The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-04 00:00:00

Corregio light of the aforesaid elegantly gilt French lamp. At last the insufferable fop begins, and after one glance at the yellow ceiling, and one desultory smil ing peep at some curious white crystals, probably filbert-salt, in a secret drawer of his inlaid writing desk, he pens the following sublime bit of euphuism, worthy indeed of the age of Keepsakes : "This completed the charm. We immersed a well-seasoned prime pen into our silver inkstand three times, shaking off the loose ink again linger ingly, while, holding the print fast in our left hand, we perused it with half-shut eyes, dallying awhile with our delight. Fast aed faster came the ting- Leg ielpetu2, and this reneing like quicksilver from sensoriam to our pen, we gAve, the latter one conclusive dip, after which we rapidly dashed off the following description couleur de rose.'" A little later this bright butterfly of fashion in for.ns his enraptured world in the " London Maga zine" that he has bought a new horse, and secured a new book : I have nothing more in the way cf news, ex ceptthat I have picked up a fine copy of ' Bochius's Emblems ' (you know the charming things, by Bonasone), first edition ; Bologna, 1555. Capital condition, in blue French morocco, by De Rome, for whom I still retain some small inkling of affec tion, in spite of the anathemas of the Rev. T. F. Dibdin. Also, a new horse (Barbary sire and Ara bian dam), with whose education I occupy nearly all my mornings, though I have considerable doubts whether I shall push it beyond the military nege." This exulting egotism, this delight in bindings, is characteristic of the man, as also is the graceful allusion in the last line to the writer's military achievements (disgracefully ignored by Napier). Later in hi 3 career Wainewright fell foul of tha wise thinker and profound critic, William Hazlitt, who also wrote for the " London," laughing to scorn, " spitefully entreating," and hugely condemn ing his dramatic criticisms. llazlitt, the most inflammable of old bachelors, praised the Miss Bennetts' dancing; Janus derided them as little unformed creatures, great favourites with the Whit echapel orders :" cried " Faugh !" when llazlitt visited the Coburg and Surrey Theatres ; and sneered when his great rival praised Miss Valancy, " the bouncing Columbine at Astley's, and them there places—as his barber informs him." All this shows the vanity and shallow temerity, the vulgar and impertinent superciliousness, of the pseudo critic. He got a bludgeon blow on the head for it, however, from Hazlitt, who then left him to flutter his hour and to pass away in his folly. When Hazlitt left the "London Magazine" about 1825, Janus Weathercock ceased to delight the world also, but he still rattled at parties, still drove in the Park, and flashed along the Row on his Arab horse " Contributor ;" he still bought well-bound books, pictures, and hothouse plants, and still ex pended his affections on his cat. Honest Charles Lamb, guileless as a child, lamented " kind, light hearted Janus," the tasteful dandy, the gay senti mentalist of the boudoir. Fine, generous natures like Othello are prone to trust lago. One of those gentlemen who are mean enough to get their bread by professional literature, and yet affect to despise their business, Waiuewright must have felt the loss of his liberal monthly salary, fur he had expensive tastes, and a knack of getting through money. Say some eight or ten years after the delightful dinner in Waterloo-place, this fine nature (true Sevres of the rarest clay) was living in his own luxurious cosy way (books, wine, horses, pictures, statues, hothouse plants, Damascus sabre, tortoise shell cat, elegantly gilt French lamp and all) at Linden House, Turnhaan-green, remarkable for its lime-trees, on the pretty heart-shaped leaves of which the gay artist probably lavished a thousand fancies. Only once had those rose-leaves fallen since the house and pleasant grounds had belonged to Wainewright's uncle, a Dr. Griffiths, a comfortable, well-to-do man, who for many years edited a monthly publication. his death occurred after a very short illness, and during a visit paid him by Waiuewright and his wife, who was there confined of her first, aud, as it proved, her only child. It was not exactly apoplexy, nor was it heart disease ; but then even doctors arc sometimes puzzled by organic complications. One thing is certain, it was mortal, and Dr. Griffiths died under proper medical care, and watched by the most affectionate of relatives. Wainewright gained some property by his uncle's death, lamented him tearfully, and spent the money smilingly. Bills soon began, however, to be left unpaid, servants' wages were delayed, credit was occasionally refused, Turnham-green bakers and butchers dared to talk about Linden House, and people who " made much of theirselves, but did no do the right thing, not what per may call the righ thing." Things were not going altogether comfortable with a man who must have his wine, his cigar, his eau de vie de Dantzig, all the new books and prints, and must dress " in the style, you know." The fact must come out ; Wainewright was a monster egotist, and not accustomed to starve either his tastes or his appetites. He must have money for champagne and bread ; Marc Antonio's prints and meat. As well be starved as haVe his cutlet without truffles. Poverty's iron walls were eosing in upon him closer and closer, but he shrugged his shoulders, buttoned tighter his befrogged coat, pawned his rings, and got on well enough. Linden House must have been a peculiarly un healthy place, for about this time Mrs.Abercrombie, Wainewright's wife's mother, died there also, after a very short illness ; something in the brain or heart, probably. Mrs. Abercrombie had married a second time a meritorious officer, and left two daughters, Helen Frances Phoebe and Madeleine, beautiful girls, just reaching womanhood. The poor orphans, having only ten pounds a year granted them by Board of Ordnance for their father's services, (these must have been small indeed not to deserve more), were invited to his pleasant, luxurious, but decidedly unhealthy house, by Mr. Waiuewright, their step-sister's husband, in the most kind and generous manner, dear creature ! Helen Frances Phoebe Abercrombie, the eldest of the girls, attained the age of twenty-one on the 12th March, 1830, a very short time after coming to Turnham-green, and within a few days of this event the oddest caprice entered into Mr. Waine wright's mind. He proposed to insure her life to a very large amount for the short period of two or three years. Such an arrangement is, however, the commonest thing in the world with persons either permanently or temporarily embarrassed. Such insurances are often used as securities for bills of exchange or for loans, where the lender is espe cially cautious. There was nothing singular about it. It did not not the least matter that Miss Aber crombie was almost penniless, and without expec tations of any kind, except a trifling possibility under a settlement. One pleasant morning in March a trip to the City was suggested as quite a divertissement, au agreeable opportunity of observing the habits and customs of " those strange City people." Mr. Wainewright was jauntier and more degage than ever, in his tight fashionable befrogged coat, as he guided his wife and the beautiful girl—his tempo rary ward—their ribbons fluttering brightly in the March wind, through the defiles and labyrinths of the busy City. His whims and fancies about in surance offices were delightful in their careless gaiety. It was quite au adventure for the ladies. It was singular, though, that Mr. Wainewright, embarrassed as he was, should venture on a specu lation that involved a large annual payment for interest, and yet seenr2i to promise no pecuniary return. It