The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-22 00:00:00

.....-• :Y. AY•) :TYIAN') on the be bar' he did on th e in Nor• vith re he wa s sic 964 Witnesg iirss 3elanei• , s be P net 0 ° witness: ' 'ed hi ° s knew ;risoner shed ; color W g li jorli' Itv' o ro' fa. We e ' i 560 or tbe 7Th: ' ' os e s O f tn rs So- PO" - Wit ij Potseet„ One day in June a gentleman and lady called, and pur ehac.ed the pattern produced. They appeared on good terms. Miss Ann Rebecca King examined by Mr. CLARKSON I hie with a bonnet-maker in the Mile-end-road. On. Friday, the 10th of June, a gentleman and lady called, and purchased a bonnet, They left a pair of stays to he sent - home with it. They appeared to be so remarkably affectionate, that I observed upon it aster they were g'' 4 e- The bonnet was sent to Mrs. Heppingstall's. LeFree n deriek S a l vey exam i ne d b y Mr. ERLE—I live - at nt Spring, Yorkshire. I have known prisoner two Year; and have visited him. His wife and he, and his wife's moth er , li ve d toget h er ; t h ey seeme d per f ect l y forapr.,Y togeth er . Il e h as a l ways b orne a hi g h c h aracter t__ humanity and ki n d ness i n every re l a ti on o f lif e . I ' 4 ew him when he was in practice. He was of very 'careless habits, and his medicines were always thrown about very carelessly. I have frequently remonstrated with him on the subject. Mr. George Dunn, of Edington, near Sunderland— Bas known the prisoner three years. His character for humanity and kindness of disposition has always been excellent. I always considered him a most kind man. Mrs. Smith, o f C ommerc i a l- roa d, w i t h: w h om the lodgedpriso ner for some time in 1839, considered him a re aPectable well-conducted kind-hearted man. Thlg concluded the case for the defence, and the Court eUrned for a few minutes, for refreshment. When the Von. t re-assembled, Mr. BODKIN commenced his reply, by expressing his .e r ! it g o r r e . t Gn t e ha e t r , a i i i: consequence of the absence of the Soli the painful duty of replying had de lobed upon him. It was a duty, however, from which he felt bound not to shrink. He did not I ; it d r erstand that Mr. Erle had complained of the in which this prosecution had been conducted. 14- ene of the friends of the deceased lady had interfered, and if the prosecution had not been instituted by the Government, the case would have gone without investi gation ; and a prisoner had no cause to complain that instead of being prosecuted by the friends of the de- Cea sed, who might be expected to follow up a case vin dictively, he was prosecuted by the Government, which co uld only have in view the fair and impartial adminis ofationof justice. Observations had been made on the fa ct that persons wbo had been examined be fore the Coroner had not been called for the t rr, secution. Now if, as their Lordships well knew, ` F ie prosecutor was in every case obliged to call every Verson who had been examined before the coroner, the ' e nds of justice would frequently be frustrated. The counsel for the Crown always made a selection of wit 'leases, and placed the names of those they intended to ex amine on the back of the indictment. The prisoner, therefo re , had no cause to complain of any hard s hip. With regard to the two policemen whose names were on the back of the indictment, they had not been called by the prosecution, because their evidence was consi dered to be quite immaterial. They had been called for the defence, and the jury could judge whether it was so or not. He trusted the jury would not themselves to be influenced by prejudice. He felt the suffer y ' w ould not d o so, b ut that their verdict would be the re sult of groi ,„ - A e alin and dispassionate deliberation. The main - t - i ,"" which he understood the defence to be founded g s inadequacy of the motive which could actuate ee 1 1 1 3 ` ..i 's° 1 1er to the commission of this heinous crime. th at ,„ a ' no wish to deteriorate from the legitimate force of th e - !gtlcoent, or from the effect of the character which Ito - Prisoner had received, but let them consider for a de ment the relative situations of the prisoner and the i ll : eas ed- His Learned Friend was right in his state- IVofnt the power of the prisoner over the copyhold pro- Y , but w ith regar d to t h e l ease h o ld property, life of his wife, yet if she died it would ioer64 to her heirs. It appeared that the property to tihchshe su ccee d e d at t h e d eat h o f h er father and mu was 6,0001., an d i n l oo ki ng f or a mot i ve, t h ey he consider, not what his legal rights, but what conceiv e d hi s r i g h ts to be e ; and whatever cause there r i ght be f or hi s ma ki ng a where was the necessity he r his wif e t o ma k e a w i ll ? She was not going abroad, L_ e r bealth was good, and yet he had armed himself with ins trument, securing to hi mse lf a ll h er property at eve nt death, an d wh i ch could be only available in the of her death, and which could only be required 11/1 the contemplation of her death happening suddenly. -4 e feared that the annals of courts of justice contra-. dieted the position that cr i me was never comm i tte d with -1)14 an adequate motive and it wou ld b e a most dange tifils do c t r i ne to lay ' down to make the en orm i t y o f ,„..e cr ime itself an e xcuse f or i ts comm i ss i on. It had s •_"er bee n suggested that the journey to London had Jen undertaken for the purpose of committing the fro , but the letters written to the north showed that, f rie n i his first arr i val i n London, he had prepared her xi:ds there t o expect t h e news o f her death. t e • :ERLE—Do read the letters themselves. m i`, ll - 1 % Box:mix would do so presently, but he would first a bit n t! their attention to the morning of the Bth of June, , ta vi the account which the prisoner gave of the circum te nwees attending his wife's death. He had stated that or w as i 4 n the adjoining room. Now, could that be true; tir o : 1 8 1; 4 not the f ac t th a t h e w as i n th e room at t h e th e - wife sw a ll owe d t h e po i son ? H e says h e p l aced br 11.1.•.: "'oil on the drawers, and then it was suggested that txntag taken the salts, she poured water into the glass lbi,euitning prussic acid, and drank it, and also ate some rob i,sill to put the taste out of her mouth. Now, ner a tt e it Y was that whoever gave hf.„ - 1 . bed -side the salts gave and spooPrussic acid. He ning for warm water an wase glassspoon were found by th . e She was in bed. He was a medi :alildinhaannd* ed W i e a s” .c u l probable that he mixed the salts that nem to his wife, who was in bed? lie said_ b ro . preparing some pruss i c ac i d for himself, he -te th e bottle, poured the acid into the glass, which lie Z b ac o e t el tl : . n the drawers, and went int o th e ot h er room f or Now, as he knew the deadly nature of the acid, „'t not lik e ly that he . would have taken the glass th e " the othe r room with him? Now, in the other room l e „found the servant, but he did not ask tos r ‘ ti r a bottle, but sat down to write letters is frlends, and then heard his wife give a shriek, and Zshed tn. Now, it was most remarkable that, in a house 8 ; 1 1. B,lightly constructed, no one else should have heard the a ,,, r ` e k• He called up the mistress of the house and the ; v an and they found him in the bed-room. lie now It rae to part of th e case on w hi c h the Learned Counsel or th e hdefence had not touched. No attempt had been oc t ,° impeach the accuracy of the medical evidence, zat - I, mi ng to which it appeared that in all cases of this . 114 : L e all power of volition ended with the shriek, asod e x ," was a convulsive action of the respiratory organs, Ron4 iet t hey were asked to believe that the deceased had 'w ard to th e d rawers, swal l owe d t h e po i son, an d after :sone: Wal ked back to her bed, and spoken to the pri testi,and told him what had happened. If the medical itan -°II Y was to be believed, such an occurrence was r n ssible nil th at They had heard the conduct . of the prisoner lay Morning detailed to them, and it was for them to dlilether it was consistent with innocence or not. rep s e Learned Gentleman had not concluded when our left.) NEW COURT. la n ' a nt Edward Brown, a respectable-looking young a ged twenty-three, was indicted for stealing a Thag, the property of his employer, Mr. J. Dobson. . Clark son defended the pr i soner. eidirie prosecutor stated that he was a linen•draper, re servig in Southwark, and the prisoner had been in his res i ;„?