The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-29 00:00:00

MORNING SUN STEALING «THE SUN." ~. poetic a l correspondent has sent us some lines from m eith, entitled, 4, os . BEADING IN THE SUN ' NEWSPAPER THAT SE VERAL COPIES OF THAT PAPER HAD BEEN STOLEN WHILE TRAVELLING VIA POST." Were it not for lack of room we would give the whole ; we two first stanzas, ho wever , w ill s h ow how the jocular author treats the subject of his fancy. " Wlto saw The Sun to-day ?"--SHAKSPEARE. Ah ! who would steal the blessed Sun "hat lightens all the land ! It surely were a burning shame • When Globes there are at hand ! Who steals the Star steals trash, and he Who filches Times away Commits a petty theft to those Who'd steal the god of day ! &c., &c. SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY, R.A. ( s' fb ial, under whose hand the marble assumed the of e t est and most exquisite forms of loveliness—to whom . th „ scu lpture of th e l ast fif ty years h as b een i n debt e d for -"Viand intellectual chan‘se=whose chisel has crowded h alls, saloons, and cities with lofty and breathing 80, of great and good men—it falls to our lot to - 7, s ak, now that death has come suddenly upon him. . sio sti • . Chan in 1 782, at Norton, in Derbyshire, Sir Francis C 4n trey was elected a Royal Academician in 1818, and. is extraordinary rise into notice before that time was s _ l)w ing to The and original development of his own fine Pews , r s truth of this is apparent from the following -arty f act it W hen Cha n t rey sent hi s b ust o f H orne T oo k e to t h e the Exhibi t i on, he was young and unfriended, but Il e i nurnense merit of th e wor k did not escape the eye of dek ens. He lift e d it f rom th e fl oor — se t it b e f ore him, t of its his head to and f ro , an d ha v ing satisfied himself ass 'ts excellence, turned round to those who were , a - s a n ging the works for the exhibition, and said, " There s fin lung very fine work—let the man who made it be la n a i:l 'm—remove one of my busts, and put this one in its ee, for it well deserves it." He sat for his own bust sub- Oneatly to Chantrey, by whom his name was ever men d with a depth of respect that amounted almost to "ilderness or love. ss r ' ' ' sr° t lle ev ke ,:s . Nvas a great admirer of his young friend 8 4 , an r , art w, and frequently, on the authority of Mr. s di "u, was heard to recommend him on all occasions a tis e ,n l oPportunity offered. He had himself a dislike to i srs ," . ,",ing in the shape of ancient art, and when asked to be7 4eL 4 bust would constantly say, " Go to Chantrey, y o l . the man for a bust ; he'll make a good bust for l a y . I alWays recommend him." tit 0 116 a Lord Elgin's marbles arrived in England, and th e , ' °lll l3n . ttee of the House of Commons called before osi s ill ; t he men of the highest emiaenco to give their i t 'S, -- L° ll as to their value and excellence, Mr. Chantrey, th -°n g the number was questioned, and his suffrage with t4' t of others, led greatly to their purchase for the coun bless" " Are you well a c quainted with the Elgin mar s"l have f requent ly visited them."—" In what i sn , as to the e xce ll ence o f ar t, do you place them ?" at th.q ue stionably in the first."—" Have you ever looked 4 1,. 1 2 c ollection with a view to its value in money ?" "4.7 Y do n o t k now w h at t o com p are th em w i t h 1" hire- You think it o f great i mportance to t h e art o f sculp th that this collection should become the property of es,Publice—" I think it of the greatest importance." of On th e death of Sir Thomas Munro, the inhabitants sit"tadras decreed him a bronze equestrian statue, which o , ( leted to be execut e d by Ch a ntrey. His medal s the lat e Ki ng, mo d e ll e d un d er hi s superintend see b in the basso-relievo style, was a beßu- U te hi ll ih‘‘:nOrtArkiey'ser °airlat.S, was a very prolific genius : his marble pro ilotiYeeare numerous. .His busts first brought him into his fa, as instan ce d a b ove , an d laid the foundation of thretme, and th ey are b es id es t h e most a d m i ra bl e pro kso I°n s of that ki n d i n t h e wor ld . Of hi s statues an d kits u t Ps there are scores, but of his busts hundreds. We Tool. n ame some few of our chief favourites :—Horne isseine, Wordsworth, Scott, John Hookham ` ) ft r- s ' s ' a Phael Smith, P ro f essor Pl ay f a i r , th e Bi s h o p W a j t - ' 4 er On, the l a t e Ki ng. Of a ll t h ese per h aps t h at o f Si r Scott is the best. The poet has a face as change ameaand various as. the characters he draws in his works, tlki, expression which nothing but genius something ri,s _ to hi s own could have hoped to have seized. In this isolatlcable bust the brow is full of thought, the eyes kos t } i hr° ugh one, and there is a grave humour about the las e i w hich seems ready to escape in speech. The whole k at _rB .finished with the most fascinating skill. The poet 41_1 finished the sculptor chiselled, and there was many a word between them. tern e a a e l Chantrey are all of a domestic or his sitti kind. Hi s statues are numerous, and perhaps his at th ° nes are the best. Meditation and thought are sonle o ir f f o re edom when the body is at rest ; and though . 'let o f ;1 1 . s. Poets have conceived and composed in the_ ' v aYs ' l ng, yet a man who thinks, seated, must al who st a . d n 'Ore like a man in grave thought than one i s stim i ll v .s , let him think ever so stoutly. James Watt his Perf ect i "ng, as far as sculpture can prolong life : ' w hich scsinage, meditating on the extraordinary power to the wsiLl wields so easily and profitably, is preserved gr ,,, a cerul e an d s * The statue of Chief Baron Dundas was sue lit rat a s naffe dthat of Mr. Anderson was Pliant old ana Perfect image of the happy and bene andP'eased Ina ° ; and that of Dr. Cyril Jackson th e w ho 1; e er ect fio. lalera 'w its type, or love flowing draperies or s o p Christ Church-walk. Of Chantrey's !omi t , ' t ? Ill.O s • lasningtn mast undoubtedly be the fu see.), Tier. the h ero of American independence seems the few Isi;srriufieation of one wrapt in thought—a man of fop :~pt. all of prompt d ee d s; w i th a m i nd and fortitude el nergenei es . G rattan i n the statue is a being of of e" 6 class —earnest, voluble, in motion more than any ri antrey's works, and yet with somethin g both of l l nity and of serenity beyond what the orator possessed. • apprehensive, and mildly grave ; you l: Z " is anxious,l speak. General Gillespie is a fine e hia _expecting _inma t u o these works there is to be admired !.")' figure.. I su bordinate beaut 7 - 7, decorous and prudent use of issmsrn dress. All its characteristic vulgarities are sof -4 down or concealed. There is no aggravation of 1 4 , -s els, no projection of . buttons. Though the beholder os t raseious that there is an art used .in . hiding these 4 °realties the skill of the sculptor contrived to con , it in nature. hantrey's groups, though the most admired, were . °t Perhap s The Two Child ten aPs the happiest of his works. k e ".iie Two Females on Wildman's monument, and the ther and Children on that of David P. Watts, are cer unly dr sii ost our favourites. The pathos of his two c . 