The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

EVEN - 11 , 4 G SUN SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (ItECEIVED THIS DAY.) ROMFORD RACES—FRIDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 35 added. The seem saves his stake. Mile and a quarter. Mr. Casidy's Farna, 3 yrs ° 1 1 • , Mr. Scate s Windsor, 3 yrs 1 3 Mr. l Kingsley's Jessica, 3 yrs Handicap of 3 soy. each, and 20 added. Heat once - round and a dis. Mr. Casicly's Fama, 3 yrs Mr. Kingsley's Tenebrosa, 5 yrs Mr. Chaplain's Ferryman, 3 yrs • - 2 C Mr. Hill's Temper, 6 yrs The Hurdle Race Cup and Sweepstakes of 2 sot's. each, with 20 sews. added. Heats unce round and a distance. Mr. Jenkins' Morgiana, 6 yrs Mr. Westl e y' s White Stockings, aged 2 2 1 1 NORFOLK AND NORWICH RACES. THURSDAY. The Norfolk and Norwich Plate of . 1 5C/. Heats, t►vice round and a distance. Mr. Land's Mount Eagle,'hf br, aged Mr. Hor ner ' s Blanche, 3 yrs Mr. Cubites Itatcatcher's Daughter, 3 yrs Mr. Colman 's Day Star, aged Day St ar won t h e first heat but broke down, and the heat was given to Mount Eagle. 'The Light 'Weight Stakes of 5 sons. each, with 50 added Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Smith's Daniel, aged.. Mr. Sare's Evasion, 2 yrs. Mr. Jolly's Petrel, aged B. 2 1 1 1 3 2 3 2 3 , ETTING AT LIVEI:.POOL YESTERDAY EVENING. ST. LEGER._2 to 1 on Coronation (taken), sto 1 agst Van Amburgh, 10 to 1 agst the Squire (taken), and 25 to 1 agst Satirist (taken.) THE. LIVERPOOL PALATINE STAKES—S to 1 agst Prince Caradoc, 8 to 1 agst the Lord Mayor, 20 to 1 agst Ermengardis. DONCASEER RACES.—FRIDAY EVENING. The entries this afternoon closed as follows : IfoNDAY.—The Fitzwilliam Stakes.—Bees-wing and Sinnllett. Her Majesty's Plate.—Sampson, 5 yrs ; Kingston Robin, 4 yrs ; The Recorder, 5 yrs ; The Shadow, yrs ; and Garland, 6 yrs. TUESDAY.—The Innkeeper's Plate.--Kingston Robin, 4 vrs ; Miss Le Gros, 3 yrs ; Hull Bank, 3 yrs ; The 16i:order, 5 yrs ; All Fours, 5 yrs ; The Mountain Sylph, 4 yrs ; Currycomb, 4 yrs ; Diavolina, 3 yrs ; The Shadow, 5 yrs ; Mr. Whippy, 3 yrs ; La Sage Femme, yrs ; Pheon. 3 yrs ; and Garland. 6 yrs. WEDNESDAY.—The Selling Stakes.—Oxton, 3 yrs ; Fours, 5 yrs ; Currycomb, 4 yrs ' • Oak Branch, 4 yrs ; Springheeled Jack, 4 yrs ; M r . Whippy, 3 yrs ; La Sage Femme, 5 yrs ; Clem-o'-thc-Cleugh, 5 yrs ; The Recorder, 5 yrs. T.ie Doncaster Stakes.—Samson, 5 yrs ; Satirist, 3 yrs; Henri Quatre. 3 yrs ; All Fours, 5 yrs ; Bee's-wing, aged ; and The Shadow, 5 yrs. The Corporation Plate.—The Shadow, 5 yrs ; Curry tomb, 4 yrs ; and Garland, 6 yrs. TDURSDAY.—The Corporation Cup.—Kingston Robin, 4 yrS ; Van Amburgh, 3 yrs ; Satirist, 3 yrs ; Knight of Idle Whistle, 3 yrs ; Bee's-wing, aged ; Galaor, 3 yrs ; The Shadow, 5 yrs ; Gallipot, 4 yrs ; Dr. Caius, 4 yrs ; Bro ldwath, 4 yrs ; The Squire, 3 yrs ; and Thirsk, 3 yrs. FhIDAY.—The Town Plate.—The Recorder, 5 yrs ; All Fours, 4 yrs ; Jack Sheppard, 3 yrs ; Currycomb, 4 yrst ; Quilt. Arnold, 3 yrs ; Oak Branch, 4 yrs ; The Shadow, 5 yrs ; Phaon, 3 yrs ; La Sage Femme, 5 yrs; Garland, 6 yrs ; and Heslington, 3 yrs. The following horses have arrived :—Duke of Cleve land's Middleham, 3 yrs ; Mr. S. King's Cattonian, 3 yrs ; Colernel Cradock's Pagan, 3 yrs ; Colonel Craw ford's Erraiugardis, 3 yrs ; Mr. I'. O. Powlett's br fby Muley Moloch, out of Mystery, 3 yrs, and b fby Tom boy, out of Sesame, 3 yrs ; Mr. S. King's Cattonite, 2 .yrs ; Colonel Crado c k' s G a lli pot, 4 yrs, and b f Sally, 2 yrs ; Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera, 2 yrs ; Mr. Brooke's Ido ilz.try, 2 yrs ; Mr. Garforth's gr f by The Saddler, out of Don John's dam, 2 yrs ; Duke of Cleveland's Oxton, 2 yrs, Samson, 5 yrs, Camelford, 2 yrs, and Foxberry, 2 yrs ;. Sir R. Bulkeley's Cerito and Springfield Jack ; 'Colonel Crawford's . f by Langar, out of Mermaid ; and Powlett's fby Bay Middleton, out of Miss Fanny. Scott's lot is in the neighbourhood. i . MORPETH RACES.—THURSDAY. A Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mt. Fairlie's Zohrab " 3 2 1 1 Sir C. Monck's bc by Master Syntax Capt . Potts' Jolly Boy • 5 5 3 dr Mr. Dawson's Little Bundle 2 5 4 dr Mr. Lt y's Ararat 1 3 dr A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. Heats, a mile and a half. Capt. Potts' Ada Mr. Crawford's Cflutata Sir C. Monk's g b) Blucher Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab.... 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 dr 3 dr BRITISH . YACHT CLUB. The last below-bridge match of the season amongst the clubs instituted for ale encouragement of yachtery, Itcok place yesterday. The prize, a Silver Cup and Cover, was given by the British Yacht Club to be sailed for by boats belonging to members only; the distance being as usual in such races, from Greenwich Hospital to Gravesend and back, and shortly after ten in the morning the following took their places facing the Royal Hospital :—Brilliant, Mr. Fowler, 8 tons, blue and malice stripes ; Don, Mr. Gardner, 7 tons, blue; Daunt less, Mr. Edwards, 7 tons, blue. In this Club, although old-established, and we believe• very respectable, there sire not a sufficient number of boats to-make distinctions in classes, and although there is uo deficiency of funds, annual matches are not annual maters wish this, as with other clubs, nor do they perhaps create so mach interest 'as the races in other societies of a similar description. 'Of the three boats entered the Brilliant was the favou -rite. and the Don went in repute. The start took place at 20 minutes past eleven. They had good wide bert:".`s, and all swung round together, and the wind was blow ing slightly from the southward, a nice light air, with a trifle of the west in it. The Dauntless, which had the middle place of the yachts, set her jib first, and drew in advance, although the Brilliant had fairly a right to be considered the weathermost boat in the position at the buoys. They run round Blackwall Point with flow ing sails briskly enough ; and as they entered the reach to Woolwich, the Brilliant came up with a long leg to the Dauntless, and challenged her. After a few minutes of close sailing they jibed, and the Brilliant went by her to windward. The Don, which we understaud is a long powerful boat in a stiff breeze, appeared to do but little at first, but off the town of Wool wich she came down hand over hand to the sand boat. Off .the Warren at Woolwich the boats were partially becalmed, a nd the Dauntless catching the breeze off the Pond, went to windward of the Brilliant, and again took the first place. Some very scientific sailing was displayed between this and Barking by the captains of these boats. The Bril liant tried to weather the Dauntless, but the latter luffed. A second time it was attempted with a similar result ; and whilt this manoeuvring was going on near the southward shore, the Don chose where the tide set faster, and ran by them both. On nearing Erith the Brilliant overreached her rival, and took the second place. At Gravesend the boats rounded in the following order ;—The Don at 27 minutes 50 seconds past two; the Brilliant 31 minutes past, and the Dauntless at 32 min. 48 sec. They had just just carried their tide down with them ; and although it was fair sailing both ways, there was a little heading work to be done up against the wind, which had shifted a trifle more to the west ward, and which, with the flood, had freshened. The Don rounded the flag very indifferently, and by putting Lher helm down so suddenly, checked her way very con k iderably. The Brilliant was better .managed, and, yr:thin five minutes after, weathered her opponent, and in _the next two or three boards was half a mile in ad vam. e, the Dauntless gaining upon the Don, and gave some strong symptoms of leaving her in the lurch ; but the other stole away, and as the wind partially died away in St. Clement's, gained slightly upon the Brilliant, but not sufficiently to give her b ac k ers an y uneas i ness, and in a sh ort time after the Dauntless took the second place. The Brilliant arrived first at Greenwich 47 min. 30 sec. past fire, the Dauntless 56 min. 30 sec. past, and the Don 3`llliittite later. The Laurel steamer accompa nied the match, with a highly respectable though small Party on board of her, and the cup was presented with the usual honours. yy ; .! ~< ~~=` UNI VERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 11.—A congregation was called for yesterday, in order to appoint a day for the election If a representative of the University, to supply the va c alley caused by the acceptance of the office of Chancellor 9: the Exchequer by the Right Hon. Henry Gottlburn. Tn c onsequence of some slight informality, occasioned by the nbser.ce of an officer of the University, the congrega tiolr was deferred - until this day at ten o'clock, when, we rstand, Wednesday next will be appointed for the election. Mr. Goulhurn will be re-elected without up positi Dn. Ale Kander •James Edward Cockburn, Esq., LL.B., Fellow of Trinity Hall, in this University, was appointed Queen's Counsel by the late Lord Chancellor, a few days previous tcehis.Lordship's resignation. The Rev. George Proctor, M.A., of Christ's College, la this University, has been appointed Curate of Attie borough, Norfolk. •• Th e Iter..F. Sugden, of Trinity College, in this Uni-. versity, has been appointed Curate. of Benhall, Suffolk. . The University of Pennsylvania has lately conferred " l e degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. Thomas artwell Home, 8.D., of St. John's College. in this niversity, author of the celebrated "Introduction to the "\ "Y or the Bible." • The Rev. John Stock, M.A., of St. John's College, • in:. .this University, has been presented to the vicarage ssex, by the patron, John Stock, Esq., Poi)lar, Middlesex ; vacant by the death of the Rev. Wes:erman. The R t . v. Alexander Bean Russell, M.A. formerly of ; 111 Talanuel College, in this University, incumbent of rinity Chu - ech. Trowbridge, has resigned the incum m,eY of that 'church. ' 4.l leinas Smolders, Esq.. M.A. Fellow of King's Col l& : 0 , in this University, an d William Cooper, Esq., of _ irwich, are appointed Revising Barristers for the -1; 'tern Division of the county of Suffolk. The Rev. Frederick Van Der Meulen, ILA., of rri, lity College, in this University, has been instituted 110 tl e united rectory of Bow and Nymet Tracey, Devon ' vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Prc w. ge Lethbridge, on the p resentat i on o f F re d er i c k az I ID„ Meulen, of Bishops Sfortford, Herts, Esq., the Pati . 