„fts a shopman. Having entertained suspicions ra eln — "ag the h ones ty o f t h e p r i soner , h e mar k e d some so rie , s `) . and plac e d it in t h e till. I n th e even i ng the pri- Ap e ,' i ll°, as searched, and a marked shilling was found The lm, and he was in consequence given into custody. ye/ 4 : prosecutor was severely cross-examined by Mr. "wir e l s ° l4 —Had never accused his wife of theft. His Ivi tn "ad left hi m, i n consequence o f ill- treatment . Th e cat4 aB ) in the course o f hi s cross - exam i na ti on , p revar i- Th vcel 7 much. ith e COMMON SERGEANT stopped the case, and ordered iste tt ii: Prisoner wa s aga i n pl ac ed at the bar, charged with T he p anoth e r s hilli ng; un d er s i m il ar c i rcums tances. th e evidence i n thi s case was l ess sati s factory than in T he t' and A th eN-031MON SERGEANT again directed an acquittal, prisoner was discharged. Atu rr t e e „ s Pectable-looking young man, named Justinian . ", Pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him enabe zz li ng 54/. 165., the property o f M r . G o ld ing , In a plover, The prisoner was clerk to the prosecutor. th e ,„ arl swer to a quesion from the COMMON•SERGEANT, Yeitr lS ecutor said that the prisoner's salary was 50/. a with board and lodging. "e Pris oner was sentenced to 7 years' transportation FLAN DERS AND DUTCH MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) 44 befo r eSs AUGUST 17.—There was a grand dinner the ,wereyesterday at the Palace of Lacken, at which s; Present Lord and Lady Palmerston, Mr. Wailer, e n retar Y to the English Legation at Brussels ; Mr. pe ° wa Y' Comptroller of the Civil List, and many other r lp s °os of distinction. de e ,, e r , s , t , er day morning, at eleven o'clock, a robust man. tit - _,""Y dressed, and who appeared to be either intoxi patieue, or out of his mind, insisted on entering the King's dia a n -e : affi rming that his Majesty had invited him to Rei d e i: ; , and that he was resolved on seeing h!m. He be tr o , h e Iva S from Beckerzeel, and that his name was . lie was conveyed to the Permanenio ; and having l'eti t i s nte rrogated by the examining Judge, lodged in the be , icu e in ar e ln d es till so me i n f orm ation respecting him shall Journal of Li ege , o f th e 16th, says :—" The rain th ese "as fallen in torrents without interruption for th Our 110 days has s u dd en ly swo ll e n our rivers. The linde , da ys has and the Embleve, have overflowed, 11:7 have carried away several stacks of timber which on the banks, and which the rapid rise of the water fe et e si i ne it i mpossible to save . Th e M euse h as r i s en five • e Yesterday;nh, and causes serious alarm to the i_Qunaodtattainonts?nflsLiaareh last."Boveria who suffered seriously by the ti,..o ) e l_ th- .1% - e . k s ee s se E ( l ) . elf s l Aug. 18.—It seems to be now certain that .year, the Polder of Lillo cannot be completed this very distressing accounts of the damage le h by the inundation of the Ourthe and the Verdre. e iron railway between Cologne and Aix-la-Cha tilinen is blocked up by a fall of earth, occasioned by the toi; In consequence of this accident, tickets could to tho delivered yesterday to travellers who wanted to go to es e first of these two cities. Workmen are employed lifer the railway as speedily as possible. RUSSELS, AUG. 19.—The King and Queen will . go week to Ostend. The young Prince and the Pnn ss are th- . expected there, and everything is in readiness at Val lace for their reception. and lit H AGUE, Aug. 20.—Their Majesties the King r 4., queen will leave the Hacme to-morrow (Wednes in the a f ternoon, for Wei l ar. allB Drc, AUG. 19.—The water is rising in an 4;7. antegrrimaizer, and, unl ess it spee dil y f a ll s , we s h a ll i — n t l 4ool. lt wants only aiZteen inches to reach the level of the dike round the town. This morning an express has come from the Groenendyk, and we hear that a detachment of Lancers has been sent to prevent the people from wantonly cutting through the dike. _ _ THE Hamm, AUG. 20.—1 t is with great regret that we announce that the Court has received the afflicting news of the death of the Grand Duchess Alexandria, consort of Prince Frederick of Hesse, and niece of our august Quecn.—Juurnal de la Hays, Aug. 21. MONE k AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes terday. Sales 4,500 bales, including 500 for export, viz., 400 Surat, at 2d. to 3 d ; and the rest American, at 32d. to 5V. —A fair business was done in Railway Shares, but the market had a tendency to droop : Caledonian, 4k ; Chester and Birkenhead, Half, 151 ; Dublin and Cashel, 6} ; Eastern Counties, 12 ; Ditto Registered, 13i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 66; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1/. 2s. 3d.; Grand Junction, New, Quar ter, 391- ; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 321 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 51 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 521 ; Midland Counties, 1081 ; North Union, 126; Scottish Central, 21. Is. 6d.; South-Eastern, 12k ; Ulster, 374 ; Paris and Lyons, 2 9-20; Lynn and Ely, 5. The Bombay has just arrived from Ichaboe, with a cargoe of guano. She left there on the 12th of June. At that date there were no less than 48 British ships there taking in large quantities of the manure. At the adjacent islands there were eight or nine other English ships similarly employed. This interesting branch of trade appears to be very rapidly on the increase. From the shipping reports, it appears that a consider able quantity of Brazilian sugar has just arrived off the coast, not less than five large ships having waited, a day or two since, for orders. A portion of this, we are told, is the production of free labour. The bulk of the arri vals have been ordered to the Continent for sale. The Funds have been rather steady this moraing, though at the opening there were several sales made at a slight depression as compared with the closing rates last evening. The Government brokers have bought 5,0001. Consols at 98:g. For the account the present value is 98,i. For Reduced Annuities 991 has just been paid, and for Exchequer Bills 71s. to 735. premium. Bank Stock is at 199 for money, and one-half per cent. higher for the account. In the Foreign Market, the principal transactions have been in tho Dutch Funds, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. having varied from to 61i. There is not a quota tion 14 French Stock to-day. Spanish Consols are at 22+ ; Portuguese Converted at 44 ; and Mexican at 351. In the Railway Share Market the more prominent variation is the Birmingham and Gloucester Shares, which have fallen from 12,1 to 2 and 3 premium. Most of the other Shares are also lower. A considerable amount of business has been transacted this morning. In Banking Shares there has not been a transaction re ported up to the present hour. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL, (From the Official List.) Bank Stock . 199% 199 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities q 936% 3 per Cent. Console. Annuities 98 % ,X 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3% per Cent. Annuities 101 % 1,04 Long Annuities, Expire 50 Jan 1960 12 9-163 South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities 97% Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 130. 13 d 10001. 5001........ ......... ...... 73 pm. Ditto Small ..... 73 pm. Ditto Advertised FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Dutch Exchange 2 1 ,E per Cent Mexican Bonds, 1 837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 35% Portuguese Bonds ' 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 44 Spanish' Bonds, Five per Cent 1840...........» — Ditto for the Account Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. 304 Dutch 236 per Cents 6 13 i 14) Dutch 5 per Cents ....... 10035 New Loan. 5 per Cents. (1837) PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester lOO lO7 102 ... to 103 Ditto New Chester and Holyhead Dublin aud Cashel ... 2 36 6% % to Eastern Counties .. ... ... ...... .. . . 23 Ditto New Registered ... tis. Bd. Great North of England Ditto New Great Western Ditto Fifths Liverpool and Manchester 100 - Ditto % Shares . . . London and Birmingham. lOO 224% London and Brighton 5O 47A London and Greenwich London and South Western 41% ...... Ditto Eighths and El Lynn y.. . _ . 14 4S4 ... to Manchester and Leeds 7O to Ditto % Shares 3O .. 52% Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties Birmingham and Derby IOO Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 North British Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover 32% 37% 38% to 37% Ditto New Trent Valley 'Yarmouth and Norwich Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 Pansand Rouen 2O ..... .... 37% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Ana. 20. 3 per Cent. Consols 99% Three and a Half Stock ...... • 101 % Ditto New, 1830 . . 