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VENiNG SUIT -even that Mr. Edwards, the official assignee, was satisfied '"' . 411 the evidence which was adduced at the last meet y ing ill support of the bankrupt's statement. Mr. Commissioner HOLROVD said it was idle for any on e to talk o f ren d er i ng the best account they could of ththeir estate, when they neglected a proper attendance to eir b oo k s. Some trades or callings might be carried without books, but of all others that which the bank 'pt followed required most attention to these m a tters. Pon looking over the profit and loss statement rendered by him there was for the amount of certain goods bought, a sum of 28,0001., and in the continuous statement, he 'tot' that on 12,0001. of those goods sold, the profit believe, ounted to only 1501. Such a statement no man would el ,kve, unless he had it in black and white in books re ' t il tarly kept. He should, therefore, adjourn the exami nation sine die. CHILD'S BOOKS. By the Rev. T. WILSON. Darton and Clark. _„A- philosopher has aptly compared the mind ouileiliidllood, to a fair tablet or unwritten blank. thoughts this, education is destined to imprint those nature or precepts which, according to the .4ature of their tendency, form the individual Into a member of society, either malevolent or bt"d• Hen ce it becomes apparent how sacred tne cha rge i ntrusted to those into whosesoever s the cu l t i vat i on o f our E ng li s h yout h i s ?elivered; and how infinite the care that should 1 (4 e exercised in regard t o such book s as are in tended to form the rising mind; for under the Pidance of good instructions alone, will the in- Pt mind be made hereafter to blossom, like "*„',llrens rod, with the true almond-flowers of virtu e. wi There are a number of English names to ti oni society ought to be deeply thankful for I)4' u nexceptionably good family and educational IrAcs, they have produced. Dr. Watts, Mrs. I,l'bauld, Miss Mitford, Magnall, Blair, and. t I nnock, have severally aided this excellent in dent, and rejoiced in causing pure and practical evelopments of infant mind. Nor has the good ork ceased with them. The Rev. T. Wilson, Z i lvell as Messrs. Darton and Clark, his pub "'lei's, are advancing to public notice a series of I t .eehetical books, well calculated to make the tfllldren of the day wise and healthy-minded in , e ir generation. Their design and nature are i ',', far excellent as to permit their being noticed ". e onsecutive order:— ), I CATECHISM OF COMMON THINGS.—The first rill • 1 8 explanatory of articles of common con l'ol-ruption and commerce, and the intention is to : I ke th e c hild acqua i nte d w i t h t h e nature of e er Ything that comes daily before him. The B i n-1 , Position of his bread at breakfast, the con lii'`eneY of his butter, the travels and history of th s basin of milk or , tea, appear explained in ,) k es e diminutive pages rather as pleasing infor 4tion tha n a t as k : moreover , if t h e t i ny scho be industriously di s p o sed, h e m ay b ecome t t ,4r r ned, like an incipient chemist, in the virtues of as safcetida or the origin of Friars'-balsam. third catechism explains the intricate terms l aw, chronology, &c. Th . ' ,PtitsT CATECHISM OF BIBLE HISTORY.— ' k i 4 v ieading events and personages of the Old fo t '"ew Testaments appear expounded in the tit 'ln of questions, which are so framed as to ex te,,e youthful curiosity, and of answers which " I '' ll 3r satisfy it. b . NATURAL PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN.-- th e ;Arciott wonderfully simplified the study of lit,i la ws and appearances of nature, but these c o i l _ s e. books, with e x pl anat i ons o f grav it a ti on an d V ion, the lever and f u lcru m , a s t ero id s an d " Is Pheres, might advantageously be consulted i older students ; while their simplicity puts t p N il 4. on a lev e l w ith t h e capac it y o f t h e youngest. .....\. C ATECHISM OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. f 4 eat to the one published by Mr. Innes some tt tii k'ears since, no brochure has better managed (lo2llgie with the train of events historic anec kt,T-8 arnish t h e m i nd witht ~, that at the same tim factse engage the fancy, 't . , 1 , •„„,, CHURCH-RATES. t aelierday, pursuant to notice, a vestry meeting was the ehn la St. Joh n ' s Ch urc h , f or t h e purpose o f passing , tos i d re owardens' accounts..and to make a rate for the sha n k : Year. At eleven o'clock the Rev T. Sheep ,, Fat e ' Rector, took the Chair. The opponents of the he e b ad . ; krishi_ issued a handbill, calling upon t '''' Previouslyto attend and oppose the making of a rate — t} 44 11 h ; , "Ilrel l ; v—e " was responded to in a spirited manner. The last warde nsproceeded to read over the accounts of the 1 on c e' Some of the items of which were vehemently ' d ent he u • The item of '2l. 7s. for wine for the sacra ''ho Part read, Mr. E. Goode recommended that those Praet r i e -r .'' ° ? s k of the sacrament . at church should follow the se lves O ,' .the Dissenters, and pay for the wine them- M R" , wi le ', e said it must be painful far the Rev. Chair eeratent- `think° l niating at thatchth administration of the Holy n V v4 up o ' . + 1 e and his friends brought ;„ - j: er s, vvh„ ',` e rtiselves the curse of those poor rate -(1 wine -" h ad been distressed to provide the bread A . Poo of Wiliel l they partook. the Or r iti an, 'named CHARLES SMITH, then related t war curnstances under which he had been served with I lk, 4 ra P,t of distress for the payment of the rate. He Nhd , W ile and seven children, and, in consequence of Dt,,'4'ade a nd affliction, was l e ft w i t h out a shilling to tti; en ase bread f or hi s f am il y ; an d , to save his furni kun_e' had pledged his best coat to pay the rate. This th ` l nent drew forth a st rong expression of f eeli ng from keef . I,_ , , ing. 4,,j• 1. _MARY asked what amount . of money was ne lttY for the purposes of the ensuing year? When it, r • Akaoyn, builder, read the estimates, from which illf, l3 . e ared that upwards of 300/. would be:_s_vantedß M . tee ' R •li. ROTHERHAM moved, and Mr. T. ROTH E chkiefor the 4 4 and rep a i rs o f th e c hurch for the ensuing year. he I. * R. G ooD E move d a n amendment, that the meeting A l kliourned for twelve months. t ittl r. ,• RILL second e d the amen d men t, w hi c h was car kewith acclamation clr wis ssra • R. K. and T. R OTHERHAM demanded a poll,' " l ett the following is the result : /or the Rate A gainst it 237 11 Majority against the Rate —62 N a i 3 contest acquired importance from the fact, that t Att i ;: r t he first contest in the parish of St. John, in the 3 ' of the present generation.—Coventry Herald. g 1)... IC t j'ALITII in the METROPOLIS. NI x , fon o • it, .let rf ,,w,lng are the results of " A Table of Mortality in s i,,Ritte rp rds, showing the Number of Deaths from al_Ca,us . 1 1% fr : In the week ending Nov. 20, 1841." The Table is wit the Office ef the Registrar-General : Weekly t , CAUSE S OF DEATH. Total. Average bi (le tai r 1838-9-40 iNts,_ % r -nd emie, and Contagious Diseases. 155 204_ , t l‘th ,;,, t he Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2O 151 uisn'it 7 t he Lungs, and other Organs of 1 ) .-, I t, 258 266 j a k , l °l „, t he Heat and Blood-vessels lB' 18 4, 'RAN, the Stomach, Liver, and other . C idl a, ts f?' Pigestion... bi,„"°4 ' t ." Kidneys, &c. bis`4-ei ' o P l rasles of the Uterus, &c. 11 1 ,: 14 1,, t ;,"e Joints, Bones, and Muscles V a z of she Skin &c 0 1 1) 1 . Aoe s'!lecrtai'n Seat ~,,, , o , l\ Cai ne by v i i 'Aural Decay 6O 71 tl: t v tot & ( , ) ,',, e ee, Privation, or Intemperance 14 25 - `"1 fo,„ - r"; , ilied ,-- all causes t i .Ive r -a ge Weekly Deaths . 926 i Deaths in the Average Weekly W e2t Week. Deaths,lB3B-9-40 N ptie,rn Districts ... 124 ...... 139 e:,,,'" Dist icts t u tr i i s r e t t r s icts l5O 163 bas -,r a i ~, 132 ..... 190 178 ...... 211 ‘4llll Districts .... 216 223 It • 800 926 h a," sad Ir'ltti e - 1 h th at under the term . Metropolis are comprised the et With i erein mentioned, which include . the City of Lon i 4 rai -141 Without the walls, the City and Liberties of IP il ik tli . e 4te t y pi r , the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-. 'i tl 'inl - ''.es of St.Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,__ ; lis,,nersrnith (Chipelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad -4Z:4111 1 ' ht. iL Mary (Stoke Newington), St. .Leonard (Brom tp lit 1 1- T7 -l e -bow, Camber roll, Greenwich, St. Nicholas 41 l til , : .°. eraf., 4 ` (beptford), and Woolwich. The population, as '"•,,thT„. 4, - 3 ,3: it. 1 831, was 1,594,890. The . weekly average for n '4 bet 839 411 d 1 840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in ~. Years by 156. i. TEMPERATURE IN TIM WEEKS ENDING fl - • I Nov. 13. Nov. 20. ...1 - o lu e s e It 28 . b. l . Qea 41 Mea "la ca n • • 49 38 1 4 egister O ffi ce, Nov. 25, 1841. .."--. 4 ' .I. t t i _ A c NT.—This morning, about L 44. 