0/4 ., Value, 3351. . NE:WAn . ELECTION.—M r . Gladstone arrived in. le. Nark on r i , iesday, to be re - e l ect e d, h av i ng ta k en f S 'e under the ,:ories. IL, is now on his cinivass.— . /Va :Ciwghant Review. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY. THE INQUEST. On Thursday morning, at ten o'clock, a highly re spectable Jury met at the Railway Hotel, Euxton, to in quire touching the death of the Rev. Robert Ivy. Richard Palmer, Esq., of Preston, presided as Coroner. The Rev. Giles Hoyle, Independent Minister, of Stayley-bridge, deposed that he knew the deceased. He was an Independent Minister, and resided in Ducken leld. He was about fifty-five years of age. Robert Sergeant, labourer, of Euxton, deposed that ;le was employed on the railway. On Tuesday, at a dale before one o'clock, he was going going to his work. lie was about 200 yards from the station at Euxton, on lie Preston side, when an engine, draWing a number ,f empty waggons, passed by him towards the station, Ind directly after he heard a tremendous smash. He bad not heard any whistle before he heard the smash. Witness turned back to the station house, and when he got there he saw Thomas Nixon, the keeper ,f the station, lying down against the wall on his side. His foot was almost off. There was an old man, ;lamed John Arnold, lying a few paces from the station loor. Witness also saw two more people four or five yards from him, and a woman much hurt near them. He also saw a gentleman lying dead some distance from the line. Witness also noticed the pieces of a coach—it was smashed all to bits. He had not seen the coach be fore. Some of the fragments were in the middle of the road, and part on the pavement alongside. One horse was in the' road dead about ten yards from the station. Another was lying a considerable distance further down the line towards Wigan. The engine stopped opposite to where the last horse laid. The engineer's name is George Holland. When the engine passed witness it was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, the usual speed. One of the horses was betwixt the two lines of rails, and the other was fast upon a break on the Eux ton side of the railway. Witness passed the gates about four minutes before the accident ; he could not say whe ther they were closed. He did not see any flag flying, or any person at the sation. The engine was travelling tender first. The engineer had a good deal of steam up, and a considerable quantity issued from the chim ney. It was raining very hard, and the morning was rather misty. When witness was at the gates he did not see or hear any engine coming. They can generally when on the line hear the engines when two or three miles distant. Mr. James Johnson deposed that he was agent to Mr. Pearson, of the colliery at Snee. On Ttusday; at a little before one o'clock, witness was on the tender of the Asa engine. There were seven empty waggons attached to the engine. They, with the engine, were the pro perty of Messrs. Thomas Pearson and Co. Witness acted as breaksman to the engine. 'They were travelling on the North Union line towards Wigan. When within thirty or forty yards from the Euxton station-gates witness observed a grey horse with his fore-feet about the middle of the two lines of rails. It appeared to witness that the horse was floundering, as if it could not get on. Witness could not see the coach on account of the excavation. The engineer called out, "My God, Johnson, here is the coach !" Witness put the break on, and the engineer reversed the motion of the engine instantly. His name is George Holland. Witness was greatly confused. He thought they would be all lost tog - ether. He could not recollect what occurred after wards until the engine was stopped. He is positive the engine was not going faster than 14 miles an hour, and he did not think more than twelve. He got the break fast down. 'They stopped the engine in less than 140 yards after witness saw the horse. They could not have stopped it in that short distance had they been travelling at a greater speed. He had measured the dis tance. The en g ine weighed about thirteen tons ; the tender (half full of water), five tons, and the waggons averaged 43 cwts. each. When the engine stopped, witness and the engineer got off; and ran to the station to give assistance. The first person he saw was the de ceased. He was about forty yards from the station be tween the two rails on which the waggon had travelled. He was lying on his face. Witness got hold of him. He was not quite dead, but senseless. His foot ap peared dreadfully mangled. Witness thought he had no chance to survive, and left him to attend to the other . coach passengers . It appeared to witness that the deceased had fallen from the coach between , the buffers and chains, and then to have fallen (after being dragged some distance) upon the rails. When witness returned to the station he found the frag ments of a coach in front of the building. There was also the seat of a coach on one of the waggons, and a coach wheel on the buffer on the hinder part of the en gine. The tender was before the engine. Witness saw the grey horse very distinctly. There was no breaks man on the waggons. The horses were afterwards found on the centre of the railway, between the two lines. The deceased was between the two rails leading to Wigan. Witness saw no flag hoisted, or any man or anything about the station. The whistle was not sounded when they saw the horse. The steam was very low. The re gulations of the Company do not require engineers to sound the whistle on passing Euxton station. Witness knew that an engine could be seen from the turnpike road full fifty yards. Mr. Charles Edward Paton deposed that he resided in Manchester, and was engaged in the Manchester trade as a manufacturer. On Tuesday he came by coach fromßaw linson station. Ile sat on the box seat. Just as we got on the railway line the coachman said, " Who the devil has left the gate open ?" Witness turned round and saw a train advancing. Witness said, "We are all clashed to pieces," and in an instant he felt the shock. He remembered nothing more. He had spectacles on, and, being near-sighted, he did not notice any gates. It was raining, but witness did not carry an umbrella. He had not seen the engine or heard the steam before he got to the station, and he heard the coachman snake the remark. The engine was then ten or fifteen yards from them. Witness did not•see the concussion, as it was on the coachman's side. The engine was coming down the line towards the coach. The coach was drawn by three horses, the first of which was an iron-grey. When the. coachman spoke the first horse was on the line. 'Witness cannot tell whether the coachman endeavoured to stop the horses. One lady behind witness carried an umbrella ;n such a way as to obstruct the coachman's view of th e ra i i'vsay. Witness did not think that in case the coach man had pulled up when he saw the engine the acci dent wo:uld have been avoided. It was a wet drizzling morning. After soma further evidence the Coroner charged the Jury, who, aftir a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Accidental ci,gatii." 1 WOOLICICH, FRIDAY. ROYAL SAPPNRS AND MINERS. A few days ago, as the Royal Sappers and Miners from Chatham were exercising with pontoons on the river Medway, near Rochester -bridge, private Samuel Turner accidentally fell overboard, and being unable to swim, would have been inevitably drowned- had not private Henry Entwisle of the same corps, at the peril of his own life, plunged into the river to rescue him. From the great force of the stream it was the surprise of all present that both the men were not lost, but owing to the intrepidity and courage of Entwisle, who was a good swimmer, he managed to keep himself above water, and to retain a firm hold of the drowning man until a boat came to his aid and delivered both from their hazardous situation. Such praiseworthy conduct should not pass unrewarded by the Humane Society, instituted for the purpose of compensating in some degree those indivi duals who risk their own lives to save their fellow-crea tures. In this case the corps to which Entwisle belongs might very appropriately show him some mark of their esteem by granting him some military reward as an en couragement to others under similar circumstances. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Monkey steam-vessel, Second Master W. Robarts, left Woolwich on Tuesday for Sheerness, having on board Captain Layton, Lieutenants Meheux and Goold, 1 ser geant, 2 corporals, 1 drummer, and 60 men of the Wool wich division of Royal Marines, where they joined the Formidable, 84-guns, commissioned last week by Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge. The Avon steam-vessel, Lieutenant C. Jenkin, left Woolwich to-day for Portsmouth with ordnance stores and articles for barter with the natives of New Zealand. The Avon, on her arrival at Portsmouth, will transfer her cargo to the Tortoise, 18 guns, bound for Van Die man's Land and New Zealand. The Meteor steam-vessel, John Waugh, with th e crew of t e o s Sheerness proceed e ' e l d h u t o r s t d h a e y,Plymouth, and is under the Lut ieenantCo Lightning, arrived nm iand a er t orders n North Sea. Mr. Matthew Conolly from is appointed Mate evi The Falmouth a ßuchanan promoted. i rived on Tuesday from Plymouth, and the Aid on th e . m outh. same day from Portsmouth and Ply- The Carron steam-vessel, Second Master E. C. Rutter, Ports mouth and Bermuda, where on Monday next for to the Illustrious, 72, fitting she is to be borne as a tender of Vice-Admiral Sir jhaat Portsmouth for the flag ship The Heroine.