3% per Cent. Debentures — Bank Stock Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. It , 1 Canal Stock Aoya. ,anal Stock 4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures 4 per Cent. City Debentures ... LAST PRICES OF SHARES.. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SITARS. Dublin and K. Road Drogheda Ditt 0... Dublin and Cashel ditto Hibernian Bank 25% Royal Bank National Insurance Patriotic ditto Mining Company of Ireland 7 -1 Wicklow Copper Mines City of Dublin Steam Company Ditto Ditto SU Ditto Difto, 1836 ... British and Irish Steam Company ... N Steam Ship Building Company MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 21.—The market remains firm and a fair business done. Churnet Valley, premium ; Eastern Counties Perpetual, No. 2, 20s. ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 215., and 275. 6d. premium ; Lynn and Ely, 4i ; Manchester and Leeds, 124 ; Ditto, Quarter, 101 ; Manchester, and Bir• mingham, 541 ; Ditto Quarter, 5-1 ; Newcastle and Dar lington, 484 ; North British, 2:1,- ; Paris and Lyons, 21. LEAMINGTON, AuG. 20.—This pleasant watering place has lately received a considerable accession of fashionable company. Among the recent arrivals are the Countess of Wemyss and Lady Caroline Charteris, Viscount and Viscountess Newry, Lord Blaney, Lord Howard, Lady Stanley and family, Lord Calthorpe, Mr. Laurence and Lady Jane Peel, Lady Wenlock, Right Hon. the Attorney-General for Ireland and family, Colonel Sir Rowland Eustace, F. A. M'Geachy, Esq., M.P., W. Battie Wrightson, Esq., M.P.,&c. BUXTON, AUG. 20.—Amongst the recent arrivals here are Major-General Sir J. Bryant and family, Sir George and Lady Phillips, Colonel and Mrs. Pole, Right Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Darner, Lady Charlotte Greville, Lard Francis Egerton and the Misses Egerton, Colonel Wallington, Mr. Edmund Peel and Mrs. Peel, Mr. Phillips, Sir W. Foulks, Lady Foulks, and Miss Foulks, Sir Thomas and Lady Briggs and family, Colonel and Mrs. Delap, Major and Mrs. Tatten, &c. We under stand Earl De Grey, who, with his Countess, is sojourn ing here, has derived most decided benefit from the use of these waters. A few days ago M. Mulet, an inn-keeper at Dru levent, in the Haute Marne, who, from his great strength and hasty character, was nicknamed the " Gran Diable," was condemned to a year's imprisonment for insulting the Juge de Paix of his commune, and ordered to be taken immediately from the Court to prison. He, how ever, escaped from those who had charge of him, and ran through the town pursued by the gendarmes. They overtook him, and were on the point of la) ing hands upon him, when he took a knife from his pocket, and stabbed himself thrice in the body. lie lingered in great pain for two hours, and then expired. He was the father of a family, and, though violent, was industrious and charitable.—Galignani. BRIGHTON, AUG. 21.—Count Nesselrode, who left Pegg's Royal York Hotel yesterday, for London, re turned this afternoon Ns ith Baroness Seebach, and M. Kisseleff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Paris. Baron Brunnow, the Russian Ambassador at the Court of London, is expected on a visit to Count Nesselrode to morrow. Among the latest arrivals here are the Earl and Countess of Wicklow, Lord Gainsborough and Lady Elizabeth Noel, Viscount and Viscountess Ponsonby, Mr. and Lady Sarah Bayley, Lady Gardner, Lady Heytesbury, Sir George and Lady Wombwell, Lady Rokeby, Mr. and Lady Sandford, &c. Lord and Lady Methuen have been placed in mourning by the demise of her Ladyship's sister, Miss Mildmay, sister to her Ladyship and Sir H. Mildmay, Bart., who died at Dogmersfield Park, near Winchester, early in the week. In a case of tobacco smuggling, recently investi gated at the Mansion-house, London, it was stated that 20,000 pounds of tobacco had been lately cleared out of the Custom-house in Dutch cheeses. Lord Clifford has returned to Canington from Ugbrook, with the Hon. Mr. Clifford and the Hon. Wm. Clifford, his two sons, the latter of whom is just returned from Rome. We regret to say that the Noble Lord has been thrown into mourning, in consequence of the me lancholy death of his brother, the Hon. and Rev. Walter Clifford, S.J.The Hon. and Rev. Gentleman was sta _ _ tioned at Trichinopoly, in the East Indies. He was bathing in the river, when he was carried away by the current, and before assistance could be rendered, he was drowned. His body was found the next day, ten miles lower down.— Western Luminary. DUNDEE. — Our markets continue quite steady ; and flax, yarns, and linens, are in regular demand at last week's quotations, with a tendency upwards. In hemp, hemp cedilla, and Indian jute, there is no alteration either in demand or prices.—Dundee Courier. They are growing a giant at Coxsackie, in this state, who promises to overtop all competition in this country or Europe. His name is Nathan Lampman, and he is 16 years old, weighing 198 pounds, standing at this time 7 feet 1 inch in height, and growing " like mad." He is described by Dr. Smith as " a great, tall, awkward, good-natured sixteen-years-old boy." He has actually grown nine inches in the last year. The doctor thinks he will reach at least another foot, and, on the whole, we have a very good prospect of raising an " em pire" giant.-IVew York Paper. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.--A gentleman was ar rested, by the " detective," in the great agricultural ball, in Dublin, on Friday evening last, on suspicion of being one of the fashionable members of the English swell mob. Next morning, he was brought before the presiding magistrate, in College-street Police-office. It was, however, proved by respectable parties in the city that the accused was a Spanish Don, of rank and fortune, and a man of the strictest integrity and honour. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) RIPON RACES -MONDAY. Two Year Old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added. T. Y. C. Mr. Shepherd's Alaric, Bst 21b (Lye) I Mr. Heseltine's Ape 2 Lord Glasgow's fby Bay Middleton, dby St. Patrick 3 Mr. Farrer's Rowtonian The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 15 added. Winner to be sold for 1501., &c. One mile and half. Mr. T. Walker's Master Thomas, 5 yrs (Cartwright) 1 Mr. J. Gill's Sands, 4 yrs •. 2 Mr. Stebbings' Celeste 3 Mr. Chilton's f by Sheet Anchor, out of Patty, 3 yrs ; Mr. Dawson's Daft Watty, 4 yrs ; Mr. Weighbl's Envy 3 yrs ; and Mr. J. Milner ' s Miss Prim, 5 yrs, also ran. The Members' Plate of 501., the second to receive 151. Heats, two miles. Mr. J. Osborne's Boniface, 3 yrs Mr. Bank's Strathmore, 3 yrs 4 1 2 Mr. J. Walker's Bonnets-o'-Blue, 3 yrs Mr. Ward's Vixen, aged 3 4 4 Ld Glasgow's Sister to Give him a Name, 3 yrs... 2 fell TUESDAY. The Great St. Wilfrick Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 3 only if declared, with 20 added. Two miles. Mr. Milbank's Robinson, aged (Lye) 1 Mr. Bird's Betsey Bird, 4 yrs • 2 Mr. Powlett's Blindfold, 4 yrs Mr. Harrison's Feronia, 3 yrs Mr. Dawson's Daft Watty, 4 yrs 5 The Corporation Plate of 501. ; three yrs 7st ; four yrs, Bst 31b ; five yrs, Bst 101 b ; six yrs and aged, 9st 21b. Winners extra. Heats, two miles. Mr. J. Osborne's Boniface, 3 yrs (Ridley) 1 1 Mr. Milbank's Robinson, aged 0 2 Mr. Powlett's Blindfold, 4 yrs Mr. Stebbing's Celeste, 3 yrs 4 4 Mr. White's The Lord Mayor, aged 2 dr. Mr. T. Walker's Master Thomas, 5 yrs Mr. J. Gill's Sands, 3 yrs BROMSGROVE RACES.— TUESDAY. The Maiden Stakes of 3 sous. each, and 20 added, twice round and a dis., were won, in two heats, by Mr. Saunders' Caitiff; 5 yrs, beating Mr. Hammond's Nora, 6 yrs. The Bromsgrove Stakes of 3 sous. each, with 40 added, twice round and a dis., were won by Mr. Collett's Rory O'More, aged (Whitehouse), beating Mr. Flintoff's Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs, and Mr. Pearce's Foxbury, 5 yrs. The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added, twice round and a distance, over six hurdles, were won in two heats by Mr. James' Jack, aged, beating Mr. Browne's Bayard, 6 years, and Mr. Palmer's Wamba filly, 4 years. PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, AND CORNWALL RACES.—TusnAr. Match-50 sovs., once round. Mr. Allibone's Swindle, 4 yrs (F. Allibone), beat Mr. Creagie's Kate, 4 yrs. The Saltram Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 ft only if declared. Once round and a distance. Mr. S. Spry's Subduer, 4 yrs Mr. King's fby Jack-in-the-Green, out of Eliza, 3 yrs 2 Handicap Plate of 51. Heats 2 miles and a distance. Mr. King's cby Hornsea, dby Soothsayer, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. Williams' Ely sium, 4 yrs Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 2 yrs The United Service Plate of 501. Heats about a mile and a half. Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs (Cowley) 1 1 Mr. King's fby Jack-in-the-Green, 3 yrs ..... 2 2 Sir S. Spry's Bastile, 4 yrs The Ladies' Plate, of 501. (Handicap). Heats once round. Scobett's Fox, 4 yrs Allibone's Scams, aged Reed's Mona, 5 yrs Brand's Dick Turpin, 3 yrs L. Downe's Usurper, aged dis Johnson's Gylkwar, 4 yrs dis YORK AUGUST MEETING.---WEDNESDAY. The Dundas Stakes, of 15 Sov. each, 10 ft ; with 30 added. One mile and a quarter. (4 Subs.) Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, aged walked over. Sweepstakes of 30 sous. each, 10 ft, for three-yrs-old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. One mile and a quarter. (6 Subs.) Mr. Smaliwood's Prince Royal (Marson) 1 Mr. Osborne's Mount Charles. Won by a length and a half. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for three •yrs-olds, 7st 91b ; 4 yrs, Bst 121 b ; 5 yrs, 9st 41b ; 6 yrs, 9st 71b ; and aged, 9st 91b. Two miles. Mr. Salvin's Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs (Templeman) 1 Mr. Singleton's Teresa, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Mostyn's Lady Sale, 3 yrs Captain Boyd's Dog Billy, 3 yrs 4 10 to lon Alice. Won by two lengths and a half. The Great Ebor handicap of 20 sovs. each, 15 ft, and sft only, if declared, with 200 added. Two miles. Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 3 yrs, 4st 615 (Berwick) 1 Mr. Wreford's Franchise, 5 yrs, 6st 71b Mr. Speed's Everton, 4 yrs, sst 131 b 3 Mr. Dixon's Jamie Forest, aged, 6st 131 b 4 Mr. Pedley's Bonny Bonnet, 5 yrs, Est Lord Stanley's Ambition, 3 yrs, 4st 21b 0 Colonel Thompson's Dr. Husband, 3 yrs, sst 41b 0 Mr. Johnstone 's Rowena, 3 yrs 5t04 on Franchise, 10 to 1 agst Godfrey. Won easy by three lengths. The Two yrs old Stakes of 20 sovs. each, p.p., with 25 added ; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.) Mr. Dawson's Crim. Con. (Lye) 1 Mr. Jaques's Extravaganza 2 HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Three-yrs-old Produce Stakes of 10 sous. each. Once round and a dis. __ _ Mr. Griffiths' Hopbine The Herefordshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, 5 only if declared, with 50 added. Twice round. Mr. Davis' Princess of Wales Jr. Raworth's Kilgram, 3 yrs Mr. Sadler's Bellissinaa, aged Mr. Smith's Dr. Allen, 5 yrs READING RACES.—(WEDNESDAY.) The Innkeepers' Plate of 25/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, one mile and a half. Mr. Hippie's Lady Flora, 6 yrs (Bateson) 1 1 Mr. Caffill's Gaiety, 3 yrs 3 2 Mr. England's Spring Bok, 3 yrs 2 dis The Berkshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., and 5 ft. only if declared, with 50 added. Two miles. (21 Subs.) Mr. Coleman's Devil-among-the-Tailors, 5 yrs 0 1 Mr. Bristow's Freystrop, 3 yrs Mr. S. Scott's The Whaler, 4 yrs 3 The Ladies' Plate of 301., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 . dis. sovs. each. Heats, once round. - Mr. Preston's Bosphorus, aged (Preston) 41 1 Mr. Osbaldeston's Escrick, 3 yrs Mr. Death's Cast-oft; 5 yrs 23 dr Mr. England's Spring-box, 3 yrs Mr. Caffill's Mobarek, 6 yrs broke down. The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 25 added, one mile and a half, were won, in two heats, by Mr. Bladon's Paltemon, 6 yrs (Clark), beating three others. AQUATICS. THE GREAT BOAT RACE BETWEEN THE NEPTUNE AND ARGONAUT CLUBS.—This great eight-oared cutter race, which has been the subject of much speculation in the aquatic circles for some weeks past, came off yester day, and was a very animated affair. The race was from Westminster to Putney, and at a quarter-past six all was bustle and animation at the Messrs. SeaWs, Noulton, and Wvlde's, and the other boat-builders in the vicinity. The unfrequency of eight-oared matches, with the anticipation of first-rate sport, served to draw not only a large party of aquatic men afloat, but also a very considerable assemblage on the shores and bridges where a view could be obtained of any part of struggle. As half-past six approached the rival boats were at the starting-place manned as follows: — THE NEPTUNE.—MeSSrS. J. Walmsley (stroke), Ro binson, G. Palmer, Ede, Gough, Smythe, C. Robinson, Downes, Elliott (coxswain). THE ARGONAUT. —Messrs. J. B. Johnson (stroke), E. Duplan, C. Shoulbridge, G. Innes , J. Duplan, Wallis, R. Butterfield, J. Butterfield, Noulton (coxswain). T. L. Jenkins, Esq., the Hon. Secretary of the Thames Regatta :.net holder of the championship of the Thames in 1840 and 1841, took his seat in the Leander, of which he is a member, as umpire. The colours for the Nep tune were blue—those of their opponents yellow ; and both crews looked in a very good c ondition, the Nep tune appearing to have the advantage, if any, in weight ; but the difference in that respect we should consider to be very trifling indeed. The Neptune took the inside place. On the signal being given both crews laid hold of the water at the same moment, and when after half a dozen rapid strokes, was well on way, the Neptune had the lead. The Neptune in each stroke in creased their lead, and off the Penitentiary had drawn their length ahead. The Neptune crew retained their position, and arrived first at Putney-bridge ; the Argo nauts being about five lengths, including their own, astern of them. Betting was 5 and 6t04 on the Neptune at starting. CRICKET. SUSSEX V. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND, WITH PILCH AND MARTINGELL GIVEN.—This match ter minated yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, after three days' as fine play as the most ardent admirers of the game could desire, in favour of Sussex. The number of runs obtained was large beyond all precedent. The members of the Marylebone Club left Brighton yester day afternoon, for Petworth, where they commence a match this day. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, THE MOORS. Monday dawned and continued most auspiciously for the gentlemen of the moors ; and, by the subjoined accounts, it will be seen that the success was good. In the moors of Novar, Sutherlandshire, Sir Ralph A. An s truther and the Hon. Cholmondeley bagged fifty-four brace, and Mr. Halford fifty brace. At Carr Bridge, Colonel Newell, Colonel Forbes, and Vibrat, Esq., in a few hours bagged seventy-five brace. Similar good luck has attended others in Sutherland and Inverness shires. In this county there was splendid and most effective sport. At Delmore the sportsmen killed and bagged forty brace each ; and if we may judge from the number of boxes shipped by the steamer from Wick, there must have been a vast quantity shot over the whole country.—John o' Groat's Journal. ORKNEY.—The 12th proved all that sportsmen could desire, and considerable slaughter was perpetrated. The highest bagged was twenty -seven brace, by one Kirk wall gentleman, and twenty-six by another. The birds numerous and strong.—John o' Groat's Journal. An interesting ceremony took place last week at Val-de-la-Hay e, near Rouen. A subscription of 5,000 francs having been entered into for a monument to mark the spot of the first resting-place on the river on the oc casion of transporting the remains of the Emperor Na poleon to Paris, the inauguration took place on the 15th, in the presence of the authorities and an immense multitude. NEW MUSIC. BRILLIANT FANTASIA FOR THE PIANO FORTE, introducing JULLIEN'S POLKA. By J. Cohan, It appears from the statement of some of the musical journals, that Mr. Cohan composed this fan tasia at the request of M. Jullien himself, by whom it is published. Be this as it may, there can be but one opinion that the praise of the Musical Examiner and the Musical World is merited by the composer; although we think the theme is scarcely worthy of the musician who composed the martial " Pcean " on the Revolution of Greece. This polka fantasia, how ever, has many beauties, and is characterised by that unity and sustained spirit for which Mr. Cohan's corn.- positions are remarkable. ENGLISH BOASTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Will you be so good as to infurm that English tar of Newman st that he is a fool and like all us Englishman, few excepting, cowards first place by stating that the french Got a licken at waterloo why this victory is no Glory to England for every impar tial and well Educated Man well know and will admit that the British troops were in a complete deroute and that it was Blucher that won the Battle, were would we poor Britain be had it not be for him, here is a Proofe of our cowardice, with all our Boasting we will never nor dare Go to war with france alone no we must ask Prusia Austria, and Russia, to Join us now what is the good of such stupide Boasting as that poor innocent ass of a English tar. Yours respectfully AN ENGLISHMAN. SHOCKING AND EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT THE IMPERIAL GAS-WORKS.