The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-19 00:00:00

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE " Leaguers meet theatres," said the Home Secre tary, in his speech of Tuesday evening. They do, Sir J ames . They rac.,t in Covent-garden last night ; and o e y will eontinv .e to meet at short intervals here and throughout th' country, until all occasion for meeting shall have . c'eased. The League is no ephemeral body. It has ,Lit the elements of permanency about it. Its duraticin will be co-existent with that of the odious monopoly which U has been established to put down. Both will stand or fall together. Thp League has given mkny proofs of its vitality. It has 'proved itself to be something more than an abstraction. There is an at mosphere of practicability about it, which the monopo lists are at length compelled to acknowledge. There must be something tangible in a body which has spread terror and dismay amidst the ranks of the monopolists. That cannot be a non-entity which has forced the land lords and the clergy of a State Church to form them selves into a wide-spread confederacy, to resist what they call the aggressions of the League. That cannot be a mere airy nothing which has wrung from the hart grasp of an avaricious oligarchy some 13,000/. or 20,000/. in the hope—vain hope l—of opposing the fur ther progress of the League, which has been truly de signated " a Great fact." Let the monopolists go on as they are doing. Let them combine and contribute to their hearts' content. The league glories in collision. The League courts a conflict with the champions of the landed interest. Conflict is, with the League, but another name for con quest. The free-traders have challenged the monopo lists to the combat times without number. The challenge has been Ilitherto declined. It is now accepted, and the opposing powers are marshalling their respective forces for a. decisive battle. The grand conflict is on the eve of c',lmmencing. Of the issue there can be no doubt ; nor Can there be a question that the engagement, though se7ere, will be but a short one. Never did the League appear in better spirits than they did last night. How could it be otherwise ? The attendance was, if: possible, greater than ever ; and cer tainly, intense as was the enthusiasm at former meetings, the enthusiasm displayed last night exceeded anything of the kind ever before witnessed. No one who was in Covent-oarden last night can any longer entertain a doubt, however sceptical he may have hitherto been, that the days of the monster monopoly are numbered. We wish that all those oligarchists, titled and untitled, -_whu have of late been planking down their 1001., 50/., 201., IN., 51., &c., for the purpose of perpetuating the corn-laws, had formed a part of the vast audience. If they had, they would have learned at least one important lessson. They would have been taught the utter hopelessness of averting, or even much longer de ferring, the destruction of the bread monopoly. And this conviction would necessarily have been followed by another, namely, the folly of contributing their money to prevent a catastrophe which is inevitable. There are none, says the proverb, so blind as those who will not see. Some of the landlords are in this predicament. Though everybody else clearly discerns the impending extinction of the corn-laws, there is a section of the monopolists who shut their eyes and refuse to be en lightened. The delusion may be a pleasant one while it lasts. And were it likely to last for fifteen or twenty years, we Could understand the conduct of those monopolists by whom it is so fondly cherished. Human nature shrinks from the contemplation of distant evils. No one likes to torment himself before the time. It is only when evils are known to be at hand, that they force themselves on men's attention. Those landlords to whom we refer are unwilling to learn how near its doom their favourite monopoly is. They not only will not come to the light ; but they will not let us bring the light to them. Their conduct would be intelligible could their ignorance avert the coming cala mity. But it cannot—no more than the ostrich, who thrusts its hoed into the sand when closely pursued, thereby escapes the destruction to which it is doomed. But if many of the monopolists are determined not to see, they must be made to feel. If they will not now believe that their craft is in danger—the craft by which they have so long swindled and plundered the public— they must be made to believe it, by bringing the threat ened ruin about their ears. _ The proceedings of last night were well adapted to accelerate this event. Mr. Hume was singularly happy in his references to the humiliating position in which the Premier has suffered himself to be placed. Never did Minister appear in so pitiable a plight. Last year he proclaimed his determination not to be dictated to by the Richmonds and Buckinghams, who head the mono list confederacy. Those who differed from him admired what they considered the manliness of the declaration. But how has he acted up to it ? Let his announcement the other night, that he will consent to no alteration in the corn-laws, answer the question. In that announce ment he stands theself-confessed minion of the oligarchy. Hetes been cowed by the menaces of dismissal from '6lllO, which the Duke of Richmond has held over his head. He has been compelled to eat the leek, and by doing so has irredeemably disgraced himself in the esti mation of all honourable men—even in that of the very aristocrats whose livery he has consented to wear, and whose obsequious lacquey he has agreed to become. To the speeches of Mr. Christie and Mr. Fox we have not space to advert. Both were effective—that of the latter was particularly so. We shall probably take oc casion to recur to it, and direct attention to some of its more prominent points.—Advertiser. LORD LYNDHURST'S CHARGE TO THE PYX JURY. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER* A Committee of the Goldsmiths' Company, appointed to try the coinage, assembled at the Privy Council Chamber, when the Lord Chancellor addressed them nearly as follows : " Gentlemen,—You are assembled here to-day to try the value of the coinage ; and, as the coal-merchant is said to have remarked that Coals is coals,' it will be for you to say if money is really money. " Gentlemen, there is no pleasure in life without some alloy, and money, which is one of the greatest of earthly delights, has also its alloy ; but you will hare to take care there is not too much of it. Formerly, every gold watch weighed so many carats, from which it became usual to call a silver watch a turnip ; but this will not, at present s form a branch of your inquiry. Troy weight, gentlemen, is derived from the heavy responsibility the Trojans were under to their creditors. The Romans were in the habit of tossing up their coins in the pre sence of the legions, and if a piece of money went higher than tip of the ensign's flag, it was pronounced to be above the standard. You, Gentlemen, will not be required to do this. It will be sufficient if you ring the money on the mahogany dining•table that you will find prepared for you. " The early Italians used cattle instead of coin, and a person would sometimes send for change for a thousand pound bullock, when he would receive twenty five-pound sheep, or perhaps, if he wanted very small change, there would be a few lambs amongst them. The incon venience of keeping a flock of sheep at one's banker's, or paying in a short-horned heifer to one's private ac count, led to the introduction of bullion. , "To return, however, Gentlemen, to the duty that will devolve upon yourselves. You will be called upon to examine into the unhealthy custom of sweating sove reigns; and, with regard to this point, will do well to re collect that Charles I. was, perhaps, the earliest sove reign who was sweated to such an extent that his imme diate successor, Charles 11., became one of the lightest sovereigns ever known in this country. " With these remarks, Gentlemen, I leave you to the discharge of your important duties. There are weights and scales in the next room; and while British honesty holds the beam, I am sure that British wealth can never suffer ; for Ms the boast of our blessed nation, that the merchant may hold his head as high as the noble----(aside) if his washerwoman has put sufficient starch in his shirt collar." (The Learned Lord's speech was so much ap plauded when he arrived at the beautiful little figure of the merchant and the noble, that the concluding words, spoken aside, were not audible.) The Foreman of the Pyx Jury, in the enthusiasm of the moment, asked the whole of the Privy Council to a banquet, to be given the same evening in the Hall of the Goldsmiths' Company. The Lord Chancellor, in the name of the Privy Council, obsorved, that they were all indisposed, and that their medical attendants had said, that by all means they must all keep quiet, and therefore could not accept the Pyx Jury's polite invitation. The Jury then amused themselves by tossing up, weighing, breathing upon, biting, and otherwise experimentalising with the coin of the realm, which they declared to be honest and satis factory.—Punch. DEFEAT OF TIIE MONOPOLISTS AT AN OPEN COUNTY MOLTING AT BRIDGWATER FEn. 16.—(From a Correspon dent.)—The Squires are dead beaten to-day. We carried it ,hollow at the county meeting. We carried a petition for complete free trade, and a vote of gratitude to the League. Never was a more complete triumph, and never did 1 see men more chopfallen. I have just time to say thus much before post closes. I should suppose between 5,000 and 6,000 may have been present, 5,000 being, perhaps, nearest the mark; but this is guess-work. When Mr. Wilberforce was a candidate for Hull, his sister, an amiable and witty young lady, offered the corn . pliment of a new gown to each of the wives of the freemen who voted for her brother; on which she was saluted with the cry of " Miss Wilberforce fur ever," when she pleasantly Pbserved, " I thank you, gentlemen ; but I cannot agree with yen, for really I do not wish to be Miss Wilberforce for ever." EXTRAORDINAR Y MARRIAGE NOVELTY. Since Monday last, the neighbourhood of St. John's Chapel, St. John's - square, Clerken we ll, h as b een the scene o f grea t in . terest and curiosity, in consequence of a ceremony of a most • •novetand extraordinary aracter having taken place. The .. Rev. Mr.. Hugh Hughes, c minister course of his visitations to relieve tof St. John's Chapel, in the the poor in the lower walks of life, and afford them religious ai, ldiscovered a great num .. her of PersonS, of both sex es , living together in a st a t e o f pro , lligacy. Through the medi um o f his exhortations they were brought to a sense of the impropriety of costermon ch a mode of lif e , , and 86 men and women, consisting of t various trades and Ors, tailors, shoemakers, and eth ers of us ' callings, consented, at the suggesti on o f the y Rev. to appear at St. John's Chapel, on M on d ay lastjentleman, go through the matrimonial ceremony, grat i s. Every, arrangthere to - - went was made for the occasion, and a t an early -ue h r male and galleries were filled with highly respectabl e persons, and female, in order to witness the ceremony, a n d the body of the edifice was crowded, while the greatest interest was manifested outside by numerous spectators. The police and Bncklaw, the beadle, were in attendance to keep order, and prevent any inconvenience. At eight o'clock in the morning the " happy couples" began to arrive, and they were ushered • through one door into pews. The Rev. Gentleman at length tock his station at the altar, and commenced his labour, • when he continued to go through the solemn ceremony amid the greatest silence, until he successively solemnised 23 mar riages, some young, some middle-aged, and others old re pentants. On Thursday the chapel was again crowded, and the same ceremony was performed with 23 more couple, but the remaining 40 did not appear at the appointed time. There is no doubt, however, that they will come forward, as the doors of the chapel are gratuitously open to them. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP SATURDAY. GLOBE.—We regard it as a piece of great weak ness to keep harping upon the Catholic oath ; and we are surprised that Lord Stanley should have wound up an able speech with a topic ineffective, when not offensive. From whom, after all, proceed most of the attacks on the Irish establishment ? From the Roman Catholic Members ? By no means ? Why, one of the most outspoken recent sallies on the subject of that Church, as exclusively es ablished in Ireland, proceeded from the Gal lant and most Protestant Member for Westminster, Captain Rous. We have before us a pamphlet, pub lished by Mr. D. Perceval, containing his father's speeches on the Catholic question, in an appendix to which we find bitter and just complaints of having been taken in to vote for Captain Rous, as a Pro testant Conservative. Now, if that is all the depend ence Protestant Churchmen can place on their own members, what possible use is there in twitting Roman Catholics with hostile conduct towards the Pro - testan t Church ? Are the Roman Catholics the only Dis senters in Parliament who must express no opinion on that subject? If they may express opinions, are they to express their own opinions, or some others ? To have made this oath good fur anything as a defence of the outward Protestant Establishment, it ought to have been an oath, or engagement, neither to speak nor vote on any subject affect ing that Establishment. All general pledges are per fectly useless, the object of which is to withhold one section of the Legislature from doing what all the rest may do. If the Catholic oath had succeeded in imposing this exclusive restriction on Catholics, it would have produced a second Catholic question. If there were no Protestants who attacked Protestant ascendancy, the supposed Catholic pledge to abstain from doing so might be pleaded more colourably. But to say Roman Catholics must hold their tongues, and withhold their votes, on public ques tions, on which all other Members may speak and vote in what sense they please, is to talk idly. And what would be the consequence, if Roman Catholics acquiesced in this doctrine? The conse quence could be no other than this, that they must all turn Repealers in a body—all at least, of those who regard it as their duty to act upon their Church feel ings in Parliament as elsewhere. Every one of them must throw their weight into the scale of separate Roman Catholic legislature, if the Perceval, and, it would seem, Stanley construction of their oath could be brought home totheirconviction. Lord Shrewsbury said, very justly, last year, that " until both Houses of Parliament combined to give a different interpretation (from Lord Camoys) of the oath, Roman Catholics would be justified in giving their opinion in the Legis lature even on subjects that might trench on the esta blished religion of the country. On any other terms he would not condescend to sit in Parliament." Would the party in power think the British con nexion with Ireland greatly strengthened, if every Roman Catholic, who thinks himself bound to act in favour of his church on all occasions, could be convinced that he was not at liberty to do so within the walls of Parliament ? Why then, let them pass a declaratory Act of the stringent sense in which the oath taken by Roman Catholics is understood by Parliament. If they could make their majority relax corn duties, surely they can make them tighten Catholic tests. That they won't do so—that it would annoy them amazingly if the Roman Catholics took them at their word—considered themselves, as they affect to consider them, debarred all free expression on Church subjects—and thereupon succeeded en masse, and took service, as loyal Repeal auxiliaries, under Mr. O'Connell—proves, as we began by stating, the weakness of talking everlast ingly about an alleged engagement they shrink from enforcing. It would seem our opponents have got such a habit of talking about this oath, that it always comes uppermost when they find they have nothing else left to say. But whatever colour there might be for throwing it in the teeth of a Whig majority, there is no shred of pretence now for a single word more about it. "You say the oath's evaded—why then, take it — I'm all submission—what you'd have it MAKE Ir." All this whining is utterly ludicrous with a large majority in both Houses. It is your fault if Roman Catholic consciences are ensnared an hour longer by general terms. Make them so stringent, that no zeal ous Roman Catholic can speak or vote henceforward on any Church question. Every straightforward Tory (as Sir C. Wetherell) derided your oath, as securing establishments. Every straightforward Tory (as Mr. Perceval) demands, if you make anything of it, to make it stringent and penal. And Mr. O'Connell will be much obliged to you. What need we say more ? THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND. The Right Hon. Gentleman is in the unexampled po sition, that he holds one of the highest offices in the State through commisseration and sufferance. His Par liamentary friends defend him not. They offer merely the apology that he anticipated that a set would be mate upon him, and though he was resolved to be governable he broke out at length into lawlessness. The more he anticipated the less he is excusable, on the grounds of rashness. No body but himself observed that there was a particular call upon his valour, but when the call was made, he could not pretend that it was unexpected, and he was the less excusable for any extravagance ia the course he thought proper to adopt. The storm having come on, it passed away with an in noxiousness to him almost miraculous. If Fitzgibbon played his cards as some persons say he should have done, the grand State prosecutions could have been de stroyed at his stage of the proceedings. One can well imagine the effect of taking the infuriated Attorney • General at his word, and repairing to a distant spot to give the "satisfaction" demanded. From this peril he has escaped, and he has had to deal with a most indul gent Bench, though in the progress of this trial a gentle man had been brought under the animadversion of the Court merely for a want of due courtesy to the High Sheriff. One comfort the Right Hon. Gentleman has, and it is no small one in these bad times, that the Pre mier has proclaimed in Parliament that the Government has not contemplated, and does not contemplate his dis missal. There is, in this respect, also the comfort to the people, that while the Right Hon. Gentleman remains in office he must be a damaging adjunct to the Tory Go vernment. The Judges of the Queen's Bench are greatly blamed in London on account of this affair of the Attorney- General. The chief responsibility in the matter lay with the head of the Court, and if the needful had not been done he was of course principally in fault. It was ob served that the member of the Court who - was most for ward in urging on an assertion of its authority was Justice Perrin. There was, however, on the whole such a failure as to provoke amongst our neighbours even the humiliating sentiment of derision. The Times has ob served, with characteristic insolence, that the Court did its best to facilitate an accommodation for the " jentle men." One thing should be remembered, when all others are forgotten, relative to this unique business, that the principal official parties obnoxious to blame are persons pushed into their station by Tory appointment. Mr. Smith is Sir Robert Peel's Attorney-General, and Mr. Pennefather, who was so sympathising, or (more correctly speaking) who was bewildered a manager for the " jontlemen," was his Chief Justice.—Dublin Pilot. In the course of the Irish State trial, Mr. Whiteside quoted an extraordinary figure once used by an advocate— " I smell a rat—l see it brewing in the storm—and I will crush it in the bud." EXTRAORDINARY REVELATION OF A MURDER COM MITTED IN IRELAND ELEVEN YEARS AGO.—NORTIIAMI, TON, FEB. 15.—A curious revelation has been made by one of the soldiers of the 83(1 Regiment, at present stationed at our barracks, by which the perpetrators of one of those cruel and dastardly murders which we are constantly reading of in the Irish papers, are likely to be discovered and brought to punishment. The man's deposition was taken before J. Mar shall, Esq., one of our borough Magistrates, yesterday, but as the parties are still at large, the examination was strictly a private one, From what I can gather, the murder in ques tion was committed in the year 1832. The witness was then a boy about 12 years of age, and was with others in the field gathering blackberries, when he observed four men, whom he knew, and whose names, I understand, he mentions, run across the fields towards the high road. They were armed. Shortly after the witness heard a cry of " Murder" proceed ing from the road, and.then two strangers passed him and his companions, as if coming from th e di rec ti on o f t h e cry. lie asked them what the cry was about? but the only reply they made was to tell him to go about his business. When the witness got upon the road, he saw the four men he had first seen in the fields standing over another man whom they had on the ground, and were beating. Soon afterwards the murdered man was brought home by the police. The witness told the circumstance to his father at the time, who desired him to hold his tongue about it, and beat him. It appears that the unfortunate victim had made himself unpopular by taking a quantity of land which had previously been let in small holdings, and he was therefore waylaid on his return from market, and murdered. The party who saw the murder committed, mentioned the parti culars shortly afterwards to a Roman Catholic priest residing in the neighbourhood, but, thanks to that gentleman's con• scienciousness, the subject has remained a mystery up to the present time. I understand that copies of the depositions have been forwarded to the Secretary of State, and to the magistrates of the district in which the man states the murder to have been committed. ..., ....... _ _ _ NUMBER .OF ENGLISH IN FRANCE IN 1844.