1 1 .11- tw s g o es to the heart of every mother ; the exquisite lletaess of workmanship is subdued by the sentiment. is L a dyifp a Louisa Russell is one of those fair and happy .1% 1 ; s of youth, which even old age might go a long ck eY to worship. isstr'lantrey's invention of the'new-pointing machine, an t hso s a s trie ,ot used by sculptors for measuring statues, l ying in a subordinate line of art, is truly valu for i' ts n " far surpasses that discovered by Bacon, the artist, etilp t „ a ,, ee urfzey and rapidity. Hudon, the eminent French "I'st t i" °n visiting London, saw this instrument for the ri 'tro s 4 l e in Bacon's studio, and expressed himself so qa a l Y. concerning its beauty and its usefulness, that I ,isa s re Y made him an immediate present of one. Some vs s isaft e rwards a gentleman who had come through e s a x ii , ed . on Bacon, and observing Chantrey's instru ss4 ? la n/led, in surprise, "So you have got Monsieur 4 " " oistrument for taking points ; I . see you don't to „„ _ . Mo n sk,l - ‘l 3 ying the French in some particulars." vain *won took place, when it appeared tkiat i o i l Riltdon had passed it off for an invention 1 3 ow d as s , Chantrey, indeed, was so pleased with ts'awisss instrument, that he caused correct working si s ;,,es ob_ h ‘oust ri e prepared, and sent as a present to Canova, e an ' n as Italian acknowledged the benefit which that he l'lstt unient would confer on art, but he lamented to " , s ° ' l 411 °°1 ( 1 not find . a 'head in Emile mechanical ki` - ' re l laat r e ;Lnlsrehend the drawings. ho urs Land s ' . vas more than any one else the most ad oof t ,,?led friend of Nollekens, and during the last_ . Ce. 11; "Is latter remarkable man, was ever at his op ti ts fo 's last visit to the Royal Academy was attended li p sedati,r,lnem, and as he was carried up stairs in a kind ~hantrey attended by his friend's side, and O tt gr oups the last remarks he made upon the scenes t si , Ps about him. He was then borne to his coach, t h is ti t he Persons who . helped him a guinea each—he ' l n, 0 1' 4 1 to his hat—Chantrey seated himself beside o Ho bade farewell for ever to the Royal Academy. S han d ht,:tllptur Possessed a very choice . and exquisite cabinet Pllr e h a °' antiques, medallions, &c. Many of theme such. of aged at public sales. Nollekens' fine cast of the b . ': h r . Johnson, which he possessed and valued ss - neh tos - °ught for ten guineas, almost four times as Cakin n ; ne ; as Nollekens charged for his common cast ; - "Qa it he accustomed to say "I think it ur p at an __w . as fri o4 s Y price —it is, in my opinion, the finest head u ever produced?' Ivo Lglaad hi 'Ks r,, f i m ay justly be proud of her Chantrey. llis s 8 tas te • eeted back her image as a mirror ; he formed . ,s n Y Etr, °II 40 style but that of nature, and no works of _Pir at e or country but his own can claim back any in slif'esh-seifllsornwhiclt they have lent him. He called up no b a the szv, antiquity ; he gave us no established visions t‘"filtY were moment , he . breathed in was his ; the s. l-1 the manliness which lived and mov . ed On f or e his materials, and he embodied 4aed tsi the gratification of posterity. He ss riv "oils as if he were unconscious of any 1.- 4° ) bus b at but Nature—the antique was before t ' s ual y hs _ e preferred flesh and blood, and it would eel.- is or re_ cost him far more labour to have imitated jPag s fr °f another school, than to have created an t'ttro s s °to the impulse of his own feeling. Robert ", s li s jah P_ l that the muse of his country found him as Vastt " k i at the plough, and threw her inspiring At 'e ove r h• h a was a s 101 —and the same may be said of Chantrey. o,vsseeluded place, a nameless spot, into which art fowl.l spontripiiietrated, that the inspiration of sculpture h,, 11 ; the desire of the art came over him be „Pe to s i ue‘v to what toil he was tasking his spirit. Na- P o ssession of his heart, and filled it with forms ' 4 glish • c esg 4 ee oveliness, before he knew that the works of ao exists sd ; and to this must be attributed his sue men not t - f l : f aale• An air of freedom and . ease, which . - .. 0 111 the muscle but from the mind—of senti ltsa taak rear i ng action her auxiliary, and a look of life t,to u ltv p 'as sta d 11 his statues, busts, and l ure is no m t p o e nly o t n he a true but the classic sculp „s our counts 0,447 t h e g 3. It is - not Greek, but it is Christian. t 4 es i si "'le Grecian taste of Canova, the good sense, iiality of Chantrey, and his faithful adherence 4 i!tered fr "fluie, sculpture, we trust, has .ever been 'itch it oef ona the cold an d unmean i ng i mpersona tions ore their time was wont often to assume. Pr ; t tE -te.c h EW COURTS AT LINCOLN'S INN.-- thei:tleellors Bruce and Wigram, attended by some IStaistsvissatling Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, and by Mr: a ntsi ty '',!s o the architect, on Friday inspected the new his. k-',_tirts in Lincoln's Inn, and expressed them sa,o,',uY satisfied with their arrangement, and with ' L With Which they have been erected. 4 SUDDEN DEATH OF TUE EARL OF HAREWOOD. CORONER'S INQUEST.—The following are the informa tions of witnesses taken on the 25th of November, at the Bay Horse Inn, in Bramham, near York, on view of the body of the Right Hon. Henry Laseelles, Earl of Harewood, before Mr. John Wood, one of the Coroners for Yorkshire. Joshua Wilkinson, pupil with the Rev. John Farlam, of Bramham, said, about a quarter before five o'clock yesterday afternoon I was in the lane leading to Tad caster, and coming towards Branham, when I saw Lord Harewood on horseback and riding towards Bramham. He was before me. A short distance before reaching Bramham he got off his horse and took it towards the hedge on the left hand side of the road, and stood him self looking towards the field. I did not observe that he was doing anything . His back was towards me as I passed him. His horse was near to him, but he had not hold of it. I walked on; and then turned round and saw the horse, but I did not see him. I went forwards home, and did not see him any more. I don't think the horse was between me and his Lord ship, so as to prevent me seeing him. When I passed his Lordship did not appear to be staggering at all, but stood still, looking towards the field: He did not ap pear to me as though he was making water. There was no other person near him. I had previously met a man who was going towards Tadcaster. It was rather dark at the time, but there was a moon. I had got as far as Moon's house, when I looked back, which was a good way off. I could just see the horse. When I passed I thought his Lordship's face on one side, which I saw, looked very pale, and I thought he was sick. Stephen Shepherd, of Harewood-house, whipper-in, said—l was in the service of the deceased. His Lord ship's hounds went out yesterday. The meet was at the cross-roads on Clifford-moor. Lord Harewood was out with us, and we ran a fox to ground at Griinsten hill. His Lordship stayed with us until we tried to dig him out, and accompanied us to • the green-lane, which is between the Tadcaster and Leeds turnpike-road and the Bramham and Tadcaster-lane, on our way home. He then left us, and I after wards saw him trotting on the road about three quarters of a mile in advance of us. He was trotting at the rate of about six miles an hour I afterwards went forward, and on getting near to Bramham I ob served a horse standing with a saddle on. It was then dusk, and I called out, but received no answer, and judg ing it was his Lordship's horse I got off my horse, and found the deceased lying on the ground with his feet towards the horse and his head up against a gate-post, his head rather inclining into the ditch, and . his left arm in the ditch. His right arm was under his body. He was lying on his left side. His hat was oft; and lay about a foot before his head, apparently having dropped with the fall. He neither spoke nor moved, • and ap peared to me to be quite dead. The horse was at liberty, and standing about a yard from the gate. Bamford, the huntsman, was coming up, and I called to him to come on as quickly as he could, and he came