-Mr. Wakley, M.P., yes terday held an inquest at the Albion, Maiden lane, King's cross, on the body of Abraham Hawes Goulding, aged 35, a workman employed at the Imperial Gas-works, in the immediate vicinity. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was what is termed a pattern-maker, or maker of pipes for the Company. On Monday last he was in the retort-house of the factory, with four other workmen, employed in moulding a pipe in a lathe ten feet long. He had a large iron gouge in his hand at the time, n hen suddenly the pipe flew, and some portion of it striking the deceased, knocked him down, and in his descent the unfortunate deceased fell with his left breast on the edge of the gouge, which passed through his left breast and penetrated his heart to the depth of several inches. He was heard to exclaim, " Oh, lam bleeding, I am bleeding," but before any of his compa nions could get near him he had ceased to exist. The deceased had,fixed the pipe in the lathe himself, and the whole arrangements respecting it were under his imme diate control. The jury returned a verdict of " Acci dental death." IMPORTATION OF RACOONS. ILFRACOMBE. farmer in the parish of Ilfracombe having set a vermin trap in one of his fields, was surprised one morning last week to find in it a racoon, which, as it was merely capght by its claw, be was enabled to secure, and to preserve. Another of the same species was lately taken at Lynton ; and a third has been traced near Ilfracombe. They are supposed to have found their way to this coun try in some of the timber vessels which have lately ar rived from America—the two near Ilfracombe, probably, from the vessel lately wrecked at Woolacembe.—A orth Devon Advertiser. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and Lady Emma Campbell are expected tA? arrive in Connaug_ht-place from Brighten, en route to Inverary W Cas es tl t e , o N n . F B ri ., da fO y r , the autumn. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE. From a number of communications sent to us from the cllicry districts, we Lave selected the following, to show that the human mind, even in the lowest drudgery, and in the most dismal of employments, still exhibits the "spirit divine." The verses, we admit, are not above mediocrity, but they are highly creditable to a man doomed to the sufferings of a miner : SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vttbitt ®pinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received Prince Paul of Wurtem berg, the Austrian Ambassador, the Minister of Justice, General Sebastiani, and C o l one l Marnier. The Constitutionnel states that active preparations were making in Paris for the intended journey of the King to England. M. de Montalivet, the Intendant of the Civil List, was said to have drawn a sum of 3,000,000 f. out of the Caisse des Consignations to defray the ex penses of that visit. The Duke de Montpensier has arrived at Metz. M. Chaudordy, a Conservative candidate, has been elected for Agen, in the place of M. Bonet, who had re signed. M. Chaudordy had 241 votes out of 255. Lord and Lady Palmerston left Brussels on Sunday for Prussia. On Saturday they dined with the King and Queen of the Belgians, who paid marked attention to them during the whole of their stay in Brussels. The Observateur of Brussels states that there is still a report that the King of the French will return to Paris from England by way of Belgium. M. Apiau, who in the lamentable accident of the Bth May, 1842, on the Versailles Railroad (Left Bank), lost one of his sons, had another horribly mutilated, and was himself so much injured that he was compelled to have one of his legs amputated, having appealed to the Cour Royale against the judgment of the Tribunal de Premiere Instance, which rejected a claim that he made upon the Company for damages, the appeal, after several bearings was decided upon on Monday. The Court confirmed the decision of the lower tribunal, and ordered M. Apiau to pay all the costs. The general exhibition of the produce of national in dustry in the States of Germany was opened at Berlin on the 15th inst. At the first the catalogue contained only 1,913 members, but was expected to be shortly in creased to 3,000. In the 1,913 Prussia reckons 1,315, but as yet only 21 of the States of the Confederation have contributed. A strange circumstance occurred recently to the Duke of Genoa, second son of the King of Sardinia. He was attacked and robbed near the Royal chateau of Raconigi, where there are several thousand men in garrison. An Englishman named Snow, accompanied by four guides, effected the passage of the Col du GC:int on the Gth. He left Montanvert at two in the morning, and, after having crossed the Mer de Glace, the Glacier du Tacul (which was found the most difficult part of the undertaking), and the Genii:, arrived at Cormaveur at six in the evening. The closing of the different public libraries of Paris for the vacation is fixed as follows :—The Royal Library from Ist September to Ist October ; that of Sainte -Ge nevieve from Ist October to 15th November ; that of the City from Ist September to 15th of October ; and that of the Arsenal from 15th of September to 15th of October. The Bibliotheque Mazarine NI as shut on the Ist inst., and will be re-opened on the 15th of September. I.AW AND POLICE. At Marylebone Police-court Charles Williams, Esq., a gentleman of property, residing in Park-square, at tended before Mr. Rawlinson, by virtue of a warrant, to answer the charge of having committed a violent as sault upon Sarah Jacobs, housemaid, in his service. It appeared that a violent altercation took place between the defendant and his wife, and that the prosecutrix in terfered to save her mistress. The consequence was, that the defendant struck her a desperate blow on the breast, from which she suffered very much. Mr. Raw linson remarked that he could see no excuse whatever for defendant's conduct, and inflicted on him the full penalty of 5/. The defendant, by the advice of his so licitor, intends to appeal against the Magistrate's deci sion at the sessions. At Union Hall, Thomas Wetherell and William Edmonds, were charged with gambling at Camberwell on the preceding day. Sergeant Kendall, P division, saw the defendants with a table in the fair, on which was spread a piece of oil cloth, with the apparatus called a " Roundabout," and calculated to impose on the unwary. That Edwards acted the part of a " decoy duck," and as an inducement for the bystanders, princi pally youths, to " try their luck," he pretended to win money at the game, which he was afterwards seen to pay back to his fellow prisoner. Wetherell was committed for a month, and the other for fourteen days. cotirr—rASUlONA2ll6ll. We are gratified in being enabled to state that her Majesty is now sufficiently well to be enabled to dispense with the further attendance of Dr. Locock, who took his leave of the Queen on Tuesday evening, and left the Castle for town, intending to proceed this morning upon a tour on the Continent. The Duke and Duchess of Cambrid ge , with the here ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Stre litz, accompanied by Baron Knesebeck and suite, passed through Derby on Monday last, on their way to the splendid seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, at Alton Abbey. The Royal party arrived at the station at two o'clock, and after partaking of luncheon at the Midland Hotel, proceeded in three carriages and four to their desti nation. Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary Sack ville 'West have arrived at Aberystwith, from Conway and Bangor. The Noble Earl is expected to return to town at the end of the month on official business. The Duke of Wellington arrived in town on Wednes day afternoon, from Nuneham Park, the seat of his Grace the Archbishop of York. His Grace has suffered no inconvenience from the fatigues he has recently un dergone in accompanying his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia in his tour to Portsmouth, Oxford, &c. His Grace attended at the Horse Guards in the afternoon. The Archbishop of York has fixed the following days for his public dinners at Bishopsthorpe :—Thursday, Sept. 5 ; Thursday, Sept. Tuesday, Sept. 2c The Marquis and M arc hi oness o f D o uglas leave town to-day for Scotland. l2 ; Thursday, Sept. 19 ; and The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn arrived in town on Tuesday from Brighton, where they had been staying during the last few days on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. Yesterday the Noble pair left Staf ford House for Trentham. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have left Nuneham Park for Apethorpe, in order to prepar e for the reception of his Royal Highness the Prince o f Prus sia, who has signified hi s i nten ti on of honouring Lord Westmoreland with a v i s i t upon hi s re t u rn from Scot land on Tuesday next. _ _ The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield left town on Wednesday for his Lordship's seat, Bretby Park, Leices tershire. _ The Earl of Roden and Viscount Jocelyn have re turned to town from Ireland, where they have been at tending the obseq u i es of their lamented relative, the late Viscount Powerseourt. Lady Brougham left town on Wednesday for West moreland. Her L a d yship is, we regret t o l ea rn, in a delicate state of health. Lord and Lady Carrington have left Whitehall for the season, and are staying at Grayhurst, his Lordship's seat, near Newport Pagnell , where Lady Willoughby D'Eresby is at prese n t on a visit to her Noble daughter. Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley have arrived in town from Strathfieldsaye. PaZSCEILLAN3I3OI76. Plymouth regatta is appointed to come off on Monday, the 28th instant, being the anniversary of Prince Albert's birth-day. In the eveving there is to be a ball at the Royal Hotel, under the patronage of the Noble Commo dore and members of the Royal Western Yacht Club. The Right Hon. George R. Dawson, Commissioner of Customs, is making a tour of inspection, in pursuance of a recommendation of the Revenue Inquiry Commission in their recent report, that the members of the Customs Board should not only personally survey and inspect the departments in London, but should, at certain periods, in spect the whole of the ports of the United Kingdom. Mr. Dawson is at present inspecting the Irish ports. "For some weeks past," says the Dublin Evening Post, " there has been a gradual diminution of the military force congregated in Ireland at the period of the State trials. We mentioned, on Saturday, that two regiments, the 60th Rifles, and the 61st Foot, were under orders at Cove, awaiting the arrival of transports to embark for India. Those transports have arrived ; but an order has been forwarded from the Horse Guards suspending the de parture of both regiments." Every debtor in the Liverpool gaol was released on Saturday last, under the operation of the new Act for the abolition of imprisonment for debt. A letter from St. Petersburgh states that the Govern ment is about to send several professors of the Uni versity of Cason and St. Petersburgh, on a scientific mission to Italy, Ge rman y , Fra nce , S w i tzer l an d , an d England. FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the private dwelling-house of Mr. Naylor, No. 8, Union .street, High-street, Deptford. It origi nated in one of the back rooms in the upper floor, and when first perceived had obtained a firm hold of the apartment. The necessary alarm being raised, with all possible expedition an engine from h er M a j esty ' s Dock yard was on the spot, with one from th e G enera l S team Navigation Comp an y 's Wharf, and a l so t h e Southwark bridge-road brigade engine, with that of the West of England Company. The inhabitants having lent their assis t an ce, by means o f plenty of wat er , got t h e mastery of the fire before the engines came down, but not until cons iderable damage was done, more especially by water. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been through a spark falling from a lighted candle, used in sealing some charts a few minutes before. Mr. Naylor is insured in the Licensed Victualler's Office. Goon LANDLORDS. —Sir Henry Winston Barron, Bart., M.P., Lady Barron, and family, have arrived at their beautiful marine residence at Ballinacart, near Ardmore, in the county of Waterford. Sir Henry has commenced draining for all his tenants on his extensive estates, at his own e xpense and und er t h e superinten dence of a profes sed drainer. He is a most excellent and indulgent landlord. He pays the rent-charge and poor-rates for his tenants, and has built slated houses for them. Edward Galwey, of Duckspool, Es q., J.P., is draining extensively on his estates.—Cork Examiner. GREAT QUOIT MATCH FOR TIIE CHAMPIONSHIP OF SCOTLAND.-0° Saturday a great qu o it ma t c h too k place in Mr. D. Weir's green, Tradeston, Gla sg o w , be twixt the parishes of Mauchline and Lesmahago, to settle the point as t o which of them wa s entitled to claim the championship of Scotland in regard to this great national game. There were twelve players on each side, all of course picked men, and the game was played in six rinks. The Mauchline men came off the victors by a majority of 52 shots. —Ayr Observer. THE FAMILY OF SMITHS.—There are no less than 762 names of the large and interestin g f am il y o f S m i t h s , in the " New York Directory for 1844-5. LITERAT URE. RAMBLES IN GERMANY AND ITALY, 2 Vols. Mo.ron. London, 184-I. These rambles were, it seems, undertaken during the three last years, and extended over a cons id era bl e portion of Italy, and those districts of Germany which lie along the banks of the Rhine. Mrs. Shelley, to whose pen we are indebted for the present record of them, visited few spots but such as are well known to the generality of English tourists; but what her volumes want in the novelty of matter, they make up for in the vivacity of their manner. On every subject which she discusses, the authoress writes with an eloquence and animation that lure the reader on, in spite of himself; there is a charm even in her veriest common places; and when she describes a scene characterised by any particular features of beauty or grandeur, she throws her whole soul into the description, and makes the reader a partaker in her enjoyment. With the sublime scenery of the Tyrol she appears to have been particularly struck ; she traversed the greater portion of the ground where the great struggle took place, in 1809, between the French and the brave peasant chief, Hofer • and gives, ere passant, brief but graphic details of this desperate contest, which ended—as those who are acquainted with that eventful period well know—in the subjuga tion of the Tyrol, and the murder—for - murder to all intents and purposes it was—of the heroic Hofer, by order of the French Emperor. With the Italians, speaking of them generally as a people, and without reference to particular classes or individuals, Mrs. Shelley appears to have been much pleased. " I be• lieve," she remarks in her preface, " that no traveller can mingle much with them, without becoming at tached to them. Their faults injure each other— their good qualities make them agreeable to strangers. Their courtesy, their simplicity of manner, their evident desire to serve, their rare and exceeding in telligence, give to the better specimens among the higher asses, and to many among the lower, a charm all their own." The authoress adds that, despite present appearances, she thinks it highly pro bable that Italy will, ere many years have elapsed, succeed in regaining her long-lost independence. While Mrs. Shelley and her party were residing on the banks of the Lake of Como, the following singu lar incident eccurred, which we give in the lady's own words : We begin to feel settled, but to-day a strange and disagreeable incident occurrtd. Peppina came in with wild looks, to say that a madman—an Englishman—had arrived by the steamer, and was frightening everybody with a pistol. It seems that two gentlemen had landed from the steamer, and had proceeded, as was the'wont of visitors, to the Villa Sommariva, to look over it. One was an Italian, the other an Englishman, who spoke Italian perfectly. Suddenly, as they reached the gate of the villa which opened on the road, the Englishman said to the Italian, " Are you not afraid of being set upon ? Are you not afraid of being assassinated ?" ;The other, who had come from Milan with him, and was not otherwise acquainted, and had no idea of his malady, re plied, " No, why should he ?" "Do you not know that we are watched, and there is treachery everywhere about us ?" " No," said the other, " and if there were, you have as much cause to be frightened as I." " But I am armed," said the madman, " this is loaded," and he drew a pistol from his pocket, and still more excited by the sight of the weapon. began to shriek " Tradimento! Tradimento ! Alla Villa Sommariva ! Tradimento !" His companion, frightened enough, ran off and alarmed the inn and village, and as Englishmen, my companions were summoned to see if they could do anything with their countryman. There he stood on the steps before the gate of the villa leading down to the lake, shrieking " Tradimento ;" he kept every one at bay with his pistol, which was cocked, capped, and ready. Some people from across the lake tried to land at the steps to visit the