3," e'e'ven o' C el itp l E r the following fatal accident hap ly, otitalwo,uth_aboocut, seventeen years of age, of the tqllts i rl ,ul l'homas Aswho . resided with his 1, thi reat Peter -street, Westminster. It appears w ti they 3 , f ather, a market gardener, had been to I,: l t h % Il i :° Purchase some cabbage plants, which he ". ' T - 1 1 "! i ,g home in a boat, accompanied by his Olth Ri .,"Y 'lad proceeded onward for about a mile, the iii f --.414 : 14, fq,, ath e , gup all the way,'when, by some accident, l'iy e t , itg a ii 4 w ho was rowing the boat, ran it with great Yogi' 4 th e a a coal barge which was lying in the iih frome sudden concussion of which threw the h il te r a off his feet, and he fell headforemost into the L ,leh was instantly carried down by the stream, s v tt r ,lfr )a lt !, r u i nning very strong at the time. The father, I‘ `ter ' ' a te , let the oars fall out of the rowlocks into the I th l'heill'istood speechless, seeing his son floating down tit SR,,, u( le, but unable to render the least assistance. ~,1 :10 ' -,,.,',,k1NG ACCIDENT.--This afternoon auout Z4llNiuef,l`, young man, lied William Lindley, bo etilneLosst_ile Yeekly ir n o a nicle office, through some far wheel _'' ll Ills part, .got his hand entangled . in the . 1 - inied ,of the machine whilst at work. Ilis cries %-, t4 e rest of the work-people, who quickly re .iii -."`. hin l , 1 at q v , , when it was found that his hand was severed ker ate r the wrist, and his arm broken and severely vitt Ile Was carried to Charing-Cross hospital. for atiembS'A meeting was held in this town on ith e -- aY, in the St. Ann's school-room, Park-lane, ,rilotkut,lrp(izhpeeonseinof considering the propriety of petition- Council on the subject of the condition A l' ce ll , 3 ." Poor, residents in this town. Resolutions .' ll da. 37l . l ig out this laudable object were agreed to. Nwoilla'nss Was also adopted, praying that her Majesty e,..‘ tts 'tze the case into consideration, and issue such litti:, Would privent the poverty of the Irish being ll its a Crime. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1841 SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY, R.A. SUDDEN DEATH OF THE EARL Of him under whose hand the marble assumed the OF HAREWOOD. softest and most exquisite forms of • loveliness—to whom CORONER'S INQUST.—The following are the informa the sculpture of the last fifty years has been indebted for tions of witnesses taken on the 25th of November, at a high and intellectual change—whose chisel has crowded the Bay Horse Inusin Bramham, near York, on view of our halls, saloons, and cities with lofty and breathing the body of the Right Hon. Henry' Lascelles, Earl of images of great and good men--it falls to. our lot to Harewood, before Mr. John Wood, one_of tlie Coroners speak, now that death has come suddenly upon him. for Yorkshire. Born in 1782, at Norton, in Derbyshire, Sir Franci s J os h ua Wilki nson, pup il w i t h t h e R ev. J o h n F ar l am, Chantrey was elected a Royal Academician in 1818, and of Bramham, said, about ,a quarter before five o'clock his extraordinary rise into notice before that time was , yesterday afternoon ,I will in the lane leading to Tad , owing to high and original development of his own fine caster, and coming tovvardl Arandiam, when I saw Lord .powers. The truth of this is apparent from the following Harewood on horseback and rite's; towards Brarnhatn. early fact : He was before me. A shertOistanee- before reaching When Chantrey sent his bust of Horne To o k e t o th e Bramhamhe got off his: horse and - took. it towards the Royal Exhibition,' he was young and unfriended, but, hedge on th e left hand side of the road, and - stoOd him the immense merit of the work did not escape the eye of self - looking towards the field. I did. not observe that Nollekens. He lifted it from the floor—set it before him, he was doing anytiting. His back with towards me as moved his head to and fro, and having satisfied himself I passed him. ills horse was near to him, but he of its excellence, turned round to those who were had not hold of it. I walketL on, and then turned. arranging the works for the exhibition, and said; "There's round and saw the horse, but I did not see him. I a fine—a very fine work—let the man who made it be went forwards home, and did not see hiMusly more. I known—remove one of my busts, and put this one in its don't think the. horse was between me and his Lord place, for it well deserves it." H e s a t for his own bust sub- ship, so as to pre ven t Me see i ng hi m . When I passed sequently to Chantrey, by whom his name was ever men- his Lordship did not appear to be staggering' at all, but tioned with a depth of respect that amounted almost to stood still, looking towards the field. He did not ap tenderness or love. pear to me as though he was making water. There was Nollekens was a great admirer of his' young friend no other per Son near him. I had previously met a man Chantrey's art, and frequently, on the authority of Mr. who was going towards Tadcaster. It was rather dark Smith, was heard to recommend him on all occasions at,the time, but there was a moon. had got as far:kkes when opportunity offered. He had himself a dislike to Moon's house, when I looked back,. which was a gdeds anything in the shape of ancient art, and when asked to way off. I could just see the horse. When I passed I model a bust would constantly say, "Go to Chantrey, thought his Lordship's face on one side, which I saw, he's the man for a bust ; he'll make a good bust for looked very pale, and I thought he was sick. you : I always recommend him." Stephen Shepherd, of Harewood.house, whipper-in, , When Lord Elgin's marbles arrived in England, and said—l was in the service of the deceased. His Lord-. the Committee of the House of Commons culled before ship's hounds went out yesterday. The meet Was at them the men of the highest emiaerree to give their the cross-roads on Clifford-moor. Lord Harewood was opinion as to their value and excellence, Mr. Chantrey, out with us, and we ran a fox to ground at Grimston among the number was questioned, and his suffrage with hill. His Lordship stayed with us until we tried that of others, led greatly to their purchase for the coun- to dig. him out, and accompanied us to the try. " Are you well acquainted with the Elgin mar- green-lane, which is between the 'l'adeaster and Leeds hies?" "I have frequently visited them."—" In what turnpike-road and the Bramham and Tadcaster-lane, class, as to the excellence of art, do you place them ?" on our way home. He then left us, and I after " Unquestionably in the first."—" Have you ever looked wards saw him trotting on the road about three at this collection with a view to its value in money ?" quarters of a mile in advance of us. He was trotting " I really do not know what to compare them with !" at the rate of about six miles an hour. I afterwards "Do you think it of great importance to the art of sculp- went forward, and on getting near to Bramham I ob tuse that this collection should become the property of served a horse standing with a saddle on. It was then the public?"—" I think it of the greatest importance.? dtisk, and I called out, but received no answer, and judg- On the death of Sir Thomas Munro, the inhabitants ing it wa s hi s L or d s hip' s h orse I go t o ff my horse, and of Madras decreed him a bronze equestrian statue, which found the deceased lying on the ground with his feet was ordered to be executed by Chantrey. His medal- towards the horse and his head up against a gate-post, lion of the late King, modelled under his superintend- his head rather inclining into the ditch, and his left arm ence by M. Collas, in the basso-relievo style, was a beau- in the ditch. His right arm was under his body. He tiful work of art. was lying on his left side. His hat was off, and lay Chantrey was a very prolific genius : his 'marble pro- about a foot before his head, apparently having dropped geny are numerous. His busts first brought him into with the fall. He neither spoke nor moved, and ap notice, as instanced above, and laid the foundation of eared to me to be quite dead. The horse was at his fame, and they are b es id es th e mos t a d m i ra bl e p ro - liberty, and standing about a • yard from the gate. ductions of that kind in the world. Of his statues and Bamford, the huntsman, was coming up, and I called groups there are scores, but of his busts hundreds. We to him to come on as quickly as he could, and he came must name some few of our chief favourites :—Horne up directly. I had then got his Lordship sitting up, Tooke, Rennie, Wordsworth, Scott, John Hookham and was untying his handkerchief, but his head fell for- Frere, Raphael Smith, Professor Playfair, the Bishop ward, so that I was unable to get it untied. Bamford of London, the late King. Of all these perhaps that of Sir untied it. The body was then removed to the inn at Walter Scott is the best. The poet has a face as change- Brarnham in Mr. Fox's carriage, which had been sent able and various as the characters he draws in his works, for. As far as I observed, his Lordship was in his and an expression which nothing but genius something usual health during the . day, and I had not heard him akin to his own could have hoped to have seized. In this complain of being otherwise. When I found the de remarkable bust the brow is'full of thought, the eyes ceased his smallclothes were loose, and within the gate look through one, and there is a grave humour about the I found his whip and the instruments which 'I now pro mouth which seems ready to escape in speech. The whole duce, and which his Lordship was accustomed to use. face is finished with the most fascinating skill. The poet