---Mr. H. Bateman Adam, 1i.C.13. clerk in charge to this vesseliall has been appointed Rhadamanthus having been cane s el l e dNointment to the Spain, Second Master, and Mr. C. K. - Mr. Stephen surgeon, vice Laird, to the Illustrious. . Keverin, assistant- The Rhadamanthus and Dee, fittinr, for the steam troop s hips, are ordered to be su pplied with boats _ above the paddle wheels , on Captain George Smith's plan. This excellent position for placing boats so as not to encumber the vessels, has alrea d y been introduced hi several em ployed in her Majesty 's service. APPOINTMENTS AND PRDMOTIONs.—Mr. W. Hutton and Mr. Frederick Dutton are appointed clerks in the dockyard at Woolwich, and Mr. James Fowler is pro moted to an Inspector of Shipwrights, vice Freeman su perannuated. -------- A MAN SIIOT BY A GAMEKEEPER.—Un to lei afternoon idert, s h q o . m , o a t s . w t Gudgeon, ton_to t t l i n s d e , e s a n o i e u k t e u e p p o e n r Billinge about half-past four o'clock, shooting rabbits, when two men passed him. On seeing the keeperell r they ran off. He immediately called to them to stop, them that if they did not do so 'he would flit. They took no notice of him, however, but continued to run, when the keeper fired, and hit one of them in the back. The man was enabled to get over the park wall, and to reach his own house in the neighbourhood, where he was discovered to have been very seriously injured. His name is Thomas Ainsworth, though better known by that of Bunser. Information was given to the police, and Gudgeon was soon after taken into custody by Mr. M.`Cabe, inspector of police. Gudgeon was taken before John Lister, Esq., on Monday, and remanded until to morrow.—Ainsworth, we are happy to hear, is recover ing.—Elackburn Gazette. HUMAN BONES FOUND.—A few days ago, as some men were making a sough for some houses near to the Derby Railway Station, they found the remains of a man embedded in lime, with the face downwards. The bones were almost decomposed. The place in which they were found formed part of the Castle fields.—. Derby Reporter. THE STRONG GOVERNMENT. (From the Non-Conformist.) It is childish to conceal from ourselves the fact that, in the ordinary sense of the term, the new Government is a strong one. Its real and effective majority in the Commons has already turned out a more numerous one than previous calculations had rated it at. But we have not even yet seen the ultimate amount of Tory gain. Numbers of Whigs who hovered on the borders of the two great parties, occupying a position which one knew not well whether to characterise as Liberal or Conserva tive, will now, with no reluctance, support the man in power. Attached by no love of principle to reform, and attracted no longer by prospects of promotion to serve under Whig colours, they will linger about a month or two in apparent indecision, only to avail themselves of the first favourable opportunity of changing sides. Sir Robert's real majority may be estimated at something above a hundred. _ _ . Equally silly would it be to deny that, in point of talent, the present Ministry is far superior to the last. There is a vitality in it—strong attachment to the prin ciples professed—earnestness—reality. The present Ca binet is not a hollow semblance, but a real, living thing. It has definite objects in view, and it will pursue them. This, even in the absence of higher and more command ing attributes, will give it a vast advantage over the out gone Administration. But there is more than this. Bu siness habits, power in debate, industry which can grap ple with and master details, and, above all, the prestige of victory, will infuse into the present Government a strength which of late years has not been displayed in the conduct of public affairs. . . Nor must we leave out of our calculation the fact that Conservative measures will perfectly coincide with the class interests of the Whig aristocracy. Early enough after the general election Lord John Russell pitched the key-note of the Opposition, and tfue to his order took care to pitch it sufficiently low. Already Messrs. Roe buck and "Ward, with all the minor Radicals of that stamp, have struck a chord in unison with the Whig leader. The Conservatives have nothing to fear from their opponents, and they know it. The party but last week in officelbis broken up—its moral power is gone. It has no hold upon the people—excites no hopes—enjoys no confidence. The contest, if such .it can be called, will for a time lay between a strong party and a weak one—the country being wholly indifferent as to the im mediate result. Tho Whigs cannot again wield the ener gies of a determined people. They have no popular principles to bring to bear against Toryism which they did not, when in power, contemptuously trample under foot. On all the prominent questions about which the country cares their mouths are stopped by past incon sistencies. Numerically inferior as an Opposition to that which they for years encountered, their moral weak ness is really pitiable. Lastly, we are to take into account the accession to the Government of the House'of Lords. The immense preponderance of Peers, who will be active suppor ters of Sir Robert Peel's Administration, will ensure the easy passing of every measure which gains the assent of the other House. The question then occurs—ls the new Government likely to prove a strong one ? In a party sense, the reply is obviously, " Yes ;" in a higher and more general sense, we answer without hesitation, " No." Against the Whigs Sir Robert is all but omnipotent—against the country, he is all the weaker for his strength. There is no paradox in this—the explanation need scarcely be obtruded upon the reader. Matters have now come to this issue—aristocracy is fairly pitted against democracy. The inquiry is not " Who shall lead us?" but "Who shall live, the many or the few?" Conservatism takes up is ground, and beards a suffering people. The consequence may be easily foreseen. The pending battle will not be fought in the present House of Commons. That will be left to its party encounters. Meanwhile some wide, searching, and effectual plan of reform will ere long be struck out, in which the middle and the industrious classes can unite and shake hands. Organisation may be thenceforth expected to spread with the rapidity of thought—the neglected registries to be filled up—the call for the dis missal of the present Parliament to become loud, uni versal, irresistible—and a new House, composed of men in earnest, to proceed to the work of laying anew the basis of our representation. Things will probably take this course —or, if not, one which we dread to contem plate. COUNTY COURTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In the new Bill now pending in the House of Lords for the establishing of County Courts, I perceive that it is provided that the Lord Chancellor shall have the power of removing any of the Judges of those Courts for misbehaviour, "or for any sufficient cause to be stated in a petition to be prepared to him for that pur pose by the Justices of the County in general, or Quarter Sessions assembled. I will not trouble you with any remarks as to what may be the most proper mode of removing such Judges from office. Perhaps it would be right that they should hold their offices dum bene se gesserint, as with the Judges of the Superior Courts ; or, it may be satisfac tory to the country that they should be removable for misconduct at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor of the day. But I cannot help thinking that that which is now proposed has a very objectionable appearance. The Conunission of the Peace conveys great powers to Jus tices, and in that way they have, surely, quite influence enough. To say that this new proposal, if adopted, will make the Judges of the County Courts the creatures of the Justices, may be too strong • but will it not tend to make the former the slaves or dependents of the latter ? If such Judges should deserve removal from the Bench, can any one doubt that there is abundant means of the Lord Chancellor's being informed of it, without consulting_ the opinion of the Magistrates of the co un ty? These Judges are not intended to be, or at least they ought not to be, the servants or organs of the Justices of the county. They are to administer justice among the people ; and there is too much reason to believe that a provision like this may actually work injustice to the people, by stripping the Judge of that perfect inde pendence which he ought to maintain of all such local influences. I trust, Sir, that in these new Courts of Law we shall not have something in imitation of the " Assistant Bar rister" in Ireland. If so, I fear it will not realise the idea of " bringing justice home to every man's door," but that the jurisdiction proposed is likely to create a great deal of dissatisfaction and suspicion of partiality among suitors, especially in cases where the one party belongs to the higher, and the other to the humbler classes. The very name of the thing, that an adminis trator of justice to a county may be removed at the in stance of the Magistrates of that county, is calculated to make the justice dealt out anything but satisfactory to the people. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Lincoln's Inn, Sept. 10, 1841. A BARRISTER. THE FIXED DUTY ON CORN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In one of your leading articles last night you say, in speaking of the Corn Average being now 725., and the duty consequently being reduced to 2s. Bd., with a prospect of a Is. duty next week, that you are glad the landlords refused to entertain Lord John Russell's proposal for an Bs. duty, as thereby the Tice of corn to the consumer would now have been some 6s. or Bs. per quarter more than it is. I am quite sure it must have been purely an inadvertence, your not having borne in mind that when Lord J. Russell made that motion (now some two months ago), corn averaged no more than 645., if so much, and, supposing it to have become law, there would not have been any rise from that price to the pre sent quotation of 725., which we all know is solely the result of the operations on the Corn Market in managing the sliding scale. Had the duty been a fixed one, the doubly-impelling motive for raising the price would have been wanting, and at all events corn would not have been dearer than it now is, and the entire difference would have reached and benefited the Exchequer; but I am confident it would not have been so dear, as importa tions would all along have been taking place, and have produced their natural result. I have been led thus to trouble you from observing that the Tory papers—always ready to catch at any straw on this subject—never let any oversight of this kind pass without attempting to turn it to account. Such a paper, for instance, as the Morning Herald, is likely enough to quote you in all seriousness as giving, in fact, your testi mony in favour of the present iniquitous system. It is just worthy of its character and capacity, and would be no more than its patron and oracle, the Duke of Buck ingham, really did say, from ignorance or impudence last year, at one of his ordinaries at the George. " See," said this sapient Lord, " how beneficently the law works ; now that corn is dear we have it from abroad at no more than Is. duty ;" omitting to notice to his well informed auditory that the difference between the ave rage price and that it was then fetching, at least 10s. to 15s. per quarter, had been received into the landlords' pockets before the price reached the point which ruled the Is. duty—a nefarious result which, under the present law, they can almost at any time bring about. Your obedient - servant, - A FRIEND TO FREE TRADE, [Our remark proceeded on the supposition that prices would rise to somewhere about their present level, and we are happy•to insert our Correspondent's explanation. At the same time we cannot believe that the consumer would have benefited by the Bs. duty. Both it and the sliding duty are to be rejected. Let us add, that the al teration proposed by Lord John Russell could not have augmented the supply of corn this year, though it would have prevented the gambling with the averages. Not augmenting the supply, it could have had no influence over the actual prices at which bread would be sold to the consumer ; and the duty of Bs. would, consequently, have increased the price beyond the price at which corn will this year be sold. In another year, the fixed duty might have augmented the supply, and kept prices down.—ED. Sun.] MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A very me lancholy accident occurred in the neighbourhood of In verness on Monday, which has carried distress into a wide circle of friends and relatives. About six o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. Basil Tytler, son of the late Alex ander Fraser Ty tier, Esq., of the Hon. East India Com pany's service (who had been on a visit to his uncle, the Sheriff of this county), was in a boat on the river Ness. in company with a young gentleman, Mr. Wm. Fraser, son of Mr. Fraser of Culduthel. They were opposite Lady Saltoun's cottage, where the river is deep and strong, besides being at present much swollen by the late rains. The boat upset, and the body of Dr. Tytler was seen in the midst of the water. All attempts to recover the body proved unavailing, and there is every reason to suppose that it was carried out to the sea. The deceased was about twenty-six years of age, of accomplished ta lents and amiable disposition. He had studied medicine under Sir Charles Bell, and was distinguished for his knowledge and proficiency.—l nverness C ourier. An old man in the neighbcurhood of South Peterton, on hearing of hi s son ' s misfortunes, s aged B read s ; seen so much trouble that he did not think should al live out half his days, ei said he r h t e bo enhd f - tt THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1841. LITERATURE_ ENGYCLOP/EDIA BRITANIVICA, Vol. 21. Black, Edinburgh, 1841. •• Among the articles of interest that are to be found in the present Part of thiS valuable Mis cellany—by tar the best of its kind in the lan guage, we may mention the essay on " Turkey," which is luminously and concisely penned, and evinces a very considerable extent of reading. The accounts of the tragic end of Sultan Selim ; of the narrow escape of his successor, the late Mahmoud ; and, more particularly, of the last insurrection of the Janissaries, a short time pre vious to their final overthrow ;—these details are not only given with scrupulous accuracy, but nave the additional • recommendation of pos sessing both liveliness and vigour of manner, which are qualities rare l y f oun d - in encyclopsedic essays. The " United States" is another article that exhibits diligent research, and, as may be surmised from its title, embraces a wide range of inquiry. The spirit that pervades this essay, ;s liberal and impartial. We have been pleased with the following remarks, suggested by the Republican Institutions of America. :—" Popular election, however, if it lead to faction and dis order, never fails to ensure an able Government, as the hereditary principle is as certainly a source of weakness. When the people have a free choice, they will always prefer merit to demerit; capacity for service becomes in this manner a passport to honour and distinction, and abi lity is secured for the. business of the State. In America the experiment of a republic has suc ceeded. The great political principle of popular election has been found to be compatible with all the great ends of Government." In the treatise on " Voltaic Electricity" there arc many curious matters of information, which will be interesting even to those readers who may not happen to be scientific, for they are detailed in the simplest and plainest language, and without the slightest parade of superior knowledge. The Memoir of the " Duke of Wharton," though brief; says all that need be said on the subject. His Grace would have been forgotten long ago, had it. not been for Pope's famous character of him in the Satires, wherein .he still lives—a fly enshrined in amber ! He was an eccentric, dissipated noble man, who obtained a reputation for far greater abilities than he possessed; and whom Miss Jane Porter, in her tale of the "Pastor's Fire-side," has converted into quite a Quixotte of romantic generosity. After a hectic, chequered career, during which he had many enemies and not one friend, the Duke died in the year 1731, at a miserable village in Catalonia, worn out with dis ease, and destitute of almost the commonest ne cessaries of life. By way of extract from the present Part, we quote the following "Notice to Subscribers," which will give a clearer idea of the work than any analysis of our own : In issuing the twenty-first volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which completes the work, with the excep tion of the Index and Preface, the publishers have finished the main part of their task ; and they flatter themselves that they have discharged to the satisfaction of the sub scribers the engagement entered into at the commence ment of the undertaking. The successive parts of the first nineteen volumes issued from the press with a punctuality unexampled in similar publications; and when interruption did occur, which was chiefly in the last two volumes, it was occa sioned by the anxiety of the editor to procure important contributions, some of which it was impossible to get out of the hands of the writers in the stipulated time. Had the editor been content with a superficial correction of the old articles, a more rapid rate of publication might easily have been attained, while a large amount of ex penditure would by the same means have been saved to the proprietors. It was found, however, that in order to maintain the pre-eminent reputation of the work, cor rections and new articles would be required to a much greater extent than was originally contemplated; and to obtain these from the hands of their respective contribu tors in due time for publication, - .demanded no small exertion on . the part both of editor and proprietors. In consequence of the very extensive alterations and addi tions thus introduced, the expense of publishing the seventh edition has greatly exceeded the original esti mate; but the publishers are happy to acknowledge that this excess has to a great extent been compensated by a corresponding increase in the sale of the book. The proprietors are satisfied that it cannot with jus tice be alleged that the later portions of the publication are in any degree inferior to the early parts, on the ap pearance of which the original subscriptions were ob tained; on the contrary, they flatter themselves that those subscribers who have watched the progress of the work, will acknowledge that the performance has sur passed the promise of the original prospectus. After the publication of the second volume, the size of the page was enlarged; and after the appearance of-the ninth, it was still farther enlarged; while to the present volume there have been added no fewer than 227 pages. At the commencement