The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

4 SPIEL() 1 . For, Lonth n, 1842. This is a trans!, tion from t he Freneh of George Sand, ont-- die nlosi v:pui.lr novelists of "young Fance." rte v,.r-ion is r..-ndered with spirit, and will give a t - e . ey inir idea the origi nal, which is a story b no means wantim;iii ab surdi,y, vet, fill! of regleetnii.: touches of genuine feeling. PARENT'S HAND-BOOK. Lonyman, London, 1842. A useful, unprest'udiu,i iiu.le %vork, containing much service:ll)lc intbriinitiini on the subject of placing out young men, aild of cducating ;heal with a VJC tO particniar recopation,:. PRINCE (tF TH UNT ALS S. Wadding. London, 1842. A poem referring to the hack nityd period of the Crusades, pentied iii ao tiowhig style, though modelled somewhat ti);; tiosely 0!l Lord lit - run and Sir \Waiter Se:w. whose produc tioos it is cos. , : :•i au , hot is au euthusiastv..! ado) , rci THE I. Z.-I '; ,l, CoBurn, London, 1842• s'or .l ; ,;(....:tiracy to (). ••;... treats a: , iie •!:• i3,:ter the nti: NIL Aow of 111:' of ti. eieei et the narrative ar.• :et.- r:-braii ezikeff and his wneve elitapi ear. .•r is traced with teuen tuteetethe:, .:teurdion. The Prince, as alt reaeors of thissom history roust know, was origin. iiy au api.rei:the to a pastry-cook, but having cittrat:ted the ito.ice of Peter by his melodious voice, a: , be cried his cakes about the streets, he ...Ai, tl.e Czar's expense; and het itti-liect provieg to be citie of a very st h ,eri e r efd e e, hr I%as rtn, , ,ed by degrees to the e!ge.ezt otrices in the State; aid at his Roy a l ei::,qer'•; -death had obtained such over-- whelinieg pu em', that he procured the ( Act. ea . e je a ‘vidow Citti:eFille to the throne, despite all the opposition that could lic etre•i.t-O by several of the proudest and teos; ittibteetini nobles. His i.e.xf step was to affiance his daughter, Mary iyilenzikoil, to the young Emperor, Peter the Second ; but before tics could Ming his ambitious schemes to a full atilt —ttistifetory completion, toisihrtunes, and of the itiost crushing nature, overtook him ; his ene mies at Court triumphed, and he was banished, together with his whole family, to the deserts of Siberia, where he, his wife, and one daughter died /soon afterwards of grief. In the first voitune we find the Prince at the summit of his power nod glory, and his character at this trying season of prosperity is delineated with no ordinary skill. The remainder of the work is occupied with de- • tails of his conduct while in exile, and of the ef forts of his high-minded daughter to redeem his fortunes. The heroic girl is ultimately successful in restoring her family , to rank and affluence, but not until her father has sunk under the weight. of his afflictions. His death-bed scene is pourtrayed with genuine pathos, and is fully equal to the most touching incidents in Madame Cottin's " Elizabeth." But the gem of the tale is de cidedly the character of Mary MenzikofF, in whom, in fact, the whole interest of the story centres. We care little, comparatively speaking, for the other personages; her lover, Theodore Dolgorouki, is something of a nonentity, and Brukenthal a well-intentioned Bore, but Mary— gentle, affectionate, beautiful Mary—is a pearl of price, and will be sure to excite a deep interest in the hearts of all novel readers. THE ANATOMY OF SLEEP. Churchill, London, 1842. In this work, somepornons of which evince no ordinary research, the writer gives the following receipt fnr procuring sleep :—" Let the patient turn on his right side, place his head comthrtably on the pillow, and then, slightly closing his lips, take rather a Cult inspiration, breathing as much us he possibly ca, through the nostrils. Having taken a full inspiration, the lungs are then to be left to their own action. The attention must now be fixed on the action iu which the patient is engagtd. He MUM depict to himself that he secs the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous str..ant, mid the very instant that he brings mind to cnneeive this, apart front all other ideas, consciousness and memory depart; imagination slumbers; fancy becomes dormant ; thought subdued; the sentient faculties lose their susceptibility; the vital or ganglionic system as sumes the sovereignty; and he DO longer wakes, but sleeps!" This is, without exception, the drollest laid most original receipt fbr procuring a nap, we ever heard or read of'. Imagine a man coaxn,g himself at midnight into a conviction that he sees tht. , breath passing out of his nose in a continuous vapour ; and the instant. he has become convinced of this striking fact, dropping 4.41 into a slither as profound as it" Ii hill the porw,tl or the " Om ni;:,s.otte of ;he .I)en:y !" lit. this is not tile host cArtiett.: The pa dein., it 4 e,:.ntx 7 ct);noteJice his experi men! wHI in.,. especially he happen to intv - t:! a wnt - , .ft , r a bed fellow, who is of a nervous and irritable temperament! The author appears to entertain no doubt of the efficacy of his receipt; but we question nnuch whether it would answer in the case of a man business who had a bill to make up ott Coe morrow, and no means of meeting it ; we fear that air individual so situated ould have little chance of obtaining sleep, by merely fancying that he could see his nose smoke like a brewery ! If any gentleman is sincerely desirous of procuring the luxury of a sound nap, we re commend hint, not to fix his " precious eyes" on the steam at the tip of his snout, but to go through a course of Sir James Graham's pam phlets on the Corn-laws. SUDDEN DEATH OF A BOY.— SINGULAR FATA LITY.—On Tuesday Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest at the Sea Lion, Wootton-street, Lambeth, on the body of Robert Fitzgerald, aged 14, of 22, Little . Windmill-street, Cornwall-road. Eliza beth Fitzgerald, sister of deceased, said, that on Sunday last she went to St. Thomas's Hospital to see her mother, who had been n that Institution since the pre- Wednesday, and found that she had just died, of dropsical disease of the chest. On her return home she found the deceased, who had been ailing all the week previously, suffering from pain in the chest and various other parts of the body. At bed time he complained of cold, and at eleven o'clock he threw up about a quarter of a pint of blood. He continued to grow worse, and at two o'clock next morning he expired in his father's arms. On account of the lateness of the hour she could not find a surgeon until after deceased's death, which affected her father so much that after bewailing he ran out, taking , the direction of Waterloo-bridge, off which he would have jumped had it not been for the interference of three policemen, who brought him home. Soon af terwards he again attempted suicide by throwing him self from the window, but the witness prevented him. A witness, named Mary Clarke, said she saw deceased on the afternoon of Sunday, when he appeared ailing, but that he had injured himself about twelve months ago by jumping over a post in the street, which had affected him ever since. By the Coroner—l was present w hen the surgeon, 111 r. Avis, came, who pressed deceased's chest, and caused water to issue from it through the mouth, and said that deceased had died of water on the chest, the same complaint of which the mother died but a few hours before. Verdict, "Natural death from disease of the chest." FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at Nieholson's Wharf, Lo%ier Thame3-street, to a lad named James Wilkuns, 13 years of age, the wharf. It appears that he was at work i y n the third floor of th e l oftv range of warehouses , an d whilst in the aet of giving emploed at lo m ophole to the en below. h e over b a l anc ed himself, and fell the some directions from the pavemeni from a 'lei*, of between 50 and 60 feet. He was immediately picked up by the workmen, and conveyed by Mr. Nicholson in a coach to St. Thomas's H osp i tal, where he exp i re d i n a few minutes after his admission. He had been about twelve months on the premises, and repeatedly cautioned by the foreman and others to be careful tow he approahed the doorway of the loft. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNIN' Oltll'Ata 11STELL1G Nt. NEW MARKET.—T vest.)). a NIGHT. 11.,,T.h,e.fellowing race was run after our report left the au, -- ~3etfor 2 yrs old, nod last. three miles of B. C. „Va.:, 4 j . 1 .% or ntitnald's fby 13,z,riv-- sd, 3.re rr;.l3euverie's b e , by , Bolero—tap:. d, 2 yr , . ata l / h ) e also starlet!, but were ltol• I)lMq.i tie son s‘ the Be itly, 3 yes—eir. Boa s's 11 . 1e . 