The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

...., _ A FEMALE SWINDLER. , I RAILROADS- IN FRANCE. I A woman named Bulk, who was an associate ' The Minister of Public Works has, upon the res i.t the celebrated k ina i e , known as La C on temporaia( . , commendation of the Commission on Steam-engines. made b a r appearance, on Friday and Saturday, before just ordered the following provisional measures rela- the Court of Assizes upon a double charge, first, of tive to sailroads having been g uilty of fraud and robbery by means of Art. 1. The use of four-wheeled locomotives for the forged bills a nd notes, and, secondlyAas an accom- transport of passengers is interdicted. Art. 2. The plice with ano ther loose woman, named Bourdeau, ; placing at the head of a train, before the locomo who was confined with her at the same time in the . tives, either a four-wheeled tender or any other kind prison of St. Lazare, in attempting to set fire to that of four-wheeled carriage is prohibited. Art 3. Lo establishment. This last accusation, however failed en- comotives must always be in front of the trains, tirelv, from want of sufficient evidence, and both the and never behind. This order is never to be departed prisoners were fully acquitted by the Jury. From the from except for the arrangements (manoeuvre) in the indictment, so far as it regarded Bulle exclusively, but neighbourhood of stations, and in cases where a train which was by far too long for us to attempt to reproduce being stopped by an accident, the locomotive in aid it at the same length, it appeared that Bulle had for may be brought from behind, if there be no crossing many years led a life of disorder, licentiousness, and to permit its poising in front. In these two special fraud. She has been married, but within a fortnight cases the rate of speed of the train must never exceed after the ceremony, she eloped from her husband, and 20 kilometres (about 12i Eoglish miles) per hour. tormed numerous successive temporary connexions re- In all cases it is interdicted in an ahisoillte manner to peatedly changing her name and abode. In 1820 she liviA place a passengers' train between two Jowl - 1144w, -with a student, named Albert, whose means she ex- one acting in front and the other behind, Art 4. hausted, and who was at length obliged to fly his Until a. bitter means of diminishing the effect of country, and has since been seen in London, although shocks And saations shall have been ascertained Enid she assumed herself to be his widow, and as such cur- prescribed, 9iere ink Always be at the head of each tied on her frauds. In 1835-1836, she lived with a train, composed :.'l. ,tive essroßges at the utmost, at pp named Boucher, and so also called herself. least one carriage witho," t 4 YagE " en erk , ‘Pa d at :arriti;ttl: least two, toucher, having involved himself by negotiating ac - when the number of carrias-7. passengers' 4 11 . itnorto t: c ommodation bills, was imprisoned for debt. The five. Art. 6. The prisoner then formed a similar intimacy with i per- locked. Art. 6. The Railroad Companies "c : '" ta Ilgve son named Gautier, but who assumed that of Fran- registers of the state of service of allthei a ; s- locomo • , 11. cois Julien de la Geraudiere, which name Mine. tives. Upon these registers, which are to be con- B . ulle also sssumed. They entered into an exten- stantly kept open, there shall ie a special description of the number affixed sive business with no real means, but obtaining cre- each axle-tree, and by the side of -dit to a largo sanount on fictitious bills, and Gautier to each, with the date of its being first brought into being obliged to abscond to Belgium, he made an use, shall be inscribed an account of its service, and act of 'procuration, whereby he appointed the the work it has to perform.Art.7. woman Bulle, under the name of Gautier, to be his Prefect shall fix for each railroad the minimum of the representative. By this power she contrived to paralyse the proceeding:, against Gautier till she could join him in Belgium, whence they went toge ther to England. At London, Gautier paid his rent by a bill on the widow Albert, of Paris, for the sum .of 3,000 f. This piece of paper was remitted to the house of Laffitte and Co., to obtain payment, but when presented was at once discoverA to be fraudu lent. After a time the prisoner returned to Paris, :and renewed her disreputable mode of life. She was, however, soon recognised and arrested, under an accu 3ation of having committed forgery. On her interro rtion by the President, she admitted many of the taets above stated, but endeavovred either to justify or palliate them. She acknowledged that at one time she had assumed the name of Larochefoucault, which :she said was given to her by an elderly lady of that ;family, who took a great interest in her. She admitted also that she had declared her expectations of millions of francs from a Mr. Book, of Calcutta, who, she said afterwards, had arrived and died at Liverpool. Ac cording to the evidence, inquiries had been made, but no traces of any such person could be found. She had likewise stated that she was in the regular receipt of 1,500 f. a-year. This she declared to the Court was true, and that the payment was made to her up to the time she was arrested and sent to prison. When taken into custody, there were found in her possession two bills of exchange for 20,000 f. each, drawn by her upon Boucher. These were, she said, for moneys :advanced by her to Boucher, and lent by him to third persons, among whom was the son of General Mallet. 'The witnesses on this count of the indict interval which is to elapse between the departure of two consecutive trains. These orders are to be sub mitted for the approbation of the Minister of Public Works. Art. 8. Upon the Paris and Versailles Rail roads, of the right and left banks, in coming from Ver sailles to Paris, the rate of spe e d at no part of the line shall exceed ten metres per second, or 36 kilometres 1 (about 2211- miles English) per hour. Independently of the above measures, which are to come immediately into operation, the Minister of Public Works has charged the Commission on Steam engines to inquire,— " Ist. Whether from Versailles to Paris, and gene rally on strong inclinations, it would be proper to permit the use of more than one locomotive at a time ; and in cases where it may be permitted, to ascertain the condition to which such permission should be sub ject. 2d. To inquire into the means which may be proper to prevent the projection of the burning matter from the locomotives." A Special Commission is also about to be appointed immediately, to make inquiries and experiments,— " Ist. As to what improvements may be made in the manufacture of axle-trees for locomotives; on the changes which these axle-trees undergo from use, and the time after which it is requisite or desirable that they should be replaced by new ones, and the proofs they ought to be subjected to. 2d. On the means to be employed in lessening the risk and effect of shocks and collisions on railroads." (From the Glasgow Courier.) ment having been examined, the Jury found them selves warranted in delivering a verdict of guilty of :forging commercial bills, upon which the Court con *lemned her to imprisonment with labour for eight years, and to be exposed on the pillory. _LORD ASHBURTON'S AT The follo;ing is the copy of a letter from the commander of the Satellite steamer on the Indus, to his brother in Glasgow:— " H. C. V. Satellite, Sukhur, March, 1842. "My dear Brother,—This country is in a very unsettled state. Ten days ago reports came in that 16,000 men were marching on Sukhur to attack it. The Planet steamer was lying hi Sukhur at the time, and with her gun-boats was made ready for the fight. Everyindividual was on guard the whole of that night. All the ladies went into the fort for protection, as a bloody affair was anticipated. The night passed off quietly. Next morning it was reported that the Comet steamer had been attacked, and the cap tain and crew all murdered. My turn came next. It was confidently rumoured, and as im plicitly believed, that the Satellite had been boarded at night, the whole of us cut to pieces, and the treasure we were carrying up, to the amount of 60,0001. taken and conveyed to the mountaineers. This report was so current that letters were dispatched to Bombay announcing it; and it is in case the Bombay Times may in sert it that I now write to keep yonr mind easy. The cause of the rumour arose from the follow ing circumstances :—On my passage up, about one hundred miles below this place, I sent my steward and a native on shore to procure sheep and other supplies for the ship. They came on board in a terrible fright, and said that they had been attacked, and their money and swords taken from them. I did not know for a short time what to do, as I knew the politicals were very anxious that we of the steamers should, it' possible, avoid collision with the natives. How ever, it was such a glaring thing that I could not resist going and showing the blackguards that they could not do such things with impunity; so, accordingly, I started for the place where they were, with six European sailors and four native marines, leaving the steamer well armed and manned, as we had such a quantity of treasure on board. Aboutmidnight we arrived at the place —it was in the midst of a thick jungle—and found about 150 of as rascally-looking cut-throats as you could well conceive, all armed to the teeth with matchlock, sword, shield, and dagger. When I witnessed such a force, and contrasted it with my mere handful, I was satisfied it was all over with me; but a show of fear being next to death, I boldly stepped up, and asked where were the persons who had beaten and robbed my men ? They replied that they did not know. I then asked for their kurdan, or headman; and when he came forward I handed him over to the tars, who immediately disarmed him. I also took other ten prisoners, and instructed the ma rines, the moment they saw me attacked, to put 21 bullet through the head of the kurdan. Thus I made the kurdan to understand, that if they killed me, his life would at least be the forfeit. Off we marched with our eleven prisoners (more prisoners than I had men to guard them), fol lowed by the whole mob, who, as we retreated, appeared to increase in numbers, but they showed no fight until we were near the steamer, when they opened a straggling fire from their match locks. Providentially none of our men were hit, although we heard the bullets whistling over our heads. The steamer immediately sent up a rocket and fired a large gun, and in about fifteen minutes more we were all snug on board with our prisoners. I put them in irons, and took them to Sukhur, where they were tried by the authorities, and sent over to the Anaeers of Kir poor, where probably they will lose their hands or noses, as this is the punishment generally in- j tiicted on such characters. Will write next mail, 1- i f spared.