The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROSECUTION. EXTHAORDINARY CASE OF . . FROM THE EVENING PAP ERS OF Y E STERDAY. ' -,...-..... GLOBE.--,A custom appears to prevail in many of particular attention to the Union w or kh ouses o f turn i ng out i nmates who it We are induced to call partic • • i, alleged have no claim on the particular parish where : the case of Curtis Georgei charged at the ies they4ave asked for re li e f— a prac ti ce to w hi c h we SLOIS of writing a threatening let ter to Mr. Mor - . should see n o o bj ec ti on , if it were acted on with the gani of Brainford, because there ar e sonic re intention of t rans f err i ng paupers to t h e place that i markable featuresn it, and some wh i ch were ot brought out , bw ma not ought to .be ch a r ge d w ith th e b ur d en o f support i ng the less interest in our evidence readers. ut hich A man na y med them. instead of this, however, destitute creatures are thrust out of th e doors of a workhouse merely Worledge, suspected o f stealing turnips from a field of Mr. Morgan's, has hi s h ouse searc h e d on to enter those of a p r i son ; f or , fi n din g paroc hi a l Sabbath i morn i ing, and six turnips found—two relief refused to them, they have no alternative but ( a )f them to transfer themselves to gaol by committing some saucepan—a conviction takes Place, and a n su t m ie mary punishment is awarded of . small offence which entitles them to a short period of two 4eeks: imprisonment —in the mean time the .:: imprisonment. By this system the Houses of Cor- .. leaving with Prisoner isoner dies in gaol; of an affection of the heart, rection are becoming inconveniently crowded with a widow and large family. A letter - 4t criminals in spite of themselves—persons who can sent to the wife of th e prosecutor of reatening char ac t er . C urt i s G eorge is get supported w ith l ess diffi cu lty as delinquents than is ent tain Hatton, the S u p er i nten d ent i as mere paupers, and th us the gaols are becoming, as a it - were, refuges f or the destitute who are driven Pointed out to Ca :- from th e workho uses . Besides-the immorality that is of Police, by the prosecutor, as the suspected occasioned by the obligation under which the poor ar e author, from a supp ose d s i m il ar i ty i n the hand , -7 . - often placed of committing an offence, in order to ob- writing, although it appears by his evidence that tam the food which is due to their necessity alon e , th e he never saw Ge orge wr i te or ever h a d a letter system we are alluding to is unfair towards th e p ayers from him. His ho use i s searc h e d b y a warrant - of the county rates, who are saddled with a bu r d en illegally obtained, it ha v i ng b een l ong s i nce de that ought to be borne by the contributo rs t o th e poor termined by the highest l ega l tr ib una l t h at no rate. In addition to this, the individuals who are ac- search -warrant can be granted for evidence. cidentally: selected to have their wind ows broken—one Were this once ad m itt e d, w h ere would be the of the most usual ways adoptedbydesperatepersons for- security to any man again s t a ll hi s pr i vate l etters obtaining an entrance to prison --have strong reason to and papers being ransacked over by a policeman, complain, as well as those who are su bj ected to the loss upo n a b are suspic i on of wrong, as was proved i n of their property by thefts committed with the view this case.? His house is searched in his absence-- of wining for their perpetrators the support that the all his papers ransacked—all his letters exa .. parish authorities withhold from them. It should mined—all his private memorandums perused. also lis remembered that habits of robbery and vio- Not an article could be found to justify the oath lence, commenced from motives of want, are likely to of the policeman sent by his superior to swear grew-on .those who p ract i se t h em, and who thus be- that he suspected a duplicate of the threatening come confirmed enem i es o f society, and reckless vio- letter might be f oun d—h e fi n d s no o b struc- Inters of the rights of property. It is time that some tion on the part of the wife—Capt. Hatton better course should be adopted than that by which takes away one of his letters—goes to the bar parsimony'of th e poor rates appears t o b e p aramoun t racks where G eorge i s at wor k— o b tains his sig - to. every consid era ti on of morality, humanity, and nature, in ord er th at h e may swear to having • justice, all of whi c h are„indiscriminately document wherewith so com p are t h e threatening sacrificed seen the prisone r wr i te , an d t h at l ie may have a that the " parish" may b e re li eve d as much as possible of the burd ens that press upon it. This day is the second of th e two letter. He is hurri e d o ff to t h e C ounty Gaol STANDARD without being told of th e o ff ence o f w hi c h he i s accused—where two Clerical Magistrates, one of sacred anniversaries upon which we have been always i . . . w aim signed the Illegal warrant, are waiting to :accustomed to claim for ourselves an exemption from receive . him, although they live some miles off-- the necessity of prosecuting political controversy; he is not allowed to inform his family, or consult an exemption in which, as we gratefully remem- ber, our readers have ne v e r f a il e d t o i n d u l ge us. a friend or legal, advise r , b u t i s at once f u l ly com- The time, we trust, is not di s t an t, w h en upon such for trial, upon suc h ev id ence as was thrown m aside by the Co ur t as inadmissibl e . Hi s w if e, solemn occasions, th e p u bli ca ti on o f newspapers Will be altogether prohibit e d b y pu bli c f ee li ng. We who is said to b e th e pattern of Christian think we see an a pp roac h . to character in th e h um bl e sp h ere in which such.a consumma-- tion in the; g r ow i ng li m it a ti on o f S un d ay j ournals. she moves, is infor me d o f t h e i ncarcerat i on m be She is unable to gain a d m i ttance to hi m of her husband l a t e on t h e S aturday night. Meanwhile we adhere to our ru l e . If we . could de-- viate from it, the are. considerations connected until Monday, when, a ft er wa i t i ng t h ree with the day, which might shown to have an hours, she is admitted to a three • minutes' inter important bearing upon the subject which now • view—an iron grating parting them—two turn properly engrosses public attention. Why is the keys . , one on each side, attending them, whilst duty of " preachif , the Gospel to the poor" mutual sob s were exchanged without . even the so imperfectly discharged ? Why are so many of means of shaking hands. On a second interview, our fellow-citizens—for whose spiritual welfare we the same delay took place in gaining access, and are as deeply responsible as for their temporal but little more time allowed—the - Chaplain re , happiness—deprived of the opportunity of conse- fusing to allow 1 • him a book which his wife had crating this day to prayer, and praise, and gratitude brouht him, because, amongst other reasons, it to Him, whose sacrifice for us this day commemo- came g from a Quakeress. The depositions were rates ? Why, alas, are so many without even the dis- applied for on the Tuesday—the Magistrates' position ? The answer has been, because the finances Clerk neglecting to give any reply until the Fri of the State will not afford the cost of extending the day, when lie stated that lie had copied them but means of religious worship. Is this a suffi c i en t left them behind, having forgotten them, , and answer from the nation which Heaven has blessed they were not obtained until the Saturday. It was -With more wealth, more abundant wealth, than of course presumed that the evidence was of a very was ever lavished upon a people ? We are conclusive character to justify the Magistrates to fi told that our resources must be reserved for rally commit, and it was therefore thought prudent war, and that to cell them forth for the to see the depositions before bail was tendered, works of peace and mercy, and preparations that are by which means the p r i soner rema i ned in gaol the preservatives of p eace is forbidden. Is this ra- for ten days, but seei ng not hi ng i n the evidence tional—is it Christian ?Is it not, in truth, saying worthy of att en ti on , two gentlemen of well that the goods which the Almighty has bestowed known standi ng i n society, hinnediately offered up on us are confided for the destructien, not bail. The character of the prisoner was most for the preservation of our fellow creatures ? It closely scrutinized —no indiVidual could be found is known that Sir Robert Inglis has a motion to who had ever known any cause of offence given bring before Parliament for the extension of by the prosecutor to the prisoner —no one had the means of religious instruction ; but how can ever heard the prisoner, on any occasion, to re this motion succeed if the revenues of the country fleet on the charact er o f the was and the are to remain crippled, as they have been ? Who Vicar of the parish, who was the onl' witness, can say that he seriously intends to promote the ob- y afterwards brought against hi m , w h ose ev id ence ject of sucl a motion, when he withholds the neces- was admitted by the Court, stated most positively sary instrument for its promotion ? We trust that to a brother clergyman, Who was in Court,to prove many will think seriously of this. The first income the words, if needful, " That letter was not writ tax ever imposed in England (it was 600 years ago) teri by George, for nave wri tingsof his in the house w4s imposed for the service of religion—so false is and know his writing," and further, "It was the pretence that it has always been a war tax.' But not written by Geo rge , i n a f e i gne d h and, for i t we are sure that we have said enough upon this point, is consistent throughout." This was the clergy. and we have said more than we intended. man who had been a member of his school, and who had often seen him write. Now, what was the course to justify the prosecution —to blacken his character in a moral,. a religious, and a poli tical, point of view ? We are assured by gentle men who have spared no pains or trouble to in vestigate these calumnies, that they are all with out a tittle of foundation, and that his sin was 'hat of Daniel—that of praying; that. far from icing a Dissenter, he regularly every week aught the children the Church Catechism, and hat he was a consistent member of the Evange ical Church.