14 3 aely ts i..1 . I. ` , J .r.i al - : . lveld 1V ell, 3 yrs— Me. lagers' l'rese s t.,7 :- . , e , , B,•ntieek's Topsail, 3 y -- ,cs- Ld.., • • • • } ghtill, 2 yrs, and Lord Ch' st, eta laeleltine , , pearl the ' het. oi the fillthing tio3/4111' the Bolero eek, 11. i Ise 1•)7(P.:, I , l ; u Wing her, end tle• Bizarr, 1111 - eaatiez :n tae co e Puce was bed foi ite:a e ee eee , eelea.!a : "weep . t fiat to m e l ee. Bic ; leaf 'o of f a i r; ant: Nya„.ea, quite harialese when l a y t., round th e turn of the lands. Topsail deceit,d ea (11 )uke '' . Stand, ace', Barbatibe was left in post eseeet lit lead ; a distance from home, liewever, the '' l. (a colt took up the mailing, folk:wed by Ajax line: ek7.'llizarre filly. The two latter waited on lee in to the 1- 4 . t . tis, and closing with her there, reed' a severe but u nsatis'actoev home, the award being in fa- ! tt ei „ race et Aja x , b y a nec k ; the B o l ero co l t b e i ng a l most 1 Wtl with the Bi zarre fill y , Barbarina a bad fourth. Oilyet' the race, the Plate was claimed for the Duke of all ck : a u on the ground that Ajax had run against his 4,Prevented her winning. 'file case was gone t o , befor e the Stewards, who declared that although the 611 1 " r°er e () °oh bad forc e d Aj ax ou t o f hi s lime and Lot that the luaal theref ore b een advert out . of hers, that he had to "Ja:eun against her ; they, therefore, awarded" the Plate tett' 6 t o n" to 1 agst Bizarre filly, sto f agst Tepsail, 1 )0 ,4 aa•st Pro so dy, 6 to 1 agst Aj ax , 6 t o 1 agst Bai - '"aa and 7 to 1 agst the Biddy. 9t o DERBY BETTING, &C. is agst A British Yeoman 25 to 1 agst Winesour—t I agst P art hi an an d 1000 evert on Progress e and 15 - 0 - grss c—taken Auld Lang Syne apt a ,. 1 agst Philip and Pro- Philip and Napier t o Vss c—t a k en 600 to 400 on Philip agst Tr t° 15 agst Queen of Auld Lang Syne. eaps e --taken ti er), ;'" Bentinck has declared that his present Map- f or t a. s not t o run Gaper for the Derby, hut to k eep h int - "IS other engagements. SO& at ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. 3 3 a. _ a„a"r. C.—Colt by Sir Hercules, out of Wordiness. 3 ; r ; -- au.etniutiel, 3 yrs—Tramp, dine filly, 3 ,y r,— i av, 3i:; s l - fi„ ll 3' by. Buzzard, ut of Emma, 3 yrs.—aleti..r, af.lki ts uPsall, 3 yrs—jet-my Diddler, 3 j re—Priie e a t & • 2 yrs—Besey Bedlam filly, 2 yrs- and Meet -et colt 2 • • apstaltes, T. Y. C. ; winner to he sold for 1 50/., • 3 yrs— Octina , 3 ja • i;rr di dd:; ll , ' :)- 3' rsi rs - -- %%'(7dsn' Jan, yrs—bilyer'teil blieC-Tratnpolitio filly, 3yrs—Topseil, 3 yrs— ht here ) Yra---c b' Gilbert, tett Gitana, 2 yrs- .- e de, Ha 2 yrsa- un d Bother-'em. 2 yrs. tat t a l e aE Plate ; A. F. Discord, 9st 7!i--•1 , :! ?at la u-- -t i ortrait, 7st 131b--Knight of the too , N` w•-- Pallatlium, 7st 31b—Guznee, set 131b —and Odds and Ends, 6st. l ist 's' Match es for Wednesday.—Minaret, 4 yrs, 3st 7de 8 1 , 84)1 "mon, 3 yrs, aist 21b ; 'l'. Y. C. 50. eah t , ' ttr ee d aY--The Shadow agst Garry Owen, Bst 41b M., 100, h ft. Ile GOODWOOD RACES. ° ll nwin e a• stakes close this week :-1843. The La aeerri • 7 4 "lecemb, and Rubbish Stakes.-- 1844..1 n-awing !fall ,, ' ; Nassau ; a Sweepstakes of 200 hove. Neer P., for '2 yrs old colts aid fillies, ; a ZY,P tal tes of 200 sovs. each, p. p., for 2 yrs old a ld. a nd a Swe e p s t a k es o f 23 s o ws . eac h, f or 2 yes 5 4 - ' 1845 - The Great 300 Son s. Stakes for 4 yrs old. ; 4,, c ,:Pstake s of 100 sovs. each, for 3 vrs old ; aed ta m Patakes of 25 sovs. each, for 2 yrs Itrd. We ureter- Of 1 . e5 : t ile course h as b een great l y i mproved i n a variety I I a adILEY STEEPI.E CIIASES.—TCESDka. gat ta; - •The Novel Handicap. 4 miles. I st. Attaorets Ilarrow Boy (Masee) 1 at.r.,, t leriOn's N egro Ott, ztrnin's The Stranger .. bolted '" " Q ." 4-- a's Unknown bolted tw e Won very easy. 11, -t altc : a of 3 sovs. each, with a Silver Cup added ; Ilr • "tell ; winner to be sold for 501., &c. Four. miles. k r. hl Bonnet Rouge (Mason) 1 Bittt's Student 4 .r ) e L r ollowin g a l so starte d , b ut were not placed :—Mr. lotei,aloB Admiral, Mr. Bung's Twilight, Mr. Thorn ilatle;l,lllnble, Mr. Dixon'. Ragman, and Nr. APDo- L rho-ah; °Yager. t r r ae was run i n th e d ar k. an d eac h r ider d ec l a r e d 54to7'at's fa tne winner ; the Judge, however, decided it in vou r . az*,(RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) W MARK,ET HOUGIITON MEETING. t eA U , ir l lanAY AFTERNOON, THREE O'CLOCR.—Up ID h e Z l t - last night the rain descended in torrents, and te (l e a"....or a change ; change, however, it did, and with, ee, for after midnight the rain was succeeded edo• ' --- -r? frost (for which, by the way, the " early C at i Paragraphs ought to have prepared us), aid 41 g w til i t a a "lg broke with a bright sky and a clear search and viva The racing, was a full average in qaantity, Itttio e. re ,,,e of the events furnished good fields for specu- A S w - The first decided was a tlstakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old, Lord at 101 b each. R.M. (4 &lbs.) l,xeter's-br I-Valance walked over ks.andeestp Plate of ad for three yrs old, &c. A.F. Ltwall's Pll diu . m, 3 yrs, 7st 3lb (J. Howlett) 1 t e a a tota rkeley's Portrait, 4 yrs, 7st 13Ib litt"Chestertield's Knight of the Whistle, ist 121 b 0 ' I ,l l 'a n l ker's Billinhana Lass, 4 yrs, Est 131 b "eta' ' lls °n's Ghuznee, 3 yrs, 7st; tat n; t 0" -- 7 to 4 agst Knight of the Whistle (t), 7 to 2 'tat G h uznee, Lass, Lass, 3 to 1 agst Palladium, and 6 to 1 A uznee, l 'as trt 'alt Made the running, followed by Billingham Ghtizeee, the others ' waiting ; in the Ab. M. th Pall- e VPortrait, kept it to e end d diem took the lead from ' a tae at ' th a e ll i d . won cleverly by a length ; the favourite "n eat , last, and made a dead heat fhr second with aLo rd t. billingham Lass was a good fourth. lt ti r l l , h b i r ina ttri r e' s, Minaret, ,4 4 - rs r , e, B l3 s i t t. 7 2 ll, lh, (l l i. , : l tb r. i c ns . ( s .,n i l, iti l t i ti t ' a canter 6 b e y s fo L u o r li l li e n n o x n tlis. Y Oat 'V a l " of 50/ for 2 yrs old 6st 71b, and 3 yrs old trd St T.Y•C " The winner to be sold for 3501., &c. r. t(ltdr,ad_ b ! • oke . 's • Jeremy Diddler, 3 yrs (Nut) 1 kr, nt x l.s %n s Prince of %Vales, 2 yrs 4 124 fots pewit, 3 yrs 3 a "la a t r ','_Wing also started, but we r e not placed• uschild' s c by Sir Hercules, out of Worthless, la u rr. Stebbi ng ' s E dmund, 3 yrs—Mr. Crocklod, s lita art za rd, out of E mma , 3 vrs — an d L or d Exeter's c ket till al, out of Murinella, 2 yrs. t ° 1 a g - " Even on Jeremy, sto 1 agst Emma filly, and th .a he rt Prince of 'Wales. Ott el o ta ,laa filly led for the first 200 yards ; the lot f i o lag ( ) F."' the Worthless colt leading, and the favourite 1 0% 4(1 1 at the new ground Hawk took the running, r epes °3 7 Lord Exeter's colt and Prince of Wales, to I. 4 "ele v where Marittelle c declined ; halt" way up :aka/a"' a4ddler went t the two leadiog horses, and j kit Ra vin "ta g '‘ay, after a short struggle the two blue Was "t 3 e re left together, the ride in was very close., aed 11°t h' °TI o ' l etst!.'4 b y head ; Hawk good third, and 441...4• 11.uteAebenCarle's Buffalo, Bst 101 b (Robinson) aeat e~ih ftF.Ointoifs. Auguryfirst half ot Al,. M. si h to 4on Buffalo, who won easy, by a length Atit " 10 go k ,l w as v. &Ling Sweepstanee was not tun when our 4 R st 7',;%:. hilit, L ati , e 106 4 1r. 10 r Peel's Garry Owen h (4)drnaii::: The adattlw, 411, each ; D.M. ; Ae • El • 1), 1 "ihe s , of bake and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke and art 117 a d, Duke of Rutland, the Duc ,de Ali, and' e t :Ws of Normanby, Marquis of Exeter, of Q' t °, arle, t , ;;:less of Eglinton, Earl and Countess of I taw l ."'aterfi e l d r ',Of Stradbroke, Earl Jersey, Countess t ord t, tart of Orford, Lord Meicletone, Lord laarrGe J ohn Fitzroy, Lord Chat les Fitzroy, Lord ti rtri 1 4 , 4 t in en , „, Lord Walpole, Lord Edward Russell,. kilat4ls,lsit'",Y Paulett, Lord Villiers, Lord • For e; Baird, Sir J. and Lady Shelley, Sir H. ta, e n °n• General and Mrs. Grosvenor, Hon. G. Sf, te r, lion. Captain and Mrs. Rous, Hon. H. G. Fitzroy, - Hon. R. Colborne, Hon. G. N ee 1-1 . 'Wellesley, Hon. R. Ongley ; Colonel I'e to eeli Colonel Hornby ; Captain Newcomers, l 'ill tit 'tat t i l . 11 ". Spencer Captain Maddocks, Captain 1 1 Ni l act , uennis, Captain Dixon ; Messrs. Thorp. C oe alloh yle ' . '3 )1. Collins, Portman (and lady), R. Lt • 1 1117 r ell, I ,, a Yne, Graon, Cox, Bowes, Newcombe, It ata lb 'ore, Powell, Gardnor, Crommelda Elves • reel, D. Radcliffe, Graham, Batson, S. e c , _ Shelky, S. Stanley, Vaughan, Lumley, ° Van, Onslow, Magenuis, &c., &c. Attarttees.„ COURSING. , ucT. 20,21, AND 22.—The Cup was won at r • o 4. k itx flames Wee Pet ; the Tyro Stakes by Sir Mahomet ; the Ayi-shire t'aip by Dr. 14 -40 1 , 1 11 4 4 , , Ardroasan, Stakes by Lord Eg li, b andy' ; and the Eglinten Park Stakes by Dr. A k ttr gal wOo,„,„, W as •‘"-ip """ PRE, OCT. 21 AND 22.—The All 47theide, as vvon by Mr. Ball's Bugle, the Puppy' Cup . 