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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. M0rning......30 minute. after 7. Evening...... 2 minutes after S. Thg • LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1841. It was generally supposed that Mr. BEAUMONT SMITH would plead guilty; his doing so, there fore, only so far disappointed the public as it has completely stifled those disclosures which the examination of witnesses and the defence were expected to elicit. Why was it supposed that Mr. SMITH would plead guilty, when our law offers every criminal, defended by a sagacious Counsel, so many chances of escape ? He had engaged Sir THOMAS WILDE to defend him ; that Learned Gentleman is known never to give up a cause ; it could not have been anticipated that he would recommend a plea of guilty, and the gene ral anticipation must, therefore, have been founded on the circumstances of the case itself. The pub lic had marked how it had been secretly inquired into at the Home-office; what lame evidence was produced against SMITH at Bow-street, and RA.. PALLO at the Mansion-house; and there was a general suspicion that strong motives existed somewhere for huddling up the case as closely and snugly as possible. Hence the general be lief that SMITH would plead guilty, in order to withdraw his case as speedily as possible from the public eye. If such suspicions existed before the trial, what passed on Satu rd ay has confirmed them. Mr. SMITH declared " I never derived benefit, even to the small extent necessary, to relieve me from my comparatively trifling embarrassments, and I am at this momen t in d ebt for mo ney actually borrowed from sources unconnected with Exchequer bills, to pay off my original incum-- brances." Who has derived benefit, then ? wh o has pocketed the 360,0001. of which several parties have been defrauded ? If not Mr. SMITH, who is this gigantic spoiler of the public? Who could have influence enough over him to induce him to forge Exchequer bills to such an enor mous amount, from which he derived no benefit? Mr. SMITH thus described the mysteriousindi viduals : "Pecuniary difficulty, arising from misplaced confi dence, and liabilities of a very limit e d ex t e nt, not exceed ing a few hundred pounds, although beyond my means to next, first exposed me to the suggestions of those who tempted me to obtain a temporary relief by the fraudulent fabrication of Exchequer bills, to be pledged for a short time, and then to be redeemed and cancelled for ever. I yielded to the temptation, but without obtaining the pro mised relief, and, once committed, I became in the power of the tempter, and my retreat has been prevented." It was not his own thought, therefore, familiar as he must have been with Exchequer bills, that tempted him; it was other persons, and they must have known of the possibility, known even of the feasibility, of forging Exchequer bills, and perhaps knew that the thing had before been successfully done. The dark and mys terious inquiry in secret at the Home-office, the commitment of Mr. SMITH on a lame confession, and his present declaration that he was tempted by others, who must have known the whole mode of managing the issue of Exchequer bills, and never derived any advantage from putting into circulation forged paper to such an enormous amount, involve the subject in inscrutable mys tery, and give a solid ground for the very worst , suspicions. We cannot understand M ` . Smirn's assumed motives for remaining here, founded, as he says, on a notion of honour, while a halter was, as it were, round his neck, when he might have fled from the country, in order to give a full explana tion when the detection should take place. During the long period of my distress, therefore (he says), although I was nearly overcome by it, yet I was induced to continue the commission of my offences to avoid im mediate disgrace, and forbore making a full disclosure of my previous criminal conduct, which I had often desired to do. I therefore always resolved, that whenever the time of discovery should come, that I would remain and instantly avow myself as the solely guilty official person, and make the best reparation in my power, by prevent ing unnecessary alarm and agitation to the public. I de termined that I would bear the whole consequences of my guilt, and not permit the innocent and honourable persons in the office, whether high or low, to be subjected to unjust suspicion." Who can believe that statement? We do not. Mr. SMITH never expected detection. He lived on in complete security, and those who beguiled him promised him to the last perfect safety and impunity. No man sins so egregiously certain that he will be detected and exposed; and Mr. SMITH, the instant the hope of impunity had left him, would, we believe, have fled had he not instantly fallen into the gripe of the law. That statement is meant to conceal the real motive of Mr. SMITH'S conduct, which appears to us to be a wish to sacrifice himself and take on himself the whole official guilt, for those who, knowing the feasibility of forging Exchequer bills, had tempted him to commit the offence. The termination of the trial has put an end to all present means of investigat ing the subject; the public are left com pletely in the dark ; but not so the Ministers. They have received, and possess, all Mr. RA PALLO'S communications. They investigated the matter for several days at the Home-office ; they knew, it is therefore to be presumed, all the par ticulars to which Mr. SMITH has alluded. If the public be not made acquainted with those parti culars, it will be universally suspected that the Ministers have strong motives for keeping the public in the dark. If, after Mr. SMITH'S con , duct, any favour be shown him in the penal colonies, it will be suspected that he pleaded guilty from a hope, if not from a promise, of finding favour. If the whole matter be not cleared up—if those individuals who tempted Mr. SMITH, and who have plundered the Exchequer, or individuals, of such enormous sums be not dragged into day—if the dates of the first forgery he not stated—if all the agents be not named (for Mr. RAPALLO is supposed to have become an agent at a late period of the transac tion)—if the share of the several individuals con- cerned be not made known—the public will have reason to be dissatisfied, and to entertain the gravest suspicions. For the honour of public men the matter must not be left enveloped in its present mystery. Mr. Baron PARKE'S observation, that Mr. SMITH'S conduct " entailed ruin on hundreds of individuals, and loss to many of their whole for tunes," has excited much uneasiness. We hope that it is not to be considered as an exposition of the law on the case, as it' it were settled in the minds of the Judges that the Government can not be held responsible fur the forgeries. If that be the law, a number of individuals will, indeed, suffer serious loss; but we shall wait till the case is tried before a competent Court to believe tha t the Judge means so to decide. If that shall, however, be considered as the law, the Govern ment must be prepared to pay off all its Exche quer Bills, for they will no longer be " current money with the merchants." We have heard of one banker who has already declined receiving Exchequer Bills. We have always thought that the question of payment or not would mainly depend on the knowledge of the individuals holding the bills that they were improperly come by, and that, where no suspicion of complicity existed, the Go vernment would pay the bills, which its own dishonest servant had issued. On this ground we regret that the trial has failed to supply the public with any information, and that the words of Mr. Baron PARKE imply that the whole loss will fall on the individuals who hold the forged bills. But Mr. Baron PARKE has, we trust, been premature in expounding the law, and the Go vernment will not inflict ruin on individuals by the wickedness of its own servants. The Lord Bishop of RlPON—the words are so printed in the Tory Journals, with a view of re storing to the princes of the Church some of their lost feudal grandeur, and of