might be a chivalrous risk of some kind or other, the innocent and playful girl pro bably thought, and she would not care to inquire further into a business she did not profess to understand. It cost her nothing ; she was only too glad to gratify the whim of her kind kins man, and to lend herself to his mysterious, but no doubt well planned and well intended business ar rangement. So on the 28th, sixteen days after coming of age, Miss Abercrombie went to the Palla dium. Insurance Office with Mr. and Mrs. \Vaine right, and insured her life for three thousand pounds for throe years. The object of the insurance was stated to be (whether correctly or not) to enable the young lady's friends to recover some property to 011 r which she was entitled. The life was pre-eminently good, and the proposal was accepted. On the 20th of April Mrs. Wainewright and Miss Abercrombie went to the office to pay the first year's premium, and receive the policy. On or about the same day, a similar insurance for three thousand pounds, but this for two years only, was effected with the Eagle Insurance Office, and the premium for one year and the stamp duty duly paid by Miss Abercrombie in her young sister's presence. In the following October four more policies were effected : with tha Provident for one thousand pounds, with the Hope for two thousand pounds, with the Imperial for three thousand pounds, and with the Pelican for the largest amount usually per mitted—namely, five thousand pounds—each for the period of two years; making altogether insur ances to the amount of eighteen thousand pounds. The premiums paid,together with the stamps,amount ed to more than two hundred and twenty pound; and yet, in case of Miss Abercrombie living more than three years, all these payments would be lost. Loss they would be, who could doubt. The ac tuary at the Provident described her as " a remark ably healthy, cheerful, beautiful young woman, whose life was one of a thousand." Old secretaries, smiling over their spectacles, must have felt as if a sunbeam had glanced across the room, and have sighed to think that if a full insurance had been effected fifty years hence, that same Miss Aber crombie might enter the room still hearty and vigorous to pay her annual interest, when they were long ago gone, and their very tombstones were effaced by rain and wind. Still all this insuring was odd, too, for Mr. Wainewright was deeply in debt. Shabby, trucu lent men behind grated doors in Cursitor-street were speaking irreverently of him ; dirty Jew-faced men at the bar of the Hole-in-the-Wall in Chan cery-lane discussed him, and were eager to claw his shoulder. He spent more than ever, and earned less. His literary friends, Lamb and Reynolds, seldom saw him now. His artist friends, Fuseli the fiery and Stothard the gentle, Westall and Lawrence, seldom met him. A crisis was coming to the man with elegant tastes. In August he had given a warrant of attorney and a bill of sale of his furni ture at Linden House ; both of these had become absolute, and seizure was impending. " The Jew fellows" could only be scared away (from the ele gant gilt lamp, the books, and prints) till the 20th or 21st of December. Early in that month Wainewright left the house with the leaf-stripped trees, the very unhealthy house, and took furnished lodgings at Mr. Nicoll's, a tailor, in Conduit-street, to which he went accom panied by his wife, his child, and those two beautiful affectionate girls, his half-sisters, Phoebe and Made leine Abercrombie. Books, sabre, elegant French lamp, portfolios, and desk with the mysterious little eccentric drawer with the especial salt for filberts. There was still a little more law business for' Phoebe ; the artistic mind remarked one morning in his playful, delightful way, " Would the dear girl be kind enough to keep in profile for one moment ? Exquisite! Yes, there was a will to be made to benefit dear Madeleine iu case of any unforeseen circumstance." Phoebe no doubt carolled out a laugh, and expressed a horror " of those dusty old lawyers." On that same day, the 13 th, Miss Aber crombie called on a solicitor named Lys, to whom she was a stranger, to attest the execution of a will she desired to make, as she was going abroad ; he complied, and she executed a will in favour of her sister Madeleine, making Mr. Wainewright its exe cutor. That same evening (as a reward, perhaps) the two sisters went to the play, as they bad done the evening before, accompanying their kind relations, Mr. and Mrs. Wainewright. Whatever bailiffs may be watching the gay and volatile creature in the befrogged coat, he has no idea of stinting his amuse ments. Providence is hard on your delightful and fashionable men, who earn little and spend much. The play is delightful, the pathos pierces, the farce convulses the pleasant party of four. After the play they have an oyster supper, and Mr. Waine wright is gayer and wittier than ever. In the night, however, Miss Phoebe is taken ill, evidently having caught cold from walking home that long way from Drury-lane or Covent-garden two nights in the wet and wind. There is great regret in the house, and frequent kind inquiries at her door from Mr. Waine wright. She gets up to dinner, but in a day or two, the cold not lifting, Dr. Locock is sent for. Mrs. Wainewright and Madeleine are with her constantly. Mr. Wainewright, who is clever in these things, as in everything else, prescribes her a black draught before the doctor is sent for. The doctor is kind and sympathising, thinks little of the slight derange ment, and prescribes the simplest remedies. On the seventh day of her indisposition, Mr. Wainewright, impatient of the doctor's remedies, prescribed her a powder, which she took willingly in jelly. She was decidedly better, and was no longer wandering ; she was so much better, in fact, that Mr. Wainewright, great in spirits, and full of sentiment, sympathy, and artistic feeling, told his wife to put on her bonnet and come for a walk sketching, while dear Phoebe had some sleep. That was about twelve o'clock. At two Phoebe; was taken violently ill with convul sions. She appeared in great agony, became deli rious, and struggled violently. Dr. Locock, who had been previously consulted about insurance cer tificates, was instantly sent for, and came. The fit bad then subsided, but there was pressure on the brain. She said, " Oh, doctor, lam dying. These are the pains of death. I feel I am. lam sure so!" The doctor said, " You'll be better by and by." She cried, "My poor mother ; oh, my poor mother !" Dr. Locock left, and she had a fit, and grasped the hand of oue of the servants. When Dr. Locock left she lay quiet, and said she thought she heard a little boy coming along the room, and that he ought not to be there, and she burst into tears and convulsions. A servant who had lived twenty years with Dr. Griffiths, and had known Mr. Wainewright since he was a child, instantly sent for Messrs. King and Nicholson, apothecaries. A Mr. Hanks came and saw Mies Abercrombie in the convulsion fit. She had said to Dr. Locock, " Doctor, I was gone to heaven, but you have brought me back to earth." Hanks gave her some medicine while Dr. Locock was there. The convulsions got better, and the doctors went away. Soon after they were gone, the convulsions came on again, and at four o'clock she died. Who can paint the horror and agony of Mr. and Mrs. Wainewright when they returned and found the beautiful girl, with the exquisite profile, only a day or two ago so bright and full of life, so arch, 80 graceful—dead. Unchristian suspicious soon arose, degrading, as Mr. Wainewright remarked, only to those who en tertained them. Exasperated by the loss which, by the dear girl's distressing death, they had incurred, all the insurance offices meanlyan b d ut c i r v im ai i n n e a w ll r y ig r h e i re fused payment, The crisis came, was too poor to stay and press