—Your affectionate brother, V'ION. " R. C. MILLER." DISCOVERY OF A BAND OF MUR DERERS AT 1%7 UREMBURG. In December last the limbs of a body, sup posed to be that of a rich widow named Bayer, who had suddenly disappeared from her habi tation, were found in the streets of Nuremburg. The police made the greatest efforts to discover the circumstances which had brought the unfor tunate deceased to her frightful end. They could only succeed, however, in discovering the most vague information ; and the public had begun to think that the crime must remain unpunished, for two other persons had been assassinated in a mysterious manner without the criminals ever having been detected. The police still kept a close watch upon a young woman who had been in the habit of working for one of the murdered persons, and at length they succeeded in procuring some very im'portant testimony, and they proceeded to arrest a woman named Romstatt, who, however, denied all knowledge of the matter, and indeed nothing - was found at her residence of a suspi cious nature ; but a search at the house of her dcughter, who lived not far from Pe,,omitz, was atte _nded with different results, for in a drain they found the intestines of a human being; and shortly afterwards the confes sion of the. mother led to the discovery of the head of Madione Bayer in the drain of the Hotel de Ville. All the part that the woman Rom statt acknowledged to have in the transaction was that•of taking the portions of the body to different parts of the city; but she pointed out certain persons as the assassins, who were imme diately apprehended and imprisoned; and proofs were soon established of the existence of a hand o f murderers, who had doubtless committed the murders we have alluded to, and probably many others which have never come to light. As soon as these circumstances became known, the irritable character of the citizens of Nurem bark- became g reatly incensed agai nst t h e aut h ors „ f q ics e di a bolicaloutrages; and it b ecame ne cway-y tha t the police should take ext raor di nary inflicting ineaatives to pre vent the populace from summary . i t lstice upon the C rimumls on th e i r way to prison. It appears from the later details of this horri ble affair, that the woman Romstatt has stated that Madame Bayer was murdered on St. Tho mas's-day, a winter fete which annually brings thousands of strangers to Nuremburg. She says that the assassins having contrived to entice her into a secluded house,, seven of them imme diately fell upon her with razors and pool. ards, and that having killed her they pro ceeded to cut up the body, Romstatt being employed to get rid of the remains by disposing DINNER WASHINGTON.-AMUSING DESCIUP- (From a New York Paper.) Lord Ashburton's first official dinner came off April '23, at 6 p.m. This functionary is a very plain, gentlemanly looking man, with a face somewhat careworn, ;and a complexion which belongs to those who have Eyed long and well. His suite are fine young men, generally bald, but with intellectual heads, though not very remarkable countenances. The private secretary of his Lordship is said to be the cleverest of the legation. In manners, they are all self-possessed, somewhat stiff in the movements of their bodies, and few or no ges t ures escape them while speaking. How different from the others of the foreign Ministers here ! Why, a lively Frenchman will gesticulate more in one minute with the pha langes of his dexter hand, than Mr. Mildmay could in .the whole course of his natural life. The dinner was served up soon after the hour of Eining arrived. Late hours are, of course, in fashion e\ierywhere among the diplomatic givers and eaters of dinners, and this one was to take place at six. e table was of the longitudinal character, and there were present about 16 guests. Among thew were the Foreign Ministers generally, the heath of departments, and some of our leading men in Congvess. There was no ceremony in entering the dining-room. The guests " stood not upon the order of their' going, but went ai once." Lord. Ashburton took the centre of the table. On his riglzt was John Quincy Adams, on his left John C. Calhoun, oppo site him sat General Scott. Mr. Fox was not present! It has been rumoured that Mr. Fox feels a little sore at this mist ;ion extra ordinary. He, perhaps, supposes the bush iess might have been better entrusted to him. But while we think very well of Mr. Fox's abilities, we in= gine that the length of time he has been in public 'if?, has some what case-hardened him—that he takes no interest in public affairs beyond what his instructic ins require of him—in short, that he has more head than heart, and that a negotiation controlling the destinies of two great nations, affecting every cottage in remote Eng land, and every to but beyond our moue t a in s , i s no more to .Mr. ox than any other negotiati on, and that he would conduct it on the same cold, skilful, and gentlemanly . manner which h e wou ld a game of ecarte, and in no other way. Lord Ashburton is rather a man of the people—is identified with the prosperity of the cot amerc lad classes —would be unhappy, truly unhappy, to see mother and daughter at variance ; and he woul, I rather sacri fice the 25 townships he owns in the S, tate of Maine, but to which he has scarcely given t e thought for many years, and of which now, for the first time, he learns the real value, than involve us in a war, the -scourge of nations and the desolation of r nankind. The table was beautifully laid out, 1 tut as all his Lordship's plate has not arrived, there w: es no plateau in the centre ' and no vases elaborate i n a.t, and per fuming the saloon with the choicest cul lings of the conservatory ; but it was still very eleg ant, and dis played the skill of an .accomplished cn ajor-domo. Where ore 21 servants in the house, andl the reader :may well imagine what a xo,i's-seisd a :so ore of beef eaters must be to the cattle gYaziers 'in this city. Indeed, the out-go of his 1., ords tip's establishment will be so large, and the profits so immei ise to the retailers here, that we should not b if they proposed, in the course of a few ;months, to pur chase the claim of England to the d' Isputecl territory, and present it, as a mark of their g ratitude, to the people of Maine, for being so much , the cause of the present mission. • As his Lordship has three cooks of the utmost talent, artists whom Ude himself v maid not have blushed to take by the hand, the dinnt tr. was not only superb, but magnificent. The meats e were all nicely carved, and handed round, as is now th e fashion ; and the game, of which there was a great tariety, was all cut up and divided by the cooks before it was served. up ; then reinstated in form and figure, ,:ready to drop apart at the touch of the first fork. Course after course succeeded, delicious to the pala to and agree able to the eye ; the wines were rich soft, and high flavoured, having the body and st ten gth which I :belong to the English cellar. Champarie was passed freely round, but no other I,r, nes of }ranee, and none from the R .17 'netti nd, met out eyes. If di p l omacy expresses its • 1 at the b I'n2% ant •n- table by it s p re f erences for 1 „4 drinks, th en •re say to Germany and France, En lam. 1 likes not the Zoll Verein, nor the back: out out frail 1 the Quintuple Treaty for the right of sear el s. No t no ! hard cider and Sionongelela, which st rot ttl y mprest the apples and the corn-s t : k . s ot Br, ad to rJc inatbau shall find favour on the f es t ] ve boar d of Jc Bull when Chateau Margeaux and de Grave shall be forgotten. The conversation it would be im 'oper t o divulge. We do not believe it right, though it ; m ay b e fashion- I able, to retail conversations and s teat correspon dences. We will only . say, that the rem arks were all of a friendly spirit, now and .proaching the confines of rigid propriety , when t h e y related to r steam-shi p s and t all the q ua lit y o f ou brences of our discipline. The dessert, among other thi ggss number of th e choicest fruits of nEn'g 1 13 , r h e e s v ered, fair to th e eye, and deligl were much admired by the diteed a round of encom:ums on the g they -were brought. In due time coff departed,- much l;e ''ticee"ted' ar ased with this entertairlrnent}s,owr'til which the new his mission. years " England has not fio:teincle v ery :%Ir. Fox is a man of r collar, and does not ca re . for Or pc, natives." A new systernreor ° The bo un d ary - l i ne is to be L er ' a table in s t reams