up directly. I had then got his Lordship sitting up, and was untying his handkerchief, but his head fell for ward, so that I was unable to get it untied. Bamford untied it. The body was then removed to the inn at Bramham in Mr. Fox's carriage, which had been sent for. As far as I observed, his Lordship was in his usual health during the day, and I had not heard him complain of being otherwise. When I found the de ceased his smanclothes were loose, and within the gate I found his whip and the instruments which I now pro duce, and which his Lordship was accustomed to use. There was nothing to induce me to suppose that his Lordship had been in any way molested. I have known the deceased for 25 years. I understood him now to be 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, hollowing 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 fall, 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 the 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 ho 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 sudd e n 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 Leeds Mercury.) henry Lascelles, Earl of llarewood, Viscount Lascel les, and Baron Harewood, 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, born in 1796, died abroad about three years ago ; Wm. Francis, 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 Eat]. 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 litia 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 on 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, 10,987. 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 unsolicited suffrages of the free holders. He withdrew from the representation of the' county at the general election of 1818, and on the 2d of June, In that year, he was chosen for Northallerton. He succeeded to the Earldom in 1820. Since that period his Lordship has interfered but little in political matters: RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day •f the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize Week Name of Railway. Mil " Total. ended Opened. £. s. d. N0v.20 Birmingham and Derby Junct. 384 1,058 14 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 Greenot.k 224 629 4 8 13 Grand Junet. &Chester &Crewelo34 7,036 7 3 22 Great North of England 45 1,083 13 2 21 Great Western 118% ' t 41,888 17 5 20 Hull and Selby.... ... 20 Lancaster and Preston Junction 20i 459 18' 2 19 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,321 12 0 20 London and Birmingham 1124 13,951 15 8 25 London and Blackwall 20 London and Brighton 404 1,369 10 7 20 Ditto Shoreham Branch ...... .•• 54 138 14 11 23 London and Croydon 25 London and Greenwich 34 726 6 4 20 London and South Western 18 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 1 0 591 14 24 22 Manchester and Birmingham 5 345 0 11 20 Manchester and Leeds 5O 3,749 15 1 20 Midland Counties . . 20 Newcastle and Carlisle 604 1,469 15 3 22 Northern and Eastern - 4 720 6 6 04 - 20 North Midland 724 3,417 17 64 , U y l o s r t k er a .... 19 North U n i on 20 Preston and Wy North Midland idland 194 185 13 8 21 2 ... 23 1,396 7 9 The Leeds M ercuv i says that it is the nten• tion of the members of the Bradford Reform Club to convene a general meeting to consider the propriety of getting up a requisition to Mr. hardy to resign his seat for the Borough, as he does not represent the opinions of the majority of the inhabitants. THE SUN, LONDON, 'MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1841. BERNARD CAVANAGH, the " FAST ING MAN," IN READING GAOL. • (mom A. CORRESPONDENT.) READING, FRIDAY.-1110 very natural excitement F which has been created, not only in the minds of the F 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 can fairly be given to the term), in consequence of his examination before the Mayor of this borough, on Thurs day, the 18th instant, and his 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. Bailey, 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 f rau d u l en t p re t ence ." It should here, however, be observed, that although it was clearly proved before the Mayor that the accused purchased .the 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 bad 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 his chin, 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 Doctors Blun dell and Kenny, and several other medical men in Lon 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 ho 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, fur I felt hun,ger'for the first time since the time I have named. You ate the ham and saveloy, , of course ? —No, I did tint. Well, what did you do with them, -then ? —I walked into a field and then my hunger left rne. 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 telt 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, who behaved with great politeness to the applicant, stated that the application 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 he has been in gaol, which may be relied on. They may tend to shake the opinion of many who, like myself, were strongly dis posed to think that, instead of his being a "Fasting. Man," his correct designation would be a " Fasting Im postor." He may be an impostor, now, for aught I kno w , 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 credence to) ; yet, when" state, upon, the most undoubted autho rity, that from his first entering the prison up to this present writing he has been closely watched, and that he has neither tasted the one nor th,e other, in any shape, it may be better to leave the public to form their own opi nions as to the extent of the imposture the man may have been guilty of. He has been daily supplied (this is the ninth day of his imprisonment) with the usual gaol allowance, and at the usual intervals.* This, whether his food has con sisted of bread, vegetables, gruel, water, &c., has been carefully weighed upon its being taken to qis cell. After leaving it there a necessary time for him to take his meal, it has been taken away untouched, and immediately afterwards again strictly weighed, when it has been in variably found to be of precisely the same weight, not a particle having been taken away or comumed. . The followinr , is a copy of the document I have pre 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 be exempt from the punishment of the tread-wheel, after he had undergone the labour for nearly three days,— " Friday morning, 12 o'clock. " Bernard Cavanagh, at this date, completed 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 prevent 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 stran gers. H e is, how ever, uniformly good tempered, ration a l i n hi s conversa tion, except on religious subjects (on whi c h h e seems to labour under a peculiar delusion), and exp resses hi mself as perfectly happy. " He is extremely anxious to undergo any trial I may think fit to make of his powers of abstinence, without regard 40 time, and expresses himself as unwilling to leave the prison until such fair trial has been made. " I wish tocorrect a statement whit h has gone abroad, respecting my being instrumental in keeping this tinier• tunute 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 ba 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 work until, -through .the kindness of the Mayor, he was finally taken off the same. afternoon. "F. A. BULLEY, " Assistant-Surgeon to the - County Goal, and Surgeon to the Royal Bork Hospital." Tiernan, who is in good health, is serving out his month's imprisonmena 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 pretensions of Cavanagh as a " living miracle;" but from the inquiries I have made I find no grounds for the rumour, which has, certainly, been pretty extensively circulated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COURSING. ASHDOWNPARK MEETING, Nov. 25—CONCLUDED. The Cup was won by Mr. Etwall'sWest-Wind, beating Mr. Goodlake's Gentility ; the Derby Stakes by Mr. Etwall's Eton Boy, beating Mr. Morant's Musselman ; the Oaks by Mr. Etwall's World's-End, beating Mr. Agg's kmazon ; the St. Leger Stakes by Mr. Agg's Amaranth, heating Mr. BoWle's Bamfylde ; the Craven Stakes for puppies wore divided by Mr. Agg's Mo rant ; the Ashdown All-Aged Stakes were won by Mr. Goodlake's Grateful Girl, and the Weyland Puppy Stakes by Mr. Etwall's Will Watch. The Other Stakes were divided. Amicable Club, Nov. 23 and 24.