his legal claims, and therefore stealthily retired to the friendly asylum of France, where urbanity always reigns, andclaret n i d s delightfully cheap ; where the air is ever sunny, a meat is lean, but not dear. He there resided, gay as ever for several years. After many delays, occasioned chiefly by pro ceedings in equity, the question of the vali dity of the policies was tried in the Court of Exchequer, before Lord Abinger, on the 29th of June, 1835, in an action by Mr. Wainewright, as the executor of Miss Abercrombie, on the Imperial policy of three thousand pounds. Sir William Follett appeared for the plaintiff, and the Attorney-General, Sir F. Pollock, and Mr. Thesiger for the defendant. The real plaintiff was not Mr.Wainewright, but Mr. Wheatley, a respect able bookseller, who bad married the sister of the deceased. The jury, partaking of the judge's dis inclination to attribute the most dreadful guilt to a plaintiff on a nisi prius record, and, perhaps, scarcely perceiving how they could discover for the imputed fraud an intelligible motive without it, were unable to agree, and were discharge) without giving a verdict. It was clear to every one there bad been foul play. The cause was tried again, before the same judge, on the 3d of December fol lowing, when the counsel fo: the defence, following the obvious inclination of the bench, avoided the fearful charge, and obtained a verdict for the office without hesitation, sanctioned by Lord Abinwer's proffered approval to the jury. In the meanti me, says Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Wainewri; ;ht, leaving his wife and child in London, had acqu fired the confidence and enjoyed the hospitality of the members of an English family residing in I 3ou logne. While he was thus associated, a proposal was made to the Pelican office to insure the life of his host for five thousand pounds ; which, act the medical inquiries were satisfactorily answered, was accepted. The office, however, received only. one premium, for the life survived the completion of the insurance only a few months; falling after a very short illness, and singularly enough,with symptoms not unlike those of Dr. Griffiths, Mrs. Abercrombie and poor Phoebe. The world is full of coincidences. And here we feel compelled to throw off our mask, to turn suddenly on the delight of the bou doirs and salons of May Fair, and, shaking him by the throat, proclaim him a poisoner—one of the most cruel, subtle, and successful secret murderers since the time of the Borgias. It is now well known that he wore a ring in which he always carried strychnine, crystals of the Indian nux vomica, half a grain of which blown into the throat of a rabbit kills it dead in two minutes ; a poison almost taste less, difficult of discovery, and capable of almost infinite ;dilution. On the night the Norfolk gen tleman in difficulties at Boulogne died,Wainewright had insisted on making his friend's coffee, and passed the poison into the sugar. The poisoner had succeeded before this in winning the affections of his friend's daughter, and gaining a supreme influence in the house. Wainewright, obtaining the insurance, left Bou logne, and became a needy wanderer in France, but being brought under the notice of the correctional police for passing under a feigned name, was ar rested. In his possession was found the vegetable poison called strychnine—a fact which, though un connected with any specific charge, increased his liability to temporary restraint, and led to a six months' incarceration in Paris. After 1116 release he ventured to visit London, when, in June, 1837, soon after his arrival, be was met in the street by Forester, the police-officer, who had identified him in France, and was committed for trial for forgery. July 5, 1837 (seven years after the death of Miss Abercrombie), Wainewright, then forty-two years old, " a man of gentlemanly appearance, wearing moustachios," was tried at the Central Criminal Court for forging certain powers of attorney to sell out two thousand two hundred and fifty-nine pounds' worth of bank stock, which had been settled on him and his wife at their marriage. This was a capital offence at that time, but the bank not wishing to shed blood, Wainewright at first declared himself not guilty, but eventually pleaded guilty, by advice of his lawyer, to two of the minor indictments out of the five, and was therefore only transported for life. The moment the chief insurance offices found that Wainewright was under sentence of transpor tation for forgery, they determined to open nego tiations with the villain, and get from him certain confessions necessary to their interests; little doubt ing that he would make them " for a considera tion." lle made them readily enough when he had struck his bargain. At this time, he was confined in Newgate (modern prison discipline had not then found its way into that gaol) in a cell with a brick layer and a sweep : in which polite company he was actually recognised, through a strange chance, by ➢lr. Procter and Mr. Macready, visiting the pri son with the Conductor of this Journal. When the agent of the insurance offices had extracted from the ruffian all that he wanted to know, that gentleman said, in conclusion :—" It would be quite useless, Mr. Wainewright, to speak to you of humanity, or tenderness, or laws human or Divine ; but does it not occur to you, after all, that, merely regarded as a speculation, Crime is a bad one ? See where it ends. I talk to you in a shame- ful prison, and I talk to :a degraded convict." Wainewright returned, twirling his moustache : " Sir, you City men enter on your speculations, and take the chances of them. Some of your specula tions succeed, some fail. Mine happen to have failed ; yours happen to have succeeded ; that is the difference, sir, between my visitor and me. But I'll tell you one thing iu which I have succeeded to the last. I have been determined through life to hold the position of a gentleman. I have always done so. Ido so, still. It is the custom of this pl.tee that each of the inmates of a cell shall take his morning turn of sweeping it out. I occupy a cell with a bricklayer and a sweep. But by G— they never offer me the broom !" On the same occasion, or on another similar oc casion in the same place, being asked how he could find it iu his heart to murder the trusting girl who had so confided in him (Miss Abercrombie), he re flected for a moment, and then returned, with a cool laugh : " Upon my soul I don't know—unless it was that her legs were too thick." In Newgate the gay-hearted creature was sublime. He asserted himself as a poet, a philo sopher, and a martyr. He claimed for himself "a soul whose nutriment is love, and its offspring art, music, divine song, and still holier philosophy." When writing even from the hold of the convict ship to complain of his being placed in irons, he said : " They think me a desperado. Me! the com panion of poets, philosophers, artists, and musicians a desperado 1 You will smile at this. No—l think you will feel for the man, educated and reared as a gentleman, now the mate of vulgar ruffians and country bumpkins." In 1842 the dandy convict was admitted as in patient of the General Hospital in Hobart Town, where he remained some years. Discharged from the hospital, the elegant mannered poisoner, his dress with no style at all about it now, his spelling rather wandering, and his bearing less refined than it used to be, set up as au artist at Hobart Town, where sketches by him still exist. His conversation to lady-sitters was often indelicate. A writer in a Melbourne paper, 6th July, 1811, says of this dangerous and abandoned wretch (we must use plain words for him now) : "He rarely looked you in the face. His conversation and manners were winning in the extreme ; he was never intemperate, but neverthe less of grossly sensual habit, and an opium -eater. As to moral