of sherry, the j ri ll to be ex erc i se d i n diplomatic hc'p'') of th e C reo l e i s to be made up in s- In taki ng our leave we did r fourteen servants in livery —blue shorts, and striped waistcoats —h: fill our plates with the dainties of which Wednesday.ri morning the Portfi is to l ea d f mm Holborn-b id wen as pleted • as far West-street, foot Passengers ex hibit ( a large l an d, I N autifully itful to ;the taste. guests, 1 - 1 id pro .anleu front which id then the II `sts first of a series .of Envoy commences he meteor-flag" of y in Washington. nts, somewhat pe pularity " with the don is commenced. ded on the dinner rht of visitation is Wit 'es, and the loss blact - and white. tot A irget that the coats, , black velvet id done their best to his Lordship's table. ►n of the new street to to Islin gton, and is Was ~ ..13 rol rn open to * i ip. tHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 2 O 1842. of them.. in the drains or sewers in 'different and distant parts or the City. With regard to L T A! fate of one °fay: Murdered persons, a book keeper, for whom she 'had worked as a daily . Servant or laundress, she pretends utter igno rance. She was, however, beard to say, that a woman named liezold, who was found in bed with her throat cut, had been murdered by a barber, who formed one of the gang, and who has; been apprehended. Nuremburg being situated on the great Euro pean route, nod 'being conseicmetfflY the ponstant rendezvous of foreigners, it is supposed that the band of demons had imagined that their devilish practices would be leo likply to lig detected l fro.m the fact that foreigners WP4ignot 13e reOilylmssed. PATI: Coutts's bank was taatle by intpsp!f; it Tiling *ow a very small beginning, and' was ra4sh:l to its prpfl-4 height by the frugality and perseverance of a yrfy hwyble individual; a man of no - education bey.zind that pf eppipapy p.rithnietic, and of no manner of talents beyond those of pe!•soual fypgplity, Steam' ads dusty, ridp,ovgy Ipsipg sight Of gla he diempitip main chance. The house Sill ‘ continite,s what hepri ginally made it : a bank t i t epoi% fli§Fput and no accommodation, except Upon ample security ! ,9phigg's has for years been the be,nk of the moneyed portion 4 9f Rop not;Thty of persons whose deposits Pry #9IP i4 , 901.t8 IPP , PPtt ;4 i 0 thF of the taitegk i enormous *fifes arf bus aced: . peefeoe.;, thelop4m 9 1 S. A1b4 4 , 1 1 mulated. • respectively the Wails Pf `tW and Lady Jersey, we._ The late Duchess, a bustling woroap, pag4fteggently to go and loot Lit,. two firms of (longs's and Child's: her own coneems Child's once a year, when the partner' al I np g t in ati and the upper room, ; 1 , 4 1 Y &OPy !4. 111 attends a t s.c.contiti. - 4yr balanced and prOfiii struck. On this OCCA slop the p A trpep ,tpzether the bank, and the CPunteSS, prIpP4V.V4P(eF , takes the head of the table.. ();,4 - Fuller, father of another member of the Howe pfiCpiii9us, the late Jack Fuller, as he wms familiarly eailel, Rose Ilill, Surrey, use 4 to manaio the matter in a different way. He was the founder Pr tAe PPillent bank in Moorgate-street, and wiwn the clerks rased tq tell him on a certain day, in every year, that it wits his birth-day, and they hoped they should ha c ve .I;,g pleasure of drinking his health; 0 'lo be sure, lads,- he would say, "to be sure, very proper, 44 stop a minute." He would then leave the bank, go to M. nearest wine vaults, and buy aultigls bottle of wine, with which he would return to the bank, ATI4 placing it on the counter, say, " There it is for you ; butt mind you be steady, and no excess," EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE. Letters from Athens of the 28th ult. state, that several violent shocks of an earthquake were felt in various parts of the Peloponnesus ; on the 18th, at Sparta, the shocks lasted from 25 to 30 seconds each. The inhabitants ran terrified out of their houses. On the same day, and in the course of the night, four or five other slighter shocks were experienced. Beyond the Eurotas an immense rock fell from Mount Menelas, near the village of Drou chas. An old tower situate in the town of Magoules was thrown to the ground. At Mistra the soil trembled with more violence than at Sparta, and a portion of the Hellenic College and several houses were destroyed. The water of the springs and wells became turbid, and an enormous rock, having detached itself from the sum mit of old Mount 3,listra, rolled with terrific noise into the town. At Calames the first shock, felt at half-past nine o'clock, lasted between 40 and 50 seconds, and there were ten others, from that hour until midnight, at in tervals of three-quarters of an hour. Most of the houses were damaged, and several in the neighbourhood actu ally gave way. Upwards of 50 dwellings were thrown down at Areopolis, and 15 towers crumbled at Stylus. Many persons were buried under the ruins of their houses in the province of Maina. At Androusa several churches fell in. On the 25th ult., at four o'clock A.m., another shock was felt at Patras, which lasted a minute and a half. The Courrier Grec announces that a red rain had fallen at Tripolitza and elsewhere, and that the Minister of the Interior had collected information re• specting that phenomenon, which would lbe submitted to the examination of the Medical Board. In the year 1774 the Society of Antiquarians oh ,tained permission to open the tomb of Edward the First, in Westminster Abbey. They found the body in perfect preservation, and most superbly dressed. THE MACICAREL FISHERY.—The fishery com menced off Brighton on Friday, and some of the boats came in with a few fine fish. The principal part were bought for the London market, and forwarded by the railway. OffEastbourne the fishermen have been pretty successful during the week, and the fish have generally fetched high prices. The crops in this district have improved stfr prisingly since the late refreshing rains. The meadows give promise of a good swathe, and the wheats look better than some time since they could have been ex pected to do. Beans and peas are coming forward very luxuriantly.—Maidstone Journal. FLIGHT or SWALLOWS.—On Tuesday week, whilst the Nithsdale steamer was off the Isle of Man, on ht r passage from Liverpool to Dumfries, a number of swal lows entered by the cabin windows 4 and continued to fly out and in fur a considerable time. One of them es consced itself in the bed of a passenger, and along with , another was secured, and kept for some time befo re b e i ng I allowed the liberty of their wings. BERVIE.—On Sabbath last a rather unusual scene took place in the parish church. In consequence of the minister having intimated a fortnight previously, that he would on the above day proceed to the election of three additional elders—namely, William Duthie, farmer, Hillhead ; James Brown, farmer, Newbigging ; and Walter Freeman, jun., whitefisher, Gourdon—a paper numerously signed by parishioners, objecting to the mode of their election, was, on Saturday last, lodged with the reverend gentleman. We do not know wha t value was attached to the document ; but a few minutes before the bell was rung on Sabbath, the Kirk-officer gave notice that if any person had any objection to the proposed election, to lodge them in the manse. The minister then entered the church, and, after the usual preliminary services, delivered a short address from Titus i. 5. He afterwards read an act relative to Kirk Sessions and the election of elders, stating that the pre sent session had the power of electing the new. The three intended elders were then asked to stand up,when the usual questions were put. Mr. Glegg was about to complete the ceremony by prayer, when Mr. William Ilurness, in a firm and audible voice, read the following document :—" I object to the proceedings of the Kirk Session in making these men elders, as being unscrip tural, unreasonable, and unjust. I protest in the name of the congregation, to the proceedings of this day ; and appeal to the Synod." After which, the minister prayed ; and on leaving the pulpit to congratulate the elders on their pretended election, Mr. Burness stept up to the desk and lodged the above protest; took the instru ments in the hands of the Session-clerk, and demanded a copy of the minutes. The minister, on re-ascending the pulpit, delivered a short address, and declared th, elders solemnly ordained.—Montrose Review. A letter from Posen (Prussia) relates that a young Catholic peasant, whilst cutting down a tree in the forest of Baskou, belonging to M. Pniswer, a Jewish banker at Posen, was killed by the falling of the tree upon him. M. Pniswer not only made a present to the parents, but, with a religious tolerance worthy of _ note, ordered a large stone cross to be erected on the spot where the accident occurred. As the country is inhabited both by Protestants and Catholics, he EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF BlRDS.—During the high winds that prevailed on Sunday last, our harbour and floating docks were visited by large flights of a rare and beautiful species of bird, the " Sterna Arctica," or Arctic Tern. Thebirds were assembled in such vast numbers, that two or three hundreds were killed with stones and other missiles, whilst seve ra l were caught alive ; and so tame wer e they, that many were observed to pitch on the backs of passers by. This tern, as its name indicates, is a native of the higher arctic regions, and has been met with in all the late expeditions to the Polar Seas. It is a summer visitant to the coasts of Scotland, and the north of England,'but is rarely met with more southerly, and until the present, there was no instance on record of a specimen having been ob tained in this neighbourhood. The appearance of such vast flights of arctic birds, rare as a species, in the very heart of a large city, is an occurrence as remarkable as it is interesting. Flocks of these birds were also observed the same day at Clevedon, Weston, and other places along the Channel coast.