The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-17 00:00:00

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The investigation into the existing state of the Corp- Pl tion of London was resumed this morning at eleven ° tioekr. _ Mr. Deputy Woon stated that he was prepared now to 14 wer a question which had yesterday been put to him, nth reference to the number of ale-conners. The num '4' is four. With respect tn the ofnee of City leather it had been abolished some years since, pursuant t 4 a recommendation of the House of Commons. The 4 iter information which had been desired, as to other ?It) , officers, be was not at present prepared to give, but I t would he afforded in the course of the day. HORRID MURDER AT NORTHWICH. lessioa were stout 0 fees ienne, s feslt :htful oral might gulf Air. Lie tit Ticririn was the next witness called— •P Y - e Staten that persons inhabiting the Bridewell Precincts mere qualified, and did exercise the right of voting at t °l'porate elections. Witness never knew their right of L ti eeting the Common Council, or of being elected to that ° ° ,l y, disputed. The inhabitants of the Temple have L ever claimed this right. The persons resident in a place balled Baldwin's gardens, in the wird of which witness is tl 'e Deputy, have claimed the right of carrying on trades w ithout being admitted citizens of London ; but the ques tion is still at issue, and an action has been brought by t he city solicitor, by the direction of the Court of Alder ben, to try it. Sir FRANCIS PALSGRAVF inquired of Mr. Deputy wood if the list of the various charters which had been f urnished to hint was a correct list of all the charters now Mr. Deputy Woon would be able to answer the ques tion on comparing it with a list he had in his possession. Mr. DILLON, of Fore-street, begged to take that oppor tunity of inquiring whether the Court would make any 4 der for the inspection of the charters by such persons as ttl ight be examined with reference to them. Mr. BLAcxnuaNE said the Court had no authority to trisk e any such order. Mr. DILLON said it was extremely desirable that persons t o be examined should be enabled to inspect the charters ° F which the printed copies before the public had been f ound extremely incorrect. Mr. C. PEARSON suggested the propriety of the Court proceeding to take all the information which Mr. Deputy wood could give, and in case that information should he deemed insufficient, it would be open to any member of the c orporation to call for further evidence. Mr. Deputy Woon said he was now prepared to give 14 a correct list of the various charters now in the pos• tession of the Corporation. The first two charters were !Minted by William the Conqueror. Mr. Commissioner ELLIS inquired what was the date ° I what might be called the governing charter of the %rporation. Mr. Deputy Woon said he was not aware that there l'as any charter that could be called a governing charter. I his opinion the Corporation of London was a prescrip tive Corporation, A consolidation of the charters by i4 speximus was attempted in the reign of Charles the 4cond, but there is no leading charter creating solely the t urporation, as it at present exists. The witness then ttte in a list of the extant charters in possession of the torporate body. The examination of these lists was very tedious, and has proceeding when our Reporter left. (Abridged from the Liverpool Chronicle.) A murder, some particulars of which appeared in our Alper last week, was committed on Friday week last, in t he neighbourhood of Northwich, by a tradesman of that I t 'lvn, named Samuel Thorley, on the person of a young ttnale named Mary Pemberton, the daughter of a widow ittl y residing on a farm at Leftwich, to whom he had been Paying his addressee. A Coroner's inquest, on view of the body, was held at the Bowling-green, at Leftwich, at three o'clock on Monday afternoon. The jury, after hearing evidence, returned a l'trdict of " Wilful Murder" against Samuel Thorley. The funeral of this ill-fated young woman took place on Tuesday forenoon, at Davenham church. It was attended I / a vast crowd of spectators, and sorrow seemed to sit 41 1 every countenance. The Liverpool Mercury says, " We have been waited 11 Pon by a relative of the murdered female, who assures us that the account given in the Chester Courant, is incor tett in several particulars. The following is his version of the melancholy affair :—The parties became ac quainted about twelve months ago, but it is not true that their courtship had proceeded to the length men tioned by our contemporary. No house was furnished by Thorley, no wedding-clothes were bought, and no prepa rations were made for their union. About a month ago the young lady and her mother having been informed that Thorley had several illegitimate children ; that, far from being in good circumstances, as he re- Presented himself to be, he was very much involved; and that his object was, probably, to obtain possession of the young lady's property, they were induced to decline his acquaintance, and the connection, so far as they were con temned, was broken off. Thorley, it appears, then took t , O drinking, and for a fortnight or three weeks before 'riday last, when he met Miss Pemberton in Northwich, it being market day, he had been almost constantly in a tttte of intoxication. They met between six and seven o'clock in the evening, and Thorley taking hold of her basket, insisted on going home with her. He accordingly accompanied her part of the way to her home, which is about half a mile from Northwich, until they overtook a harried sister of Miss Pemberton's, when he left them, and The two sisters proceeded home together. It appears that later on in the evening, Thorley went to the house, and was let in by Miss Pemberton, she, probably, thinking that it was one of her brothers, who bad not come home, and for whom she was sitting up, the rest of the family having gone to bed. The brother af terwards came in, the door having been left on the latch, and bearing his sister in conversation with some person in the parlour, he did not go near them, but went straight up stairs to bed. Mrs. Pemberton afterwards called out, two or three times, to her daughter, to ask her whether she was not coming to bed? to which the reply was, that she would be up immediately. Hearing the house door shut to, she then called to her daughter again, but receiving no reply, she became very much alarmed, arid on going down stairs found her unfortunate child lying in the lobby, drenched in blood, with her head nearly severed from her body, and quite dead. Only a minute or two had elapsed between her last calling out and the shutting of the door ; and she had heard no noise or scuffle to prepare her in any way for so dreadful a spectacle. Her feelings may be more easily imagined than described ; we