—The following is an official return made by the municipal authori ties to the Minister of the Interior and Prefet de Police, in Paris, of the number of English residents (domicilies) through out France on the Ist of January, 1844 :—Paris, 25,000; St. Cloud, Versailles, and St. Germain-en-Laye, 6,000; Rouen, Havre-de-Grace, and Dieppe, 5,000; Harfleur, Honfleur, and Caen, 2,300; Fontainebleau, Orleans, and Tours, 3,500; Bordeaux, Toulouse, PO, Barreges, Montpellier, Nismes, and Marseilles, 3,500 ; Aix, Avignon, and Lyons, 600 ; St. Quin tin and Lille, 1,500; Amiens, Beauvais, Arras, Abbeville, and Montreuil-sur-Mer, 2,800 ; Boulogne-sur-Mer and vici nity, 7,000 ; St. Omer, 2,700 ; Cassel, Warrnhout, and Armen t4f.66ooo Pierre, En r?? 3 00 ; Bergues an d D un ki r k , 2 , 000 ; G u i nes , M arqu i s e, English Calais, residents 4,800 in ; F m r a a n k c i e n . g a Alim totalitt Admitting upwards tha t each, of , on an average, expends five francs a day, the annual sum spent by the Engli s h w il l be above 4,820,000/. s t er li ng . Thi s re turn does not include the number ber of English who p as s through France on their route Ito Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Mediterranean, and India, which, on an average, Dover The facility Railway, Calais, ..by the London, ndafrffoesrmtdeaemdpakets Southamptonto pas- F ex ol c k e s e t d o s n s° e, '" and . pas sengers for Boulogne and Havre, and Brighton to Dieppe, has greatly increased the o number of visitors, which this summer will, in 11 b a pro a- bility, be from 60,000 to 80,000. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Feb. 17. THE WILL OF THE LATE JAMES WOOD, GLOU- CESTER. THE CORPORATION OF GLOUCESTER V. WOOD.-JUDGMENT. This cause, which has been so frequentlybefore the public, still creates the greatest excitement, and the knowledge that it was set down for judgment this morning, caused the Court to be densely crowded long before the Lord Chancellor took his seat. Precisely at ten o'clock his Lordship entered the Court, and immediately proceeded to deliver judgment, from which it appeared that the suit had originally been a bill filed by plaintiffs against the executors of the late James Wood, Esq., of Gloucester, with a view to establish the validity of the two codicils, bequeathing no less a sum than 140,000/. to the Corporation of Gloucester. The matter was fully argued before Vice Chancellor Wigram, who decided that the codicils were incomplete, not expressing their precise meaning as to the appropriation of the amount so bequeathed, and accordingly dismissed the plaintiff's bill, who had appealed to the Lord Chancellor, and the matter having been re-argued, his Lordship, after due deliberation, affirmed the judgment of the Court below, the question as to costs to be re-argued on Saturday next. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 17. (Before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.) PHILLIPS V. MORRIS. This was an action for defamation of character, in which Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Lee appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Whately for the defendant. The libel was contained in a letter said to have been written by the defendant, conveying an imputation on the plaintiff's character. There was a plea of justification placed on the record, that on the night of the day on which Prince Albert laid the foundation stone of the Royal Exchange, the plaintiff had slept with a person of the name of Waller, at the Sun Tavern, near Temple-bar. Mr. THESIGER said the plaintiff in this case was a young lady who kept a respectable bearding-house, at No. 5, Foley place, and, as the jury must be aware, it was of the first consequence for a lady so situated that her character should remain above all reproach. The defendant, who was a widow lady, living upon her private income, boarded with the plain tiff for some time. She, however, left that establishment, and soon afterwards, in the early part of 1843, a letter was ad dressed to one of the inmates, containing the most abominable insinuations upon the proprietress of it. This letter signed " M.," he was instruced, he should be able to prove was in the handwriting of the defendant. The annexed is a copy of that letter " My dear Chap—Who do you think I meet yesterday but Mr. Wollow, and told him that I had got the credit of a Captain Dolton of sending anonymous letter respecting his intended Briad, Miss Phillips; his answer was tell him to take her to the Sun Tavern, one door from Temple Bar, the woman, he said, know her well; she sleep with him on the night that Prince Albert laid the forst stone at Exeter change ; she, accused the woman in the morning of stealing her boa, and the consequences was that the woman would not give them a breakfast, and he had to take her back to the City to his lodging to get one for her; she had left her boa at his lodging; this was, she said, before she got her house in Foley-place. She was lodgin at that time at a little china shop in Paddington-street, and should wish you to show this to Dolton, for Wollow is now in town, and he can take his lady with him—he is very angurey with her for sending him a Bill which he returned ; he did not owe her a shilling his wife got the letters he said that she sent to him and unknown to him she Poor woman sent 35 Pounds to a friend of hers to go and pay her, so she may thank Wollow wife for that. I think Wollow will write to Dolton himself and told him so to do, but what surprised me most was what he told nie respecting Mrs. Kibly. "Yours truly, The following witnesses were then called : John Chafey said he resided at No. 5, Foley-place. In the month of May, 1842, he lived as a boarder in the establish ment of Miss Phillips. There were about half-a-dozen alto gether. A Mrs. Morris resided there ; she was about sixty years old, and Miss Phillips probably about eight-and twenty. In this month he received a letter which he well remembered ; it was in the handwriting of Mrs. Morris. Witness handed that letter to Captain Dalton, who was then under engagement to be married to Miss Phillips. Some time after this witness met Mrs. Morris, and told her there had been many anonymous letters going about, of which she was suspected to be the author. Mrs. Morris denied the truth of the imputation. She afterwards wrote a note to witness, begging him to send back this particular letter, as she did not intend him to keep it. She often spoke to him of Miss Phillips' establishment, telling bins he would be much better away from it. His answer to these observations always was, that he was comfortable. Last spring witness saw the defendant at the Portugal Hotel, who introduced him to a Mr. Waller. That gentleman repeated in part what had been previously said in the letter alluded to. Mr. Waller said he had been down to a certain house in the City, where he remained. The defendant spoke much in dispraise of Miss Phillips' establishment. On cross-examination, witness said the de fendant told him she thought the anonymous letter was writ ten by Mr. Waller. Witness is an independent gentleman, living on his own means. He still resides at Miss Phillips's. Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb deposed that her husband holds the office of auditor in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. She and her husband resided for about ten months in the plaintiff's establishment. Witness knew the defendant, who called upon her shortly after she went to reside in the plaintiff's house. She told witness she was surprised at her staying there, as Miss Phillips did not bear a respectable character. Defendant told her that Miss Phillips did not like her going to her house. She also said Miss Phillips would have a letter. Mary Telford deposed that in the year 1842 she lived as housemaid with Mrs. Barton, who resided at 51, Weymouth street, Portland-place. Miss Phillips boarded there. No one could sleep out of the house without witness knowing it. Miss Phillips never slept out of the house. Witness warmed her bed every night, and took away her candle. On the 17th of January, 1842, the day when the foundation stone of the Royal Exchange was laid by Prince Albert, wit ness could swear that Miss Phillips was confined to her bed by illness. Jane Hughes deposed that she was a laundress, and used to do the washing for Mrs. Barton's establishment. On the day when Prince Albert laid the foundation-stone of the Royal Exchange, witness went to Mrs. Barton's for the washing, and saw Miss Phillips in bed, who told her she was too ill to get up and sort her linen, and she must call again the next day for it. Sarah Lewis said she lived in Mrs. Barton's establishment, whilst Miss Phillips resided there, and would swear that lady never once slept out of the house. s This was the case for the plaintiffi Mr. WHATELY, after a brief speech for the defendant, called three witnesses, but only one answered. Sarah Shoobridge sworn—Lives in Doctors' Commons. Is a widow, and has resided there 19 years. Has been a widow five years. Witness knows a person of the name of Matthew Waller ; he lodged with her three different times. The last time was in the year 1842. Witness knows Miss Phillips, who visited Mr. Waller three or four times whilst he lodged in witness's house. The last time of her visit was about a week before he left ; each time he went to fetch her. The time he left witness's house was about the end of January. On the first occasion when she came, nothing particular occurred but taking tea ; nor on the second ;en the third tea and wine. Saw them after this when they were both quite tipsy. Miss Phillips was sick in consequence- of being drunk. She went on that occasion into Mr. Waller's room. The servant had told her the door was locked, on which witness went up, knocked at the door, and said it was quite time for Miss Phillips to come out. Heard the door un locked, and saw Miss Phillips come out of the bed-room. She and Mr. Waller afterwards stayed two hours together in the parlour. He went away with her about nine o'clock. It was on the day Prince Albert laid the first stone of the Exchange. The next morning Mr. Waller returned about twelve, and Miss Phillips about a quarter of an hour afterwards. Mr. Waller ordered breakfast, but I refused to let him have any. At length I allowed my servant to get breakfast, tea and beef-steaks. Afterwards Miss Phillips complained of illness, and went to Mr. Waller's bed, where she stayed until four o'clock. Whilst in bed there Mr. Waller went to her twice. He has not lived with witness since, nor does she know where he is. Miss Phillips left her house in the evening. In cross examination, witness said she understood, when in 1835 Mr. Waller first came to reside with her, that he was a married man, living separate from his wife. His two sons then lived with him. She understood him to be out of business, but that he had previously kept an hotel in Dublin. At the second time he came to live with witness she believed he dealt in cigars. When he came the last time he came from Blackfriars-road, where he had been, she believed, in some sort of business. Witness had had two husbands—her first husband's name was Shoobridge—her second Spiess, but for the whole nineteen years she kept her house in . the name of Shoobridge. Her first