villa, but he soon made them row away ; the inhabitants around allflocked, hiding behind trees and peeping from coverts. Be was well content to talk or to be spoken to in Italian or Eng lish, but no one must approach ; and his position, stand ing on a semicircular flight of steps leading down to the lake, was sufficiently impregnable: it gave him the whole command of the road in front, and no one could outflank, or come behind him. After three or four hours, how ever, he grew less watchful. As the people talked to him, he allowed them insensibly to approach nearer, till one fellow getting behind, threw up his arm with the pistol, and then-throwing his arms round him, took him prisoner. His pistol was double-loaded. But with all his madness he was aware, that if he had fired it, his power was at an end ; and this latent sanity saved, per- haps, a life. He was brought to the hotel, and a dismal day my friends have passed watching over him. Poor fellow ! he is quite mad. He had given English lessons at Milan for some years, and earned a sufficient livelihood. His insanity has taken the turn of believing that the Aus trian police want to poison him. He said he never went to the theatre but a police-officer was behind, who scattered a poisonous powder over him. He will not take any food in consequence ; neither touch bread nor water. My maid took him a cup of tea made by herself, and, to her great indignation, he refued it, as poisoned. He tried to escape several times. First, he made friends with his countrymen ; but when he found that they watched him, he turned to the Italians, calling us, ac cording to the phrase of the country, " non Cristiani," and begging them to nave him. He had sixteen napo leons with him. It seems that the doctor who attended him (he was without relations or English friends) had advised him to go to England, had put him into the diligence for Como, introducing him to a Milanese in the vehicle, without mentioning his malady, and thus he was delivered over to the miserable wanderings of his mind. A doctor had been sent for from Menaggio at the first moment ; of course, he could do nothing. With diffi culty he was induced to go to bed ; he was thoroughly persuaded he should be murdered in the night, and his expostulations on the subject were shocking and ghastly enough. The next morning, having taken an aversion to all those with whom he had been friendly the preced ing day, he consented to go back to Milan, under the escort of a police-officer. I saw him as he got into the boat ; he was a spare man, with an adust, withered face and unquiet eye ; but not otherwise remarkable. THE YOUNG TVIDOTV. 3 Vols. , Newby London , 1844. . _ _ The principal recommendations of this story are its numerous descriptions, more particularly of Scottish scenery. There are no features of novelty in the plot, and the incidents, which are by no means remarkable for freshness or fertility, are put very loosely together, as if the author were wholly indifferent to the con struction of his narrative. But his descriptions are uniformly excellent; he combines the eye of the painter with the fancy and feeling of the poet ; and his sketch of a Highland mountain landscape seen in the freshness of the morning, and more particularly his account of a snow-storm at night among the Grampian hills, are imbued with a vigorous and pie turesque spirit worthy of Scott. THE MINER'S DOOM. Composed by Henderson Fawcett, Miner, South Wingate. Tune—" Misletoe Bough." Aroused by the Caller's well-known voice Near midnight, calling, " 'tis time, my boys !" The old and the young at the sound arise, And each to his dreary toil quick hies ; But little they thought in descending the mine, No more they'd see the bright sunshine. Chorus—Oh ! the slaves of the mine, The slaves of the mine. Now, down the deep shaft, far out of sight, They toil with a dimly burning light ; Far, far, from meadows and rivers clear, They're breathing a noxious atmosphere ; The dangers they brave, the world seeth not, — It sighs o'er their doom, but soon 'tis forgot. 0, sudden and sad is the miner's doom ; See the clouds which up yen shaft now come ! The alarm is given—" She's fired !" they cry : To the shaft, to the shaft, all quickly fly ; The mother exclaims, in anguish wild, " My son ! my son ! my darling child! " " Oh, mother !" yon little mourner doth cry, " Will not father come to me by-and-bye ?" " No more he'll return, my only joy ! Thy father is gone, thou'rt an orphan boy : No more he'll list to thy prattling tongue, Or lull thee to sleep with the soothing song. The aged father, he tore his hair, — No words he spoke—he looked despair : His son was slain ; like the mighty oak, When shattered by the lightning's struke, Cut off in the flower of youthful bloom, The deep drear mine was his early tomb. See yonder maid, in silent grief, No tears do come to her relief ; She'd fixed the day to form for ever, That bond which only death can sever : No more his active limbs now move— No more he'll smile upon his love ! Now struggles the miner to better his state ; May he triumph in a cause so great ! Though yet he may toil in the darksome mine,— Away, away, from the bright sunshine ; Yet kind, and just, and equal laws, Shall happiness bring to the miner's cause. HOP INTELLIGENCE. EAST GRINSTEAD.—The hops in this neighbour hood and throughout the - Weald, including the dis trict between this and Lamberhurst, remain in as bad a condition as can well be imagined. In most places, what little bine there may have been is fast disappearing, and by the time it is usual to commence picking it will be black and dried up. The best gar den in this part of the country is supposed to be the one on the Brighton and Tunbridge-wells road, about a mile from the latter ; in most other situations their appearance is desolate in the extreme. BOUGHTON.—This district is doing remarkably well. We are clear of mould and vermin, and expect a good crop. EAST SUTTON.—The hops here are going on re markably well, the fine weather of the 16th and 17th having improved them wonderfully. HORSEMONDEN.—This parish is looking uncom monly well, having quite got over the high winds of the week before last. A good crop is anticipated. IGllTHAM.—Excepting some little mould, that is, however, fast disappearing, there is not the least com plaint to make of the hops in this district, except of not getting on so fast as could be wished. There will be a fair average crop, fully equal to that of last year, and of good quality. MAIDSTONE.—The low temperature at night ap pears to have kept back the plants in bur, but, the last day or two, the weather has improved, and the mould, which had been increasing in some parts, seems to have got a check. The duty is set so variously that it is almost impossible to give a fair quotation, the lowest being 120,0001. ASHFORD.—There is no expectation here of an ave• rage crop, the hops having been so effectually blighted as to render recovery impossible. FARNHAM AND ITS ENVIRONS.—The state of the hop plantations in this favoured part of Surrey and Hants is very encouraging to the growers, although they have been sadly knocked about by the storms and tempests of the past ten days ; scarcely a leading head to the bine has been left uninjured, and the lateral shoots have suffered nearly in a similar manner, particularly on the S.W. side of the grounds, or where they are not protected from the autumnal equinoctial gales. The cold east winds of April and May had checked the rapid growth of the bine, therefore there is not to be seen those luxuriant lateral shoots which often occur in the best grounds of Farnham—there is not so much " shaking hands," or prevention to walking between the hills, as might be expected if an overwhelming crop was to occur — yet there will be more than an average crop ; they are coming into hop very fast, and are very forward in those grounds where there is a fair proportion of male bines ; indeed, under such circumstances, it is expected that such gardens will be ready for the pick ers a week earlier than others differently circum stanced. Picking will commence at Bonham's Farm, near Alton, before August has expired. The ave rage old duty of Farnham district has been, for seven years in succession, nearly 7,5001., and certainly this year it will pay a full average, unless we have some more extensive gales, such as occurred a few years ago in the first week of September, when more than a thousand pounds of duty were scattered to the winds. The last year's old duty on the Farnham district was 4,7oBl.—Sussex Advertiser. SAVING BY THE USE OF RAILWAYS.—The saving between driving a sheep to the London market from Lin colnshire and conveying it by steam-boat or railway, is proved to be no less than ten per cent. in favour of the latter mode.