understand that she remains in a deplorable situation, and that from the effects of this shock, added to the loss of her husband about eight tzonths ago, she is not likely to recover. From the ap pearance of the wound, it seems that the murderer must have forced his victim's bead back with one arm, whilst he cut her throat with the other hand, and that so effec tually, that the vertebrae on each side of the neck was Penetrated by the razor. It is rather a singular circumstance connected with this horrible transaction, that it was the paternal grand uncle of the murderer, who was also called Samuel Thorley, that murdered a female ballad.singer, at a place called Westgreen, in the smile neighbourhood, about fifty years ago, in a very shocking manner, got a part of his victim's flesh, of which be had with him a considerable portion, tied up in a bundle, cooked at a public-house, and actually partook of it. The monster was afterwards hung and gibbeted for his crime. At a pigeon-shooting held at the W hite Horse Inn, Broadway, on Wednesday, Mr. Thomas Print, land lord of the above inn, who is a young shot, has lost the sight of one eye, pulls the trigger of his gun with his left hand, sad stands with the right foot foremost while shoot ing, beat some old shots and the whole of the field !- Oxford Journal. DERBY TRADES' UNIONS.-The members of the Trades' Union in this borough are still " out." There are now in consequence 1,800 men, women, and children, out of employment. Most of the manufac turers are doing a little, partly with their old hands, but chi e fly with new.-Derby Reporter. SWAN RIVER.-By accounts from Perth, Western Australia, of the 12th of August, the following were the current prices of provisions, &c. by retail :- Bacon, per lb. 2s. ; hams, ditto, ls. 6d. ; butter (salt), Is. 6d. a 25., ditto, (fresh), 39. ; bread, 41b. loaf, Is. 4d. ; beef (salt), per lb. 6d. (fresh) Is. 6d. ; mutton, per lb. Is. Bd. ; kangaroo, per lb. Is. 2d. ; pork (fresh), per lh. Is. 6f1., (salt), Bd. ; cheese, Sydney, per lb. 2s. ; ditto, English, 2s. ; coffee, per lb. ls. 6d. ; eggs, per doz. 41.; milk, per quart, Bd. ; fowls, each 3s. a ss. ; wild fowl-pigeon, 9d. ; duck, 2e. ; teal, Is, ; swan, 6s. a Bs. ; dried fruits, per lb. Is. 6d. ; raisins, per lb. Is. ; oil, per gallon, 10s. ; rice, per lb. Bd.; wine, cape, per gallon, ss. a 6s. ; rum, ditto, 16s. ; brandy, ditto, 14s. ; sugar, per lb. Bd. ; tea, per lb. ss. a 7s. ; potatoes, per lb. 3d. a 4d.; ca bb ag es, each 3d. ; flour per lb. 6d., by the bag, ; wheat, per bushel, 101. ; hay, per ton, Si. ; soap, per lb. Is. 6d. ; starch, per lb. 2s. ; vinegar, per gallon, ss. a 6s. ; gunpowder, per lb. 4s. ; ale and porter, per the. 11. 4s. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent entertained a party at dinner yesterday, at her Royal Highness's apartments in Ken sington Palace. The Marquis of Sligo transacted btisiness yesterday.at the office of the Secretary of State for the Colonial De partment. Hie Lordship also transacted business yesterday at the Home Office. Viscount AlthorP visited Earl Grey yesterday at the Treasury. Sir Robert Peel left town on Saturday for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. BRIGHTON, DEC. )6. Their Majesties continue to enjoy excellent health. Yesterday, after divine service, the King gave audience to the Commander De Roos. The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Westmeath (Lady in Waiting) Hon. Miss tden, and Lord James O'Brian, attended divine service, yesterday afternoon, at St. George's Chapel; the Rev. J. Anderson was the officiating clergyman. Sir Herbert Taylor left the Palace yesterday evening, for London. Lord James O'Brian joined the Royal Suite on Satur day evening. The invited guests to the Royal table last evening were Captain De Roos, Colonel Wynyard, Colonel Sir John Eustace, Colonel Sir John Woodford, Sir George Shiffner, Mr. Baron Vaughan, Mr. Justice Gaselee, Sir Charles M. Clarke, and the Sheriff of the county. The Judges Vaughan and Gaselee arrived here yester day from Lewes, where they opened the Commission on the previous afternoon, as above stated, and they had the honour of dining with their Majesties. Their Lordships left this morning at ten o'clock to resume their duties at Lewes. The Duchess of Hamilton had the honour of being invited by their Majesties to a musical party on Friday evening. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Wm. Adamson, Esq., at the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Green, at ditto, from Dover ; Capt. Wilson, R. N., at ditto, from ditto ; James Watts, Esq., at ditto, from ditto; Rev. A. Marsh, at ditto, from the Rectory, near Stamford; Colonel and Mrs. Llewllyn and family, in Upper SeYmour.street, Portman-square, from Walton-on-Thames. DEPARTURES. Hon. G. O'Callaghan, from the Blenheim Hotel, Bond.street, for Dublin ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Lillingthorn, from ditto, for Marlow; \Vm. Lambert, Esq., from ditto, for his scat, near Epsom ; Wm. Lambert, Esq., jun., from ditto, for ditto ; H. Watterton, Esq., from ditto, for Pickeridge House ; A. Prest, Esq., from ditto, for Bucks; Major M'Mullan, from ditto, for Brighton ; E. Hapner, Esq. from ditto, for ditto; Capt. Barker, from ditto, for ditto ; James Tooke, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; the Countess Dowager of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, from Belgrave-square, for Lincolnshire; Lady Grant and family, of Monymusk, for Broadstairs ; Capt. and Lady Susan Ilotham, from Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for their seat in Hants ; Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, from Uxbridge house, for ditto; Lady Mordaunt, from Albemarle.street, for the seat of Sir J. Mordaunt, in Warwickshire ; Lord Macdonald, from Symmons's Hotel, Conduit street, for Melton ; Col. and Lady Eleanor Lowther, from Bruton-street, for Melton ; Col. and Mrs. Moberly, from Seymour-street, for the Earl of Veru lam's seat, Gorhambury ; Lord Molyneux, from Arlington_ street, for Croxteth ; T. Fitzherbert, Esq., for Brighton ; the Earl of Liverpool and the Ladies Jenkinson, from Milton-park, near Peterborough, for Buxted-park. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. - NIACREADY played Corklanus very finely last night. To those who have not seen it since he played it for his be nefit, we may say it is not like the same performance. The improvement in dignity and power is very remark able. It is now, we think, one of the most perfect exhi bitions on the stage, and even in those scenes for which JOUR' KEMBLE was most distinguished, in the opinion of good judges, he did not fall far below the excellence of his precursor. We need not particularise the scene with the citizens when soliciting their " most sweet voices," that, of course, was good ; but the older play-goers pre sent were all anticipating a failure in the last great scene, particularly after the close of the interview with his wife and mother. There was no failure in any part of it; and in the tender speeches in which his child is introduced, all will be aware that MACREADY could easily exceed KEM BLE, who here was invariably cold and formal. The quarrel with Aufdius was so admirably performed, that several passages drew distinct rounds of applause from the audience. The tragedy has bee❑ got up with much splen dour, and with all due regard to costume. and we take it for granted that it will ere long be repeated. VICTORIA THEATRE. Macbeth was performed at this theatre last night, the principal part having been taken, for the first time, by SHERIDAN KtiowLEs. Let him do what he will as an actor, his character as a dramatic poet must always be superior to it ; and as his excellence in the latter capacity is undisputed, people will be slow to admit his pre emi nence in the former. However, by some perverseness of disposition, his ambition is to be a great actor as well as a great author, and certain it is that be can do nothing that has not about it strong indications of mind. Such, of course, was the case with his Macbeth last night ; every syllable was uttered with a true understanding of the full meaning of the author ; but the fault lay in not being able to give effect to his own conceptions. We dare say that he is not at all aware of his deficiencies, but that they exist cannot be denied, and they will probably prevent his ever attaining the station to which he aspires, and which, high as it may be, is very low in comparison with the place he fills in our st tge literature. The greatest actor that ever played Macbeth would, at any time, have given all his fame to be the author of that single passage describing " the temple-haunting martlet." While, however, we blame Know LEs for thus, as it were, going out of his way—for the utmost success as an actor would add nothing to his reputation as a dramatist—we are very willing to allow that we would much rather see his Macbeth than sit out that of any mere performer but one of absolutely first rate excellence. KNOWLES always keeps the mind employed, by showing that his own fine understanding is at work in what be undertakes. This of itself is e xcitement, and pleasurable excitement. The great point in which he succeeded was that which depends least upon the physical qualifications of the performer. Through the two first acts he seemed fully possessed by the prediction of the witches, and it filled him with that abstraction which drew him aside from all other purposes. This was very well con ceived, and we must also warmly praise the scene where Lady Macbeth takes the daggers, and that in which Banquo appears at the feast. The soliloquies were well pronounced, but the pauses were sometimes too long—an error observable during the vision of the air drawn dagger, although great latitude ought in this respect to be given to the performer. The tragedy went off with much appro bation ; and on the whole it was very well cast. Mrs. EGERTON was certainly not equal to Lady Macbeth, but more competent than any other female member of the company. Ansorr was Macduff, and EGERTON had his usual part of Ban quo. We understand that Major-General Sir John Milley Doyle has left town for France, on a special mission. The late Sir John Malcolm was so close an observer of all that he heard and read, that he is said to have ama.eed not less than from 60 to 70 volumes of individual and national anecdote. At a battue, last week, at Lord Lichfield's, upwards of 1,700 head of game were bagged in five days. The party consisted of the Duke of Sussex, Lord Lich field, G. Anson, Esq., the Earl of Denbigh, Lord Ux bridge, and G. Payne, Esq.—Northampton Herald. DEATH OF CAPTAIN NPCLINTOCK, 74TH REGISIENT.-It is with sincere sorrow we announce the death of Captain Charles M'Clintock, of the 74th Regi ment, son of John M.Ciincock, Esq., and Lady Elizabeth Nl‘Clintock. This melancholy event took place on Monday morning, the 9th inst. at Drumcar, after a abort illness of five days, of malignant acarlitina. Capt. M'Clintock only arrived at Drumcar on Wednesday last, on leave of absence from his regiment, and was taken ill on the following day. He was in his 27th year. —D rog hula Journal. ANCIENT THEATRICALS.—The Roman circus held 400,000 and the performers amounted to 6,000. What would Bunn say to such an audience ? EXCISE COMMISSION. —The Excise Com mission now sitting in Dublin have given the most entire satisfaction to the merchants and traders who have had occasion to wait on them, and we have no doubt that many of the grievances of which they complain, particularly those touching the Excise laws with regard to malt, will be remedied immediately on the reassembling of Pal lia urent in February. Again, with regard to illicit distilla tion, which was never mere prevalent than at this too ment, and of which it is difficult to say whether it is more injurious to the revenue or to the fair dealer, steps will be taken to suppress it, as well as as the systematic smuggling which prevails to such an unparalleled extent. The dis tillers, the malsters, the brewers, and all the classes of trades connected with the Excise, have the most entire confidence in Sir H. Parnell and his fellow-commissioners, and look for the most beneficial result from ther labours. —Dublin Mercantile Adveraset. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE. RIVER.—Last night as an ancbor-boat belonging to Mr. John Moore, of Redcross-street, was getting up an anchor belonging to an American ship, she was run down by a brig, and two hands perished.—Liiyerpool Chronicle. SINGULAR CAUSE Or DEATII.—On Satur day last, John Armstrong, about five years old, son of William Armstrong, of Church-lane, cooper, in company of four other boys, went into the brewery yard of Mr. Richard Anderson, of Knox's-street, where they unfortu nately discovered a leaking cask of whisky, a portion of which they were tempted to lap off the ground ; shortly after they became affected, and after getting home melted butter was administered to them by their parents, which caused a considerable quantity of gravel to be emitted from their stomachs. A I the children recovered hut one, John Armstrong, who died at one o'clock on Sunday morning.—Sligo Journal. DIED.