husband died in India in the year 1815. She married her second hus band at her own house. He was a Scotchman. There were two Scotchmen present when she was married. There was a minister from Paisley, of the name of Anderson, who married them. Her husband found him out. Witness knew nothing about him, save that once her husband brought bins home to drink tea. Spiers told her he was a minister. Knew a man named Charles Gould. Never had a Scotch nor an English marriage with him. Knows a person of the name of Linton, a doctor, of Durham. He lodged in witness's house when he was walking the hospitals. Had never been in his bed-room at night or any other time, except when he was ill ; for three weeks at one period he was confined to his bed. From the time the tea-things were taken away, about seven o'clock, until witness had heard them both go out together, wit ness did not "go into the room, or see either of them ; the wine was put on the table when the tea was removed ; that was about seven o'clock. Knew Mrs. Douglas, but only so from her visiting Mr. Waller. Knew it was Miss Phillips who came to her house, from going to Miss Phillips' house to say she (witness) had been subpoenaed. Saw Miss Phil lips at that time in her own house, and will swear that she is the Same female that was with Mr. Waller in his bed-room at witness's house. Mr. THESIGER replied. Lord DENMAN summed up at some length, and, in the course of his address, expressed his opinion of the innocence of the plaintiff of all the charges brought against her; and denounced, in strong and indignant languag, the attempts too frequently made to throw slurs upon flee character of females struggling to obtain a virtuous and honourable maintenance. The jury consulted for a few seconds, and the foreman said, " We find for the plaintiff—damages 400/. ; and we are unani mously of opinion, that not the slightest imputation rests upon the character of the plaintiff." This was the last cause during the present sittings. Ai." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRE7ARY 19, 1844. attempt, however, they were not successful, for on the first night of the family endeavouring to sleep in the house, not a single person was able to obtain the slightest rest, in consequence of the numberless visitations of these insects. On the following morning, it was found that the sheets between which the defendant and his wife had tried to repose presented a mass of " bug carcases and bug's blood." In the course of the succeeding day, the " army" increased, and as day followed upon day, for several days, the "force of occupation" had become so alarmingly exten sive as to render it a matter of absolute impossibility that human beings could continue to remain in the house. The defendant, therefore, sent an intimation as to the state of the dwelling. A series of communications ensued between the parties, the landlord offering to endeavour to rid the house of its " insectorial" inhabitants. To this proposition the defend ant, it appeared, was willing to accede, provided he was also allowed a quarter's rent, to cover the expenses he would neces sarily be put to in procuring another residence for his family whilst the proposed "siege" was being laid and carried on. The landlord, however, declined to make the required•allow ance, and, upon the quarter having expired, the defendant refused to pay the rent in consequence of having been com pelled to quit upon the ground that the house was not in a habitable condition. The matter subsequently came before the full Court on a'motion to set aside that verdict for a new trial, and on the ground that the terms of the contract set out in the lease did not necessarily imply that the house was to be put in a habitable condition by the land lord, There was another ground. The lease set forth that some garden ground was let to the defendant, as well as the house, and the question was raised whether even though there had been an implied contract as to the reasonably habitable condition of the house, the tenant had the power or authority to abandon or give up the possession of both. On behalf of the defendant, it was contended, principally upon the authority of " Smith and Marrable," that the landlord was bound to put his house in a reasonably tenantable and habitable condition. The COURT now decided that, according to all the old au thorities, a landlord was not bound to put his house in such a state of habitable repair as was contemplated in the present case. Their Lordships, therefore, were of opinion that the rule should be made absolute. It would, however, be well that in all future leases this condition should be expressed. Rule for a new trial absolute. DOE DEM. TORK V. WALKER. The COURT, in this instance, gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff. BANKRUPTCY COURT, Feb. 17. IN RE CHARLES JAMES MATHEWS. Saturday was appointed for the investigation in this case to be resumed, and numbers of persons, on coming to the Court, were disappointed, on learning that the examination had been adjourned to Thursday, the 27th inst. It seems that, some days after the hearing on the Bth instant, an ap plication was made, on the part of the opposition, for another day, and on the 27th was named. The insolvent did not, however, obtain an enlargement of his protection until Thurs day last, when it was endorsed for the day mentioned. The following is a correct copy of the proposal on the schedule for the creditors : " The proposal of Charles J. Mathews for the gradual liquidation of his debts. That is to say, that the said Charles James Mathews will pay into the hands of an official assignee, to be appointed under his estate, a sum of thirteen hundred and fifty pounds annually (such sum being taken as an average of half tho receipts of the said Charles James Mathews, on the last five years) out of the earnings of him self and wife so long as they are in engagement, and enabled to perform, such sum to be paid in equal monthly parts. But should either the said Charles James Mathews, or Eliza, his wife, be unable, by accident, ill-health, or other unavoidable cause, to exercise their profession, the said Charles James Mathews will then pay into the hands of the assignee afore said, one clear half the earnings of whichever of them shall be enabled to continue their possession, out of which sum of 1,350/is to be satisfied a certain annuity of 300/, to the Mar quis of Abercorn, which sum the Marquis is liable to pay to Messrs. Parke and Freeth, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, as the . surety of the said Charles J. Mathews, the principal sum, consideration for such annuity, the said Chas. J. Mathews having been discharged from under the Insolvent Debtors': Act' in the month of June, 1842; and the said Charles James Mathews is to be at liberty to retain the trifling! articles of jewellery and the wearing apparel of the said' Charles James Mathews, and Eliza, his wife. . (Signed) "C. J. MATHEWS. "Dated the 22d Dec., 1843." COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 17. The Court sat this morning for the purpose of delivering judgments in the following:cases,:which had been leftfor the consideration of their Lordships : MASON V. PARNELL. In this case the Court said it was the opinion of their Lordships that the rule which had been obtained for a new trial ought to be discharged. HILL AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES, V. SMITH. The Court directed that in this case the rule for a new trial should be made absolute. RUNT v. rfoorEn AND ANOTHER. The Court in this case said, that the rule should be made absolute for a nonsuit. HEATH v. CHILTON. In this case the rule for a new trial was ordered to be made absolute. HART V. WINDSOR. This was an action by the plaintiff to recover the amouut of one quarter's rent for a house and premises in the Wands worth-road. The defence was, that the,house was so infected with noxious and disgaptingiasieti.dalled bugs, as t o ren d er it altogether_ uninhabitabre.' The case wa s t r i e d b e f ore M r. Baron Rolfe, at, the nisi prius sittings at the last term, when the jury retnineda verdict i 4 favour of the defendant on that plea. In the course of the trial it was proved that the house in question *as situated' in Spring-garden's Wandsworth road, and liiiii r been let kir 'the term of three years to the de fendant at an rent of 50/. A feiedays prior to the fa mily entering upon its ocpnpation,they.discovered that there were " bugs" in two of the rooms, whereupon they caused such means to be applied as they conceived to be of a nature calculata4 to get rid of thew. In this MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. On Saturday Francis Bedford Smith, solicitor, of No. 17, Bethnal-green, who was convicted of a violent assault, in" conjunction with his groom, appeared in Court. The parti culars of the case we gave on Saturday. The defendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, but afterwards of fered to compromise the matter by paying 501. Mr. BALLA.NTINE said that the defendant having paid the 501., had done all that the prosecutor required, and therefore, perhaps the Court would discharge him. The CHAIRMAN—I think then that I must not send the man to prison after the master has been set at liberty. The Court having agreed to alter the sentence passed last night on the defendant Smith, and the other man having already passed one night in prison, we must pass a nominal sentence upon him. The sentence upon you, Smith, is, that you pay , a fine of is., and be discharged, and we shall send for Skel lington from the House of Correction. At a subsequent part of the day Skellington was placed at the bar, and the Chairman, addressing him, said that the Court had thought fit to alter the sentence passed upon him last night, and the sentence now was, that he pay a fine of 405., and be imprisoned until the fine be paid. Mr. Crouch, the barrister, hoped after Mr. Smith had paid 50/., a smaller sum would be imposed upon the prisoner. The CHAIRMAN (angrily) told him he might think himself very lucky to be let off so easily. Mr. Smith then paid his groom's fine and walked off. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) BOW-STREET. Some little excitement was occasioned at the door of the station-house opposite the above Court by an omnibus being driven up containing some passengers, among whom was a young man of respectable appearance, and who was immedi4 ately handed over by the conductor into the custody of the police. He was soon afterwards placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, and charged with having stolen a purse containing 6s. 6d., the property of a Mrs. Inglis, one of his fellow passengers. That lady stated that she resided in Hardwick-place, Com mercial-road, and that yesterday afternoon at two o'clock she got into an omnibus in Regent -street, and took her seat near the door. Her purse was in her pocket at the time. The prisoner got into the omnibus soon afterwards, accompanied by another person. The prisoner remained in the vehicle but a very short time and then left it, and the prisoner was no sooner gone than the conductor asked witness if she had lost anything, adding that he suspected that the prisoner was one of the swell mob. Witness immediately felt her pockets and found that her purse, which contained the sum of 6s. 6d., had been abstracted. Witness did not perceive anything suspicious in the conduct of the prisoner previo u s t o hi s leav ing the omnibus , but havinginformed the conductor of her loss, he at once went in pursuit of the prisoner, and gave him into custody. Edward Morgan, the conductor, stated that he took up the last witness in Regent-street; the prisoner, and another young man, entered soon after, and they subsequently de sired to be set down opposite to Somerset -house. Witness, suspecting that they belonged to the swell mob, inquired of the lady whether she had lost anything, and on being in formed that she had, went in pursuit of the prisoner, whom he eventually overtook in Newcastle -street, and gave into custody. On searching him 2s. 4d. in money was found, and a valuable gold pin, which he wore in his stock. The prisoner declined saying anything in answer to the charge in the absence of his legal adviser Mr. TWYFORD said it was a suspicious circumstance that the prisoner refused to give his name and address. The prisoner in answer to this observation, said that his agi name was withheld because he did not wish his friends to tpori admisone r know of the situation in which he , was st p ra la te ce refusing The him was t then aiebnrl.emanded, the worthy 3 LAMBETH-STREET. Thomas Buckmaster Proctor, a well-dressed man, was placed at the bar , bef ore Mr. Norton on a charge of being concerned with a gang of three or four others in carrying on for some time past, a most impudent system of fraud, by which they had obtained, from various persons, principally poor struggling persons, property amounting to over 5001. Mr. Payne, toe barrister, appeared on behalf of the pri soner. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner occasionally enacted the part of a servant to a person named Melsam, not yet in custody , and in that character used to property—s uc h as horses, carts, s,ef out o where r wsale, sin ere was of u and there calling want s upon the ow ners , re p resen t e d that h findi mastereh articl es , an d was no t particu lars as so price when he got an article to suit him, and next took his master as he called him, to look at the property, or had the property tsken to some house where he had just taken lodgings.. The master, who certainly was not particular to ten shillings or a pound, always purchased the property, and this done, he invariably gave ten or twenty shillings in cash, and a bill of seven days' date for the remainder. The Court was completely crowded with the victims of the gang; and after one or two of the charges against the pri soner were gone through, Sergeant Teakle, who apprehended the prisoner, informed the Magistrate that the prisoner stood indicted, with two others, in a clear case of horse-stealing, at Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, and in which the evidence against him was perfectly conclusive. Mr. NORTON, on hearing this, thought the best course would be to send the prisoner into Buckinghamshire to be tried at the next assizes, and if acquitted of the charge of horse-stealing, that he should be brought back and tried, with other parties now in custody, for a conspiracy to defraud, or any other charge which the offence might amount to. The prisoner was then remanded to a future day, prepara tory to his being sent to Aylesbury for trial. CLERKENWELL. Thomas Tarren was charged under the following circum stances Mrs. Philipps, of 31, Frederic-street, Gray's Inn-lane, was going to bed, between one and two on the previous night, when she heard a noise at the back of the premises. She gave the alarm, and police-constable 121 Gwent to the back of the house, and in the water-closet found the p risoner, who had been labouring to make a passage for himself from the closet into the dwelling-house, and had taken out a portion of the brickwork. A dark lantern, a screw-driver, two chisels, a knife, a bunch of keys, and eight lucifer matches were found on his person. It appeared that the prisoner's mother had been working with Mrs. Philipps for the last four or five years, and the pri soner used to visit the house occasionally himself. Mr. GREENWOOD said the prisoner was very nearly com mitting the crime of burglary. He came within the mean ing of the Vagrant Act, and should go the House of Correc tion for three months. QUEEN'S-SQUARE. DESTITUTION.—TWO decent -looking, but wretchedly clothed persons, Thomas and Charlotte Cotter were, charged before Mr. BuitnELL, with the heinous crime of being in a state of destitution, and begging. The policeman who arrested the prisoners stated that he found them begging in Sloane-street, at half-past 6 o'clock last night, and that, on being conveyed to the station-house, and searched, the sum of one penny was found on the person of the male prisoner. came from Ainsworth, Cotter, with tears in', his eyes, stated that he in Hampshire, a fortnight ago, to endeavour to obtain employment in Lon don, being by trade a carpenter, and that, with that in tention in view, lie had walked nearly 200 miles. He had sold everything that himself and his wife could spare from their apparel—that they were starving—and had only resorted to begging when driven by stern necessity. He also said that if the Magistrate would look over the offence they had com mitted against the laws of their country, he would-pawn his coat, which would 'probably realise 45., which sum he thought would take him home. lie was afraid to go to the place Where he and his wife lodged, being unable to pay their land lord. BURRELL discharged the prisoners, telling them that if they were starving they should have applied to the overseer. Surely at this inclement season of the year funds ought to be placed at the disposal of the magistrate to relieve perm in ouch neceeeitoue ammitapea a Cotter and his wife. The actual want of bread, or a place of shelter, drove thousands to beg from door to door, thus violating the law and rendering themselves liable to imprisonment. The distress existing in this district, which frequently leads to the commission of petty theft and intemperance, requires only to be known to the benevolent to be ameliorated. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 16.—0 n account of the continued demand for Foreign Wools, and the temporary suspension in the supply from Germany in consequence of the frost, the stocks of some descriptions have already become very bare, and for such as remain on hand full recent rates are demanded and generally obtained. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 16.—We have not any alteration to report in this branch of trade this week, either as to demand or prices. There is considerable business doing, and prices are very firm. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 16.—The demand for all kinds of combing wools continues good, and the improved terms of last week are fully maintained. Low clothing wools are much sought for, at advanced prices. Blanket wools are comparatively neglected, and prices without variation. LEEDS.—The markets at both our Cloth Halls were very lively both on Saturday and Tuesday; but the demand is principally for low goods, upon which a trifling advance has been obtained, whilst the demand for finer qualities is with out any alteration, and prices are lower than at any period since 1829. The demand continues brisk for Tweeds both for foreign and home demand. There has been a little im provement in business in the warehouses during the week, particularly for the home market, whilst the foreign houses continue to be doing a steady business, considering the early period of the season. HOLMFIRTIL—There has been a moderate share of busi• ness done here during the past month, principally in low fancy goods, Manufacturers continuing to confine them selves to the orders received, stocks are consequently low. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, FEB. 15.—There is quite an average attendance of buyers at our piece market to-day, and a full business doing, and late prices fully main tained. The- demand for yarn for home consumption con-. finites; also several export houses (who have been doing but little of late, owing to the Elbe being frozeri)have made their appearance as buyers, which is calculated to cause the spin ners to be busy for a length of time. Prices without altera tion. There has scarcely been so much animation in the wool trade during the week, as for some time past. Prices are very firm ; in fact all kinds of wool may be quoted dearer in the growing districts since our last report. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—Though the specu lation in Liverpool is not so extensive this week as of late, still neither spinner, manufacturer, nor buyer, seems to know what to do : the small business doing, however, may be said to be at about half the advance that has taken place on cotton, and this applies to all kinds of cloth except printing cloth, which at present finds buyers at very full and satisfactory prices ; fine yarns are also an exception, which sell pretty freely at paying rates.—Leeds Mercury. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. —On Tuesday last, the 13th inst., the half-yearly general meeting of the above Company was held in the Company's office, in Darlington ; G. H. Wilkinson, Esq., in the chair. The Report of the Directors was read to the meeting, and was received and adopted. The Report recommended a divi dend of 1/. I2s. 6d. per share, equal to 31. ss, per cent. per annum, and being 7s. 6d. per share more than the previous half-yearly dividends, leaving a surplus of 1,7301. to be carried to the reserve fund. The proceedings called forth little remarks from the Shareholders present, but a memorial was sent to the Chairman from Glasgow, remonstrating against the guarantee to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Company being given up. After a vote of thanks to the Chainnan, the meeting separated. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS DESTROYED.—The village of Charlton-on-Otmoor, situate within a few miles of Oxford, has latterly been the scene of several very lawless proceedings. Some of the labourers, for the want of employ ment, have been driven to the Bicester union workhouse, which has caused a great deal of excitement and dissatis faction in the minds of those remaining. Several of the re spectable inhabitants have had their windows broken, and on the night of the 26th of January three ploughs were de stroyed, by cutting them to pieces. Each plough belonged to a different farmer of the village. A paper was left on one of them, with the following written on it A fully belly does not know what an empty one feels." THE WEATHER.—SCOTLAND.