—Sitfirolk Chronicle. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 22. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General Alexander Watson to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Lieutenant-General Shrapnel, deceased, March 14. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 19. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Edward Rea to be Captain, vice Toby, who retires tn half-pay; second Lieu tenant William Jolliffe to be First Lieutenant, vice Rea, pro moted. DEC I,ARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOESPII RADFORD, draper, Appleby, Westmore land. WILLIAM JEWELL NETTLETON, corn dealer, West-terrace, Upper Grange-road, Bermondsey. WILLIAM PAIN BOTHAMS, malster, Tor g, Shrophshire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. THOMAS BERRIMAN, builder, Peckham-grove, Surrey. THE BISHOPS AND THE WELSH LANGUAGE. A • petition was lately presented by Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., from the Welsh inhabitants of the West Riding of York, praying for bishops that thoroughly understand Welsh, in which a very striking passage occurs. The necessity of having bishops that under itand Welsh is generiill3r.adinitted, but by the sub joined passage it appears that the correctness -of the ritual in Welsh depends on the Welsh bishops, and therefore that not only a common but a deep know !edge of the language is enjoined by the Act, without .vhich no person is qualified by law to be a Welsh ')ishop. The passage is as follows :—" That your )etitioners leak upon the practice of appointing qishors to Welsh sees, ignorant of the Welsh lan mage, is diametrically opposed to the Act of ,Iniformity, which enjoins that the Bishop of Here cord, St. David's, Asaph, Bangor, Llandaft; and their successors, shall take such order among themselves for the soul's health of the flocks committed to their charge within Wales, that the book hereunto an nexed (the book of Common Prayer) be truly and exactly translated, and _being by them or any three - )f them at the least viewed, perused, and allowed to be imprinted, and they shall have power to correct And amend in writing any error committed by the winter in printing of the same book, or of any thing therein contained, and shall certify in writing, under their hands and seals, or the hands and seals of any three of them, at the end of the same book, that they have examined and compared the said book, and find 't to be a true and perfect copy. ' Your petitioners humbly think that if a similar commission were issued In the present day it would place the prelates of the Welsh Church in a very painful and disagreeable position." TRIAL FOR TILE GLASGOW BANK ROBBERY.—The trial of Robert Smith, lately teller in the Glasgow and Ship Bank, and James Wishart, wine and spirit dealer 'a Glasgow, who were accused of abstracting and eon .-erting to their own uses upwards of 10,70 a, came on 'ore the Ihgh Court of J►isticiary on Wednesday las i'he charges against them broke clown upon the infor- Aality of the proceeiiing, , , and they were obliged to be ,erred with new criminal letters, which was accordingly !one the instant of their dismissal upon the old indict ment. DEATH .or SIR WILLIAM BEATTY, M.D.—We re gret to announce that Sir William Beatty, M. 1)., F.R.S., ;ate Physician to her M:pjesty's Fleet and Greenwich hospital, died at an early hour this morning, at his re sidence in York-street, Portman-square. He had served iis country long and faithfully in all clim es , an d h a d the melancholy duty of being officially present at the death of his distinguished commander, the Hero of Tra falgar. It may be justly said of Sir William Beatty that his whole professional life seemed to accord with Cie sentiment expressed in Nelson's last and ever me morable signal to the fleet. SUDDEN DEATH IN FILE STREETS.--Mr. Wakley yesterday held an inquest at the Mother Redcap, High street, Camden-town, on the body of Thomas Overton, aged fifty-six, a carpenter in the employ of Mr. Allen, builder, of Camden-terrace, It appeared that on Tuesday morning the deceased came to his work as usual at six o'clock, went home to breakfast, and returned in his usual state of health, and was laughing and joking. About eleven o'clock he went with George Scadding, the car- man, to some new houses, building on St. James's-ter race, Kentish-town-road. Scadding went up to the door, and, turning round, said, "There's no knocker here, Thomas." Overton replied, " No, there isn't, in deed," and instantly exclaimed, "Lord, have mercy upon me—George, I'm a dead man." Scadding caught, him whilst falling, and sat him on the step of the door, and Mr. Curtis, surgeon, was sent for, but deceased was dead half a Minute. Verdict—" Natural death." We learn from Bastia that one of the desperate bandits that have so long been the terror of that part of Cor sica has been arrested. The lieutenant of gendarmerie at Calvi having received information that Lega, the man in ques tion, who had been condemned to death by c on t umacy , was lately seen in that arrondissement, sent out a party of his men, under the command of a brigadier. They found him about four in the morning of the 7th inst., seated by a fire near a sheepfold ; but Lega's nephew, a boy, who acted as his spy, gave him notice of his danger, and he fled. Meeting in his flight njonolarme named Casten', he fired at him, and 1. dgcd a bullet in his left slap, which killed him. Being close pressed by the others, Lega turned round three times and fired; the last shot passing through the shako of the brigadiu, within an inch of his head. One of the gendarmes fired at Lega in return, and brought him down by a ball, which entered his back, and went through him. Though thus disabled, such was his resolution, that before his arms could be secured, he fired a pistol at his asyailants, but, happily, without effect. He and his nephew, who was also captured , were conducted Ai Calvi. L ega , w h o i s a b ou t 42 years of age, was one of the most formidable of the band. When taken, he had with him a doUble-barreiled gun, with percussion locks, a double-barrelled pistol, a stiletto, a dagger-linife, 21 bullets, a quantity of pow der, and a telescope. . It is stated that not less than 46 fishermen of Cakrenx 2 near St. Valery-sur-Somme, lost their lives in the storm of ilia 11th just, BANKRUPTS. DAVID NUTT, merchant, Stratford-green, Essex, to surrender April 8 and May 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Oliverson, Denby, and Lavie, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. CHARLES GRAYDON, timber merchant, Saint Ana's-place, Limehouse, April 5, at twelve, and May 6, ttt, eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copthall-buildings ; Gole and Co.. Lime-street-square. DIANE SAMUEL WALKER, india-rubber mann facturer, April 5, at one, and May 6, at tw e l v e, a t tl. e Court of Bankruptcy. 'Graham, official assignee, Basinl„- fiall-street ; Mayhew and Co., Lincoln's Inn. - JOHN ALFRED WOOD, chemist and druggist, April 13, and May 6, - at eleven, at the offices of Yr. Cameron, Worcester. Herbert, Staple Inn, Holborn. ' HUGH WICKHAM, linen draper, Bristol, April 9. and May 6, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol, Frampton, South-square, Gray's-inn, ; Daniel Smith, BriAt .1. WILLIAM DARLINGTON, wine merchant, Liver pool, April 5, and May 6, at twelve, at the Claremlon rooms, Liverpool. Fisher, Liverpool ; Fisher and Sher wood, Kinz's-bench-walk, Temple, L'mdon. 11.IC 11A Iti ) TUUVIL L, baker, Kingston -up on- Thames, April 6, at two, and May 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assigt:ee, Coleman-str&l , buildings; Addis and Guy, Great Queen btreet, Westminster. PIERS LOWE, shoemaker, Norley, Cheshire, April 6 and May 6, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms. Liverpool Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, .Lo,ulon ; Niaiolson and Sons, Warrington. _RICHARD TURNER, flour-dealt r, Oldham, Lance slf re, .April 8 and May 6, at twelve, at the Commission ers'-rooms, Manchester. Bower and Bank, Chancery lane; Barrett, Manchester. EDWARD . YOUNG, blacksniith, Birchington, Kent, April 6 and May 6, at ten, at the London ILtel, Mar ,B .ys and Son, Margate ; Egan, Waterman, and LL.7;:x-street, Strand. THOMAS 'THOMAS, miller, Leintwardine, Her( fo - .