—On Sunday afternoon, in his 28th year, Mr. T. NV. Guinan, proprietor and editor of the Wol verhampton Chronicle. The death of Mr. Guinan will he a source of lasting and deep regret. In him were com bined high intellectual powers with the most virtuous principles, and all the actions of his life were regulated by the strictest regard to religion and truth. His illness, which was brought on by the rupture of a blood vessel, was of two months' duration, and he bore his suffering, and the almost certain prospect of a speedy separation from his affectionate family and friends, with that pious fortitude and meek resignation which christian faith and christian hope can alone inspire. Thus fixing his firm re liance on the merits and mediation of Christ, his end was peaceful and happy,—affording to those who witnessed his last moments the surest grounds for hope that his soul had aicended to the bosom of his God, to receive that crown of justice which is the promised reward of all who place their trust in him. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—AS the mail was proceeding from Okebampton to Launceston, on Sunday night, when within four miles of the latter place, the driver and guard got down to allow an outside pas senger to alight; the guard was placed at the head of the leaders, whilst the driver attended to the passengers; when the horses, one of which was blind, became impatient and started off, throwing down the guard. There were at this time four inside passengers, who were unconscious of what had happened, but finding they were proceeding at an un usually rapid pace, one of them looked out, when per ceiving their situation, he communicated it to his com panions, and opening the door, climbed to the guard's stand at the back of the coach, whence he slid down, and running forward, seized the head of one of the wheelers, but could not atop it, and was compelled to let go. By this time another of the passengers followed the example of his companion, but was not 5, fortunate, as he received some contusions. Meantime the horses continued to proceed at a gallop, and the other two inside passengers, one of whom was an elderly gentleman, resolved to sit still and take their chance. The horses dashed forward, passed the bridge across the Tamer, near Launceston, and actually stopped at the door of the White Hart Inn, without ac cident.— West Briton. A few days since, as a respectable young farmer was returning from Frome to his residence at —, Somerset, he overtook a female on the road, who was crying bitterly, and, asking her the cause of her dis tress, she told him that her father bad married a second wife, and that her mother-in-law had used her ill ; that she (the young female having a good property of her own, was determined not to live at home any longer ; she further stated that she had 7001. in the Warminster Bank. The farmer took compassion on her, conveyed her to the house of his father, fell violently in love with her, and in about a fortnight after they were married. On this occasion such a scene of rejoicing was witnessed at —, as had not been known before for many years. A few days sub sequently, the father of the bridegroom intimated to the lady that it would be desirable to withdraw the 7001. from the bank, to which she consented, and off they went to gether in a gig to Warminster for that purpose. On their arrival in that town, the old gentleman waited at the London inn while the lady, as she stated, went to the bank for the cash, to which place she returned in a few minutes, stating that she had got it in her pocket. After taking an extra glass, to which he was prompted by the fancied success of his journey, the old farmer, with his daughter in-law, returned home in high spirits. It subsequently, however, turned out that the lady's story about the cash was altogether a fabrication, and what was still worse, that she had been, for a long time, a common prostitute at Bath. The young couple have since parted.—Bristol Mercury. THUNDER STORNI.—LOSS OF LIFE.—An awful and very disastrous thunder storm occurred in this neighbourhood, at an advanced hour, on Wednesday night last. The earliest account we have of it, dates its commencement at Kilcummin, a few miles below Killala ' from which it proceeded with the direction of the wind, which then had risen to a smart breeze from the north west, towards the Coolcarney mountains, traversing a large section of the intermediate country, and filling the inhabitants, in every part of its progress, with affright and dismay. A highly respectable inhabitant of Killala states, that the storm, when passing over that town, was terrific in the extreme, the electric fluid being so vivid and continuous as to render the smallest object in his bed room, where the windows were but partially closed, dis tinctly visible for several seconds, and the thunder roaring in such deafening peals, as might indicate " the convul sive throes of nature's agony." Happily neither the town nor the inhabitants sustained any injury. Far different, however, were its effects at Mallahowny, a village about three miles from this town. The lightning entered the house of Patrick Kilbride of that place, killed his daughter, a young woman twenty-four years of age, and so severely injured two other members of his family, as to deprive one (a son) of the sense of hearing, and a second daughter of all power in one side. It also killed his pig. In the house of Andrew Lynne, adjoining the former dwelling, it killed four cows, a horse, two pigs, and a quantity of poultry. Two other cows belonging to the Widow Naughten and Henry Willis, were also destroyed during this awful visitation, in the same neighbourhood, by the electric fluid. We are glad to find that subscriptions have been commence , ' for the relief of the principal sufferers in this case. Any contributions, we are requested to add, for the benefit of Lynne, who has a numerous family, now reduced to a state of great destitution, which may be left at our office, will be thankfully acknowledged.-- Ballina Impartial. HAY.—SINGULAR HOAX.—A short time ago a person came to the Red Lion Inn, in this town, and sent for a surgeon to meet him there. The surgeon duly arrived. The stranger introduced himself by stating that he was a steward of the Friendly Society held at the New Inn, Eardisley, and that be was deputed by them to en gage a surgeon to attend the site members; he, the steward, had the pleasure of informing the gentleman whom he was addressing, that the Society had elected him, and he had been deputed to settle with him as to terms. After some discussion, the steward proposed to give 40 guineas per annum for the gentleman's profes sional services; the offer was accepted. Immediately an attorney's clerk was called in, and instructions given to draw up an agreement ; this was goickly done, and as quickly signed by the surgeon, and by the steward in behalf of the society. The medical gentleman was so highly pleased with this nen acquisition to his practice, that be not only paid the attorney's clerk for his trouble, but also treated the Society's modest deputy with the most delicious viands, and the best liqueurs the inn could afford. When it grew late, the surgeon insisted upon his friend accompanying him home to take supper and a bed at his house. After long and