—The comparative mildness of the weather here, with the plough going in the vicinity of the town, and our streets and roads free from snow, is strikingly contrasted with the interior of the Highlands, where the storm has been severely felt. The road to Perth, between Moy and Dalnacardoch, is quite blocked up by snow wreaths of great depth. The mail bags from Dalnacardoch are conveyed on horseback ; and all letters south of Dunkeld are sent round by Aberdeen, a circuit of eighty additional miles to Inverness. This day appearing settled, with symp toms of thaw, a body of men have been set to work to clear away the snow, but it is supposed that nearly a week must elapse ere the Highland road can be rendered passable for vehicles. Fortunately the letters from the ;south arrive re gularly, with the exception that the delivery takes place here at eight o'clock in the evening instead of eight in the morn ing. In Ross-shire the coast road is quite clear; but in Sutherland and Caithness the mails are carried on horseback, owing to the depth of snow.—lnverness Courier. DESTITUTION.—On Friday last, Mr. Payne held an inquest at the White Hart, Shoe-lane, on view of the body of Samuel Townsend, aged thirty, whose death was accelerated by privation and destitution. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a pattern-maker, and lived at No. 3, Green-street, Marlborough-row, Chelsea. He had been out of work sixteen weeks, during fourteen of which he had been suffering from consumption. Last Monday he was en gaged to work at the iron-foundry of Mr. Pontifex, Shoe lane, when he took a lodging at Mr. Beckwith's coffee-shop, No. 77, Shoe-lane. On Wednesday he was so ill that the foreman advised him to go home, and assisted him there, about ten o'clock in the forenoon. Soon after he appeared dying, when Mr. Bullen, surgeon, attached to the Farring don-street Dispensary, attended, in whose presence he died. It was stated in the room that the deceased had left a widow and an infant, one month old, with six small children, and that he was in such reduced circumstances that the whole of them were without food two days of the preceding week. The unfortunate widow, who had her baby in her arms, said that they had been in extreme distress, and that her hus band's illness proceeded from a cold. Mr. Buller stated that death arose from inflammation of the chest, which, he had no doubt was aggravated by privation and want of comfort. Deceased was, a few years ago, a powerful robust man. Verdict, that the deceased died from inflammation of the chest." At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr. Buller gave up his fee allowed by law, of one guinea, to the widow. The Coroner also contributed 55., and the jury 175., making altogether 2/ 35., which was most gratefully received by her. NEVER TOO LATE.—DUBLIN, FEB. 14.—A scene of rather a remarkable character occurred in the cabin of the steam-packet before her starting :—Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Mau rice O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Morgan J. O'Con nell, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Nicholas Maher, the new Member for Tipperary, were aboard, and the present Government re porter, and the late one, Mr. Bond Hughes, were also in the cabin. Mr. Steele, who accompanied Mr. O'Connell to the packet, shook hands with the Government reporter, and was engaged in some playful conversation with him, when Mr. Bond Hughes joining, addressed the Head Pacificator. Mr. Steele immediately and good-humouredly responded, and ad dressing Mr. Bond Hughes, said—" Mr. Bond Hughes, you were under a misconception with regard to Behemoth,' for I did not speak the quotation ; but I am bound in honour to declare, that I never in my life heard evidence more straight forward, fair, and manly than yours in describing the peace of our monster meetings." Mr. Hughes, in courteous terms, responded, and asked Mr. Steele if he would have any objec tion to shake hands with him, and the latter replied that, on the contrary, he would feel pleasure. At this moment Mr. O'Connell came to the part of the cabin where this occurred, and shook hands with Mr. Bond Hughes, Mr. Steele telling him playfully of his observations about the unspoken "Behemoth," • &c. Mr. Bond Hughes was treated with marked respect by every one of the traversers present, Mr. Ray among the number.—Chronicle. DEATH FROM EATING SPRATS.—Mr. Baker held an inquest yesterday at the Chequers, Providence-row, Finsbury-square, on the body of Mr. Thomas Wiley, aged, thirty-six, an oil and colourman, of No. 5, Windmill-street. Samuel Moggridge said he was a lodger in deceased's house. He returned home from the London 'Docks on Tuesday night last, and deceased invited him into the parlour to smoke a pipe. Witness sat with him for about an hour, and at twelve o'clock deceased parted with him, and went to bed. De ceased was then in perfect health. At four o'clock the next morning the witness was awakened and told that deceased was very ill. He got up and dressed himself as quickly as possible, but upon reaching the bedside he found him dead. Mr. John Cantling, surgeon, of No. 11, Finsbury-square, said he was called to attend deceased, but found him dead. Witness had since made a post mortem examination of the body, and found that deceased had died from inflammation of the stomach, caused by eating some sprats for supper on the previous night. He was informed that deceased had eaten very few, but his stomach was previously diseased, and the number was fully sufficient to aggravate the com plaint. Persons with weak stomachs could not be too careful in eating sprats. Verdict " Died from the effects of eating sprats, the stomach being previously in an unhealthy state." A STRANGE Vow.—A singular instance of Hindoo devoteeism—a Brahmin from the north—has visited these parts, and is now on his way to Cape Comorin, if he has not already reached it. He rolls him self over and over on the bare ground, about three or four miles each day, on his way to the above-mentioned place ; and it is said that he has travelled in this manner all the way from Benares, in doing which he has consumed nine years and three months. He sets out at dawn, with thick cloths tied round his body and temples ; and, having reached the village fixed upon, he performs his devotions, and spends the rest of the day with his family, who travel with him in bullock-carts. He is fanned, as he rolls along, by his son, a youth of ten or twelve years of age ; while the musicians of th e v ill age which he leaves, or o that to which he is going, accompany him with music and shouting: thousands of people gazing with admiration upon his progress, and applauding him as " a great soul"—a most religious man. When he comes to a- tank, or river, or other places which he cannot cross by rolling on the ground, he walks through them; on the other side, rolls the same distance along the bank, and back again. When he reaches Cape Comorin, he is to set a plaintain, and wait there till he offers the fruit of it to the deity whom he worships ; after which, they say, he is to roll back again to Benares, on the other side of the Ghauts. He is a stout man, of about 40 years of age, and is said to be not much in- , jure4 by his devoteeism. This act, instead of being re-. garded as a waste of time and labour, is praised by the Hindoos, generally, as an evidence of the highest wisdom and magnanimity ; and yet some of them, enlightened probably by Christianity, regard it as folly ; unless, indeed, which is not certain, he derives a splendid profit from it in tha offerings of the people. Certain it is that his family main tain a most respectable appearance; but it is said that he was a man of property before he set out on his strange pilgrimage. Many will, probably, consider this an instance of mistaken piety; but, the real cause of it being known, will perhaps explain most other instances of Hindoo de votion. It appears he had no child; and, being unable to bear this evil—which the Hindeos ascribe to the sins of a former birth—made a vow to his god that, if he would grant him a son, he would undertake the penance which he is now performing. A son was born to him—the same who fans him as he rolls along. It is said, but this is proba bly, a tale, that he did not at once begin his vow, in conse quence of which the child became blind, and that when he set about his undertaking, a restoration of the child's sight was granted by the dthty. Perhaps the business is tole rably pleasant to the man by this time, accompanied, as he is, by pomp and praise ; but, even if it were not, his fear of losing the child, by the anger of the god, would be sufficient to keep him faithful to his promise.—Petties Aga Journal. MARKET NE W5.....8AT URDA Y c OV ENT-GARDEN. For the time of the year, we had a very plentifal stippix of both fruit and vegetables, while the general demand was on the whole steady, on the following terms :—Potatoes, from 2s 6d to 4s 6d per cwt ; Spring Onions, 2s 6d to 4s 6d ; Coleworts or Greens, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; Turnips, is 9d to 2s 9d; Carrots, 3s to 5s 6d ; and Leeks, 8d to Is 2d per dozen bunches; old Onions, is 6d to 2s 3d; Spinach, is 9d to 2s 3d ; Apples, Is 3d to 4s ; Pears, 6s to 12s ; and Brocoli sprouts, is 6d to 2s 3d per half sieve; Walnuts, 12s to 16s per bushel ; Asparagus, 3s to 8s ; French Beans, 3s to 4s ; Oranges, 6s to 14s ; and Lemons, 5s to 12s per WO. - - - NEVITGATE AND 36EADENNA.3GL. The markets exhibited full average supplies of Game and Poultry, which sold heavily at barely late rates :—Fowls, Is 9d to 4s; Chickens, Is 6d to 2s; Ducks, is to 2s 3d; Geese, 4s to 6s ; Pigeons, 4d to 10d ; Turkeys, 4s to lOs ; Rabbits, 6d to is 6d; Hares, is 9d to 2s' 9d; Partridges, is to 2s ; Pheasants, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; Wild Ducks, Is 6d to 2s ; Teal, 9d to is 6d; Widgeons, is to is 6d; Snipes, 6d to Is; Woodcocks, 2s to 3s 6d ; Plovers, 3d to 6d, each ; and Larks, Is 3d per dozen. Prime Mutton was scarce, and in request, at very full prices ; but, otherwise, the trade ruled dull :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase. HUNGERFORD. Notwithstanding the supplies of most articles were by no means extensive, the demand was throughout heavy, at but little variation in prices. NEWPORT. We had a very inactive demand, and last week's prices were barely supported. Beef from 20 4d to 3s 44 ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 104 per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. The supplies of Fish were large, yet the sale was active, a about last week's quotations. WHITECHAPEL. Prime Beef and Mutton commanded a steady demand, at full prices ; but the Value of other kinds of Meat had a down ward tendency. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2e 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s per 81be. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 80 to 9d; of Household 6id to 8d per 41b loaf. HIDE MARKET Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs—Best steers and heifers, 5s 6d to 5s 10d; middling hides, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; inferior do, 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin—Market calf, 6s to 8s; long woolled sheep," 5s 6d to 6s 9d; short do, 4s to 5s 9d; shearlings, 4d to Bd. each. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 31 ; use ful ditto, 31 3s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 12s to 3/ 16s; Clover Hay, 3/ to 51; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 88 Wheat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs per load. Both Hay and Straw were a dull sale, at barely late rates. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/16s to 3/5s ; useful ditto, 31 6s to 3/ 14s ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 51; Oat Straw, 117 s to 1/ 9s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 9s to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate supply and a steady demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ ; useful ditto, 31 3s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ lOs to 3/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 3/ to 5/ 3s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply good, and trade dull. (From the London New Price Current of Feb. 16.) SUGAR.—The market has a firm appearance for West India Sugar; buyers have been on the alert, and the demand has been good for every description for grocery and refinsng pur poses—indeed the market has been each day cleared ; the prices paid have been fully up to those of Friday last for good and fine yellow, but all common and brown qualities have brought an advance of 6d to is per cwt. To-day West India was in fair request for all purposes, and the rates previously established were fully sustained ; some of the brokers have no Sugars to offer for sale. _ _ _ REFINED.—The home trade have been eager purchasers of every description of Refined goods this week, paying an ad vance on former rates of is to 2s per cwt. To-day refined goods were in request, and the lowest lump was not to be obtained under 77s per cwt. For Bonded Crushed Sugar 26s in some cases have been refused. MAunirws.—The operations in this description of Sugar have been upon a large scale this week. Yesterday very fine strong bright yellow sold at 69s to 69s 6d, fine 67s to 68s, good 64s to 655, middling 61s to 635, low 59s to 60s, and fine brown 57s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—The rates previously established have been fully maintained for Bengal Sugar, and the trade have pur chased all descriptions readily by private contract. Foreign East India Sugar at previous prices. This day Manilla Sugar sold at market rates ; fine brown fetched 17s to 17s 6d, damp 17s, and washed 16s to 16s 6d; low middling sound yellow taken in at 18s per cwt. FOREIGN.—YeIIow Havannah at 20s 6d per cwt for coloury greyish yellow ; white cannot be quoted cheaper ; Bahia at 17s per cwt ; white at the previous currency. 3iOLASSES.—For all descriptions of West India better prices have been paid—Demerara at 25s 6d to 265, superior 275, Antigua 265, Dominica 275, and St. Vincent's 27s per cwt. Bengal Syrup at previous rates. COFFEE.—Of British Plantation only 2 casks and 27 brls have been brought to public sale during the week, which sold readily at stiff rates; fine ordinary Jamaica rather colory fetched 72s 6d, good ordinary pale 63s to 645, and fine ordinary ragged 65s 6d per cwt. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was in good request, at an advance of 3s to 5s for B.P. sorts ; on good ordinary Ceylon the advance was not more than 6d per cwt ; good ordinary pale fetched 66s to 66s 6d, fine ordinary B. P. kind 72s to 755, middling 94s 6d, low middling 89s 6d, fine ordinary grey 78s to 86s, pea berry 89s to 102 s, low ordinary ragged 54s to 575, black 39s to 58s, very low 18s ; Mysore at 35s 6d to 36s for good ordinary green, 40s for fine ordinary, and 46s for low ordinary pale : Rio bought in at 56s for fine ordinary : and Costa Rica at 57s to 60s for fine ordi nary-, and 50s to 55s for good : 117 bags Padang sold at 22s 6d for low, mixed with blacks. TEA.—In the early part of the week Tea of all descrip tions met with a good demand. On Tuesday, of 17,990 packages submitted to public competition, nearly 6,000 were sold at and immediately after the sales at previous rates, ex cepting for good Congou of the recent importations, hich went Id per lb cheaper. To-day the market was quiet for Tea, but purchases could not generally have been made in Congou under the rates of the last public sales. - . COCOA.—The demand continues on the increase for West India, and prices have an upward tendency. Foreign is held for previous rates. This afternoon Grenada middling red fetched 48s to 495, and Trinidad low grey 44s to 465. Trini dad Chocolate fetched 3d per lb. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum 27 to 29 per cent overproof, common quality at 2s 8d to 2s 10d, 30 to 33 over, fair 3s Id to 3s 4d, 34 to 36 over, good 3s 10d to 4s: in second hand parcels, in all 500 puns have been sold at prices vary ing from 2s 9d to 4s 6d for 27 to 36 per cent overproof. Demerara at 2s 10d to 2s lld for 35 to 37 per cent overproof. Leewards at Is lld to 2s for proof to 5 per cent overproof. Calcutta at is 8d for proof with certificate. For Brandy holders are firm :—Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838 selling—hhds at 56 lid, puns 5s 9d ; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s Bd, puns 5s 6d ; ditto, 1840, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; ditto, 1841, hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d; ditto 1842, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s id, middling marks 3s 10d to 4s 6d, and common 3s to 3s 8d per gallon. Geneva for shipping is 10d; the value of fine for duty is 2s 4d to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits at 10s to 10s 2d per gallon, cash. SAGO.—Good small white Pearl at 23s 6d to 24s 6d, good mid grey 21s to 21s 6d, mid brownish 17s 6d; common Pearl at 13s per cwt. Sago Flour at 18s for mid, and 9s to 13s 6d per cwt for damaged. Sound Tapioca brought 34t1 to 4d per lb; South American Arrowroot at 24d. to 4d, and African 24d to 3d per lb. This afternoon Pearl Sago at 19s to 19s 6d for good small white. RlCE.—Bengal Rice at 106 9d to Its for mid, and at Ils 3d to Its 6d for good mid white. Madras at 9s per cwt for yel low. Java yellow at 8s 6d to 9s, and white at 9s 6d to Ils per cwt. Patna Rice at 14s to 15s ; the highest price is 17s, and the lowest 13s per cwt. Carolina, cleaned here, 21s to 24s and 26s per cwt. INDIGO.—East India at an advance of 2d per lb on the last quarterly sale. Spanish has sold steadily at firm rates. °rm.—Cod Oil at 331 per tun ; 341 lOs to 351 per tun for pale Seal. Sperm Oil at 701 per tun for fine British. Lin seed Oil at 26s 3d to 26s 6d per cwt on the spot. Rape Oil at 36s for pale, and 35s per cwt for brown. Olive Oil has been in excellent demand : Galipoli at . 461, Spanish 431, and Barbary 421 to 421 lOs per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s to 32s for low to fine quality. Palm Oil fine quality at 28s per cwt. This afternoon Palm Oil taken in—good at 271 to 27/10s, mid 261 10s. TALLow.—For forward delivery of Petersburgh yellow candle 41s 3d to 41s 6d are the quotations for the last three months of the year. The business transacted has been upon a small scale only at 40s 9d to 41s per cwt for Petersburgh yellow candle of first quality.—American at easier rates. Town Tallow is 42s per cwt, net cash. This afternoon North American Melted Tallow sold at 35s to 39s 9d, fine Odessa Beef Tallow at 40s 6d to 40s 9d, South American at 34s to 395, and North American Lard at 35s per cwt. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-FRIDAY. The Wheat trade is slow to-day, at an advance of Is. per quarter ; the improvement being firmly demanded by the sellers caused less business to be done than was expected. Barley is dull, and the best samples only support last week's rates. Oats and Shelling are without material alteration, either in price or demand. Beans support their value. Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel. OLD. Naw. Wheat, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent Red to V 5.3i056 Ditto ditto White... 62 56 CO Norfolk Red 55 48 52 Ditto ditto White... 58 52 56 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red — 55 48 53 Ditto ditto White... 57 52 55 Yorkshire Red. 55 47 53 Ditto ditto White... 67 50 51, _ .._ Foreign feed 54 &±I Ditto ditto White... 56 60 Per quaver imperial. Barley, Norfolk an Suffolk — 37 34 35 Yorke'lre a , cl Lincolnshire — 36 32 34 Grinding SO 32 Foreign 35 32 31 Per qr. of 631 b. to thz bust.el. Beans, Small fine 3l 35 30 33 Ticks Foreign Oats, Potato and Pola,.d —s• —4 ••• .....f , Nil t alint ..... ..„ 10.1. to 11d., Foreign —d to —cL t.et Sion.. 5tra1ing...................... ....... ..••••....... 21s. to 21s. per Load . Milt Ripcseed•••••• 231.05 241.05. 251. Os. per 141, t. STATE or TRADE.—Yarns have again advanced in price this week. Wools still remain firm. No further pur chases of either yarns or goods are now making on specula tion, as the general impression seems to be that yarns have reached their maximum, and that nothing further is to be gained or saved by any further purchases than what are ne cessary for carrying on from week to week. London houses are now:acting upon this principle, and consequently buying sparingly, and only for present wants; the present business, therefore, for . useful goods is limited to the actual consump tion at present going on. We trust there will be no further speculation or advances upon material, as in that case, by in creasing the risks of accumulating stock, it will have a ten dency to throw workmen out of employment. —Leicester Mercury. • STATE OF THE LACE AND HOSIERY TRADES.— The cotton manufactures in this district, which have been, for some time, in rather an healthy condition, are placed in a singular predicament from an unexpected cause; namely, a great rise in the price of both hosiery yarn and lace thread, which has, since the latter end of Novem ber, advanced 30 per cent. on the list price, to the great benefit of the Manchester and other spinners, but to the loss and inconvenience of the trade of Nottingham. The cause is attributed to their being an extensive demand in Yorkshire, where the woollen manufacturers have mixed cotton with worsted, principally for warp, while others say, that whole warps are composed of cotton, having a woollen shoot, which are sold as being made wholly of worsted. A considerable quantity of cotton yarn has, for many years, been exported to Russia and Hindostan.—Derby Repor,ter WALMER, FEB. 15.—This day, about one o a party of about 50 to 100 farmers, gardeners, watermen?liannd master seamen, met and pulled down a gate,podlosimr.nagi &c., which had been recently illegally put up a this s ra s c p k o s t by th theere areles s s e of ix b the ars an d turnpikegatest,r trusts. One each . O o n f em whichle ft,..1 are demanded. .• KNACKERS' YARDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu—ln common, lam sure, with many of your' readers, I was much pleased to see it stated in your paper that a petition, complaining of the inadequacy of the present law with regard to knackers' yerd s9 had been presented from the Royal Society for ar Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; by whom, of same paragraph informed the public, a Bill for a mend': ing the existing Acts had been prepared, and would be•• introduced early in the present session of Parliament. To those of your readers who recollect the a ccount' of the horrors of the knackers' yards, which appe ar ed " in many of the public journals a short time sine!' and which painfully attracted public attention, the necessity which exists for having such places P l-1 ,,,_* under stringent regulations must be very appare nt ' By all who value the horse, and who would save ho' from unnecessary suffering in any part of his carte" the attempt to alleviate the misery he has been made to endure, in his last and worst s ta g e„ will be satisfactory ; and I trust sincerely that t h e Bill in question, when it comes before Parliarn entr i will meet with that support which every measu re . ° humanity deserves.