-dihir-, April a, and tli.cy 6, at eleven,. at the Ani,•e Jim, Ludlow. Rogerson, Norfia-street, Strand, Lou. don ; Collins, St. Nicholas-square Hereford. JOHN BENNETT, calico printer ; Manchester, April 11, And May 6, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Campbell and Witty, Esex-street, Strand; Fox, Nottingham; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester. • JOIIN CUNARD and J HIES INGRAM, merchants, DLIT Bend-street, April 4, and May 6, at eleven, at the Claren don rooms, Liverpool. bharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bed ford-row, London ; Harvey and falcon, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Steer, tallow chandler, Maidstone, Bent, April 15, at half-past twelve—E. Burn, merchant, St. Helen's. place, City, April 15, at half-past one—ll. P. Coltherup dyer, Rochester, April 15, at one—J. Parkin, E. 1I Thomas, and J. D. Walford, brokers, Fenchurch-street April 16, at two—J. Richardson, victualler, Half-moon street, Piccadilly, April 16 , at half-past twelve—L. A, Lewis, bookseller, Fleet-street, April 15, at twelve. In the Country. M. Spence, cloth dresser, Holbeck, Yorkshire, April 21, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds—l). Matthews and A. Gardner, grocers, Cheltenham, April 20, at *eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. -------- J. and N. Aleanock, fustian manufacturers, Manches ter—J. Scott and G. llenderson, linen drapers, Halifax, Yorkshire —J. Brown and S. P. Tucker, clothiers, Wood chester, Gloucestershire—W. Thomas and T. Miles, linen drapers, Cardiff, Glamorganshire—E. Ball and J. Martin, proprietors of a ladies' school, Wells, Somerset shire—B. Winstanley and W. F. Marshall, reed makers, Manchester—F. and M. J. C. Clark, house acrents, Port man-street, Portman-square —E. Day and J S. Hirst, ‘voolstaplers, Bradford, York s hi re—W. Scott an d W . S . Newton, working jewellers, Percival -street, Clerkenvvell W. Barker, U . Barker, and P. Barker, common brewers, Hayton, Lancashire —J. B. and T. Homer, flour' factors, Manchester—T. R. Moore and 11. Wors fold, .maible,papev manufactory, Wheat Sheaf-yard, Far rindon-street-41. Ling and F. Harrison, attorneys—T. and B. Shipman, lace manufacturers, Nottingham —11. Gitfard and J. G. Everett, grocers, Wells, Somersetshire —Js. and Jn. Hampson, rag merchants, Stockport, Che shire--W. Smith and J. Cunliffe, corn millers, Bedford mill, Lancashire—J. Murray, W. Strachan, and R. Lin -I.,)n,isail makers, Liverpool (so far as regards R. Linton) Crook and H Cotton, earthenware dealers, Liverpool. PRICE OF . *AGA R. The Average Price of Brown or 51uscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending March 2 2, 1842, is 393. Id. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. CazisuL- GENERAL.—We have great pleaFure in Announcing that Mr. W. Kennedy has been appointed by the Texian Government their Consul-Gourd to Craat THE SUN, LONDON; SATURDAY EVENING-„' 26, 1842 REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DE PARTMENT. The " Report of the Officers of the Railway De partment of the Board of Trade," upon which the new Bill of Mr. Gladstone is professedly based, has just made its appearance. The report commences with several tables, showing , the number and nature of accidents upon railways at tended with personal injury (for to such only does the existing law extend,) as reported to the Board. of Trade under Lord Seymour's Act. These acci dents are divided into three classes. Class the first relates to accidents arising " from causes beyond the control of passengers," and from the table it appears that during the year 1841, 29 such accidents oc curred, causing the death of 24 persons, and the in jury of 72 others. The four killed on the Brighton, and the nine on the Great-Western, of course make up more than half the total number. The table in Class 2 refers to accidents occasioned by the negli gence or misconduct of the sufferers themselves, and shows for the• past year thirty-six such occurrences, which were fatal to 17 persons, besides 20 injured. Class 3 shows the number of railway servants killed or injured " under circumstances not in volving danger to the public." The total number of such accidents in 1841 was sixty, killing twenty eight and injuring thirty-six individuals. Besides these returns, there is a statement also of similar casu alties during the last five months of the year 1840, from which, as mentioned in the Report, it appears that the number of accidents of a public nature has considerably diminished—the last five months of the year 1840 showing 28 accidents, 22 deaths, and 131 cases of injury, while the twelve months of 1841 give only 29 accidents, 24 deaths, and 71 cases of injury; and this notwithstanding the late unfavourable wea ther, but for which, according to the Report, the acci dents on the Brighton and Great Western already al luded to " would in all probability not have occurred." The Report proceeds to notice the gratifying dimi nution in the class of accidents, such as collisions, arising chiefly from mismanagement or defective arrangements. In the eight months from August, 1840, to April, 1841, no fewer than seventeen acci dents took place from collisions by succeeding trains, whereas in the nine months immediately following, only nine such cases occurred, and these, with but one exception, unattended with fatal consequences. This diminution is attributed partly to the precautions suggested by the Inspector-General, and partly to the enforcement by the companies of greater attention to signals and time-tables. The "marked diminution in the number of serious accidents occasioned by the mis conduct of engine -drivers," is ascribed, partly to the beneficial results of more experience, and the mea sures taken by the companies to raise the character of this important class of men, and partly to the salutary operation of the punishment awarded to offenders under Lord Seymour's Act. The Report then refers to various details of acci dents, and states that the most important results which appear to be deducible therefrom are, the impropriety of running tender foremost ; the danger of an insuffi cient number of breaks ; the propriety of using buffer springs, and of putting higher sides to open carriages; the necessity for extreme vigilance in watching expected slips, especially in unfavourable weather; the propriety of proper signal-posts and tail-lamps ; and the dangers of level crossings. These several points are illstrated by reference to one or more re cent accidents. With respect to level crossings, it appears that there are no fewer than 312 turnpikes and highways thus crossed by 53 different railways. In 42 of these cases gates have been :erected or altered, and gate-keepers stationed, in consequence of representations from the Board of Trade, " and it is believed that, with the ex ception of a few railways where horse-power only is used, or where the low rate of speed or other local cir cumstances render it unnecessary, the provisions of the Act in question (the General Highway Act) are now generally complied with, and the public protected, as far as possible, from the danger which is always, to a certain extent, incurred by crossings on a level." The Report, nevertheless, states that it would be " very desirable that some power should exist to compel the parties interested to come to some arrange ment for getting rid of level crossings by a bridge or tunnel, where experience has shown that the occasion a considerable degree of ri s k t o th e public.' A cor respondence with the Croydon Company is referred to, as showing that an admitted source of danger is con tinued in consequence of the inability of the Directors and the Trustees of the highway to come to an agree ment for removing it. The absurdity of placing gates across railways instead of the common roads which they cross is adverted to. The Report next proceeds to the subject of a cir cular, which some time ago appeared, arising out of the Brighton accident, and having reference to four and six-wheeled engines. From the returns it ,ap appears that on 33 lines there are used six-wheeled engines ; and on 17 lines 224 four-wheeled en gines. Some Companies, such as the Glasgow and Ayr, and Edinburgh and Glasgow, seem to use about an equal number of each. Among the 224 four-wheeled are included 35 of the Mid land Counties', and 90 of the London and Birming ham Company. Three accidents, attended with per sonal injury, are enumerated as having occurred from the Ist of August, 1840, to the Ist of January, 1841, " occasioned by engines running off the rails without meeting with any obstruction or other spe cific cause." The whole of these occurred with four wheeled engines, namely, on the Eastern Counties' line (19th of August, 1840), killing four persons and injuring six, " the speed being excessive ;" on the Brighton (2d of October, 1841), killing four and in juring two, "attributed to excessive speed on a new line; and on the Midland Counties' (Bth of November, 1840), injuring eight, " the line being in a bad state." It is also stated to be the general opinion, that running tender foremost and propelling from behind are dangerous ; and, moreover, that_ in the case of heavy trains, it is better to employ an extra engine a head, than to divide the train ; but this last opinion the framers of theßeport think " may be fairly questioned." The reporters then advert to the accommodation supplied to third-class passengers, A table fol lows, from which it seems that upon the Great Western and South-Western lines alone are third class passengers conveyed by heavy luggage trains ; and on the latter the practice is about to be disconti nued, accommodation being substituted in the regu lar passenger trains. On the Birmingham line this class of passengers is taken along with cattle, horses, and empty return