The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

RV EN TWO- SUN bone side the Lyres at 18, Chancery-lane. That is the same Cross _ W ay as my office. has _sss-exarnined by Mr. CHARNocx— The h execution ',pace been satisfied. alarl es 1 , Pearson—l was in the service of the prisoner, et•aelsard, on sth November. He is a surgeon and a intst ee l s , and drusgist, living in Drury-lane. Some ofh kt, me to the house that evening about five, one was sa w 111. Possession. About nine o'clock, my master f or deceas e d i n the kitchen, deceased asked him a hav e g las s of gin. M as t er sa id, " V er y we ll, y o u shall W ater My master ga ve hi m a tumbler of rum and N My r e eeaSed was sob er a t th e time he drank the • 1'4E 14 ,2" water ; after m as t e r retired to the parlour. ce sse d.ea, me 'to the kitchen shortly after, and .. asked de was ,to step into the parlour. Deceased did so. That ift ss „a`a lt ten o'clock. I went into the parlour e k" a i nlA, and found the deceaed ud the two 1, 44 3- ar es, and the ma id servant, there. s There were spirits glasses on the table. There was no wine there. f' • te;', 4l) Peaved to h e drinking. Deceased seemed sober is , About h a lf an hour afterwards I was called t Pin, and then there was liquor in the deceased's males. Ti• on the table in the pai t ilb , ere was some red wine I.# sth ers iell, and rum and water and gin and water ' in -Nly master kept gill in that room in a gallon th e r t uottle. • It had been poured out of that into th en ai nblers s Th e same persons were in the room and still a t the table. Kennett was there tie a rr i ve d a b out ten o ' c l oc k . I was told d son.lllY saa.ster to go to the Garrick's Head, and hat s ft s4 ll °te- I did so. Im as to wait for an answer, kJ 1 " not get one. A man returned with me, and my , st ti v -i t te y r o rdered him to bring supper for four at half-past ti ss e . The rum and wine were kept in stone bottles. CoIItTY ret urn I found th e p ar ty s till drinking, and they d ts e f„ ai lad to do so u n til th e s u pper came at half-past ei ttqc e Two bottles of red wine in decanters a t able w ith the su pp er . I pl ace d th em on th e ses l ;° ll nd which the prisoners, the deceased, and the !! Ni le ' Were sitting. I waited at supper. I saw red the s ,g i ven to th e d ecease d . Th ere were no spirits on tl s si Zule then. The red wine in the decanters was all ts e : at slipper, and two more arrived, and all was drank, littl e in the bottom of one decanter. Three 1 lt,.at.Porter were sent for—very little of it was left. tta,3 about one o ' clock when I fetched the last two bot- Nt t ,i P a rt- After the table was cleared my master di ) cs the maid -servant to bring the stone bottle out t th e to C upboard. She did so. When I went into 1511 1 they were all round the table, and there s ' l linSi h ra til in 1 heir tumblers. They continued oes.'"g about half an hour. I then went into the room. 4,, as ‘r ed was very tipsy. He was unable to help him 14ans'4, Y master told me to go and fetch a cab. Mr. Z si e ;:t also desired me to do so. Joseph Packard was e a ," s 's I fetched a cab, and my master and Mr. i''s t lifted deceased down stairs, and brought h+m'aite the surgery. Deceased appeared unable to help . th t(r MY master put a smelling bottle to the nose of kaseeeeased and said " This will do you good. Decease d Pitt hi answer. They then lifted him up stairs, an 1 4'1; 11e ° a sofa. He remained on the sofa a quarter "?. ear- Whilst there I saw some water in a tumbler. eta iteftnett put some spirits to it in the tumbler, and h/ ( 1 1' - t 4, the deceased, who was lying on the sofa. The ;isea:te,"ards were present. Deceased remained about of an hour longer, when m . y master and Mr. s. l- ‘ ) tt e Carried deceased down stairs, and lifted him 'tsts ss. -Joseph Packard accompanied them. My '"'Sp e s a nd Kennett went out with the cab. Joseph ‘qt o ," athotne. It was about three in the morning when } stit'e s ,,it away. My master and Kennett returned in '"tiv es — "„ ian hour. I went to bed about four, and got up 'le s o : e ight and nine. The servant maid came out from ° Pel4 -11.1 ,, where they load supped. The door of it was 14 id, s S he said to me, "Don't yon open the door." I 04 1 1 44 , What f or ?" She said, " Mind your own business. " 411itt heard wh a t passe d . He was lying on the sofa. isi c ter I h ear d a loud knocking and ringing at the % se ut did not go down. This occurred more than art ss u l t i L ng the day. My master was in bed the greater kit -tr, T e day. I re ce i ve d a note f rom my master to ta k e Il 41 kes, his l an dl or d, w h o li ves nex t d oor . I I l out s of th e b ed-room window, - jumped on t.si , leers 4 thy. and got i n to M r . F o lk es ' w i n d ow . tts fro oy dir ect i ons from my master, who was in the ~dnC° the wi n d ow of wh i c h I got out, The note ats e e l.l believe to be it. Mr. Folkes was not at NI " folkl t. s (The note was then put in and read, At as fow 4 1( ti t) . " TO MA. FOLKES. 10. h ll:48ir---.ROW would you advise me to act ? The t ta et t t iat° aicated last eight, 'and my bcother and Mr. beat ev s ta Yailed on him to take a ride, and I thought 1.-" S %1: , him t Will you let You boy go down 'Leiglit's through your house ? rs, &c., la er ess " R. PACKARD." tsai„' e xatnin e d e --at e b y sun vIIAMBERS—My master . was ea sed They led the deceased down the first time. h a t ased niPluined of a cold. Ido not recollect if he ar s 9)° k° when the bottle was put to his nose. I ,a sh;l°Y M astersurgeon but do not know it. 1 11. ;a 1 c- IL:F or ': ehemi s was t's s a hop. master was very lik: at into his went into the street with the cab, when ;triot b e ,„ 4B , bed-room the following morning the bed et ""e fee s ;". s tePt in. He was in bed nearly he whole tipsy ti t day. The maid servant Jemima was kr. c . ' Nvater. j°Nitsi 1 41 bee ea drank some of the . first rum and thi sa yvan t se !l had some porter given him . by the ag. not . ecea sea • before my master gave him any /is - `e at s ay said it was his birthday. Kennett did I 1 1 :1 110 alisa i t ' aa ater's ; he visited him occasionally. I t ‘ s - s '"" soda vs q, ' la hour before I ordered the supper. I. re -e ° see it. lying id not notice any ,:" e ° de d s on the sofa. I •sy m h en cease was 6., • s _ at the time. th4tahle as y i iNoeis—.l saw . the soda bottle . on the . sur came down stairs. Joseph did not live at It e ollo9 ; he was merely a visitor. ; 4 'ell s t e l. 4a tilined—Jo se ph slept at the house. He had wa."'ere about a month. He lived at another doctor's. about an hour before the supper came that Mr. 1 N. 1 4 0 arrived. The porter I spoke of having been °3' the deceased was a tumbler at dinner,__ and -1 L i shortly after. He was sober, and I was ;4 ' f ,"'leti I first went into the supper-room. People 'Arit t i: ennui and consult my master. I do not know i p i l t3 become of Jemima, the maid servant. Joh n C. JONES—I saw her about a week ago. ' l eteP--I am a driver of a cabriolet. I was f '° ll l the stand at half-past two in the morning o t . l l tt (:) ,. v • to the house in Drury-lane. I waited an hour Neti' 4 . It was chemist's shop, near the corner of 0 11 14 p. 114-sttrise.t. .Thre a e gentlemen cam ' e out of . the house, s iv e L . lens friend was rather tipsy, and wished me to isey sun 1011 144., The prisoners are the three gentlemen. ti t l e me a glass of brandy and water. I waited an b s t . lle ° saw it! person brought down stairs, very •-i s iwo of the gentlemen ; they held him under his 14k I s 'eetned very tipsy. I was in the shop. There e ' ov behind, divided from the shop by a glass door. i t T e . of the gentlemen in the little room say, S s l ass e t c It will do you g o od." Ido not think he said to o k l4 ,a, °nee. He remained there a short time, and 6 1 .,." it ""n up again. They said it' they placed it a vu ts ght ' t i le wind he would be better. He was tir t 7, ae d s ' i w , .a twenty minutes after, in a helpless 14, , qe s , Isassisted in the cab. All three ere there. Two tti tls sl , 'eat with him. The other was in the shop and eP e a• The two gentlemen got on the box with Wz ts 4 i,Rssse • directed to drive to the Hummums Co drove 1 They go t o ff and told me to take him to ttli;a ts Co -. They gave me half-a-crown. I he 18, C hancery -lane, and could not procure ad -1ll'44; q. 1 St aid there ten minutes. 1 .. roused liii es liss• a l ° the cab. I could make no .sense of 4 qt s ` t atte -t re him s'o . Drury-lane to the house I took Itt e Sauld t ang the night bell three or four times, NC h t ;ett4 .