. In vain did Gundling implore pardon ; the Kiog pretended to be very angry, and desired him to come to him the next day. Here, in solemn conclave, a wooden key, gilt,at least a yard long, was handed to him on a wooden platter of proportionatedimensions,andfas tened by a huge blue riband to his bosom, that it might always be in his sight. He was ordered never to ap pear without this key upon pain of the royal displeasure. After he had dragged this ponderous distinction about for a week, the lost key was restored to him, and this time he had it fastened with strong wire to the skirt of his coat by a locksmith. By way of a new frolic, the King ordered an ape to be dressed exactly like Gund ling, and decorated with a chamberlain's key. At din ner he then reproved the grand master of the ceremo nies for his dissolute life, and for his youthful transgres sions, saying it was scandalous that he should turn his children adrift in the world without making any pro vision for them. Gundling would have vindicated him self, when the ape, his counterpart, was brought in and presented to him as his son, and Gundling was forced to acknowledge, and embrace him, the little brute at the same time making some sharp attacks on his father's wig,"—Campbell's Frederick the Great and his nines. OMMISSION OF LUNACY—Yesterday a Com mission of Lunacy was opened at Hornsoy wood Tavern, before Mr. Commissioner Phillimore and a"Special Jury, of which Arthur Smith, Esq., was Foreman, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Charles Carter, an inmate of Northumberland House Private Lunatic Asylum, at Stoke Newington. It appeared from the evidence that he was a native of Chelmsford, Essex, and had been under confinement since the year 1S18; he was in the habit of fancying himself surrounded by a great number of per sons, and would swear and abuse imaginary beings. He had no idea of the value of money, and the faculties of his mind appeared to be entirely prostrated. When he was introduced to the Jury he started back and seemed to be exceedingly timid. All attempts to make him understand the nature of the investigation were fruitless, and upon a sovereign being shown to him he stated that it was a seven shilling piece. One unusual feature in the case was that the unfortunate gentleman expressed himself perfectly happy, and exhibited great anxiety to get back to Northumberland House. The Jury, after a patient inves tigation, found Mr. Carter insane, and incapable of go verning either himself or his property. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Between one and two o'clock yesterday afternoon, Charles Martzeki, aged thirteen years, the son of respectable parents, re siding at Union Wharf, Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, in proceeding along Warren-street, Fitzroy square, slipped down through treading on a piece of orange-peel, heedlessly thrown on the footway pave ment, and broke both his thighs; be was conveyed, in a state of great suffering, to University College Hospital. Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen has been pleased, in her Royal condescension, to accept the humble offering of the poor lace-makers of Woodbury Salterton, and to bestow on them a munificent proof of her Majesty's continued bounty, and an encouragement to their industry. Died, at Mellerstain, Berwickshire, on the 11th inst., George Baillie, Esq., of Jerviswoode, in the seventy ninth year of his age. He was a man of large property, and spent no small portion of it in keeping the finest pack of hounds in Scotland. He was father to the pre sent Marchioness of Breadalbane. THE CONVICT WARD.—No answer has yet been returned from the Home Secretary, to the petition in favour of a mitigation of the sentence on this convict; and the opinion is, that the unhappy man will undergo the extreme penalty of the law on Monday next. Mr. Murphy, the attorney, charged with per jury, has been tried in the Queen's Bench, Dublin, and was acquitted on Wednesday to the evident satisfaction of the auditory. The trial lasted five days. Mr. Owen Wynne, the oldest Irish Member of the House of Commons, died at his seat, count r y of Sligo, on the 12th inst., in the 86th year of his age.. He represented that county in the Irish Parliament :n 1777. The Duke of Wellington left town on Thursday for Strathfieldsaye, where the Noble Duke intends to pass the Christmas holidays. DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL PIIIPPS.—• George William Phipps, of the Royal Military Aca demy, at Woolwich, !died about five o'clock on Thursday morning at his residence, Woolwich-common. This Gallant Officer was 81 years of acre, and was a commis sioned officer for the long period of sixty two years, having entered the service as an ensign in the Royal Engineers on the 21st of April, 1779. On the 20th of December, 1786, be was promoted to the rank of Lieu tenant, and in the following year was appointed Quarter master, to the Royal Military Artificers on the formation 1 of that corps in October, 1787, and continued to act in r that capacity for many years after he was promoted to the rank of Captain. His commission as Captain was dated the 21st November, 1792 ; Major, Ist January, 1800 ; Lieut.-Colonel, 9th October, 1806 ; Colonel, 4th .Tune,lBl4; Major-General, 19th July. 1821; and Lieut.- General, on the 10th of January, 1837. Major Cuppage, of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Pester, of the Royal Horse Artillery, are nephews of the deceased. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER (MARY ANNE) COUNTESS OF BELMORE.—The above venerable lady died on Monday last, at Bath, in which city her Ladyship had resided many years, and was deservedly respected and esteemed for her manifold charities. The deceased Countess, who was the eldest daughter of the late Sir James Caldwell, was third wife of Amer, first Earl of Belmore, grandfather of the present Earl, to whom her Ladyship was married in 1794. The Countess had at tained the great age of eighty-six years. There was a general rise on Thursday in the price of butcher's meat in the metropolis, and at no shop could it be procured under Bd. or 9d. per lb. This is as much owing to the state of the weather, which is very unfavourable to its keeping, as to the near ap proach of Christmas, when butchers are loth to kill. This will add much to the privations of the poor and la bouring classes, who are already severely tried by want. RUMOURED PARDON OF CONVlCTS.—Not withstanding the contradiction which has been given to the report which appeared in several of the newspapers, stating that it was the intention, on the birth of the Prince of Wales, to grant a free pardon to those conv i cts . ro te o n rd tm e n r o to n l t e h s e se p n ar t t h o e f who at. d a had il y beenmade ade of a ngood petitions behaviour, sent numerous t, o the e Home-office therefore a c applications i o h ni friends of prisoners on the subject. . think it therigclriot I t v o n r s e r p e e e a in t i t i h y a t t o th i e n re tetr is e_r n e o ed A number of petitions have been presented, praying th at terms to which petitions convicts havebeensentene . gre at Frost, Williams, and Jones may be included in the anti cipated act of Royal clemency. DEVON AND CORNWALL RAILWAY.---A meeting of the Committee took place on Wednesd a y, a t from P e arce's Hotel, Truro, for rtrehesepeopnrutterdpuo,assset of receiving the Sub-Committee their draft of the aa r g e r e epo countyrdt to upon,mbee e pre nee hold on W e d nesday the sth of be A p isseln w h ichmte, e d iii t tn o di t se h r e sptro c on o pd i o m ,s t et ) do '. January next. A requisition to the High Sheriff for calling this meeting was agreed to, and .signed by the Committee.—llynouth Journal. MYSTERIOUS AFFAlR.—Yesterday, at two o'clock, an inquest, adjourned from the previous day, was resumed before Mr. Wakley, M.P. in the Board-room of St. Mgrylebone workhouse, on view of the body of Mr. Henry of who Ge ary, Inealman, Uxbrid ge, was found on Monday evening last lying dead, with his pockets rifled, in North-bank, Regent's-park. The particulars of the first inquiry appearedyesterday. Dr. Robert Boyd, phy sician of St. Marylebone workhouse, deposed that he had, by order of the Coroner, made a post mortem examination of the body of deceased. There was no appearance indicative of deceased having taken poison. There was an effusion of about a pint and a half of blood on the bra i in, insdudcoendhlbey the enlargement of the heart, natural size, and caused by o no doubt that deceased weighs 2 ea lf ' h vi o li u l e n va l c s es ‘ . va. Witness had d effi t i l s i ion he h ad al described. as anyt hing occurred that deceased died otherwise to lead you to apo plexy, Coronerexy, (to su ppose ? Son—No,Sir. I am than in the course of nature id) the testimony of the medical perfectly satisfied , r ich the .? mystery which now remains is dee eas o e n d s the son I was discovered, and what be.. of his watch and sovereigns. The Jury then re hgoenwtlheme came e ed the following verdict, " That the deceased Henry found dead in a certain open road, and that G ear y was gentleman, came to t i l v e h ei he his death was caused by effusion of blood on the brain, p ro duced by natural causes." , T HE WINTER IN RUSSIA .— T h e Winter ha s set in this year, at St. Petersburg , in a singularly capri_ cious manner. During the night between the 15th a n d 16th ult., the frost was severe, the thermometer falli ng to 16 degrees below zero, of Reaumur's scale. T he following day it thawed, but during the night there w as a slight frost again, and the ice on the Neva rem a i ned standing, while the thermometer marked only one degree below the freezing point. On the 23d it thawed again, and continued to do so till the 27th, W h en a good deal of rain fell. Nevertheless the ice though thin, remained fast. All this time it had been impossible to reconstruct the bridge of pontoons, so that the dif ferent " sides" of the city were cut off from an comma seemed likely nication with each other. It was remarkable that during the greater part of this time the temperature was hig her at night than during the day. On the 29th the thermo meterpreviously.—Prussion fell again to the freezing point, an d to go down lower. The weather was beautiful, and the roadstead it Cronstadt quite open. Another vessel had even arrived there a few days State Gazete. GOOD FORTUNE.—.A singular instance of 01l good fortune hai, within the l as t fe A? days, happened to fow .ed the occup at i on of a journeyman a poor man named George Peter s , with a numerous bfaakemilT; ail() and resides an obscure street at Camberwell. It appears that a distant relative, residing at Bath, and from whom no expectations were ever entertained, has recently died, bequeathing to the wife of Peters large funded property amounting to near 50.0001. He has a fatally of six children to participate in his unexpoted good fortune.