waggons, but not with heavy lug gage waggons. The recommendations of the Board of Trade, as to buffer-springs and increased height of outside pannelling in third-clas carriages were at once acceded to by the Birmingham, Great Western, South- Western, and - other Companies. The Managers of the following Companies think that where lugggage wag gons are sent with passenger trains, the waggons should he next the tender :—Arbroath and Forfar, Birming ham and Derby, Birmingham and Gloucester, Brand ling Junction, Edinburgh and Glasgow, St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap, Midland Counties', Newcastle and Carlisle, North Midland, and Stockton and Darling ton. On the Manchester and Bolton, Bolton and Preston and (previous to the late accident) the Great Western, the whole of the luggage waggons are placed behind. On the Great Western, the pas senger carriages are now placed i n a central position. On the Great North of England, London and South Western, Manchester and Leeds, and Shef field and Rotherham, there is no settled rule. No heavy waggons are sent with passenger trains on the Glasgow and Ayr, Grand Junction, London and Bir mingham, Liverpool and Manchester, Lancaster and Preston, North Union, Preston and Wyre, or Shef field and Manchester. The reporters are of opinion, that until buffer-springs, axles of the best materials, &c., are used in every part of such trains, there must be danger to passengers wherever placed, and they appear to think that where these conditions are not complied with, passengers ought not to be sent along with heavy goods. An interesting no tice is then given of the third-class traffic on the Manchester and Leeds line. It is stated, that the whole number of third-class passengers carried on the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Rail ways, is less than the number carried on the short line between Arbroath and Forfar, and not a seventh part of that taken on the Newcastle and North Shields. It is satisfactory (says the Report) to find that there is a growing disposition, even among such Railway Companies as cannot hope to profit much by , third-class traffic, to afford every accommodation pos sible to the humbler classes of the community. It is suggested as very desirable, that long stoppages should not occur to third-elass trains at the junctions of connected lines,'such as the London and Birming ham, Grand Junction, &c., as these stoppages almost neutralise the greater speed of railway communication. The next topic touched upon is the number of lines wholly or partially opened since the passing of Lord Seymour's Act. From a table given it appears that 1791 miles of double rail, and 46 miles of single rail, have thus been brought into operation, after having been inspected by the officers of the Board of Trade. This is exclusive of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, opened the other day. It is stated that the Gosport baanch was in the first instance opened, notwithstand ing the recommendation of Sir F. Smith and the Board of Trade that the opening should be d e l aye d . "In less than a week's time was found necessary to close the line again." The reporters then enter upon a consideration of the mulfifariopl by--laws of the Companies, and a report is embodied from 111:. Laing, gliggpsting some very judicious amendments, or, as they are called, " standard regulations," which have already , been adopted by some of the Companies. Upon this part )of the document yyp cannot, however, from want of space, at present Then follows a statement of the cases in which the Board of Trade have been called upon to prevent de viations, under theyrovisions of Lord Seymour's Act. In ne inotuirp has it been necessary to institute. any prosecutiog, _ . . In conclusion, the reporters deem it " better that the Government should not at present ask for the power of enforcing regulations for the pre vention of accidents, and that such a power should not be resorted to hereafter, unless experience should clearly show the existence of general and culpable negligence and mismanagement under the present system." They also recommend that the examining and licensing of engine drivers should, for the present, be postponed. The other suggestions of the Report have reference to the power of deferring openings, of calling for returns, level crossings, gates, &c., all of which are embodied in Mr. Gladstone's Bill. The Report is drawn ut) with great ability, and is signed by G. R. Porter, }red. Smith, and S. Laing. —Railway Times. AMERICAN NEWS. (Further Extracts from the American Papers.) LORD MORPETH.—The Richmond Enquirer of Tues day last, thus speaks of Lord Morpeth : "Lord Morpeth arrived in Richmond on Saturdsy evening, and left it on last evening, in the cars for the South. He is proceeding to Charleston, and fdrther south, and perhaps some of the West India Islands. He may return to Virginia in the course of the summer, and visit our springs and view our mountain scenery. But as he is spoken of as a candidate for Dublin in the House of Commons, his sojourn in the United States may be cut short by the necessity of his returning home. Lord M. is one of the most liberal statesmen and popu lar and rising politicians in the British empire. He has a strong partiality for the Americans, and expresses the sincerest desire to preserve the harmony between the two countries. He is struck with the great scale on which everything is constructed in America—with the immense extent of our country—the extraordinary vo lume of our rivers, &c. He pronounces the Potomac to be the noblest river he has ever seen—and he has visited a great part of Europe, France, Russia, &c. "He is travelling in the United States, on our railroads, and steam. boats, in the simplest style, without equi page, without any species of state, without even a ser vant. In his manners he is equally unassuming. He affects no airs, and appears only like a plain, unpretend ing, but polished gentleman, of good sense—taking a deep interest in all that he sees, speaking of our country with great liberality, and never boasting of his own. " His Lordship arrived at Charleston on Wednesday week." CA LAM ITOUS STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE CLYDE. FURTHER PARTICULARS FROM THE " GLASGOW COURIER. " We believe it has not been ascertained that any other individuals than the eighteen referred to in our last, have lost their lives on this melancholy occasion. The body of Thomas M`Queen, one of the painters, who was mar ried a few months ago, and was engaged in Glasgow only on Monday last, was found at low-water about one o'clock on Tuesday morning, and also the body of Da niel Sinclair, the fireman ; the latter being found within the wreck. One of the bodies not identified turns out to be that of a coal-trimmer, who had volunteered his services on Monday to perform the duty in the place of the regular trimmer, who is unwell. Another was found to be that of a pastry-baker named William Laurie, belonging to Paisley, who was on his way to visit the Precursor in the Garde* in which he anticipated being employed. This individual was so frightfully mangled that his body was collected in portions, and it was only by his clothes, and by his name being on the paper in the watch •in his posses sion, that his friends cou ld id en tif y hi m . Th e b o d y of Peter M•Lintock has not yet been found. The James Johnstone, from Greenock, was a young boy from Tor bert (Lochlomond), who had been on a visit to his brother at Greenock, and who intended to take a sail to see the Precursor. Jacob Laird, having no friends in this neighbourhood, was on Tuesday decently interred in the churchyard of How. Ono of the persons killed, supposed to be the engineer, was actually that individual, William Bannatyne, who, it seems, was on deck at the time of the explosion. Eight of the bodies were brought from Helensburgh, on Tuesday night, by the British Queen ; that of Boyle was left at Greenock, those of Mr. Hedderwick and Caddenhead, one of his workmen, were left at Govan, and the others brought up to the Broomie law, where an immense crowd had assembled to wait the arrival of the steamer. Opinions are various as to the cause of the accident. The construction of the Telegraph was quite a novelty, even in the Clyde, the cradle of steam navigation. She was of a light yacht-like build, one hundred and twenty feet in length, by fourteen feet of beam ; was considered of thirty-two tons, and used a locomotive engine. In the centre of the vessel there was a high elevation, on which was placed the wheel, and station of the steers man, enabling him from his position to keep a good look-out ; and the helm was moved by a chain running along the surface of the bulwarks on each side of the stern. Below this elevetion, in the stern of the vessel, the cabin was situated, and the steerage was similarly placed forward. She was propelled by a locomotive or high pressure engine, which was calculated at a moderate pressure, to work to About 50-horse-power. The boiler being one of the tubular construction, it was necessary to feed it with fresh water to prevent corrosion ; and being unable to fill fresh water by the pumps further down the river than Dumbarton, it was necessary to have tanks to contain a supply sufficient to carry her to Gore loch, when the tanks were again filled. The pressure on the boiler was regulated by a patent indicator on the valve, which pressure was increased or diminished by the turning of a screw. It was remarked by some persons on the quay at Helensburgh, that while