character, he was a man of the very lowest stamp. He seemed to be possessed by an ingrained malignity of disposition, which kept him constantly on the very confines of murder, and he took a perverse pleasure in traducing persons who had befriended him. There is a terrible story told of his savage malignity towards a fellow-patient in the hospital, a convict, against whom ho bore a grude. The man was in a state of collapse—his extremities were already growing cold. Death had him by the throat. Wainewright's snakish eyes kindled with unearthly fire. Ho saw at once the fatal sign. He stole softly as a cat to the man's pallet, and hissed his exultation into his dying ear : " ' You arc a dead man, you . In four and-twenty hours your soul will be in hell, and my arms will be up to that (touching his elbow) in your body, dissecting you.'" Such was the ingrained and satanic wickedness of this triple murderer. Twice this delight of society attempted to poison people who had become obnoxious to him. Even in that polluted corner of the world the man was dreaded, hated, and shunned. No chance homicide had imbrued his hands, but a subtle series of cowardly and atrocious crimes. His sole friend and companion was a cat, for which he evinced an extraordinary and senti mental affection. He had always been fond of In 1852 this gentlemanly and specious monster was struck down in a moment, as with a. thunderbolt, by apoplexy. He had survived his victims sixteen years. Perhaps no blacker soul ever passed from a body than passed the day that Wainewright the poisoner went to his account. Well says Mr. cats. Sergeant Talfourd : " Surely no contrast presented in tho wildest romance between a gay cavalier, fascinating Naples or Palermo, and the same hero detected as the bandit or demon of the forest, equals that which time has unveiled between what Mr. Waiuewright seemed and what ho was. It ig this monster whom Lord Lytton has im. mortalised in his powerful novel of Lucretia. THE SUN, LOND(Th, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1867 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIAN. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the Langham Hotel ; Mr. J. W. Johns in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that at the original meeting they did little more than read the report of the di rectors and present their statement of accouats. The board had had very long discussion as to what course should be recommended to the shareholders on the present occasion. There was due on revenue account for dividend £21,516, but he was sorry to say that on going more fully into that item they found it had been reduced in consequence of bad debts of £2,900, which he believed were beyond re covery. In the 121,500 there was an item of 114,800 debited against Mr. Savin's inspectors, from which deductions were made to the extent of £7,170, and this reduced the £21,500 by that amount. Beyond this there was £4,760 advanced by Mr. Savin's in spectors, so that in fact they bad to deduct £12,300. In addition to that there were disputed items as to waggon and engine hire, which, be feared, would reduce the balance to £2,900. The board had, therefore, decided that he should ask the meeting simply to adopt the report and accounts, with the exception of all parts relating to the distribution and declaration of a dividend. The comphny had had a sequestration issued against their funds on an ex parte statement by a gentleman who had a slate quarry on a portion of the railway. A great deal had been made of this, although it did not relate to any debt of the company or any claim upon them, but simply to an engineering question as to the height of a bridge passing over a tramway, the complaint being that the bridge was six inches lower than it ought to be according to the Act of Parliament. That sequestration was at once removed upon proper re prescutatione being made to the Court. However, parties in the country did notknow it was removed; they became alarmed and prayed for the payment of their accounts, and one gentleman, who had given the company time to settle his account, at once put in the bailiff for £9OO. Within 24 hours after the sequestration was removed the claims were paid, and the company were now free from any such matters. The interest on all debentures of the Cambrian line proper had been paid with the ut most regularity until the peesent month. There was now due about £4,294, which would be paid about the 15th inst., and it was a great hardship that this had not been paid with the usual regularity, owing to proceedings taken by the banker and en gineer in consequence of the sequestration. The traffic was ample to pay every possible claim for de benture interest ; the total debenture interest was £10,600 for the half-year on the Cambrian capital, and the Coast capital £10,270 for the half-year, making for the year £20,900. Their traffic account for the past six months showed, after paying the working expenses, a balance of £34,000, and when the Welsh Coast was opened, and it would be opened very shortly, they would have an additional £lO,OOO for the six months, giving the company £44,000 with which to meet a payment of £29,000. There would be a bill in Parliament, which, how ever, had not received the sanction of the Board, for the purpose of giving a preference upon a cer tain amount which they required to raise. The amount required was not to be expended upon new works, but for paying off their debt on capitaf ac count, and must be paid to preserve the credit of the company. The question would, of course, be submitted to a special meeting of the company at the proper time. Mr. HIGGINS proposed the appointment of a com mittee of investigation, with power to call for all information, and report to a subsequent meeting ; but, after a long discussion, the amendment was not pressed, and the meeting was adjourned to the 21st of February. WELSII LINES. A report has been issued by the committee of de brnture and shareholders formed to promote the amalgamation of Welsh railways, from which it appears that the scheme is not so well supported as anticipated. Of the 19 lines of railway included in the original project, two (the Pembroke and Tenby, and Manchester and Milford) have ben wlthdrawn at the request of the contractors. The Swansea Vale, Llanelly, and Ncath and Brecon are promot ing separate themes of amalgamation, and the same objection applies to the Nantile, Carnarvonshire, Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwer,, and the Mold and Denbigh, situate in the northern portion of the Principality. The consequence is that by these and other defectionS there only remain the Cambrian, the Brocon and Merthyr, the Mid-Wales, and the Potteries, Shrewsbuey and North W a l es R ailways, which can under the existing standing orders of Par liament be amalgamated. The directors of the Cam brian, in reply to the application sent to them by the Amalgamation Committee, stated that the time has not yet arrived for them to enter upon the consi deration of the question of an union with other companies, and the Brecon and Merthyr Board stated that they were unable to give a reply until they were better acquainted with the t erms upon which it was proposed to include their li ne in the union. Notwithstanding these objections the pro moters of the amalgamation have lodged a bill f or the union of the four companies last named ; but the committee state in their report that they consider their duties will, for the present at all events, end with the deposit of the bill, and it will remain for the directors and shareholders of the Companies named to consider the propriety of proceeding with it or not in the face of hostile movements iu a like direction on the part of other companies. SANITARY ACT OF 1866.