There was nothing to induce me to suppose that his sat whilst the sculptor chiselled, and there was many a Lordship had been in any way molested. I have known merry word between them. the deceased for 25 yeah. I understood him now t o b e _ _ The works of Chantrey are all of a domestic or his torical kind. His statues are numerous, and perhaps his sitting ones are the best. Meditation and thought are at their freedom when the body is at rest ; and though some of our poets have conceived and composed in the act of walking, yet a man who thinks, seated, must al ways look more like a man in grave thought than one who stands, let him think ever so stoutly. James Watt is still living, ti t s far as sculpture can prolong life : his perfect imay meditating on the extraordinary power which man .elds so easily and profitably, is preserved to the world. The statue of Chief Baron Dundas was graceful and unaffected ; that of Mr. Anderson was the literal and perfect image of the happy and bene volent old man ; and that of Dr. Cyril Jackson pleased all who knew its type, or love flowing draperies and the memory of Christ Church-walk. Of Chantrey's erect figures Washington mast undoubtedly be the fa vourite : the hero of American independence seems the very personification of one wrapt in thought—a man of few words, of prompt deeds; with a mind and fortitude for all emergencies. Grattan in the statue is a being of another class—earnest, voluble, in motion more than any of Chantrey's works, and yet with something both of dignity and of serenity beyond what the orator possessed. Horner is anxious, apprehensive, and mildly grave ; you look expecting him to speak. General Gillespie is a fine manly figure. In all these works there is to be admired a subordinate beauty—a decorous and prudent use of modern dress. All its characteristic vulgarities are sof tened down or concealed. There is no aggravation of tassels, no projection of buttons. Though the beholder is conscious that there is an art used in biding these deformities the skill of the sculptor contrived to con ceal it in nature. Chantrey's groups, though the most admired, were not perhaps the happiest of his works. The Two Child ren, the Two Females on Wildman's monument, and the Mother and Children on that of David P. Watts, are cer tainly most our favourites. The pathos of his two chil dren goes to the heart,of every mother ; the exquisite sweetness of workmanship is subdued by the sentiment. His Lady Louisa Russell is one of those fair and happy images of youth, which even old age might go a long journey to worship. Chantrey's invention of the new-pointing machine, an instrument used by sculptors 'for measuring statues, though lying in a subordinate line of art, is truly valu able, and far surpasses that discovered by Bacon, the artist, for its accuracy and rapidity. Hudon, the eminent French sculptor, on visiting London, saw this instrument for the first time in Bacon's studio, and expressed himself so strongly concerning its beauty and its usefulness, that Chantrey made him an immediate present of one. Some time afterwards a gentleman who had come through Paris called on Bacon, and observing Chantrey's instru ment, exclaimed, in surprise, "So you have got Monsieur Hudon's instrument for taking points ; I see you don't object to copying the French in some particulars." An explanation took place, when it appeared that Monsieur Hudon had passed it off for an invention of his own. Chantrey, indeed, was so pleased with his new instrument, that he caused correct working drawings to be prepared, and sent as a present to Canova, the illustrious Italian acknowledged the benefit which such an instrument would confer on. art, but he lamented that he could not find a head. in Rome mechanical enough to comprehend the drawings. Chantrey was more than any one else the most ad mired and loved friend of Nollekens, and during the last hours of this latter remarkable man, was ever at his side. His last visit to the Royal Academy was attended by the former, and as he was carried up stairs in a kind of sedan, Chantrey attended by his friend's side, and listened to the last remarks he made upon the scenes and groups about him. He was then borne to his coach, he gave the persons who helped him a guinea each—he put his hand to his hat—Chantrey seated himself beside him, and he bade farewell for ever to 'the Royal Academy. Chantrey possessed a very choice and exquisite cabinet of sculpture, antiques, medallions, &c. Many of these he purchased at public sales. Nollekens' fine cast of the head of Dr. Johnson, which he possessed and valued much, he bought for ten guineas, almost four times as ' much money as Nollekens charged for his common cast speaking of it he was accustomed to say "I think it cheap at any price—it is, in my opinion, the finest head our friend ever produced." England may justly be proud of her Chantrey. His works reflected back her image as a mirror ; he formed his taste on no style but that of nature, and no works of any age or country but his own can claim back any in spiration which they have lent him. lie called up no shapes from antiquity ; he gave us no established visions of the past : the moment he breathed in was his ; the beauty and the manliness which lived and moved around him were his materials, and he embodied them for the gratification of posterity. He seemed to work as if he were unconscious of any other rival but Nature—the antique was before him, but he preferred flesh and blood, and it would cer• tainly have cost him far more labour to have imitated the work of another school, than to have created an image from the impulse of his own feeling. Robert Burns said that the muse of his country found him as Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over him—and the same may he said of Chantrey. It was a secluded place, a nameless spot, into which art had never penetrated, that the inspiration of sculpture fell upon him ; the desire of the art came over him be fore he knew to what toil he was tasking his spirit. Na ture tot& possession of his heart, and filled it with forms of English loveliness, before he knew that the works of Greece existed ; and to this must be attributed his suc cess and his fame. An air of freedom and ease, which came not from the muscle but from the mind—of senti ment, making action her auxiliary, and a look of life and reality was stamped on all his statues, busts, rnd groups. This is not only the true but the classic sculp ture of our country. It is not Greek, but it is Christian. By the fine Grecian taste of Canova, the good sense, the originality of Chantrey, and his faithful adherence to life and nature, sculpture, we trust, has ever been delivered from the cold and unmeaning impersonations which it before their time was wont often to assume. 73 years of age. I could not tell whether he had made water. His nose was dirty, as though he had fallen upon it. I did not observe - any blood, nor any mark on his face. Wm. Bamford, of Harewood, huntsman, said, I was in the service of the deceased, and was out with the hounds yesterday. His Lordship accompanied us. He con tinued with us until we were on our way home, and ap peared in good health and spirits up to the time he left us. When I had got nearly to Bramham I heard Shepherd, the last witness, holloaing out to me to get on, and I did so, and then found the deceased at the road side, and Shepherd trying to raise him up. The first thing I did was to loose his handkerchief. I could not discover any pulse or breathing, and he appeared to me to be quite dead. The body was removed to this house. I observed that the deceased's breeches were open in front, both the waistband and ,the flap. I did - not ob serve whether he had made water. There was nothing to induce me to suppose that he had been, in any way, molested. Thomas Scatchard, of Boston, surgeon, said—l saw the body of the deceased about twenty minutes after it had been found, and examined it externally. There was no injury whatever to the body, except a slight scratch on the chin, which I think had been caused by the WI, and there was a little stain of blood on the neckerchief, which appeared to have come from the scratch. In all other respects the body presented its natural appearance. I should suppose that tha death was occasioned by the rupture of a blood-vessel at the base of the brain. I have not the least doubt that the death was from some natural cause, and not from any violence whatever. The deceased was quite dead when I first saw him. J. Francis Gibbs, of Harewood, surgeon, said, I have attended the deceased professionally during the last twenty-seven years. He had been in indifferent health lately, but was very much better; so much so as to get out and take his usual exercise. His Lordship had an affection upon him, which required the use of an instru ment. The instruments now produced are those he was accustomed to use daily, and he might have become faint after the use of them, and have fallen from exhaustion. The deceased was not subject to any disease, that I am aware of, calculated to produce sudden d ea th. I have seen the body since death, and there is no appearance whatever of any violence ; there is merely the slight scratch upon the face which has been mentioned. I have no doubt whatever but that his death was natural. His age was seventy-three years on last Christmas .day. Verdict—Died suddenly by the Visitation of God. (From the Leed's Mercury.) Henry Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, Viscount Lascel les, and Baron Harawood, Lord Lieutenant and Custos- Rotulorum of the West Riding and High Steward of Allertonshire, was born December 25, 1767, and, had he lived till Christmas-day, would have attained his 74th year. He succeeded to the title on the 3d of April, 1820, and on the 3d of September, 1794, he married Henrietta, eldest daughter of the late Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart. Her Ladyship died on the 15th of February, 1840. By this marriage he, had eleven children, three of whom are dead, namely, Edward Viscount Lascelles, barn in 1796, died abroad about three years ago ;. Wm. Franeis, born 1801, died 1814 ; and the Hon. Frederick, born 1803, died 1823. ' The surviving sons and daughters of his Lordship have intermarried with the first families in the kingdom. Edward, father of the late Earl, was born on the 7th of January, 1740, and died on the 3d of April, 1820. On •the 12th. of May, •1761, he married Anne, daughter of Wm. Chaloner, Esq., who died on the 22d of February, 1805, leaving four children, namely, Lady Frances Douglas, mother of the Earl of Morton, Edward, Vis count Lascelles, Hon. Henry, the second and late Earl, and Lady Mary Anne, who, in 1801 married Richard Yorke, Esq. The family motto of the Harewoods is, In solo Deo salus—Salvation in. God alone. His Lordship is succeeded in his title and estates by Henry, Viscount Lascelles, of Goldsbro' Hall, who was born on the 11th of June, 1797, and who consequently is in his 44th year, In July, 1823, he married Lady Louisa Thynne, second daughter of the Marquis of Bath. His Lordship, we be • lieve, has eleven children, the oldest of whom, Henry Thynne, now Viscount Lascelles, was born on the 18th. of June, 1824, and is therefore now in his 17th year. The late Earl has left no fewer than 34 grandchildren, and of the most beautiful scenes that could possibly be contemplated was exhibited at Harewood 'House every Christmas-day, when every member of the family assem bled to honour the birthday , of.the Noble Earl. He served in four successive Parliaments, and was the Conservative candidate at the ever-memorable contested election for the County of York in 1807, when he was defeated. The poll commenced bn Wednesday, May 20, and finally closed on Friday, June 5. The total number of votes recorded' was 33,972—namely, for Wilberforce, 11,686 ; for Lord Milton, 11,177 ; and for Mr. Lascelles, 10,937. After losing his election for the county, he served five years in Parliament for Westbury, in Wilt. shire. In October, 1812-, he was elected for Pontefract. On the 11th of the same month he was elected for the county of York by the ursolicited suffrages of the free holders. Ile withdrew from the representation of the county at the general election of 1818, and on the 2d of June, in that year, ho was chosen for Northallerton. He .succeeded to the Earldom in 1820. Since that period, his Lordship has interfered but little in political matters. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN."—If a narrative of perilous adventure by flood and field—if traits of heroism, not the less interest ing, because appertaining to private soldiers — if a record of the sufferings inseparable from war, the more exciting inasmuch as they were nobly surmounted, can attract the curiosity and sympathy of readers, then will Mr. Gleig's new military story, gleaned from the recollections of the pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, be all-command ing. incidents of the most stirring nature are here de tailed; all calculated to arouse feelings of patriotism and exultation in the sturdy, brave, and unpretending deeds of our English soldiers, in all parts of the globe.. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTHERN AND EAST ERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday morning, as a man named James Cutts, who is a labourer employed on the works of the Northern and Eastern Railway, was at his work near Hoddesdon, he was knocked down by ono of the carriages, by which his head and shoulder were so se verely injured that ho was brought up immediately to the London Hospital. FAILURE IN MANCIIESTER.—Private letters from Manchester, adverting to the failure of Gisborne, Wilson, and Co., the calico printers, state the amount of liabilities at about 80,000/. The immediate cause of the stoppage is referred to the Bank of Manchester, which , stands as a creditor for 6,0004 RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the s ums received on the principal Railways of Groat Britain for the week ending on the day if the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize : Week Name of Railwa Miles Total. ended 'Y' Opened. £. a. d. N0v.20 Birmingham and Derby Junet. 384 1,658 15 1 19 Birmingham and Gloucester 524 1,334 1 7 .. Chester and Birkenhead ..... l5 No returns. 21 Dundee and Arbroath 164 297 11 84 21 Eastern Counties 20 Glasgow and Ayr.. .. 20 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greeno,k 224 629 4 s 13 Grand Junct. &Chester &Crewelo3l 7,036 7 3 20 Great North of England , 4 , 5 1,083 13 2 21 Great Western " 8 4 9,888 17 5 20 Hull and Selby.... ... 20 Lancaster and Preston Junction 20a 459 18 2 12 Liverpool and Manchester 31 4,321 1 9 v 20 London and Birmingham ......1124 la .4, 15 8 25 London and Blackwell 20 London and Brighton 4 ot 1,363 10 7 20 Ditto Shoreham BraneU 54 138 14 11 23 London and Croydon 25 L , ndon and Greenwich 34 72 6 6 4 20 London and South Western 18 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 591 14 24 22 Manchester and Birmingham 5 345 0 11 20 Manchester and Leeds 5O 3,749 15 1 20 Midland Counties . . 57 2,204 7 6 20 Newcastle and Carlisle 604 1,469 15 1 22 Northern and Eastern .... •20 North Midland ... 724 3,417 17 6.1 19 North Union 20 Preston and Wyre 21 Ulster 22 York and North Midland 23 1,396 7 9 MR.THOMSON'S ANTI-CORN-LAWLECTURE. —A Correspondent says: " Will you suggest to the Anti- Corn-law League the propriety of printing in a ch eap form, for extensive circulation, the beautiful lecture of Thomson at Edinburgh, in your Paper of Wednesday night ?" EAST INDIA lITOTIONS. FRO NIGHT'S GAZETTE. W -OFFICE, Nov. 26, 1841. Her ',.lajest las been pleased to appoint the under meTiti-ned .-rs of the East India Company's forces to ~* :3revet in her Majesty's Army, in the East as follow, Commissions to be dated Nov. i„ LIEr T - :T-GENERALS TO BE GENERALS Cuppage Cliortsiik , ,k7amley Trec,+ . f , :Jlarke MAJOR (..,77-NERALS—TO Bt LIEUTENANT - GENERALS. JamoV:7,7rice Boles - Sir fth Fraser, KCAL SieVvetowr ',l,itratford SCott, K.C.B. Sir 3,lin Li*Or, Bart. ;, COLONFLS T 3E MAJDR-GENERALS. James limnedy, C.B. Benjamin Roope • Philip Le Fevre - Sir Jereiniali Bryant; lint., and C.B. Charles nilitain Hamilton Thomas Murray Edmund Frederick Waters, C.B. Joseph Nesbitt William Martin Burton James Wahab, C.B. William Samson Whish, C.B. William I3attine, C.B. George Hunter, C.B. - iticbard Collyer Andree Meliihakl Galloway, C.B. Edgar Wyatt - Georg4 asekenzie Steuart Mark Calton Samuel Roger Strover Horatio Thomas Tapp Thomas Shubrick William Henry Kemm Thomas King William Monteath Michael Riddell John Turner Trewman Peter Fearon Richard Lacy Evans, C.B. Wlllienr Morison, C.B. Thomas Morgan Lechmere Coare Rossell, C.B. Duncan Macleod John Dun William Cullen William Dunlop Johnstone Napier David Barr John Willie Robert Home, C.B. Johit Hunter Littler William Vincent Thomas Marrett 'John Anthony Hodgson Samuel Smith Thomas Ihnry Paul Ezekiel Barton Henry Tuffrel Roberts, C. B. John Thomas Gibson Francis Farquharson Frederick Roome Roster Walker Sir Henry•Pottinger, Bart. James Caulfield, C.B. Richard - Tickell, C.B. MAJORS TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. Nicholas Penny Sir Edward Alexander Campbell, Knt. and C.B. CAPTAINS TO BE MAJOR& t, Frederick Wright Hands Charles Thynne Thomas William Rollings Edward William Kennett Charles Marshall Frederick Broadwoode White • John Jervis Albert Pinson George Robert Wilton Andrew Fraser James Seett William Hyslop George Augustus Underwood William Geddes • George Snow Blundell Francis Jenkins William Alexander Troup Charles Hewetson. John Fawcett David Birrell David Thoinpson Aneas Sheriff Albany Toward Humffrey Lyobh James Mellor Robert Sarrell John Francis Bird", Henry Walter Bellew James Brigs • James Croudace Peter Hamond Thomas Sanders George Twemlow Archibald Geddes Hyslop Thomas Gidley • James Somers Down,' James Fraser Charles . Johnson Walter John Erntiiie Thomas Sewell Francis Blaney Lucas Henry Stilles Foord James Colley Tudor Stephen Glynne Wheler Richard Ord Frederick John Simpson Ralph Thorpe William Cotton James Wylie George Frederick Frank Vincent Clifton Benbow • William Forbes j G o e h o n rg P e a A t f o o n nro Cat;ihAti Smyth Charles Field Charles George Dixon Charles Richardes Claud Douglas John Charles Wallace Willianildtnund Litchfield William Brown George More • John Augustus Scott William Milner Neville Sturt William Minto William Itarry Jackson Richard May 117ignan Cooke William Payne John Gunning. WAR-OFFICE Nov. 26, 1841. . 0. 