—The Cup was won by Mr. Evans's Barrington, and the Headley Stakes by Mr. Eley's Etna. --- Haslington Hall, Nov. 24.---The first swe'pstakes were won by Mr. Edleston's Scythian, and the second by Mr. Brindley's Twist. Spelthorne, Club, Nov. 25 and 26.—The Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Batt's Banquet, the Headley Stakes by Mr. Wilshin's Spot ; • the Leatherhead Stakes by Mr. Turner's Sloe, and the Epsom Stakes were divided. Cardington, Nov. 25 and 26.—The Cup was won by Mr. Purser's Piceotee, beating Captain Daintree's Knab, and the Harrowden Hill Stakes, by Mr. Inskip's Irish man, beating Mr. Purser's Pandora. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 2 7.—The Rev. Jemson Davies, MLA., formerly of Clare Hall, has been presented to the Vicarage of St. Nicholas, Leicester, void by the death of the Rev. Richard Davies ; patron, the Lord Chan cellor. Value 851. The Rev. Woodthorpe Collett, M.A., of Catharine Hall ; and Master of the Grammar School, Woodbridge, has been selected by the Council of King's College, London, to the office of Principal of King's College School, at Nassau, New Providence; Bahamas. On Wednesday . last, the Rev. Henry Churchman Long, 8.A., formerly of Christ's College, was licensed to the perpetual curacy of Dunston, Norfolk ; patron, Robert Kellett Long, Esq., of Dunston Hall. Value, 301. The Hon. and Rev. Philip Yorke Savile, M.A., of Trinity College, son of the Earl of Mexborough, has been presented by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster, to the Rectory of Methley, Yorkshire, void by the death of the Hon. and Rev. A. H. Cathcart. The Rev. R. S. Dobson, M.A., of St. John's College, has been appointed Chaplain to the Braintree Union. The Rev. Alexander Paton, M.A., of Queen's Col lege, in this University, has been appointed to the incum bency of Trinity Church, Louth, Lincolnshire ; pa trons, the Trustees. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegritph.) PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27.—The Aigle, 24, Captain Lord Clarence Paget, sailed on Tuesday last for Plymouth. The Pique, 36, Captain Henry Forbes, sails to-morrow for Bermuda, with supernumeraries for the squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam. It is understood that the Pique will not remain on that station, but return to this port. The North Star, 28, Captain Sir E. Home, went out of harbour on Wednesday, and early on the following morn ing sailed for Plymouth. Commander P. Justice, takes a passage to China, in this ship, to join the Pelican, vice Napier, promoted. It is understood that the North Star will remain at Plymouth until the troop-ships (appointed to convey the reintorcements to the army in China), as semble there, and then accompany them. The Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, was spoken with on the 30th September, in lat. 1, long, 22, bound round Cape Horn. The Persian and Fantome arrived at St. Helena in the first week of October. The Thalia, 46, Captain C. Hope, is ordered to pro ceed from Chatham to this port forthwith ; and also the Isis, 50, Captain Sir John Marshall. The Powerful, 84, Captain Seymour, with Rear (Vice) Admiral Sir John Ommanney's flag on board, left Malta for England, on the 11th inst. It is said that the Andromache, 28, Capt. Baines, proceeds from the Cape to China, on the arrival of the Madagascar on the station. TheCarysfort, 2G, was taken into dock on Thursday, for overhauling and repair. This ship will be brought forward for commissioning as early as possible. The Seringapatam, Capt. Johnson, was paid off at Sheerness, on Saturday. The Tyne, 26, Capt. Townshend, •was paid off on Thursday, The Athol!, trooper, Mr. Bellamy, commander, arrived tit Spithead, on Thursday last, from Nassau. She ex perienced most tremendous weather the whole of the passage, and is ordered into the harbour for the purpose of being overhauled and reported upon. The Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Capt. Stubbs, for Madras and Bengal ; the Catherine, Capt. Browne, for the Cape of Good Hope, Madras, and Bengal ; and the John Craig, Pettingell, from Algoa Bay, arrived on Friday at Spithead, for the purpose of embarking their provisions and stock. _ Womwten, Nov. 26.—The Alban embarks Artillery for China to-morrow, to be conveyed to the Belleisle, at Plymouth.—The Devastation embarks the Bishop of Syria on Monday next, and proceeds directly for Ports mouth to receive her Artillery and supernumeraries.— The Vixen, Heroine, and Rhadawanthus, are still in progress.—The Firebrand proceeded on Wednesday to Chatham, in attendance on a Board of Admiralty.—The Shearwater and Meteor are expected daily. In Harbour.—St. Vincent, Victory, Queen, Excellent, Vindictive, Warspite, Belvidera, Royal George, Hazard, Apollo and Sapphire, troop-ships, Pantaloon, Viper, Echo, steam-tu g , an d Cracker, tender. At Spithead—Pi que, phinstone, East Indianian,Sir Edward Cod r i ngton, our Commander-in-Chief, Athol], and Mountstuart El having been promoted from Admiral of the Blue to the White, and the Hon. Admiral Bouverie, of the Dock yard, from Rear-Admiral of the White to the Red; both these officers shifted their respective flags on Friday on board the St. Vincent and Victory, and exchanged salute?. The following Surgeons of the Royal Navy have re tired as Inspectors of Hospitals and Fleets :—B. F. Oat ram (1796), Sir George Magrath (1797), R. Purkis Hillyar (1800), and D. Quarrier (1804). By the retire ment of the last named, the appointment of Surgeon of the Portsmouth Division of Royal Marines is open. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTIONS -- Commander—henry Stroud, to the rank of Captain—(Commission dated Oct. 29.) Second Masters—Messrs. Pascoe and Garner, second Masters of the Rhadamanthus ; John Tucker, second Master, of the Lightni ng ; W. Mills and H. B. Harris, second Masters of the Royal George ; H. Davis, second Master, of the Seaflower ; and Mr. W e ll s , ac ti ng Mas ter, of Mastiff, to the rank of Master. Mate—John Cashman (1838) to the rank of Lieute nant. Assistant Surgeons—G. W. Pritchett (Atholl), and A. G. G. Tucker to the rank of Surgeon. APPOlNTMENTS. — Commanders—John B. P. hay, to the Queen ; Josiah Oake to the Ferret. Lieutenants—C. Lapidge to the Pantaloon, for the coast of Africa, vice Crozier ; W. K. Hall to the Indus J. B. Branch to the Warspite ; J. 11. Gennys to the Apollo, vice Branch. Mates—R. 11. Dalton and T. C. Bruce to the Queen ; J. A. Wharton to the Caledonia , F. 11. N. Rolfe and C. Compton to North Star ; D. Aird, to Fly. Master—Mr. Ilele to the Apollo. Second Master—G. Harwood to the Vindictive. Master's Assistants—C. Pulfer to the Isis ; Jabez Loane to Driver. Midshipmen—Chandos S. Stanhope, late of the Se ringapatam, to the North Star ; G. Whale, to the Excel lent ; E. A. Porcher, to the Queen ; Hon. F. Walpole, to the Vernon ; Hon. R. S. M. Byng, to the Belvidera. Volunteers First Class—G. IL C. Langdon Tredegar, to the Howe ; C. C. Day, to the Thunderer ; C. J. Stockdale, to Belvidera ; C. Curtne, to Revenge. Clerks—K_ Chamberlain, to the Alfred ; James Gil pin, to the North Star ; James Spark, and Charles Howes, to L'Aigle ;- C. N. 