The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed without any particular alteration in prices, but the supply was good. The export demand was princi pally for Boweds, from 5Td. to 63. per lb. The sales were 8,000 bales-1,500 for export, and 500 on speculation, comprising, in addition to Ameri cans, 250 Pernam and Maranham, 60. to qd. ; 100 Bahia, 54d. to 6d. ; 300 Egyptian, 570. to ; 1,500 Surats, 4d. to scl. ; and 200 Sea Islands, Is. to Is. 3d. per lb. The Railway Share Market ruled dull, and prices were a shade lower than Tuesday. An interesting annual statement has been pub lished of the imports and export of sugar, and its consumption in the United States, for the past year, showing that there was a deficiency in the crops of that country compared with the produce of 1854. In 1855 the consumption of home grown sugar was 185,145 tons, and in 1854, 234,444 tons ; and of foreign sugar respectively, 194,052 tons, and 150,854 tons. The crop in Louisiana is seated to have been less by nearly 59,000 tons than that of the previous season. Total consumption of foreign and domestic in 1855 was 379,197 tons, and in 1854, 385,298 tons, being a decrease of 6,101 tons. It would appear from these returns, and those from other sugar-growing coun tries, that during the past year production of sugar throughout the world does not keep pace with the demand ; and it is evident that the recent advance in prices was more the result of a diminished supply than pure speculation, as was generally en tertained. This fact should stimulate the energies of sugar-planters in our colonies, and it would be advisable to extend the culture of the cane. Even at home it would be well if our farmers paid more attention to the cultivation of beet root for pro ducing sugar, as it is known that in France there has been a decline in its production ; while th e prohibition against distilling from grain has caused an active demand for inferior sugars for that purpose. According to the official returns • the 6 weeks' average price of wheat is 765. 6d., of barley 38s 61, and of oats 265. 3d. per quarter. The sales last week were 80,398 quarters of wheat, 95,314 of barley, and 19,285 of oats. The half-yearly meeting of the London and County Bank was held to-day, when a report was read, showing that the net profits of the bank for the half year, after making due provision for bad and doubtful debts, amounted to 34,0051.85. 10d., which, with other items from last account, left a disposable sum of 52,9741. Os. 4d., out of which the directors recommended a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half year, and a bonus of 5 per cent. (equal to 15 per cent. iu the year), besides a gra tuity of 10 per cent. in the salaries to the clerks of the establishment. It was proposed to limit the reserve fund to 100,0001., at which it is now ar rived. The report was adopted. The Report of the Committee of Buenos Ayres Bondholders, to be presented at the meeting to day, states that no arrangement has yet been made by the Government of the republic for the adjust ment of the arrears of interest upon the debt. It is mentioned that the finances of the country have greatly improved, thaj a large amount has been expended on public works, and that when representations are made by Mr. Giro, the commis sioner, or Mr. Parish, the consul, for a settlement, the answer given by the Government is always that the period is not convenient. Such a want of honesty is disgraceful in the extreme, and it is to be hoped that before long our Government may be induced to interfere to an extent that will have the filesired effect, not only in this case, but in others equally discreditable. There has been increased firmness in the Eng lish Stock Market, and an advance of about per cent.. has occurred. The arrangement of the account is in progress, and another small failure has been alms lunced on the Stock Exchange. Consols, for men , ey, have been 91-1, to but have since been 91 t° 93 1 .8. For March the prices from 91i 4 have receded to 9:4,1 The New Threeper Cents. are 91i to and. the Reduced 91i /. Bank Stock is 212 to 214. Exchequer Bills have risen to Bs. and 3s. disc ount. India Bonds are Bs. discount. Foreign Market was very inactive. Spanish 3 per Cents. have advanced to 43k, and the De ferr ed to 24 and 24k. Turkish 6 per Cents. Ade dul lat 931, and the 4 per Cents. are 1001. Peru vial' Dollar Bonds are 60 ex div. I he following are the nominal prices of For9,ign Sta3ks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, WI 71; Mexican, 20l : 1 ; Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 7 ; Poi tuguese 4 per Cents., 47 9 ; Russian 5 per Cetas., 104 6 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 92 4 ; Spanish 3p er Cents., 421 3 ; ditto Deferred, 24 4 ; ditto Certificates, 6E ; ditto Passive, 41 51. 717 he last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to ails date, are in round figures as under 1856. 1855. Great Western North-Western South-Western 1 3r th to n t 10,702 8,636 Midland So uth-Eastern 15,667 11,925 Ca ledonian G; -cat Northern L I,ncashire and Yorkshire Al anchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,153 7,751 3. s t Lancashire 5,378 4,483 West Hartlepool G- lasgow and South-Western 5,270 4,768 St sottish Central 2,566 2,665 Railway Shares are quiet but generally at en ancod prices. South Western have again been fl uctuating. North Eastern, Eastern Counties, and Lancashire and Yorkshire are higher. The Voreign lines are inactive. The Foreign Shares are dull, and the Banks are without any alteration of importance. IBRI7ISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, (From the o*iai List.) Ilusinoitt done. Wank Stock . 3 'per Cent. Reduced Annuities.-- 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 914 $ 1 I.eew 3 per Cent. Annuities :Yew 21 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3A Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6 11-16 I odia Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 8 consols for Account, 11th March 9 IB i i Exchequer Dills, 2id. 21000. -, 8 3 d £5OO 8 3 Small Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent.. 97i Ditto, 1859 'RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOC K. rill eh Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account • 24 1 Vurkiish Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. 43 per Cent. Dollar Bowls , 6O •x Nov. div. 20 20 10 10 5 5 20 10 THE CASE OF EBENEZER DAVIS.—This case was Maher heard yesterday at the Insolvent Court. It was :adjourned till Friday, to allow time for the peaceable ticttlement of the proceedings, • GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS.—Pursuant to the provisions of the Election Petitions Act, 1848, the Speaker has appointed Sir F. T. Baring, Sir John S. Pakington, John Wilson Patten. Esq., Robert Palmer, Esq., Henry Arthur Herbert, Esq., and T. H. Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., to be members of the General Committee of Elections for the present session. THE LATE COLLISION IN THE RIVER THAMES.—The Laren Osy, steamer, Captain Pearce, of Antwerp, which came in oontact with the Dolphin, steamer, Captain Green, for Newcastle, on the river, in the Lower Hope, on the 31st ult. (as already reported in this journal), has been taken to Messrs. Scott Russell's yard, Millwall, to repair damage. The Dolpllqn steamer has been got afloat off the Kentish shore, where she was run on the mud to prevent her from sinking, and is now lying along side the General Steam Navigation Jompany's repairing - works, at Deptford. She appears to have received con siderable damage. RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. Add the case connected with the instrument of criminal execution called the " Maiden." Of this instrument—th e prototype of the guillotine—the memorable fact is recorded, that Laving been introduced into Scotland by the Regent Morton, he suffered an ignominious death by that very means in 1581, having been condemned for the sairage murder of Darnley,—R, W. lIAGKwooD,---Notes and Queries. B'2 20 5 20 18 only other ;, re amee, enied great ranee [ a ro iniself guess, t the are in verY e ntial irench ssiout virtue n ot ,arties .00d 3 , c l jiOD I Bel" 3d by lished lge to Are aY ruro • e/ge' serve d arVel' 401 01 9 renal, Eno : t, if It ant in Tiler e P oint' b easel 11 con' lich i s f i ,, s , ok /Ade 0 Be l " Till - 7 p Witl S tingst fres h _E u bi' olyrood froin is spll'i row o' f ! thou 0- d No I/ uring e.seeo b 8 f 3. in the of the old 0 1 ar, an KI-l u ' b, frOU Ding* Dr, (sq' na psoo , Ifavre. or nirlgo b iota' B o ot? in al tter re hors i i , ° poi' pagSe ir Wing tad al uard s ' street , ig five 'sow) Tho everl from ; it erness I SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. WI • RAILWAYS. +.l>erticez: A.mbg, Noting. I;ost and Basta. Jnnct 3,llfast & Ballymena Taming. Wolverh Stcnr . M.& LanesL. 6 Cheshire Junct Do. Chub. er. Birk £5O and 225 Cons Do., ...... Myth &Ty nt origina (issd. at XV.; Bristol and Ezotor Caledonian. ...... Cam mud Cardigat Chester a Holyhead Cork en d Bandon Cork, Black, Paa, Cornwall Do. A Do. (""rieT Junction Doblind:BelfastJune. Dun. P. Ab , ;;. Jne. East Aa:glian Eastern Counties.. East. UiliGll, A Sti !De. B. Stoo. Do., Now I East Kent East. Lancashire Edinbrugh&Glasgov Edinb. and Peebles._ Edin.Prth G DUVie , Forth & Clyde Jun Furness Do. Extension Glasgow & Went- r, Great N. of Scotlnd Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock It.E•th.&Westare Groat Weetern Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastorr. i,ancastor & Do., Thirds Do. Nov Thirds Le.neash.audYorksh Do., Wst. Riding Un Li r. Crsby. &Southpt London & Blackw& 1 Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Goad. and N. Westn Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh.,M&B 0 Do. Eighths I London and& Westn. I Do., £5O iDo., RIO.. Lndndrrya Col drain. Lndndrry. & Enn' . .sk, Manch.Shef.& Linch, Do., Man. k Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland Do. Biromg. &Derb3 Midld. G. West. (Ire, Do. Ualf Shares Newcastle & Carlisle. Nwpt.Aborg. talrfd Newry & Enniskillo , Newry Warrenpoin . and Rostrovor Norfolk Northn.Connties 17n North British.— .. Nth Devon Rail, & Dock Stock Do,, A Stock... Do., B Stock Do., B Guarantee , N.Eastern—Bervric! Do. do. Extension I Do. do. G.N.E. 'Push no. Leeds Do. York 'North London N.&S.Wstrn.,l.lams t , stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire.. North Westorn N. & S. Wcstrn. June Nuneaton, :Hinckley, and Leicester. Ox, Wore., & Wolv. Portsuiouth Scottish Central ISoottishMidland Shropshire Ur i South Devon iSouth Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. a Ri7. Dur Do Starnes, Wok. At Wo Stockton Darli 'Stockton & Hortlap' TO' Vale Do. Prcf., No. 1 Thames Hay. D.& B. lUlverstone & Lanus 'Vale of Neath ,Watorfcl. & Kilkenn3 Waterford&Liraeri West Cornwall. r t West End of Londor and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London. IWimbledn&Croydor Closing Prices Business done yesterday this day. 25 27 4 - 44 t. .... 7i - 16 - 15 1.3 - 14 9 - 8 81 - 87 5G# -56 i i'i 7- 13 4 - 2 7 - 8 121 - I'4 9i 10 26 -- 30 19 - 21 73 52 - 54 9 1 - 9i 23 - 25 - 86 - 7 90 - 75 - 77 124 126 i 103 !Oi 51j g 5 1 73 - I 8 6i - 6i - 7i 80 0. 81 7 97 99 LOO 100 par id par; I— -93 91 4 3 3i 2i ... "" ... 24~ -- 25~ i id 681 69, 10 42 ~N ~ .. ... -- ~ io 29i .., 30i, 73i - 7 6Acs 14 )5 49 N I . -- id 22 - 24 !04 106 75 77 45 -- 47 Ili t 24, 61i 62?„ 70 72 5 id 2d pa 35 - 37 ..• ."'" • • . • • "'''' • • 19 -. 20 3i -- 4i ... • .. 4 - .6 FOREIGN. iintwerp&Rott.rdrao Do. 5 p. c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes Belgian Bastn. June Bezlers to Craissessa , Bombay, Barod.a, an , Central Ind; a,Serii Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New lEast Indian, g. 5 p. Do. Ey beniion .. D 0.4 Do. do. do.. '59, de.. Gee'ong AL Melboutuel guar. 5 per cut... Do., Lou. allot., do. Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. Do. Cert. of Deben con. into Stk. till'63 Do. Comp. 6p. e., do. Gt. Central of Franc( Gt. Indian Peninsula Great Luxembour, Constituted Shares Do. Obligations... Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. Gt. Western o f Cana? al .00 20, 20 26 2(h LOU all 14 an 14 20 16 20 20 all all all all all all all all Shares ...,... Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toront' Do. 6 per cent. Lake bond. & Liorre and Turnhout Lucca & Pist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Hivliterran Ladras, var. 4 p.c. Do. New c 0., 5 p. c. Do. 4i p. C. Exton (aria Antonia Do. do. New ,Namur & Liege (wit' 1ntere5t)............. Do. (ex interest) ...... Northern of France. D o .201. Sbs ............. Do. 201. 3 p. a 13d5 (fmy. B. & Ams.Shs. NorwogianTrankPre . Paris and Ly0n5...... Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans....) Rome and Frascati.. Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse... Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Soinde, guar. 5 p. c Do 'Southern of Frame St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5)4 Per c. Pref W. &N. IV. of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden 25 1 Zealand JOINT-STOCK BANKS: 40 all Australasia 92 -- 100 50 Bank of London .. 40 all Bri. Col. Bk.&Ln. •.• 50 all British N. American ... • 25 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia par .-- 1 p 20 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China . ...d 100 50 City 6 .8 —• 70 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Loud . . 