-4 eute no admission, and I took him to Bow ._Nif-ndason''‘th! found him at the, bottom of the cab, and 4 5( 1,4 ,', - " s ous se„ at. Ile groaned then. I went to the out "a' - ,,"" s e. t , - t'lns inspector would not interfere in the "see c ' s - ` ll 'ned to Drury-lane. I could not make ; 1 , 4) Pot a- s 3w er- •I throve to Bow-street, took him on the step of a door. I cannot say if I tad luir iste 'lien. A policeman came up in about t i l r th . „ i s ' and examined him, and sat e was `isa s tar —tit her was brought, and he was taken 4 3 ' 4 4,1 - house. The policeman and I went to s , s ti °4 t o ' could make no one hear. As we were t oe r°w-street I saw two of the gentlemen ts, A ss a Peet,, plr -e ,d and Kennett) and pointed them out to ‘l l S es s 's - eal,' ; who took them into custody. ic,, - S e d by Mr. CIIARNOCK—The prisoners Ism 'esa L , l - to the de ceased. Atis -I°od---dso is a helpless state of in 144kLattil. T was am a policeman. I saw the last witness 111 the the morning in question. A man was 11nCe of step step of the door. I examined him in con 11'sk -` what the cabman said. He appeared to be 1 1 ' 11 ' 4 . ig e n , a stretcher and carried him to the startsienin t,itY-lass sont with the cabman to Mr. I ackart s nr re't' a u r ut failed in getting admission. We triod th e t a, N s ° ; the second time we met two of the pri 14.4,,rea ss 1 - took them into custody. They wanted to know ts" lb ° ; told them he sr would see. The Inspector '4; 11 , l;-"Ivet„117..Nvere detained in consequence of the man's teldVaid they knew nothing about it. The cab itsqtalin A entett he was the man who had helped to lc s 'i it, anti t,he cab. Kennett said he had nothing to do 1)1.'144 hail not been in Drury-lane. Shortly after rlnlathsaw the inspector, and said he had been in rtate a l it and told him Packard's name. Kennett was h wi ts Capable of taking care of himself. , c es I ri ue en s ae fined b y M r. C. JONES—It was after he Nr,,tor in e i t r is tody about an h our th a t K enne tt to ld th e 1 1 : . e was not very drunk when taken into te could stand arid walk. <tam qicatnined by Mr. CITA ENoCK—I told Joseph is tit ° Man was dead, and lie said ho knew nothing Ft Ilsi;obal„ i:ess 3t James Sneatch.—l am a surgeon, residing in 1 1 ,4 Peet, Covent-garden. I was called in on the Ri o (if e lltber to the station-house. I was shown the a in i a s ii• There were no appearances of external i'll'totiej . eve was an appearance of eichymosis round sitnti,,that denoted pressure before the body was ccdcl. ''ts dew ,in which he was in in the cab, having isrYkely W ith his h ea d d ownwar d s , wou ld h ave b een ir P r oduceit. Saliva was flowing from the f i rom the nostrils, and the pupil of the eye Ill e c :iri g -I instituted a post mortem examination the qmura ts a Y• On removing the ealvain the vessels of mater were injected with congealed blood. The IS:ess u i. ae 's of the brain were gorged with blood. Two vs small water were found in the ventricles, and some of co ' ves sels were ruptured. The lungs were gorged Pe' q lt , e ° Z e s s ted blood. The blood vessels . of the ab its a tee of T, gorged with blood. The internal ap e ism stomach ates investi indicated the presence of some ped, gatton. The contents of the stomach were and there was nothing to indicate the presence q Is a eaS usts subst ance . 1 s h ou ld say h is pos i t i on hsl ` y w ould be likely to cause suff o cation. J eet b een 1 4A IB ERS—TIie water in the ventriclesmight lis t of ea time co ll ect i ng i f ho had been the sub coass,violls disease. It is hardl likely it could ' l4 d in five or six hours, but i y t is possible. I should say, that altogether he was a healthy subject. He was rather short-necked. There was an adherence of the dura mater to the skull bone; that must have been owing to long-continued previous inflammation. Apo plexy may be produced by overloading the stomach with solid food, particularly where stimulating liquors have been taken. In this case it may have been produced by solid food, stimulating liquors, and exercise. Solid food, if taken to excess by a person not accustomed to it, produces very sudden effects. In this case the stomach was not gorged; its contents did not exceed a pint. Mr. CHAMBERS—Are dinner parties, and drinking after them, likely to lead to death ? Witness—Where there is great eating, decidedly yes.—(A laugh.) Mr. CHAMBERS—Are corporation feasts likely to lead to death ? Witness—l have never had the honour of being at one ; but I am sure, generally speaking, more persons are starved to death by over-eating than by under eating.—(A laugh.) Mr. CHAMBERS—Stared by over-eating. Witness— Yes, logically speaking, although it may seem a contra diction.—(Laugh ter.) By Mr. C. JONES—I am afraid I cannot attribute the death in the present instance to the water in the ven tricles. If I had found the body perfectly healthy, and with no other appearances than the water in the ven tricles, I might have attributed death to that cause. Mr. B. Brooks, surgeon, attended the post mortem examination with last witness, and attributed the death of deceased to his having been given spirituous liquors to excess, and afterwards driven about in a cab. This was the case for the prosecution. (The trial was proceeding when we went to Press.) NEW COURT. The Court wars occupied the principal part of the morn ing in trying trifling cases of uttering base coin, none of which possessed any features of general interest. Matilda Bruce, twenty-one, was indicted for embez zling and stealing the sums of 41. 10s., 31.65., and 11. 10s., the property of John Aveny, her master. The prisoner, in the early part of the morning, pleaded not guilty to the indictment, but on being placed at the bar to take her trial, she requested leave to retract her plea for that of guilty. Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the prosecution, said that he had been instructed to state that the prose cutor entertained no ill feeling towards the prisoner. From what he had heard of her character and family, he believed that this was her first offence, and that she had been induced in a moment of temptation to the commis sion of it. Mr. Pima.'Ps appeared for the prisoner, and called witnesses to her character, all of whom spoke to her for mer honesty and previous good conduct. The Learned JUDGE then addressed the prisoner, and said it was painful to pass a severe santenco on a person so young, and upon one who had hitherto borne so good a character. In the early part of the Session, he had sentenced a young man to eighteen months' im prisonment ; but her sentence would not be so heavy, although she had been guilty of a great breach of trust. The case was not so bad, perhaps, as the one to which he had alluded. The prisoner was then sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner, who appeared a very respectable young woman, wept bitterly during the whole of the proceed ings, and buried her face in her handkerchief. We un derstood that she had been engaged as shopwoman to the prosecutor. FATAL AFFRAY. A long inquiry took place last evening, at the Ship, Phoenix-alley, Long-acre, before Messrs. Gell and Higgs, Coroners for Westminster, on the body of Joseph Love, aged 28. Sarah Cole said that the deceased was the landlord of a house of ill-fame in Phoenix-alley, and she was his servant. On the morning of Tuesday week last, while witness and the other inmates were in bed, a man knocked at the street door, and asked for accommoda tion for the night. The man, whose name witness had since ascertained to be Mathewson, behaved in such a violent manner when he entered the house that she called for her master (the deceased) to turn him out. She then saw that Mathewson was intoxicated. Deceased en deavoured to prevail upon him to go away quietly, but he refused, and struck deceased upon the breast. A scuffle then ensued between them, in the course of which Ma thewson caught deceased by the neck, and knocked his head violently against the wall. Deceased then fell on the floor, exclaiming, " Oh, I'm a murdered man." Ma thewson did not cease his violence, and witness gave him into custody. Deceased was then taken to his bed room, and on Wednesday night last he died. Mr. J. N. Bainbridge, surgeon, said that he had made a post mortem examination of the body, and ascertained that death arose from an effusion of blood into the base of the brain, produced by a blow or fall. Susan Banks said that she went to the house of deceased with a man named Robert Mathewson, and the deceased was the first to commence the affray. Mathewson was not intoxicated. Richard Latter, police-constable M F, said that, on the morning in question, he was on duty in Phoenix-alley, when he was informed of a disturbance at deceased's house. He instantly went there and saw a man, named Robert Mathew son, and the deceased in the passage fighting. It did not appear as though deceased was endeavouring to turn his adversary out. He saw blows exchanged, and the deceased fell against the stairs. Mathewson was in toxicated, and a woman, named Banks, endeavoured to rescue him from witness. Mathewson was very violent, and broke four panes of glass in the door. Witness took him before the Magistrates at Bow-street, when he was remanded. He said he was a fishmonger, and resided in Clipstone-street, Fitzroy-square. The woman (Banks) said that she had lost money in the house. The deceased was quite sober. Anne Bagster corroborated the evi dence of the first witness. She added that Mathewson held the deceased in such a manner that it was impossi ble that he (deceased) could have struck him. The quarrel arose about the sum he was to pay for accommo dation. The Coroner then summed up the evidence ; and the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Excusable Homicide." BELGIUM: BRUSSELS, DEC. I.