6th Regiment of Dragoons—C o rne:: John Elphosione Fleeming to be Lieutenant, by pi-clips°, vie , chdall; promoted. Dated 26th November, 1841. • Whitehall Dod, Gent. to be Cornet, by p - ktrcl.se; - vice Fleeming. Dated 26th November, 1841, 12th' Regiment of Light Dragoons—C... Hugh Smith Barry to be Lieutenant, Ly. : ,,cchaeo, %Joe Wood, who retires. Dated 26th Noveir, , 1841. Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, , to be Cornet, pnibe 1: 1 )y 84 purchase, vice Barry. Datcd No , , . 2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-C ; • l !", William Bruugh, from half-pay 'L.', to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir Thoznas Wilie' , who exchanges. Dated 27e. 111,41 i„. 5 64 . 4 F9ot--Gentleman Cadet Henry eTtal:,:t Mfi • Ju; - L.,: Royal Military College, to be E without pure' • chase, vice Archdall, deceased. D.:...f 26th Novem ber, 1841. 60th Foot—Ensign Douglas Jones, )- ..: the 73d Foot, to be First Lieutenant, without par :h: :,.,- vice O'Grady, deceased. Dated 26th November, -: '1 , 4 I. 73d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles thighton, from the Royal Military College, to be Easi : n, wit.out pur chase, vice Jones, promoted in the 6,:,h F 0.,:, Dated 26th November, 1841. 74th Foot—Major Eyre John Crabbe to ,be L.avonant- Colonel, without purchase, vice lull, decea Gth November, 1841. Brevet-Major John Casemir HirolCto be :ajor, lice Crabbe. Dated 6th November, 1841. Lieutenantated 6th N Duncanovem Fraser November, 1841. 41 t o be Cu1.%:,-1. v i.,., H aro ld . D EnsigiiC harle t s ed A 6 y t l h m N er onm Coates to 1841, Spencer Lieutenant, vice Fraser. pa 1. Spencer Henry Hutchins Edwards, G out., to he Ensign, vice Coates. Dated 26th Novembei, 1841, 83d Foot—Gentleman-Cadet George Henry Cazalet, from the Royal Military College, -- t(1 be &tsili:•! -- 7'.'libtit purchase, vice Riley, appointed to th e .;-;, .. , .., 3 : , Dated 26th November, 1841. ,.0.:0d , ' ' 89th Foot—Ensign Charles Doyle Patterson t, ',aim, tenant, without purchase, vice J. R,.1,1 4 ,0„; tr a ui.! ~ z... ceased. Dated 4th October, 1841. , - • vice Patterson, D R Gentleman-Cadet Macartney lirna 1r Yra‘t eld, from the f i x ita ii rY oveinber, 1841. collage,, to be - :. f ',l , , o a y te a d l 3, 2 1 6 i ~ e, 1841. UNATTA ../, Ma; -e Redmond William Brough,, ,t'N''' - ; , -1 ; : . , 2d Foc; t, to be Lieutenant Colonel, without ‘,.. t , . MEMORANDUM, , ~.,;;;.. ‘,•,',f;: , .- . 26th November, 1841. A Lieutenant Mervin Archdall, from the 6th P. I :ens, to be Captain, by purchase. Dated 260. Nov, .J Captain Connell James ..,,,,v,, been allowed to retire from the, r his commission, he being about ; ` t+• .„ mu of Ado v . ! ,? i i:as . ot Canada, dated 26th Neveinber,- Iff4A, tler in The names of the Assistant-Stirt ,! :,.. _. . 63d Foot, on the sth October, 1841 „, "lt tialite if. Ste . phens, M.D. ,- ~ i ERRATUM in the Gazette of 16th ,i I. 6th Dragoons.—For Gentleman (- Leigh, from the Royal Military Cl': ,ttit'dell . i: &c., read Henry Blundell Leigh, Chink., c,, sCoi; i e t , q, ,!., ~, ~ s,c. WAR-OFFICZ Nov. te.!!:. , MEMORANDUM.—The promdtt '" ° , l. "ill& sitnon 'William Mayne, on half-pay 19th liigiti . Vz:rak; ' ~ to uty-Lkutu: ' .it, be Major in the Army (which was insertel4 in the Supplement to the Gazette of 23 , ' rv,,,, tober, 1841), has been cancelled. . , ')ated Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of F -taraire. 30th October. John Carnegie, Esq., to be Dep WHITEHALL, Nor. 25, The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Tillett, Esq., of Colchester, in the county of Essex, Conveyancer, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. .• DECLARATIONS c3 , ..‘ INSOLVENCY. ABRAHAM SHUTE, clothier, Nuneaton, Warwick shire., ADOLPIIE LAURIER and JOSEPH LOCK, im porters of foreign goods and copartners. BANKRUPTCY SUPERCEDED. COOPER SERLE, pookseller, Bury St, iCluiuncis. BA'NKRUPTS. WILLIAM PENNINGTON, grocer, Marple, Cheshire, to surrender Dec. 16, at twelve, and Jan. 7, at three, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Miln e , Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, ; Walrusley, JAMES GRIFFIN, upholsterer, Dudley, Worcester shire; Dec. 6 and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton. Combo, Staple Inn, London; Fellowes, jun., Dudley. WILLIAM - BARNES, milliner, St. Paul's Church yard,-Dec. 11, atone, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchureb-lane, Lombard-street, official assignee , Turner and Hensman, Basing-lane. JOHN HILTON BAZLEY, warehouseman, Man chester, Dec. 15,. and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Commis sioner's-rooms, Manchester. Hadfield, Manchester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's-bench-walk, Temple, London. CHARLES RICHARDSON, builder, Bramley, Sur rey, Dec. 14, at on 5, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. • •Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; •Blackmoro and Co., New Inn, London. THOMAS LYSTER, - corn factor, Manchester, Dec, 16, and Jan. 7, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; Higson and Son, Manchester. SAMUEL — EVENS, •clothier, Read, Somersetshire, Dec. 9, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the George Inn, Frome Sclwood. Miller, Frome Selwood ; Frampton, South square, Gray's.lnn, London. JOHN BROWN, victualler, Birmingham, Dec 10, at eleven, and Jan. 7, at nine, at the Waterloo-rooms, Bir mingham. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Har rison, Edmund-street, Birmingham. JOSEPH HEY, jun., carpenter, Ovenden, Yorkshire, Dec. 14, and Jan. 7, at th ree , a t the Shakespeare Inn, Halifax. Wavel, Halifax; Adlington, Gregory, Faulk ner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London. HENRY GREVES, timber-merchant, Leamington Priors, Dec. 6, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire. Cary, St. Swithin's-lane, City; Kitchin, Warwick. EDWARD LEECH, cotton spinner, Cinderhill, Lan cashire, Dec. 17, at half-past three, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors' Lancashire. Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London ; Grundy, Bury; Grundy, Manchester. LkOPOLO SCHWABACHER, wine -merchant, Mi nories, Dec. 7, at eleven, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Spitler, solicitor, Bank-buildings, Lothbury. JOSEPH WOOD, lace-dealer, Manchester, Dec. 17 and Jan. 7, at four, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man chester. • Yallop, Furnival's Inn, London ; Parsons, jun., Nottingham. ROBERT HOLDSWORTH CAREW HUNT and EDWARD OSBORNE SMITH, merchants, Old Broad-street, ' Dec. 11, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Heathcote and Holman, Coleman-street. THOINIkS NOCK, coal-master, Oldbury, Shrop shire. Dee. 7 and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Waterloo rooms, Birmingham. Chaplin, Gray's Inn ; Harrison, Birmingham. HENRY THOMAS COGGAN KERR, JOHN HENRY BAUGHAN, and THOMAS TURGIS HAINES, army agents, Suffok-street, Pall-mull East, Dec. 6, at twelve, and Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, ; Pain and iflatherley, Great Marlborough-street. SAMUEL lIIGGINBOTTOM, shopkeeper,' Dukin field, Chester, Dec: 11, and Jan. 7, at four, at the Com missioners'-rooms, Manchester. Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Iligginbottom, Buckley, and Lord, Ashton-under-Lyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Savage, lodging-house keeper, Epsom, Dec. 17, at two—J. Dauncey, woollen manufacturer, Coley Mills, Gloucestershire, Dec. 17, at two—J. arance and J. G. Chaldecott, coffee dealers, Abchurch-yard, City, Dec. 20, at half-past one—J. Appleton, hop merchant, Three Crown-square, Southwark, Dec. '2O, at half-past twelve —G. A. Lawson, carpet warehouseman, Oxford-street, Dec. 20, at half-past eleven—T. Carter, woollen draper, Cheapside, Dec. 17, at half-past one—C. Hall, uphol sterer, Piccadilly, Dec. 17, at one—J. Leary, coffee house keeper, Quadrant, Regent-street, Dec. 17, at half past twelve—A. Goldschmidt, C. W. Stokes, and E. Meyer, merchants, Great St. Helen's, City, Dec. 17, at twelve. In the Country.' W. Ward, carpenter, Saffron Walden, Essex, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Rose and Crown Inn, Saffron Walden— M. ; Atkinson and J. Laidman, sen., bankers, Penrith, Cumberland, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Crown Hotel, Pen rith—R. Root, draper, Wardington, Oxford, Dec. 20, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Banbury, Oxford. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Shave and J. Taylor, attorneys, Fenchurch-strcet, City,--J. R. and W. W. Wheeler, solicitors, Wokingham, Berkshire—S. Riles, J. Plowman, and: M. Webb, woollen drapers, Bishopsgate-street Without (so far as regards J. Plowman)—J. and G. Hinchliff, merchants, Holmfirth, Yorkshire—L. and J. Starnes, farmers, Yalding, Kent— Boothroyd, Fozard, and Co., scribbling and fulling mil lers, Batley Carr, Yorkshire (so far as regards 'l'. Fozard) —J. Chant and R. Heard, smiths, Bridgwater, Somerset shire—G. Judd and E. Cotterell, drapers, Warwick—J. W. Liddon and G. Howard, brewers, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire—R. Bridge and J. Hargreaves, cotton spinners. Tottington Lower-end, Lancashire—W. Swift and R. Crampton, haberdashers, Manchester—J. D. D un nicliff and J. Wild, lace dressers, Basford, Nottingham shire—T. and B. Swift, timber merchants, Monmouth— J. Wright and J. Lavars, lithographers, Bristol—T. Balls and W. H. Malpus, iron plate merchants, Bankside —J. J. Brown and J. T. Ansdell, attorneys, Liverpool —H. C. Bingham and W. Bush, contractors for building a light-house on the Goodwin Sands—T. Sharpus, W. Cullum, and F. Sharpus, china dealers, Cockspur-street (so far as regards F. Sharpus)—W. Hall, J. Bradley, and J. Gibson, jun., woollen printers, Rochdale, Lancashire —J. Miller and J. Campion, rope manufacturers, Stock ton, Durham—T. Wilson, J. Hudson, and T. Hudson, merchants,. Kingston- upon-Hull. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ROBERT RUSSELL, brickmaker, Glasgow, Nov. 29' and Dec. 20, at two, at the Writing Chambers of G. Kippen, Glasgow. WILLIAM PAGE, merchant, Alloa, Dec. 1 and 22, at twelve, at the Crown Inn, Alloa. JAMES M'GILL, provision merchant, Glasgow, Dec. 1 and 22, at twelve, at the Office of J. Monteith, writer, Glasgow. GEORGE WHIGHAM, coal merchant, Jiallidayhill, Dumfries, Dec. 3 and 24, at one, at the Queensberry Arms Inn, Sanquhar. RODERICK - REACH, solicitor, Inverness, Dec. 6 and 27, at two, at the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Nov. 23, 1841, is 345. 114 d. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. 1.1i3 Serene. Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen visited his Royal Highness Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Tice Viscount and Viscountess Guillamore, Lady Augusta Gordon, Sir George and Lady Couper, Sir Robert and Lady Otway, Miss Otway, and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Paget, attended at Buckingham Palace, pi three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and had ,thf ho 'r of being gratified with th e sight of his Royal . 4 u t:fl s.the infant Prince. • • All Fps ltoyal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. 'Wykle, Visited his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen yesterday, at Marlborough House. Lady Cure. Cocks and the Hon. Miss Cavendish have saciaeedealifitHon. Miss Anson and the Hon. Miss Deverelik, us the Maids of Honour in Waiting on her Utkiesty. His ; b'erene I! .. mess Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipps thsl,- visited , I..::air Royal highnesses the Duke and Duchess of C: , , :.fridge yesterday, at their residence, at Kew. . ~ Hia Excelleney_Zdward Everett, the American Minis left town on . hursday, for Paris. A Deputation srom the Southampton Dock Company ( , ntisting of Mr. Liggins, Chairman, Mr. Cruikshank, i Ara - A.or ; Mr. Saintsbury, Secretary ; and Mr. Giles, Engin..Tr, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exch, finer yesterday, at his official residence, in Down ing:str, Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The account of the health of her Majesty, exhibited Marlborough House yesterday to the Nobility and • .0 \ Ivas as follows: " The Queen Dowager sat up for several hours yester day without being fatigued, and, though troubled by her cough towards morning, her Majesty is, in every respect, as well as yesterday. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " Sudbury Hall, Nov. 25, 1841." FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. John Wilkes, Esq., and family, at Nelson's Portland Hotel, frmn Lofts Hall, Essex ; Rev. H. H. Knight, at ditto ; G. ',Norton, Esq., and Mrs. Norton, at ditto Chief Justice '-atinclerson (of Grenada), at th e Glou cester Hotel, Piccadilly ; Burmester, Esq., an d Mrs. Burmester, at ditto ; Captain and Mrs. Henley, at ditto Captain Tyrrell, Ist Dragoons. DEPARTURES. mai , fret:, Nelson's Portland H o t e l , for the Isle ; thislow, Esq., from ditto ;J. Knyvett, ail tilt to ; George Barker, Esq., and Mrs. Barker, fruna ti7tt ,- ) ; Mrs. Cookes and family, and Lieut. Cookes, the Gloucester Hotel Piccadilly, for Dover ; Capt.. from ditto ; Cavendish Hall, Esq., from ditto ; \lr. J. B. Wiorn, son of Sir John Osborn, from Liver pool, for Nev York. CHANGES. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Warner and family, from Walsing harn Abbey, Norfolk, to Tiberton-court, Herefordshire. ERR A TUM.—In the, leader yesterday, beginning " The manner,"and in the last line, the word "common" should hate been inserted between " ludo" and " cause." BERNARD CAVANAGH, the " FAST ING MAN," IN READING GAOL. (FROM A. CORRESPONDENT.) READING, FRIDAY.—The very natural excitement which has been created, not only in. the minds of the public generally, but amongst the medical profession especially (many of whom still consider that Bernard Cavanagh is not wholly an impostor, if such a qualification ran fairly be given to the term), in consequence of his examination before the Mayor of this borough, on Thurs day, the 18th instant, and bis committal to the county gaol for three months; with hard labour at the tread-wheel, as a'rogUe and vagabond, induced me to visit him in the prison yesterday, having had every facility most politely accorded to me by the authorities of the borough and the Governor of the prison, Lieut. Hackett, R.N. Without venturing to give an opinion myself as to the supposed impositions practised by this man (who really in appearance looks more fool than knave), or as to his real powers of abstinence from food or drink, especially after the statement which I subjoin to this narrative, given to me by Mr. Bulley, the assistant surgeon to the county gaol, and surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hos pital (whom I fortunately met in the prison, and in whose company I conversed with Cavanagh), I shall merely confine myself to the relation of such facts as came within the scope of my own observations—admit ting, however, and most frankly, at the same time, that I went to the prison very naturally, I may say, strongly prejudiced against the " Fasting Man." Various opinions having been hazarded as to the lega lity of the Mayor of Reading committing this man as a rogue and vagabond, from the nature of the evidence which Was brought against him, it may be worth while to state that his conviction took place under the sth of George IV., commonly called (I am told) the Vagrant Act, the substance of the clause being as follows : " Every person. [to be deemed a vagrant] going about as a gatherer or collector of alms, or endeavouring to procure charitable contributions of any nature or kind, under any false or fraudulent pretence." It should here, however, be observed, that although it was clearly proved before the Mayor that the accused purchased tho bread, with the ham and saveloy accom paniments, and at an obscure part of the town, and at a considerable distance from the Black Boy, yet there was no proof (however strong the presumption might have been) that he had eaten them. His having disguised himself in the way described in the Morning Papers of Monday last, with a handkerchief tied over his forehead, nearly covering his eyes, another tied over hi s c hi n , nearly up to his mouth, and a large black patch upon his nose, leads to the very natural conclusion that deception, if not gross imposition, was intended. If Cavanagh be an imposter to the extent presumed, there are, in the opinion of many, no grounds for sup posing that his " Man Friday , " Tiernan, was aware of his tricks. If Tiernan had been in his confidence, there was certainly no reason for Cavanagh going out himself to make his own purchases of food, with the chance of being, as he was, detected. Tier nan observed to the Mayor, when he was before the Reading Bench of Magistrates, that it was no wonder (if Cavanagh were an impostor) that he had de ceived him, when it-was well known that 1)--..tors Blun dell and Kenny, and several other medical men is r, oa _ don, had been deceived by him also. There was some thing certainly extremely plausible in all this, as far as Tiernan was concerned. I have learned that Cavanagh went out for the purpose of taking the air three times every day from the period of his arrival at the Black Boy, until he was apprehended and convicted as " a rogue and vagabond." Upon my arrival at the county gaol, I found Cavanagh occupying a cell on the first floor, ten feet by five, in which was his truck-bedstead. The windows in the prison are so constructed, by means of blinds, that it is totally impossible for any article, however small, to be conveyed to him through such an opening. I afterwards saw Cavanagh in a room down stairs, in the presence of the Chaplain of the prison, Mr. Bulley, and the Deputy- Governor. He not only appeared in excellent health and very good spirits (not at all "down " at his present situation) ,but there was a colour upon his cheeks clearly indicating there were no symptoms of starvation visible. His voice was firm, and he altogether appeared to be en joying good health. He stated in reply to the questions I put to him, that he was very comfortable, and wanted -nothing. After some hesitation he said there was one favour he had to ask, and that was, that as he felt extremely cold in his bed during the night, and suffered much from this cause, he wished permission to be allowed to warm his feet by the fire before he was nightly locked up. Mr. Bulley, who has behaved with great humanity towards him while he has been incarcerated, immediately gave instructions for this favour being granted. Cavanagh stated that he attended the service at the Catholic chapel on the Sunday, after his arrival at Read ing, when he received the sacrament. He likewise stated that on the Saturday preceding he went to confession to the Rev. Mr. Ringrose, the Catholic priest, who, at that time, did not know who he was, or his name or occupa tion, but that he has since told him. (He has not re quired the services of the priest at the Gaol up to to day.) I then entered into conversation with him, the substance of which is as follows : How long do you, now, mean to maintain you have lived without food ? Cavanagh—l have not tasted either food or drink for upwards of five years and a half. But if you don't wish to be considered as an impostor, how can you get over the fact of your disguising your self, and purchasing ham and other things at the shop in Southampton-street ? I admit having bought those things, for I felt hunger for the first time since the time I have named. You ate the ham and saveloy, of course ? No, I did not. Well, what did you d 0 with them, then P—l walked into a field and then my hunger left me. The things fell out of my hands into the field, and I left them where they fell. Can you state what field you went into and left the food you had purchased ?