endowing them with a Puseyite veneration in the minds of the people, and so imposing on and cheating the public understanding— the Lord Bishop of RIPON stated at a great public meeting, held at Wakefield on Thursday last, to promote educa tion, that England was on this point behind several other nations. It was a humiliating fact, with respect to Europe at large, that, with the exception of the two extremities of it, Rulsia and Spain, England stood the lowest in the scale of popular education. There ought in every coun try to be one-fourth of the whole community receiving a general education. He doubted whether in any country the maximum had ever been attained. In Wurtemberg, perhaps, the higl - - t of any country, there was one-fifth of the populatioi_ submitting to education. His Lord ship then referred to one of the cantons of Switzerland, where an immense sum was annually granted for the education of the people, and to the fact that a law had been passed in Austria preventing any man from being married, or any tradesmen from employing workmen, until he could read, write, and cast accounts. His Lord • ship next alluded to the schools in Scotland, established in every village, and supported by a tax ou the landed proprietors. With respect to England, however, it proved a lamentable exception to the rest of Europe, for in this country only 1 out of every 11 or 12 were under primary education ; and if that were the case with re spect to England, they must be satisfied that in that diocese, comprising as it did a large manufacturing dis trict, the average must be still less favourable. This is a sad and a humiliating fact, but to whom is it humiliating? To the bulk of the people ? No. To the master manufacturers ? No. To the clergy? Yes. To the law-makers, to the gentry ? Yes ;to them it is deeply humi liating, had they any right feeling, but they seem to have no shame on account of their own scandalous negligence. _ Whose duty is it, and has it been, to educate the people ? Not .that of the master-manufac turers, or the people themselves. The duty of the first is to preside over their establishments, to devise and execute new fabrics, to make and sell cloth and iron, and supreminently well have they performed this duty. The duty of the second is to assist the masters, and contribute to the production of useful articles, and nobly have they done their part. The duty of the clergy is to educate the people. To perform that duty they are set apart, exonerated from all produc tive labour, amply endowed, and richly paid. Our ancestors, not unmindful of the great social task confided t o t h e c l ergy, appropriated most mun ificent estates f or th e purpose, wh i ch have i ncreased in value as society has increased in nu mbers and. wealth ; but th e c l erg y h ave misappropriated these endowments, and have perverted them to enrich the priestho o d. Wretchedly as the people have been fed, they have been even worse taught; and the old reply of the farmer to the p arson marks with great accuracy the relative duties of the parties. When Hodge was reproached by his Reverence with being better fed than taught, Hodg e rejoi ne d cc True, for I feed myself, an d you teach me." feed and clothe society is th e business he of the farmers, manufacturers, and their work men; to teach it is the expressbusiness tement of le and duty of the priesthood. The tt Lord Bishop is therefore damning proof of the mi s , behaviour of the priesthood. On this proof, however, the priesthood now found a demand for further favour and further power, and ask for greater opportunities to b e still more criminally negligent. Not conten t with their present dominion, they grasp at the whole education of the people, that they may consign them to still greater ignorance and still darker superstition. It will be worth while to consider for one mo ment the manner in which the duties of the pro ducing and the teaching classes have been per formed. Our education, says the Lord Bishop, stands the lowest in the scale of Europe, save and except Russia and Spain, Our productions stand •at the very head of the civilised world. In com parison to the size of the country and the num ber of the people, England, in wealth and me chanical power, is the foremost of all the nations of the world. Honour, great honour, this to the producing classes. Disgrace, great disgrace, this state of education to the teaching classes. Ad mirably have the producing classes done their duty, and scandalously have the teaching classes neglected theirs ; yet, with an impudence which surpasses even their negligence, they continually reproach the producing classes, and continually assume to themselves the Godlike merit of pre serving and sustaining society, and continually demand more power and more wealth. That simple statement is quite sufficient to establish the view which we take of the duties of the educating and producing classes, but it may be not inappropriately enforced by the little we know of the production and distribution of wealth in former and present times. In 1696 the population of England and Wales was estimated by Mr. GREGORY KING at 5,500,000. According to the late census it is now 15,911,321, or it has increased nearly three fold; for the sake of simplicity we will say threefold. In 1691 the nett income paid into the Exche quer, according to Mr. CHALMERS, in his" Com parative Estimate," was 4,249,757/. Taking round numbers, let us assume that it was in 1696 5,000,0001. Last year the payments into the Ex chequer on account of Great Britain were 44,000,0001. sterling. The population of Scot land is 2,628,957, or more than one-sixth of that of England and Wales. We substract, there fore, one-sixth of this revenue to obtain the re venue now yielded by England and Wales alone, which makes the revenue last year of Eng land and Wales 37,700,0001. While the popula tion, therefore, has increased since 1696 three fold, the revenue has increased sevenfold. Whatever may be thought of the manner in which the Government has done its duty to the productive classes, there can be no doubt whatever that the productive classes-- in providing the Government with a revenue sevenfold as great as in the reign of King WILLIAM, and more than twice as great as their ancestors provided at that period, man for man-- have amply done their duty to the Government. Each man now pays more than double the sum, for the services of the Government, which each man paid in 1696. In 1696, the rental of England and Wales was estimated, by Mr. GREGORY KING, at 10,000,000/. It is now, according to Mr. M'Cut.- Locn's calculations, in his statistical work, at the very lowest 30,000,000/., which we believe to be an under estimate ; but, assuming that the rental has increassd only to 30,000,000/., even that is a greater increase than the population. About 1696, the revenue of the Church, in England and Wales, was estimated at 577,000/. ; at present it is at least 3,500,000/. ; or, while the population has increased only threefold, the in come of the priesthood has increased more than sixfold, exclusive of sundry grants made to them, to the extent of nearly 3,000,000/. within a few years, and yet they are not contented. We are sensible of a discrepancy in these statements, between the great increase of the in come of the priesthood, and the increase in the rent ofland; and we are inclined on this, as well as on other considerations, to suppose that the pre sent rental of England and Wales is much under estimated by Mr. M'CuLLocx. At the same time, it is not to be expected that the increase of the rental should have kept pace with the in crease of the rental should have kept pace with the revenues of the Church. The latter, till the Tithe Commutation Act passed, was derived from a share of the gross produce of land, which increased as the production increased; the former is paid only out of the net produce, and after all the expenses of cultivation have been paid. Besides these contributions of the working classes to the revenue of the State, the rent of the landowners, and the income of the clergy, there is another branch of wealth, we mean the profit on