'Wright, to the Royal George ; John Doyle, to Apollo. Mr. J boatswain, has b een su p erannua t e d on a pension Goslin g , b oa t swa i n , on a pension of 501 ; and Mr. IV: Keilimish, carpenter, 45/. _ ohn 1. ( 1 )f arsd,yl,. 26.—Wind this noon, S. to S.W. _ dayat Ironside Newcastle, LLOYDS' SHIPPING. 8., moderate.—Arrd. LONDON, NOV'. do. for Demerara. Tobago, Sid. Sandwich, and sA ß t e r. l r i Arrived ue a Marina,dcil PEAL, e fr d o forrnNov. the S 2l t 6 . V ß . T r i e s l l , l:o ill r n: e i rr l i a i : Thomas n dC ; n Sh , ll i f l: r ab l n y T ; r o o y b a , DARTMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Arrd. Rine, White, River Gambia, leaky, with pumps choked, l oss o f sails, &c. F A LMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind N.E. to S.E.—Arrd. Maria Theresa, steamer, London for Palermo. Sld. her Majesty's ship Spy, coast of Africa ; Arab, Van Die men's Land ; Mandingo and Thomas Young, Jamaica ; .Skylark, St. Michael's ; Oberon and Linden, do. Arrd. off, Florist, Huggup, Bombay. BRISTOL', Nov. 26.—Sld. Barbara and Elizabeth, Jamaica ; Conjo and John, Cavat. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 26. —Arrd. Kingsbridge, Cunning ham, Miramichi. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26.--Wind S.W. to S.S.E.— Arrd. Mountstewart Elphinstone, London, for Calcutta Catharine; do., for Cape ; John C ray, d o., Algoa Bay. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26. —Wind e aster l y.— Sld. Akbar, Canton ; Lord Weston, Calcutta, ; Universe and Craven, Bombay ; Cynosure, Batavia ; Rival, Barbadoes ; Ab bottsford, New Orlean s ; Safe g u ard , Charleston Arrd. off, Hali fax George Washington and Sout h Ameri ca , New Yoric .1 ; Arm strong gales.-- Madagascar, Coast o f Af r i ca ; Bateman, Si erra Leone. Sld. H.M.S.t usp, packeti , B ir o 3 s i t o o u u Ta ; In, d, L A 1 i v NOV.ear i r ) , o . 2 o G l ~ Sierra — .w i n a L eo E.S.T.ne. , Arrd. Gambia, crew saved burnt at sea 9th Sept., by the Eli son, arr i ve d at Sierra Leone. dijiattroleciStiplaliritaCn,hißnaar;b(alditoteos . The Celina (wh a l er ), was SHOREHAM, Nolr. 2(i.—aho Emma, Smith, and Regna, M•Donald, in attempking to enter the harbour this morn ing, Arounded on the Bar, and drifted on the main west ward of the Pier, but are expected off with assistance. appointed Edmund Walker Hea G d o ,.Assistant Commissioners, to bo Government one of ha the the new 'oor-law Commissioner, though the actual stn manual is not yet obtained by him. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. (From a respected Correspondent, a Clergyman of the Church of England.) I was delighted to find myself; by a well written paper in your Sun, of the 24th inst., anticipated in my in tention of addressin g you on the same most i mportant subject of a Sabbath. I have now merely to give my thoughts a somewhat different shape. I have been a clergyman upwards of forty years. When a child 1 was constantly impressed with deep reverence for the Sabbath. The first or second sermon (of two well re collected by me, though I cannot now say which was the first), but the first or second sermon I ever com posed was on the due observance of the Sabbath. In subsequent years I composed many other sermons on that subject. Ten or twelve years ago, my eye-sight failing, I began to preach extempore, as, after having written many hundreds of sermons, I thought I might. But now I found an alteration needed in more respects than one. Instead of six or seven hours' hard thinking anti writing on the Saturday night, to clear up and se cure my thoughts for a sermon on the next morning, I found it necessary to look more closely into the particu lar subjects than heretofore, aad to employ my mind more entirely upon substance than in any degree upon ornament ; for otherwise I knew that I should have no chance as an extempore preacher. Under ouch altered circumstances, some eight or ten years back, I said to myself," I will preach again on the observance of the Sabbath ; and, with the Bible in hand, I will investi gate the whole subject, and fill my mind well with all the Word of God says of it, so that I shall have only to open my mouth and pour forth with due application all the precious truths I have gleaned concerning it. But what was my amazement, almost amounting to terror ? I found I was utterly unprepared to take up again at the moment a subject so familiar to me I considered it again and again for days, and weeks, and months, with astonishment ! Was it possible that I could have been for so many years mistaken ? or, if I could thus have been, could my beloved friends, some of the first in the world for piety and talent, to say nothing of Commentators, aye, and of the whole Christian world, have thus been under delu sion ? I had at last discovered that in the word of God at least there was no such observance as a Christian Sabbath ! For the correctness or otherwise of this supposed discovery of the truth, of which I have long had not the shadow of a doubt myself, I had rather refer your readers to my only source of information than try their patience by my prosings upon it. I would only just strengthen one particular which your former Correspondent has already handled, and adduce another with which he was not likely to be acquainted. The particular I would strengthen is your Correspondent's most proper and most powerful quotation from 2d Co lossians, 16th verse " Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath-days." And the strength I would add to it is merely by quoting the very next verse, the 17th, " which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ ;" and by the commonest of all observations, that when the body and substance is come, all the shadows or types thereof are done away. The other particular is as follows :—I was visiting a very zealous Roman Catholic Priest, and I asked him how it was that his Church, which he be lieved infallible, could make such a mistake (I did not wonder at my own, the Protestant Church, for that was by its own avowal fallible enough) as to change th 6 day of the Sabbath without adequate authority? He very mildly and quietly answered, that "it was not without adequate authority, for that it was so agreed upon by St. Peter and St. Paul, in one of their conferences at Rome." Well done, Catholic Priest ! thought I, who ever thinks that those of your order are not " ready always to give a reason of the hope that is in them with meekness" will probably form a wrong estimate of them. I need not say that such a conference of the holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, not being in my record, the Holy Scriptures, I still remained firm in my own belief, that there is not in the whole of the New Testa ment even the shadow of what is called the Christian Sabbath. I do not wonder at, I rather admire and respect greatly, the zeal of many, very, many of the present day for the Sabbath. No one could well be more zealous than myself in former days. I once narrowly escaped (and how I escaped I know not) being prosecuted by the authori ties of a large town for my earnest efforts and writings against Sunday drilling. But it is possible to be very zealous on very inadequate grounds of knowledge ; and such I consider all such men as Sir Andrew Agnew to be. At least I am confident that they must obtain their knowledge from some such sources as my worthy neighbour the Catholic priest, and not from the Word of God contained in the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament. There is no Sabbath (rest) for the soles of their feet to stand upon there. DISTURBANCE AT NORWICII. Tuesday morning the Chartists at Norwich created a 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 outrageo us conduct of Chartists. Several of them were taken into custody for their disorderly conduct, and a rescue was attempted. Thomas Abell, Wm. Crone, and Wm. 