—Bristol Mirror. TESTIMONIAL. TO BEN. M. KENNEDY, ESQ.—Last week, we quoted a paragraph from the Aoss-shire Adver tiser, mentioning that the friends of Ben. M. Kennedy, Esq., in Wick, proprietor and editor of the Arbroath Guide, had transmitted a splendid gold watch and ap pendages, through the Provost of that town, to the Chief Magistrate of Arbroath, for presentation, as a testimonial of the high respect entertained for Mr. Kennedy in his native town. We have now the pleasure of recording the presentation, which took place in the Town Hall on Thursday week, at a full meeting of the Town Council of Arbroath. It is certainly very flattering to Mr. Ken nedy to know that he should be' the honoured instrument of so much esteem, not only of the respectable inhabitants of the place of his nativity, but of that in which he has for so short a period occupied a public position ; indeed, lie felt it to be so - for, in returning his grateful thanks for the very valuable present which he received from the hands of Provot Mann, he observed, " If anything could have enhanced the value of the gift in my eyes, it is assuredly the circumstance of it having been presented to tae through a channel so respectable ;" also, ‘• Band. some and costly as the gift is, which I now hold, I hope I shall be enabled to look upon it, not for its intrinsic value alone, but as useful in pointing out to me that a conscientious and honest discharge of public duty is not without its reward."—Dundee Advertiser. OxroaD, MAY 18.--(From a Correspondent.)— By the provisions of the Theological Statute, passed at Oxford last week, Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity, has been constituted Chairman of the New Theological Board, and i s a l so f orma ll y recogn i se d as a public University Professor in Dogmatic Theology, and the Interpretation of the Scriptures. The Statute, there fore, virtually rescinds the unfavourable judgment passed by the University,. at the instance of the Tractarian party, in 1836, on occasion of Dr Hampden's appoint ment to the Chair by the late Administration. The child of an inhabitant of Motteville, near Rouen, a few days since swallowed a few pinches •of arsenic by mistake, thinking it to be flour. It was soon seized with dreadful convulsions, and little hope was entertained of saving its life, when a physician administered hydrated peroxide of iron, and immediately overcame the effects. of the poison. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. /.1 7 8/(}2 0 USE. A lad named hats Ballo., between 16 and 17 years of age, N . ‘ AS charged Upon s us pi c i on o f h av i ng ro b bed hollSe of Mr. Bentham, with resides near Abchurch yard. The n e s o ets e. nee n i td:her been entry eoft h hs a pseatpo d hciweme b vbaer e dvsp e eee n ::eoci i ee: the cheeses effected, ebotdeenadbn::odi::s,ebto:erlv,iret thieves employment lisreol:aff‘m.pr::otealmr:ri month, and :li r teui n lnir - tt, nlwat ust liusta(vPhinedrnio hich circumstances, that a person mho well knew the house girls of the family stated that at hal,f-pso twelves on the night of the robbery all wys safe, and that a t an ear l y hour qn ie it t the s e u sn4 u bi d oiac i 4 l? ,: a 6r t : h eom e t oci s . r i v t i tt give a arm boon bpi^~ i ,11 1 1.1 :: 1 9 f fi ci.:l;b h( C l e nci n \ e. s , i a rc s r en ' hey al o'foun aP)* yf shoes upon the promiles VAkiseist the Rrisoner's from the peculiar marks. bier? svgs kept in t} a PhE iii i?os f i tt h i e ot(i 4 gil itl en ri? dti( C : l : g :;f to t}te o, preSonce of 'any unweleonie visitor, in so!ilsroo . c..e, it was viesniui'dt ItaV,i3l-nryt rt t leest of 'the 4Yylnan OM, asked whetter any 511;k 1 4.9A had beep entertained cf the prisoner's hoilesty Wore tissis °I9- I Q tte girls replied, that teveral thh.gs had bean, missed while he was in the service of Mr..genthain, which it was suspected lie had taken, After one robbery he dis appeared altogether, although, if be had remained till the FR L d of the quarter, wages wou ld h ave b een d oe to him. yrio-1 1 .4s PRP 4eiPF itc-c Ol , l . e9,14.1d give or h4st-if; slid he i ngw nothipg clf: the robbery us the 414 agar haying no hoine he slept under 'the arches of the various bridges, which afforded accommo ~Ntion- t4_ many other per s o ns s i m il ar l y c i rcums t ance d. He was remanded for further examination. fellow. named John Tarinat. was char Id wall tatvi!tg, 1146 d lif!tat as e hop in Tlii: , sOcineellielsttt?t; fur 'One 'of the Met' 'employed in the shop had been robbed u a , gt . pricai l diamond, some time ago, by a 13,4-,'Wlioni he believed to be to pl so er, . fO . serVed the prisoner Watelailig d'iOnt tWe'' nerlibdUrhoo Fur . -I. o w pay lfoile he nlisiedlis"prop.s ego saw the Prisoner 100 in at him, FA w_ate him narrowly every laid the dittm'ond ant of gig lz;d, At last he went out and collared the prisoner, Who wits idrtpw4.4 e0fw.7,7t1 to the Compter, where he Was recognised aS'an eXpetoOpil k)f.cf;l4tf prisoner—W e ll; •if a - person is 'to be taken into custody for looping atp, > llf In Ft. ii r ogy ! tbrpgs ht. come to a pretty pass. Ijerinan tines —Ilion' often have ypu been in the c*Pter? ; never since I. was born, before this time. - 41: 1 4TIBS/1 GIBBS—Why, I hare been told the turn- keys knew you well ? Boy—Know me 1 I never saw any of theni before ; upon Ipy son), it is a fact, gra a hording working industrious lkd, yrilling to pot my hand to anything for gg honest penny. Gooch (the turnkey of the Compter).-He has been frequently in the Compter, and half a dpaen times ism Brolewell, lie is one of the worst characters in the City. oo myogth that I never was in Bridewell, and that I was never in the Popapter before, You mis take me for some thief I harp the inisfprtitUg 4)FesPR ble.--(A langli.) Gooch—His poor father is here, and will tell the troth. Boy—Yes, my father is here t he can. give me tI cha racter. (Here the father appeared,) Now, father, ain't I a good, hardworking fellow ? The Father—Yes, sometimes ; but you'd rather keep holidays than work. Boy—Wll, but these people say I was in prison many times. The Father—Why so you have been, haven't you? Boy—You mean that I was was away from you, But you don't know that I was in Bridewell, The Father-- 0 yes, I do know it, Alderman GIBBS—What have you to say . to that 12 Boy—Say • S'elp me God I never was in a prison before in all my life. Alderman Grum—Then your father tells a falsehood ? Boy—No, I don't say that ; but he is mistaken, as well as other people. Gooch—He always denies his knowledge of a prison in this manner. Boy—But yeu know nothing about me, man. The prosecutor—He kept watching me half an hour, determined, I am sure, to slip into the shop if I happened to turn my head aside, and to whip away the diamond, I lost all patience, and caught hold of him at last. Boy—Aye, and you had no more right to seize me than I had to seize you. Why, I could pull yon up by the lase.— (A laugh.) Alderman Gums said it was evident the prisoner was incorrigible, and remanded him for further examination. A woman, named Mattida Thatford, was charged with having broken eleven panes of glass in the lower win dow of the Mansion-house. A policeman said that the prisoner had been com mitted to Bridewell for a month from the Justice Room, for smashing windows in her drunkenness, and she told the Magistrates that the moment she came out of Bride well she should visit the windows of the Mansion House with her fists for a little bit of revenge. She accordingly began on the preceding day to demolish th e g l ass , and before the policeman could secure her'she succeeded in smashing eleven panes. Alderman GIBBS—She has been frequently in Bride well, I suppose ? Defendant—Oh dear, yes . very often indeed. Alderman Ginns—Why do you persevere in a course by which Sou are sure of going back to the place of punishment ? Defendant—Because I was committed for merely getting drunk. I suffered so much in Bride well that I determined to give the Lord Mayor a treat w'hen I came out. Nobler—You have got nothing by it but cut fingers. Defendant—l don't care about that a pin. Alderman Ginns—You shall have a little more of Bridewell now. I fine you 31., or three months in Bridewell. Defendant—You do, do you ? Oh, very well'! I have no money ; of course it is the other thing. Committed to Bridewell for three months. BOW-STREET. A rough-looking young man, and a rather pretty-faced young female, who were evidently of the very lowest class, were placed at the bar, charged with the following misdemeanour, and assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. Mr. Wild, landlord of the Marquis of Granby public house in Drury-lane, stated that on Wednesday night, at twelve o'clock, the two prisoners were sitting in the tap room, and after every one had gone, and the female had been turned out, the male remained ; witness requested him frequently to go away, as the female was making a disturbance outside, but he would not go. After some time witness went to him again, and said lie was deter mined he should go, when he started up and tore wit ness's shirt and waistcoat, and otherwise behaved very violently. The female prisoner, who had been turned out previously, and was making the noise outside the door, would not leave the premises till he went out, and that was the reason witness wished to turn the male prisoner out ; he was quite sober at the time. Police-constable, F 121, stated that the last witness gave the male prisoner into his charge. He went along a few paces very quietly, but he then became very vie