20 all Eng.Root&Ana.Cht l7 —lB 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australis l7 —17 i 20 5 Ditto New 2i lid 50 20 London and County 100 50 Lnd.&E.Bnkg. Corp p ar 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. & Westminster 100 35 National Pro.of Bng 20 10 Do. New •••• 50 22a Nationa l of Ireland 20 all New South Wales 37 7 iio 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 4O ;-; 41 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... 10 all Do. New .... . 5 1 Royal Anaraln.Bkg. & Gold Imp C 0.... ... 100 50 Royal British ••• 25 all South Australia - 40 25 all Union of Australia... 70 ;.; 72 ... 2i Do. New ;10 10 Union co: Lon don 28 I 7i. - 8k 1d 1 p 1 3 / 4 3t 2io 1 - P 344 -38 P 11 -13 i) 211 21/ ..., iói - il 144 - 15 63 - 67 82 - R 6 5 - 54) 201 - 201 5 - 3 -3/ 25 3 - 3if /1 99 - 100 118 - 123 118 - 123 106 108 24} - 24 ! 115 - 120 ... '''.... ~ 1".° 93 19 -19 i ' - 7 9 2 - 3 5 3 / 4 - 6 5} 5 4 37 - 87 12 - 12 , .•• - ... 7 - 8 481 - 48: 48 - 49, ... - ••• 19 - 20 2k - 2 1 21 - 21 91 - 9:i ... ''' 1 - 1 ..• - pm •• • .... •• 3i - 4 32 - ..• - ioi 100 1 1. 00 00 100 1)0 too 1061 all all THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN I : 1 / 4 '.(1, FEBRUARY 7, 1856. Le. !lust/loss this day. LAW (This Day.) ~p~ RAIL'MLY3. L,as!A4 Companp C mina rricset yester ay. EXCHEQUER COURT. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Common Jury.) GENESE V. CUEITT-EXTRAORDINAEX CASE. Mr. James and Mr. Petersdorff appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. 0 verend and Mr. Turner for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to re cover the value of some household furniture from the defendant, an upholsterer carrying on business in the neighbourhood of Soho-square. It appeared from the plaintiff's evidence that Mrs. Rivers, a lady formerly residing in Trevor-square„ Bromp ton, was indebted to the plaintiff in 20/. Sub sequently he advanced her GM, to be called 801., to in clude the interest on a bill of sale on her furniture, the amount to be repaid by 21. weekly instalments. 471. had been repaid. Several instalments being in arrears in November last the plaintiff went to Brom pton and found thehouse shut up. He traced the re:noval of the fur niture to a workshop of the defendant's in the Haymarket. A conversation took place between the plaintiff and the defendant, when the defendant said he held the goods as a friend of Mrs. Rivers against her creditors, but that he should be paid his debt. Plaintiff declined to accede to the proposition, and served the defendant with a notice. Mrs. Rivers afterwards took the benefit of the Insolvent Court, and the goods had been sold for 105/. ss. The defendant had also a hill on the furniture. In the course of the plaintiff's cross-examination much amusement was created by the learned counsel "reckon ing up" his antecedents. He said ho was now out of business, but kept a short time since the Crown and Cushion, Russell-street, Drury-lane ; before that he lived at a private house at Kennington-cross, and discounted bills and bought and sold jewellery ; before that he kept a coffee and chop house in Jermyn-street, rented under the Woods and Forests, but he was never charged with making a gambling house of it ; he was once charged with keeping a gambling-house in Ireland ; he had to leave Jermyn-street in consequence of his turning the house into a coffee and chop house. Previous to that he was indicted for keeping a brothel in George street, Adeiphi, but on the trial he was acquitted. He lived about 20 years in Duke's court, Bow-street, but he was not indicted for keeping a brothel there. In Dublin he kept a gambling-house, which he gave up without having been indicted. On ono occasion he travelled the country with two German dwarfs, as rivals to Tom Thumb, and they were exhi bited at the Egyptian-ball, Piccadilly. He was not aware that he enjoyed the sobriquet of " Guinea Pig" in Rag-fair, where he sometimes visited. He had never been engaged in a brothel in Coventry-court, as a sir vent, but he bed " wisited" there. He was now out of business, and what little he earned was by bill dis count'ng. A book was handed in by the defendant, which pur ported to contain a list of the payments, wherein it was shown that 58/. had been repaid out of the 106/., and a bill of exchange given for the balance, but the plaintiff denied that the last page, containing entries over 47/., the amount he gave credit for, was in his band-writing. Mrs. Rivers' schedule, containing an entry of the bill o exchange was put in, but he said he had never seen it before, and he denied that he said to her after she had passed the Insolvent Court, " Lotty, I don't care about the bill you owe me, or whether you ever pay me, but I want to punish Cubit, and will do so if it costs me 1001.' The defence was, that Mrs. Rivers, wbo had gone also by the name of Mrs. Atkins, became embarrassed, and obtained some assistance from the plaintiff ; she owed him 9/., and, wanting more money, the 100/. was made up in this way : 9/. owing, 31/. worth of goods, pictures, jewellery, &c., 401. money advanced, and 201. to be charged as interest. When Mrs. Rivers had to petition the Court 42/. was clue, and it was arranged between her and the plaintiff, that to hold him harm less she should give him a bill of exchange for that amount, a collateral security in the event of her losing her furniture. The defendant became mixed up in the transaction in this way : in 1853 he had lent Mrs. Rivers as Mrs. Atkins a sum of money on a bill of sale which had been repaid. In September, 1855, she at the same time owing hint 35/. for goods, and 50/. that had been advanced to her, had a further advance of 50/., making altogether 1351. she was indebted to him, which she agreed to repay by 25/. instalments. A bill of sale was then given on the furniture for 150/., including 15!. for interest. The Lord Chief Baron said that the plaintiff's bill of sale had a prior claim to that of the defendant's. The question resolved itself into the truth of the payments to the plaintiff, the giving the hill of exchange, and the proceedings at the Insolvent Cenrt. The case had not concluded when our report left. CRIMINAL CURT,—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice \Vightman and. Mr. Justice Wiles.) THE MURDER OF MR. \VADGH, THE SOLICITOR. Charles I roadfoot Westron, 25, clerk, was indicted for the wilful murder of George Waugh. Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Gifford prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Lewis defended. It not being very generally known that the trial would come on this day, the court was not so crowded as might have bee❑ expected. The prisoner was somewhat fashionably attired is a brown single-breasted outer coat, and evidently had dressed himself with much care. He is not above 5 feet high, and very humpbacked. His complexion is fair, and of that pale sickly cast customary to persons so deformed. His countenance is somewhat malignant; his features pinched and projecting towards the mouth. His eyes are small and sunken, with a very unpleasant expression. His manner was quite possessed, and ap parently self-satisfied, but evidently that of a man whose mind was affected. Mr. Clarkson briefly stated the case to the jury, and in so doing said the circumstances which caused the death of the unfortunate gentleman were so abundantly clear that no question could arise as to the facts, or that the act was the wilful one of the prisoner, and the only question for the jury would be the state ef mind be was in when he committed it. The deceased gentleman was a solicitor, and related by marriage to the prisoner. He bad it appeared been mainly instrumental in obtaining far the prisoner and his brothers and sisters some property, which, without the deceased gentleman's assistance, they would never have recovered any portion of. The prisoner, without any real foundation for such an opinion, became possessed of an idea that Mr. Waugh had robbed him of his portion of the, property, and in consequence became so annoying in his conduct to Mr. Waugh that he was compelled to have recourse to the protection of the police magistrate at Clerkenwell, and prisoner was brought up to that court. Prisoner then promised that be would take his affairs out of the bands of deceased, and not further annoy him. Prisoner then engaged a a ef Gr a y ' si nn- s q u w a r e athat andt e prisoner's result of Sgae f ilud t t hYleeln, s arrangements property was t o b e sold upon the 14th of jtUaare.t share ., o upon that day the p re li m i nar i es se ttl e d, b u t upon that day, in consequence of what Mr. Waugh communi cated to Mr. Sandy, the matter was put off. The pri soner was at Mr. Sandy's °flee upon that day, and when he learned how matter, stood, became very abu sive, and finally left the office of Mr. Sandys, and said that Mr. Waugh should not have anything more to do in the matter. The first witness called was Thomas Kent Whitfield, examined by Mr. Clerk—l am a solicitor. About half past ten on the morning of the 16th of January I saw the prisoner crossing over Bedford-street towards Bedford row. He suddenly turned round towards the end of Bedford row, and appeared to be doing something with his sleeve. t knew the deceased, and saw him coming in an opposite direction. The prisoner then went up the street in the direction of Mr. Waugh, and when within a few yards of him drew something which looked like brass, and said, " You villain, you have ruined me ; why did you rob me of my property ?" and almost directly I heard the report of a pistol, and saw Mr. Waugh stagger. Mr. Waugh said, " Hold him; he has shot me." I said, " How could you shoot the poor man?" He said, "He has done for me." I said, "And you have done for yourself." I then tried to tsheiez e p h r i s oner. Mr. Waugh fell to the gro un d almostim, when he drew another pistol. I th e n secured directly. Mr. Ballantine said be should not ask this gentleman any question, neither could he deny the facts, and there fore would not trouble the prosecution to call any more witnesses to these facts. Mr. Justice Wightman said that he saw by the depo sitions there were a great many witnesses, all to the same facts. The street-keeper of Bedford-row was then called, and stated that as he was conveying the prisoner to the s,a tion, prisoner drew a knife from his pocket, which he out o h f a my g took from him. Sergeant Hayes said tha t he was on duty at the sta• tion-house when the pri soner w as brought ; and when the charge was made aga inst the prisoner of murdering Mr. broughtestate, some lt all upon acres of land ; he is a rela tion of mine, be married into our family ;" and added, " I am satisfied." Waugh, hiteeel f ; the h e prisoner has ehee cheated d me "He Inspector Checkley proved that the prisoner said if it had not been for deceased he should have had 8001. ; now he should only have 4001., and God only knew when he should get that, as Mr. Waugh had thrown it into Chancery. He gave his address at Newland-street, Kensington. lie went there and found bullets; a bul let mould, powder and caps. By Mr. Ballantine—You found, I believe, that the prisoner had bought the pistols eighteen months ago ? Checkley—l did, sir. Mr. Wren, the surgeon, proved that death was caused by a bullet, which he found in the groin of the deceased gentleman. [We shall give the conclusion in our lad edition.] fully ;" and his "evidently going blind on his eye-glass side, but being ashamed to make any further alteration in his painful arrangements ;" and his " I say. Look here. You stick to us in a devil of a manner ;" and his semi-paralytic "Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know ;" and his staring at the intruder " until his eye-glass fell out, and his putting it in and staring at him until it fell out again !" What shall we say of all tbi., but that as we read it we lay the number down, every-now and then, and fairly have our roar of laughter out, until compelled at last, like Scrooge's nephew, to get up and stamp ! The thing is altogether delicious. Charles Dickens only could have written it—and remembering that we accept it from his hand all the more gratefully. As we do even that hobgoblin of a last chapter in which Rigaud, the diabolical, is "Let Loose" to the dismay of the good folk of Chalons, and the particular horror of poor John Baptist Cavaletto. L IT ER A T UR E. CHARLES MACKAY'S NEW POEMS. The Lumppf Gold ; and other Poems. By Chas. Mackay. Routledge and Co. A cordial welcome is duo to any new volume of poetry from the hand of Dr. Charles Mackay. Nut, however, as he himself (judging from his title-page) appears to imagine, by reason of his being the author of "Egeria," or the celebrant of "The Le gends of the Isles," or the bard of " The Salaman drine." Rather than this, let us say at once, almost iu a manner despite his authorship of those longer poems, aud, be it added; because of such minor effusions as "The Voices from the Crowd," and " The _ Voices from the Mountains" his humble lyrics of the heart—laLOUid sdngs and English melodies. For the sake of these, and neither for his " Egeria," nor his "Salamandrine," do we accord an eager greeting—a greeting of genuine and unaffected satisfaction at its appear ance—to a new book of verse from the pen of Dr. Mackay. Because we recognise in him a song writer whose voice is always pitched in the most natural key in the world, never quavering off into an affected roulade or an incorrigible falsetto. A. voice sweet