—The regulations under this act relating to lodging-houses are now coining into operation. Rules approved by the Home Secretary have been issued by several of the districts in the metropolis. Those issued by the Board of Works for the St. Giles's dis trict aro very stringent. Among the most important it is specified that no person shall let any house, or part of a house, in lodgings, or to be occupied in lodgings by mem bers of more than one family, and in which more than two persons shall sleep in one room, until such house, and the person proposing to let the same, are registered in the office of the Board of Works. In no case will an accommodation of loss than four hundred cubic feet of space bo allowed to each person. Persons letting such house, or part of a house, must have the walls and ceilings of every room, &c., thoroughly cleansed and limewashed at least four times every year. Cellars are to be cleaned out once a week, and limewashed as often as needed. The rooms aro to be ventilated, &c., -to the satisfaction of the medical health officer. Proper accommodation must also be pro vided for washing, and such a supply of water for the use of lodgers, with proper covered cisterns, as shall be satis factory to the health officer. Tho cistern to afford at least fifteen gallons a day to each inmate. The dustbin must be emptied once a week, and for every twenty persons a separate water-closet is to be provided. Every house not resident in or near the registered house must appoint, as agent, some person who is resident in or near to the house to see that the regulations are carried out. Every house and room shall be open to the medical health officer for inspection between the hours of 8 o'clock a.m. and 10 p.m. A ny persons violating the regulations will be liable to a pen a lt y not exceeding 40s. for any one offence, with an addition a l penalty not exceeding 20s. for every day during a default i n o b eying such regulations shall continue. The regulations is sue d by the Poplar district, a l so approve d by the Home Sec re t ary, are of a somewhat s i m il ar descrip tion ; but there are additional clauses to the effect that no room the ceiling of which is on a level with or below the level of the footpath or roadwayadjoining, and no room used as a kitchen or scullery, and no room not lighted and venti lated directly from the exterior, and no room on the roof of the house not furnished with an open fireplace or flue shall be permitted to be occupied as a sleeping-room, nor shall any undergound room be permitted to be occupied unless specially certified by the medical health officer as fit to bo so occupied. The number of persons in each sleeping room is to bo determined by the cubical contents of the room ; for instance, if the room is used only as a bedroom there is not to be more than one person to every 300 cubic feet of air ; if used as a sleeping room and also as a day room, then there is not to be more than one person to every 400 cubic feet of air. Persons of different sexes are not to oc cupy the same sleeping room, except ono married couple, or parents with children under 10 years of age. When a person is attacked with fever, smallpox, or other infectious disease, immediate notice must be given to the medical health officer. MORE FENIAN SEIZURES AND ARRESTS IN IRE LAND.-WO learn by telegraph that seventeen stands of now arms and a lot of bayonets and swords have been found in a barn belonging to Mr. John Scanlon, near Bridgetown, county Clare. Scanlon, who disclaims all knowledge of the matter, and two of his sons, have been committed fcr trial. THE WEATHER. Since the snow storm of Wednesday a keen frost has set in, and the snow which then fell remains on the ground. On Wednesday night the thermometer fell in London to 17 deg., and at noon yesterday it stood at 26 deg., and nearly all day it remained be low freezing point. The roads in consequence were crisp and slippery ; sodangerous were they to horses that the London General Omnibus Company ceased to ply their conveyances. The 'other omnibuses which continued to run did so with the greatest dif ficulty, and, in steep places, to the manifest risk of the horses. The authorised fares for hackney car riages were totally disregarded by cab-drivers, who fixed their own charges on taking up a fare. The conductors of omnibuses had iu a similar manner doubled or even tripled their usual charges. At the railway stations yesterday the trains were' again late, but not so much behind time as they were on Wed nesday. The very bad condition of the streets gave rise to many complaints among tradesmen, and some efforts made to remedy the evil. At a meeting of the vestry of St. James, at Westminster, the subject was dis cussed, and an explanation was offered of the reason why so little had been done. Some time since the - vestry outhorised Mr. Howell, their surveyor, to engage men in case of a fall of snow, and make ar rangements to have it carted away. Mr. Howell reported that he had been unable to carry out these instructions, notwithstanding the efforts that had been made to engage men and carts. He had offered to engage almost any number, but not one appeared. A rough calculation he had made would he said, show that any number of men, horses, and carts would have produced no effect on the great accumulation of snow. In Sackville-stroet alone there were fully 80 loads of snow to be removed, and each load would have required three horses; thus 80 carts would require 240 horses, and at the lowest computation 100 men, to fill in anything like time. In Great Marlborough-street there would have been 500 loads at least to be removed. Then the question arose, where it was to be removed to. The distance it would have to be taken would render it almost impossible to come back for another load the same day. They would require to give high wages. A man earning ss. per day could now easily earn 10s. a day or more in the suburbs, and from private in dividuals he would receive hospitable treatment in the shape of meat and drink. He ,regretted they could not make the attempt to clear the streets, but with such men as they had (and their own contrac tors, he had reason to believe, were deserted by their men, or nearly so) w hat cou ld b e d one was d one , i n clearing such portions of the - footways as were not before private houses, and in clearing crossings, channels, &c. That morning they were spreading ballast, the contractors having no small difficulty in supplying it. On many parts of the London, Chatham, and Dover and the North Kent section of the South- Eastern Railways the lines throughout nearly the whole of Wednesday, and occasionally yesterday, were partially blocked, notwithstanding the exer tions used by the officials. All the trains running were out of time, while in the early part of the day some of the trains were as much as three hours late at the several stations, consequent on the difficulty experienced by the engines in ploughing their way through the accumulated drifts. Between Roches ter and Farninghain the snow on some parts of the line had drifted to a depth of six feet, completely stopping the traffic of the trains until the lines had been partially cleared. On the Sevenoaks branch the snow in many places completely barred the passage of engines and carriages, and, as a con sequence, all the trains in the early part of Wednes day were some hours late. On South-Eastern Rail way large gangs of labourers were employed up to last night in clearing the line of the snow where the accumulations were deepest. On both the Lon don, Chatham, and Dover and South-Eastern Railways the continental traffic was partially inter rupted ; but yesterday, under the energetic exertions used by the officials, it was carried on with but com paratively little delay. Every precaution was adopted by the officers of both companies to have the tires of the wheels of the carriages carefully examined, in order to prevent any accident arising ou account of the frost. During the whole of