—No; I don't know the name of it, but I could very easily point it out if I were there. What was your object in buying the ham and bread? —Because I felt hungry. As soon as I got there I felt no appetite. In reply to another question he said, " I fancied I could eat a little, but I do not imagine I was prompted to eat by the LORD." •He said he slept well, and complained of nothing but the cold at night. - When he was apprehended he was dressed in a very respectable suit of black, wearing a 'chain round his neck, to which was appended a black cross. He is now; however, in the gaol dress. Upon Cavanagh stating that he could point out the field in which he had dropped the ham, &c., on Thursday last, an application was immediately made to the Mayor, S. Chase, Esq., who was then sitting at the Magistrates' chamber, for permission for the man to leave the prison, for an hour, in custody, good and sufficient bail being offered for his safe return, in order that he might have the opportunity, thus far, of clearing his character. The Mayor, however, w h o behaved with great politeness to the applicant, stated that the apication could not be acceded to. This refusal was certainly to be lamented (although I do not know if the Mayor had the power to grant the required boon, the prisoner being confined in the county and not in the borough gaol) •, because if the man's tale be correct—viz., that he did not eat the provisions, and they were found in a field near Reading, this fact would go very far towards exonerating Ca vanah from that charge, at any rate. If the field were a thoroughfare, and as more than a week has elapsed since they were dropped, it is far from improbable that they may have been picked up by" man or beast" before now. Before I add to this communication a document which has been placed in my hands by Mr. Bulley, the surgeon to the county gaol, who has attended Cavanagh since his confinement, I will state some further particulars re lating to this man's conduct since lie has been in gaol, which may be relied on. They may tend to shake the opinion of many who, like myself, were strongly dis pmoasned,,,tiolistlelionrkrecttha4te,siingsnteataidonolf,ohuiisd,bbeeinag,, F a a. : 4 ‘ t l in asting postor." lie may be an impostor, now, for aught I know, to a certain extent (for as to flesh and blood enduring five years and a half total abstinence from food or drink, it is, I confess, rather too much for one to give cred ence to) ; yet, when I state, upon the most undoubted autho rity, that from his first entering the priso n up to this present writing he has been closely watched, and that he has neither tasted the one nor the other, in any shape, it may be better to leave the public to form th eir own opi nions as to the extent of the impost ure t h e man ma yhave been guilty of. He ha sonmbee daily upplied (this is th e n i nth day of his imprient s ) with the usual gaol allowance, and at the usual intervals. This, whether his food has con sisted of bread,• vegetables, gruel, Water, scc. has been , carefully weighed upon its being t a k en to his cell. After leaving it there a necessary time for him to take his eyiguhrietdnu, cwhheed:iaintdbiamsmbeeedinateb meal, it has been taken aw ay af in variablyrticwl e a h d fao s vu a inn g dg a i tonb been beet n r i cot taken k y pe n away the same weight, not a por consumed. The following is a copy of the document I have vea viously referred to, placed in my hands this morning, by Mr. Bulley, from which it will be seen that that gen tleman very humanely caused Cavanagh to beexempt from the punishment of the tread-wheel, after lie had undergone the labour for nearly three days:— " Friarnin, 12 o'clock. "Bernard C avanagh, at this d y ate m , o comp g leted his ninth day of entire abstinence from food and drink. " After the closest watching and the strictest care on the part of myself and the turnkeys of the prison, to pr vent the possibility of his clandestinely taking food, I feel satisfied and convinced, in my own mind, that Ber nard Cavanagh has not tasted food or drink during the nine days he has been an inmate of the gaol. He re mains, notwithstanding the privations he has voluntarily endured, in a state of perfect bodily health, and I cannot detect the slightest alteration in his appearance or spirits. "In stature, Bernard Cavanagh is about the middle height. his manners are quiet and unobtrusive. He may be said to be reserved before strangers. He is, how ever, uniformly good tempered, rational in his conversa tion, except on religious subjects (on which he seems to labour under a peculiar delusion), and expresses himself as perfectly happy. " He is extremely anxious to undergo any trial I may think fit to make of his powers of abstinence, without regard to time, and expresses himself as unwilling to leave the prison until such fair trial has been made. " I wish tocorrect a statement which has gone abroad, respecting my being instrumental in keeping this unfor tunate person upon the tread-wheel. The following is the fact of this circumstance :—On Sunday evening, three whole days after he had been imprisoned, I ob served that during the period he had taken neither food nor drink. Thinking that under this extraordinary condition of his system hard labour might be injurious to his health, I ordered him to be immediately removed from the wheel, entering such order in my Journal. The Visiting Magistrates and the Governor of the prison, however, thought otherwise, and he was again, on Mon day morning, placed upon the wheel, and remained at /*.A.I . -j • Ps ENI NG suN work until, through the kindness of the y:4 )4 1 ak • finally taken off the same afternoon. " ^ r " Assistant-Surgeon to the County Goal, and Surgeon to the Royal Berks Hospital." Tiernan, who is in good health, is serving out his month's imprisonment at the tread wheel. • There is a report here that the Catholics, of whom there are several in Reading and its neighbourhood, are bolstering up the preten s i ons of Cavanagh as a " living miracle;" but from the in qu i r i es I have made I find no grounds for the rumour, which has, certainly, been pretty extensively circulated. •ft. FRANCE. TRIAL OF A MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FOR A LIBEL UPON THE GOVERNMENT, IN A SPEECH ADDRESS ED TO MS CONSTITUENTS. The trial of M. Ledru Rollin for delivering, and of M. Hureau, responsible editor of the Courrier de la Sarthe, for publishing with his assent, a speech to the electors of Le Mans, on the 23d July last, came on before the Court of Assizes for the Maine-et Loire, held at Angers on Tuesday. The Court was crowded at an early hour, and among the audience were M. Giraud, oue of the De puties for the Department, the Prefect, and many ladies. The Judges took their seats at half-past 9 o'clock. ,After the ceremony of drawing and swearing the Jury was gone through, the President proceeded to put the usual interrogatories to the accused. M. Ledru Rollin re plied that his name was Alexandre Auguste Rollin, aged 34, advocate at the Court of Cessation and the Coun cil of State ; and M. Hureau that his name was Barthelemy, his age 24, and that he was editor of the Courrier de la Sarthe. In answer to a question from the President, M. Ledru R6llin admitted that he did deliver the incriminated speech, in the presence of about 200 persons, in a house which he believed belonged to M. Barre, but whether the doors were open to all who might please to enter, lie could not tell, as he only entered the town on the day before, and was not acquainted with any of the preceding arrangements. The speech, he de clared, was delivered impromptu, and after it was pro nouncedle was informed that it had been taken down, and several electors requested his consent that it should be pub lished, which he gave; because he did not feel himself at liberty to refuse. The President then questioned M. Hureau, who stated that he had caused the speech to be inserted in his journal without receiving orders from any one. The Procureur-General addressed the Court for the prosecution. He maintained that the spe e d ' was an excitation to hatred and contempt against the Go vermnent, as it represented it as the sole cause, of the miseries of the people, whereas the ,Govern ment was by all the means within its power en deavouring to lessen them. But, said the Proctireur-Gene ral, it was with regard to the conduct of