—The average price of wheat last week was 21f. 76c., and that of rye, 12f. 90c. The Senate were unable to deliberate to-day, there not being a sufficient number of Members present. Abont 400 witnesses have already been heard by the examining Judge in the affair of the conspiracy. Just as we were going to press, we were informed of the arrest of an ex-Captain of the sth Regiment of the line, who was lately condemned for some offence. This individual is said to be accused of nothing less than An attempt on the life of the King. At'present these are only conjectures on this serious accusation, of which no one of the public has hitherto had• any knowledge, the strictest orders having been given not to publish the affair. We shall await, there fore, for more positive information. The ex-Captain in question is in the Petit Carmes, where he has already been several times examined. Among the passengers who arrived at Antwerp on the 29th on board the Princess Victoria steamer, was an English family who has long resided at Madagascar, from which island they have brought a mulatto servant maid, whose colour, dress, and the ring in her nose, at tracted the curiosity of the people. Among the persons examined yesterday in the affair of the conspiracy, were M. Van Praet, Minister of the King's Household • General Nypels, his Majesty's aide de-camp ; Major Lahare, &c. DUTCH FUNDS.—A SISTRit DA It, Nov. 30, Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Ainert Syndic, 4% per cent 9l til Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7B 70% Commercial Company, 4)4 per cent 15 5 14 155% , Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101% 102 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 91% Exchange on London, One month l2 12% Two months l2 0234 Hamburgh, One month B5 50 Two months 35 75 Dutch Papers, Dec. 1. BELGIAN I' UNDS—Bausins, DEC. 1. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.... ---- 3 per Cent. Thirty even 71% (1440) lOl%. Loan of City, 1232, 4 per Cent. l)7 Society of Commerce, 434 per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ..... 74 NationalSeciety. Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Dee. 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visrma, Nov. 23. Five per Cants. Metalliques boar per Cents. 993 Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1587 Zegiutig, Nov. 28. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR DECEMBER.- This periodical, which bears the name of Ainsworth, as editor, on the title-page, but is evidently under new auspices,. comes forth in great force, and presents a formidable array of articles and illustrations. Mr. Whitehead's story of " Richard Savage " opens the ball, and its interest deepens into something like excitement and vigour. Thomas Ingoldsby, has a s l a ng parody upon the Lake school of poetry, which is in a vein of high and droll burlesque. The biography of Warren Hastings will be read with interest, and is illustrated with a grave portrait of that distinguished ma n. Mr. Albert Smith's " Loose leaves from a Tra veller's Album," make one of the most amusing papers of the Magazine. They are full of point, freedom, and sly . fun. Mr. 011ier's story of " The Night Shriek," has in it both interest and , power. We draw a tt en tion also to " Giles Chrbacon s Adventures,': by Paul Pindar, with an illustration by George Cruikshank. " The Family Butler," by Albany Poyntz—and " A story of Neapolitan Banditti," &c. Altogether the number is full of entertaining reading.—Morning Post. SINGULAR DISCOVERY. -A poor boy was engaged last week in removing a stock of old clothes from a pawnbroker's repository, in Coventry, preparatory to a n ti q e public a te (siale, shapes•h when n o h f i s the curiositycast-offs - w o ffs as excited from ioe t t h h e e pockets of each, which he di d very minutely ; bul, after great numbers had passed the ordeal, he was about to abandon the speculative task, when he felt an unusual substance in the l.reast of an o ld to p coat, which awakened his suspicion that some valuable document might be concealed beneath the lining ; he accordingly placed a mark u p on th e c o a t, by which it might be iden tified at the tim e o f sa l e , and acquainted a friend with the circu ms t ance , w h o p ur chased the lot in which the coat was included for a very trifling sum. Im mediately on r eac hi ng h ome th e y commenced opera tions in search of the fondly anticipated prize, and which was, in a great m easure , rea lized, for undernea th the lining were deposited a variety of papers very neatly folded together, amongst which were four country bank notes of IL each ; a bank post-bill, va lue 251., bearing date 20th of June, 1815 ; a cance ll e d check on Wyatt's old bank at Coventry, together with several memoran dums, valuable only to the original possessor, who, no doubt, has long since paid the debt of nature ; the name of 11. or W. Butterworth is barely legible on most of the papers. THE SUN, LONDOW,-FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1841. MEMOIR OF DR. BIRE BECK. This eminent physician and estimable man, whose death we announced yesterday morning, deserves a more extended notice from us, than we could then supply. The tribute of respect which is due from the public will, we have no doubt, in due time be cheerfully paid. Dr. Birkbeck was born about 1776, at Settle, Yorkshire, where his father was established as a banker and manufacturer, and, where a branch of the family still resides and carries on the same business. After receiving the usual - rudiments of education at a village in the . neighbourhood, during which he displayed a strong inclination for those mechanical pursuits to winch he after- Wards became so devoted, it was determined by his friends that he should embrace the medical profession. After studying first at Leeds, which then and now boasts of several celebrated medical men, he removed to London, where he had the good fortune to become a pupil of the celebrated Dr. Baillie, whose friendship he* retained until the death of that illustrious man. Afterwards he removed to complete his education to Edinburgh, then in the zenith ,of its fame as a school of medicine. Here also he had the happiness to form a friendship with Brougham, Horner, Jeffrey, Scott, and others of that race, who were then beginning to blaze in the northern capital, with a splendour such as its past annals had not seen. But while cultivating this brilliant society he did not neglect his scientific pursuits, and in these he had made such attainment that,bethre the twenty second year of his age, he was appointed Pro fessor of Natural Philosophy in the Andersonian Institution of Glasgow. It was while in this situation that Dr. Birk beck laid the basis of these Mechanics' Institu tions, in connection with which his name has chiefly attracted present notice, and will engage future remembrance. With liberality rarely evinced in such quarters, he invited the mecha nics of the City to a gratuitous attendance on his lectures ; and their grateful acknowledgments of the benefit contributed to strengthen in him the benevolent wish to improve the education of the workmen, which he afterwards carried so extensively into effect. It was about the year 1800 that this course of lectures on Natural Phi losophy and its application to the arts was delivered. But a few at first availed themselves of this advantage. By degrees, however, the extraor dinary perspicuity of the teacher's method, the judicious selection of his experiments, and the natural attractions of his subject, to men whose lives were spent in directing or witnessing opera tions, of which the principles were now first un folded to them by the Doctor, proved successful in diffusing a general taste for the study and, about the period when he left Glasgow for London, nearly 700 men eagerly and constantly attended this lecture. Although this admirable Institution has ever since flourished under the able and worthy suc cessors of Dr. Birkbeck, and although there are other towns in Scotland, and even within a short distance of Glasgow, possessing hundreds of arti sans, yet twenty years elapsed before the ex ample was followed. It was not, in fact, till the year 1821, that Edinburgh followed the example, and framed an institution called the Edinburgh School of Art, on Dr. Birkbeck's plan. During the firstyear of this institution nearly 600 attended the lectures, and the students were of no less than forty-eight different trades. Among the many liberal donations made to the Edinburgh School of Arts, we feel delighted to remark at the present moment, that the late lamented Sir Francis Chantrey presented it, im mediately on its opening, with copies of his cele brated busts of Watt and Rennie, and one of Dr.Frariklin, which now adorn the lecture-room. After Dr. Birkbeck's removal to London, where he acquired considerable practice as a physician, and was necessarily much engaged in his profession, he never lost the desire to con tribute to the improvement of his fellow-crea tures, and he occasionally delivered lectures at the -London Institution and other Societies, on those subjects in which he delighted. Whenl the attention of the public in. London was called, in the year 1823, by an address in the Mechanics' Magazine, to the propriety of the mechanics forming an Institution of their own, Dr. Birkbeck was one of the first in the field to give the project his support, and it was mainly by the sanction of his name, by his exertions, and his example, that the project was brought to bear. He was well seconded by the en thusiasm of the people ; crowds of workmen and many masters flocked to the meeting, which was held on the 2d of December, 1523. The impulse had been given at the right moment, and complete success was the result. The Mechanics' Institution was form ed so promptly, that it was opened in the month of January, a chapel in Monkwell-street buying been hired for the purpose. Dr. Birkbeck delivered on the occasion an inaugural address, remarkable for its elegance and its beautiful il lustrations of the advantages of intellectual pur suits. Lectures were almost immediately de livered on mechanics by Professor Millington, of the London Institution, and on chemistry by Mr. Phillips. In a short time the Institution numbered between 1,200 and 1,300 members, chiefly mechanics. They each contributed at the rate of one pound per year, and crowded nightly to the lectures after the toils of the day were over, coming from a considerable distance, to slake their thirst for knowledge presented in a pleasing form. They then learnt " How charming is divine philosophy, Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose," and that learning, cherishing in all classes a further desire for knowledge, will prove the source of future improvement far surpassing all that has yet been achieved by man. . . It was 'some time before the Institution ac quired its present locality in Southampton-build ings, Chancery-lane. At length, by Dr. Birk beck's pecuniary aid, who advanced about 3,0001., a house and ground were purchased, and a corn inodious theatre erected in the very heart of the metropolis. Many eminent and good men from the first promoted the success of the Insti tution by their purses and their time. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lord Brougham, Sir Francis Burdett, were amongst its benefac tors. In Professor ,Millington, whose lectures were quite models of plainess and perspicuity, Dr. Birkbeck found a helpmate worthy of him self, with the advantage which he boasted off in the lectures with honest pride, that he originally belonged to the working classes himself. In all his exertions Dr. Birkbeck was well seconded by the zeal, devotedness, and excellent behaviour of the working classes. We mention, to the honour of the Institution, that during the 18 years it has now been established, no serious division or dispute has taken place in it, no secession or important quarrel, though the great number of similar In stitutions which have since arisen, have lessened somewhat the number of persons who now fre quent the parent Institution. The spread of these seminaries of popular edu cation was rapid. At Manchester, Leeds, New castle, and other places, institutions were quickly erected upon the Learned Doctor's plan. In 1825, the system had extended in every direction. Newport, in the Isle of Wight, Liverpool, Bir mingham, Southwark, Spitalfields, Ashton under-Lyne, Brighton, all rapidly formed Me chanics' Institutions. Between fifty and sixty Institutions of this kind, sprang up in that year, making the whole at that time eiglity in number. In 1827, such had been the spread of Dr. Birk beck's plan, that in the remote regions of Van Diemen's Land a Mechanics' Istitute was formed. Since that time, they have spread over our own country, so that scarcely one town or borough throughout the island, is without a hall dedicated to the education of the people. Nor were the benefits of such institutions con fined to England. Though at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers at Paris lectures had pre viously been g iven on mechanical a n d po li t i ca l philosophy, it was not till the London Mecha nics' Institution had set the example that courses of instruction, expressly intended for mechanics, were commenced at Paris by Baron Charles Du pin, at Metz, and even at Madrid. Few valu able schemes, in fact, have had a more rapid and more general success than the schemes for enabling working mechanics, by their own means, to acquire a knowledge of the theory of the many useful arts they practise. We have already recorded the time of Dr. Birkbeck's death. We have to add, that for many years the Doctor had been afflicted with an internal disease of the most distressing de scription, which did not, however, though of a very painful character, prevent him following the most active pursuits. Although he was wily persuaded that the disease would terminate in death, yet till within the last six or seven days the near approach of dissolution was not antici pated by either himself or his friends—and he had been able to receive patients so lately as this day week. Dr. Birkbeck, in addition to his Presidency over the London Mechanics' Institution, was also President of the Meteorological and Chemical Societies, and of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. He was also Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical So ciety of Bristol, Leeds, and of many of the bene volent institutions with which the Metropoli s abounds. As a politician, Dr. Birkbeck belonged to the Liberal party, but he never allowed politics to interfere with his benevolence. On the creation of the Borough of Finsbury, the representation was offered to him, and we have reason to know, had he not declined the offer, that he would have been triumphantly elected. He was in the 66th year of his age ; had been twice married, and has left behind him a wife and five children—three sons and two daughters —one by the first wife, anti four by the second. One of the remarkable traits in his character was his great readiness to promote the success of men whose inventions, however admirable, were likely to fail for want of assistance. His time and his services were ever at their com mand, and several of the most useful inventions of the day were brought into notice by his exer tions. His literarS- labours, apart from his elo quent lectures, and inaugural discourses, at the opening of a number of institutions, have not at tracted much notice ; but the translation of Baron Dupin's Course of Mathematics was given to the public under his auspices, and a noble work " The Steam-Engine Theoretically and Practically Displayed" begun, which commercial convulsions and the great expense of the work prevented from being completed. Dr. Birkbeck was highly appreciated by a very large circle of private friends, and was held in the greatest esteem by the most eminent literary and scientific men of the day. Few men have, we believe, passed through a long and active life who have had fewer enemies, and who have brought it to a close, more honoured in public, and more beloved in private. Public meetings will, we believe, be held to consider what toke ns o f respect should be shown to his memory, and, were his funeral a public one, thousands would follow him to the grave. What may be adopted is not for us to say, but there is one eminent nobleman, for many years the friend and associate of Dr. Birkbeck while carrying through many agood work, to whom the public naturally t urn f or counsel and glea dership. CHANTREY. Va ! que nos villes remplies De tes colosses radieux Qu'a jamais to to multiplies Dans un peuplo de demi-dieux, CirANTRE'r ! whose classic art and plastic hand, With sculptured imageries adorned the land ; Who graced our cities, dignified each shade, With forms in lineaments of light arrayed ; Forms shadowed forth with loftiness of thought Sublime, as if by inspiration caught ; Forms which old age would journey far to see, Led by their beauty irresistibly. But chiefly beauteous, most endeared to us, Designed as if in love felicitous, Rise up those snow-white Apparitions fair— Thy forms of CHILDHOOD ill the sunlit air ! Who can forget thy " Mother and her Child," That once drew tears from one lone woman mild?— Thy infant Russell?—to her rose-soft breast, Clasping her dove—young innocency's nest, "While Art's most sweet, perfectionating grace Crowns her young form, her forehead, and her face. Yet—unconfined to sweet or winning skill— 'Mid shapes sublime thy chisel statelier still! How, girt with grandeurs, powers, and fascinations, Colossal rise thy mighty men-creations : How beams with magnanimity serene Thy hero's face—all-glorious to be seen— WASHINGTON !—filling now a throne intense Remote amid God's golden firmaments ! WORDSWORTH !. whose lips are hallowed with a spark From seraph-altars—high Poesiarch ! SCOTT ! whose fine - brow, though long laid low in dust, Still teems with thought, majestic in thy bust ! How nobly live—how eminently shine These human wonders in.thy works divine ! Well may old England proud and plumed be Creative, CHANTREY ! glorified by thee. But Al while praise enchains the minstrel's string, Dark wave the plumes, and deep the grave-bells ring ; And pon3ps of funeral, with death's muffled tread Bear thee amid the mansions of the dead. As weeps the rose when dim with dewdrops pearled, So weep for thee the bright-eyed of the world ; Mourn fer:thy loss the poets, mourn the brave, And star-erwned Science saddens o'er thy grave : For thine tl.Chisel—thine the Skill alone— Whose god-like art divinified the stone ! In whose proud marbles reigned the high decree That dowered man with IMMORTALITY. REGINA v. TRAVIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin-I beg to inform you that I effected the release of this ill-used party from Kirkdale yes terday. This neighbourhood, and the whole of the surrounding district who have been made ac- (painted with the case through the report con tained in your valuable paper, rejoice with me on the occasion, and ar e equally glad to find that the committing, Magistrate, C. Royds, has failed in his purpose. No doubt is felt of his being acquitted when tried at Liverpool. If you think it worth your while to publish the affidavits with the depositions they shall be immediately furnished you. Yours very respectfully, JOHN HAMMERTON. Ivy Cottage, Shaw, near Oldham, Dec. 1,1841. [lt would be better to defer publishing the affidavits, or any part of them, till the trial comes on.