lent, threw hiniself on the ground, kicked witness, and struck him a very serious blow on the mouth. Mr. Wild's shirt and waistcoast were torn. Police-constable, E 28, went to assist the last witness, who was surrounded by a mob of low persons, all of whom were endeavouring to rescue the prisoner. The 'male prisoner kicked him also in the ribs, and was otherwise very violent. Witness was compelled to leave hold of another prisoner, in order to assist in taking this one. Policeman, F 145, assisted the two last witnesses in taking the ma'e pr isoner into custody, when he kicked him very violently, and made considerable resistance in going to the station-house. The male prisoner, in defence, complained that he had been drinking the whole of the day in Mr. house, and had spent all his money, when Mr. Wild attempted th o reat, rt i l r t l , ll B4 l cm. out in n\Na' very w u a n s i manlyn the h s' a a b y ; t s u e izi turning nghim people b yth e out of his house when they had spent all their money, and he thought that was a very hard thing. When he was given into charge he said he would go quietly with any man, but he was not a felon, and did not wish to be dragged about in the manner in which he was ; some of the police, however, behaved very roughly to him, and he confessed that he resisted. Mr. TWYFORD sentenced the male prisoner to be im prisoned in the House of Correction for one month : the female, it appears, was to have been charged with assault ing Mrs. V. , ild, but, as the lady was not present, she was discharged. • MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Jane Howell, a female of decent appearance, about 35 years of Serp en ti ne Ri ver ." Po age: was charged with " intendi ng t o d rown her self in the lice Constable, No. 25 of the A division, stated, that about nine o'clock on Wednesday evening, as he was on duty in Hyde Park, near to the Royal Humane Society's Receiving-house, his attention was drawn to the prisoner, who was walking on the margin of the river, read ing A pray er . b oo k . She had a tt rac t e d the ob servance of severa l persons by her stran ge de meanour, wh o began to assemble around her. Two or t h ree times she pushed tow ar d s th e water, as if about plunging herself in, but desisted, either from persons advancing towards her, or the sound of an approaching. carriage. Witness accosted her, and inquired what she was doing there, but she re f use d to give any accou nt o f h erse l f, and seemed painfully anxious to screen herself from the gaze of the bystanders, who had been observing her actions. On her way to the sta tion-house, she admitted that her intention was to drown herself, in consequence of a quarrel she had had with a person whose name she refused to give, as also her address, further than stating that the had been living at the east end of the town. On witness reproving her for attemptitb* such a rash act she replied, in a t one of bitt e rness, "You did not give me life, and have no right. to prevent my taking my own. Mr. HARDwlcK—What account are you now disposed to give of yourself. Where do you come from. What are y ou ? Prisoner—l decline answering those questions. Mr. HAnnwicK—But in what station of life here you been in. How did you gain your livelihood ? Prisoner —I have been the head of a family for eleven years. Mr. HARDWICK—In what capacity? Prisoner (burst ing into tears, and evidently in great agony of mind)— I was called a w if e ; b ut I am a b an doned, an d h ive no relatives or s uccour to l oo k to. Mr. HARDWICK. further interrogated the unfortu na t e woman, but she p ers i ste d i n re f us i ng to give any account of herself or connexions, and the worthy Magistrate therefore directed that for the present she should be re ceived into St. George's Workhouse. BEGGING IMPOSTORS —John Holloway, a blind roan, and Mary his wife, a remarkably strong, able-bodied woman, were apprehended On Wednesday i n N ew Bond 4treet, - by William H07. - sfOnd, one of the constables be-. longing Jo-'the • Mendieity Society, soliciting alms, by tating that they were actually starving, not having tasted any food whatever for the space of forty-eiftht hours. On searching the -male prisoner at the station house, 11. 16s. 6d. in silver was found sewed up in the . waistband of his breeches. They were committed for 21 days each. WORSHIP-STREET. . A young man, named John Meadows, was charged with having violently assaulted an eating-house-keeper named Collins, living in Brick-lane, St. Luke's. On the preceding evening the complainant was disturbed by a loud uproar in front of his house. On going out, he found the prisoner engaged in beating a woman in a most un merciful manner. He felled her three times to the ground, and continued beating her until she became in sensible. The complainant interfered in protection of the unfortunate woman, upon which he was attacked by tho ?tisoner, who, struck him several blows in th e f ace, 411. d tke was given into custody. in his defeuee, the prisoner charged the prosecutor with U.viv, struck him first, and considered he had no '4 4 4,'1.t to interfere, as the woman he had half murdered ; was. only his w if e . The prisoner was severely admonished by the Magis ..*;eatez atria fined 21.15. or a month's imprisonment. Thy rtenen journals publish the following instance of honesty.. A poor woman, of the hamlet of Bretagne, with ave children, supporting herself and them by her labour in a factory, found on the 14th inst,, a pocket. book, containing 4,500 f. in bank /hoes and commercial bills, which she imwediately deposited in the hands of the conamisaary of ' tbo last sitting of the Court of. Assize of the \ r ondos°, a man named Louis Montjalard` was con ' detnned to death for murder, under the following g r ip. cumstances :—Montjalard and Eugenie 'Agush were both domestics in the service of 4, de :Ponson, Mayor of 'lustre], in the .A 7 too close inti mac y too k t'( Vi,twvetl4m, and Eupenie b ecame enc i ente . L ou i s, ashamed of such an intercourse with a girl who was plain in her person, and who had been previously gu ilty. of a similar weakness with another, and also teakillg the resentM(l4 Of 411 aunt c ow, whbr,l he had expecta tipl9,, saynnt4 kigenie to conceal h er condi tioP• t;'.elocit in the night of September 19, tppis iahned Eugenie to wulk out with him, under , the pretence of getting her some grapes ; but, leading hr. to the brink of a well so me little distance frcip tie he suddenly pushed her in, t 9 Ale tottona, hut, iO-11 * ; 4V1 4 . 6 tie water, caught by a OleocM ` ll 4l §%l.Ptlngd Believing it to be . 4Pcivient, F t ha walled to Louis tolt help her out ; instead of U4l/I S 5, lie hurled & heavy 4011 p kls)Ai upon her. This missed it its cliaivet., the clotermtned man then left hey. l wept hiss k Vito the •-honse, and bropgtt a 1900 carbide, which he diseharged at the poor'girl; who was theyeby wounded in the should er , but still no strength to keep her hold. Finding no otlivr means of killing her in the well, he helped her out, and immediately put an end to hvr WV, by - beating her brains opt with the htOtten 4 of the gun. Returning once 4141 1 '0 40 the huuse ; Ice dressed himself and fled, but PlOt l it acquain4incV, to whom he confessed what he had done. ileing arrested, he made an explicit declaration of all the circumstances to the examining magistrate, and Was committed for trial, The Peripyr,e , our represents that port to be state of gyet4depression, from the dismissal of be tween pp and . 04(1 . workmen from the Government bnilding•yards, in consequence of the reduction of the estimates in the budget of the Minister of the Marine, We find the following-in the Canslitutionnel. Our contemporary is surely growing wag g i s h A cer t a i n number of ladies have just formed themselves into a committee to exercise a direct influence on the approach ing elections, They have chosen for their agent k. 1-)esPlantades, No. 13, Rue Traversiere St. Honore, who assumes the title of expert verificateur des atiNOTICOS dens les journaux—a modest employment, which he unites to that of political reformer, These ladies complain, through Al, Desplantades, of the diminution of physical and moral qualities of the present race of Deputies, who have, for the most part, grey hair, and cannot show th e slightest energy in the accomplishment of their duty. In consequence, they propose to the electoral colleges not to re.elcct a single one of them, not even M. Pedre Lacaze, M. Vigier, and M, Golos, whose black hair might excite their sympathy. The Committee of these female re formers invites provincial ladies to send, as soon as possible, to the above address, a list of eligible persons in their departments, aged,' says the circular, trow 30 to 36, well.made, bachelors, men of probity, and disen gaged.' Ihey will then take measures to assure the elections of those young representatives. The ladies do not explain the means which they intend employing, but they appear certain of success. "This Committee,' add these ladies, ' created for the reform of the Chamber of Deputies, shall be composed, at Paris, of ladies of the greatest distinction, and quite capable of keeping up a correspondence,' " A letter from Blois, after relating the circum stances of the murder committed by the man Vigreux on his wife at St. Laurens-les-Eaux, in the Lou. el- Cher, of which we have given an account, says that in a short time after Vigreux fled, his house was perceived to be on fire', but was very soon extinguished. In the morning of the 12th inst., while the magistrates were making inquiries as to the circumstances, a loud detona tion was heard from a barn adjoining the house of Vigreux, in which they were sitting, and a strong smell of gunpowder was perceived. The door of the barn was locked, but forced open, and Vigreux was found lying dead, having shot himself with his gun, which he had carried with hint and kept. At first it was difficult to conceive how he had got into the barn, but on searching around, a hole in the wall was discovered, which he must hare made himself, and by which he entered. GOOD NEWS FOR SPORTSMEN.