of the work, the geographical articles were illustrated by quarto maps, the intention of the publishers being to limit them to the number usually given in similar works. These maps, however, they afterwards cancelled, and substituted a new series of a folio size, adding also. to their number, so as to form a complete atlas. The number of wood-cuts and of plates was also greatly increased; and, in short, as the work advanced, the publishers were encouraged to devote in creasing attention to every department of the publica tion, and to spare no expense in order that the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica might maintain the pre-eminence which it has always held among works in this class of literature. The Index, which is intended to form part of the first volume, will be a most- valuable accessory to the Ency cl.padia. It will furnish a ready reference to many sub jects noticed in its pages, although noten:ered under dis tinct alphabetical heads; and the variety of information on particular points scattered throughout the general treatises and other articles will in the Index be indicated under one head, so that the reader who is seeking infor mation on any subject will have the whole resources of the Enoyclopadia, so far as that subject is concerned, at once laid open to him. It was obviously impossible to commence the compi lation of the Index till the whole of the text was printed. The publishers, however, have the satisfaction to state that it is now at press, and is expected to be finished in about two months, when it will be delivered along with the preface and title pages. Edinburgh, Ist September, 1841. BRITISH AN D ra F yl O or ß , r o I n G do N n,I R B4 E L VIEW. No. 24 We have so often spoken of Mr. Carlyle's peculiarities as a writer, that we deem it super fluous on the present occasion, to do more than just glance at the notice of his " Chartism . ," which forms the subject of the first paper in this number. The notice is by no means deficient in intelligence; but instead of restricting himself to a consideration of the work in question, the Re viewer discusses almost every one of Mr. Car lyle's productions, with the exception of this one ! He gives us a very fair and impartial idea of the peculiarities of the " French Revolution," and that strange farrago " Sartos Resartus;" but of " Chartism" lie tells us little more than that it is "by no means exempt from the faults of sameness and mannerism." In the justice of his tempered stricture on Mr. Carlyle's frequent ec centricities of style, we cordially agree, and are disposed also to concede to the filet that he is the most subtle and vigorous thinker of the day. The review of " Millman's History of Chris tianity " is evidently the production of a scholar, and a ripe one. The following tribute to the merits of this able history is honourable alike to author and critic:— " in his general freedom from professional pre judices, Mr.Millman is honourably distinguished ti•orn nearly every Church-historian in our lan uage; and his candour or his scepticism arises from research and reason, not from the love of innovation, or from indifference to results. So far as his labours embrace controverted pointS, they have been made public in an ungenial sea son; but we trust the comparative coldness of its reception will not induce Mr. Millman to leave "Dutch some in terestingecr()fel c o tn. Colonial P I n o c h y e , articl eAv.e fi o n/di i particulars respecting C hi o s lo w n o i r e k s i n n d p the rise and pro e:ress of the commercial relations of Holland with Java and some of the adjacent islands. In the course of this article the Reviewer makes several pertinent reflections on the great free -trade ques tion, and observes :--" the present year is one of the molt momentous for our commercial and national interests that we have yet seen. All the great questions are afloat. Ger many, France, Austria, Holland', and last, not least, our own colonies, g i ve us a pretext and an opportunity that may not soon recur, for reviewing our relations with them, and placing them upon a healthy footing. Once more, therefore, we call upon those to wom the national welfare is entrusted, to pause and consi der the immense responsibility they incur. Let them beware of trifling with the pillars upon which the power, nay, the existence, of this great and favoured nation rest." I n the course of a shrewdly reasoned essay on the " Corn laws," the Reviewer justly and forcibly r emar k s that the whole history . of. monopoly shows that it acts as a discouragement to improvement, and that the farmer is not an exception to the general rule, for that it tends to make him rest contented with a slovenly system of cultivation because it is cheap, under the belief that the diminished quantity of produce consequent thereon, will be compensated by an increased price. . ACTION OF THE CORN LATIrS, AND OF OTHER PROVISION-LATIA . c. London, Saunders and Oldey. The number of pamphlets on the C orn -l a ws quite equals the number of articles on t h e same subject in the newspapers, and they are endless. The a a u n t d h o discrepancy i ( s )f er t e l l i points out the tally of endeavouring both to stimulate tlh. growth of corn, and of endeavour ing, at the same time, to encourage the eultiva )eanpci;ersent work ,ion of grass land, which is done by many statutes. The conclusion he comes to on :his point is for us remarkable and pleas ing. He • recommends the Legislat,re to let the land alone, and cultivation will soon follow. The following extracts, on a different subject, will give an idea of the pamphlet, and of the author's mode of handling his subject : It must be indifferent to the agricultural interests, whether payment for manufactures exported be made in other manufactures, in gold and silver, or in the direct products of foreign land. If payment be made in foreign manufactures, then so many British - workmen are put out of employment, and the market•their supplies would have opened to landlords and cultivators is lost to them, just as much as it would have been by the direct impor tation of the products of foreign land. If payment be made in gold and silver, they will be necessarily re exported, as soon as in excess above the demand. It is, as if payment were made for German goods, by means u Spanish 'goods re-exported : the Spanish goods must have been previously obtained in exchange fur British goods exported, but which are replaced by the German goods imported, to the detriment of some British ma nufacture in the same degree that the exportation of nine other had been advantageous; and the home-market for agricultural products is as much cut off in one case, as it had been promoted in the other. Gold and silver are only valuable merchandise in a small bulk, serving the purpose of international money. What really takes place in coreign commerce is, that it makes foreign land a kind of conquest in favour of our manufactures, in the same manner as the extension of our colonies • or as would do, the more productive culture of the laud of the United Kingdom. The power of the empire is strengthened by an increased manufacturing population, without either - detriment or advantage to the agricultu ral interests. • This inevitable order of things may be rendered con fused and difficult to trace, but cannot be prevented un less by the destruction of all commerce ; for while any portion is allowed to exist, the results, in so much, cannot be defeated by any device of legal enactments. Mistaken laws, made in the intention ofprotecting landed interest, may cripple and even destroy trade and manu facturing industry dependent on foreign relations, but cannot enable landlords to seize upon their profits ; it they could, these sources of wealth would long rinee have ceased to exist. There are other passages of the work which arc as good as the one we quote, but we cannot also quote them, and must conclude by recommend ing the pamphlet to public notice. THE DEER-SLAYER. 3 VG/3. Bentley, London, 1841. The Deer-Slayer is no other than our old friend Natty Bunippo, who has already figured in so many of Mr. Cooper's American tales, as Hawk eye, the Path-finder, Long-stocking, and Pale face. He is here pourtrayed in his freshest and earliest manhood, when he has 'but just betaken himself to the wilderness, and is known only by his skill in shooting the forest-game. His cha racter is sustained with remarkable spirit, and with a degree of freshness that we must confess surprises us,/considering how often the author has delineated it. There is but little incident in the story, which is too much an echo of Mr. Cooper's former tale, the Path-finder; but what there is, is skilfully wrought up, and in one or two instances, with startling dramatic ef fect. The principal scenes are laid, as usual, in the depths of American forests, and by the side of hushed, secluded lakes, rarely tra versed but by the canoe of the prowling Indian— in order, of course, to bring out the prominent features of the Deer-Slayer's idiosyncracy. The mingled shrewdness and simplicity of this volun tary dweller in the woods; his innate sense of right, and almost romantic notions of honour, are finely developed; but unfortunately the in terest of the story centres exclusively in him ; when he is away from the scene of action, it flags; for we care little for the subordinate per sonages; we have met with most of them before, in Mr. Cooper's " Prairie," and they were scarcely worth reproducing. Judith Butter may, perhaps, be deemed an exception ; but however true to nature this portrait may be, it is by no means one calculated to rivet attention. The descriptive portions of the story are admi rable throughout. LECTIRE ON MNEMONICS. The metaphysicians of the schools have been long per piexed to give some determinate idea of the nature of memory, but