yesterday, owing to the streets at Chatham and Rochester being par tially blocked with the snow, locomotion was at tended with great difficulty, and several accidents, fortunately none of them very serious, occurred. In the country districts around the snow is described as having fallen to a considerable depth, with deep drifts. In one instance, a flock of about 100 sheep , was discovered to have been buried beneath a snow drift, but with some trouble they were all rescued. Yesterday the frost was very severe, the thermo meter in the afternoon marking 24 deg. From the appearance of the clouds a further fall of snow yes terday evening appeared imminent. The heavy fall of snow which took place yester day caused a very serious delay to the passenger and goods trains on the Reading and Reigate branch of the South-Eastern Railway. The 6 a.m. train from Charing-cross, which calls at stations on the Reigate branch, completed its journey in reasonable time considering the weather which prevailed, but the case was widely different with the 9 5 from Charing-cross, which left Red-hill juncture for Reading between 10 and 11, being due at the latter town at 12 30. Asjthe morning advanced a brisk wind arose and drifted the snow, which lay in huge masses on the line, and completely biocked up seve ral of the cuttings. In the Dorking cutting, par ticularly, the snow was so deep that the second down-train was brought to a stand, the engine being literally imbedded in the snow. A large number of men were set to work, engines were sent off from Red-hill Junction, and the officials used every exertion to clear the metals sufficiently to allow of the progress of the train ; but such was the unavoidable delay that it was about six hours late, the journey from Charing-cross to Reading having actually occupied more than nine hours. The traffic on the main line and branches of the South-Western Railway was also seriously inter rupted, and on the Great Western Railway most of the trains throughout the day were delayed. In the morning the traffic below Didcot was seriously checked, the snow having drifted in such a manner that considerable labour was necessary to clear the line. The engine -drivers and stokers not only had to contend with the driving snow and the exposure to cold, but were greatly perplexed by the difficulty to keep their fires going, the snow having extin guished them in several instances. In the district round Shields yesterday the snow storm had ceased, and a keen frost, with a clear sky, had set in. The weather was intensely cold, and more snow is lying in Northumberland than there has been for some years. The weather was extremely inclement yesterday, the snowstorm and high wind being accompanied by thunder and light ning. The sea was very tempestuous, and the vessels that are arriving in the Tyne, report having encountered stormy weather. The bark British Banner, belonging to this port, went ashore at Hartlepool yesterday, and the brig Augusta, from Stilton, was taken into Hartlepool dismasted. Of the weather in Scotland the Scotsman of yes. terday says :—" On Wednesday the severe weather with which the New Year was ushered in continued. The frost continued with unabated intensity through out the?orenoon and greater part of the day. To wards evening showers of snow, drifted by a piercing wind from the north-east, followed one another in close succession, the whole sky presenting the appear "ance of what weatherwise people called a ' feeding storm.' Our skaters and curlers have not had an opportunity of enjoying their favourite winter sports, the ice on the lochs in the neighbourhood of the city not being in a safe condition. A considerable portion of St. Margaret's was bearing yesterday, and also the southern parts of Dunsappio ; but D uddingston, which was covered with a thin coating of ice, has been so overlaid with drifted snow as to present but unfavourable prospects of being fit for either curling or skating purposes for a day or two at least. Both on St. Margaret's and Dunsappie skaters were busily enjoying the exhilarating sport. As indicating the severity of the storm in the south, it may be men tioned that the train from Carlisle due hero about half-past 5 o'clock in the evening did not arrive until about a quarter past 9, having by the way stuck fast in some oft. of snow near Fountainhall. The train due by the Caledonian Railway about 9 o'clock last night was also detained by the snow, and did not ar rive until about half-past 1 this morning. Oar Galashiels correspondent writes :—" This district has been visited by the heaviest fall of snow expe rienced for many years, and at 8 p.m. on Wednesday the fall still continued. It was impossible to say what depth of snow had fallen, as the wind was blowing strong, and the snow is drifted in immense wreaths. The country post-runners could not reach their districts yesterday owing to the fury of the storm. The main line of railway has been kept open with great exertion, but some of the trains have been late by one hour. On the line to Peebles by Las,waile matters are worse.' " SPIRIT OF THE PUi3LL; JOURNALS. TIMES.—OnIy just now, after eight mouths of continuous depression, have the ordinary securities of the Share Market begun to show symptoms of recovery from the collapse of last spring. In this one feature the panic of 1866 is confessed to be with out precedent or parallel. On former occasions the reaction has been prompt and effectual, whereas the distrust created by the catastrophes of May survives in scarcely diminished force to this hour. Strange, too, above all other incidents of the convulsion, is the fact that, while adventures more or less specu lative were utterly discredited, investments of abso lute security were scarcely in greater favour. It might have been thought that the stoppage of other outlets would have turned a flood of money into the funds, but it was only a few weeks ago that Consols began to rise, and they are barely above 90 even now. Yet it is quite certain that capital is accumulating all this while, for the trade of the country-has no toriously been large beyond example. How, then, is the enigma to be explained ? We think a solution of every one of the questions involved can he offered without much difficulty, and, to begin with the most perplexing, let us take the state of the English Funds. Consols are 5 per cent. lower than they were after the New Year's Day speech of the Em peror Napoleon's had prepared as for the perils of European war in 1859. What does that mean ? It means that, though people have learnt that money is not worth 30 per cent., they cannot yet persuade themselves that it is only worth three. With the introduction of limited liability and the application of that principle to banks and finance companies, the subsidence of the Funds set in, and it was argued by men of eminent commercial information that these securities would be permanently depressed by the competition of the more lucrative investments apparently established in public favour. Seven per cent, was talked of as the interest of the future, and even that estimate was left far behind by the new companies. It was a poor prospectus which did not offer at least 10 per cent. to subscribers, and twice or thrice that profit was commonly antici pated. For two years or more these impressions prevailed, nor were they really obliterated by the catastrophe which ultimately occurred. It had been shown once more that good interest was only another name for bad security, but, -though people had learnt to distrust the security, they had not learnt to resign the interest. They still wanted something better than three per cent. for their money, and so, though there was nothing else before them, they would not take up with Consols. For the time they waited and did nothing, bent upon getting good interest for their capital, but not knowing .where Rsia her u e s tol