stopping there the steam was not let off to the usual extent, but no danger was apprehended. The vessel being loosed from her moorings was backing out from the quay, only one or two back strokes having been given, and the rope still in hands of the person on shore, when the explosion took place, the engineer being at the time engaged at the valve. The real causes which gave rise to this deplora ble catastrophe, may, perhaps, never be known, in so far as the captain and engineer, who would be aware of the condition of the vessel at the time, are amongst the dead. It is said on the one hand that the valves had become deranged or overloaded, and led to the accident. On the other it is presumed that the engineer (who was obliged to use fresh water,) had al lowed the boiler to get too low, and the plates had in conse quence, become heated, perhaps to a red heat. As the ac cident occurred while the Telegraph was backing out from the quay, it is presumed that he may have put on the feed pump while she was in this position, and from the cold water coming into contact with the heated plates, and instantaneously generating a gas possessing all the strength of gunpowder, the explosion had occurred. On Tuesday, at low water, the boiler, &c., was sufficiently exposed to enable it to be examined to see in what state it was. By direction of the authorities certain profes sional men are to report to the sheriff on the subject. The engineer, Mr. Rowland, who made the engine, caused an examination to be ma d e , an d h e stated the fol lowing to be the result of the investigation : " The occident has evidently been occasioned by the want of a due quantity of water in the boiler, as the plates in the crown (or cover) of the fire box have been red hot. On examination, we find the plates riven completely across; and the heat has been so great, that though the fire box (or furnace) is only about three feet three inches wide, the plates are stretched, or ex panded, So as to measure four feet; and there are also on the plates several large blisters, which could only be the result of intensity of heat. The violence of the explosion has been so great as to tear one of the corners of the fire box a considerable way down the plates at that corner, being five-eighths of an inch thick. The same rent goes through a solid bar of iron three inches by two. So far as can be seen, none of the tubes are injured. The fire box was made of the best Lowinoor iron plate, of the fol lowing thickness:—Tube plate five-eighths of an inch; back, half an inch; crown 7-16ths. Tube and back plates welded." The accident has been by far the most direful of the kind which has ever occurred on the de, where hun dreds of persons daily navigate its waters by this means, and thousands in summer ; and its occurrence is likely to throw a damp on locomotive engines, as applied to steam-vessels, which will not soon be got over. The Telegraph was - built by Messrs. Iledderwick and Ran kine—the former of whom has perished with her ; and the engine was constructed by Joha M. Rowan and Co., Atlas_ Works, Glasgow. The last accident of a similar kind was that which occurred to the Earl Grey steamer, the boiler of which exploded while she lay at Greenock quay, on her way from Dunoon to Glasgow, on the af ternoon of Fridry the 24th of July, 1835. This occur rence was of a much less disastrous kind than that which took place on Monday last, for then only six persons were killed, and fifteen severely injured. In closing the melancholy affair, we think it a very fitting opportunity to impress on the magistrates, the river trustees, and the Government itself the necessity of an official inspector being appointed, whose duty shall be somewhat analogous to that of the inspector of railroads—who will have power to examine the engines, boiler, and machinery of steam-vessels, at all times, and also to examine the engineer and his hands as to their fitness for their duties. (FROM THE " GREENOCK OBSERVER.") The passengers from Glasgow and Greenock had just been landed, and one of the hands was engaged in push ing off the bow of the boat, when a hissing noise was observed, and in a second a report was heard, as if of a discharge of artillery, and in the air was seen man, woman, and child, painter's pots, large shivers of wood, and the funnel, and engine, and boiler of the unfortunate vessel. The engine and boiler forced up by the deck, and was thrown about eighty yards from the vessel. Two men in a foul-- oared gig, were lying at the qua' waiting for the owner to come on board, and the engine and boiler came right over their heads, and fell into the water a few feet from them. As soon as the smoke caused by the explo sion subsided the unfortunate sufferers were in all quar ters seen in the sea—some seated on pieces of the wreck —females clinging to splinters of floating timbers, and one or two were found lying on the quay. Two were blown a hundred yards from the vessel, and ono poor fellow had a narrow escape. He had been blown high into the air and dashed down into the sea, head foremost. The water at the time being only three feet deep he managed to raise one of his hands and waved it, and one of the bystanders instantly plunged into the sea, and rescued the sufferer, who was stunned, but not hurt. If he had not been instantly rescued he would have added one more to the catalogue of the dead. An liish pedlar with his pack was precipitated through an opening in the vessel, and there he stuck, clinging to his Trick, until he was relieved. Boats were out, picking up the dead and the dying, and in a few minutes 13 dead bodies lay stretched in the rooms of the inn, and about a dozen se verely wounded individuals. Tlie passengers who were going up the Gareloch with the steamer It ere unusually great on the occasion, as the fineness of the day had allured a number from Greenock, and a number of workmen from Glasgow being on board, on the way to finish the new steamer Precursor, at pre sent lying at Gareloch. The quay was considerably crowded, and, all things considered, it is a miracle that so many escaped. As it is, a number of the bystanders received considerable injuries, being knocked down by the splinters from the wreck, or by the concussion con sequent on the explosion. The engine was just a rail way locomotive one, and, of ceurse, on thu high-pres sure principle. On the passage down, we have heard, and that; too, from a passenger acquainted with steam engines, that the boiler was red-hot, and was almost entirely neglected. The Propcgateur de r Aube announces the invention of a new steam-engine by Messrs. Stinzel and Mirlua, of Gray, in Haute Saone. "It is not," says this Journal, " upon the high or low pressure, but on a rotatory principle. It will require a comraratively very narrow space, leaves no chance of loss of steam by dilutation, and is so •s.mple that even the most unskilful person may manage it. Its cost will be little if any thing more than half that of the present engines. Hitherto, the force of steam engines has not been carried beyond 500 horse-Lower, but tbis new machine may be brought up to 1,000 horse-power. This statement, so important in the science of mechanics, is attested by a report from the authorities of Gray.' A Police Court is to be erected at Hammersmith, the jurisdiction of which is to include the parishes of Fulham, Brompton, Chelsea, and Chiswick ; the business of the Court, however, is to be transacted at Kensington until the new cffiee is built. The Wandsworth police Court will hereafter include the parishes of Wandsworth, Putney, Battersea, Toot ing, Merton, Wimbledon, Barnes, Clapham, and the hamlet of Noel anipton. A carpenter of Elampes, named Mainville, was, a , few days since, tried at the Court of Assizes for the Seine-et- Oise, for beating and otherwise ill-treating his own father. Whist the counsel for the accused was addressing the jury the whole court was affected at seeing the unhappy father throw .himself, bathed in tears, on his knees, and in the most earnest manner beg mercy for his son. The latter appeared the only person unmoved by this act. The court condemned him to five years' hard labour at the hulks. In consequence of the immense weight of specie re ceived by the collectnrs of the Bank of France in their daily rounds, with the bills of exchange, which pass through that establishment for presentation, it has long been found necessary to have depots, at which the collectors leave the excess of weight, which is afterwards conveyed to the Bank. At one of these depots, the octroi of Beicy, two days ago, when the deposits were ce44 fpr, I) 4g of LOW. was missing. A dili gent inquiry having been instituted, the theft was traced to a young employe of the octroi, who has been taken into custody sq. the offence. The number of vessels which passed through the Sound in 1841 was 14,754, being 908 less than in 184 Q. Cif the number 3764 were 4914, LATEST FROM TEXAS. The steam-packet Neptune, Captain Rollins, 33 hours from Galveston, arrived last evening. Congress adjourned on the sth instant. The Galveston Civilian states that that body, after having maturely considered the subject, deemed it unadvisable to take measures for the invasion of Mexico► at this time, and left the navy, under the law of 1840, at the dispo sition of the President. General Hamilton's proposition was declined, and although his mission has terminated, no report of his action under it has been submitted. Some money was obtained, but the precise amount, or upon what terms, have never been made public. He designs making a