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 on the back of the 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. Afterwards nine other Chartists were given into custody for riotous conduct, and some for assault ing the clergymen while coming 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 5/., and in default committed for a month to hard labour. Hewett, after a long in vestigation, was bound over to take his trial at the Ses sions in two sureties of 501. each.—Derbyskire Chronicle. FORGERY OF POSTAGE STAMPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SON. Sir.,—Observing that you have transferred from the columns of the Morning Post, into your paper of yesterday, an article on the subject of forgery, 1 beg to hand you the copy of a letter addressed by me to the Editor of that Journal, with reference to so much of his observations as relates to the forgery of stamps, and I shall feel obliged if you will insert such letter in your next publication.-1 am, Sir, your most obedient servant, J. Solicitor for Stamps , and Taxes. Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " MORNING POST." SIR,—In the City article in your paper of this day T find it stated that the law does not com prehend the imitation by means of the electrotype of embossed stamps, such as the Post-office labels, as an offence coming within the Acts passed for the prevention of tiwgery. Feeling nsssured that you would deeply regret that any of your readers should be misled by your remark, and be induced to attempt the ex periment suggested, under the erroneous notion that it may be practised with impunity, I beg to refer you to the 22d section of the' New Postage Act, 3d and 4th Viet., cap. 90, where you will find that any person who shall by any means whatever imitate a postage stamp, or who shall knowingly have in his possession a " counterfeit stamp or impression resembling or representing, either wholly or in part, or intended or liable to pass or be mistaken for a genuine postage stamp, will render himself liable to be transported for life." I beg also to add that there are in other Acts of Parliament similar enactments applicable to every other description of stamps issued by this department. —I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, J. TIMM, Solicitor for Stamps and Taxes. Stamps and Taxes, Somerset-house, Nov. 26. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. John Wilkes, Esq., and family, at Nelson's Portland Hotel, from Lofts Hall, Essex ; Rev. H. 11. Knight, al ditto ; G. Norton, Esq., and Mrs. Norton, at ditto ; Chief Justice Saunderson (of Grenada), at the Glou• cester Hotel, Piccadilly ; Bprmester, Esq., and Mrs, Burmester, at ditto ; Captain and Mrs. Henley, at ditto ; Captain Tyrrell, Ist Dragoons. MORN NS- SUtl FRANCE. TRIAL OF A MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER OF, DEPUTIES, FOR A Liner. UPON THE GOVERNMENT, IN A SPEECH • ADDRESSED TO ILIS CONSTITUENTS. . ' The trial of M. Ledru ltiolliii 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 J u l y 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, one 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 proceed e d 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 or the Courrier de la Sarthe. In answer to a question from the President, M. Ledru Rollin admitted that lie 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 ; he 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 proe nounCed,he was informed that it had been taken down = and several electors requested his consent that it should ha 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 Proeureur-General addressed the Court for the prosecution. He maintained that the speech was an excitation to hatred and contempt against the Go vernment, as it represented .it as the sole cause, et the miseries of the people, whereas the Gewern ment was by all the means within its power en deavouring to lessen them. But, said the Procureur-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 l'ereign Powers.. He then came to what he considered the most ilia portant part of the accusation, the question 's high more or less affected the elective franchise, tending to change not the Ministry, but the .iteetave uovernment 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 stitutions. The Learned Gentleman, after commenting strongly upon the conduct of M. Ledru Rollin, concluded by calling upon the Jury to put an end, by the verdict they were about to pronounce, to excitement of this kind., M. Ledru Rollin then addressed the Jury. He deni . ed that his intention was to excite the people to revolt, and contended that he had not in his speech exceee. e d t h e limits of constitutional discussion. There were, ) ".Le said, in Erance twelve millions of persons in a state of eaisery,and it was not a crime to.inquire into the means of 'aelieving them. He recommended wh a t a pp eare d to h.les 'the prop er course viz.,radical reform, b u t 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. Ledru Rollin, declared that although the language of his client in the speech for which he was now undeee 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 ha.d 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 th e p ress , an d had, therefor e , attar 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 su c h . power were given t o a G overnment, wo could say that a Deputy might not be prosecuted even whilst the, elect ors were performing their functions?—M. A.eargo fol lowed M. Odilon Barrot. lie began by st'atie.g that he had felt it his duty to quit his verity, / and urgent avocations, in order to ren d er a service +o an esteemed S colleague and the cause of liberge Gentle man, alluding to the c h arge a cr a'AP l ,, M. Ledru Rollin, that he had d rawn a frightful and Tae Hon. exciting picture of the misery of the people, said he 'lied unfortunately but too much ground f or hi s stateter,,t, 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 discussion of the question of ra dical reform and trie organisation of labour, for which he was now a. ,- ,used as of a h e i nous cr i me. As a proof that M. Ledru Rollin h a d not a l toget h er over charged his *pictur e , 31. A rago o b served that of 100,000 persons of the general population born in "sere France, only 50,000 .ere ali ve a t t h e en d of 20 years and a half, whilst in the working-classes of 100,000 borteonly 50,000 were, alive at the end of two years. This, he thought, was a conclusive proof of the extent of misery in the working-classes. -31. Berryer,. as counsel for M. Hu reau, said he had come to the defenetef M. :Hureau, be cause he was charged with having published a speech, containing a profession of faitlart &wire - a - 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 differesit 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 of 1830, 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. Ilareau was declared guilty of the publication. The Court retired to delibe rate on the sentence, and returned in about half an hour, when the President pronounced it as follows :—M. Ledru Rollin to be imprisoned three months, and to pay a fine of 3,000 francs ; and N. ;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. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. 