—III a fiwld a few miles west from Edinburgh, a partridge was found on the last day of April, sitting on 23 eggs ; a circum stance, we believe, unprecedented at that period of the season. THE PRICE OF CATTLE.— The price of cattle and sheep is rising as rapidly as it declined. There was a large supply at the Liverpool market yesterday, but still the prices were very high. We stated a fortnight ago that the decline was the consequence of a mere panic, and that it would not continue.--Liverpool Times. About a month ago, says the Courrier de Lyon, a little girl was bitten by a mad dog. bier father tried to save her, but he was also attacked and bitten. The girl died soon after of hydrophobia, and a few days back the father died of the same disease. SHOVEL HATS IN SCOTLAND.—The following para graph, under the heading of " Reformed Catholic Church," appears in the Edinburgh Observer, which gives it on the alithority of a correspondent :—" The annual meet ing of the. Synod of the United Diocese of Dunkeld, Dumblane, and Fife, will be held this year, at Kirk aldy, on Wednesday the 15th day of June next, when matters of considerable impOrtance to the particular in terests of the Diocese, mid to the general welfare of the Reformed Catholic Church in Scotland, are expected to come before it. Among others, will be a proposal for a;! change in the style and title of the United Diocese ; for a revival of the office of Archdeacon, chiefly with a view to that functionary's exercising a surveillance over the temporal condition of churches or chapels, throughout the Diocese, from year to year ; and for an authorised and unanimous assumption, on the part of the Dean and clergy, of the ordinary clerical dress,—the latter em bracing the shovel hat, single breasted coat, and short cassock."— Glasgow Saturday Post. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY FOR THE SLIP , PRESSION OF INTEMPERANCE.—Wednesday morning the Annual Meeting of the above Society was held atExeter hall. Earl Stanhope in the chair. On the platform were a great number of gentlemen, amongst whom were the Bishop, of Norwich, J. S. Buckingham, Esq., Dr. Oxley, Rev. C. Stovel, and several delegates from Ame rica, &c. The Report, which was very lengthy, was read by Mr Green, the Secretary : it stated that the So ciety had greatly increased in numbers during the past year, both in the metropolis and the country. A number of excellent speeches in behalf of the Society were de livered by the Bishop of Norwich, Mr. Buckingham, and other gentlemen, one of whom, named Peck, narrated the following interesting incident .—" In the month of June, 1837, a woman named Wright, a very dissolute character, while drinking. at the bar of a gin-shop in Drury-lane, offered to sell her child, a little boy, about two years old, which she then-held in her arms, for a quartern of gin. A man named Myers, who is a Water man, then and now residing in Feather's -court, Drury lane, took the wretched mother at her word, paid for the gin, and received the child from her arms. Since that period up to the present time, Aiyers, who is a-very dustrior.s man, although he has at times experienced great privations, has wholly nraintained the child, to whom he is greatly attached ; he has had the child christened in the names of its mother and himself. Since the day the purchase and exchange were made the unna tural mother had never ex pressed any solicitude about it, and had latterly been lost sight of altogether." Mr. Peck stated that he had made effiirts to get the boy into the Blue Coat School, but without success. The thanks of the meeting were voted to the Noble Chairman, and separated. The General Steam Navigation Company's splen. did steam-yacht, Menia, from Ostend, landed her pas• sengers at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at London , bridge Wharf. Wednesday an inquest was held at the Royal Oak Inn, Lewisham-road, before Mr. Carttar, on the body of Miss Jane Sophia Mortlock, aged 19, a beautiful and accomplished young lady, who committed suicide by drowning herself. Edward Miles, butler to Mr. Moor, of Talav era Cottage, Lewisham-road, deposed that the deceased young lady was his master's netee. She had resided with her uncle since her father and mother had left England for India. Iler father was an officer in the East India Company's service. On Monday afternoon witness saw the deceased walking in the flower-garden ; she had a book in her hand ; at dinner-hour, which was five o'clock, the young lady was missing. Inquiries were made as to her absence, but nothing satisfactory took place to account for her absence. About seven &clock the same evening the body of the unfortunate young lady was discovered in a pond ill one of the mea dows adjacent to the premises. Mr: Nicholson, a sur geon; was called in, but all human aid was unavailing. Other evidence was heard, after which the Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." Fourteen houses, twenty-one barns, and a great quantity of farming stock and household furniture, were destroyed by fire, three days ego, at Martinpeuch, near Arras, causing a loss estimated at 120,000 f. ' PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND.—The yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of this establishment took place yesterday, when the Directors made their report on the affairs of the Bank, from u it appeared, that the amount of the rest or undivided profits was 114,200 L .55.9 d. , and it was announced by the Directors to be their in. tention to pay, in July next, an extraordinary dividend or bonus of four per cent. on the capital stock, in addi tion to the usu a l 'tidend of the same amount for the half-year dirt idsinnmer Ile , : . In the list of . ,:s., which was gliven - fists at; h N er el i v t s l r a n j a e n st o y n sl2i E i d iz t l ) a a s i t i : it was stated that e\ renee family were 3,,:. he \rious members o f th e Fitzcla iresq. This was not the case, for althou g h h onoure d b invi tation w as gratefully %.iit,d. eiMaje s ty' s comman d, the CHURCH- RATE SEIZL,_ . Vestry- Clerk of Allh allows, wit 'N. Mr. Drew, the 13 / a nd, the constable from th e Mansion. h ouse, yesterda. Messrs. C ooper and Co., entered the premises of by virtue of a warrant fru. the Lord Mayor seized a quantity of beaver fur to the , was for Church-rates, and ti tle of 6°L ,Ix- nce-Pountney , lane, and rds the stipend of the Rev. James William Bellamy, parishes of St. Mary Abchu l r " e t , The seizure and St. Laurence- Pountney, and , Head Master of tA ctor of the united Gramtnar-school, and for the Rev. Merchant Taylors' l Vincent, Rector o f t h e united IDa ish Great and L ess, Vi car of Bulanery:e Allhallows the I s liam St. Andrew of Chiche s t er C at h e d ral. , x, andPrebend The numerous passengers who lei London on Sunday l ast b y the Antwerp Compan) Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, included this Smythe, Bart. ; G eneral Trevor ; and Lthvard Stewart, all with th e i r respective families ; Dn°„ Sirs' &c, The ship returned here yesterday mornin ( -" favourable pass age of ninleeen hour s , to t h e To Wit ' r t IRON STEA MER , FOR THE e nes steamer, called the Eagle, which has been budr Alessrs. I)itchburne and Maul, expressly for the le galloon of the Rhone, leaves the Thames, this day, r, France, She is a beautiful vessel, and both in her eon Strnetion and her machinery, is singularly adapted for that rapid river. Her measurement is about 286 tons ; her length 185 feet ; and she is. fitted with 'a pair of ex quisite engines of 11Q horse power, made by the emi nent house of Mills', Ravenhill, and Co., of Blackwall. Netwitlistanihng her size • and capacity, her draught of we t ter is only twenty-two inches —a point it wits es sential to secure, in order to make her available for such a river as the Rhone, the depth of which, in many places, does not exceed three feet. Mr. Miller was the .first to master t 2t ortaidt4e - obstacles to the navi gation of tha :pisi t -sis i t by ; and the engines of this Wes we understmd, the twenty-fifth pair that his #0.1 1 4e has made kr that river.. Her conveyance to Mar useoilshlleisg,et d nr i Sate to the Rhon e , w hi c h w ill b e a matter cf ffieulty, owing to h er b uo y ancy and peculiar cons tr o o, on as a river boat, will be entrusted to Cap -1;441 Farmer, sen., whose ability and experience as a 4ke-Are commander eminently qualify him for the respon sible charge. A numerous party, including several sci entific and n au ti ca l men, proceeded down the liver with the Eagle on Tuesday last, in order to test the ma chinery, which was found complete in all respects, and worked, even at the rate of seventeen miles an hour, in manner that elicited th e warmest expressions ofadmi ration. Towards the close of the excursion, the company, which also comprised several ladies, partook of an ele gant collation in the splendid saloon of the vessel, and spent a very social evening. As a specimen of naval architecture and engineering, the Eagle must impress the French with a high opinion of our skill and resources. The Latter-day Saints have been giving two or three lectures on the beauties and benefits of Mormonism, with what success we have not heard. If they are left to themselves, and not brought into importance by opposi tion, the agitation will, we have no doubt, die a natural death.