hL ook oa f h o , r an it d . Just at this conjuncture came the showed how things were going. It offered fair interest, with equally fair security, and was, conse quently, snapped up in a moment. In fact, the Emperor might have had twice as much if he had asked for it, and more cheaplyto e o x ..A ss t e t d ha h t i t sep im de ea correspondent in writing to us expressed regret that these millions should have been sent out of the country instead of being employed to revive a industry th a n h a d te r e d n i cu e n r e s r i o a u ti , v le no a d b o o h u h r t t h h h o t ni t a Ti lt e v n 'a o s matter of surprise. These great industrial works were the very investments which had proved so ruinous. Banks and - Finance Companies failed be cause they had made unlimited advances to establish ments from which they could get no return, and so borrowers and lenders came down together, and with them the unlucky contributors whose subscrip tions had provided the money. What, indeed, are the investments in which, at this moment,the public can be reasonably expected to confide? Railway de bentures? These were certainly securities thought as good as mortgages, but look at the case of the Lon don, Chatham, and Dover Company. A debenture holder i n that concern is not yet sure that he is any safer than a shareholder. lie thought his claim repre sented a " first charge" on the property, and so no doubt it does, but af he is now told that there are fifty other claims pressing for settlement, and that it may actually be for his own interest to give prece dence to a new class of creditors. Perhaps the argu ment may be sound enough, but exactly in propor tion as it is so must a debenture fall in public esti mation as a desirable security. If a claim to priority cannot or must not be enforced, what is the use of it ? But other companies, it is said, are not in this condition. Of course not, but the raisthief is that nobody can see through railway accounts or convince himself that the whole truth of the case is put before him. And if debentures and preference shares go unpaid, what chance have orli:lary exo prietors ? The extraordinary evil of the last panic consisted in the variety of enterprises which it dis credited together. It threw a cloud of suspicion not only upon Financial Companies, but upon all those numerous undertakings which the 'finance houses had called into being. The collapse of these houses last spring only expressed the previous col lapse of the speculations which had been supported out of their funds, and the public, therefore, is na turally afraid either to lend money to actual traders or to bankers who will lend it for them. That is why this panic has been so lasting. Twenty years ago the only things damagedin credit were railways; now it would be hard to say what things hive not been damaged. Under the influence of limited lia bility, a thousand new investments sprang intoexis teuce. When they became discredited, almost all the means of employing money became discredited ; and when, after all, the liability of contributors was found to be practically unlimited, the alarm of the gublic was complete. The permanence of this panic has only been commensurate with the extent of the shock. For one sufferer on former oceasions there have now probably been fifty. The capital which was lavished or-locked up through the operations of the Finance Companies had been contributed by thousands upon thousands of small subscribers who would never have ventured upon a speculation twenty years ago. All these concerns, too, were flourishing and prosperous, according to their own statements, up to the last minute, and were declar ing, or had recently declared, satisfactory divi dends. The same may be said of certain Railway Companies, and that is the feature of the case which is most accountable for the obstinacy of the present mistrust. Who can be expected to buy when it is unknown what he is buying ? At the sane time, we think a glimpse of encouragement may be obtained from the very fact which we placed at the head of our remarks. If people are not content with the interest of Consols, they must recur sooner or later to more profitable in vestments, or, in other words, to those methods of employing money by which trade is quickened and industry recompensed. Capital is now, as it were, held in suspense, ready for any promising employ ment as soon as distrust has subsided. We hope that condition may speedily be realised, but the present aspect of affairs ought to have its lesson for those who fancy that capital may be easily sub jected to the dictates of labour. It was because things were not pleasant at home that capital went the other day to Russia. That money might have found many thousands of labourers with good work during this bitter winter, but the suspicions already prevailing were not likely to be allayed by the spec tacle of quarrels and " strikes." Masters and men must understand other better if they wish to get the advantage of the financial confidence which must soon return. PosT.--ihe iong-promisei patent for reforming the Government of Hungary has at length been issued by the Emperor of Austria. Whatever other lessons have been taught to the Kaiser by the late war, none has been more impressive than that which teaches him the necessity of dependence on the loyalty and co-operation of his Hungarian subjects in maintaining in their integrity what still remains of the Austrian empire. After the battle of Sadowa and the retreat of the imperial army across the Da nube, it seemed to Francis Joseph as if nothing would be left to him of all his extensive dominions save the kingdom of Hungary and the scattered provinces which on its southern frontier separate it from the territories of the Sultan. Bohemia and Moravia were lost. Austria Proper became un tenable. Venetia was virtually abandoned, and it became quite possible that an army which was believed to be one of the most powerful and best organised in Europe might be compelled to retire before an advancing foe, across what still remained of the empire, to the town of Belgrade. At that " supreme moment," as our neighbours across the Channel would term it, the Emperor recollected that he was King of Hungary, and in his extremity made a touching appeal to his Magyar subjects. It was not the first time in the annals of history that a similar appeal had been made. Maria Theresa had acollected the Hungarian nobles around her when she found her dominions threatened by the Great Frede rick, and received their assurances of readiness to die in defending their Sovereign. With somewhat less enthusiasm the Hungarian magnates of the pre sent day evinced their willingness to defend their King against Frederick's successor. They could riot forget, and they did not forget, that the unity of their kingdom, its independence, and its right of self-government, were absorbed in the empire of which their Sovereign was the ruler, and they re flected with humiliation on the fact that it was not until his dominions had been practically reduced to the kingdom of Hungary that Francis Joseph be thought him of his Hungarian subjects. It has been said that property has its duties as well as its rights, and, if this be true when applied to a few acres of soil, it must be no less true when applied to a great kingdom. The Hungarians were fully justified in thinking that if in his distress their Sovereign conceived that he had a right to appeal to them for succour and help, in his prosperity he was equally bound to do all that in him lay to Fro mote their interests. And the same thought must have occurred to the Emperor himself truth, it was not a mere abstract conception of what was just or right which carried to the mind of the Xll Kaier the eotivietion that he was bound t cede something to the demands of his I Itinaitrian subjects. 