capital, which has increased in a much greater ratio than either the rent of land, the income of the clergy, or the revenue of the State ; but we do not pretend to have any data on which to calculate the increase since 1696. It is certain, however, from the great num ber of persons who now live in opulence and ease, without toil, that the increase in the amount of profit, all of which is yielded by la bour, has been very great indeed. Taking into consideration this great increase—the increase in the income of the clergy, in the rental of land, and in the revenue of the Government—it must be at once apparent that the working classes have energetically done their duty to society. Their condition as to education, as to food clothing, and lodging, proves, on the contrary , that the other class es h ave not d one their duty, towards the working classes. They have not not obtained a due share of the wealth they have produced, while their education has been almost wholly and shamefully neglected. Do we from this statement infer that the priesthood should be encouraged to educate the people more and control their edu cation ? No. We infer from it that the priest hood is totally inefficient to perform the duties prescribed to it. We infer, too, from such facts as the establishment of mechanics' institutes that the productive classes, if not interfer-,d with, and if allowed t o h ave a d ue share ' d i th e i r l own productions, will educate tle-. nse l ves. In fact, they have done this f or al! useful p ur p oses . . 1 . - r The prime object of the education, and o f t h e Is to enabl e th em to per form of all men. , their dutp - , s, the chief of w hi c h i s to get their own subsistence; and if th e e d ucat i on of the worsting men enables them amply to provide fmi, clothing, comforts, and conveniences for society, their education is what it ought to be. No other education is of any importance com pared to that; and that species of education, the apprenticeship by which trades are learnt, the working classes confer on one another, and no other persons can confer it on them. For them book education is an amusement, a recreation, a pastime, which they would do well to cultivate; but it is not necessary to the performance of their duty as producers. As members of a political society they have duties to perform in relation to the Go vernment and their fellow-citizens, which require a considerable degree of education, but this edu cation they must give thenlelves, or get it as r:;sthood and gen t ry w il l they can, and th e p r i only use the poweg of giving it, if they have that power to corrupt and mislead the people. So far from concluding that the priesthood should regulate the public education, it is clear that over the education which enables the different classes to perform each his respective duties they can have no influence. They may be able to educate priests, but they cannot educate a nail maker, an engineer, or a sailor. They might in the attempt mar these useful labourers. Over the moral education of society a paid priesthood, bribed to support a system, not to find out and maintain the truth, can have none but a most per nicious influence, and under such a pernicious influence, of such a priesthood, is England now suffering, as the total disregard of moral prin ciple in her legislators testifies. 'he inquest on the bodies of a poor woman of the name of THOMPSON, and her infant child, at Pennington, Lancashire, of which we published the commencement on Thursday, terminated on the afternoon of that clay, when the Jury re turned the following verdict :—" That the de ceased being reduced to a state of extreme want and mental suffering, came to the de termination of destroying herself; and, being unwilling to leave her infant child behind, destroyed her likewise." This amounts to a verdict of murder and felo de se, and the bodies of the mother and child, placed in the same coffin, were committed to the earth at a late hour in the evening, without the usual rites of the Church. This is a heart-rending story, surpassing anything possibly that fiction ever invented. The accounts received leaye "IV 114. * 51".1 "‘ ate il;" THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1841. no doubt that the afflicted fellow-creature who thus brought herself and child to an untimely end, was an industrious hard-work ing woman, was greatly attached to her children, and made every exertion to keep herself and them out of the workhouse. She struggled on, day after day, sometimes by wash ing, and at other times by weaving, making out 2s. 9d. a week to support herself and three chil dren ; but finding all hopes of bettering her con dition vain, and worn out with hunger, suffer ing, and sorrow, she yielded at last to " out rageous fortune," and in a fit of despair put an end to her child, whom she dearly loved—and then hanged herself in the miserable abode, so long the scene of her sufferings. The following brief account by one of the witnesses, examined on the first day, will enable the reader to jndge whether this picture is exaggerated : On Saturday night week she had half-a-crown, and bought some coals and potatoes for the ensuing week. She earned Bd. in a house where she had been washing ; and she got 3d. from me. On Thursday night she bur rowed 6d , with which she bought 3d. worth of coals, and 3(1. worth of jannock bread. On Saturday night she came in to pay me the 6d., but I would not take it from her, although lam very poor myself. This was all the money she had to support herself and three children fir the last week. She was a very hard-working clean woman, and remarkably so according to her situation in life. She had seldom more to live on, as far as I could learn, than 2s. 6d. a week. James Smith, of Chuwbent, is the landlord of the cellar, and he sent bailiffs there twice for the rent ; but, seeing her destitute condition, they could not find it in their hearts to sell the few ar ticles of furniture she possessed.—[A gentleman present stated that, on one occasion, the bailiff was so much touched with her destitute condition, that he gave her half-a-crown.] The deceased had three children by Wood, the eldest of whom is a boy, seven years of age, and the next a girl, about eighteen months old, and the child that was drowned, who was eight months old. For the rest of the evidence we refer to the report in another part of the Paper, and on reading it we can come to no other conclusion than that the unfortunate woman and her child fell victims to the severity of the Poor-law. The cruelty of the bastardy clause, and the un fair advantage given by it to a heartless se ducer, we took every opportunity of press ing upon the notice of the public when the Bill was before Parliament; yet the original clause was agreed to with little modification, and this sad catastrophe is one of the results. The relieving officer at Leigh put this beyond doubt. " There is," said he, "a general un willingness on the part of - Unions to affiliate, on account of the expense and difficulty of getting the money from the fathers. They laugh at our attaching their wages." The poor woman, no doubt knew this well, she knew she could not compel the father to maintain the children, and she submitted to her fate. The Jury we consi der guilty of gross neglect of duty, in not point ing out the real cause of this lamentable event, and pressing it on the attention of the Home Secretary. They make no allusion to it in their verdict, though the Foreman com mented in strong terms on the conduct of the father " for not lending the mother and children assistance." Out of evil, however, coinedi good, and, when the Act comes before Parliament for revision, this sad scene will not be forgotten. It is a scene disgraceful to the age. While the land abounds with wealth, while Bishops and Peers and, pensioners contrive to wring vast sums from the hard-earned wages of the working classes, while Parliament levies from them yearly enormous sums to put into the pockets of a favoured class, a poor deserted creature, of the same sex as our beloved SOVEREIGN, with three young children, and anxious to work for their maintenance, is doomed to live on five-pence a-day, and even, that pittance failing, is driven to commit murder and suicide in the hope of finding relief in that place "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." The severe laws of the Church forbid her Christian burial, but will she and her innocent offspring sleep the less soundly, or will her merciful CREATOR view as a crime the deed which stern necessity and the cruel laws of man forced her in an evil hour to commit ? The Paris Journals contain no pOlitical news of the slightest interest. The organs of the Court including, of course, the Presse .and the Journal des Debats, repudiate the proposal to replace, M. SAUZET by M. DE LAMARTINF, as Presi dent of the Chamber of Deputies. Both are Mi nisterial men, and the attempt to place them in opposition to each other, the Journals denounce as a trick of the Opposition—clever, certainly, but which will be unsuccessful. A letter from Bou!ges, in the France, states that the con sort of Don Carlos is entirely recovered from her indis position.