statement through the public prints. Twenty thousand dollars have been placed at the dis posal of the Executive for the defence of the frontier. - The Bill for the removal' of the seat of Government, was lost in the House by a vote of 23 ayes to 16 n•es. The Bill provid.ing for funding the old liabilities of the Government had been vetoed by the President, and his veto was sustained by Congress. Congress had passed a resolution extending the limits of Texas from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the Pa cific Ocean, and along the coast fifteen miles in the sea, to the Oregon territory, so as to include the Californias in the territory of the Republic. Dr. Ashbel Smith has been appointed Minister to France ; W. 11. Dangerfield, Secretary of the Treasury; P. Edmunds, Consul at New Orleans ; Henri Castro, Consul• General to France ; William Kennedy, Consul- General to Great Britain. The new Exchequer money is selling at a premium of three per cent. Mr. Navaro, who lately left San Antonio to endeavour to procure the liberation of his brother, taken at Santa Fe, was seized soon after crossing the Rio Grande, robbed, and imprisoned by the Mexican authorities. At a meeting held at Galveston, the following resolu tion were adopted : " Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting it is expedient for the Executive to acquiesce in measures for offensive war against Mexico. " Resolved, That a Committee of nine be appointed to correspond with the Executive, and recommend the fol lowing measures for immediate war : " I: That our navy be instructed to molest the com merce of Mexico on the high seas, to ravage the towns and country on the coasts. " 2. That commissions be granted to private armed es: As, under the flag and authority of Texas, to do the same. " 3.' That invitation and encouragement be 'given to volunteers from abroad to come under our flag, and join with an army in the invasion of Mexico.—New Orleans Bul!etin, Feb. 20. LATE FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA We have received a file of Africa's Luminary from October 15 to the 17th of December inclusive. The slave trade is carried on as briskly as ever. A sin al lsharp schooner ran into New Cess early in October, took on beard 200 slaves. and in six hours was off. Matters and things at Cape Palmas were peaceable and prosperous. A letter speaks encouragingly of the Wesleyan mission on the Gold Coast. Continued efforts are made to introduce horses at Li beria-; three had been brought from Sierra Leon 2, and it was hoped they would not die as all those previously imported had. A cutter of 25 tons was to be launched at Monrovia on the 20th of November. The English barque Niger,- Merritt, from Bristol, on a trading voyage along the coast, was wrecked near the mouth of Mesurado River, Oct. 28. The first mate and two sailors were drowned. The cargo had been got ashore, damaged. The morus multicaulls has been successfully intro duced at Monrovia ; also the alligator pear. A Portuguese schooner had been taken by the natives at Berrybee, some distance below Cape Palmas. Several of the crew were killed. There had been dreadful mortality in the Niger ex pedition. lhe vessels succeeded in getting up the Niger, and had just landed the model farm, when sickness made its appearance, and threw them into a state of de spondency. Twenty-six soon fell victins to death ; and seventy were yet on the sick list, and in a very pre carious situation. The Wilberforce has gone to the island Ascension. The Sudan was at anchor off the river Nan, awaiting the arrival of the Albert, which was some distance up the Niger, but unable to come down, either from want of hands, or not being able to stem the current, which in this season rims up that river very rapidly. 'Ship• Saul, from Norfolk, had arrived out. When three days from Norfolk, William Savage died of a chro nic complaint. Mr. Savage was about 26 years of age, and formerly from near Savannah. He immigrated to Liberia in 1840. _ _ Dr. Wilson is dead. Ile died near Cape Palmas, November 13... Intelligence has reached us from Cape Palmas of the existence of an epidemic dysentry at that place ; and also along the coast, north and south. It has raged equally among colonists and natives—carrying off many of both parties. At Cape Palmas it has been gene ral in its attack, although except in a few cases, the aged and infirm of the colonists only have died. It had gotten into all the missionary schools, and swept away native youths from the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal establishments, and had only partially abated when our informant left. Indulgence in the too free use of new rice is supposed to be the cause of this fatal epidemic. The crops promised favourably.. The Siecle states that an aged Russian Baron, for merly a diplomatist, who had Mr some time been paying his court to a young Italian lady, a public singer, lately took her in his carriage to the shop of M. Pradher-Bury, a jeweller, Where, at the request of her lover, she se lected some valuable articles, which were to be sent home on the following day. On the return of the Baron and the lady, she was presented by him with two handsome breast-pins, which he had contrived to purloin without being observed by the jeweller. On being applied to by the tradesman, when he had discovered his loss, the Baron denied all knowledge of the affair, and the jeweller laid his complaint before a Commissary of Police, but the lady, having learned that the pins h a d been obtained dishonestly, immediately sent them to the jeweller. The Siede does not say whether any proceed ings have been instituted against the purloiner. A duel, which terminated fatally, took place lately at Foix. A quarrel arose between M. Alphonse S— and M. Louis V , respecting some insult offered to the sister of the latter during the late Carnival, and which the brother attributed to Ai, s—. The latter, when reproached with having acted improperly, altoge ther denied the truth of the accusation, declaring that it was not probable he should treat otherwise than with re spect a lady to whom it was the intention of the two fa milies that he should be united. The brother was not, however, satisfied, and persisted in demanding satisfac tion for the insult. This twing refused, he waited until M. 5 was surrounded by his friends in a public cafe, and gave him a violent blow in the face. A meeting having thus, according to the received notions of honour beCome inevitable, a challenge ensued, and the parties fought with pistols at a distance of 50 feet. At the first fire, M. S. receiv e d hi s adversary's ball in the lefttemple, and immediately fill. lie lingered a short time, and then expired. His a n tag on i s t immediately fled to avoid arrest. On Sund a y th e G ar d e Champetre of Montmartre observed Iwo men coming away from a retired spot n ear the Cli gnancourt - roa d , an d w atching- them, perceived that they had sharpened foils under their coats, the point of one of which was stained with blood. While he was interrogating them, two others appeared, one of whom was faint and weak from a wound in his breast, to which he pressed a handkerchief to stanch the blood. They were all four t a k e n b e f ore the Commissary of Police, an d at once admitted th a t a duel had been fought. Th e fol lowing was stated a s th e cause •of the meeting : —Th e wife of C , a b u tt on - ma ker, having abscond e d f rom d h a im eed , h f e i ,. o a ta fte i r ie a r i t l i e m m e e ; discovered journeyman s a ddl er . _rered,a that she h a d b een se trbyptahsiss, p and —by beingllu ndeadll A challeng e was g i ven anti-ttePepte, 04 the terms th a t the combat w as to cease a t the first blood d rawn. At the irri tated scoundrel buta at the tim e by C—, he- insisted that the aff a i r s h ou ld oee o d n the a chi go on, - They yppplypd it and haying broken C--'s sword, pl unge d his- own Into his adversary's breast, While -under examination C----- fainted. A surgeon was called in, who dressed the wound, after which the unfortunate button-maker was carried to the hospital ; the other three were committed for trial. MEMOIR OF M. CHERUBINI. This venerable and celebrated composer, whose name was known and idolized wherever music has either cultivators or admirers,—who was distinguished as a composer, profound as a theorist, and practised as a teacher of his art, has been struck, we regret to say, at the advanced age of eighty-two, from the proud eminence which he occupied in the musical world—a world which would be inconsolable at his loss, but for the rich and classical treasures which he has bequeathed it in his works. Luigi Cherubini was born at Florence, on the Bth of September, 1760. At the early age of nine years he began to learn a course of musical composition, under Bartholomew Felici and his son Alexander, distinguished composers, well known at the end of the eighteenth century. At their death he passed to study under the direction of Bizzarri and Castrucci; under whom his progress was such, that, at the precocious age of thirteen he had composed and executed at Florence a mass and intermediate piece of ser vice, and before he was eighteen had presented, with equal success, musical works to the church and theatre. In 1778, the Grand-duke Tuscany, Leopold 11., whose taste rendered him the friend and Maecenas of artisii, granted Cherubini a pension, which enabled the young musician to travel to Bou logne, where the celebrated Sarti resided, and under whom he desired to finish his studies. Sarti took a great liking to his