the latest and most sagacious of their thinkers, Dugald Stewart, confessed it to be indefinable. Dr. Reid equally complained of its inexplicabil;tv. and said that memory was an original faculty, given us Ly the Author of our being, and lie alone inspired man with it Kant, nevertheless, and his philosophic school, however transcendental on other occasions, simply explains .it to be the result of a combination of ideas, which have become imprinted upon the reci pient sense, and there retained. Memory is, in tact, a purely mechanical process, and, however crowded it may become with facts and images, which, in their greatest plenitude, create the poet—the highest point of intellectual attainment—and whose powers often persuade us with a belief of supernatural inspiration, yet is it in its profoundest form resolvable into simple ideas, which have accumulated f r o m i n f anc y t o man h oo d. A lecture delivered by M. Beniowski on mnemonics, or the art of memory, yesterday evening, at the Lecture Rooms, near Red Lion-square, furnished sufficient proof, to an audience of more than 300 persons, of the powers of which mechanical memory is capable. The first mnemonical experiment M. Beniowski advanced was very similar to that related by Muretus of the young Corsican, who was able to repeat, after twice reading, any number of words in any order. M. Beniowski, however severely questioned by his audience, gave his responses with scarce a failure, though the string of words was of the most unconnected and incongruous kind. A subsequent experiment was to recite any num ber of unmeaning or foreign words, from all tongues and languages on earth, and these, repeated by him after a few minutes' study, equalled for diversity and barbarism the complete jargon into which the world was split at the division of Babel. The practical use of the mnemonic art, in this case, was felicitously explained and elucidated by the exhibitor. By its aid, no lan guage or dialect but was easily to be mastered, and M. Beniowski adduced two singular instances in his own life. Having shown his readiness, before the company, of committing to memory above twenty barbaric words in five minutes, he observed that the ratio was only to be increased, to acquire any tongue. Scarce a known language that exists contains more than seven or eight hundred radicals ; these obtained, all other difficul ties are but secondary. " Four years ago," said the lee: turer, " I started from France for England. On em barking at Calais, I was an absolute stranger to a Saxon monosyllable. I purchased a vocabulary and dictionary; aided by my mnemonic principles, I learned the bulk of your English language before I had crossed the Channel." The foreign accent of the lecturer, it should be observed, was scarcely perceptible, and• his fluency in English ex cellent. Again, said M. Beniowski, some years back I was de spatched by the French Government on a foreign com mission to Egypt. Before starting from Marseilles,.M. Paris, my teacher of mnemonics, said to me, "Do you know anything of Arabic?" "Not a syllable," answered Beniowski; " but," continued he, " before I reached the gates of Alexandria I knew enough to convince the natives I was neither deaf nor dumb." The experiments, so far as regarded words, were of themselves surprising ; but the wonder greatly increased when M. Beniowski challenged the company to question bins on entire works. Venerable Homer was to be the touch-stone, and the powers of the lecturer's memory was to be evinced by reciting any line of the seven hundred and eighty which compose the first book of the Iliad. No sooner did any one present propose to know the number of the line, where the august old writer sings of " o x • e y e d venerable Juno,"—no sooner was " rosy-cheeked Briseis" mentioned, or " swift-footed Achilles," or " Vulcan pouring out the nectar, while the Gods all laugh," than the number of the line was flirth with answered, or. in answer to the appellant's number, was given the corresponding line. After this, our astonish ment witnessed further feats in regard to upwards of two thousand chronological events, gathered either from Usher or Eusebius, which were answered by the experi menter from fact to date, or from date to fact. Napier's tables of Logarithms, of which every page is a forest of figures, seemed child's-play to the lecturer to recount. Since the days of Francis Suarez or Lipsius, the former of whom is immortalised by his ability to repeat all St. Augustine's works by heart, and the latter by his re membrance of the whole of Tacitus, a memory of such capacity and wonderful mec h an i ca l capabilities as . the lecturer's, has not, we may say boldly, appeared. But the keys of this invaluable, nay, even magical science, are conveyed with equal ease to any of his pupils, one of whom appeared before the audience, and exhibited before them the result of only four hours' study—a diffi cult chronological task—and the readiness and truth of his answers was astonishing. M. Feinagle, who created so great a sensation in England some years ago by si milar mnemonic experiments, certainly, has found no mean competitor in the person of M. Beniowski. CHA TSWORTH.—A Correspondent who had last week the pleasure of visiting the interior of that princely mansion, Chatsworth, truly design a t e d th e " palace of thi peak," informs us that amongst other ar ticles of vertu was particularly noticed a feather carved in wood, from the inimitable tool of the celebrated Gib bons. This finely executed .norceau is preserved in a glass case placed over a closet door. and not dis tinguishable from a real feather. The other carvings in wood by this eminent master con sist of representations of deal game fish, flowers, shells, and trophies, which are in the hi g h es t state of excellence, being variously composed a nd distri buted. We may observe with Horace Walpole, " that there is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of tlo elements with a free disorder, natural to each species." It was at this magnificent mansion of tha Cavendishes, and under the patronage of their proprietor, that the celebrated Hobbes, uenotuinated of " Malmesbury," passed a great part of his long life, and was the seat of his lucubrations. During his domicile at this place he wrote his Latin poem, under the head of " Mirabilibus Pecci," and other superior productions, which were con sidered at that time as effusions cf a mind pregnant with both extensive learning and the most brilliant wit. Cotta-LAWS.—A. petition in favour of a repea of the Corn-laws is in course of signature at Lenten. 700 have already signed, and many more will no doubt do so.—Nottingham Review. MURDER AT CHEPSTOW. (From the Bristol Standard.) A melancholy case of murder has occurred at Chep s`ow. The victim, Sarah Sophia Fleming, was a native of Bristol, about nineteen years of age, and of consider able personal attractions. She was induced to leave her Lome about twelve months ago, and had latterly aban doned herself to a dissolute course of life, attaching her self to a young man of idle habits, named Benjamin James, whom she chiefly supported by her sinful pursuits. On Sunday night, the 29th of August last, this poor girl, with another unfortunate creature of the same class, and Benjamin James, were walking on Chepstow-bridge, and were joined by three young men, with whom they went up to Tutshill ; deceased left the party in com pany with one of the men, which roused the jealousy of James, who called after her, and as she did not return, followed her up a lane called Dead Man's iane (in which tradition says a murder was formerly committed), the other girl followinglim, and at the end of the lane they found them in. the turnpike-road. It was a moonlight night, and on seeing James, the poor girl withdrew her han:l from the young man, and James ran up and attempted to strike her, but was twice pre vented by the man, who took hold of him, and begged him to let the girl alone, calling to her to go home, which she refused, saying, " Ben will beat me worse if I do, when he catches me." James at length got loose, and overtook her at the gate leading into Dead Man's lane, where he struck .her violently with his fist in her right side; she immediatel:, fell on her knees; he drag ged her up, and she fell a e , ,, t..nst the wall. The wretched man then lay down in the road, and his poor victim crawled to him and kissed him, saying, " Don't do it any more, Ben." He turned towards her and said, " I will murder you." She kissed him again, and he swore he would murder and be the death of her; he did not strike her again, hut, alas! the mischief was done—she had received her death-blow. They afterwards went down the lane to Chapel House Farm, where the two females and James spent the night in a shed, the deceased suffering acute pain in her side; in the morning James left them in Chepstow, but in the evening met them on the opposite side of the town, and they remained together all night under a hay-rick, the deceased in great agony on her right side and back, the internal inflammation increasing rapidly ; they continued out the whole of , the following day, and at night James left them, saying he was afraid to stay lest she should die. Her companion then supported her through the streets in search of a lodging, and at length, being quite exhausted, the poor sufferer sank on the steps of a door, where they were attacked by some vagabond boys, who threw dirt and filth at them. The deceased exclaimed, " It is hard I cannot be left alone, I am so ill," and burst into tear 3 ; her companion got her away and obtained a lodging, where she passed the night in extreme agony, and the next morning her father was sent for, who, being unable to pay a medical attendant, took her to the poorhouse, where she received every attention that medical aid and kind treatment could afford, but the inflammation increased, and she expired on Friday evening. Benjamin James was apprehended on Thursday, and the poor girl's deposition taken by Colonel Lewis •in his presence, out she was evidently alarmed at the prisoner being in the room, exclaiming, "Take him away, he will kill me." On Friday morning she told her father she was worse, and said, " Where is Ben? He has murdered me, and I am dying; he ought to suffer as well as me;" and expressed a wish to see the Magis trate, as she had something on her mind. A messenF,er was despatched to St. Pierre, and on Colonel Lewis's arrival, the prisoner was again taken to her room, but it was then too late, she had lost the power of speech— she was dying. The worthy Magistrate and all in the room were deeply affected, except the prisoner, who stood unmoved at the dreadful scene without betraying the least emotion, and apparently without the slightest feeling for his unfortunate victim. On Saturday he was committed to Monmouth gaol, charged with wilful murder, and the Coroner's inquest has since returned a similar verdict. GEORGE 111. AND THE WILTSHIRE SHEP HERD.