and dulcet—with the tears in it some times—but ever genial, and manly,and out- breathed. Dr. Mackay, moreover, be it confessed, frankly and without further delay—we are grateful to, for inasmuch as he allowi his meaning to be perfectly comprehensible. He understands, as by a sort of instinct of good taste, that politeness to a reader which induces a writer, whether of verse or of phi• losophy, to be lucid—according to the happy dic tum of Arago. A matter of some moment, it must be admitted, in this age of mystical spasmodics, When rhymed stanzas are twisted into all imagin able and unimaginable convolutions, until one is fain to cry aloud in anguish with honest Hotspur— I had rather be a kitten, and cry —mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen candlestick tuned, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree; And that would nothing set my teeth on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry. Dr. Mackay, at least, in the midst of all the din of the jarring mysticism in which our poets-of-the day are so tumultuously involved, to the torment ing of our ears, and the bewilderment of our un derstandings, is always at once melodious and comprehensible. Besides which he is never mawkish --but, on the contrary, his tenderness is ever distin guished by the characteristics of a masculine sensi bility. As such—namely, as musical, as pathetic, as comprehensible—his poetry is very welcome to us : particularly when it comes to us in the simple forms of the lyric and the ballad.' And of these his now somewhat numerous volumes afford us hardly less of a variety than the pack of the delec table knave Autolycus—" He bath songs fer man and woman, of all sizes ; no milliner can so fit his customers with gloves ; he has the prettiest love songs for maids, with such delicate burdens of dil dos and fadings," et cetera ! Do we not all re member them, " thundered," if not " to the tune of Green Sleeves," to some no less popular melody, from the tuneful fancy of Henry Bishop or of Henry Russell ? Many and many of them scattered broadcast over the laud by this time, " familiar in our mouths as Household Words," and dear to our hearts as the tones of old friends vibrating tenderly upon the inner chords of our remem brance. It were idle to particularise among fa vourites so freshly and immediately in the general recollection. For the sake of those dearly-appre ciated favourites, for his own - sake as the author of them, we greet Charles Mackay; on the instant of his coming before us with his new volume in his hand, right heartily as with a veritable benison. As he himself has sung— " Give me your hand—you shall, you must 1 love you as a brother." A. brother to us all he has become, long since, with that large heart, and that warm grasp, and those kindly human eyes of his. Viewed dispassionately, " The Lump of Gold," is little else than another manifestat;eu of the genial nature for which Dr. Mackay bau long been remarkable. It is a new ebullition of almost all his nobler qualities as a lover of his kind, as a poet-reformer, as a literary philan thropist. In its root idea, he has followed the axiomatic advice of the sage—xatpov yvrool.—he has seized his opportunity. That opportunity, a theme of universal interest, the lust of gold at once in the new world, and at our antipodes. The plot is readily enough indicated—springing as it does from Edward Aubrey's going in quest of wealth in Aus tralia. Having discovered a monstrous lump of gold, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the fa mous diggings of Ballarat— "A fiendish lump of gold"— the hearing about the mere dimensions of which is enough to make the mouth of a Crcesus water, to warm into new life the ashes of an Elwes, and to curdle with sympathy into a sort of auriferous slag the glittering sands in the hollow of old Pao tolus ! " The gold was long, and broad, and thick, As tlic statue of a man !" A monstrosity of wealth—immovable ! Aubrey is is despair lest any one else should discover it. Listen to the sequel—the turning point of the whole narrative—as it is described by the author himself. Premising, before we give the quotation, that Heseltine is the bosom-friend of Aubrey, the gold-hunting hero of Ballarat. Aubrey is hanging over his treasure one day, when he is thus startled : There burst on the air a scornful laugh, And a hand was laid on mine; I started back as from a snake, And saw 'twos Heseßine. "So greedy, Aubrey ! nay, be just, The treasure's mine and thine ; I've watched thee in thy moody walks, And seen thy ramble ends : Too much for one, enough for two, We'll share it, and be friends." " Friend of a robber who dogs my path !" I answered him in scorn ; I uttered words that stung his pride, Too bitter to be borne. Taunt followed taunt—he drove me mad— He struck me on, the face ' • And quick as thought—but thoughtless all, Except of the disgrace— I raised the mallet in my hand, And fell'd him on the place. Horror stricken at the imagined murder of his companion, Aubrey flies from the accursed land, and returns across the ocean home wards—remersefully, gloomily, despairingly. And here follows what we conceive to be the finest of all the imaginings nin the whole of this imaginative poem of " The Lump of Gold." "The fiendish lump of gold" takes life to itself, as it were, out of the horror of the fancied murderer. Telling the tale himself, he cries : A sudden frenzy raised my hair— I knew not what I did ; But I thought the golden fiend arose From the ground where it lay hid, And chased me with convulsive steps Over the land and sea, Sitting beside me when I slept, Eating its bread with me; Mocking me with its yawning eyes, Raising its yellow hand, And driving, driving, driving me on, Over the sea and land. Adding, as by an awful illustration of the phan tom:— A hideous likeness of myself, A. torture to behold • Part was senseless go'd. Part was throbingflesl; and blood, It stood between me and the sun— It fouled the healthy air — b I looked t! o t h e Bend t w a fls o y there. its face, I looked to e arth, and at its feet I saw a yawning pit ; And lo It grinned and pointed with its hand, And said " Thy bones will fit." Pursued by this golden shadow of the monster i n cc Frankenstein," Aubrey returns to the little Surrey village of Micklethorpe, to have the ghost of his despair laid by the hand of Parson Vale, whose daughter Lilian has been all the while Ed ward's wife, when Hesoltine, to the delight of the man who imagines himself to have been his assassin, returns in perfect health and frank forgiveness from the mammon-growing tracks of Australia. So all ends happily—lleseltine, bent at the close of the poem upon returning to Australia, to seize, on behalf of himself and his friend Aubrey, upon the buried " Lump of Gold," the lump having been literally buried by him, very ingeniously, prior to his departure from Ballarat, under a grave- ike hillock, surmounted with this epitaph : " Here lies a sinner—trouble not his bones." Such is Charles Mackay's new poem of "The Lump of Gold"—a poem the principal charm of which is discoverable in the gentle Lilian: thus London &I N. Woit. , L.