—Gatignani's Messenger, Dec, 2, Pants, DEC. 2.—The last accounts from Bosnia and the Herzegowina are still afflicting. The unhappy Bos nian Christians who took part in the late insurrection, and who escaped from the axe of the executioner, are now compelled to live in the forests. As to timed who took no part in the movement, they are not the less ex posed to persecution. The Vladika continues his excur sions on the Turkish territory with success, and it Is easy to foresee that in the event of a new insurrection of the Christians in Turkey, if it should be at all general, this chief is destined to play a leading part in it. The Em peror of Austria has sent to the Vizier of Bosnia a silver gilt sugar basin, in order to remind him that the friend ship of this monarch is as sweet as the produce of the sugar cane, and he has added to the sugar basin a valu able drinking cup, with the expression of a hope that the Vizier may empty it frequently to the health of the two monarchs who arc united for the welfare of humanity. The trial of the persons implicated in the republican plot, which broke out at Marseilles on the 23d of March last, tlie ramifications of which extended to the districts Orange, Avignon, and Carpentras, commenced on the 27th of November, before the Court of Assize of the mouth of the Rhine. As early as eight in the morning an immense crowd filled the avenue to the Court of Justice. Two com panies of the 31st regiment were stationed in the Court yard. The accused were 53 in number. After the reading of the indictment the Attorney- General stated the case for the accused. Rana Gittotier, Martin, and Ravel, were interrogated ; all four retracted their previous declarations, and positively denied all the facts imputed to them in the indictment.—Constilutionnel. On Tuesday Queen Christina of Spain dined with their Majesties. The Prince and Princess d'Angola, Count and Countess de Toreno, M. Zea Bermudez, M. Zea Colembi, General Bernelle, late Commander of the Foreign Legion in Spain, Admiral Rosamel, and Captain Lent"-, of the Navy, were of the Royal party. In the evening the King and Queen received Marshal Soult, the Duke de la Rochefoucault, the Duke de Massa, the Marquis de Louvois, M. de la Villegontier, the Count de Segur, the Count de Bondy, M. de Gasparin, the Count de Simeon, Baron Feutrier, and General Saint Simon. The plains between Beaumont and 'lsle Adam are entirely inundated by the overflowing of the banks of the Oise. The Journal General de l'lnatruction Publique says —" The Municipal Council of Paris have just resolved that teachers of both sexes in the municipal schools, after five years' service and constant good conduct, may have their salaries increased from 2,000 fr. up to 2,400 fr. for the male teachers, and 2,100 fr. for the females. All teachers now in the exercise of their functions will be allowed to enjoy the benefit of this vote, from the Ist January next." The Minister of Foreign Affairs opened his saloons on Tuesday evening for the first time since the close of the last Session, and although nearly a month must elapse before aalletohn theesifdoerreaigblae Ministers, affluencecommencement o f o a f m t ge h nr e eoa n ft e p x mo t S tni es yca s l i i o n, n, eoet note. there Nearly l a y ; greater number of Deputies were present . The Gazette 4e rrawe s??'s that the proposition of M. Remilly for roldbring a seat in the Chamber of D e puties irreoMpatible with a Government appointment will cer tainly be renewed next Session. A few days ago a young girl of fourteen, who Whe jy love with a young man living the Rut Oreniere-St.- Lazare, left her mother's hoot, and joined her lover at his residence. She wag discovered there two days after wards by her mother and the Commissary of Police, and compelled to return to her home. The young man, although he declared that the girl had voluntarily gone to him, which was confirmed by her, was taken into cus tody on a charge of seduction of a minor. The sentence of death pronounced by the Court of Assises of the Seine upon Huot, aged seventeen, for attempt at murder and fOr theft, in the Wood of Vin cennes—a case which we mentioned some time ago—has been commuted by the King into imprisonment with hard labour for life. " A letter from Athens," says the Temps, " states that the disputes between the Ottoman and Greek Govern ments, concerning indemnities claimed by Turks fur pro perty still held by Greeks, are settled. There now only remain the arrangements for the district of Pthiotis, the property of the mosques, and the questions of Zubcca and Thebes, which a re in suspense, By a Royal Orclonnance, dated the 22d ult., a credit of 100,000 francs is opened for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, under the head of " frais d'etablissement," and by another ordonnance of the same date 50,000 francs are allowed for extraordinary missions and unforeseen ex penses. The Council-General of the hospitals of Paris has just decided c dec oun id cil ed on sup press i ng f or a month the salary of a chaplain o f t h e Hotel Dieu,- as a punishme n t f or hi s having attempt e d to extort confessions from the p a ti ent;. has agreed to refer the oosideration of further proceedings against the almoner to the Ministers t of the Interior and Public Worship. A few days ago, the Mayor of Lyons distributed the forty livrcts, or books-of-deposits, in the savings' banks of twenty francs each, for which the Duke d'Aumale left the amount when he passed through Lyons, with in structions than it should be divided amongst the most deserving pupils of the communal schools. The deposits have been divided equally between the ecoles chretienner and the ecoles d'enseignement mutual. Eight young girls were among the - number. A physician keeping a maison de sante, and receiving into his care a prisoner for debt, is responsible for his safe custody, unless he can prove that the evasion of his patient was the consequence of irresistible force. In case of escape, the creditor suing the physician for da mages, is not bound to prove that it was the consequence of neglact on the part of the physician, or those having the direction of the establishment. This was declared to bo the law in an action before the Cour Royale, which came to a hearing- on Tuesday. M. Boucheporn, Re ceiver-General of &o Haute Marne, obtained judgment against Mr. John Irving, a Scotchman, for a debt of 46,740 f., upon which he was arrested and committed to prison; and detainers were afterwards lodged against him to the amount of 100,0001'. After three years' con finement,, Mr. Irving, upon a medical certificate, obtained an Order of Court, to be transferred to a maison de sante, kept by a Dr. R., who thereupon undertook the safe cus tody of the debtor. On the 16th of May last, Mr. Irving, in attending a lady who was in the habit of visiting him to her carriage, as he had repeatedly done before, instead of returning into the house, got i n t o th e carr i age w ith her, made off, and has been no more seen in France. The facts being proved, and the arguments of the Counsel on both sides being heard, the