1 BRUSSELS, Nov. 25.—The average price of wheat last 1 weck was 22-58 f. ; and that of rye 13-40 f. per hectolite. ' Mr. Ernest Vandersmissen, jun., was conveyed to the civil and military pri s on of arrest sl day tonogf b st e eh f a b er criewhymem has s e terday, in the morning, as being implicated in the - plot d eg , aA a i i i n i i ir, t r i. et. th eo hassf a f G e h t: ene e o nr f ai t is h s e ve e S ad t n a df t ee e r iis fe re r site o n r c e e ig . Foreign Affairs confirmed, to-day, Representatives, the news published of the withdrawal of the French Minister beTeuhem3aidienii assembled of G o h n eo o t u , r oa fr u o t :i d ti o e n r to tho th G e o n ve u r m n. - i in n the the C E lr e m ne b h er p: o ep f pety, troops which were e w il '2;e ' ther it was true that the French pa pers num ber of f tn 2 d o :0 1 : men. Briey had declared in another M. Delehaye, a only at the request of the an ß o ter for Foreign Affairs refuse lg d ia t n o said that these troops (contrary to what Count de Belgian sitting) had assembled complyMi n . i st of the Deputy of Ghent. The majority of the Chamber warmly applauded the reserve reserve of the Minister. The Journal whichthat the announced yesterday , King was gone to his seat at Ardennes 31‘'.rithTtihweMdeils'iirse was mistaken. His Majesty has not quitted Lacken. BRUSSELS, Nov. 26.—The King will make his excur sion to Ardenne very shortly. lie was to have gone on on Wednesday last, but it seems that the arrival of Lord Burghersh, the. English Minister to the Court of Prussia, has caused him to delay his journey for a few days. Lord Burgbersh left Brussels this morning. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9 6.—His Royal Highness Prince William Frederick Henry arrived here to-day, to be pre sent at the launch. of his Majesty's frigate Doggerbank, which took place at three o'clock. THE HAGUE, Nov. 25.—An article in the Haarlem Courant gives some details of the operations for drain ing the vale of Haarlem, which have been going on for two years. Everything has fully succeeded accord ' s probable that, in the fifth ing to expectation, and it i . will be fully obtained, a n d year, the proposed object a n exent of 18,000 acres drained. ST. PETER SB URC 11, Nov. 15.—0 n SatUrev• y night there was so much drift in the Neva that it was nee es .. sary t o remove the bridges. Yesterday tSunday.) the canal was frozen over, though but little snow has fallen. Sledges have been ploughing the streets ever since Fri day.-11 de St. Pctersburgh, Nov. 16, BELGIAN 11. U NDS—Bauw, BLit, 6. _ Actu al Debt, 2% per Cent. .. N ov 53 Rothschild's Loan 5 per Cl, t..„.... " . ... 101 L oa n of Thirty Millions, 4 •,+er Cent. ....... Wiper Cent ,2 9' -- (1840)... ............. 711, Loan of City, 1T32, 4 per Cent. ....... : .......... l U'l Society of Commerce, 4K per Cent.... ..... "'— Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...... ........... .. !BIN, NationalSeciety. ......... . ........... " ........ 75 Exchange on London (short) . ::: ........... „ "--. _Brussels Papers, Nov . 26: .......... '' * 5 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—.VIENN4 Nor . to per Coats. Illetalliquea . ........... ' -• • ••• Forr per Cents. . h ., ........... ...." ... "........ ..... 10 6 i, Three N I- Cents . » ....... .... ........ ****"•••••••• ...... 9 7 C: 8ank.......... , .......... " ....... .. ........ 74 i —Allow:eine &flung, Nov. "F....... ..... "'••'M» 15" Thirty-seven Mr. THEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL.--We are Theo req uesteore Hoo d to state that " F a th ers and Sons, " a novel, by dk, Esq., in 3 vols. post Bvo., with a Portrait and Memoir of the A ut h or, is 'published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great M arlborough -street, and m a y now be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works of fiction :- 1. The Match-maker, by the author of " Cousin Geof frey," " The Marrying Man," & c ,, 3 vols.-2. The P ar i s h Clerk, by the author of " P eter Priggins, " 3 v015.,--3. The Old English Gentleman, a sporting novel, by John Mills, lisq., 3 vols.-4• Chur.es Chesterfield ; o;:„ The 3 vols., with numerous ill ustrations by yhiz.--5. Tom B A o d i v v e li n n t g ures ,_aT o a f le a of Y . otitileth of G en i us, b y Mrs. Trl?iiepe, Sea , by Captain Frederi c k Cha mier, R.N., 3 vols. ; aid 6. M. The( dore Hock's Gur ney Married." the Sequel to "Gilbert Gurney," com plete for Gr. bound, with illustrations forming the new volume of " Colburn's Standard Novels." PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER. A report that the labourers on the Plymouth Break. water were to be all discharged, having caused consi derable anxiety, we are glad to find, by the following letter, that rumour had much exaggerated the reality. " Woodside, 13th Nov., 1841. " Sir--•I hi' to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, respecting the discharge of 150 men employed on the Breakwater works, and have the gratification of stating in reply thereto, for the infor mation of the Governor and Guardians of the poor, that only a few extra men are intended to be discharged, who were, previous to their entry, told they could not be employed for want of funds during the winter months. • " I am, therefore, discharging them by degrees, that the distress apprehended by the Governor and Guar dians may not be incurred ; and I am glad to remark, that many, if not all, of those already discharged, have obtained work elsewhere.—l remain. Sir, your obe dient servant, " W. STUART. " Air. It. Bernard, Workhouse." —Plymouth Journal. THE BOOKBINDER and the POET (From the Manchester Times.) An old Scotch bookbinder, hearing an author spoken of in terms of high commendation, ex claithed, " Hoots ! Ony stupid body way write a book, and ony stupid body may prent a book. but it takes a clever fallow indeed to bind a book ! " Our townsman, John Dickenson, is one of the " clever Mows" that can bind a book but he has a much higher appreciation than the old Scotchman had of the powers re quired to write a book, for he was one of the first to discover that John Critchely Prince was a poet of no mean order, and to his friendly zeal was owing in no slight degree the publica tion of productions so extraordinary, considering the education and circumstances of the writer. Burns owed the publication of the Kilmarnock edition of his poems to the farmers in the neigh bourhood, and used to point with pride to the name of one who had subscribed for twenty co pies, the only name higher on the list being that of the Countess of Eglinton, who subscribed for twenty-one copies. What the " Farmer in Co vington Mains" was to Burns, the " Bookbinder in Angel-court" seems to have been to Prince, and the Poet has thus gratefully and gracefully recorded his obligations : • 'TO MY FRIEND JOIIN DICKINSON. True-hearted Dickinson ! can I forget Thy warm, impetuous friendship, and how prone Thou wert to solace me when first we met, And I was coinless, hopeless, and unknown ? No ! for the generous feeling thou bast shown To me, an humble minstrel, in. my need, My harp, with feeble but with faithful tone, Shall tell thee that I cherish every deed. Let me bear witness that thou hast, withal, Though rudely earnest, an inquiring mind,— Pity for human suffering and thrall, And love for things exalted and refined. May Heaven afford thee, to thy latest hour, The joy of doing good, and ne'er deny the power ! A handsome and generous tribute was paid to th e genius of Prince on Monday night by Mr. Vandenhoff, who expressed the delight he had e xperienced in perusing the volume which had accidentally fallen into his hands. While, with a voice " musical as Apollo' s l ute, " the tragedian recited one of the finest passages, we observed John Dickenson drinking in the sounds with un disguisable rapture ; and the poet, who was pre sent, must have felt similar emotions to those which Burns felt when some fine lyric of his, married to immortal tune, proceeded, in enchant ing strain, from the lips of beauty. DEPARTURES. Mrs. Man, from Nelson's Portland Hotel, for the Isle of Wight.; A. Onslow, Esq., from ditto ; J. Knyvett, Esq., from ditto ; George Barker, Esq., and Mrs. Barker, from ditto ; Mrs. Cookes and family, and Lieut. Cookcs, from the Gloucester Hotel Piccadilly, for Dover ; Capt. Purvis, from ditto ; Cavendish Hall, Esq., from ditto ; Mr. J. B. Osborn, son of Sir John Osborn, from Liver pool, for New York. CHANGES. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Warner and family, from Walsing ham Abbey, Norfolk, to Tiberton•court, llerefordshire. CHURCH-RATES. On Friday, pursuant to notice, a vestry meeting was held in St. John's Church, for the purpose of passing the churchwardens' accounts, and to make a rate for the ensuing year. At eleven o'clock the Rev. T. Sheep shanks, Rector, took the Chair. The opponents of th e rate had previously issued a handbill, calling upon the parishioners to attend and oppose the making of a rate— a call which was responded to in a spirited manner. The churchwardens proceeded to read over the accounts of the last year, some of the items of which were vehemently denounced. The item of 2/. is. for wine for the sacra ment being read, Mr. E. Goode recommended that those who partook of the sacrament at church should follow the practice of the Dissenters, and pay for the wine them selves. He said it must be painful for the Rev. Chair man, when officiating at the administration of the Holy Sacrament, to think that he and his friends brought down upon themselves the curse of those poor rate payers, who had been distressed to provide the bread and wine of which they partook. A poer man, named CHARLES SMITH, then related the circumstances under which he had been served with a warrant of distress for the payment of the rate. He had a wife and seven children, and, in consequence of bad trade and affliction, was left without a shilling to purchase bread for his family; and, to save his furniture, had pledged his best coat to pay the rate. This state ment drew forth a strong expression of feeling from the meeting. Mr. T. KIRBY asked what amount of money was ne cessary for the purpoies of the ensuing year ? When Mr. AKROYD, builder, read the estimate, from which it appeared thot upwards of 3001. would be wanted. 11r. H. K. ROTHERHAM moved, and Mr. T. ROTHER HAM seconded, that a rate of 6d. in the pound be made for the service and repairs of the church for the ensuing year. Mr. E. GOODE moved an amendment, that the meeting be adjourned for twelve months. Mr. W. HILL seconded the amendment, which was carried with acclamation. Messrs. R. K. and T. Rotherham demanded a poll, of which the following is the resit : Tor the Rate 173 Against it Majority against the Rate —62 The contest acquired importance from the fact, that this is the first contest in the parish of St. John, in the memory of the present generation.—Coventry Herald. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Nov. 20, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly Total._ Average CAUSES OF DEATH. 1838-940 Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 155 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2O 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heat and Blood-vessels lB 18 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 63 60 D: - ;he IC Diseases of the Ridnoys &c. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 4 9 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Mus c l es Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat o',d Age, or Natural Decay 6O 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 14 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes... 800 - Average Weekly Deaths .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths,lB3B-9-40 Western Districts ... 124 ...... 139 North Districts Central Districts 132 ..... 190 East Districts l7B ...... 211 South Districts ... ...... Total BOO 926 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—. and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith (Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea),'Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camber veil, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Nov. 13. Nov. 20. 56° ,40 28 49 33 Highest Lo — west . Daily Mean . . General Register Office, Nov. '25, 1841. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Times). MaNcirEsTEß.—The state of the market this week has not at all improved, and, from various causes, the flatness and stagnation experienced for some time have increased. An extensive failure, that of Messrs. Gis borne and Wilsons, calico-printers, which occurred at the beginning of the week, has cause d a cons id erable sensation amongst the printing-houses, and has had the effect of lessening the demand for printing cloth. The liabilities of-this house are upwards of 100,00 0/., and since the stoppoge two suspensions of payment have taken place in co nsequence. The y arn market is very flat ; the German and Russian houses ate doing nothing, and other descriptions of buyers but li ttle.T or h e e r_s p t i h n e ! ners and manufacturers are daily becoming po banks are restricting their accommodation —and every thing appears to favour the bad that the dark days of winter" will be more dark than ever in a co mmercial po int of view. More empl oyment and more food say th e working men ; extended rnarkits say the masters. Both requests are refused, and the result we see and feel but too plainly. EAST INDIA SHIPPING Arrivals—Bell a M ar i na, Wickham, from . China, in the Downs, sail e d 2d June, St. Helena 28th September ; Florist, Huggup, Bombay, off Falmouth, sailed 7th July, St. Helena 28th September. Arrival at Mauritius—Queen, Thomas, Aug. 17, from Marseilles. Arrival at B erbice—Amphitrite, Kerr, Oct. 12, from Calcutta. St. Helena, Oct. 6,---Vibilia, Terry, from Newcastle and Liverpool, to Aden, was lost on a coral-reef Aug. 9,. about tw e l ve or fourteen miles S.W. of the Islan d o Mayotte, o ne o f the Comoro Islands, 3fozarnbigne t Channel. Crew saved, and arrived at St. Helena. Downs, Whalers reported—Margaret, arrived _in t 3 i r e a with 2,350 barrels of oil ; Walmer, Robins, Marshal China Sea. out 38 months, with 800 brls. 1,000 Bennett, Hunter, in the China Sea, months,in the c. 3, in the China Sea, brls. ; Merope of S idney, 131axle , ,, , i o n ns , 16th June, in 14 months, 1,100 brls. ; Unffin' Parsons, brls. ; Kitty, the Molucca Passage, 23 months, b Ben son, in July, 35 months, 1,650 brls., j at Copang. --- DISTRESS IN LANCASTER. —We are truly sorry to hear that the labouring population of this town are in a state of distress, which exceeds anything they have previously felt, though it is as yet trifling, when compared with the suffering which prevails in our larger towns. At the appeal day last Tuesday, no less than 120 persons appealed against the rate on account of poverty, besides a number who had previously appealed, and the many who are expected to do so at the next ap peal day, in about a fortnight. We understand that the Poor-rate for the next year will have to be almost double the usual amount. We hope that some well-de vised means of relief will be speedily adopted.--Lancas ter Guardian. eras ion itre• 10.), olvu' h ed iis► of 6 ' Lod "r Is. 1 old , 8 ;e tb li e : e e r diog i cliri°° 11 0 'P t of tio