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In giving the betting foi this last two or three weeks, you always name William de Fortibus as Mr. Cl ar k' s horse. Please to say in your next, "Is lie sold, o r i s h e s till L or d West minster's property ? " I merely request this favour, as it may cause a dispute regarding bets made as to Scott's lot. By so doing you will oblige, yours respectfully, A CONSTANT READER. Sheffield, Dec. 1, 1841. IRELAND. NEW MAGISTRACY OP DUBLIN. DUBLIN, Noy. 30.—Th e commissions of the old Cor porate Magistrates expired this day ; and thus the last remnant of the corrupt and i n f amous C orporat i on h as been legally extinguished. I understand that Sir Edward Sugden has directed a new commission for this city t o i ssue, an d t h at t h e li st will include twenty-six Magi s t rates . Th e necessary official forms not having been yet gone through, I cannot send you the li s t to-day. I have learned, however, that it consists of nineteen Protestants and seven Roman Catholics. Amongst the for mer are several of the ex -Aldermen of the old Corporation, whose commissions have thus been re newed. All the Directors of the Bank of Ireland are in cluded in the list, and two of those gentlemen, Mr. John M'Donnell and Mr. John Ennis, are Catholics, who, however, keep aloof from politics. A portion of the new Magistrates are selected from the new Town Council, and a few Liberals are interspersed amongst the Tories. T have heard the names of five Aldermen included in the commission :—Sir John Power, Bart.; Sir E. Borough, Bart. ; Kinahan, Peter Purcell, and G. Roe. MORE JOBBING.—After Christmas two more of the old Tory Judges will be induced to retire, to make way for Messrs. West and Litton. Lord Dc Grey will fulfil his compact with Mr. West. THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—In our account of the proceedings at the anniversary festival of St. An drew, held on Tuesday for the benefit of the Scottish Hospital, we made a remark on the dilatoriness of the clerk, which had prevented our reporter from furnishing a list of the contributors to the charity. From the great number of names to be selected from upwards of 30 different lists of stewards, it was impossible to accom plish an extract in time so as to include the name of every gentleman who had given donations above O. We have therefore great pleasure in exculpating the clerk from any imputation of negligence in the performance of his duty.—Times.—[We willingly add our testimony to this statement. The young man who acted as clerk could not furnish the lists in the time required, and it was not his fault, therefore, if they were omitted because the reporter did not choose to wait for them.—ED. Sun.] Two LIVES LOST.—This morning (Friday) about six o'clock, the following melancholy accident befel two young men, brothers, of the names of Matthew Brock and William Thomas Brock, fishmongers, who re sided in the Fulham-road, Little Chelsea. It appears that the two unfortunate young men had taken a boat (as had been their constant practice for the last three years) to go to Billingsgate-market, calling on their way thither at llungerford ; they had proceeded down the River as far as to nearly face Ranelagh old gardens, when their boat came with great force against a barge, which was lying in that part of the river, the concussion of which caused the boat to turn over, and they were both precipitated into the water. Their cries for help brought a person to their assistance of the name of Bur nerd, who was proceeding at the time along the water side to his employment at Chelsea, but owing to the darkness of the morning he was unsuccessful in saving either, and they were both drowned. , . JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.—The great natural advantages of Guatemala is, the all but ready-made connexion of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The great lake of Nicaragua, having an average depth of fifteen fathoms, is within sixteen miles of the Pacific; the only known outlet o f t hi s inland sea is, the river en Juan, navigable for craft d raw i ng four fent water, to the Atlantic Ocean, in despit e o f rap i ds, andl tpresent capable lineon f ofo navigationb commerceei ng ; i improved sitcamrcarried for igehdon t almostthe p assage of ships. ibe said thatupon thi s remark ablenothing floats upon it. As soon, however, as a settled country and stable Government can give security to commerce and capitalists, it is easy to see that this water line will be the seat of an extensive transit trade ; whether it will ever answer the full expectations of san guine men, and supersede Cape Horn, is, as regards coarse and bulky commodities, very questionable. — American Paper. LORD DE GREY'S NEW MAGISTRATES.- Of the 28 new Magistrates selected by Lord Grey for the new Corporations of Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, 19 are Protetsant, and 9 Catholic. LITERATURE. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. No. CLVIL Lord Anson's Cruise in the China Seas is pur sued in this Month's Number, and we meet with the spirited details of his capture of a richly laden Spanish galleon, whose immense treasure of sil ver and merchandise was afterwards drawn through London in thirty waggons. His gallant ship, the Centurion, in which he performed this and other exploits, was broken up, but her " lion-head" was rescued. The history of this relic of the ship , and Commodore that sailed round the world, in its recent topographical mu tations, is curious : This " lion-head " was first placed on a pedestal in the yard of a little inn adjoining Goodwood Park, near Chi chester, with this inscription:— Stay, traveller, awhile, and view One who has travelled more than you: Quite round the globe, through each degree, Anson and I have ploughed the sea ; Torrid and frigid zones have past And—safe ashore arrived at last— In ease with dignity appear, He in the House of Lords, I here. The late worthy Sea-King, William IV., accidentally seeing this venerable relic, requested it of the Duke of Richmond, and erected it at the head of the grand stair case at Windsor Castle, that most noble regal abode. On this exaltation, the aid of the " triple-trino" was again invoked, and thus ran the numbers:— Such was this travelled lion's boast, Contented with his humbler post, While Anson sat in lordly state, To hear his brother lords debate. But travelled now to Windsor's dome, The lion boasts a prouder home, Which our brave Sailor-King affords, Than Anson in the House of Lords. It was, however, fated that the travels of this rampant object were not yet at a close ; for an influential courtier objecting that a monster standing sixteen feet high, was unsuitable to the other palace videnda, his Majesty, re solving to place it where it would be undeniably in cha racterrsent it to the admirable sea-asylum at Greenwich, where it appropriately decorates a department which, since the transfer was made, has been called Anson's Ward. " The British Colonies considered as Military Posts" argues the actual strength of the islands in the West from their past history rather than from their present establishment and position ; among the Caribbees, Barbadoes, " the little Britain of the West," is regarded by the writer as the best colonial acquisition possessed by us in these parts, for, ever since its first colonization, constant communication and reciprocation of good offices has been kept up with England, and as a fort it holds a most prominent place. "Syria during the Campaign against Mehemet Ali," exhibits the mountain range of Lebanon, re nowned of €ld for its viols and vines, happiness and felicity, as now existing, under the remnant of its few cedars, "in a more . wretched state than any other part of Syria ;" "late intelligence, how ever," from that country, adds the writer, " now proves that, for the future, neither Turk nor Egyptian can successfully misrule there." THE JOURNAL OF THE WORKING CLASSES. _ _ Mr. Painter, of the Strand, has commenced the publication of The Journal of the Working Classes in penny numbers. It is a production of great pretence, based, as is avowed, on profit and patriotism. It seeks the former by endeavour ing, through the help of subscribing gentry and clergy, to undermine the present unstamped pub lications for the working classes, describing them as "downright poisonous or very husky and bad ;" and it displays the latter by an ill-dis guis ed attempt to reconcile the working classes to a deteriorated condition, and to exalt the merits and increase the re war d s o f t h e c l ergy . It is somewhat tersely and at the same time plainly written, but while it pretends to benefit the working classes, its palpable object is to en slave them. Against such a publication it is our duty to guard the people. The first charge, of seeking profit by the help of begging for aid and depreciating rivals, is proved by the words we have already quoted, and by the following lithographic circular : THE JOURNALOFTHE ♦VORKING CLASSES. Sin,—A perusal of the enclosed will explain the ob jects and designs of the " Journal of the Working Classes," It is desirable that it should be circulated by hundreds of thousands ; but this cannot be accom plished without the assistance of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and the Editors of the periodical press. To them, therefore, the conductors look for prompt help, and then, doubtless, the result will be such as true patriots and philanthropists must desire. The efforts of the bad press must be met by the yet more zealous efforts of the, cheap good press. The peace, happiness, pros perity, and established institutions of the country are now at stake, and all will be essentially promoted by a gene ral circulation o f this Journal among the working and all other classes.