&N. W. Calodon... E. Un. E. C Gt. Nrthn. FL Count. Caldonian. Do Gt. Westr Yk. Now. & Bcrw. Y. &NH Do Do IS. Eastern IPeto k Co. Norfolk._ Do L.& N. W & Midi& Stekton ar Darlingt. Midland En. Coun ,E. Count Do Do L. &N.W Do Gt Northn Lancash Yorksh. T. Brassey M. 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Among its profu sion of merits it is difficult to particularise even the most remarkable. From the exquisite delinea tion of the heroine in chapter nine, to the demo niacal portraiture of Rigaud in the eleventh, it is all wonderful. The. intermediate chapter—the tenth—being, of all three, the most wonderful. Wonderful as a humorous satire upon the whole system of our muddled Constitution and muddling Government. The Circumlocution Office isa thing to be remembered. The Barnacles, especially the Tito Barnacles, are personages we believe not very easily to be forgotten. They are types of a class — the limpits of the body politic—creatures dimly hinted by the Greys, the Elliotts, and the Rus sells. Old men-of-the-sea sticking to the shoul ders of the Siubad of the nations—like Tito (very tight) Barnacles. Hero is Boz's sketch of Tite Barnacle, senior : " Mr. Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious, and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. He wound and wound folds of white cravat round his neck as he wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and collar were oppressive, his voice and manner were oppressive. Ho had a largo watch-chain and bunch of seals, a coat buttoned up to inconvenience, a waistcoat buttoned no to inconvenience, au unwrinkled pair of trousers, a stiff pair of boots. lie was altogethe r splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. He seemed to have been sitting for his portrait to Sir Thomas Lawrence all the days of lie life." How possibly, however, are we to give his inimi tably delightful pencilling of Tite Barnacle, junior, without transferring bodily page after page into our columns from this glorious third number ? Here is the first forshadowing of his entity in the few first preliminary touches : "The present Barnacle, holding Mr. Clennam's card in his hand, had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Such a downy tip on his callow chin, that he seemed half fledged like a young bird; and a compassionate observer might have urged, that if he had not singed the calves of his legs, he would have died of cold. He had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes, and such limp little eyelids, that it wouldn't stick in when he put it up, but kept tumbling out against his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very much." Besides these, there is yet another sketch of a perfectly different specimen of these same übiquitous Barnacles—in the person of the airy young Barnacle, the engaging young Barnacle, the bright young Barnacle, the light in-hand young Barnacle, the touch-and-go young Barnacle, ready for any little bit of fat that came to hand"—a " dashing young Bar nacle ; in a word; likely to become a statesman and make a figure." Then there - are the celebrated Stiltstalkings—" better endowed in a sanguineous point of view than with real or personal property" —intermarried with the Barnacles. Jumbled . up with whom, in our recollections of the Circumlo eution-office, are—Mr. Wobbler, paper-knife in hand, and his mouth full of bread and marmalade ; Jenkinson, the outraged messencrer,, roused from his consumption of mashed potatoes and gravy be hind the partition ; the gentleman polishing his gun-barrel on his handkerchief, and a number of other worthies, including number one, number two, and number three, each of them astonishingly characteristic. Mr. Lindsay, the shipowner, not having forgotten his own " Peter Dick," we pre sume, will be the first to appreciate their marvel lous truthfulness to the ori g inals. So let us com mend every master-touch in this extraordinary " Chapter X., Containing the whole Science of Government," to the attention of everybody, right and left, here, there, and everywhere. It is sug gestive, we take it, almost of a Revolution, so painfully does it reveal the whole bungling idiotcy of our present system of administration. A system conducted, as Mr. Dickens reminds us, upon the great principle of How Not To Do It ! Hear him ! Every word has the seed of an inestimable truth in it. Every sentence has its golden value. The story told in this one remarkable chapter of "Little Dorrit" has its universal applica tion—its manifold significance, beyond the reach of anything like exaggeration ! Beginning with its general outline of the Circumlocution Office with its finger at once "in the largest public pie and the smallest public tart"—and ending with the particular commemoration of the infamy of Daniel Doyce the Inventor, the innocent rascal in whose uncomplainingpatience, good, honest, warm-hearted Mr. Meagles discovers such extraordinary aggrava tion ! Apari from what is actually presented to us in this new number of "Little Dorrit " for Feb ruary, we cannot but discern through it, by a sort of presentiment, one or two wonderful creations to be summoned into existence a little later on by the genius of our great novelist—foremost among which wo have a foretaste of something (in two senses of the term) "out of the common" in one Plornish the Plasterer of Bleeding Heart Yard, already seen in a sort of glimpse, but as yet to be.. formally intro duced. It were idle, however, merely to anticipate the good things in store for us in " Little Dorrit " when we have actually so much in hand that is literally, we do believe, in many respects quite matchless and unapproachable. For instance— Maggy ! A wonderful creation ! Granddaughter to old Mrs. Bangham deceased. Tutored by the application of " broom handles and pokers." A great awkward clumsy being of eight-and-twenty— imagining herself to be no more than ten—and, tenderly, reverently, loving poor, tiny, Dorrit as " Little Mother." Here is her portrait as touched' in with a few magic pen-and-ink strokes by the hand of the greatest of all living delineators of character : " She was about eight-and-twenty, with large bones, large features, large feet and hands, large eyes, and no hair. Her large eyes were limpid and almost colourless ; they seemed to be very little affected by light, and to stand unnaturally still. There was also that