—Cheltenham Examiner. Two or three months ago, one-third of the central prison at Beaulieu, near Caen, was destroyed by fire. One of the prisoners, named Monbaut, was suspected of being the incendiary, and indicted before the Court of Assizes for Calvados ; but, on being tried at the last session, was acquitted. The And de 1 Ordre of Arlon, in Belgium, contains the following:—" The agent of the General Otishier a t Arlon absconded on the 9th instant, leaving 'a deficit amounting, it is said, to about 250,000 francs, which can be traced to three years back, but has hitherto been con cealed by illicit means." COPY OF AN OLD RECEIPT.—"ffeb the 17 1600 and Eighty two Received of Will: Knight the sum of two shillings in full for halfe a years duty for two Fire-hearths in his house in Kentisborw due and end at St. lifiehall last past, I say received by —Fel 71 L. hob. Harndull collector," In the original the words in italics are in writing; the rest in print. It appears that in those days, they were obliged to pay a tass fur lighting a fire in their houses.— Western Luminary. A correspondent writes from Java, that, in the morning of isloventher 14, an eruption of the Goenseng Guentoer Mountain, in the district of l'eranger, took place with violent subterraneouS noises, which lasted till three in the afternoon, covering the earth to the extent of ten miles around with sand and cinders to various depths, from two -to five inches, damaging a great space of cultivated around, and %upwards of 400,000 coffee trees, Chartism is born of a defeated hope, of disappoiht meat of the fruits of the Reforth Act ; it has been fos tered by the selfish spirit of Mammon—by a sordid, re morseless contempt of the inalienable rights of humanity. The vice of the age is a want of sympathy with the con dition of the great mass of the people. They are looked upon as the mere instruments of wealth—the mere ma chines with eyes to direct them, and limbs to labour for the privileged classes ; whose money-bags are to them as the Great Wall of China, shutting them out from the barbarian poor. In England, the test ofa man's social worth is to be found only at his banker's. Property is the Mumbo Jumbo of high•minded, intelligent, John Bull. He execrates the Pope, and sends out •Missionaries (cer tainly not " warranted to stand the Climate") to plant what shall be future Bishoprics on the banks of the Niger,—but he makes up for his contempt of foreign idols, by his frequent genuflexicks to the money-god he has, at home. By the c l amour t h at some politicians make for the exclusive rights of property, one would almost think—did not the existence of fashionable ac coucheurs (" for," as Lampedo says, " man-midwife is grown vulgar") refute the idea —that your men of pro perty were coined in the Mint like sovereigns, and were therefore destitute of that plebeian humanity working in, and operating upori, the poorer creatures of clay—the moving mud and soil of the social throng.—Punch. The M'oniteur states that the Procureur du Roi and the Juge d'lnstruction of Versailles commenced their inquiry into the causes of' the deplorable accident on Sunday, the Bth, on Monday, the following day, and did not delay it, as asserted by several journals, till Wed nesday. The official journal adds, that this inquest is sufficiently advanced to be annexed to that taken by the authorities of Paris, with equal promptitude and perse verdnee. As soon as these are completed by reports from men of science and others capable Of elucidating the matter, the whole aff a i r a i ll b e brought before the Tribunal f the Seine, within whose jurisdiction the parties to whom blame may be imputed are resident. A fatal affray took place at a public-house called the Five-sail Mill, at l'errington, on the 6th inst. A man entered the kitchen, and, without any ceremony, took up a glass of beer which was ,on the chimney-piece, and drank it off. On being spoken to by the landlord he becamoinsolent, and was turned out of the house ; he soon after return e d, w h en hi gh .words ensued, and the landlord, a much smaller man, took him in his arms and threw him out. His head falling on a stone caused a concussion of the brain, of which he died the following day k The landlord has absconded.—Bury Post, PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, ST. GEORGE'S FIELDS. —The Anniversary Festival of this Institution took place yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-str ee t ; the Right Hon. 11. Goulburn in the chair. Among the gentlemen present we observed Sir C. Clarke, Bart., Dr. Warburton, Rev. Dr. Croly, Sir Claudius Hunter, Alr. Kemble, M.P., Mr. ,Anderton, Rev. Dr. Major, 11. Loydd, Esq., &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been duly honoured, the Report for the last year was read by the Secretary. From this document it would appear that, during the past year, upwards of eighty-five addi tional names had been added to the subscribers and life-governors of the institution. During the period to winch the Report referred, 118 criminal claim n, and 71 boys and 65 girls, the children of convicted parents, had been admitted to the benefits of the charity. The Report went on to detail several individual instances of the beneficial operations of the Society. After the read ing of the Report Mr. Goulburn proposed the toast of the evening -"Prosperity to the Philanthropic Societe," prefacing the toast with .a high eulogium upon the eiji‘cts and operations of the Society. The toast was duly honoured. A number of toasts were then disposed of, and the party broke up at a late hour. During the evening the following, among many other, donations were announced by the Secretary :—Lord Chief Justice Tindal, 10/. los.; P. B. Duncan, Esq., 251.; Lord Rad stock, 10/. 10s. ; J. Chaterhonse Smith, Esq., 211. los., Bank of England, 105/. ; 11. Kemble, Esq., 21/. ; Right lion. Mr, Goulburn, 101. 10s. ; J. Labouchere, Esq., 101. 10s.; the Marquis of Bristol, 501 ; Baron Gurney. 201.; Lord Grosvenor, 101.; John Curtis, Esq., 12/. 125. ; Rev. Dr. Rice, 101. 10s.; Alderman Lucas, 51.55., &c. The total amount of subscriptions was nearly 2,0001. A PATERNAL MAGISTRATE.--A French journal publishes the following police regulations, issued by the Mayor of Lorris, near Montargis :—" Police regula tions relative to public balls.—We, Mayor of Lorris, having considered the improprieties which prevail in the pubic ball-room, have ordained, and do ordain as fol lows :--Art. 1. Having considered the accidents which have occurred from the manner in which dancing has been conducted for some time past, it is expressly for bidden from this day forward to dance the galop, under a penalty of from sf. to 10f., to be paid by the musicians who shall play such a dance. 2. Having remarked how many young females fall whilst dancing the figure called pavtourdle, and not having it in our power to suppress the aforesaid figure, it is forbidden to turn so quickly, to jump, or to strike with the two feet.—Bon Lay, Mayor.' We have received the Madrid journals of the Bth instant. They are totally destitute of' political interest The Correo Aacional states that the diligence from Se ville was stopped on the 3d, near Santa. Cruz, by nine bandits, who robbed all the passengers. A second list of bankers, merchants, and others sub scribing to the relief of the sufferers at Hamburgh has been published. Amongst the names are those of Messrs. Jacques Lafitte, and Co., for 2,000 f. ; Messrs. Gabriel Odier, Janes Odier, J. Lefevre and Co., P. F. Lestapie, J. E. Larrieu, A. Dassier, Alleg,ri, IL Lutteroth, Hart mann and Son, F. Hartmann, F. A. Selliere, for I,ooof. each ; and many others for smaller sums of from 600E' down to 2f. The amount of this list is 19,521 f., mak ing the total already subscribed 81,521 f. This subscrip tion is independent of one opened by a committee com posed of Marshal Gerard, Duke de Valmy, and other persons,of high rank. • The Governor-General of Algeria has published an order, dated Oran, April 28, announcing that, from the Ist inst., a reg u l ar Post-office communication would take place weekly between Oran and Tlemcen, Mascara and Mostaganem. Th e mail is to be under the escort of a detachment of the neighbouring tribes. SIR CHARLES BELL. - and first-:'ate anatomist and 1, cturer, has cause blank in the literary world which will not readily De supplied. 'Of the preli m i nar y e d uca ti on , u pon the foundationof which Si r Ch ar l es s t ar t e d on hi s career into , world, we have th e ev id ence o f hi s own words. have been e d uca t e d t o ana t omy ," sa y s he, ex, his cellent work upon Op er ati ve Surgery, " with a strict ness and severity for which I am now gr a i3ell ), United in study with a brother (Mr. John, veil whom the general sense of the profession rank' s , wo high—longh is assistant, and then his partner---1, th , still' dissatisfied, until I had a wider knowledge °' profession." no The literary l a b ours o f Si r Ch ar l es Bell l% i a ,,, te: less voluminou s th an recon dit e, and no less actors than remarkable f or th e i r c l ear an d excelleat m .o, vention in all matters that regarded his pectili 3r ori . of science. These labours spread over trianY,,,),., l is The first works of any note w hi c h we have l'e's; rg h : were two, published as early as 1802, at Ed 1131 ).., n they consist chiefly of descriptions of illustrlon gTavings upon the great n e r vous s y s t em of tbf pate. frame, and brought at once their author into In 1806 Sir Charles produced his exeelletl siting io ; says on the Anatomy o f Exp ress i on in 1- 3 a ' of Engaged, by his professional duties, in the st u od the anatomical str uc t ure , as regar d e d th e praeti ce ut bor inquiries of the phy s i c i an an d th e surgeo n, the a fios t now attempted to deduce from this study th e or md most pleasing