11' a I:4"er between Mr. Ridgway's Rasper ad Mr. Nee hap.zoeenl,l,esthe North Euston Stakes were won by utekbird. and Esther, the Wyre. Stakes by Mr. the Rossall Puppy Stakes by Mr. 1, 1 4 en age s to e _toral A P' . Church Defence and Anti-Patronage „, qatort .••ociation have just put. forth an address rar ec i tlity to 5 41 i o the reso!utions which lately ap • ti ttl e other met°4r colum ns. • Mr. William Collins, and teseiveanbers of the Association, who have tied 11104181 hat lay eel ' and heels to the 'I ones, did every ,;ll °f th, ,_,in their Power h to procure the suppres aere" t hCr - but it, I v , at length appeared, de r4laaeratinatione, e have lately seen, in his eot de the Church Building Society, how a, to t i le* with 1,95 anti-patronage views were in ac tino ,_lettrn with Practice hone;;' and it does not surprise ac ti membthe t and straightforward sec e th or er e of the Church Defence Associa teir ", d o 2ughly di, ni rtra m Llan o , 0 ,. gusted with the manner in "wleg oro "4 sail s his. professed principles, he has . 1 1.4 1 Arg us suit the purposes of the Tories._ e l td soj e r P 4- riai H ighnes lo s suited s the Archduke of Austria I\ l'ae 2 .l 4 ° l th e e ' ‘ ,._at _lnverness on Wednesday. In the or Ing . the Archduke honoured Mr. Pne e a: i e „, Weller With his p 4 si lent s . — 4 o its sa i ew . .???rimands, of whom he Att u • His Imp Highland weapons and o rals !al Highness left for Glasgow 4"' liore riateeetieer. t: T J ) Glll LJt. :1 Pol., Cunningham, London, 1842. - • .17 We have so often noticed this tale when it ap peared, from tine tf) rimr, taclmd portions, in tip- " • :11 ,-, !i'o4 , tt'f 1. if' • t c;l' r ;r. ~. . J";.); E. :!"!~ 1 . , z '' r: 1 , !•1 ~ !'.1." ' ,1? }llO' u0...r- • V0! , 1i1 ,- ', one 01 Lo - - ".L.:liiibergi, Cabinet Libriiry "—one tire stiece;.sful Ltnies of the day. Th.: work, whieli is biostrat.ed vial a tn.,; and vignette, gives au historical account of the prig cipa the Souili Sea, eiv wi curious and minute particular ccTeel.ing ihe ;ietoul condi tion of the inhabitants in vegard to civilization, commerce, and the art, of soeial SI7NcULAR OCCURRENCE AT HAMMERSMITH. During the last two days, much conversation has been occasioned throughout the neighbourhood of Ilammersmith, by an occurrence of a singular and ex ,lo.ildieetry nature. From the inquiries made on the pt.,, it appears that the friends of a lady most highly eentiec Led, and now about thirty years of age, finding some considerable period since, that, although not labouring:under any distinct form of insanity, so as to require re.traint, her mind was exceedingly weak, by the advice o: Dr. -, an eminent physician, placed her under the care of Dr. --, a medical man, resid ing ar. Fulham, who, although not keeping a private lunatic asylum, professed to take the charge of per sons so circumstanced. The lady in question accord ingly remained at Fulham until about four months since, when it reaching the ears of her friends that she iad formed an intimacy of rather too close a nature with a son of the medical man at whose house she had been, it was determined to remove her to a more suitable situation, and she was immediately conveyed to the residence of another surgeon in the neighbourhood of Brook-green, Hammersmith, where she remained until Monday lag. About ten days since the friends of the lady received informa tion, that, notwithstanding her removal from the care of the father of the young man above alluded to, they had contrived to continue their correspondence, and had, in fact, been married by banns at the parish church at Rotherhithe in the early part of September last, but that no attempt had, however; up to that time, been made by the alleged husband to claim the society of his wife. In the course of the forenoon of :Monday last the young gentleman, accompanied by his father, brother, and other relatives and friends, went to the house of the medical gentleman under whose care she then was, and demanded to see her, which application was, of course, refused; but the lady, becoming acquainted with the presence of her alleged husband, opened a front window on the first floor, and stepping out on the balcony threw into the street nine or ten sovereigns, which were immediately picked up by the claimant of her hand. After several vain endeavours to obtain an interview with her they left the spot, but returned in the afternoon, and loi tering about the house were observed, about four o'clock, by the lady, who, having secured the door of her room on the inside, immediately presented herself on the balcony, and was addressed from below by her alleged husband, who asked her, " Mary, am I not your husband ?" To which she instantly responded, " Yes, you are," and appeared in a state of great excitement and trouble of mind. The strange colloquy attracted the attention of the ' numerous persons passing along the high road, and a short time a considerable crowd had collected, to whom the alleged husband showed his certificate of marriage, and who, from their want of knowledge of The real circumstances of the case, commended his exertions to obtain possession of his alleged bride; he then told her to put her bonnet, &c., on, and come out on the balcony, and he would rescue her. She ac cordingly retired into the room, and presently after wards came out on the balcony dressed for her depar ture. She then, by direction of the party below, got a chair out of the drawing-room, and placing it at the east end of the balcony mounted the top of the rails, and then, holding the top rail, slid herself down with her ek. to the rails until her feet found a rest ing-place on the edge of the balcony, and she stood for some time in a position the most frightful to be conceived, with certain death staring her in the face should she let go her hold, the persons assembled outside cheering her, and calling to her to hold tight. By that time some members of her family, accompanied by a solicitor, &c., had arrived from town, and, with the proprietor of the house, procured a pair of high steps and raised them to the balcony, while at the same time the alleged husband, with the assistance of his friends, mounted the wall dividing the front garden from the adjoining one, when, from his great height, he was able to assist the lady to turn round, and before any of her friends could ascend the steps she lowered herself into his arms, and reach ing the ground in safety, she was immediately sur rounded by his party, who conveyed the lady to a neighbouring public-house, followed by her friends and the assembled crowd. Finding all efforts to re gain possession of the lady at that moment would be futile, her friends determined to watch where she would be removed to, but, notwithstanding they showed themselves able tacticians, they were foiled by the other party, and it is understood that the lady was unobservedly introduced into a garden adjoining the public-house, from which there is an entrance into a bye-lane leading towards Fulham, at the gate of which a fly was in attendance, into which she was immediately placed, and driven off no one knows where. Her friends, being then unaware of the circum stance of her having been carried off, remained watching the public-house, which was still sur rounded by a large crowd, until about seven o'clock in the evening, when a fly drove up to the door, and two or three persons muffled up in cloaks instantly got in, and the vehicle was driven off at great speed in the direction of Turnham-green. AR offer was immediately made of five guineas to any person tracing the destination of the fly, and some persons in a cab instantly followed it to Turnham green, whin the fly turned round, and retraced its way back to Hammersmith-broadway, the cab fol lowing in its wake. At Hammersmith-broadivay the fly turned up Brook-green-lane, in the direction of Shepherd's-bush ; but before reaching that place it pulled up, in a dark part of the road, and allowed the cab to pass by, and again went back to Hammersmith broadway, and from thence down the Bridge-road towards the Suspension-bridge. The persons in the cab soon discovered that they were on the wrong scent, and returning to the Broadway, were enabled to overtake the fly before it could cross the bridge, and after a lengthened chase through all the bye roads in the neighbourhood, the fly finally pulled up in King-street, Hammersmith, when it was found that the whole had been a ruse to deceive the lady's friends, the persons in the fly being only the son • of the landlord of the public-house and other persons unconnected with the case. We have abstained from mentioning the names of the individuals connected with the above singular oc currence, as we understand that the family of the lady intend to institute proceedings in the Ecclesias tical and other Courts against all the parties con cerned in the affair, when the matter will be more fully brought under the notice of the public. DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS OFF RAMSGATE-LOSS OF LIFE. On Sunday morning