pressing invitation the steward consented. To the private house both parties repaired, and after partaking of a very handsome cenalory en t er tainment, both the engager a nd the en g a g ee retired to rest, higbly gratified with the events of the day. On the following morning the steward found himself a wel come guest that at the he hadbreakfasthe ioig ta o b t le te ; n he to hhriinntgedantyo cash kind host with him ; whereupon the surgeon generously handed to his guest all the silver be then had in his pocket. And now " they talked of this thing and of that," when the conversation chanced to turn upon horse flesh ; the steward told a long tale of a sick horse which he had at home, and minutely described the symptoms of the suffering animal. The medical gentleman lost no time in preparing a ball, which he presented to the steward, who now departed. Th e b a ll h e f o rthwith carried to a clergyman in the town; in offering it for sale to the reverend gentleman, he described it as an infallible nostrum for innumerable diseases incident to the horse; but the clergyman incredulously shook his head and turned upon his heel from the charlatan. t few days afterwards, the surgeon had occasion to go to Eardisley, in the course of his professional duties, when, to his utter dismay, he found that he had been hoaxed—his forty guineas per annum proved, like Mr. Henry Ossulton Bennet's domains in Canada, things, alas! not tangible. VISIT OF THE RIGHT liGN. C. P.' HOM SON, M.P., TO MANCHESTEk, The Hon. Vice Presijaent r;f the,Board of Trade arrived a mong his constituents from London .41 Tuesday evening. His presence hail long been anxiously expected, as dell by , those who were more immediately instrumental in securing his election for the borough as by the larger remaining portion d the inhabitants over whose interests he had been deputed to watch. lint the important mission in which the Right Hon: Gentlernan has for some time been engaged, combined with the other heavy official Calls lipoid his at tention, have hitherto preitented his appearance among us, and his sudden illness on his return from France frustrated fors time the plans which had been formed for his reeeP• tion and entertainmeilt. For these reasons the dinner appointed to be given by tae Viiectors of the Bank of Manchester to their chairman, Mr. Thomas _Potter, has been re peatedly deferred, it being the especial wish of the conductGra of that establishment that th:;se Members of Parliament in the district who have assisted in promoting their views during the late Parliamentary discussions upon the banking affairs of the country; should he of the party. On Wednesday the dinner took place at the Royal Hotel. It was of a strictly private thatactet, the representatives of the press being therefore excluded. About 3 gentle men sat down, every Director having the power td duce a friend. Mr. J. C. Dyer presided, and the vice chair was tilled by Mr. E. Baxter. The guests consisted , : f Poulett Thomson and Mark Phillips, Esqrs., our representatives, Mr. Richard Potter, Member for Wigan, and Mr. Brotherton, Member for Salford, the Directors and a few friends, Mr. A. Kay, Mr. V. Burdekin, &c. &c. Due honour was of course paid to Mr. Thos. Potter, the chief guest of the evening. At an early period of the proceedings, Mr. P. Thomson waa called upon to address the meeting. After touching lightly on the question of banking, the Right Hon. Gentleman expounded his views upon the subject which, of late years, has mainly occu pied his a ttention, —namely, the system of free trade. He spoke at some length and very ably upon this topic, and was followed by Mr. Mark Phillips, Mr. Richard Potter, and other gentlemen. In the course of the evening the principal officers of the bank presented to Mr. Thomas Potter a beautiful gold snuff box, bearing the following inscription : "Presented The principal officers of the Bank of Manchester Thomas Potter, Esquire, On his retiring from the office of Chairman of the Board of Directors Of that Establishment, Which he held during the Four first years of its existence, In testimony Of their high esteem and regard, And of their gratitude For the kindness and zeal with which He invariably promoted Their Interest and Happiness. Dec. 11, 18.33." The party broke up at an early hour. On Thursd sy morning Mr. Thomson breakfasted with Richard Potter, Esq., at his residence near Kersal Moor. The party, although by many considered as a " public breakfast," was strictly private, and was composed chiefly of the most active members of the two committees of Messrs. Thomson and Phillips, at the late election. Be tween 30 and 40 persons sat down. An opportunity Was taken to elicit from Mr. Thomson some explanations in reference to his votes and proceedings during the last session of Parliament. The Right Hon. Gentleman spoke upon the several points to which his attention was drawn in a familiar and friendly way, and, as we are informed to the complete satisfaction of his auditors. On Thursday evening Mr. Thomson, Mr. Mark Phillips, Mr. Richard Potter, and Mr. Brotherton (all of whom were present at the breakfast) dined with a party of eighteen (chiefly consisting of other active members of the two committees who had not been among the morning guests of Mr. R. Potter) at the house of Mr. T. Potter, and here again, we believe, the explanations were given. Yesterday morning, a deputation, headed by Mr. Bro therton, Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Potter, and comprising, among others, the Reverends Dr. Fletcher, Birt, and M'Kerrow (successor to Dr. Jacks) with Messrs. Hadfield, Harbottle, Samuel Fletcher, Heron, sen., Mr. Hulme (attorney), Mr. Roberts, &c. &c., waited upon Mr. Thomson, at the house of Mr. T. Potter, for the purpose of laying before the Right Hon. Gentleman the complaints and demands of the body of Dissenters in Manchester and Salford. The deputation breakfasted with Mr. Potter. They stated, that on behalf of the Dissenters they required to be freed from the compulsory payment of church rates—to have the power of marrying at their own places of worship, and of interring in parochial burial grounds, their own Ministers officiating—and to have a general registration of births, marriages, and deaths throughout the country. Mr. Thomson attended carefully to all that the deputation thought fit to urge ; but ab stained from stating his own views or pledging himself to any course. Yesterday Mr. Thomson dined with Mark Phillips, Esq., at his residence near Stand. He will continue the when t cl he r e e becomes rn t. n . ignumesatteof ofh is mr. colleague ay o u o n d t , i s l " fi l a o n n s d i az n , Wednesday he visits Mr. 13axter. —Manchester Chronicle of Saturday. HINT TO REFRACTORY CORPORATO.RS.