the Government towards Africa that a great offence was committed, by representing that it was to be shortly abandoned in servile submission to the demands of Foreign Powers. He then came to what he considered the most im portant part of the accusation, the question which more or less affected the elective franchise, tending to change not the Ministry, but the Elective Government itself, that is, the King and the Chambers. This part of the speech was, he said, full of excitement to revolt, and was a most unconstitutional attack upon the existing in titutions. The Learned Gentleman, after commenting strong. upon the conduct of M. Ledru Rollin, concluded the Jury to p u t an en d , b y the verdict by calling L t .,, they were about to to excitement of this kind. M. Ledru Rollin then addressen• iaa; that his intention was to excite the people to revolt, and contended that he had not in his speech exceeded this limits of constitutional discussion. There were, he said, in Erance twelve millions of persons in a state of misery,and it was not a crime to inquireinto the means of relieving them. He recommended what appeared to him the proper course, viz., radical ref orm , b ut h e d ec l are d to God that he intended only pacific reform. M. Odillon Barrot, as the friend and counsel of M. Ledrii Rollin, declared that although the language of his client in the speech for which he was now uncial' prosecution was ' warmer, perhaps, than it might have been, it was strictly legal, and it was evident that, so far from having excited the people to revolt against the existing institutions, he had desired no reform in which the Chamber of Deputies should not co-operate. It had been charged against his client, added M. Barrot, that he had called the laws of September impious and parricidal, but M. Ledru Rollin explained what he meant by - Saying that the Deputies who had the most contributed to the pass ing of those laws owed everything to the press, and had, therefore, attacked their own parent--and was not this the fact ? In conclusion, and after having in sisted on the right of his client to deliver his opinions as to the state of society, and to say what he thought were the means of remedy, M. Odilon Barrot cautioned the Jury against permitting the Ministry to attack a Deputy, when the Electoral College had performed its mandate, for a speech delivered to the electors whilst they were exercising their privileges ; for if such a power were given to a Government, who could say that a Deputy might not be prosecuted even whilst the elect ors were performing their functions?-31. Arago fol lowed M. Odilon Barrot. He began by stating that he had felt it his duty to quit his various and urgent avocations, in order to render a service to an esteemed, colleague and the cause of liberty. The Hon. Gentle man, alluding to the charge against M. Ledru Rollin, that he had drawn a frightful and exciting picture of the misery of the people, said he had unfortunately but too much ground for his statement, and it was but natural that, impressed as he was with a deep sense of that mi sery, he should have a strong desire to see it removed, and enter upon the discassion of the question of ra dical reform and the organisation of labour, for which he was now accused as of a heinous crime. A s a proof that M. Ledru Rollin had not altogether over charged his picture, M. Arago observed that of 100,000 persons of the general population born in France, only 50,000 were alive at the end of 20 years and a half, whilst in the working-classes of 100,000 bora only 50,000 were alive at the end of two years. This, ho thought, was a conclusive proof of the extent of misery in the working-classes.—M. Berryer, as counsel for M. Hu reau, said he had come to the defence of M. :Hureau, be cause he was charged with having published a speech, containing a profession of faith in favour of electoral re form. Under the Restoration, said M. Berryer, such dis cussions were never made the ground of prosecution, and it was an attack upon public liberty to assail them now. " Do not," said M. Berryer, " prevent men who may en tertain different opinions from your own from stating them to the electors. For my own part, after having combated the new establishment in the Chamber of 1830, I did not despair of the country, and profited by the right given to me by the new Constitution to seek to propagate my doctrines. Would you, gentlemen, de voted as you may be to the Monarchy oflB3o, renounce, if a Republic were to triumph, the rights which Republican institutions might give to you, of seeking to effect the restoration of the Government to which you were at tached ?" The Procureur-General replied, and was in his turn replied to by M. Marie for M. Ledru Rollin. The argument of M. Marie was chiefly that his client had not recommended or desired revolt, and was only anxious for reform •by constitutional means. The Jury retired, and, after a deliberation of about an hour. returned with a verdict acquitting M. Ledru Rollin on the charge of having committed the offence charged against him by delivering the speech in question to the electors, but declaring him guilty of the offence by authorising the publication of the speech. M. Hureau was declared guilty of thet the the e Presidentpublication.o u i n about r t retireduthalf an to delibe rate hour, when t n eT o tit u 'lern c et : d d it as follows :—M. andp Ledru Rollin to be imprisoned three month s , an d to pay lhen on sentence, pronounced r . i a fine of 3,000 francs ; and M. Hureau to be imprisoned two months, and to pay a fine of 2,000 francs ; the pub lication of the speech for which they were condemned, to be suppressed. DISTURBANCE morning ‘ie R v W h c i re C at i ed i. a gtheE k the Chartis ts at N N ° Or disgraceful disturbance upon the occasion of the con secration of the new Church, at Catton, near Norwich. The Bishop was assailed with hootings and yells, and during the ceremony at the Church the Chartist band played. The congregation were much alarmed during the whole service, in consequence of the outrageous conduct of Chartists. Several of them were taken into custody for their disorderly conduct, and a rescue was attempted. Thomas Abell, Wm. Crone, and Win. Chaplain, and a man named Votier, were given in charge by the Mayor, who, with Mr. H. Bolinbroke, took a very active part in keeping the peace. While the Chartists were being conveyed to the station-house, Votier was rescued, and two or three of the police severely wounded. One man, Neale, was dreadfully cut in the nose ' • another man, named Didwell, cut o n th e b ac k o f t h e head by heavy stones thrown. Missiles were thrown in all directions in Bridge-street, about twelve o'clock, and some windows broken ; but, except Votier, all the prisoners were secured. Aftenvams nine other Chartists were given into custody for riotous conduct, and some for assault ing the clergymen while coining out of church. While the Lord Bishop was consecrating, Hewett, the Chartist, came up at the head of a band to the church, playing, first, " God save the Queen," then they made a halt, and played the Old Hundredth Psalm. Hewett was taken into custody, and on Tuesday underwent an examination before the Magistrates, charged with the disburbance. Wednesday the examination of the Chartists was re sumed. Several were fined SL, and in default committed for a month to hard labour. Hewett, after a lung in vestigation, was bound over to take his trial at the Ses. sions in two sureties of 50/. each.—Derbyshire Chronicle. SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. --On the morning of Tuesday last. Stephen Darby, E sq ., who lately retired from an extensive brewery establish ment, and who resided at Cookham, in Berkshire, left the Paddington station by the eleven o'clock train to proceed by one of the first-class carriages, in which h e was by himself, to Maidenhead. When the train stopped at Slough, a gentleman got into the same carriage, a n d at this time Mr. Darby appeared to be dozing. The tr a i n , however, had scarcely started from Slough when the gentleman discovered that his travelling companion ap peared to be in his last sleep. All attempts to make the guards or conductors hear his shouts for the train to be stopped and assistance afforded to the deceased in the event of his having been in a fit, Were totally fruitless, from the noise occasioned by the engine and the wheels of the carriages. 'Upon its arrival at the Maidenhead station, medical aid was immediately obtained, but it was too late, life being entirely extinct. The deceased bad been for same time previously labouring under a disease of the heart, and to this cause his medical attendant at tributed his death. Mr. Darby was possessed of very considerable property. _ _ _ JONATHAN AGAIN.--On Monday week a young man, who (as was supposed) had died of the yellow fever at Now Orleans, was no sooner put into the coffin in a burial dress, than he asked, " Where are you going with me ?" He is expected to recover. A red cabbage plant, purchased in February last. of Mr. Samuel Poxon, seedsman, Castle Donington, and panted by Mr. George Townley, of Long Whatton, was cut a few days since, when it weighed the enormous w t Ott of twenty-nine pounds.—Nottingham Review - [-7:21`;9. -- ;%.• " ‘\ :~~ • • a ow, 9 P btu itto et, • t o na , the COD ,eog!'" e • th s ;1.-onf tt i 0, '75011/°. ( #