last, at an early hour, the town of Ramsgate was thrown into excitement on account of two large vessels being wrecked on the Goodwin Sand during the storm, which raged furiously the whole night from the north-west, not equalled fn vio lence since the hurricane in November last. Directly upon the wrecks being observed from the shore, which was not till near nine o'clock, a party of the coast-guard service, under the direction of the Lieu tenant of the Ramsgate station, pushed off in their lugger to render assistance to the unfortunate creatures who might be on board ; and a number of fishing boats put off for the same charitable purpose. The weather at the time was still extremely severe, the wind blowing almost a hurricane, with a tre mendous rolling sea ; and the greatest fear pre vailed that the boats would not be able to outlive its fury ; but nevertheless the gallant fellows stood the buffet of the waves with singular courage, and in the course of a short time they succeeded in gaining the distressed vessels. The first gained proved to be a three-masted vessel, a barque, called the Hope, be longing to London, commanded by Captain Steel, on her homeward voyage from Quebec. She had struck on the outside of the Goodwin Sands, and was break ing up rapidly. There was no person on board, which at first led to a supposition that the crew had been washed off by the sea, which was making a complete breach over her, but upon inquiries of a master of a schooner lying in the roads with two anchors out, it was ascertained that they had been saved by a vessel belonging to Broadstairs, named the Tartar. It ap pears, from the accounts given by the crew, that the , ship struck shortly after midnight, when running for the mouth of the Thames. They instantly resorted to every possible means to get her off, by cutting away the masts, but it had not the slightest effect ; and, as the storm increased, she was thrown higher upon the sand, thereby rendering it utterly impossible to pre vent anything else but the ship's total destruction, for in two hours afterwards she commenced breaking to pieces, and her cargo and timber floated out of her. Very happily a vessel, which afterwards was found to be the Tartar, came up a few minutes after the ship had struck, and, by the aid of its boats, succeeded in saving the whole of the crew. They were, however, much exhausted and cold, in consequence of the waves passing over the vessel's deck. Since then the wreck has entirely disappeared. Her loss is estimated at between 5,000/. and 6,0001. The other wreck, upon the coast-guard reaching it, was discovered to be that of a barque, also nearly of the same size, named the Nancy, but they were unable to appr oac h it, on ac count of the tremendous surf about the sands where she struck. It was close to the Light of All Nations, which is reported to have been destroyed about the same time, it was supposed by the ship passing over it. From the fact of the boats being still attached to the wreck there is little doubt but the entire of her crew perished. as none of them have since been heard of. The ship is valued at 8,0001. During the morn ing, and while the storm was at its height, his Bel gian Majesty's man• of-war, the Courette, 18 guns, Captain Hyde, commander, had a narrow escape of being lost on the same sands. The ship, which had but a day or two before sailed from Ostend, on a voyage of discovery round the world, was bearing down through the North Foreland when taken by the storm and drove back on to the sands. For a length of time her situation was extremely perilous, and the consternation on board among her numerous crew was, as may be supposed, excessively great. After cutting away the foremast, and otherwise lightening the ship, she floated off end was subsequently brought to an anchor in the roads. About three o'clock in the morning the Royal George Margate steamer came down to her assistance, and the captain offered to tow the ship into Ramsgate har bour. It was, however, strange to say, indignantly refused. On Sunday afternoon, upon the storm some what abating, she was got under weigh and reached Ramsgate in the course of the evening, where she still remains to repair damages. The Royal George steamer afterwards saw two ships on shore at Deal, having been driven, through the violence of the storm, from their moorings in the roads. From the position in which the vessels lay, it was fully expected that they would beco. - ne wrecks. Since then several other vessels have been ascertained to have been lost in the course of the night, as the coast, both in a northerly and southerly direction has been strewed with spars and pieces of wreck. MINING EXPERIMENTS AT CHATHAM. Some interesting experiments, illustrating the me thods of blowing up stockades, bridges, counter scarps, &c., and also exhibiting the mode of attack with hand grenades, &c., were exhibited on Tuesday, on the engine ground for field practice at Chatham. Notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, there was a large company of spectators as sembled, and a very strong muster of military men. The whole of the arrangements were under the direc tion of Sir Frederick Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Engineers, to whom it is only justice to say, that they were excellent, both for the practices intended to be afforded to the military employed, and for the faci lity given to the public of witnessing what was goiug forward. In order to prevent accidents and give sufficient space for the operations, the ground was kept by the soldiers of the East India Company, from Mount Pleasant Cottage to the salient of the Duke of Cum berland's bastion, and thence along the front to the salient of Prince Frederick's bastion ; from that point to the right flank of the casemates, and from the left flank of the casemates to the St. Mary's guard. The first operation, viz., what in military phrase is called breaching a stockade by bags of gunpowder, commenced shortly after one o'clock, when Lieute nant King placed huffs charge, consisting of four bags of gunpowder, each bag containing 601 b., on the west side of a stockade of very great strength, erected for the purpose ; three bags of powder being placed on the lower tier, and one on the upper. The hose was attached to the middle bag of the lower tier, and the other end passed through the stockade to the east side, two inches of portfire being attached. The sig nal to advance was then given by the bugles, and Lieutenant King, with a party of ten Sappers, imme diately debouched from St. Mary Guard across the creek on a pontoon raft. The Sappers carried four bags filled with sand (representing gunpowder), these were quickly placed on the eastern side of the stock ade, and the bugle having given the signal to fire the train, it was lit, and the Sappers retreated as quickly as they could. The experiment was perfectly.satis factory. ; the explosion took place within two minutes of the light being applied to the portfire, and the stockade was riven in pieces. The breaching party then advanced, augmented by a fresh party, under the command of Lieutenant Lovell, provided with hatchets, and passed with great rapidity through the breach, taking iaossession of the first parallel and the batteries, from which several rounds of artillery were immedi ately fired. The next operation was the attack of a block-house, similar to those erected in American warfare, by a party, under the command of Lieut. Grain, with hand grenades. The party consisted of 40 men, who threw the combustibles into the block house, and then retreated behind' the adjoining para pets, until the destructive missiles burst within the devoted Building, and exhibited, their force by tearing the planks of which it was constructed into holes and fissures. The third operation was the blowing off the crown of the arch of a strongly built brick bridge, which was accomplished with success by a minimum charge of gunpowder. The effect of this operation was magnificent, the explosion was terrific. The brick-work was hurled several hundred feet into the air, and the fragments carried to a distance of several hundred yards. Two operations upon the piers of the bridge were then performed with equal success, and the whole mass was overthrown amidst the loud explo sions of the formidable agent employed. The last operation—the blowing away a portion of a counterscarp, in order to enable the depression of guns to an angle to bear upon a battery— w as the most curious. This operation was; like the others, completely successful. The earth . was blown away with a tremendous noise and force, and the object. in tended fully accomplished. , The whole of the operations were carried on with the precision and accuracy of actual warfare ; the troops employed, viz., the Engineers, were manoeuvred as in an actual attack, and the whole conducted accord ing to the strict rules of the