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 342, Strand. W. E. PAINTER. The second and more important charge—that it seeks to reconcile the working classes to a de teriorated condition, and exalts the merits, while it proposes to increase the means of the parsons, we shall endeavour to establish. The third Number treats - of " The people, and their duties in bad times," and in this we find the following passage : Secondly, it is the duty of " the people," in bad times, as much as possible, and as far as may be, to economise. We use this word kindly, and with the most friendly in tentions ; but we must speak out, or our Journal would be useless. Now, let us give two examples of what we mean. A working man has been used, when in constant work, and receiving tolerably good wages, to have a certain quantity of bread far himself and family. Suddenly his trade gets bad, his wages are awfully less, and he is em barrassed how to live. If the poor sufferer persists in buying the same amount of bread as he did when pro sperous, he will spend all his money in bread. This will dot do. Bread is undoubtedly the most wholesome and strengthening food ; but when bread cannot be bought in such large quantities as before, for the younger mem bers of the family, potatoes must be used as its substi tute. We know that the late Mr. Cobbett had a great dislike to potatoes, and always wrote for bread and meat. So would we too, if bread and meat could be obtained by the poor in bad times ; but it is just because bread and meat are always dear in bad times, that we say to the people, in such times—let, at any rate, your children eat more of potatoes. And it is a singular fact, but one to the truth of which we can pledge ourselves, that every year, in France, potatoes are eaten in greater quantities, and increasingly liked and relished. About fort years ago, potatoes, in France, were looked upon as food for pigs ; but now the French eat potatoes in nearly twenty different forms, cooking them in all imaginable ways, and being fond of them in every one. In the Fourth Number, entitled, " What is to be done for the Moment," there occurs : " These persons can do good on a large scale ; their fortunes are sufficient to enable them to do so, and they are peculiarly called on to inquire into the condition of the poor. They can found schools ; erect district churches ; establish dispensaries and lying-in charities ; support orphan asylums ; provide institutions for found lings, for the blind, for the deaf and dumb, and for the deformed and unhealthy. Thank God, they have done all this in our own glorious land, but they have far greater duties than even these to perform, and we shall point out some of them. First, to become better ac quainted with the working classes ;_ secondly, to visit them more frequently ; thirdly, t o learn their statistics —not merely of their numbers, but of their labour, wages, food, children, and wants ; fourthly, to take them out of the hands of bad instructors, and to give them wise and useful books and other publications." In the Fifth Number, in which the effect of po pulation on national prosperity is sadly misre presented, a 4• little man, dressed in black, with a weak voice, but always listened to with atten tion," meaning a parson, is made the vehicle of much political wisdom, and, at the same time, recommends emigration for the working people. The recommendations first quoted would be very well if they were coupled with another, namely, to ascertain the cause of the bad times; but while great care is taken to inculcate sub mission, and to fall back on potatoes when bread is scarce, there is not one word said about the duty of the people to inquire why the " times are bad." They want bread. The Journal, in stead of informing them how they may get bread, counsels them to eat potatoes. Before they fbl low such advice, they should ask why they want bread? and if unsatisfied by such vague words as " bad times," and " suddenly trade gets bad," as if these phenomena we're wholly inexplicable, perfect miracles not to be inquired into nor ex plained, they should discover that it is because bread is kept from them by certain pretended benefactors, then it is their first duty to insist on being allowed to have bread, or to put an end, if they can, to the authority of those who persist in withholding bread f'rom them. When trade is. free if no bread can be got, it will be their duty then to fall back on potatoes, and not before, particularly while those who withhold bread from them live on the fat of the land. The Journal for the Working Glasses con tents itself with recommending submission to deterioration, without an inquiry into the means of improvement. In truth, its object is the hy pocritical one of beguiling the working cl asses, by displaying a simulated desire to benefit them into patience in their present condition of severe slavery. Accordingly the Journal is partial and unjust. To take an instance : Thus the selfish manufacturing teacher 'will declar e , without bluslqing. that Great Britain owes everything to the looms and spinning jennies ; and the ignorant agri culturist teacher will insist that manufactures are nothing, and that the soil of the country is exclusively the source of its wealth and happiness. So sometimes the manufacturing poor are induced to cry, " Down with the farmers ;" and the agricultural poor to exclaim, " Down with the manufacturers." Down with forestallers we have heard, but Down with the farmers, is a cry unknown to us. • It has certainly never been countenanced, and we believe , never uttered in the manufacturing districts. Down with the manufacturers, so ciety can do without them, has been asserted in grave Journals, and those same Journals have falsely accused the manufacturers of wishing to injure the flamers. They have converted their fitlse accusation into au actual fact on the part of the manufacturers, who have all along de clared that they ask fir justice, and they believe that justice will be as beneficial to the flamers as the manufacturers. This Journal of the Working Classes is, therefore, a false book, it is not based on truth, it is got up for a pm-- pose,—it is a hypocritical Journal, which seeks, in the guise of a friend, to perpetuate the pre sent political degradation of the millons, and render it permanent and greater. To the work inf.!: men we say, be warned against the insidious poison. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRI CULTURE. No. LV. A large portion of this part is filled with an account of the great meeting of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, held at Berwick-upon-Tweed this autumn. It was the most memorable held in that part of the country, and the Editor, therefore, has considered it only an act of justice to make it a prominent feature in the Journal. Besides this there are two valu able papers—one furnishing a history of insects most injurious to vegetables and animals, and the means best calculated to counteract their ra vages (a subject every way interesting to the farmer), and the other is a statistical treatise on the health of the labouring population of the dis trict of Kelso, in the county of Roxburgh. It appears to have been compiled with great care, and affords some most favourable results. Dr. Wilson, the author, thus states his plan and objects : It is my intention, in the following observations, to enter into an examination, as detailed as my materials will permit, of what has been the state of health of the labouring population of the town of Kelso and its adjoin ing district ; and for this purpose I have selected two distinct and somewhat distant periods as the limits of my inquiry. For the first period, I have chosen the ten years from the close of the month of November, 1777, till near the termination of 1787; so that the end of this term is removed upwards of half a century from the time at which I write. For the second period, I have selected the ten years following the month of October, 1829 thus allowing, if I may so speak, a veil to rest over a space of upwards of forty years, and lifting it up to re sume the inquiry at a time when a new generation has come upon the scene, occupying the same locality, but under circumstances which have, in many respects, un dergone a material change. Briefly to note the nature of this change, to contrast the prevailing diseases of each period, to mark the varying causes and rates of mor tality, and to estimate the comparative duration of life, will form the principal objects of my investigations. The article, though of great length, will be read with interest by all those who are anxious to better the condition of the agricultural popu lation. TROOPS FOR CHINA. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I.