young eleve—he paid particular attention to his progress—fortified him especially in that in which he afterwards shone, viz., the science .of counterpoint and the idealisms ofmusical style, and more especially in the composition of higher operas. After four years' study under Sarti, Cherubini came in 1784 to London, and continued to re s id e here fbr two years, during which time w ere brought out his two operas of " La Finta Princi pessa ' and "Giulio Sabino." After returning to Paris in 1786, he travelled from thence to Turin, where,in 1788,heproducedhis opera of "Iphigenia in Aulis." On hisreturn to France he composed for the Royal Academy of Music the opera of" De rnophoon," and was at the saine!period author of various detached pieces which were played among the Italian operas enacted at Paris at the time by the excellent buffas who were there during 1790, and successive years. To this day, older dilettanti remember with what a rich degree of enthusiasm they applauded the admirable quar tette of " Cara, da voi dipende," introduced into the opera of the " Happy Travellers." After some preparation, Cherubini gave to the world his grand opera of "Lodoiska," which was first performed in!1791, at the French Theatre Feydeau. This work was an epoch in the life of the author, and in the history of the science. It developed a new species of style; remarkable for the union which it produced of all the powers of the orchestral instruments, and at the same time the fullest and most magnificent chants. "Elisa," "Medea,' and "Les Deux Journees," with other compositions of a less elevated standard, but which were equally remarkable for the genius and science displayed by the author, followed " Lodoiska" at intervals. It was the composition of " Les Deux Journees" that enabled Juliet, the most inimitable of French actors, to develope his fine talents as a come dian, and Madame Scio her enchanting playing, full of soul, and enhanced by her beautiful voice. The success which Cherubini obtained in his adopted country caused his reputation to spread speedily to Germany, where his works were represented with sustained success. In 1805 he travelled to Vienna, and at the Imperial Theatre produced his opera of " Faniska." On his re turn to Paris in 1806, he delivered himself up again to composition, and his chief production was a mass for three voices, w hi c h is noted for the very happy combination produced in an union of the ancient and modern styles. On the organisation of the Conservato r y o f Music at Paris, during the Republic, he was named one of the five Presidents, and so con tinued till 1840. During this period he was said to be author of many of the excellent studies published by this Institution. This Conservatory of Music, over which he presided, was, before the Restoration, known by the name of the " Ecole Royal de Musique et de Declamation." It is a school under the di rection of the superintendent of the King's Menus Plaisirs. This term, say French jokers, is a barbarous denomination which ought to be changed, and if it be insisted on that there must be pleasures designated by an epithet, they ought not to be called the Menus Plalsirs, but the Nobles Plaisirs, of the King. The fine arts are above the hunting and barking of dogs; and are surely on a par with the singing of sirens and the muses. It is needless to say that under M. Che rubini's teaching, many fine instrumentalists have been turned out. Cherubini's style may be denominated the mixed style, scientific enough to have received its education in Vienna, but yet tinged by the more melodious qualities which adorn the com positions of equally favoured natives of Italy. Cherubini's intention in his music is chiefly to produce sweet and expressive pleasure; and it seeing as if the composer in his pieces, carried away by the novelties and unexpected beauty of his conceptions, sought no other means of attrac tion than what might flow from so inexhausti ble a source. In his overture to "Anacreon," regarded as one of the finest instrumental pieces written since the days of Haydn, there is a no velty of melody, an elegance and brilliancy of effect, which fails not to rivet the most inatten tive; none bears more strongly indications of the elegant mind of its author. Cherubini's tact ap peared to lie in that ingenious distribution of particular detached passages to the several in struments he employed, a power which so much distinguished Mozart. His compound melodies may tounpractised ears seem sometimes confused, but those who have any insight into theory, know their true beauty. His overture to " Des Abencerrages," though the least attractive of any he has written, contains many passages of sound and fine modulation, several melodious streaks of light, which beautifully protrude upon the hearer. His " Benedictus" is a very choice piece, and bis canone " Perfida Clori," a sweet graceful specimen of this species of composition which is last verging to decay among us, al though in days of yore, a great Musician thought it no liardz,hip to sit for hours and days together to obtain the solution of this difficult musical problem. Cherubini has published no less than ten canons, various in their manner, and marked both by learning and their pleasing tone. The re vival of this intellectual species of music was regarded at the time as a good sign, calculated to raise the understanding of the science, and in crease its pitch and elegance. Cherubini's published compositions consist of a crowd of detached pieces, written at different periods for the Church, the drawing-room, and the theatre, and in the line of instrumental music he has written a fine sonata for two organs. Among his more principal works are the follow ing:—" Arinida," opera in- three acts, published at Florence ; " Quintus Fabius," Rome; ".Alex ander in India," Mantua ; " The Princess Finta,' London; "The Itali an i n L on d on, " Paris; "Anacreon," Paris, i n 1804 ; "A ch i lles at Sey ros," Paris ; " Faniska," Vienna, in 1806 " Pygmalion at the Th ea t re o f t h e Tu i leries, " in 1809; "The Newmarket Races," Paris, in 1813 ; " The Abencerrages," in three acts, Paris, 1814; and " Blanche of Provence," an allegoric opera, 1821. - The cast of M. Cherubini's countenance during his later years bore the impress of his age; his eyes were full and clear; his face somewhat long, with a well-proportioned nose, and hair, even to the last, of a luxuriant curl. In figure he was somewhat thin and attenuated, but not more than would be expected from his advanced years. The Memorial de Rotten mentions the following ;rick recently published at Rouen upon an old lady of eighty-five. A well-dressed man called a few days ago upon her, and told her that her nephew had, in a quarrel at a cafe, the misfortune to kill his antagonist, and that he had sought concealment in the house of the inform.. ant, where he was waiting for an opportunity to leave the country. The captain of a vessel in the port had, said the pretended friend, who also stated that he had secreted the nephew in his home, agreed to give him a passage for 850 francs, bat he was without money, and all the friend could raise for him at the moment was 250 francs. The old lady in her alarm for the safety of her nephew, immediately entrusted this kind gentle man with 300 francs, all the money which she had by her, the friend saying at lemph, that he would endea vour to make up the required sum. A day or two only had elapsed when the old lady found that she had been • duped, her nephew having been sitting quietly at home when he was represented to have committed ho micide, and fled. It is unnecessary to add that his kind friend has not shown himself. The Emancipation of Toulouse relates that, on the sth inst., upwards of a hundred persons, collected from t h e hamlets between Mazamet and St. Amans, went in a body to the wood s , b e l onging to the family of Sarbiac, and cut and carried away several hundreds of faggots, in the face of a commissary of police and a party of gen darmerie, who were too weak to prevent them. On the following day they re-assembled in much greater numbers. The Sub-Prefect of Castres and the Mayor of Mazamet, with his deputy, met them with a muc h l arger b o d y o f gendarmerie than on the preceding day, but were still unable to prevent a continuonce of the depredation. Four men, however, have sinoe been arrested, and placed in the hand§of Pr the oeureur du Roi. A similar outrage took place some time ago in the woods of Marshal Soult I ill the same p ar t o f the couttry. . _ SPORTING INTELLIGENC. - HUNTING APPOINTMENTS . Her Maj e sty' s St ag l i d s ., M on ., St o ke Common---_,; Essex and S u ff o lk hd s ., Tues., A r aleigh C r° '" Fri., Wiston: Brighton harrs, Mon. , Thunders Barrow , near slade ; Wed., Patchouli ; Fri., Dyke Road -1 l i• sl i er Cambridgeshi re hd s , Mon, Tum sford ; Fr ! " - hatch Wood-10f. • • P St 0 Mr. Archer's hds., Mon., Kennel ; Thur s., Village. 114; Marquis of 'Hastings' has., Lon. ,. Coleorte n Wed., Draycott ; F r i., C otes Toll-bar-10.r-14 „ dley " Mr. Meynell' s hd s ., M on Chartley ; Thurs.' Pra Sat., Bagot's Park. Tol . Warwickshire hd s ., Mon. , Harwood Ib use " d Othill Village ; Th urs ., Ufton Wood ; Sat., n Ba ir Holderness hds., Mon., Catwick Mill ; Toes' , 13 ,0 . ton New Inn ; Thurs., Brandsburton Moor ; Sa t " . tinhanithorpe. Lord. Gifford'S hds., Tues., .Lower Bening° ; Hanley-10f. Monmouthshire hds., Mon., Colbrook Lanover. Cra c# Mr. Candler's hds., Mon., Himbleton ; W- - ' A Perry Wood ; Sat., Licke , Th eclie r " Albright on Hunt, Tues., y Highgate ; Fri ., Wood-101. ~ • Fri' Herefordshire hds., Tues., Acombury TurnPi'°' Thruxton-1 Of. vorl, Mr. Robertson's hds ., Mon., j e , 3. 