military art. There was at intervals, and after the termination of the mining, some excellent ball practice with 24-Founders by the gunners of the East India Company. PRESENT TO H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT FROM THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. readiness for WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—This morning the following Gentlemen, forming a d e p u tation from the Royal Humane Society, had the h onour o f an audience of his Royal Highness Prince , Alb er t, a t the Castle, for the purpose of presenting to th e P r ince one of the Society's double breaker ice -ladd ers , o f the same con struction as similar ladders whi c h are co nstantly in readiness for use during the w i n t er se ason, in the event of accidents occurring by th e b rea king in of the ice upon the Serpentine river Hyde Park :—Sir Isambert Brunel, E. R. Adams, isq., William Allen, Esq., John Curtis, Esq., Benj am i n Hawes, Esq. (Treasurer), and Berkeley West ro p p , E sq . (Secretary). The Royal Humane Society, f rom th e experience which it had had of the great utility o f this 'humane invention in the preservation of th e lives of persons who had been immersed in the water while skating, in consequence of the breaking of the ice, determined upon use when his Royal Hi g h ness en j oys th e Highness Prince Albert to accept requesting o f the i c his e.. l a Royaldd in erquestion, to be always in delightful and healthy recreation of skating upon the lake at Frogmore House, the residence of her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, or at Virginia Water. His Royal Highness (who received the gentlemen forming the deputation in St. George's Hall, where the ladder had been previously conveyed upon its ar rival at the White Hart Hotel from town) was gra ciously pleased to accept of the present, and to express, at the same time, in elegant and feeling language, his and usefulness of this 1 3: institution. p r high alins o o t, s p vh o i e n r c i t o ho n yu r o as f ld eith ofe benevolenttei x le cell e nc interview the Prince alluded, 1 in a playful yet feeling manner, to the accident which befel his Royal Highness last winter while skating upon the lake at Frog-more, when, it will be remem bered, her Majesty, with the greatest presence of mind, and with that fortitude and coolness which have ever characterised the Sovereign, providentialiy'res cued her illustrious consort from the most imminent peril, and enabled the Prince to reach the bank. The deputation, who experienced a most gracious reception from the Prince, after remaining for nearly an hour at the Castle, explaining the properties and mode of using the ladder, retired. The ladder, which is upwards of 24 feet in length, is most beautifully finished. It is composed of a peculiar wood, and grained to resemble mahogany. On one side are the arms of his Royal Highness, richly emblazoned, and underneath a medallion of the Society. It has been arranged that as soon as the frost has set in and the season for skating has arrived, the Royal Humane Society shall send down to Windsor one of the most efficient and expert men in their employ, to be in attendance when his Royal Highness skates, and who has a perfect knowledge of the mode of using the ladder should it be required. A ladder, of precisely the same construction, has been ordered by his Grace the Duke of Northumber land to be sent to Alnwick Castle before the com mencement of the winter season. I subscriber to the Royal Highness •is fa un n honorary os shouldnoofrat the ye beiim Royal vobma member e e H r r observed ad th nea a t h liberal s oc his Royal TAIN GAOL HAUNTED:On the night of Friday last, the much-to-be-envied individual occupants of those desirable apartments were suddenly aroused from their slumbers by tremendous and unearthly like bawling and screaming in the upper cell of the old tower, cccupied by the younger of the two lads convicted at the last Inverness Assizes of issuing base coin. The gaoler, who now always sleeps in the tower, having entered this cell to ascertain the cause of so untimely a disturbance, found the culprit seated on the base of the window, cringed as round as a ball, and in a most pitiable state of fright. On questioning him, he said, that being wide awake, and lying in his bed, he distinctiy saw a very large figure walking to and fro the length of the cell, at each time passing his bed, and the moon at the time shining directly in at the window (the bed being opposite) caused him to see the object the plainer; for in passing the window it always darkened the rays of the moon, expressing itself at intervals thus :—" Do .it, do it, do it." His entreaties and appeals to the gaoler to have him re moved, were couched in such heartrending strains, that he was obliged to put him into another cell where two others were confined and slept together : but so frightened was he, that nothing would quiet him until he got between the two in bed, where his whole body, shook all night like an aspen leaf nor slept he any. He always had a voracious appetite, but -aim the above scene he has eaten little or nothing. This shruld act as a warning to all those initOss-shirawhe are inclined to commit such acts as might make then: inmates of the Tain gaol, for. they are , not only watched and guarded by natural, but, it yvould appear,. by supernatural gaolem—Rop - Mira Advertiser. OCTOBER 27, 1842. EXTRACTS FROM THE "INQUIRY INTO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN."-(CONCLUDED Though the deaths from accidents bear only a small proportion to the deaths from disease, yet registries show that the scattered deaths from various descriptions of violence amount to an average of about 12,000 yearly, in England and Wales alone, or more than aroused the national attention in he late massacre of the troops of the empire during the war in India.—Page 205. The amount expended in ardent spirits (exclu sive of wines), tobacco, snuff, beer, &c., con sumed chiefly by the labouring population, can not be much less than 45,000,0001. to 50,000,000/. per annum in the United Kingdom. By an esti mate obtained from an eminent spirit merchant, of the cost to the consumer of the British spirits on which duty is paid, the annual expenditure on them alone, chiefly by the labouring classes, cannot be less than 24,000,0001. per annum. • • In the town of Bury, with an estimated popula tion of 25,000, the expenditure in beer and spi rits is estimated at 54,190/. annually, or 2/. 35.4 d. for each man, woman, and child. But on an in quiry made from house to house by the agency of the Manchester Statistical Society into the condition of the labouring population of this town, with such an expenditure on one source of dissipation and ill-health, it appeared that of 2,755 of their dwellings examined, only 1,668 were decidedly comfortable; that a smaller num ber were well furnished ; that the number of families in which there were less than two per sons sleeping in one bed were only 413 ; that the number in which on the average there were more than two persons to a bed was 1,512; that the number of fittnilies who had not less than three persons in a bed and less than four, was 773 ; that the number of families in which there were " at least four persons, but less than five persons to one bed," was 207. There were sixty-three families where there were at least five persons to one bed; and there were some in which even six were packed in one bed, lying at the top and bottom—children and adults. Similar results as to misapplied means and numbers crowded to gether would be ascertained from similar inqui ries into the state of the population in other dis tricts.—Pages 227, 228. _ DISTRAININO ON POOR TENEMENTS.—In some of the worst neighbourhoods in Manchester, the whole population of a street have risen to resist the service of legal process by the civil officers. In the course of the Constabulary Inquiry I was informed by the superintendent of the old police of that town, that one of the most dangerous ser vices for a small force was attending to enforce ejectments. This they had often to do, cutlass in hand, and were frequently driven off by showers of bricks from the mobs. The collection of the rent weekly in such neighbourhoods is always a disagreeable service, requiring high payment. This, and the frequent running away of the te nant, and the waste, greatly reduce the appa rently enormous rent obtainable from this poorer class of tenants.—Page 235. MODE OF PAYIYG WAGES.