Court decided in favour of the liability of the physician, and adjudged him to pay da mages to M. Boucheporn to the amount of 10,000 f., to gether with all his costs of suit. The Droit states that it has received a letter from the journeymen brassfounders, explaining the grounds upon which they have struck work. They admit that they have required the masters to diminish five hours a week in their work, but deny that they have demanded any increase of pay. They quote many cases of illness and death arising from their excess of labour. At the same time they deny the truth of the accusation brought against them, of having endeavoured to turn from their work such of their fellow-labourers as chose to remain em ployed. Some more arrests of these men were made yesterday. Rear-Admiral Parseval Dechene has been appointed Maritime Prefect at Cherbourg, in the room of Rear- Admiral de Martineng. who is admitted into the second section of the Staff of Admirals. In mentioning this change, the Temps says, " The naval officers of the port of Cherbourghave presented to Rear-Admiral Marti neng, in testimony of their esteem and regard on his quitting the Maritime Prefecture of that station, a fine painting of the battle of Algesiras, for his conduct on which occasion M. de Martineng was pro moted from the rank of Capitaine de Fregate to that of Capitaine de Vaisseau. The picture re presents the French division at anchor and the fleet of Admiral de Saumarez coming down to the attack. Ad miral Linois' ship Formidable is seen in the fore-ground, and near her the English ship Hannibal, which was taken. In the distance is the Muiron frigate, Capt. Martineng, who has sent 130 of his men to occupy Ile Verte, where the British boats were going to take pos session of it, and one o f w hi c h was sunk, and another captured. • On the picture are inscribed the names and dates of all the principal actions in which the Admiral has been engaged—namely, Port-au-Prince, in 1793 ; Frejus, in 1793 ; Bull Bay, in 1790; Algesiras, in 1801; the taking of Port-dc-Paix, in 1802; Trafalgar, in 1805; Ferroll, in 1806 ; Cadiz, in 1808 ; and Arcos, in 1809." On turning to the columns of the Annual Register for 1801, we find a long account of the action in the Bay of Algesiras above alluded to, accompanied by a handsome testimonial to the coolness and courage displayed in it by the French. The substance of the narrative we subjoin :—" The French squadron was that of the Ca diz station, under Admiral Linois, and consisted of two 80-gun ships, one 74, a frigate (that of Captain Marti neng), and several cutters. It lay at anchor off Algesi ras, on the 4th of July ; and Admiral de Saumarez, on receiving information of this, resolved to attack the French force. The British squadron consisted of three 84-gun ships, two 74 (one of which was the Hannibal), a 40-gun frigate, and a 16-gun lugger. On the morning of the sth he sailed towards the French squadron, but was inconvenienced by light winds, which forced the English frigate to come to an anchor, from the same cause the Hannibal ran aground near one of the Spanish batteries. These batteries were of formidable strength at Algesiras, and they fired on the British ships throughout the action. The battle was a sharp one, and though Admiral de Saumarez endeavoured to run between the Hannibal and the French squa. dron and batteries, he could not do so on account of the wind, and he was obliged to sail away. The Hannibal (Captain Ferris) upon this struck her flag, after having had most of her sails and rigging shot away, and with 143 of her crew killed or wounded. The total loss of the British ships was 375 killed and wounded. On the other hand, the two 80-gun ships of the French squa dron, Formidable and Indomptable, were stranded in ' this action, after their Captains had been killed, and the 74 was disabled from service. The Madrid Gazette of that period claimed the honour of capturing the Han nibal for one of the Spanish batteries, and asserted that the French loss in this action was 800 killed and wounded. This battle was announced in an official note read in all the theatres of Paris, by which it was stated that six British ships of the line had been either taken or beaten back into Gibraltar by. three French ships, but no mention was made of the Spanish batteries. . The sth of July was called the Naval Ma rengo, and the destruction of the Modern Carthage was predicted in an epigram much admired at the time be cause it had lost its Hannibal. A week after this action, the French squadron having succeeded in getting the Hannibal afloat, and having been reinforced by five Spa nish sail of the line under Admiral de Moreno, with three frigates and a large number of gun-boats and smal ler vessels, sailed for Cadiz, Admiral de Saumarez im mediately pursued them with the same number of ships as he had before, only the Pompey, an eighty-four, which Wald not get under weigh in time was replaced by the Thames. At night the action began with the sternmost ships of the French and Spanish squadrons, but only fold of the ilritish elflpa were able to get seriously en gaged. After a sharp running fight, two of the largest vessels of the combined squadron took fire and blew up, tWo others (Spanish three-deckers carrying each 112 guns, ran foul of each other, and both sunk ; a third struck her colours, and the remainder of the squadron was totally dispersed. The French ship Formidable, Captain Troade, was engaged by the Venerable, Captain Hood, and was nearly silenced when the mainmast of the latter was shot away, and the Formidable got into Cadiz, where ultimately the other ships of the combined squa drons, much shattered, took shelter. Admiral de Sau marez returned to Gibraltar to refit, and then proceeded to Cadiz, which he blockaded. On the news of these operations reaching England, the gallant Admiral re ceived the ribbon of the Order of the Bath," COURT CIRCULAR. The ceremony of churching the Queen took place on Saturday at 12 o'clock, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating, as sisted by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Sleath, Sub-dean of the Chapel, and the Rev. Dr. Wesley. There were present at the ceremony their Royal High nesses Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent, and the fol lowing Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal suite:—The Countess of Gainsboroggh, Lady F. Howard, Lady Caro line Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscdunt Hawarden, Lord George Lennox, Mr. J. IL Ormsby Gore, Captain Francis Seymour, and Sir Edward Bowater. . - Her Majesty and Prince Albert afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace, followed by the Royal suite, in three carriages. The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal suite, attended Divine Service yesterday morninn. in Bucking ham Palace. The Hon. and Rev, E. S. Keppel, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in 'Waiting, officiated. Tier Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived in town yesterday from his residence at Kew, and visited his Royal Highness Prince Albert at Bucking ham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty on Saturday. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipps thal visited his Royal Highness Prince Albert on Saturday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel at Ken sington Palace. Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on her Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge arrived in town en Saturday from their residence at Kew. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Kew in the evening. His Royal highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived in iown on Saturday from Dom kark, Notth ampt9r4iFt His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipps thal visited the Duchess of Kent on Saturday. Sir Robert Peel left town on Saturday for his resi dence, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Chevalier Bunsen, his Prussian Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary on a special mission, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Sir I). Davies, M.D., arrived in town on Saturday from attending her Majesti the queen Dowager at Stidbuf.,' Hall, illtititches trom the governors of Malta and Gibral tar were received yesterday at the Colonial-dice. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturtlfty, nid Lords present were Lord Brougham, Lord Campb e ll, M r, Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Nutt Mr Burge; Queen's Counsel; and Dr. Addarhs; were heard t for the ripobl,,nti ott ,4i l ,dilljOal fi'6'i4-1,i64€,,64 of FIN, instance ot Civil Jurisdiction in the Ln anu „, • fix nidad, the Right Hon. Sir George Fitzgerald kiiii, Bart., v. Thomas Bigge and Edmond Waller Rundell. Mr. Erle, Quee n ' s Cou nse l, anti Mr, Meriyale 7 were beard for the respondents, Their Lordships intimated that they would take time to consider their judgment, An appeal from Bengal was commenced, Shaikh Inadad Ali v. Mussumat liootby Begum. Mr. Miller, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Jackson, appeared for the appellant, i and Mr. Sergeant Spankie, Mr. T.4loyd, and Mr, 442und I Moore, for th e respondent, APPRENTICES To INsoLvENT4.-,—it has been recently decided by the Justices in Sessions, that an ifl! solvent, after his discharge, nannot require his appren. tice to continue to scvve him, he not having tools and business to properly teach the boy his trade, and the in dentures were ordered to be cancelled. SO ,L:FlArilf i'diVlS AND üblit 4.ptnion. " Who runs may read." POREIGN. On the 26th ult. a deputation from the Evangelical Clergy of Berlin left Prussia for England for the pur pose of ascertaining in what way funds are provided for the erection of churches. It seems the art of " robbing Peter to pay Paul" is better understood in England than in any part of the world. Letters from Stockholm of the 20th ult. report that a deputation of master manufacturers waited upon the King to thank him for the protection granted to the manufactures of Sweden by the new Tariff The ma nufacturers of Sweden, like the English corn-growers, are very grateful for the privilege of robbing the public fur their own advantage. Were the corn-growers of Swe den to thank the King f'or the protection afforded to the manufacturers, then indeed we would think some thing of it. The King of the French is resolved to keep as many strings to his bow as p oss ibl e . O n M on d ay l ast h e sen t M. Salvandy, as his Ambassador, to Madrid, to com pliment Espartero on his crushing the Christino con spiracy, and on Tuesday he entertained at dinner Queen Christina Munoz, the arch-traitress ! PUULIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle thus comments on the attempts now making in Edinburgh to enforce the strictest ob servance of the Sabbath by the most intolerant means!— " The Sabbath is an excellent institution ; apart even from all religious considerations, its moral and physical influence entitles it to be upheld. But the manner of keeping the Sabbath is a matter of opinion ; and those who are for what th e E xam i ner w ittily ca ll e its bitter observance, have no right to compel others to keep it bitterly. He who thinks it a sin to read a newspaper on Sunday should not touch one ; but he has no right to in fringe on his neighbour's liberty, and compel him to do likewise. Reverse the case. Suppose a rigid Presbyterian compelled to read a newspaper, instead of the Bible, would he not think that a gross outrage was committed on him? Do as ye would be done unto,' is the golden rule of to leration, as well as of general conduct—a maxim, how ever, too frequently forgotten in theiike ' ical warfare. Let the Sabbath be k e pt, by a ll means ; but to every man who can judge for himself must be left the manner of keeping it. We are glad, therefore, to see that in Glasgow there is a determination to put down that spe cies of intolerance, so disgracelully exhibited in Edin burgh."—We have no desire to see the Sabbath dese crated ; but, at the same time, we see no earthly reason why a long sour face should be specially cultivated on that day. If left to the good sense and good feeling of the community, the Sabbath will always be more appro priately observed, than if stringent laws are enacted for its rigid observance. No man was ever yet made pious by Act of Parliament, though hundreds have been made hypocrites thereby. To attempt to coerce men into re ligion, is the surest way to qualify them for a hot seat in that mysterious realm, which—as Pope assures 'us—is never " mentioned to ears polite." The Times, still continues querulous on the subject of Lord J. Russell's answer to the Plymouth address, ob serving :—" Lord John Russell's London friends have been able to make nothing of his answer to the Plymouth address. This, we doubt, is a great disappointment. At a time of year when statesmen, great and small, go touring about to re.ccive deputations, and dinners, and freedoms of corporations in oaken boxes, a speech, or even a written manifesto, from any such conspicuous person, is expected to make some sensation. The hero of the day, stepping forward when the curtain has dropped for the season, calculates, like a favourite dancer, to be overwhelmed with wreaths. If this glori fication does not take place, there is a good deal of mor tification, and a great many people look cross and blame one another."—lf Lord John Russell's answer has created no public sensation, why is the Times so con stantly referring to it ? Far better that it should be left to its own insignificance. But the truth is, it has created a sensation, and that is the reason why our keen-scented Contemporary is so sore on the subject. In a leading article suggested by a meeting of the in habitants of the West Riding of York, for the formation of a Diodesan Board of Education, the Herald makes the following remarks: —" Government are prepared to aid and encourage schools, but they do not intend to propose to the Legislature to provide funds necessary for the edu cation of the people. It will, however, be the fault of the wealthier portion of the community if Government do not submit to the House of Commons a much larger grant for educational purposes than the last. Before any Government,' said Lord Wharncliffe, could go to Parliament with a proposition to increase that grant to any extent, it would be necessary to show that the laity, the clergy—that all ranks of the people, were ready to contribute most liberally to the object.' Here then is a motive for immediate contributions to this great cause of public improvement., and to the diffusion of sound re ligion."—We have no great desire to see a system of na tional education established under the sanction of the Tories, for we can pretty well guess what sort of a system it will be, There will be no enlarged mind dis coverable in it; it will be made up of prejudice and in tolerance, and, as far al generous and enlightened prin ciples are concerned, will be wholly defective. To en lighten a nation, in the proper sense of the term, will never suit the purblind views of Toryism. The Morning p ost says :---“ii.hatever party feud may now have made the Poetry Professo:ship contest at Ox ford, we deny that there was ever any ,;ood reason for theological party feeling being brought tat the contro versy. As to the point whether attachment to ;21e prin ciples' taught in the Oxford Tracts' was, or was not) likely to interfere with the proper exercise of the dutie of Professor of Poetry, there was really no room for ab stract disputation. It is a matter of immediate expe rience. The present Professor, the highly-gifted Mr. Xbble, is very well known to have been, and to be, much more concerned with the ' Oxford, Tracts' than Mr. Williams. If it can be shown that this con cern at all interfered with the proper discharge of Mr. Keble's professional duties, then indeed the objection to Mr. Williams would be very strong. If on the other hand it be admitted that Mr. Keble has reflected great honour upon the University in his position of Professor of Poetry, and has won the admiration of the whole literary world, wherever the English language is understood and devotional feeling appreciated, then, we say, that the