result s . St an di n g, as anate o , ; . ies, related to the arts o f d es i gn , as the g"ran,.., l h , r lo t language in which th e y a dd ress us, Sir L. 11°\ took into consideration the ex p re , which . ressions, att itu t ye a t n4 movements of the human figure, are Of human aarac•-rs of this languag e , a n d s h o w the worWytii r series o )assion in its infi n it u d e of shapes.. , ctures abounded in amusing, no less Ur al instructive criticisms, v'erein he strays into classic q uartet fit t e , topics. Among some of his (I. ll ' find him notic, the acuteness of the. satiric li e n Persius, and hl strike off the expr,, as indicative of emo.i on, sive characteristic of the Il es o f, confrere, Horace, who frequeto "Rides, sit, et nimk.Trac naribus Minus aptis acutis & c. His lu A r i . e-ti tbf too, attempts to find a denomination or on ht in the; slight touchc.s „, pus snarling muscles of animals, Whier take their, °r- ilie from the margin of the orbit of the 6 , 7 e, find torte upper jaw ;—these he called " riugentßs"—t h , e ,„.;te? long muscles, employed at feeding-time, he desig n •, "depascentes;' Sir Charles's work on the " Anatomy . of the P , - ▪ t . / 1 has been p ronounce d to b e the best adapt e d to i.Ol the anatomy o f th e ercap h a l on s i nce the publiig., Vicq D'Azy r ' s. s pl en did wor k on the same it • es In the year 1813 Sir Charles delivered a v e a l * cellent c ourse o f l ec t ures at Kensington, rosin'Zche then str enuous l y t h e pr i nc i ples of the English '"of of Phy s i o l ogy , an d exposing the futilit i es do French philosophers and physiologists, wh ese di ltV trines, rep resen ti ng lif e as the. mere physical r e T t bd. certain combin a ti ons an d act i ons of parts , bi. termed organizati on , did so much to d e rnorfkhz e t e injure the mi n d s of thousands. Sir Charles ei l li de the lists again s t th ese wr i ters, and stout l y deb both religion and science. His sedulous attention to anatomy alone, l e te Bell almost in aft er y ears regrette d , as h e co nsj d that it had made him negligent of those acquir e . :40 which he thought might have more highly he ll bet 4 him. This regret, however, must surely haY e A 3 a . but transient, when it is considered that it wa 9 atli solely his anatomi ca l acquirements . which t i. r";,? Bridgewater Com m itt ee to nominate him to tnd charge of o ne o f th e c hi e f o f t h e i r treatises, 57:1 form part of those engaged in working al t o, great argument" of the "Power, Wisdom, and' ness of God," according to the will and testarne' the noble and high-minded Peer. It is almost surplusage to mention Sir ti Bell's Essay on Animal Mechanics, wh)ch Brougham, th en Ch ance ll or, requested him to "b, 11 1 nor his furthe r lab our i ng , in conjunction Lordship, in illustrating the " Natural Theolog.y Dr. Paley, an important work, in Vaich these g,' , powerful and m ascu li ne m i n d s threw new around the labours of their solid-ttinking praderili Sir Charles B e ll was e l ecte d to the Surgietl';oo iu the University of Edinburgh, in 1835, i n the of Dr. Turner. Montpellier journal, th e Courrier die ll4 mentions the arrest of five Spanish refugees, f_ A ° ";ss tnem officers of rank, on a c h arge o f h ar i ng art " , 0 0 junta to raise recruits for a cou:iter-revolution in They were removed from Montpellier o n the 342:4,0• ' Calais, which is to be their residence, unless trp vernment should think it n ecessar y t o compel the proceed to England. A very fine specimen of that rare fish the sucker,' the " Cyclopterus Lunn us" of Linnxu 9 r s oi ef' last week drawn on shore in a net, by some , fis h b i e- fi 5 , 4 11 ' on Portland beach. The grotesque shape of t- f -s reov, with respect both as to depth itnd thickness 10 ~,r e; e it to its length, renders it quite a natural curio'f,t.7l'ertly very seldom seen on our coast, but is plentiful' sr ward. Pennant says, that on placing a fish of th e "' cies, just caught, into a pail, of water, it fi x ed lt7ctbi firmly to the bottom that, on taking it by the whole pail by that means was lifted, though gallons, and that without. removing the fish frO. hold.—Somerset County Gazette. id ° it Itc:Jd s In consequence of Mr. Roebuck having gain,... i . c V appointment of his Committee, Mr. Boothby, the r c i e ,/ ter, is come down to Nottingham to obtaitrevid'a l , Derbyshire Chronicle. Culaten-RATEs.--A parochial meeting w ' " 5 V ri yesterday in the P ar i s h Ch urc h, to w hi c h t he CI - O, wardens submitt e d - '- is es 'O. a statement of the expens , current year for the salaries of the officers and of the building s , w hi c h amounte d to 52 1 . 1 7 s . 04 cover this charge a ra t e o f one -h a lf penny i n the Pat on the rental of the parish was proposed and sec .° r an amendment th a t no ra t e b e grante d was likewise hr posed, and, on a di v i s i on , th e amen d ment was car an immense mai9rity.—Berwick Adve r ti s e r . THE NEW rOOR•LAW.-It is impossible to v•' terise in too strong terms the base and infair oP c d plicity of the T ory party at t h e e l ect i on, in refor 'Doe this very question. None were found readier than d' at that period, to ensnare the people by a prole:ol d s if pithy- - with their w oun d e d f ee li ngs an d aggral: 3l t heir, ferings,—and f or w h at p urpose ? ' Only to raise toali selves to p ower , th at they might the more effl o o" trample them d e ep er i n the dust. The New Poo r d ti e the Whigs was then denounced' by them as one "boo' blackest acts of legislative demons ; yet no socone r i eo they su ccee d e d to power an d place, than they bring ,1 almost exact copy of that very Whig measure , a ,; r ek' they then branded as a base and brutal law. never was there a band of political reprobates 511 „" t !, These, collected before. Returned to Parlisin er o:l lighten the burdens of the country, they saddle 4 , 0 1? an Income-tax. Chosen on the faith that thef,Vi repeal the New Poor-law, they are the first to cosi r t& 4 ; But all this is an exac t em b o di ment of t h e se,' tk . ., Toryism.. It h as d ece i ve d, oppresse d , and plunder do' people from the beginning ; and it will continue to the end.—Leeds Times. The Princess Louise of Baden, eldest of the Do►vag er Grand Duchess Stephanie, of Prince Gustavus Vasa, died lately at Nice, in year. ' TENACITY OF SCOTCH IRON.---A very -- p. L . - proof of th e great tenac i ty of Scotch made bar 'P!,; this week, been exhibited in the Abercorn foundrY: s o ; , iron under op erat i on was the produce of Mr. P.beef works, Glasgow, and formed the tire of a railway" In turning the wheel, Messrs. Barr and M4Nab t`'` k 9,1 a ribbon of i ron a b out a quarter of an inch brog'ate about the thicknesi of thin pasteboard, which Lo c _ i le 'lliri P t in length 67 feet. 'this was its l engt h i n t h e spin'' ja° If stretched to i ts f u ll-l engt h , i t would inearar t, '" 300 legit. —Leeds Journal. The illessager announces that the NatiVit ea l ' , seised on Monday at the Post-office, and in the bu coo of that journal, and that a prosecution has bee'', .'inenced against the responsible editor, for sonic, 0 1? rited imputations upon the Procureur du Roi 01 1 '. 1 5 , 5 t Magistrates, with reference to the late railway, (ll f Those proceedings have been instituted on a plaint of two of the public functionaries attac' e the Na tional. ,pe FATAL ACCIDENT. —OR Friday last, Cap.- 0 r,, new, of the sloop Friends, James Agnew, a you il e b' fb r he r one of the hands in the same vessel, Captain D. T 6 ' o ,f of the sloop Bob Roy, and James M•Creadie, , l eile sloop Catherine, all belonging to Stranraer, pr y we r • in a boat to Larne (from which place their vesat par • moored at a di s t ance o f a b out t h ree miles), forteroil pose ofgetti ng t h e i r sa il s repa i red, and were tw-t about sev en o'clock in the ev , ning, when the bo a s" upset off Isle Magee. C a pt a i n T orrance and le o:: Agnew not having b een a bl e to reac h the b oat , .We jog b fortunately. drowned. Captai n Agnew and b r oac M'Creadi e c l ung to t h e b oat, and were saved.wit A ate' , difficulty, by a man f rom Isle Magee, who bea r " l'l 3, r cries, and haste ne d t o their assistance with a bo,li t a 'll o lid bodies wer e f oun d on W e d nesday evening. —" # - Register. ___ r • 13 IR TH S. On the 13th in s t., ctory, at the Re Bow Devon, th e ~, the Be,. F r ed er i c k Vander Blouleu, of a daughter. 'di of I, ' On the 14th inst.. at Grosvenor-place, Bath, the lei Pycroft, Esq., Mad ras Ci v il S erv i ce , o f a son. oilie On the 16th inst., th e w ife of C. B. Rule, Esq,, bill, Brixton-hill, Surrey, of a daughter. tb „ at On the 16th inst., at St. Andrew's-t errace, rir°- 4. lady of Major Newport, of a daughter. , T. ''" On the .17th inst., at West Brixt on , Surrey, l'''' I Daniel, of a daughter. _ Av e' i _ . • BP' U p per , On the 17th inst., at Tottenham, the lady of John - Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., Mrs. G. G. Ri c h ardson, o f $ n' of On the 18th inst., in Upper Wi mpole-street, the Isjv Marshall, Esq., M. P., of a son. Gi st' Killed near Caubnl, in November last, George Wr is° , r d Assistant-Suwon, Bombay Medical Service. E - 0 1 On the 7th inst., at King's-terrace, Southsea, 31 1 0 r Ni ; s0 Raynsford, Brigadier in the service of his Highness o°' Hydrabad, in the East Indies. rwo On the 17th inst., at Trinity Hospital, GreenwichA ' 3 - 8 , 1 , 4; eldest daughter of the late C. H. Tatham, Esq., 3gewilli° HaOgniet,hoef i l i 7 e t r h l i i n ai s , t. s , ty a,t s E n a o st ya G i r N in a s y t y ea , d a , g !ieut . enant e oi London: P r i n t e d and Published by MURDO Y°i j 0 No. 112,. S tran.;. at The Sim °Bice. ;; ~" 2 " ' . Stray'! the County of Midd lesex, Friday, M ay 29; ~~'' ~' r A 11 01 tpt