—The direct sani tary effects may be best displayed in the follow ing evidence of Mr. Lomax, an army pensioner, which has been corroborated by superior officers : —" When I was in the Life Guards, fourteen or sixteen years ago, there was a good deal of ill health prevalent amongst them. Before that time the men received part of their pay weekly, namely, seven shillings at the end of the week. With this seven shillings they had to provide the food which they required, except their dinner. The ration for dinner was three-quarters of a pound of uncooked meat, a pound of potatoes or vegetables, and a pound of bread. it was found, however, that many of the men spent the whole of the seven shillings in a single day in drink or dissipation. During the remainder of the week the men would be on what was called the crib bite,' that is, living only on their dinner rations. I knew many of the men who drooped under this system, partly from the excess of drinking or dissipation, and partly from the privation of the necessaries of life and the work they had to undergo. This, again, led them to much temp tation. If anything was lost it was amongst this class of men that we looked for it. The crime book would speak as to the further bad conse quences of these habits. The plan was then tried of paying the men one shilling each day. Over and above that the men were provided with coffee. It was universally felt that this change was highly beneficial to their health, and it stopped the dissipation, and the consequences of the dissipation."—Page 245. EXTENT AND PREVALENCE OF PERSONAL UNCLEANNESS AMONGST WORKPEOPLE.— Mr. John Kennedy, in the course of the examina tions of some colliers in Lancashire, asked one of them—" How often _do ._the drawers (those employed in drawing coals) wash their bodies ? None of the drawers ever wash their bodies. I never wash my body; I let my shirt rub the dirt off; my shirt will show that. I wash my neck and ears, and face, of course.—Do you think it usual for the young women (engaged in the colliery) to do the same as you do ? I do not think it is usual for the lasses to wash their bo dies; my sisters never wash themselves, and see ing is believing; they wash their faces, necks, and ears.—When a collier is in full dress, he has white stockings, and very tall shirt necks, very stiffly starched, and ruffles? That is very sure, Sir; but they never wash their bodies under neath; I know that; and their legs and bodies are as black as your hat." One labourer remem- ' bered that a particular event took place at Easter, " because it was then he washed his feet." The effects of these habits are seen at the workhouse on almost every one of the paupers admitted. When it is necessary to wash them on their admission, they usually manifest an ex treme repugnance to the process. Their com mon feeling was expressed by one of them when he declared that he considered it " equal to rob bing him of a great coat which he had had for for some years." The filthy condition in which they are found on admission into the hospitals is frequently sufficient to account for the state of disease in which they appear, and the act of cleansing them is itself the most efficient cure.— Page 253. WASTE WATER FOR BATHS.—A few years since a gentleman, observing some ditches in London, in the neighbourhood of City-road, smoking with clean hot water, running away from the steam-engine of a manufactory, directed attention to the waste, and suggested the expe diency of using that water to supply public warm or tepid baths. After a time the suggestion was acted upon as a private speculation, and large swimming-baths were constructed; one, with superior accommodations and decorations at one shilling; another, with less costly fittings-up, at sixpence the bath. These were luxurious tepid baths, kept at a heat of 84 degrees. The ex ample appears to have been followed in West minster by the establishment of similar tepid swimming -baths, where only threepence is charged to persons of the working-class. As many as 2,000 and 3,000 of this class have re sorted to these baths in one day, and the bath at the lowest charge is stated to make the best re turn for the capital invested in it. Similar esta blishments are, we believe, in progress in other parts of the metropolis.—Pages 254, 255. Besides those means which affect immediately the health and moral condition of the, work people, others are within the control of their em ployers which affect the personal appearance, and, through the self-respect, the morality of the population. Mr. William Fairbairn, in the course of an examination, adverted to respecta bility in personal appearance, thus—" ' It is always,' said he, ' an indication of looseness of character, and a low standard of moral con duct, to see a mechanic in dirt or in his working-clothes on 'Sunday. Thirty years' ex perience leads me to draw a very unfavourable conclusion as to the future usefulness to me, and of success to himself, of any workman whom I see in dirt on a Sunday.'—As a general rule, does the aditince of his house keep pace with the advance in condition of the person? As a general rule, it does. Better personal condition leads to better associates, and commonly to better marriage, on which the improved condition of the house is entirely dependent. It is due to the labouring classes of females in Lancashire and the surrounding districts to :state that, in the im portant household virtue of cleanliness, they are superior to the females of the same class in Scotland.—Are you aware of what is the con dition of their houses—have you visited them? I have not made it a practice to visit them, I chiefly judge of their circumstances from seeing them with their wives' and families, and their well-dressed and respectable condition on the Sundays. These externals are always indications of greater comforts and respectability at home. l I am a strong advocate for dress, and encourage the working men to dress well: if I see any workman in a dirty condition and in his working , clothes in the streets on the Sunday, I do not, perhaps, speak to him then, but on the Monday I tell him that 1 have been looking over the books, that I find that he has had as good wages as other men who dress respectably, and that I do not like to have any one about me who will not dress well on the Sunday. This intimation has generally had the desired effect."—Page 281. EQUIVOCAL NUISANCE.—The complication of various nuisances in some of the larger manu facturing districts has frequently become so great as toputthem beyond any existing legalxemedy, whether private or public, by placing out of the apparent possibility of distinct technical proof any injury or particular effect arising from any one : An instance of this is stated by Messrs. Paris and Fonblanque, where two indictments were preferred ; the one preferred against the proprietor of a Prussian-blue manufactory; the other against a black-ash manufacturer; both of these works were situated in Seward-street, Gus well-street, London. The counsel for the de fendant, in his cross-examination of the witnesses for the prosecution of the Prussian-blue maker, drew from them an account of the noisome va pours of the black-ash manufactory ; while in the latter trial the same barrister made the wit nesses declare the extreme stench of the Prus sian-blue manufactory; so that in both c ases t h e defendants obtained a verdict, because in neither ease could the witnesses for the Crown unequivo cally prove from which of the manufactories the nuisance complained of arose.—Page 302. THE LATE GRACE HORSLEY DARLING, THE HEROINE OF THE FERNIE ISLANDS. A Correspondent at Bamburgh gives the following particulars of the death of this young woman, so well known to the public from the heroic part she acted in saving the crew of the Forfarsbire steam-boat, which was wrecked on one of the Fernie groups in the autumn of 1838 :—For the last few months symptoms of a decline have been manifest in her constitution, and notwithstanding every care and attention that change of residence and medical skill could effect, she has ceased to be. Not so her fame—this we may safely predict will be as lasting as the rock, the scene of her noble exploit. She expired without any apparent pain at the house of her sister, at Bamburgh, her mother and sister alone being present. Every expression of sympathy and kindness was shown to the heroic sufferer during her illness by the inhabi tants of the district, especially by their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the latter of whom was unremitting in her inquiries after her. It will be re membered that at the time of the wreck of the For farshire, a public subscription was set on foot to testify the admiration of the subscribers for her meritorious conduct. This amounted to upwards of 7001., which was funded for her use under the trusteeship of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland and Mr. Arch deacon Thorp. This money, it is supposed, will beg iven to her father, who accompanied her in the boat on the memorable occasion referred to. Besides this sum, she was in possession of considerable sums presented to her on different occasions, by many noble and illus trious admirers, which, it is stated, she has bequeathed to her brothers and sisters in