—This afternoon the remaining portion of the troops ordered to embark at this port for China, consisting of 420 men of the 26th, and 110 of the 55th Regiments of Foot, arrived here. They left Win chester at a few minutes before eleven o'clock in a special train of twenty-four carriages, drawn by the Atlas en gine. At the railway terminus they were met by the Commander-in-Chief of the district, Major-General Sir H. Pakenham, attended by some of his staff, and by the Brigade-Major, Colonel Daly, Colonel Love, of the 73d, and several other officers. Immediately upon forming they marched, headed by the band of the 73d, to the Royal Clarence yard, whence they were conveyed by a steamer on board her Majesty's ship Apollo. A great number of per sons were assembled to witness their arrival and embarca- tion. The whole of the the troops intended to be con veyed from this port by the Sapphire and Apollo are now I on board, 800 strong, consisting of detachments of the 18t, 26th, 49th, and 55th. Most of them are quite young men, and will prove a valuable acquisition to the service companies of their respective regiments now in China. The officers who command them are Lieutenant Colonel Bartley, 49th Regiment ; Captain Rose, 55th ; Lieutenant Herriot, 55th ; Ensigns Piper, Dickens, De Quincy, and Skinner, of the 26th ; and Staff-Surgeons Ford and Fennell. These officers go out in the Apollo, and the following in the Sapphire :—Major Pasley, 49th ; Lieutenant Duff, 26th ; Lieutenant Magrath, 55th ; Ensigns Glasbrick, 49th ; Elliot, 18th ; and lay man, 18th ; and Staff Assistant-Surgeon Marshall. They will sail to-morrow, and will go round to Ply mouth, where they will join her Majesty's ship Bel leisle, which carries out Lord Saltoun and the 98th Re giment, and some of the Artillery. The three ships will then proceed in company on their voyage to China, car rying out together an effective force of about 2,000 men. Many women and children have alio embarked. in the course of a few days a case of breach of promise of marriage, of a singular and extraordinary character, will be brought before the Court of Queen's Bench. Briefs, almost unprecedently voluminous, have been placed in the hands of the Solicitor-General (Sir W. Follett) and Mr. Platt, with a fee of 150 guineas each, for the plaintiff ; and to Mr. Thesiger for the de fendants with a similar fee. Junior Counsel are engaged on both sides, with proportionate fees. The fair plain tiff, who is beautiful and highly accomplished, but who has been some seven or eight years out of her teens, resides in the vicinity of Hampton Court ; the defend ant is an octogenarian, a gentleman of wealth and professional eminence, and resides in one of the fa shionable squares in the metropolis. The damages are laid at 5,0001. The defendant pleads that he never promised, but that if he did he has given several sums of money in satisfaction. The venerable defendant, who in one of his letters describes himself as being con stitutionally in all respects equal to a man of thirty, has paid attentions to the lady for a period of nearly four years, during which period he has written nearly 700 letters, of a most extraordinary description, but clothed in language of superior eloquence. Their contents, how ever, strongly indicate that the writer's love was subject to uncommon fluctuations, as while at one period they would breathe vows of eternal constancy, at other times they were imbued with theological subjects, and their love would be termed celestial, and the lady would be compared to an angel ; in the former case the love would be termed terrestrial, and prospects of a happy union be held out, as also observations made relative to the regu lation of the household; from this the style would change to one of a frigid character, and then the defendant woule describe himself as her platonic lover. In these various fluctuations had the greater part of the time been occupied, until at length the defendant thought proper ,to withdraw himself wholly from the plaintiff's society, to discontinue visiting Hampton, or of continuing to write those singular but elegant epistles, and ulti mately wholly ceased to correspond with the plaintiff. AN IRISH CHRISTENING.--011 Monday the christening of an infant, only one month old, was cele brated in a colony inhabited by the poorer classes of Irish, called Prujean's-island, Wapping, and ended in a very serious manner. Some of the party got fighting, and many more got drunk, in which state they threw themselves upon a bed on which the child was laid, and suffocated it. Medical assistance was called in, but too late to save the babe, which is to be waked by the same party who inadvertently caused its death. THE ROYAL CHRISTENING.—The baptism of the infant Prince, it is rumoured in circles likely to be well informed, will not take place until February, immediately after Parliament assembles. In confirma tion of this rumour we have reason to believe the in structions received at the Earl Marshal's office, where all such State ceremonials are arranged, are not of that urgent nature as if the ceremonial were to take place this month. The ceremony will be performed in town. FIRE AT HATHERSAGE OLD HALL.--- This venerable mansion had a narrow escape from de struction on Friday night last. Mr. Shuttleworth, the proprietor, was from home, and the servants had retired to rest, when they were aroused, shortly after midnight, with cries of fire. The discovery was madebya neigh hour passing at the time, who saw the blaze in the ser vants' hall. Alarm being given, prompt assistance wa s afforded, and the fire was got under withcomparativ e ease, though not without the destruction of the w modern h er i n s apart ment. Its safety is mainly attributable to the circum stance of the hall being built of " heart of oa k, ,, h less inflammable than the materials used in more erections, and which must have for some time resisted the flames. As it is, there was no injury beyond the alarm, and the loss sustained will be inconsiderable.— Derby Majesty' s troop- s hi p Sapp hire sailed f rom liepoeHer rtr Quebec, the 9th ult„ w ith invalids from the different corps in Canada, consisting of 9 The following officers ar w 91 rank and file, 9 convicts , 14 sergeants, omen, and 2 1 0 dr crld in re e i r i. , Oldfield, Royal Engineers passengers:—Lieut.-Colonel Coldstream Guards; ; Lieut.-Colonel J. Hope, Foot (medical eodficiainveahliadrsg) e A ? ssiint-Surgeon Drummond, 14th Lieutenant Breton, 70th Foot camp, to join depot. • L ieutenant Baker, 73d, aide-de- Intelligence reached us late last evening from an authentic source, of the d e ath o f Lady Pilkington, of Dedham Grov e, relict of Si r Th omas Pilkington, ,sister of Bart. and John Jolliffe Tufnell, Esq., of Lang leys, Great Walth am.—Chelmsford Chronicle of to-day. TROOPS IN BRITISH AMERICA.—The Bri tish troops stationed in this country on the Ist of Sep tember last were as follows :—lst Regiment Dragoon Guards, 7th Hussars, 2 d battalion Grenadier G uards, 2d oattalion Coldstream Guards, 2d battalion Ist Foot, 14th, 23d, 32d, 43d, 54th, 56th, 67th, 70th, 71st, 74th, 83d, 85th, 88th, and 93d Regiments of Infantry, and the Royal Canada Rifle Regiment. A • Young Men's Anti -Monopoly Association is intended to be formed in this town. The energies of the many intelligent young men in this neighbourhood ought to combine to hasten the destruction of those monopolies which now press so fearfully upon the com mercial prosperity of our country.—Nottingham Review. SHEERNESS.—Two of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty arrived at Sheerness from London on Thursday, and on :the following day inspected very mi nutely the various departments in the Royal dockyard. It is generally believed that their visit and inquiries have reference to the late conflagrations in the public depart ments, with a view to the adoption of measures to prevent a recurrence of similar calamities.—Kent Herald. EVENING SUN COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda arrived in town in a carriage and four, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, from her residence at Blackheath, and visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness afterwards paid visits to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, and to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon. llis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from her residence at Kew, and visited his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal at Marlborough House, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir Edward East sat as Privy Councillors. Mr, Pemberton, Q.C., and Mr. Purton Cooper, Q.C., were heard for the appellants, and Mr. Turner, Q.C., and Mr. Lloyd, for the respondents, in an appeal of " liamdassv. Davidass," from the Supreme Court of Judicatu re a t Bombay. The case lasted the whole day. ADELAIDE GALLERY. MESMERISM. Last evening Mr. liaise, the Lecturer on Animal Magnetism, was permitted, by the Proprietor of the Adelaide Gallery, to subject one of his patients to a se ries of electrical experiments, from the powerful three feet plate machine, made by E. M. Clarke, of the Strand, who superintended the discharge, of a Leyden battery of six jars, constituting one of the most power ful batteries in the kingdom. Mr. liaise stated that his object in bringing his patient there was to convince the public that the exhibition of her insensibility to the electric power during the magnetic sleep was not assumed or collusive. lie said, that there could be no suspicion of collusion when the experiment was to be conducted by the most skilful elec. tro-magnetician in the kingdom,who was, at the same times disbeliever in the existence of mesmeric influence, and a declared opponent of those who profess that mystery as a science. Whatever credit for wisdom a reporter might gain by affected scepticism, itis impossible for any honest observer to say other than this : The young lady sus tained, without the least manifestation of sensibility, re peated shocks, any one of which would, in the lan- • guage of those present, knock down a bullock. Every one of those gentlemen who assist Mr. Clarke in his arrangement of the electrical apparatus, openly declared that they would not for any pecuniary consideration con sent to be subjected to a similar experiment. The loud plaudits of nearly 500 persons who attended the gallery, without any previous intimation of the wonder they were about to witness, must console Mr. liaise for the rash and unfounded calumnies with which he has been elsewhere assailed. Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Sedgwick delightfully relieved the intervals between the divine performance of the Infant Harpist by concerti upon the piano and concertina. Mr. Booth delivered a lecture upon•the various kinds of gas, and gave the numerous and respectable company almost delirious pleasure by his exceedingly funny illus trations of the effects of .the laughing gas. EMIGRATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In The Sun of last night, you have reported the procedings of a public meeting, held at the London Ta vern on the 30th November, to take into conaideration a national scheme of emigration. Whilst I sympathise, as much as any gentleman at the meeting, with the suf fering thousands in Paisley and other places in the United Kingdom, I am unwilling to allow erroneous statements, made at that meeting, to go abroad without contradiction, as such errors will only add to the misery and wetchedness which millions of my fellow-countrymen have now to contend with. It is not only laudable, but it is incumbent on every man in the country to stand forward and afford relief to his fellow-men, if he be able, by any act or any advice, to give assistance ; but, to do so efficiently, he must make himself acquainted with the causes of those .suf ferings. If a man be sick, and a physician be called in to pre- Scribe for and to relieve him, it is necessary that the phy sician should first inquire into the nature and duration of the disease, and satisfy himself as to what he considers to be the causes before he can prescribe the proper remedy to remove the disorder. On the same principle the dele gates from Paisley, and the other gentlemen who at- - tended the meeting, ought to have inquired into the nature of the distress, its duration and true causes,. before they call on the British public, by resolutions at a meeting in the London Tavern, to promote wholesale emigration as the remedy. It is evident from the language of the speakers that they have not adopted that course, and that they spoke of measures to be adopted which .would not only aggra vate the distress of the pre.kOnt;_, sufferers, but be the means of bringing others iir/flie community, now ex empt and struggling to avoid it, Into tliesame unhappy condition. 4 • I admit, with them, that there are may thousands in great distress, and the picture they have drawn of eight or ten of our industrious population being obliged' -to re-; cupy one small room, twelve feet square, perhaps with, out fire, and. with little covering and less food, even of the coarsest kind, to satisfy the cravings of nature ; and I will further add, which I know to be the case, that low typhus fevers, brought on by .want of food, -want of cleanliness, want 'of comfortable lodging, and good air, are daily sweeping off numbers 'of our fellow-country- . men, and are fast thinning the ranks of the miserable, by hurrying them to the grave, the only home where they are free from their oppressors. Mr. Crawford, -the advocate for Paisley, knows very well that the distress has been coming on for the last two years, and that failure of the manufacturers there, and the want of work, and want of wages, are the proxi mate causes, of that distress. lie ought also to know that there are causes to which all the thinking and honest part of the community attribute that distress; namely, the maintenance of impolitic and unjust restrictions on the industry and trade of the country, to the support of a wicked monopoly of food, which, by preventing our taking the corn, cattle, and food that America and other countries have in abundance, and are anxious to give to , our starving people in exchange for the produce of their labour; that the unjust class legislation of the aristo cracy is the real cause of the present distress. Mr. Craw ford and others who attended that meeting, must know that the aristocracy, by supporting the enormous taxation of five millions sterling yearly, and by unequal and un just laws laying the greater part of that amount, by in direct taxation, on the sugar, beer, and necessaries of the working and middle classes, are the cause of the present almost unexampled distress; and I greatly fear that the men who are thus encouraging a wholesale national emi gration, are put forward by the aristocracy and Tories to divert the attention of the nation from the corn and provision -laws, which are the immediate cause of this distress ; a want of representation, or of extended suf frage to the people, being the true cause of all the mis rule, seenowaround u s. I shall, in another letter, examine the arguments used at the public meeting on Wednesday at the London a t ioof S p h l e a r n i ff of Rogers)a great national scheme of emigration, and he Tavern, and prove how fallacious they are. But I con sider it necessary to undeceive the public as to one of the gross and exaggerated statements made at that meet i w armly n i s ( a l p approbation n not Mr, . the concluded by stating that " Her 3lajesty's provinces of Upper and Lower Canada would take two millions of e • =ants with grea t and lasting advantag e to themselves." Britannia steamer, files of New York Papers By the received, by which it appears that have been the emigrants from Scotland are in a state of starvation there, and that there are no means of relief but an unfeeling world." L et the "the cold c h ar iti es o f they have a claim on th people recollect, th a t here and that, althou g h suche poor -rates ag a i ns t s t arva ti on , a claim i s a t b est a very poor dependence, y e t i t i s bet no relief, in th e Canad better than no claim, and p e rhaps I shall res ume the 1S: the following extract su b ject, but urge the publi c ation of " of October last. from the C ana d a Ti mes o f t h e 15th IL DESTITUTE I MMIGRANTS —W e h ave repeatedly taken the occasion to censure . conduct of those who have been - inducing the British North America of the Mother country to emigrate to public works in , at a time when there are no the disposal course of prosecution, nor any means at . posal of the Government, or private benevolent msti • tutions, to aid the destitute, or to give them employ ment. And we have expressed the opinion, that many of the poor immigrants would be left destitute ~ , of the common comforts of life at the approach of that season when they would become in- . ' dispensable. In proof of the correctness of this opinion, we refer to the fact, that at the present , time there are at St. Francis, Lower Canada, two hundred immigrants from the Highlands of Scotland, in a most „ . wretched and destitute situation, and actually on the point of starving! Relief has been asked from the Montreal St. , Andrew's Society, but in vain; and the poor creatures are thrown upon the cold charities of an unfeeling world, for the bare means of subsistence failing in which to fa niish, to sicken, and die, in a land of strangers, far from the silver streams, the green valleys, and wild mountains , of their fatherland. Who can contemplate a situation more deplorable) EMIGRATION FROM CANADA.—WhiIe Dr. Rolph and other equally patriotic individuals are using all their little strength in endeavouring to entice the poor of t h e mother country into this province, to beg, steal, or starve, many of the oldest inhabitants, those who ha ve been the pioneers in the settlement of the country, w h o of have composed the hardy yeomanry Upper Canada - for twenty, thirty, and even forty years, have reared 1 families, and know no other spot as Home, are selling arge their all, and going to seek an asylum in the deep forests, out or upon the wild prairies of the Western States."este' N o doubt a change of Ministers at home, with an anticipa- Lion of a change of policy here, is the actual cause of so many very respectable and intelligent individuals mentioned below, leaving their fine, comfortabl e as are . to be occupied by strangers, and flying from homes (to use the language of Sir Francis Head) as us ) land of pestilence. It is much to b e r as from a really, can they be worse off than here, under ; but, nation of a Tory Government ?--King stonnder the domi nation Herald. E -I D Jr. Clutterbuck who pre sidedATAUnother name was mentioned in our JourfiaL at theMß.—lectitanwicass' Institution O R w e d nes d a y g:THAMPTONI DEC. I._ The Great -Liver occupied, having 110 passengers on board. A great in crease of sailed hence this morning crease of with every berth passengers seems to have occurred on this voyage in consequence of the communication by steam being now opened throughout. The steamer India will await the arrival of the Great Liverpool, and convey pas sengers on from Suez to the various appointed Indian stations. 7 41•11