attentive lis tening expression in her face, which is seen in the faces of the blind ; but she was not blind, having one toler ably serviceable eye. Her face was not exceedingly ugly, though it was only redeemed from being so by a smile; a good-humoured smile, and pleasant in itself, but ren dered pitiable by being constantly there. A great white cap, with a quantity of opaque frilling that was always flapping about, apologised for Maggy's baldness ; and made it so very difficult for her old black bonnet to retain its place upon her head, that it held en round her neck like a gipsey's baby. A commission of haberdashers could alone have repotted what the rest of her poor dress was made of; but it had a strong general resemblance to sea-weed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked par ticularly like a tea-leaf, after long infusion." O the exquisite beauty and gentleness shadowed out of the relationship in which Little Mother and poor, bald, goggle-eyed, demented, draggled Maggy stand in regard to each other I No wonder there are glimmerings of a strange love growing up in the heart of middle-aged Arthur Clennam for Little Dorrit, humble needlewoman though she is, child though she seems, niece though she be of Dirty Dick, sister of vagabond Tip, daughter of the de graded, white-haired, Father of the Marshalsea. Another extract we must give from this same mar vellous number of " Little Dorrit." It is the de scription given by Mr. Dickens of the messengers, go-betweens, and errand-bearers of the Marshal soa. " The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawl; such squashed hats and bon nets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking sticks, never wore seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other mon and women ; were made up of patches and pieces of ether people's individuality, and had no sartorial existence of their own proper. Their walk was the walk of a race apart. They had a peculiar way of doggedly slinking round the cor ner, as if they were eternally going to the pawnbrokers. When they coughed, they coughed like people accus tomed to be forgotten on door-steps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental dis turbauco, and no satisfaction. As they eyed the stranger in passing, they eyed him with borrowing eyes—hungry, sharp, speculative as to his softness if they were accredited to him, and the likelihood of his standing semething hand some. Mendicity on commission stooped in their high shoulders, shambled in their unsteady legs, buttoned and pinned, and darned and dragged their clothes, frayed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued frem their mouths in alcoholic breath ings." Scattered all through the number, too, there are little casual " touches" tlt the pen of Charles Dickens alone could have produced. As where Mr. Cripples's pupils, having allowed Arthur Clenuam and Little Dorrit to pass by while they are gazing at them in open-mouthed silence, celebrate their getting away to a safe distance by " bursting into pebbles and yells, and likewise into reviling, dances," Sc.l - As where Arthur!Clennain having arrived at the house in which Frederick Dorrit l o d ge s, finds the door-post "as full of bell handles as a cathedral organ is of stops," and thereupon stands dubious as to which might be " the clarionet stop." As where the old orchestral player lingers over his pinches of snuff, as over everything else, " feebly, sparely, and slowly," and yet " with a certain little trickling enjoyment of them playing in the poor worn nerves about the corners of his eyes and mouth." The great Ob server of the Age shines out, moreover, in little casual allusions, not by any means to be passed by as insignificant —as in reference to the " suppleness of thumb" noticeable in Daniel Doyce, in his trick of " tilting up his hat at the back every now and then, as if he were contemplating some half-finished work of his hand, and thinking about it," or again iu " that under tone" in his way of speaking, indi cative of the mechanic accustomed to " consider and adjust with great nicety." Then Barnacle Junior's " Oh, I say. 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As where (1). 18) All his heart's history, All his thought's mystery— is the echo of J'irad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, &c— -in Hood's exquisite " Bridge of Sighs." Or again, as where (p. 83)— And cursed, in my deep, deep agony, The gold for which I'd slain A life that all the gold in the world Could ne'er bring back again— chimes upon the memory in the closing syllables like the iteration of Tennyson's lamentation-- Break, break, break. At the foot of thy crags, 0 Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to use. Repeatedly we have reason to regret a violation of grammar as distressing as the ellipse of a participle —for the sake, obviously, of smoothing the words " trippingly to the tonguein the glib hurry of a merely rhythmical arrangement. " Tradition itself has forgot them" (p. 114)—" The Pharaohs are forgot" (p. 219)—" That civil discord might have broke" (p. 226) are flaws nol to be pass e d b y entirely sub silentio. Even theith it be but mo mentarily, we cannot help wincing with a wry face, as at the sharpening of a saw, or at the sourness of an unripe gooseberry. Nov and then we come upon a charming little " touch of nature" in the incidental descriptions. As when it is written (during the account of the Parson's sermon against Mammon worship)— So vast the silence as he spoke, You might have heard the grass Rustle and wave to the fitful winds, And the bee in haste to pass, Sounding a trump like a martial ca 7.2 • On a clarion of brass. You might have heard the sparroN cheep , Mid the yew-berries, juicy red, And the long rank nettles singing a dirge Over the nameless dead. A noble sentiment rings out through the music of that simple utterance— Tim form of the worship Is rind on the bole, The fruit of religion Is Lore in the soul. Several of the minor poems appended to the " Lump of Gold," and forming, in truth, the prin cipal part of Dr. Mackay's new ♦olume of poetry, are remarkable for their freshness of feeling and the tender melody of their intonations. One, written at Venice in the April of 1855 (from which piece, indeed, our last extract has been taken), is entitled " The }festival of St. Marc." Another, dated from Vienna, in the same month of last year, celebrates " The . Old Magdalen of St. Stephan's." An effusion, by the way, in which a Catholic de votee is made to sing as we would wager no Catho lic devotee would ever dream of singing— Oh, Mary ! heat. me when I speak ; Oh, Virgin Mary, Angelminti: without any reminiscence whatever of the prophetic " omnes generationes beata me dicent." Another