nearly equal shares. Her mortal remains were interred this afternoon (Mon day), in the family burying-place, in Bamburgh Church-yard. The mournful procession moved from the house of her sister about three o'clock, followed by a numerous party. The service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Darnell, Incumbent of the parish. At the lowering of the coffin, and throughout the whole of the service, many a tear was shed. The coffin, which was remarkably neat, bore the following in scription :—" G. H. Darling, died October 20th, 1842, aged 26 years." A severe gale from the N.N.E. prevented her three brothers from being present at the last mournful tribute of affection to their dear sister. THE WAR IN CHINA. Extract of a letter dated Chusan, Jan. 30, 1842 : " The troops continue very healthy, the diseases being chiefly those induced by intemperance. The winter has been very grateful, and more mild than the previous one. During December we had a heavy fall of snow for some days, and for about three weeks keen, biting, frosty weather, the ther mometer being often as low as 20 deg. and 24 deg. The people of this island, and those in the other parts of China which have come under my observa tion, are a fine class of men, well formed, intelli gent, and in many points highly civilized ; the lower orders muscular, healthy, and to all appear ance happy under their Government, which is not certainly so oppressive as is generally supposed in Europe. In agriculture and in native manufactures they are far advanced, and in most of the mechani cal sciences they possess great genius; but of the art of war, as practised amongst Europeans, they know nothing, and they are at once appalled with the effective power of the mighty engines of death which we bring against them. There has, indeed, been nothing like fighting upon this expedition, and those who have mingled in the various actions would scarce recognize them in the flaming despatches in which they are described. The Chinese Govern ment seem to have adopted a new policy in keep ing aloof from all negotiation, and deserting their posts of defence as we advance. Reinforcements of European troops are expected here daily, and it is then contemplated to attack Hong-chou-foo and Nankin ; then to move to the northward about the middle of April, land at the mouth of the Peiho, and march upon Pekin. I am afraid this will be a sad failure; and, from the knowledge we possess of that part of the country—its great flatness and un healthiness—there cannot be a doubt but the loss of life from disease will be most serious. Even if Pekin is reached, the Emperor has still Tartary open to re treat upon, and to follow him is an impOssibility; thus the object of our taking a city which we cannot keep will be frustrated, andour force weakened and dis pirited. " The people here come freely with bullocks and pigs for sale, and our market is plentifully supplied with fowls, ducks, great varieties of fish, and all sorts of vegetables and fruits, at moderate prices. Phea sants, woodcocks, snipe, and teal, have been plentiful. China, indee.l, is rich in every production, both in the animal and vegetable kingdom. "After the taking of Chusan I collected all the wounded, placed them in a house near to my quar ters, amputated their limbs, and dressed their sores. Many of them have recovered, and have been sent to their homes ; only two now remain ; they have each had a leg amputated, and are now quite well. One is a fine Tartar soldier, about 6 feet 2 inches in height, who had his leg shattered while fighting bravely at the beach battery. At first he considered my object was to torture him, but he is now the most grateful and pleased being in the city. lam now getting up a subscription for them amongst the officers in the garrison to pay their passage, and enable them to reach their homes, where they must carry with them some remembrance of our humanity." The appointment of chief constable of Manchester has been conferred upon Capt. Willis. BREAKFAST TO MR. GEORGE TLIONIPSON.—Yester day morning, the friends of Mr. Thompson enter tained him at breakfast in Gibb's Hotel, Prince's street, previous to his departure for India, to which he is about to proceed under the auspices of Dwarkanauth Tagore. John Wigham, Esq., pre sided, supported on his right by Mr. Thompson, and on his left by Mr. George M'Callum, W.S., Rev. Christopher Anderson, Rev. G. D. Cullen, Mr. D. M'Laren, Mr. John Anderson, jun., Bailie Alexander of Leith, &C. &c. A resolution, com plimentary to Mr. Thompson, was moved by Dr. John Ritchie, seconded by Mr. M‘Laren, and carried by acclamation. In the course of his speech Mr. Thompson stated, that her Majesty's reception of Dwarkanaut h Tagore had been most gracious ; her Majesty ur gently pressing upo n hi m the importance of his lay ing before Sir Robert Peel and Lord Fitzgerald all the information which he could give relative to the condition of India, so that Sir Robert Peel might be enabled to judge of the steps necessary to be taken for the improvement of its condition, and the better development of its immense commercial re sources.—Edinburgh Advertiser, Oct. 25. The noblemen and gentlemen connected with the county of Stafford have come forward with liberal subscriptions to liquidate the expenses incurred by the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, during the recent extraordinary duties they were called upon to perform when the disturbances took place in that county, above 4 the allowance made for the maintenance of that corps by the Government. Sir R. Peel, Bart., has headed the subscription list with a dona tion of 1001., and the Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Anglesey, Earl Talbot, Earl of Harrowbv, Earl of Dartmouth, Earl of Bradford, Lord Hatherton' and Lord Wriothesley have respectively subscribed 501. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Viscount San don, Viscount Ingestre, and the Right Hon. W. Y. Peel have each contributed towards this fund FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterdav ev ening an inques was held by Mr. Payne in St. Thomas's Hospital,t upon the body of James Williams, whose case was noticed in yesterday's paper. James Thomas, a clerk at Hulbert, Layton, and Co.'s, 14, Mincing-lane, knew the deceased James Williams; was down at Ni cholson's Wharf, on Tuesday evening, at twenty mi nutes past three, and while waiting on the ground floor, heard a dull noise as of a body falling, turned round, and saw the boy upon the pavement ; assisted him up, and finding some life remaining, ordered the porter to drive him in a cab to the hospital. W m. Walker, Hospital Surgeon, said that deceased when brought to the hospital was labouring under severe concussion of the brain, and died almost immediately after. Verdict—Accidental Death. BURIAL OF PAUPERS.—The Poor-law Commission ers, in their general workhouse rules, adv ise, view, the y . say, to consult the pr eva l en t wish es of the poor on this subject, that the body of every pauper of the Union dying in the workhou se , shou l d be interred in the churchyard of his own parish, un less the incumbent should object. An aged female, named Frances Frances, belonging to the parish of Great Leighs, died last week in Chelmsford Union t ; house, when the Governor, as he is directed, wrote ~ the church clerk, to know when_ it would be conveni ent_ to inter the body ; the r ep l y was written by t he rector himself ; it contained a perenaptory notice, without any reason being assigned, that the corpse should not be ad m itt e d i nto hi s churchyard. Tbe,,bll- • rial fees W 7 e invariabl been la ite"w* 841 a THE TEMPLE CHURCH. The near approach towards the completion of the great work of repair which has been going on in this church during the last two years will be sufficient apology for the introduction of the following brief notice of its present state to our readers, all of whom may be supposed to feel some interest in this, the oldest ecclesiastical structure in the metropolis. The repair and restoration was commenced in 1840, at the joint expense of the two Temples. The dilapi dated state of the building, in a great measure owing to the reckless manner in which the walls and pillars had been overlaid with heavy monuments, rendered these works necessary ; and in accordance with the im proved feeling now prevalent in the public mind in re gard to church architecture, the Benchers were led to extend the mere repair into a restoration of the build ing, as nearly as possible, to its original state and ap pearance.' This has been done on a scale of costli ness and magnificence which has no parallel within the last few centuries. The architect who commenced these works was Mr. Savage ; but owing to some differences between that gentleman and the Building Committee of Benchers, the charge was transferred to Mr. Sydney Smirke on the part of the Inner Temple, and Mr. Septimus Burton on that of the Middle Temple. The repairs have been executed with stone of the same description used in the original construction of the church, all of which is obtained from quarries in the vicinity of Caen, in Normandy, whence it acquires its patronymic. THE ENTRANCE PORCH is fur the most part new, the excessively ornamented old doorway having been partly renewed, and the remainder reworked and re stored. Tile CIRCULAR NAVE.