objection to Mr. Williams on account of being, in respect to theological principle, what , Mr. Keble is, must fall to the ground7"—There is a great deal of absurdity in this dispute about the " Professorship of Poetry,' more especially as the requisite qualifications of such a Professor are completely thrown overboard, and regard is had solely to his orthodoxy or otherwise. The actuating principle of the dispute is, that any dull, prosy fellow can be a lecturer on poetry, provided he be either a Puseyite or an Evangelist. So argue the respective combatants, while men of common sense keep aloof, and laugh heartily at their dogmatic absurdities. We quote the following from the Leeds Mercury Tories were3utte as much committed to the New Poor law , - ss the Whigs—the only difference was this, the latter was in power when the law passed as a kind of experiment, the foZner arein power now when it is to be upheld and rendered Jmanent. There is, however, this difference between the t: o parties —none of the Whigs ever attempted to raise a cid." against the Tories , for that which was an act of the two ph eties conjointly, while many of the Tory candidates for seats in Parlia ment had the meanness to resort to this shabby policy, in which they were aided by the Tory Journali. e shall be curious to see what the persons who have so conducted themselves will say to the constituencies at the next Parliamentary elections." The Coventry Herald says :—" Although the new Tory Government are careless and incapable, or hostile to any plan of relief, it is evident that they are preparing to carry things with a high hand.. The multiplying of mili tary stations in the manufactaring districts has become a question of undisguised official discussion. The existing magistracy of the kingdom is in due; course of being swamped by a large infusion of most approved Tories, and it will then only remain for the Parliamentary Session to arrive, in order to pass the congenial . Gagging Bills for the preservation of the peace." The Dublin Evening Post, commenting on Lord de Grey's Irish policy; says :—" Of all the clumsy attempts —of all the impudent assertions ever made—that, which is now ' going the rounds' of the London Tory press, is as assuredly the most audacious, as well as the most ri diculous—viz., that Lord do Grey and his Government have won golden opinions from all manner of men by the just and conciliatory principle which has guided him in the government of Ireland." The Dundee Chronicle contains an article on the sub ject of the Government emigration scheme, from which we quote the following :—" Where are the people to emigrate ? To Canada or Australia ? We would ask how are men, who have been brought up in cotton fac tories and flax mills from their earliest years, to be em ployed in the colonies ? Are they to exchange their hell-holes for a life of pastoral ease or simple rural cares, tendering their flocks and garnering spontaneous har vests ? or are they to be shipped to the shores of Europe and the United States, to work the manufactories of our mercantile opponents ? In either case, emigration would ruin tie outright ; the first by expenses, establishments, more soldiers, and taxes—the second by encouraging our rivals." We quote the following remarks from the West Briton : In the absence of other political topics, the Tory . prints are assailing with great bitterness t he a n swer of Lord John Russell to the address of the inhabitants of. Plymouth. That document, like everything that pro ceeds from the pin of the Noble Lord, !.s manly, frank, allta honest. Without any circumlocution, or disguise LOTCIShIi, av be to the every honest - states incontrovertibl Torres, and however -A galling them; facts• and well-informed mu. the kingdom responds to their "MIYIERCE. Corn-law A sso naper bags, --1. in correctness." PA 014111T—TRAIIr .—c.. At a meeting of the Rotherhithe Ali, eiation, held on Thursday at that place, tn., used by bakers for the sale of flour, were exhibitt... aciibed lii large characters as follows :—" Flour—Cos,,, 3d. ; Lttridowtiors' Taxi Ike The state of distress at Stockport is now being inves ..offillceurainnigd othnelsialatustrz;ellatstMlo rd WY C l 'i i t e l! , Liam, '^d officially . from the nom' , .. ' th"Pe, a Peer of the Ite,m, a .. T. Bracebridge, an.influ ential person, and another g9ni,;;Pan, visited the Bo rough, and made earliest inquiry into the state of the po pulation. covnarzuclAX. REFORM. The meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Conference of Ministers of Nortli Wales, to be held during the first wee k . in December, commenced on the Ist instant, at Carnarvon. The 4ulependent ministers of North Wales are all Corti- l aw repeaters ;so are the Baptist ministers, N rho number fifty. • Four of the CalviniAtic ministers are f ur repeal, and the remaining tifty -six. remain at present s ilent. The WesleyariS are feW; but have avowed their !itearty co=operation. Colonel P. Thompson arrived on :sWedWhY, and lends his powerful asustaace. Stao - l;., • - MORNING SUN ments at k"d present are only commencing ,o In as existing at Talsao, en where'one woman u, lived_ the whole of last winter potatoe-peel, 0 16 • j h e dis Lu. si itre sample of what will foll Ow. PUBLIC zumpRovEDIENVS • . , a te The convicts in the prisons of Nassau, Gelto -°35"„„l ' atett not only instructed while prisoners, s o as - them into honest men,- but they r eceive on their 'i tsbg charge money and clothing to reinstate them resPeeoast in the world. In Rhine-Prussia, as soon as the is liberated he is protected and assiste d by the .10117,0, Westphalian Society ; and in Austria the pace P '. rities are bound to superintend him 'and aid his re'tol tion to society. We mentioned last wee k a SoeietViilb! forming for a similar purpose in Surrey, suPP °l.te the Magistrates of the county. NAVAL AND r t IZZIT.II.I4 I r• I • oti A new 90-gun-ship, to na med the Hannibtd, be n di d the stocks at Woolwich dockyard, and will be e'sPietj vessel. t tabe r T The Niger expedition had on the 22d of SeP -e s an d ascended the river to the confluence of the chadt e ex . Quorra. Eight European sailors had d ied sinee e fid fees pedition had left England. Resistance i s exPeefr the people on the banks of the rivers. Major Kendall's company. 4th battalion Artillery, are about to sail in the Numa tr..snsrrtasf for Barbadoes, to relieve Captain Morgans e° ;. l, rap which has been there since the 28th of DeceraVio Law AND rox.ics. ftst Samuel Bundy Williams who was examined at • or street, on two occasions, on a charge of stealin lie I. DI , tity of plate, value 2001., the property of thefres, Giles, of Windlesham Hall, near Bas-shot, Sur re /i of whom he rented the mansion ready furnishe‘_argS again brought before Mr. Jardine on Friday , t se of theilosg; vas stealing 16 dozens of wine, w hich Wer e ilea' cellars at the time he becamepossessed of the dbe After evidence had been the Magri tra te would remand the prisoner for a week, order him time to procure some witnesses from Ireland. yitif George Baker, a supernumerary City poliee 0 100 1(, brought before Mr. Alderman Hoope r, at e,,tither charged with receiving half-a-crown from the 11'.fieci a pickpocket, against whom be was about tea dell)" deuce at the Old Baile Two persons swore 015 r, is ho ever,t somewhatlaatti t i h ey at f s ai a lio i n v thl ya t h d e b deniedee money nt rtehaet g ee i dh v a e br n yg e t . to the til, e r r r : t h e prisone,r 5 h t the and the Alderman said be was unfit to rem e bite , force, and as the Commissioners would discharge he would inflict no punishment. se , lir ; as The trial of the Packards and Alfred Ken n sou' w th dieted for killing and slaying Michael Aung` e "' •ast ' e e th lu r d ee ed of on A L'r n i s d i az, gh a te nd r. a They verdict returned te °Pe In the case of Dr. Williamson, of month's imprisonment in New(sate &St e. jac ihe Iru dito - r i e j oo3 o; o, ,` Westminster School, against Dr. Collier, and the London Pharmacopeia, tried at the rpre so , ' e r Pleas on Friday, in which the plaintiff song f ii ; for the schooling of the defendant's sons, tu e tuo °1 " 1 s ' he fall the turned a verdict at once for the plaintiff to t- on. big were sentenced claimed. Dr. Collier defended the acti°ll only ground of principle, pleading the nialtreatmci t heir 11 ' sons, the bad practices they had imbibed, aa glected education. „issi LITERARY AND SCIZlVrnly rea' The modern literature of Germany has b in th at Per' r its hundredth year ; and considerably w ith for fdr Shakspeare was unknown in Germaq, „d a b i Y; quotes him under the name of " Sasper, b es , e " are polist of those days lately asserted that ° c h i c to Pl good deal about him, but had nerer bee n 5 " . his works. of th T. Oliphant, Esq., many years Secrtcotgri);ltitlloctionn: drigal Society, has been appointed created office of musical librarian to that Ir l ii s oedF h sr 4;,lr Manackjee Cursetjee, the rich and aceeq e ed ' t- t lar of Bombay, also a poet and learned man , :" h uses . Robert and others of the Ministers, at the' r rn ° o lll ' ) ing his stay here. He left town for Pari s and returns to Bombay by the spring. COURT-rASIZIONX ILE.