poem, coming immediately afterwards, and appa rently written in Paris as long ago as 1853, a poem entitled " The Column of Luzor," talks of Louis Philippe, of all men in the wide world, as " tho Great King"—an adjective so applied altogether passing our comprehension. Here it is that we find our author writing— Speak home to their business and passions, as by a repetition of the famous phrase " coming home to their business and bosoms," a phrase which the readers of .Notes and Queries may be in terested to learn, originally occurs in Lord Vern lam's preface to his immortal " Essays." In the fugitive piece called " Panic at the Bourse," we cannot but recognise through the lines— Then a stifled rambling, Then a crash and fall, — Down comes Babel tumbling, Dome and towers and all : a recollection of the close of the nursery song " Hushaby Baby"— When the tree rocks The cradle will fall-- Down comes baby Cradle and all. As in the two stanzas headed " Returning Mes sengers," it would be difficult not to detect a para phrase of the wise old sailor's axiom, that " Curses, like Mother Cary's chickens, come home to roost." The verses "'On the Portrait of Queen Victoria," are written throughout in the courtly spirit of a Laureate, warmed into enthusiasm by potations of Malmsey and crowned with an odoriferous chaplet of golden pieces and bay leaves intermingled. As the lines " Man to Man" are .penned from first to last, there is no other way of expressing it in the true spirit of—Charles Mackay. Answer if it be not so—the nervous opening syllables ! Stand up, man ! stand ! God's over al!. Why do you cringe to me, Why do you bend the knee, And creep, and fawn, and crawl Stand up, man ! stand ! With which manly, moving adjuration ringing in his memory, the reader of " The Lump of Gold, and other Poems " may, as in the happiest mood and at the aptest moment, close for awhile this new volume by Charles Mackay—a volume, be sure ! not by any, means to be closed for ever afterwards —but meanwhile, in the intervals of p erusal, to be deposited, as such a "Lamp of Gold deserves to be, among our book-treasures, as another nugget of literature. THE NIGHTINGALE TESTIMONIAL. A meeting of the promoters of the Nightingale fund was held in Edinburgh on Monday, under the presidency of Sir John M‘Neill, surrounded by a number of emi nent citizens of Edinburgh. On taking the chair, Sir John M‘Xcill took occasion to advert to the fanciful notions that had been circulated in order to check public sympathy in behalf of the contemplated testimonial. The following were among the remarks which he made upon this subject :—" Statements have gone forth attri buting or describing Miss Nightingale as belonging to almost every imaginable denomination of Christians. The truth I believe to be, that Protestant in her opi nions, firm in her Protestant belief, she is yet of too large and catholic a mind to regard mere sec tarian differences, or to attach much importance to forms. I believe that she is capable of ac ti ng w i th persons of every denomination who are influenced by pious and Christian motives. And she has proved it. The task which she undertook was one of ex treme difficulty ; the persons who were placed under her directions belonged to different countries and to differ ent faiths—sonic were Episcopalians, some were Pres byterians, and some were Roman Catholics. By the force of her genius, and the liberal and catholic stamp of her views, she has been able to fuse that heteroge neous mass into ono common body, acting cordially together for the accomplishment of one good work. Her own opinions are not recently formed ; long before this war was thought of while it was yet doubtful whether any such institution as we are now proposing to insti tute should be formed in E 'gland, Miss Nightingale bad prepared herself, by careful study in Germany, for the task which she had proposed to herself, even in her youth—a life of usefulness, following at a humble distance, an far as human frailty would permit, the example of Him whi went about doing go td, and bea'ing the sick. (Applause.) At an , early age she institu proceeded to Germany, and in the Protestanttions of Pfussia acquired the instru ction in attendance on the sick which at tha t time the n ) were no means of acquiring in E n gland. On her return a pamphlet was anonymously pu blished, but well un d erstood to have a n c oo g ly been written by her, from which I will quote a single passage . It is the conclusion :—' Shall the Roman Ca who acc e pt e d t h e services not only of t h o lic Church do all the w or k ? H as not the Protestant Lord, d o 'W , f women ? Th e h arvest is ripe. hcre ar e the e t also sick and th e poor wanting Let those women England, who si t i n b usy idleness, look at Germany. o mth f r neeets : There ate your sisters all at work, Christ in their midst. Let Him not say, I have called my English hand ; maidens, but they would not answer. I stood a their doors and knocked, but they would not open. These were the sentiments which she had enter. tamed for years before the call of her country car lied her to the East. I feel satisfied of this, that Miss Nightingale is herself too settled in herreligious opinions, too firm and too earnest in her purpose, to permit her efforts, which are intended for the welfare of her species and the service of her God, to be narrowed and degraded to any sectarian or party purpose whatever. I may s a y that, in all the conversations I have had with Miss Nightingale—and they have been many—l have never yet practicable,h ea r d her wa propose sno t des desirable lef suggest andh anythingave never which, if heard a vain or thoughtless proposal from her, but, on the contrary, her mind appears to me to he distinguished by a strong practical sense, which regu l a t es all the does." Among those who afterwards a ddressed the meeting was Bishop Terrot, who said that, even if he considered M . ss Nightingale as schismatical or heretical in her opi nions, he should not allow that to be a reason why the country should not express its gratitude for the good she has done. NARROW ESCArE OF THE RECORDER.—In the New Court yesterday, a man, named George Tillon, was conv icted cf burglary and sentenced by the Recorder to six year penal servitude. The fellow, on hearing the sen t enc e, drew from his p oc k et a large lump of coal, and threw it, with the greatest force and precision, at the head of the learned gentleman. Fortunately the Re corder escaped the intended injury. The prisoners are for the future to be searched before being placed in the dock. ND zlitan the f the Beige iiads -Clll itch- U pon issed c©, if d it, 1, by .:Li is a .m• st.ra• J] 100 100 100 aU all 100 21.1 15 100 100 31 18 160 100 100 ft . ! 1)0 1100 16i; 110 10 4! 14 4i