- " Bijazet," says a Sunday paper, " had a short method of dealing with bodies when he suspected anything wrong in th e m. One of his grooms being suspected by a widow of drinking her children's milk, he forthwith ordered the man's stomach to be opened to ascertain the fact." THE IRISH UNION.—The Memoirs on the Union, just published by Sir Jonah Barrington, are at tracting, it appears, very considerable attention. In treating of the public events which made that measure necessary, and the secret contrivances by which it was effected, no writer of his period could possess greater advantages than Sir Jonah Barrington. He was of ne cessity, through the position which he occupied, informed of the views and objects of Government, and of the occult means by which they were to be accomplished. The private agents of the executive were known to him. He was familiar with the great leading men of parties, and his natural shrewdness allowed nothing in the Houses of Parliament, or in the political coteries and cabals, to escape bis vigilance. His work, therefore, undoubtedly claims estimation as one of standard value. SALMON POACHT.INIG.—On Tuesday, Mar garet Taylor, the datighter of a farmer in Logiealmond, was brought before the justices at Perth, on a charge of salmon poaching. By the evidence it appeared that this fascinating young lass despised taking fish by spears or any other mode usually practised by poachers, but actually bunted the salmon with dogs, a way of catching fish hi therto unknown. Her plan was both novel and simple ; she, set her two dogs into the Shilligan fishing dam, a little below the spawning bed, while she sat several yards above it, in a narrow part of the burn, in the enjoyment of a cold bath, with her apron stretched out under the water. On a signal the dogs rushed up the burn, sending the fish be fore them, and the moment they entered the apron the fair dame drew it to her and secured the fish. The justices rewarded the lass's invention, by ordaining her to pay a fine of 11., besides expenses, or, failing payment, one month's imprisonment i❑ Perth gaol.—Edinburgh Cou rant. SALMON FISHERIES OF SCOTLAND.—It iS in contemplation, we understand, and arrangements are in progress to bring in a Bill next Session of Parliament to supersede or rectify the present law, usually denomi nated Mr. Home Drummond's Act, for regulating the Scottish Salmon fisheries. One striking anomaly in the present Act is the clause making it imperative that all the rivers in Scotland shall be fished at the same time. By this regulation the Ness and other early rivers, which produced more weight of the best and richest salmon from St. Andrew's day to the Ist of February than they pro duce throughout the whole of the rest of the season, were cut off from the chief advantage they possessed, and denuded of more than two thirds of their value. Salmon in December would be worth two shillings a pound in Billingsgate market ; but after February, when the pro duce of all the Scottish streams is brought in together, it is scarcely worth sixpence. Why, then, pass a law pro. hibiting any river from being fished previous to February? We can prove that these are undoubted facts, and that the salmon caught in November, December, and January used to be of the best quality ; and it is not a little hard that a legislator like Mr. Home Drummond should step in and with a dash of his pen, aided by the omnipotence, or rather the dulness of Parliament, blot out this source of national emolument and gratification. The enactment of such a regulation is happily described (see Mr. Fraser of Dochnalurg's excellent treatise on the Salmon) as about as sensible a p l an as i t wo uld be to prohibit the farmers of England from cutting their crop s till the harvest was ready in the Hi g hl an d s. However, we know that some things wer e t h rust i nto the Bill without Mr. Home Drummond's knowledge or consent, and the Act was so far beneficial that it tended in some degree to repress poaching. W e ant i c ip a te far higher and better things from its intended successor.--Inverness Courier. ,=, THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle.) Lieut. Colonel Hailes, and all the officers of the 26th regiment, messed together last Sunday ; at the new barracks, on the occasion of giving a farewell dinner to a distin goilihea brother officer, Captain Carrothers, who is re tiring frotri Emmy, after having served 25 years in this gallant corps. It is understood that Lieutenant Adams obtains the vacant company by purchase. Captain Gape, the senior officer in that rank of the Scots Greys, has left the regiment in which be served many years, and is gone out upon the Unattached. Another officer, Lieut. Colonel St. Clair, has been withdrawn from the Special Staff appointed in this coun ty to preside at courternartial under the Coelcion Act. The Staff is now reduced to four. Lieut. Fairtlough, 16th regiment, is appointed to the recruiting service at Carlisle; Lieut. Rainforth, 35th, has succeeded Lieut. D'Anvers, in this garrison, at Stamford; and Lieut. Linton, 69th, has succeeded Lieut. Magrath, 16th at Reading, all in the same department. Lieut. Rose, 55th regiment, has succeeded Lieut, Butts, Royals, as superintending officer of the recruiting service at Inverness, the former being ordered to Coventry. Major Dutton, h. p., is appointed military secretary at the Cape of Good Hope. 'the proposed reduction of 5,000 men in the army is, it is said, to be effected by diminishing the number of soldiers in each regiment of cavalry and infantry, the former by 30, and the latter by 60. Orders have been issued for an immediate reduction of the Household Troops. They are at present confined to the Foot Guards. Eight men are to be taken from each company. It is expected that this principle will be acted upon throughout the army. The 99th depot still remain at New Bridge, awaiting their embarkation. Major General Macdonell hat obtained leave of absence front his command of the Ulster district; for the purpose of doing his periodical duty as equerry to her Majesty.— Capt. Hort, Slat regiment, is appointed an extra aide-de camp to Sir Hussey Vivian; and Capt. Williams, recently on Lord Anglesea'a staff, has been now appointed an extra aide-de-camp by Marquis Wellesley.—An unpleasant affair in Dublin is likely to lead to the assembly of a general douttmartial on an infantry officer in that garrison. After all that has been said to the contrary, and the "official" contradictions of the London press, it is now determined that the clothing of the Light Dragoons next, after the delivery of the ensuing Christmas issue, shall be dark blue,—the tawdry and expensive scarlet having failed, as was before stated in this journal, to give satis faction to either men or officers. The change would have taken place this year, but that it was deemed only justice to give the officers ample time to wear out their present uniform. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Lord William Bentinek, from Madras, has arrived off the Isle of Wight; sailed from Kedgeree June 10, Madras Aug. 13, Mauritius Sept. 22, Cape, Oct. 19, and St. Mena Nov. 4. The Hero, fi om Bombay, has arrived in the Downs ; sailed Aug. 1, St. Helena Oct. 22. The William Lockerby, from Singapore, has arrived off Dover ; sailed July 27 ; St. Helena Oct. 23. The Allerton, from Calcutta, has arrived at Liverpool ; sailed July 23 ; Saugur 29th, St. Helena Nov. 1. The Mary Bibby, from Bombay, has arrived at Liver- pool. The James Perkins, from Batavia, has arrived off Dover ; sailed Aug. 28 ; St. Helens, Oct. 27. Arrival. at Bombay—The Tigris, from Buhire, June 28 ; the Tauze, from Calcutta, Jul) 1 ; the Sultan, from Mocha, 12 ; La Pactole, from Bordeaux, 14 ; the Mary Bibby, from Brazils, 17 ; the Lowther Castle, from Eng land, and St. Helena, 18 ; the Lady Faversham, from London, and Lady of the Lake, from Singapore, 19 ; the Spence, from Port GlasgoW, 28 ; the Gulnare, from Singapore, 24 ; the Surrey, from Sidney, 25. Departures from Bombay--The Virginia, for Cal cutta, July 3 ; the Earl of Clare, for China, 4 ; the Ranger, for Liverpool, 15 ; the Cambrian, for China, 15 ; the Elizabeth, for Calcutta, 21 ; the Thames, for China, 21 ; the Hall, for Calcutta, 22 ; the Herefordshire, the Lady Melville, and Farquharson, for China, 30. Arrivals at the Cape—The Sherborn, from Portsmouth, October 12 ; the Sophie, from Hamburg, 12 ; the Mal colm, from the Downs, 13; and sailed 17, for Calcutta ; the Childe Harold, from the Downs, 12 ; the Cybele, from Rio Janeiro, 13 ; the Leda, from Calcutta, 14 ; the Severn, from Portsmouth, 11 ; the Margaret and Ann, from Falmouth, 3 ; and George and Mary, from London. 14; the Mary and Jane, from the Mauritius, 16 ; the Triad, from Madagascar, 16 ; the.Diamoud, from Bombay, 17 ; the Andromeda, from Batavia, IS, put in for repairs. Departures from the Cape—The Glenalvon, for the Mauritius, October 13 ; the Childe Harold, for Calcutta, the Osmond, for Singapore, i.nd Emerald, for the Mauri tius, 15 ; the Lord Hobart, for St. Helena, 16 ; the Amsterdam, for Batavia, 17 ; the Mary and Jane, for London, 22. Arrivals at Singapore—The Boering, from Batavia July 4, and sailed 10, for Rio ; the Dodelay, from Bombay 5, and sailed 10, for Siam ; the Avoca, from London and Madras, 7 ; the Hope, from Pedier Coast, 12, and sailed 16, for China ; the Colonel Young, from the Mauritius, 12 ; the Reliance, from Batavia, 17, and sailed 18, for Pontianale ; the Charles, from Batavia, 22 ; the Hibernia, from Liverpool, 22 ; the Helen, from Bombay, 22, and sailed 24, for China; the Edmonstone, from Bombay, 22, and sailed 24, for China ; the Germania, from Pedier Coast, 22 ; the Universe, from Batavia, 21 ; the Emma, from Batavia, 24 ; the Clive, from a cruise, 25. Departures from Singapore—The Anne, for China, July 4 ; the Susannah, for Macao, 5 ; the Cecilia, for China, 5 ; the Victory, for China, 9 ; the Sweet, for Penang, 10 ; the Alexander, for Rio, 11 ; the Diamond, for Ma lacca, 20 ; the Diana, for Batavia, 23. Arrivals at Madras—The Judith, from the Mauritius; the Research, from London, and Yare, from Bengal, June 30 ; his Majesty's ship Alligator, from Singapore, July 6 ; the Prince George, from London, 13 ; the Thalia, from Ennore, 15 ; the Coote, from a cruise, 14 ; La Emilie, from Bordeaux, 19 ; the Merope, from the Mauritius, 20 ; tha Arab, from London, 23 : the Runny mede, from London, 23 ; the Larkins, from London, 26 ; the Lady Munro, from Bengal, 26 ; the Sir Achibald Campbell, from the Mauritius, 28. Departures from Madras—The Ripley, July 3 ; the Research and Arab, 5, for Bengal ; the Hon. Company's schooner Recovery, for Viz igapatatn, 8 ; his Majesty's ship Alligator, for a cruise, and Bencoolen, for Singapore, 13 ; the Thalia, for Bengal 18 ; the Hon. Company's schooner Coote, for Coringo, 21 ; the Hon. Company's ship Buckinghamshire, for Bengal, 22. Arrivals at St. Helena—The John Craig and Maria, from the Mauritius, Nov. 1, and sailed 3d, for England; the Juliana from Madras, and sailed 4th, for London ; the Tyrer, from Calcutta, 4th. Ships spoken with—The Elizabeth from London to China, Aug. 21, lat. 10, N. ; the Mary, from Leith to the Mauritius, Sept. 27, lat. ; the Lady Nugent, frcm London to Bombay, 28, lat. 31. 57. S. long. 19. 41. W. ; the Catherine, Fenn, from London to Bengal, Sept. 1, all well ; the Robert Quayle, from Liverpool to Bombay, 20, lat. 14. N., long. 24. W. ; the Vistula, from Mauritius to Greenock, Oct. 13, on the Bank of the Lagullas ; the Fairlie, from London to New South Wales, Nov. 19. lat. 6. 47. N., long. 22. 3. W. An entirely new Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, is at length stated to be in progress, under the immediate sanction of Earl Fitzwilliam. On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, at the Hope Coffee-house, Lower Porchester street, Connaught-square, Edgeware-road, on the body nf Mr. J. Pratt, aged 26 . The deceased, who was a furni ture-broker, and of respectable connections, " had lately !ed a gay life and drunk deep." He resided with a Mrs. Willis, alias Windsor, who kept a certain description of house, No. 47, Upper Berkeley-street-west. On Wed nesday last he was in Mrs. Willis's dressing-room, when the servant said that he owed her 2d. Mrs. Willis ch_ served she would pay that, and the deceased then said to Mrs. Willis, " Come, kiss me, Kate." She did so, and the deceased then asked the servant to kiss him, but she refused ; and the deceased walked into the front bed-room and locked the door. In five minutes afterwards the re port of a pistol was heard, and on the door being broken open, the deceased was found dead. It appears that the deceased was very excited in consequence of excessive drinking. Mrs. Catherine Windsor, alias Willis, in giving evidence, said she had parted from her husband for some time. She seldom quarrelled with him. A letter addressed to Mrs. Willis, is which he trusted be should be pardoned for his rash act, and affectionately dwelt on the many hours of happiness he bad spent with his dear Kate, was found in the bed-room. The following is an extract :—" Pray, my dearest Kate, for my soul for the act which I commit. I knew you am sure of that, for which God will he good to you for this kind ness to one who loved you derear than his life. My dear mother—dearest to me but one upon earth, that was yourself, my dearest Catherine —my mother and sisters, God bless them all—father also." The jury found a verdict--Temporary insanity. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The naval preparations , of Russia and France have rot some considerable period attracted the notice of political abservers in every part of Europe. The French Government has been pushing forward a powerful armarnfot of men of war in her southern dockyards, to be accom- flied by 20,000 or 30,000 troops, for the Pur pose, as it is announced, of invading the African province of Constantine, a dependency of the former Government of Algiers. Perhaps a more pressing service might be discovered, a few hundred miles to the eastward of that new French colony. Russia has a fleet in the Euxine, within three short days' . sail of Constantinople, consisting of not less than from twenty-two to twenty-four ships of the line. Can any one be surprised that the Government of Louis Philip should hasten to be in readiness for all contingencies, or that England should partici pate its just apprehension of the manifest designs of Russia ? That England does share the feel ings of France on that important subject seems plain from the fact, made known by all the newspapers, that our Admiralty have, within these few weeks, given orders to fit out for imme diate service several men of war, and first class frigates, now lying in ordinary at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Chatham, eight sail of the line, we believe, and four or five frigates, which, with the Victory and two others already in com mission at Portsmouth, would constitute a force of eleven sail of the line ; and, added to the squadron already in the Archipelago, would compose a fleet of some sixteen or eighteen sail of the line, including half a dozen three deck ers. Any longer indifference on the part of England to the progress of Russian conspiracy and trickery against the magnificent ruins of the Turkish empire would be an insult to ;he honour of this great people, a sacrifice of the security of British commerce, and of the free dom of the Mediterranean, as well as a crime against the independence and tranquillity of the European Continent. We rejoice, therefore, to learn from our brother journalists, that signs of increased alacrity to meet, or, in other words, to ward off, the evil which threatens, are visible in the preparatory measures of his Majesty's Government. if the Cabinet of St. Peters burgh shall be satisfied that France and Eng land really " mean what they say," and that they rig out and man a formidable fleet, not for ostentation, but, if unavoidable, for action, it is our belief that the Czar will turn more than once on his pillow before he dares the encounter of such a confederacy. The safety of the whole world, of law, of liberty, of political society, everywhere, most reflecting men are conscio s, must now depend on a hearty union of counc-ls and of efforts by France and England to stem the torrent of barbarian conquest in one quarter of Europe, and to prevent the pressure of mili tary despotism from extending to every other. If some Powers be not aware of that great truth, we suspect that Russia is not one of the ignorant. But M. Pozzo di Borgo may spare his attempts, however dexterous, to sow discord between Great Britain and her partner in this righteous cause. France and England know that they have a common interest, commercial, colonial, military, maritime, moral, as against time aggressions of the Northern Despot. They know that by their union all those mighty in terests may . with ease and certainty be secured, and that to withdraw from each other's standard is to sacrifice them all without redemption. NI Pozzo di Borgo will, therefore, lose his labour —Times. Prince TJetternich, as our readers must have see by our extracts from the German and French journals, has summoned the political doctors of Germany to a consultation at Vienna, under his own superintendence, on the constitutional weakness or chronic distempers of the Germanic suchter removeded a w r h a o c oo t ri out effect i ae o l ffi n ae e yo r et d; had the eeb prescribed Confederacy. The usual medicines recom ompo e s n el ty d e h. dda had b i oy snot i of nervous irritation under which the patient laboured—and it seems resolved that a change of treatment shall be adopted, in which a steel regimen may be attempted by way of experiment. Nearly the same body of diplomatic physicians had assembled in consultation on the same pre text at the waters of Carlsbad, in 1819 ; they had thence adjourned to Vienna in the beginning of the following year ; and though they have since met several times, the result of their united ingenuity and experience has hitherto proved fruitless in effecting a radical cure, or allaying the feverish excitement. Though neither the French nor German papers, last arrived, inform us of the precise points to which the attention of this German congress (to drop all metaphor) will be applied, it requires no inspiration or revela tion from the Austrian Prime Minister, to ascertain its views and objects. In June, 1832, the diet at Frankfort published certain resolu tions, to which the sanction of all its members had been given, abridging some of the most essential franchises, and annulling some of the most important rights of the constitutional states. These resolutions, in the first place, abolished the freedom of the press in one or two of the principalities where it had recently been esta blished by law, and imposed a more rigid cen sorship on political writings in states where the censorship had previously existed. In the second place, they endeavoured to curtail the freedom of discussion in the Legislative Cham bers of the constitutional kingdoms and princi palities, or, what was nearly as pernicious and tyrannical, prohibited the publication of their legislative debates. This was a stretch of power which the Bourbons during the restoration never attempted to exercise in France, though, in other respects, the French press was frequently put under a strict censorship. The tribune, in the most alarming circumstances, was allowed to be free, while the journals were enslaved; and the deputies of the nation could speak to the nation from the Chambers, when the great body of the citizens could neither be enlightened nor ad dressed from any other quarter, nor by any other class of instructors. In the third place, the resolutions of the Germanic Diet, in June, 1832, prohibited public meetings for the expressittn of political grievances ; and, in the fourth place, they announced the determination of the Diet for maintaining the authority of the Princes against their subjects in the constitutional states, by denying the right of the legislative bodies in time latter to refuse the supplies demanded by Lheir Governments. Since these despotic reso lutions were promulgated ill the summer of last res of all the Constitutional year, the Legislatu VVirtemberg, Bavaria, • Baden, States namely, Hesse Darmstadt, Electoral Hesse, Nassau, and other s maller principalities, have met and protested against them, as an assertion of federal tyranny, and an arbitrary infringement of their independent rights. Their Sovereigns, on the other hand, have endeavoured to justify Limo