1 " Castle ; Thurs., Lilburn; Fri. Learmouth ; '' 11 "" field Hll-10f. sdel tti Mr. Atty's hds., Mon., Gresford ; Wed. , B e Fri., Churt o n-10. ye Cheshire hds., Mon ., Dunham Massey •T , „,),10 ( stone Village ; Thurs., Crowe Hall ; °— Par Hill-10.16 Quorn hds. , _ Mon., Six Hills ; Tues., Brake Thurs„ Owthorpe, Notts. ; Sat., Kettleby — i A luP stret o Atherstone hds., Mn ., Bentley Park ; IV eu " Village Hell, Cadeb ; Od e° Clinton-10f. • Mr.er 's hds, Mon., Bubbenh all ; 13 , Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon , Croxby Langmerc Furze ; Fri., S wa ll ow . Vale-- 11 •„ Are • Mr. Foljamb e ' s hds., Mn., Steetly '" Stainton Village ; Fri., R oss i ng t on Bridge--". TIE COUN T MA] ,Y COR Wheat. Harley. RKET N MARE Oats. s. to s. 55 70 52 70 10 08 60 L 6 66 44 57 60 73 56 74 66 72 50 67 60 67 58 GO 50 62 59 67 56 64 57 64 14 68 61 71 61 64 57 63 51 61 _., 60 69 LEEI 10 5 4 t• Wheat, Norfolk and Suffi 000 el • 000000000 •••••• 000 L. York. and Lined .0.1100•• •••••• 00000•ia.t: Barley, Norfolk and Suit' ,•••••••••••••• 0000000000 Yorkshire and Llneobashare •• ....,.10 016 ; ? Grinding 2 ": o Beans 631 b. flats, Potatoe 110. el I —Mailing, For. 10d. tolosd Eng. RM. t° gos.f Shelling DEVIZES CORN MARKET. 1 ,. 4. o Per Sack. a. d. s. d. P er Quarter . 0 1 0 First Wheat lO Second 243 0 31 0 B eans 38 0t026 0 Oats .. . 00000 •••••• ig 1 8 (per sack)... et 1.1 third derley 24 0 39 0 Bread (pergalloo). CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. h \eat 3 7 e o 3 9 9 9 B M e t e s 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Barley Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal 000000000 Beans . Pease 5 0 8 0 Lamb o . 00000 ......... . . 41. . 4152 to los Hay . 6l per CANTERBURY MARKET. .... J. toil Wheat, 651. to T(b. s. red 60s. to 1365. 10 Barley, Malting ..... 30s. to 34s ..... Oats Beans • 32s to 40s. 54 ,.10 Pease CHELMSFORD MARKET. Per Quarter Boston liraintree Ighton Cambridge Chichester Dunmow Grantham Grimsby Hailsliam Hitchin I. to v. 22 38 27 34 S. LETS. Bea n _ . .„'" t. to S. !IA O. to 1. 18 22 7.3 20 22 28 25 33 20 31 28 33 28 33 29 33 27 34 28 n 27 28 23 29 36 39 24 30 26 33 25 32 23 34 32 36 28 34 21 26 SO 32 IS CORN ilk 601 b n. 601 b , folk Ipswich Lewes Lynn Alaidstone Norwich Petworth Romford 20 23 IS 21 22 28 18 21 20 21 20 30 21 26 21 22 16 20 26 32 23 30 21 24 18 ‘:8 25 30 24 28 18 21 19 25 24 30 Al 4111{E' 32 " 34 94 45 33 Sandwich Tnetford Wiabech Witham armouth 1 0 0 ,0 33 44 40 „, 91 94 98 4° , 36 • it 3 6 3 0 SO II IS SS : 6 $ 30 Wheat, White „ .... 0 53 to 67 Oats .. .................. 5 2, 9 64 51 Pease, Red Barley Chevalier „,..... 0 32 33 Beans, Tick ....••••• .., grinding I.V 27 Mangan •••"° HULL CORN MARKET: Wheat, White (per Quarter) Red Foreign Barley, Malting. GriEding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) "WGrhaya................'..... f: 6014 621 6 0 % 61. 66 0. 60, 61' 53. 1 . 300 :S. his. 265. 185 fib. Beans IN* 249 39A ;;* 9' Pease, Grey ••• 3L4a; Blue and White 365 Linseed..., ' Flour per sack Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) ********** sh o ' l l l LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Igar ' 9* 6 ' ° WHEAT. English, White, per 701 b. 0 0 - nest Scotch, Welch, and Manx .... 0 - 9 7 • Irish, While li Red 9 5 9 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, a nd Scotch, per 451 b e Irish *"tt - e 4 11 Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, p er I mp . quarter ...... ••• „n 9 -- Scotch and Iri s h, p er 6011)1. 4 9 e ---- Feeding 39 8 sd BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter sa 8 f 8 Irish, lac.. ............ 0 ' .... " .......... j Foreign Pease, English, per Imperial quarter 4O $6 -..--- Foreign 45 ° 41 Fume, English, per 280Ib. 24 0 16 • . 1 - Irish OATSSRAL, English an d I r i s h, per 2401hs • :36 INDIAN Coax, per 4801 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter .... PEEL'S NEWIIEASURE.—TheTe has not hti period for many years. when the public min'„ so highly excited up on su bj ects o f i n t e rn" : r to l at the present mo men t. Th e ' war in ,itie°, Afghanistan, and our r e l a ti ons w i t h the c ° o l "feoP. r ii Europe and the Unit e d St ates, seem matter ~ oli f y ratively little interest w h en compare d w ith the P cit be alteration in the Corn-laws, _the New Tariff , s , ll r y O i l of come Tax, measures which will reach ev " a stin'',ol home and fireside. A position so anomalou s c 0 0° ) ,;00 the landed interest in the present House 01 elce fr o ul was never before seen. Having, by t h j ° lto 400 is' of its sluggish but g i an t strength, ," it s one Ministry whos e p o li c y was d eeme d host ile tw it terest, and raised anoth er Mi n i stry to power a it 'l r e pledge of maint a i n i ng protect i on to agrtc ulturo o f its chosen champion adopting the prmeiPl e . s trade as the basis of a ll hi s measures, a nd wi o th fo oP ir ness which no man dare, but one who could P_ . r , h ose„o scan the extraordina r y p os i t i on o f t h os e b,l strumentality he has obtained o ffi ce. Sir 11 : 0 0, 0 14 strack a deadlier blow at th e protec tive nY'ffec- , itti his last accession to offi ce , th an h as been 0 all the efforts of the free traders, the Wh i g s ',... political economi s ts d ur i ng th e l ast twenty YeLs: have been devisin g an d prepar i ng plans--P--,3 " heaven-born" Mi n i s t er w h o steps f orwa rd $ ll it yl them out.—Mark-lane Express. 1 64°3 The annual Paris h am f a i r commenc e d r oe on the Boulevard B our d on. Th e nu mber °` fr ote fe i was about three hu n d re d , two-t hi rds of w h o m nreof 411 Lorraine, and the others, with the exception 90 05, belonging to Paris and its environs, from Ili e ( meti r oo and central departments. The Lorraine hartli o gr° l lfP and Moselle) fetched 85c. to 95c. per half 00 , woe! (11b.), and the Bayonne and Strasburg haul s ' tre .. s e i j s!P EAGLE SHOT.—A few days ago a In l., ', l ; o 4.ls' y ' sd eagle was shot on the hills of Glengolly, 1 3 ,"', e fohol estate, by Mr. Allan Grant, farmer there. " 0 00 ing were its dimensions :—Expansion of wing , e nti b ei two inches ; l e n g th o f first four feathers, t l f 10c, it inches ; c i rcum f erence of leg, eight an d a 1'90,0 Its talons were of an extraordinary size. () ,O 60 11 was shot, it kill e d two s h eep belonging to 3 i r ' Elgin Courant. 1017 0 ,0 1 The Temps says :—" Under the empire the s n , 0 . 1 1 of France had nine aide-de-camps in time of war' , I t o' l 4' peace. Under the restoration the peace establisbme 011 reduced to three, and that to two aides-de-calltiarPor. Soult, as Minister of War, lately decided that such , ,P de-c!bo wero not in actual service should have only one aur.,llls t ; e se 'I his resolution was warmly remonstrated against "' s re t!,pie ; Molitor, Grouchy, and Clause', the only three sih ° _,, al et l 'r ployed, except Marshal Sebastiani , who, from his P"' e aid e p~ his present high rank has never taken ' more than In bou gli d io camp. The three Marshals represented that a" on gag holding any actual employ, they were frequenilY questions affecting the general interests of the - „, o tlvy which their aides-de-camp were obliged to be cone- pla t or ing researches and drawing up memorials. T he ' e e vi re o o/‘ being warmly supported in their objections to then - oal tion by the rest of their distinguished comrades , n . 11 1: has been induced to withdraw his intended meesue 6 2,l„gt4 9 9 The Sentinelle of Bayonne, of the 19w i ' s looP s i nounces the loss on that day of a large Spa" is tsie pia she was attempting to cross the bar. The Cu ) was saved. All the crew, eight in nut° e drowned. IR TH . On the 24th inst., at Wimpole, t S he Countess o f Ob i of a son. of On the 15th inst., the lady of Captain T. ou' he ' Bengal army. of a son . th e On the 25th inst., at Curzon- s t ree t, Mayfa i r , v' Robert Dickson, M.D., of a s o n. of 11 Y. On the '22d in.t., at Aix-la-Chapelle, the Indy ofibo Whitgreave, Esq., of a son and heir. lkg P P' 11 4 On the 21st inst., the lady of Theodore Foe Lodge, Jamaica, of a son. rk, ' On the 24th inst., at Storey's-ga'e, St. Jam e s s-Pa - pe lady of Carteret J. Kempson, Esq., of a son. tu n, the On the 23d inst., at Pelham cre s cent, Proin____ ,, ,, l of Dr. Sims, of a daughter'. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., at 13ebigton, Chester, George, o f M.D., of Peckham, Surrey, to Susan n a, daughte l Askew Biekraore, Esq., of Hadleigh, Suffo. d r a, 44 .1, On the Bth of January, at Bombay, at thelk Catheliif bald Hugh Hope, Esq., 3(1 Madras Cavalry, to Ca r rierl era beth, youngest daughter of the l a t e Lieutenant -u It:chard Jones, K.C.B. Oft D I E .D. n its o „,' On the 25th inst., in York- s t ree t, Portnasn;!;ffler William Beatty, 111. D., F. R. S., l ate P hys i c i a n tP Pe" _JO fleet and Greenwich Hospital. 1 11°7- A On the 24th inst., at L ar k-hill , Preston, Sara ve d e ttu v Esq., formerly M.P. for that borough. oba pp ek y On the 25th inst., in Belgrave. swiLre, M ale 4" eldest surviving son of Henry and LadrHarriet P rue ., n i i iett °' On the 21st inst., at Kingsland, Shrewsbury , pt.- 1 phis, third daught er o f Joseph Lox dale, El OV • „i v y y London : P r i n t e d and P u b lished by NURDO,; sl;pi No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. _ ll lBO. the County of Middl esex , Saturday, Max* Nu, .'`1(1 6 1 6 1 6 6 1 C iali t li:tr •Tr)r Att e F, Fore