—At the late meeting of the Warminster and South Wilts Club, the Rev. F. Skurray related the fol lowing anecdote of George the Third :—llis Majesty, in passing over the Wiltshire Downs, admired the sta ture, healthiness, and costume of the Wiltshire shepherds ; and, on his return to 'Windsor, he di rected the manager of his farm to procure one. Appli cation was made to his (Mr. Skurray's) friend and neighbour, Mr. Davis, who, by the courtesy of Mr. Rich Proud, of Brixton Dever ell, despatched a man who seemed well adapted for the situation. Frequent inqui ries were made by the King, through General Golds worthy, as to the arrival of the expected shepherd. At length they met and engaged in a colloquy : "So you are the Wiltshire shepherd, come at last ?" says the General, " and, pray, what is your name ?" " Daphney," replied the shepherd. " Daphne !" said the General; " why, it seems you have gained a pastoral name since you have been appointed the King's shep herd." " I know nothing about pastoral names," he re plied ; " my father's name was John Daphney, and my name is Richard Daphney."—(Laughter.) " How do you find the flock?" asked the General. "Bad enough," answered the shepherd. " What do you mean to do with them ?" Cure them, to be sure." " said the General, " when the King comes to talk with you, answer him as freely as you • have me." " That I cer trinly shall," replied the shepherd, " for I thought you was the King." It happened some time after that two sheep were abstracted from the flock, and the charge was brought home to poor Daphney. When the fact was made known to the King, he showed himself visibly affected, and to the question whether Daphney was to be prosecuted, his Majesty replied in the negative, adding, "It was my foolish vanity that coveted a Wiltshire shepherd, who, being brought into the neighbourhood of Old Windsor, was thrown into the way of fellows that would corrupt an angel. Discharge him ; I will not re tain a thief in my service—but no prosecution." On hearing the Royal determination, the discarded shepherd replied, " I could bear my master's reproaches, but I am overcome by his kindness ; and as I cannot serve him with a crook, I will with a musket," and he enlisted in the Guards.—Salisbury Journal. SLIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES.--Sir Walter Scott, walking one day along the banks of the Yarrow, where Mungo Park was born, saw the traveller throwing stones into the water, and anxiously watching the bubbles that succeeded. Scott inquired the object of his occupation. " I was thinking," answered Park, " how often I had thus tried to sound the rivers in Africa, by calculating bow long a time had elapsed before the bubbles rose to the surface." It was a slight circumstance, but the traveller's safety frequently depended upon it. In a watch the mainspring forms a small portion of the works, but it repels and governs the whole. So it is in the machinery of human life ; a slight circum stance is permitted by the Divine Ruler to derange or to alter it ; a giant falls by a pebble ; a girl at the door of an inn changes the fortune of an empire. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said Pascal, in his epigrammatic and brilliant manner, the condition of the world would have been different. The Mahomedans have a tradition, that when their Prophet concealed him self in Mount . Shur, his pursuers were deceived by a spider's web which covered the mouth of the cave. Luther might have been a lawyer, had his friend and companion escaped the thunder-storm at Erfurt ; Scotland had wanted her stern Reformer, if the appeal of the preacher had not startled him in the Chapel of St. Andrew's Castle; and if Mr. Grenville had not carried, in 1764, his memorable resolution as to the expediency of charging " certain stamp duties" on the plantations. in America, the western world might still have bowed. to the British sceptre. Cowley might never have been a poet, if he had not found the Fairy Queen in his, mother's parlour ; Opie might have perished in mute obscurity, if he had not looked over the shoulder of his young companion, Mark Otes, while he was drawing a butterfly ; Giotto, one of the early Florentine painters, might have continued a rude shepherd boy, if a sheep drawn by him upon a stone had not attracted the notice of Cimabue as he went that way.—Asiatic Journal for September. " JEMMY WOOD'' AND THE GLOUCESTER. ilitrsicAL FESTIVAL—The last time but one that the: rand festival in aid of the distressed widows and orphans f clergymen in tlie dioceses of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, wds held at Gloucester, the renowned Jemmy Wood stood in front of the Old Bank in West gate-street, and observed to a friend of ours, in reference to the multitudes pressing towards the Cathedral, "There the fools go; I keep my half-crowns in my pocket 1" and, suiting the action to the word, pushed his hands to the very bottom of his capacious waistcoat-pockets, turned over the coins therein, and elicited that metallic jing e so grateful to his ears. The rich old banker is gathered to his fathers —the Old Bank, instead of wearing the nusiness appearance it did in 1835, is closed—none ( f the immense wealth of its owner has, as yet, been dis tributed under his will—but in this short term of six years more thousands of pounds have been spent in legal proceedings concerning It than would have provided a permanent fund, amply sufficient for the relief of all the distressed widows and orphans of clergymen in the three dioceses. The numbers thronging to the Cathedral were not fools—Jemmy's policy of keeping the half-crowns in his pocket was not the perfection of wisdom. Far better would it have been for the fair city had Mr. Wood en dowed it with a part of his riches in his life-time, instead of leaving it, as he did, to the uncertainty of a torn codicil and the tender mercies of the law.—Cheltenham paper. . - ELEPHANT SHOOTING IN COORG. —We learn from Coorg that Lieut. M—, of the 36th Native Infantry, who is an elephant shooter of no ordinary emi nence, has quitted the province en route to join, after a rather unsuccessful campaign against those monsters of the " leafy deep." Whilst stationed in Coorg, this officer killed a great number of elephants, but during his late excursion he has been less fortunate than so ardently de voted a disciple of St. Hubert deserves. Amongst his ad ventures amidst the " greenwood tree" is one, however, worth narrating, if only to show the wonderful sagacity of the elephant. Lieut. M—, it appears, in pursuit of cne of these noble " sovereigns of the forest," put eight (brass) balls successively into his game, three of wh ich evidently took effect iu the head ; but the animal got ut away, though sorely hurt and bleeding in torrents;b whilst fleeing trom his pursuers the elephant was observed to pick up mud with his trunk, and plaister it. the wounded parts, clearly fir the purpose of stopping h pi m nn o t lent hemorrhage, the vital effect whereof was each g be a c it om o i f n : a l . unsteady scenes.-- united os snore evident a t i he of sla ti c i l o c s e e nn s if ' becoming united Service Gazette. t he quantity of c orn SHOOTING.-oWing to still remaining uncut, the retu rns of our s p ortin g fri ends no me ans very favourable. The best bag N i v i a c v b h e aveee yetn y heard b of was that of .a gentleman on the manor of Somerton ,who brou g ht home on th e I st eighteen aha l l o f st an i d n a t i l ' i ' e tre luxu n rn a iit viing only o n e dog, crops of clover, mbraaneye b a ibirdss nd were which would otherwise have been,,brought to bag . Sherbourne Journal. ( Iv 6z/,,e ,. / ° , riiWt• it 4; r l r, A 'Ai COURT CIRCULA t.s.' Her Royal Highness the Princess r taken an airi ng b y h er attendants on , S•af: thy at Claremont, an d yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. The Princess and her attendants left Claremont for a drive in an open carriage drawn by a pair of ponies. r - Hi; Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. George Edward Anson and Sir Edward Bowater, passed the forenoon of Thursday shoot ing in Claremont Park. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in a pony phveton, followed in a carriage and four by Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Misses Lister and Paget, Maid of Honour in Waiting; and the Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting; Colonel Wemyss and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, the Equerries in Waiting; and General the Hon. Sir Groom in Waiting, attending on horseback. The Royal Dinner party at Claremont in tl►e evening included the Viscount and Viscountess GGuilla►nore, and the Hon. Berkeley and Mrs. Paget. Yesterday morning at an early hour the Queen and Prince Albert walked for an hour in the grounds at Claremont. - His Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards left Claremont, on a shooting excursion, attended by Sir Edward Bowater and the Earl of Listowel. The party returned at half-past one o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Royal suite, are expected to leave Ciaremont this afternoon for Windsor Castle. W e omitted to announce that the Earl of Ux bridge went to Claremont last Friday (the 3d instant) to tender his resignation with the other Great Officers of the Household, but his Lord ship's successor not having been appointed, he officiated as Lord Chamberlain at the Council during the proceeding of that day. On Wednes day last, having been summoned fur that pur pose, Lord Uxbridge attended at Claremont and delivered the Key of Office to the Queen. Her Royal. highness the Duchess of Glouces ter left her residence in Bagshot Park yesterday morning for Kew, and paid a visit to the Duchess of Cambrithre. Her Royal Highness proceed to Kensington, and in the evening went to Cam bridge House. _ . Vie Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lieute nant-Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday morning, from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness honoured the Exhibition in Suffolk street with a visit, and afterwards returned to Kew. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday. from Cambridge. Sir James Graham left town on Thursday evening, .for Dorchester. The Hon. H. Manners Sutton left town yester day, for Norwich. NORTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION, (From .the Liverpool Mercury.) On Wednesday evening last a new writ was issued for the Northern Division of this county, in consequence of Lord Stanley having accepted the seals of the Foreign Department, under the Administration of Sir Robert. Peel. We have not yet heard of any opposition to the. renegade Whig; and we fear that, in the present slate of the registration, it would be unavailing were it attempted. Neither can we imagine on what grounds, consistent with his former professions, he can ask the electors of North Lancashire for their suffrages, in the capacity of a sub ordinate of Sir Robert Peel, a man in whom, as he de clared but a few years ago, he felt no confiden& what ever. Doubtless he wilt ,enter into some sort of explana tion on this knotty point in his forthcoming address, for which we look with much curiosity. In the meantime, and for the purpose of comparison with that document when it shalt appola-, we submit to the electors of North Lancashire a copy of Lord Stanley's address to them seven years ago, requesting their particular attention to those parts of it which we have taken the liberty to mark in italics : TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION OF TILE :COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER. Gentlemen—The expected dissolution of Parliament being this day announced, I hasten again to offer myself as a candidate for the honour. of representing the. northern division of this county. My public conduct, in office and out of office, is before you ; my political prin ciples are well known to you ; and my conscience tells me that I have taken no step, since I last was honoured with your confidence., by which I should deserve to for feit it. lam, as I have ever been, a zealous and earnest advo cate for such riforms in our institutions, ecclesiastical as civil, us may remove just causes of complaint, may extend their usqfuliiess, and increase their ciliciencp ; I am, as I have ever been, anxious to protect th Jse institutions against such innovations as may enaanger their safety or. their existence. I ceased to belong to the late Adminis tration, because, having cord; ally co-operated in the. various measures of Reform, 'which they had introduced,. I feared the destructive tenilency of an important step to which they had been h.:(1 to give their assent ; Ide - dined to joint That which i new fanned, because I had !no pullic groznals for confluence that they would boldly and strenuously act upon these principles of .Thform which 1 •Ze lieve to be esssntial to he national we fare. I come bef( ere ' you, therefore, unfet.ered by any tie of party ; bay nd only by those pri-wiples which I have unvaryingly p:ro fesled—on which. I have constantly/acted, and, professi ng which, I have already been twice honoured with your support. Should you again return me to Parliament, I go thither, pledged neither to support, nor to oppose, the present, nor any other set of Ministers. Should I find that the King', Government, however composed, gives full and free scope to the principles to which every day's reflection s',rves but to confirm my attachment, shall give they my humble but cordial aid towards carrying them in to effect ; should I find them rashly endangering the inn ,titutions of the country, I shall labour earnestly to pr otect these institutions ; should I find them slow to remedy acknowledged grievances, or madly resisting the ra tion,al desire of temperate improvement, my vote will be but one among the vast majority of my countrymen who will com pel them to advance in the steady progress of unflinching but Constitutional Reform. Resolved to act on these principles; having no object, in view but the welfare of our common country ; and. really to offer the fullest explanation upon any part or my past coneuct, or future intentions, which you may deem to require it, I respectfully solicit at your hands the renewal of the high trust which you have already twice co nfided to me.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, ye ur obliged and faithful servant, STANLEY. NLEY. Bewsley, December 31, 1834. HORRIBLE MURDER AT BRIGHTON. —On this Thursday a town, in f te consequencer afternoon the of greatestth the discoveryex c i nie n of rthe s prevailed exe in ed head and limbs of a newly-born infant in the water closet of a house occupied by a lace-dealer and mil ' liner, named Hayward, residin g next d oor to the o!,d Ship Tavern, on the King's -road. For some two or • three days an abominable stench had emanated from tl ie closet, and the works did not act with their usual fr eedom, which occasioned the calling in of a plumber, who, on removing the pan, found first the head, and then. the two shoulders and arms, and part of the breast, of a child a few hours old. Solomon, the chief officer of police was sent for, and the remains of. l tiOaFill-fatedmt victim of seduction were removed to the Town hall, where they now lie, awaiting a Coroner's in quest. The police have been indefatigable if their investigations, and now suspicion attaches itself to a ,young woman who was observed by a little girl to go to ,the closet at the latter end of last week, and to remain there a long time, since which she has not been heard of. In the present stage of the affair it would he h1g . 11 1 Z,i; e 7,4 In-opera.° give the n ame o f t h e suspectedilartY r snore especially as t h e C oroner ' s Jury will in all probabi lity sit on S a t ur d ay. RAILWAY T RAF FIC.—The following arcthe receipts of th e p r i nc i pa l ra i lways for the past week,that ras is to say, u p t o th e d ate to which the respectic 1.,0rk are made:—Blackwall, 1,0741.; Brightel, 2 and North Midl an d, 1,7 33 1 ; H u ll an d :5e12b.16',3 North Midland, 4,896/ ; Midland C o unties, 274 1. Birmingham an d Derby, 1,1821. ; South w,r r trn ; Great Western, 14,844/. ; Greenwich, 511 . LADY.—Thursday SUDDEN DEATH OF A Arms, Kennington famu,ngll9a,n2dl,7ll,;3sl2al.stern Counties, 907/; B and Great North LADY. --- an inquest was held at the Clay - the body of Mrs. Jane llear c n e , ase _ d was a widow lady of from the evidence that thede at No. 1, liennington oval. independence. She resided d , y , very g6od. About seven oval, before Mr. Carter, Coronetr°agnfoerdstisrr.eyitonapvpieewareodf the 'l" above day she was disco !ecelrochkeaolnththwe•aesv, • Verdict—" Died by the visita vered dead in a chair. packet ship Hendrik Hud son, of God." mt.nts of which we took occa tice some time back, has departed on her first sion to no Toss the Atlantic, from the port of Lon eitiPingto of return s out no less than 75 cabin and 235 She came don. being the greatest number ever passengers, steerage sen, r t h h e v e o e s y fi a c g ie e e l l i l i e d w i n d ti l u i-111aen : cf, ; taken out to New York by any of the sailing pack e t s theirais-,1017 establishment. In additi on to t hi s, Captain „ n , we are told, takes out a good freight. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. —On Thurs day, as Mr. Edward Godfrey, a young gentleman of this town, was on his way out of the Spa, he had not walked more than about a mile from the town when he got up on a car which was passing, and had only been a short time sitting on it when he suddenly fell back and imme diately expired. He had been for some time previous in a delicate state of health.—Kerry Examiner. UNUSUAL CIRCLIAISTANCE.--It is a curious fact that there are at the present moment two boroughs in England, both seats for which are vacated in conse quence of the ex-Members having accepted office under the new Government of Sir R. Peel. These are—l. The borough of Huntin g d on, whose late members, Sir I. appointed n l l t t e ) cdk Attorney -General J. Peel, a eel nd Surveyor-General of have respectively been the Ordnance. The other borough is Marlborough, the e ß rs ari f n o n r ., have w hich, espectively been made Vice -I.laitoon A H I e.nßi b . Lord Ernest Bruce and the Vice- Chamberlain and a Lord of the Treasury. Marlbo rough and Huntingdon are, therefore, for a brief inter val, virtually placed in schedule A. " I feel very queer about my stomach," as the man said when the pike went through him. EVENING SU I