-1 have the honour to be, Sir' your most obedient Servant, been G. lkf• QUARTER-SESSIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. A SIR,-Mr. W. Milnes is about bringing into O tteParlini Bill to fix the holding of Quarter-Sessions in corr„ fcr towns, and it is thought that the time intended to b l 3 r posed will be immediately before, or directly after, the : ter-Sessions for counties. Most certainly it would be acil t ro, tageous to hold them a short time before Assizes (at d Assize periods), as it would materially lessen the labor Judges, who have now to try so many trivial cases ; an d or not see why the Bill should not provide the same for it ties.—Your obedient servant, IMPROVEMES' Feb. 14, 1844. RAILWAY RETURNS. tto s v 41, . We extract from the Railway Magane i.--_ ; 5 fo„r received on the principal Railways of Great B l l 4 'llo the week ending on the day of the month pi`e.nl f o r each. The return includes the money recei / sr passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, ant, 14 chandise : Week T ofal- Name of Railway. ended X. 5 . 0 Feb. 10 Arbroath and Forfar lOB 8 9 10 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,195 15 0' 9 Birmingham and Gloucester - 10 Brandling Junction 9 Chester and Birkenhead Bl6 6 $ 13 Dublin and Kingstown 615 v 18 11 11 Dundee and Arbroath 194 i n I 10 Durham and Sunderland 595 iv 0 10 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1,748 18 k 11 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,124 0 .0 10 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,151 15 m 10 Glasgow and Greenock 10 Grand Junction 6,577654 11: 4 5 v 5 .: 10 Great North of England • 1,370 11 $ 11 Great Western 9 Liverpool and Manchester 10 London and Birmingham 25 London and Blackwall 582 ! 0 10 London and Brighton 13 London and Croydon 15 London and Greenwich 702 1° 11 London and South Western 4 ,290 16 0 8 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 724 ‘ 4 , 6 10 Manchester and Birmingham 2 ,585 '` 10 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 2,3 57 6 6f 2,317 10 Midland Counties , 4 3 10 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,350 " $ 11 Newcastle and 3•.;prth Shields 303 , 2 , 5 10 North Midland 9 North Union 7 6 Paris and Orleans '' 3, 25 3 304 .0, 0 6 0 12 Paris and Rouen ••• Preston and Wyre 10 Sheffield and Manchester 447 13 i 2 1 15 South Eastern ,, 2,2 55 4 2 10 Taff Vale 11 Ulster - 6 f 10 York and North Midland HARDENED CRIMINALS. o st , The Court of Assizes of the Nord was, on the 6t1,10 occupied with the trial of three as hardened ruffian s A at A ,, e ° stood at the bar of a Court of Justice. They werel; t ir named Colin, already under condemnation to hard l a- WO life, for an attempt at murder; Druon, under se ntence same punishment for ten years ; and Friedlander, tnnoTbec demned to the hulks for life, for attempt at murder- to 04 were charged with having, on Nov. 26, atternptedrikeett fire to the Central Prison at Loos, by which one P a ch„Lii r named Delvigne, was sacrificed, and three others g jured. The three prisoners avowed their crime, decl a: en they did it to get removed from the prison, were 1 ~1 4 nee r,. the scaffold. The Director of the establishment, in 4 1 ,' 1 7e4,7 dence, declared that, from circumstances, he was 04 0 'P; think Friedlander less guilty than the others: on w" - ,. lin rose, and told the Court th a t th e reason t h e Direc tor thus was, that finding their plan was not likely to of fr,, this time, they wished to secure some future mesy s da re venge for the hardships th e y h a d b een ma de to ell pea' the Central prison. They therefore considered the,.;, 0 1 , lander, having always conducted himself well during finement, had the best chance of being acquitted in 7,44°` fair, and would at a future opportunity repeat the offeli c t os better chance of success. liriedlander acknowledP t :h e rio t : be their plan. In the course of the trial M. Guilmot , iff geon of the prison, was called on by Friedlander to teS eci t A the truth of some fact, but which that gentleman d e ' l lniee short time after, just as the President was about to CO la a'S his sununing up, a cry was heard to proceed from the r, 9 01' bench, and M. Guilmot was seen to fall to the groun d ' der ° ing copiously from a blow on the head from FrienTbit heavy wooden shoe, which the latter had thrown While M. Guilmot was being removed from the CO,,dlim true 1 prisoners conducted themselves most violently, 0 - with the gensdarmes, and crying out that "it was des,' 77ered , wished for, death rather than the Central Pris°°' guard was immediately increased, and the soldiers 00 use their bayonets on the slightest riotous move- 10 %K part of the prisoners. Each of them was held by t iv, pp' darmes, and a strong party were stationed around. soners were all condemned to death. TEA DRINKING. —What a Curious tiuDD o t4r; that all of a sudden, the remotest nation of the 05 74 wise unknown and foreign to all our habits, should c° us a domestic custom, which changed the face of our.,, K is ing refreshments ; and that instead of ale and ineef,Oo4l all the polite part of England should be drinking a Chi fusion, and setting up earthenware in their bons"' i t iosP"b with preposterous scenery. We shall not speak contelnPnaticee for our parts, of any such changes in the history o f ji ell 1 0 1 habits, any more than a chan g e of the wind, ° k ilos • comes from the west, and now from the east, of o f tek some purpose. It may be noted, that the institution drinking followed the diffusion of books amongst ilse,kten growth of more sedentary modes of life. The b,f ors eic i e upon cold beef and " cool tankards," were an active o , c, si generation. Tea-drinking times are more dome ° 1 •1 10 W,V,O to reading; riders in carriages, or manufacturers at.00(•11 or the steam-engine. It may be taken as an tt/F l oc tiOlLt• more sedentary, the more tea-drinking. The coni th iagf not the best in the world; but it is natural, till sort ia pate ter be found. Tea-drinking is better than dram " 1 0 , 0 67 ; ig practice which, if our memory does not deceive 11 ° , 45 ,citnit. ing in amongst the politest and even the fairestcicr j3a e { the transition from ales to teas. When the late 1 .11- ff les s nif by an effort worthy of him, suddenly left off the el to ptsPele brandy and water, by which he had been tempt ed e at his disappointments, or rather to loosen his tong l a jolt pleasant hour of supper, he took to tea -drinking , a ; IV °_ ° ,o;; be owned, was latterly tempted to make amends for his loss ofexcitement, in the quantity he allow% a Or but it left his mind free to exercise its powers , as Waller beautifully says of it, .eit) " The palace of the soul serene ;" ereJ is not to be sure, the quantity, but the tea itself, cOinp jonW the other drink. The prince of tea-drinkers was v•iiabes',. the one of the most sedentary of men, and the mo st t boi/POl. It is to be feared his quantity suited him worse ;,. bou t, cups, which we hear such multitudinous storie s very small in his time.—Leigh Hunt. fts ll CURE roll HOOFING-COUGE.--It is ' ot her e ta superstition in Cornwall, Devonshire, and o lne i e baltid ° of England, to inquire of any one riding on a Fver . of a remedy for the hooping-eough, and wha l e t his named is regarded as a specific.—Mirror. „) inso.o Some time ago, two tailors (father an d to t he m 00 county, not many miles from Chesterfield, we nt ast ial Pihsi of one of their employers to work (which i°_ . , en ingt,htf neighbourhood), and on returning home in the f, e , to were horror-struck in crossing a field to see, as,,Proax w e a man standing quite still near the path. After bo ld f oo d, pause as to what was best to be done, the father blow, vanced, and holding his stick in readines , s b f u o t r te ‘! " Who are you—what do you want ?' 0 re plY• 6 04 rogue, being deaf and dumb, made 1 , 1 , you will not speak (said the tailor) glel e "10 c you ;" but the stupid fellow rerna'ne h 0 00 0r olt, which accout he received a severe blow, ww w `in pot via r stagger. " Now, sir (said the tailor), if You sec ond f li ng' I will strike again." Receiving no answer , a ound; t Ol blow was given, which brought him to thegrend s aha e r however, towards the tailor, who fell a ls o, cam e 13g i worse, the rogue uppermost. The son then ep liedio h e f said, " What is he doing, father?" " o . o , ; eut think I can turn him ;" and after some vt d bonwt e g disentangled himself, and they both haste ne ievf b r o their escape. Next morning, on going they found the villain lying at full length t b een the discovered that the farmer of the field had be: l ! esre ers^ ts l° therein, and had put up what they called a ° Derby Reporter. since,. rive A RARE VISITOR.—A few days Searson, of this town, shot, on the bank_e:f ee t i ll ie e d j r :,;r ol , a rare visiter, from the Arctic region. a u ovely,„of Of al l° Grebe. It is beautifully marked, and bent south, was placed in the hands of Mr. Reid, 0 Oft preservation.—Doncaster Gazette. _- ?" of thr; " Father, what do printers live for for or? child ?" " You said you had not paid him Aglit years, and yet you have his paper e v abo ut the child out of the room, what d oes he Nun" wrong ? _----- Ate BIRTHS. of On the 11th inst., at Tartaraghan Rector!, the 1-143:, -cli Hon. and Rev. Francis Clements, of a son. , the 0 ` ed On the 14th inst., at Park-place, Cheltenoa."' John Beaufin Irving, Esq., of a son. wife of d On the 16th inst., in Finsbury-circus, the Milligan, Esq., of a daughter. ------------- . . 1 . 0 11. MARRIED. ci, bi tt,ilice; On the 15th inst., at St. Mary, Wallin gfl i ver - ,Sor a John Langley, 111. A., Mr. Henry Grissell, o ;_, er of P City-road, to Marian Greenwood, eldest daugiu e doll* De" or Wells, Esq., of Wallingford, Berks. -ash c all to t' l of On the 30th of Novemb er, 1843, at the British 0 Rio de Janeiro, James Edwa rd Le Breton, Ann r daughter of Joseph Dickinson, Esq. , a Leeds. -------------- 0101,1 DIED E s seX, On the 4th inst., at Little Walthan i, Dia widow of the late William Napier, Esq• kivde-P51.14 ff On the 6th inst., at Cambndge-terra Jane , I" ce, i c li Barton, aged 70. l 0f t li On the 6th inst., at Chesham , B ucks, 8 i6l. Osborne Reynolds, Curate of Ch esham. p * lol6ll On the 12th inst., at Ware , Herts, Miss Ann of 110rittiii ; : fit fici and published by Bitirb-13' fold, o. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, ri0. 112, C° ll 4tY Sof Aikddlesex, Monday, FebruarY 19, 3 "•••-• • • o zTa, .......,.. Ages, ..... so ,_ v. Tat If le a . ] ?Ali talk N E • J, T Q J, 11 ..._, LI a, Cl Alo voh, u i i i the i Clot, A ft ...,, tr o4 hate,