'I lie severity of the blow struck by'Prus s'a anti Italy, the heavy territorial losses inflicted, and his total exclusion from Germany, taught him that, whatever his inclinations might be, nothing remained for him but to endeavour to consolidate on a firm basis the eastern portions of his em pire. According to the terms of the imperial patent, an extraordinary Reichsrath will be held, which will be composed not only of the representatives of those countries pertaining to the Hungarian Crown, but also of the remaining portions of the empire. Before all other things the Emperor deems it most essential to provide for the stability of the empire, and with the view of effecting this object he has convened this common Parliament. " The necessities of the times," to quote from the sum mary which has reached us, " and the state of the empire, require that the negotiations on the con stitutional question should be concluded in as short a time as possible, and consequently that the rights and claims of the non-Hungarian Crown lands should be discussed in a common assembly." "With the view, therefore, of creating the basis of a con stitution which, if it will not be • common to the 'entire empire, will at least be submitted for the consideration of the representatives of the several countries of which the empire is composed, this e traordinary Reichsrath will be convened in the course of next month. This, stated in general terms, is the purport of the patent by which the Emperor of Austria has shadowed forth his inten tions of remodelling the existing form of govern ment in his dominions, but more especially in the kingdom of Hungary. Whatever may be the claims of Hungary to be considered per se, it is appare t that the Emperor cannot regard it as completely isolated, nor would even the most enthusiastic of Hungarian patriots contend that its interests should be viewed irrespectively of those of the empire 0 which it forms a part. Francis Joseph, although King of Hungary, is also Emperor of Austria, and ho may fairly insist that the concessions made by him in his former capacity shall not be of such a nature as •to jeopardise his imperial statute. The time has long gone by since Hungary could reason ably call upon her Sovereign to lose sight of b,ll other considerations in the reflection that he her King, and all that - she can now ask is that s 0. may be entrusted with the privilege of self government so far is as compatible with the main tenance of the empire in its integrity. The nego tiations with those statesmen who command the confidence of the Hungarian nation, to which re fertnce is made in the imperial patent, have un questionably had for their end the attainment of this two-fold object, and before they are -brought to a conclusion the Emperor is desirous of afford ing to the representatives of his non-Hungarian subjects an opportunity. of expressing their opnion of the new system of governMent which he proposes to establish. To uch a course of pro ceeding it seems to us that no reasonable olijection can be' made. The Emperor is entitled to ask the advice of the representatives of every section of his people before making great fundamental changes which must more or less directly affect the interests of all. But the necessity of making such changes is not on that account the less imperative, and it will be most unfortunate if the Emperor should allow the representations of his non-Hungarian subjects to induce him to modify in any consider able degree the concessions which every motive of policy should induce him to make to a long-suffer ing and ill-used people. Now that he has 1. 0 further interest in Germany, and is freed from all anxiety in Italy, Francis Joseph's empire must necessarily gravitate towards, and centre in, Hungary. To make his Magyar subjects con tented and happy should therefore be the final object of all his domestic policy. COUNTRY MARKETS: BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY At to-day's market wheat was in fair supply, and there was a steady demand. Prices for the finest sorts were le per qr higher. The demand for barley was moderate, and recent rates were supported. For oats extreme prices , wore obtained. There was a slow demand for beans, which declined is per quarter. Peas were also is lower BURY ST. EDMUNDS-WEDNESDAY Only a moderate show of wheat to-day, and last week's prices were fully supported. The qii ,,, ,t;ty of 1,1 , 1-, 1- was v,2ry but the pr ~;es wore quite as high as on last Wednesday for all sorts. Oats, beans, and peaS were easier to purchase. MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. The day's market was well attended, and both wheat, and flour sold readily, but without alteration in values•` Oats and oatmeal brought fully late rates. Beans in limited. request, and Indian corn is higher. EDINBURGII—WED)rEsDAy. Wheat on the top, 2s 3d down average, Os lld up. Barley on the top, is Od up average, Os 6d up. Oats on the kip, Os 9d up average, Os 6,1 up. Beans on the top, Os 6d average, is lid up. _ . Total supply and sales. Wheat 785 qrs sold 425 Barley 1380 qrs so ld 818 '' Oats 1086 qrs sold 755 Beans lO9 qrs sold 64 Average prices. Wheat, 59811 d I Oats 2Bs ld Barley, ......38 s 7d 1 Beans 44s 9d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 53s 6d; extra superfine, 52s Od ; superfine, 50s 6d; fine, 49s Od. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. To-day's market was well attended ; wheat and flow. met an improved demand at about 6d per boll and sack• Oats, beaus, barley, and peas without change in value , Oatmeal and Indian corn 6d per 28elb dearer. 7.7 ur-Kgrt dail Packet List. MAILS DUE, ar.d New Ztaisia: Ditto, vis.- ;;;Dzit 3 m.1 Cape- ;,/ - .3iiitoh. „jam 19 Di t i•o, by Freucd p 44-: 3a,pe uf Good II)pe, PenAng, an-1 Ditto, via .7t iarth.i 11 raltiand lalautl, , • 3alcn 're, cis 6 iibraltal*, via io:V.:!iti:,Jp ic, , itt Alai Ce:,.3. - xn, v 1.4 Saaft-taa,)tor Ditto, vi% r.,eilles ii. 13 , ,mbay), via Southampton. Mato, via larseittea ..... Egypt, and Aden, via 60atio.tnpton Ditto, via Marseilles....... miritillS, via Southampton Ditto, via Aarseil e.... ...... ernouncliand 'ortui.rai ...... ;iitto, by priyat2 ship to Lisbon.— .:Jotch Dia% by - United States paok‘t, Ditto, via Cork Ditto. of Canadian packet, via Londoader. Jin 1 ...Jan. 3 ...Jan 3 Jan. 13 Jau 13 Jau Jan. 3. Jao, 7 Jan. 19. Jan tt: ,Jan• ,Jan. Jan 9. Jan. 4 Births. BARCLAY—On the 2d inst., at Church-hill House, Wands- worth, the wife of Hanbury Barclay, Esq., of a: son. EDWARDS —On the 3d inst., at Twickenham, Mrs. Henri T. Edwards, of a.pon. LEAN —On the 2d inst., at Woolwich , the wife of Capt. r• Lean, Royal Marine Light Infantry, of a son. PELLY—On tho 2d inst., at Gastons, Essex, tho wife of Polly, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. llALL—CARTwitlorrr—On the Ist inst., at Aston Ville 'Wesleyan Chapel, John H. Hall, of Sutherland Housei Highgate, Middlesex, to Mary Banks, eldest daughter of Alex. Cartwright, Esq., of Portsall-place, Handswortilt near Birmingham. WHITE—BuitNAND—On the 3d inst., at St. Peter's, Croy' don, Frederick A. White, son of the late Wm. I. White, Esq., of Kilsmoor, Cheshunt, Herts, to Julia Lug' Burnand, daughter of Lewis Burnaud, Esq., of TO Waldrons, Croydon, Surrey. Deaths. ASHLEY —Onthe Ist inst., iu Brook-street, the ion. John Ashley, Q.O. BLACKBURN—On the Ist inst., at Grassmeade, Southfield.% S. Blackburn, Esq., aged 61. CLISSOLD —On the Ist inst., at 19, Talbot-square, Susses' gardens, London, the Rev. Henry Clissold, M.A., for' manly minister of the Episcopal Church, StOnl:W011. DUNK—On the let inst., -at Hastings, 111 r. Henry DunVo aged 69. EMAN—Ou the Ist inst. ' at 9, Foxloy-road, North Brixto n, Thomas Eman, Esq., Collector of Inland Revenue, Gra ham House, aged 66. l'Aux}rousz —On the 30th ult., at Cambridge, Mr. Samue l Parkhouse, aged 64. Prin Publi oht.l by WILLIAM A lI:JAYA; of tII !v, ia. t k;.11, - I:coe:L—leriday, January 4,14 t/