—The six clusters of old Purbec marble columns which formerly supported the whole superstructure have been removed, and new columns of the same material substituted. The ceil ing of the centre part, which was a truncated dome of comparatively modern erection, has been taken down, and a new oak vaulted and groined ceiling substituted, painted by Mr. Willement strictly in accordance with the style of the period. The whole of the wall, arches, and aisle vaults have been reworked, and new polished marble shafts substituted for the old columns. This measure was found absolutely necessary from the ad• vanced state of decay into which those portions of the structure had fallen. The sculptured figures of the Knights Templars have been restored in the most per fect manner, and will again occupy their former posi tions. The carved oak screen which divided the nave from the chancel, and over which the organ was placed, has been removed, and it is intended to erect elaborately executed bronze gates in its stead. THE TRIFORFUM OF THE NAVE has been converted into a, depository for nearly all the monuments which formerly disfigured the walls of the church. They are now far better seen than heretofore, and the col lection forms a highly interesting gallery of monu mental sculpture, containing mural tablets of most of the eminent lawyers of the last century and a half. THE SQUARE CHANCEL.—The old organ gallery, pewing, pulpit, altar screen, &c., have been cleared away, and the nave and chancel thrown into one. A loft for the organ and choristers has been erected on the north side, occupying one hay, with a vestry be neath. The whole interior surface of this part of the building has been reworked and made sound. The north and south aisles of the church are occu pied by stalls divided into five compartments on each side. These are of the finest oak, with elaborately carved ornaments of every possible variety. Fifty-six sittings (two com partments) are reserved for the Benchers of the Inner and Middle Temples. Two divisions will accommodate the Benchers' ladies ; four will be filled with the barristers of the two inns, and two by the ' barristers' ladies. The whole of the centre of the church is fitted up with sittings for the students, in the cathedral style of arrangement. The original ceiling has been coloured, as was proved by the dis- . covery of portions of the old painting, but successive white-washings had obliterated it. It is now painted as it is supposed likely to have been, and in accord ance with existing specimens of the 13th century. The altar is entirely new, from the design of . Mr. Smirke, its extreme beauty being much enhanced by the magnificent windows which surmount it. The creed and commandments are painted black, in church text, on a gold ground, the initial letters being illumi nated, the whole producing a richness of effect, com bined with an elaborateness of detail, perhaps . never before equalled. The prevailing colours used in the decorations of the walls and roof of the chancel are blue and red. The ceiling is divided into compartments, alternately ornamented with the armorial bearings of the two bodies—the flying horse for the inner Temple, and the lamb and staff for the Middle Temple. Figures of several of the early Kings of England are em blazoned on the walls, and the shield of the Holy Cross worn by the Knights Templars, is also fre , quently introduced. The extent of labour bestowed on the various carvings with which the Church is adorned has been immense. The whole of the designs for the stall ends and elbows, consisting of grotesque heads, kc., have been furnished by'Mr. Cottingham, the well known architect and author, and the mechanical por tion has been excellently carried out by Mr. Nash, of Hercules-building's, Lambeth. The desk now erected is merely temporary, it being considered prudent to ascertain the most eligible post tion by actual experiment, previously to the definite adoption of a site for the handsome carved oak pulpit which is in preparation. The organ, one of the few superb instruments built by Schmit, more than a cen tury since, has been entirely reconstructed by Bishop, who has greatly extended its power by the adoption of fifteen large pedal pipes, and corrected a few de fects in the original. The floor is paved with glazed encaustic tiles, copied exactly from ancient examples. Thisis not expected to be completed by the clay ap pointed for the re-opening of the church for public service, owing . to the entire stoppage of the works at the Potteries in Staffordshire during the Fate disturbs antes. The bell, which was formerly in the roof of the circular nave (although that was not its original place) has been removed, and hung in a new stone belfry turret, erected over the Newel staircase on the north side. The churchyard is being paved, and otherwise im proved ; and it has been determined by the Benchers to allow no more interments therein. It will be recollected that the musical service of the Temple Church was formerly a great attraction. The Benchers have now decided on introducing a choir, and the service will be performed in the cathedral style. The interest excited by the opening announced - for Sunday, the 6th of next m on th, i s very grea t, an d, notwithstanding much remains to be done, it is con fidently expected that service will be performed on that day. METHOD OF STOPPING BLEED. ING FROM THE NOSE. (By Dr. NEGRIER, of Anglers.) The following case, being one of those. reported by the author, will - show his method of proceeding :-- APRIL, 1839.—A chimney-sweep, aged 14, had already lost 200 grammes (six ounces) of blood from the right nostril. The blood was still flowing very fast. I had the boy placed with his head high ; then, with the forefinger of the left band, I compressed the nostril from which the blood was flowing; n while doing whi le this I made him lift up his rig ht arm perpe y, telling him to keep it so for two minutes ; the hemor rhage had stopped in ten seconds. M. Negrier relates three other cases, quite similar. The following fact induced him to try the plan : ' " Some years ago," says M. Negrier, " I cu t myself under the nose while shaving. The blood I lif te d up both my arms at once t flowed copiously from this petty wound, and I could not stop it, either with court plaster or by cauterising with the nitrate of silver. By chance, I again lifted n. ' them - prherSh:vel:,:ettTengfl,o.wand of I blood,saw - Ntvii)lile7 was s vat s.uro pa end again t il l 0 copious just before, immediately stopped. 1 lowered t v arms iv five ll) : ' six times, u p, and again the blood immediately sto 1 therte'a'nernw°e(rlrialnagdestbo7ln this in order to convince myself perfectly l a: a l and I y that the sudden raising of the arias was really th sion of the hemorrhage. Lastly, I kept my arms raised for one or two minutes • , and during this period a plastic crust formed upon the cut, which put final. stop to the hemorrhage " Iw - re —Medical Gazette. 0 • It is stated in certain quarters that a Countess, the daughter et a Duke, has left her house under suspi• cious circumstances with a friend of the family. A CARGO !—The s hip America, Captain Fisher, arrived. at thi s por t on Saturday, from the Pacifio Ocean, aft e r a n a b sence of twenty-six months, with a cargo of 4,700 barrels of oil (400 sperm), and 45,0001b5. of whalebone. This is the largest cargo ever recorded in the annals of the whale fishery in any part of the world. Captain Fisher is a son of Edgat town, a thorough-bred whaler. New Bedford Mercury. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE.- On Tuesday a Govern ment notice was inserted in the Police Gazette, offer ing a reward of 1001. for the apprehension of a set of v ill a ins, five in number, who, on the evening of the 16th of September, broke into the dwelling-house of Charles Inglefield, in the township of Bebbington, county of Chester (one of them wearing a black veil over I ,i, f ace ), and severely beat and dangerously cut and wounded Charles Inglefield and an old woman, his housekeeper. They left behind them a loaded pistol and a hat ; 50/. of the reward will be paid by her Ma. jesty's Government, 25/. by th e t owns hip on3ebbing top, and 25/. by George Orred, Esq., the owner of the how. A promise of her Majesty .s pardon is also held-out to any accomplice not guilty of the actual personal violence, for such information as may lead to the Conviction el the rest. I