* The Duchess of Hamilton is is serif: 4lY it ! , for her house in Portman-square. n The Marquis of Lansdowne left town °- of Bowood Park, Wilts. c reo Lord Cosmo Russell left the seat of th e t the Abercorn, last week, to join his regi men " St, e Highlanders, at Dundee. a to The Earl and Countess of Wilton returne es e Wednesday from Badminton, the lielits.,osisee,g,oo. the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, and DaTivolitmier to Strathfieldsaye, on a visit to the Duke of been ell The Duke and Duchess of Bedford 11 ,, ve „ v ieek;,, s tle , taming a select party at Woburn during 's a to v" The Earl of Devon is residing at Powder- South Devon. ~roG nuscELLANEotrO• tsiva,l'ocl;. At Stockport every principal street in sAie a aa more than a fourth occupied, and in the cres s n otr e o f streets there are no less than two thousananietpitiinVor ins. As if the fact were not sufficiently itself, some one has written about the wall s i t ! „ s e, " Stockport to let. Inquire of the Townsel_ A er its 5" . ,f 0 Manchester has this last week witn ess 7, fat ii 0 swept by machinery. This machinery is h ordirs cart drawn by one horse, the motion of wP tc , the 0 0 number of revolving brushes, which take ti F v into the body of the cart itself as the reel:oS the same principle, substituting brushes fo r b the dredging machine in our docks. , COY :Or A singular instance of the strange tho l i , "'„, 0 - 0 - 0 5. through the Post-office since the penny sy ste- left s receivedbl ) 1. 1 i a s n h e e h d, f o f c ar c on u m r a r p e pp d leev i n ot Bath nreseh,i rwe iothnFt containing h r e i d l when 1 n e r o n a fre . ; 5 ;,, f ct 0 . 1 9 0111 1 apples upon it! Another singular e c a ir 'e e s ulsta l l,` 01 1 '0 the 'apples should hare been growing at this e' year. or terP; a The 'Birmingham Advertiser says:—"lt i 9 LOS rt on?ured that, amongst the elevations eonseti,7o-t; the I .,jrth of the Duke of Corn Wall, James V Isfer° ll , - of of Illoseb7, the respected father'of one of t,": t lige itY for East WPrcestershire, will be raised to i" Ex c el' his lr a Baronet." la s t , by Previous to the review on Monday t he • -t po cke t leney the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, °tdintohishag • c ot, "' • hinders, a sergeant of hussars put hisZreglo„„, to hi s to give the elephant, belonging t° the,coort-"' so ldier penny, with which he would ha Thin be ss izeJ custom, proceeded tq buy fruit. Ainglii lll ' w ith b? was delaying him too long, or 11 ° ° ''., the him round the middle, lifted hil ° *A - fortan a n:ved trunk, and dashed him on the grenn",' sa t disPisete` out bruising him mach.—This eler DishoP °f r 1 ravenous a craving for the blunt as w e of C9Pori for his fat rectory of Stanhope! death Saturday was the anniversary of the, us ea paeiti'e ll heloY 4 insatiable ambition. a i m n Einr qoufaipitriogdsiiv:re ra ther . . that/ than good, and he was more SONNET. ,-“"30$0,1) Y TO THE MEMORY OF THE .." 4 BIRKBEGN. C Ary The grave hath claimed its own i--itS rig htful Mortality hath lain it down to sleep. Affection for the noble dead may weeP , rtb; And the heart's tears fall o'er t he tomb of is:° l4 Yet from the grgve shall spring t o secov d birth That fame, so calm, enduring , whose mild ilki Grew not up from the strife o f sworcled de / 5 ! il t ° Nor came the halo of its o diant girth t v From scenes of blood, and teas a nd We e , b u cr° ol, ir The trammelled sons of toil stooCi from th Gath'ring, e'en at his call, to lear n the art Of wisdom, self-respect, and freedom, there , Ao , 4 0v In purity, sprung up that holy fa me WP C A That to all time shall wreathe the gentle 1 31 - . kc' 1 icol iA, 1010 7 c ~' ASTRONOMICAL PBENO i on Tuesd ~ ..0 sooTahoedretrwoillofbtehe FOR 1842 et ' visible in this country . five mooneclipses co7olie.e:artccheYielip_uastr_'!auoirerfl;::oll:l,l?! takes place nesday, January will be confined to the so u thern h 13 re• .... ay the 11thlof iJa° 000o r io bof 26, in theeveLning,"lthe w"--,,/b,ls: partially_ eclipsed, visible to England, th e d 10 . P c ° ,0 E__ u ro b P e, Asia , and Africa, and will estef,L,seslii, Zern la and the North Pole. Beginning 0 ' 74, ° l : e it (Greenwich time) 17 minutes 36 seconds II %it - 9 mg ; moon rises 33 minutes 42 seconds Pas t ; t ; pdtol obscuration 43 minutes 42 seconds Pes . 0 t° ',l minutes 42 seconds past 7. The thard loutle'tr. eclipse of the sun on Friday, the Btb of vary Issigo early in the morning, and will prove ottb°; throughout Great Britain, and total in tb e e opse 6 lion 46 minutes 22 seconds past 5 ; parts of France. Commencement of d' a obiil'e's minutes 20 seconds past 4 o'clock ; greateeot 009 e nd, . 4 W ill b ° i 54 seconds past 6. The greatest obscuratio% po t o r degrees 42 minutes 30 seconds on the soot her tots' IQ OI the sun. At Marseilles the eclipse vvill be 00 tb e two minutes, like that which took place in t t . h iv e ss 01 :: England on the 22d of April, 1715, Wide," the " AP,,°; fully observed by the Rev. John Flanastettov a ou nss impressing lielleYte I n to aorr e , n c omer Royal at Greenwich, by Dr. s c ientific gentlemen in London, who spoke e`, 40 11 4 spe o ctators." Along the track of the central eeire-go eoci; N rth Atlantic Ocean), and for some distaaG,:ndert,of sideof it, the darkness will be such a s to 4 0 t er: o , to stars visible, which circumstance will be no . 7 s be P r :er " a sense of horror on the 01117..40v, those spectator: who are unacquainted ot i t jti lf,t b n " o e ciples of astronomy. On Friday, the NCI °I July "be of will be a partial eclipse of the m oor), mad eobsontit oilloti the sun on the last day of the year, ho t , :00 0 0r r o invisible t in England. The only lunar occult's" , b i r d 0. 0 notice are, one of the Eta Tauri, a star of t lod eld itior t ;„( nitude on the 22d of January ; one of D e lta, nioiss3s on the Ist of September ; and on the Ith o!:74theet, the beautiful planet Jupiter will be occulted , : if til P r a t the phenomenon occurs in the day-time, ,I, h o 05 bably be observable with the naked eYe• sittorlotir tavourahle time fer observing the Planalnut t he o r.' tbe tn _ber' iogs about th: ofth piienbnrsuut:ia.rgy year Willi be l ir T t i h n othfe jeuvr7i;l).6s'epaccinsovepof, This planet will riot be A striking 0as.1:0 dArt,fotro. Mars will not be in opposit 29th of July and.t the 17 , 11 ...P 4 . ( bit!, ! t he ion favourable t he fot i l i vitri) year, and ott that account 'esti .._f j,l 0 , Finn. Ile will be seen in the evenings oul'ooteer'e, February, March, and April h e r nd inptilecetoba!"; jeisPli September, October, Novern an d . ~..,00.- fe the beginning of June to the middle of ri oe u;,.1 0 c 00 0 0 ter and his tour satellites maY to advantage. In the summer and sue_Tn, o."bie her, the fine ring of Saturn will be an i n ter, % . 1 " 0 1 ' Act _ bo p the telescopic °lave: vcr. It is a recaarfw•J vcsetP.. A t while the mean temperature of the ino?o,t;'4tote " 1840, at Greenwich scarcely reached i' Alicrdeeo in Scotland, it woo 0 deOr ci* A be freci tu __;,l7„,c i n et to 1 ' I 11 ti Ea A I 4 + 4 4$ 11, .1 N," 4 '!)1. og i o ' 4 l 10.1'2