—lpswich Express. AN EXECUTION IN SAVOY.—An execution took place recently at Thonon, a small town of Savoy, situate on the banks of the River Rhone. No such fearful a scene as a public execution had ever been witnessed in this calm and quiet little town within the memory of man, and consequently it would be difficult to describe the horror which the fatal preparations for punishment excited amongst the inhabitants at large. Nobody would supply the executioner with the necessary articles. The various marchands positively refused to furnish this unfortunate Jack Ketch with the wood, the iron, and the cords which he wanted, in order to erect the gibbet. They only yielded at length to the stern demands of the law ; and even then they refused to take the price of blood, as it were, by making the authorities a present of the necessary instruments and apparatus, for which no money whatever was allowed to be accepted. A woman, who kept a grocer's shop, being required to supply a certain length of rope, shut her eyes, and cried out—" Take what you want, but do not bring anything back, or pay any money." All the journeymen carpenters had refused to labour in the erection of the fatal gibbet, and when com pelled to lend their tools by the legal authorities, they gave up all their hatchets and saws, in order that they might not in future be able to distinguish those which had been soiled by the hand of the executioner. The ladder and the gibbet were constructed by the execu tioner himself and his assistant. The condemned cri minal luckily desired to walk to the scene of his punish ment, as the owner of the cart, which would have other wise been enlisted in the service, would assuredly have killed his horse and burnt the vehicle after the execution had taken place. The culprit was con demned to death for the murder of a child nine years of age, after having mutilated it in a grievous man ner. A report even went abroad, that being a pro fessor of the " black art," he was in want of a child's heart for his magical purposes, and that he had conse quently committed the murder in order to tear the heart out of the infant's body. The details of the exe cution are not given. The criminal was put to death by suspension. DETERMINED SUICIDE FROM FALSE PRIDE.- - Mr. Wakley, M.P., held on inquest yesterday, at the Crown, Aberdeen-place, Maida-hill, on the late Mr. Charles Edwards, aged 53, of 7, Clarendon-place, Maida-vale, a wealthy retired carcass butcher, formerly of Newgate market. From the evidence, it appeared that he and another had been executors to some property, and that a quarrel having taken place between him and his co executor, the latter filed a bill and obtain ie d h a s n o in i l l u ur n t ct his against his receiving the property, which pride and pressed upon his mind that ho became ex tremely melancholy. Last Saturday,ss two days after the obtaining the injunction, he dr essed himself and went out shortly after breakfas t, as to take a walk, but he was found two hours afterwards, with his throat cut, in the water-closet of his house, and the razor with which he committed the deed lying close upon the seat. He was not dead, but insensible, and lived twenty-four hours During the latter interval he articulated afterwards. " No," when asked if he desired to see Mrs. Edwards. All the witnesses were of opinion that he committed the rash deed in consequence of the Chancery suit having been decided against him. Verdict—" Insanity at the time he committed the suicide." One evening last week a fine little boy about six years old, of the name of Tobin, whilst playing on George's quay, ventured to the river side and unfortu nately- fell in. A commotion amongst the lookers-on was the immediate consequence, screams and vocifcra tions were heard, but still the poor little fellow was fast drowning. The schooner Golden Eagle was at the op posite side, Charlotte-quay, and her captain, Andrew Shewan, who was at the time changing his dress in the cabin, upon hearing the tumult from the opposite side, sprang upon the deck and over the vessel's side into the small boat, and being ably assisted by his mate, they were close to the drowning child in less time than could be thought possible, when the captain plunged into the water with the daring intrepidity characteristic of a British seaman, and caught the little fellow, who was quite insensible ; but has since recovered. We know not whether Captain Shewan be a man of family, but it must be matter of great gratulation to him thus to have saved the life of an interesting little fellow.—Cork Ex aminer. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU- TIO.N. Yesterday Professor Bachhoffner delivered a very interesting lecture on Pneurnatida, in the theatre of this Institution. As much of the - attractiveness anti instruction of the lecture depended upon the beau tiful experiments with which it was illustrated, we shall not attempt the extremely difficult task of giving a written detail in a popular form. The attendance was more numerous than might be expected at this season, and the lecturer was (as indeed he always is) very warmly applauded. The Profs ssor has just concluded a valuable course of lectures on Galvanism and Electricity, at the close of which he expressed his great doubts of the efficacy of this power as a remedial agent. "He did not think that electricity ever cured disease ; but at the same time he related that a friend of his, who was afflicted with rheumatism, took it into his head that galvanism would relieve him. Accordingly, he provided himself with a portable battery, consisting of a piece of zinc and a piece of copper tied together. This miniature pile of volta he carried about with him in his pocket, and (as we understood) whenever he felt the monitory symptoms of an approaching paroxysm, he discharged his battery, and rheumatism was dispowered by the shock. The gentleman believed that galvanism cured him, and of course it dd .— (Laughter.) lie was cured, however.—(Hear.)" In the laharatory of Dr. Ryan, a very curious experiment was shown, as to the influence of wood upon certain solutions, and, again, the peculiar actiots of the same fluids upon wood. In a basin, containing the chromate of potass and a small portion of sulphuric acid—being the preparation from which chrome-alum is deposited—several bits of stick were placed. These became almost instantly covered with the desired deposit, and a quantity of the substance was precipi tated to the bottom of the vessel. This property of wood is a recent observation, not yet fully investi gated. The ordinary process (without the bits of wood) requires several weeks to produce the chrome alum, which by the simple addition of the wood is rapidly obtained. The bits of wood themselves were at the same time thoroughly electrified, exhibiting its a remarkable manner the phenomena of polarity, attraction, and repulsion. Of the other departments of the institution ; it is ' unnecessary here to say more than that the establish ment is altogether so grand, its entertainments so varied and instructive, and its collections so rich, that any person who has been twenty-four hours in London without seeing the " Polytechnic" may say, with less affectation than the sentimental Emperor, "My friends, I have lost a day." EXTENSIVE GANG OF YORK SHIRE BURGLARS. The proceedings of an extensive gang of house breakers, who have been carrying on their operations for some time in the Wrest Riding of this county, have just been brought to light. At the last assizes, four men, named James Hudson, Charles Gomersall, Joseph Hudson, and George Heald, were convicted of bur glary, and sentenced to twenty years' transportation. After their conviction, two of them made a confession of the various transactions in which they and eight other persons had been implicated. The gangappenn to have consisted of no fewer than twelve individuals, and already the police have obtained information of their having perpetrated burglaries at Crigglestone, Normanton, Methley, New Miller Dam, Wakefield, Gilderstone, Rothwell, and Silcoates ; also of a high way robbery between Wakefield and Dewsbury, and several cases of sheep stealing, including thirty sheep which had been stolen in that locality. After the assizes, Mr. Child, inspector of police at Leeds, Mr. 'Wilkinson, of Whitley, and Mr. Fox, an officer of police at Elland, prosecuted their investigations into these various robberies, which involved property to an enormous amount, exceeding in the aggregate 2,0001. Their labours resulted in the apprehension of five more of the gang, named Squire Walker, Thomas Hudson, John Hampshire, George Fisher, and James Glover, who were all lodged in York Castle. The two former (Walker and Hudson) were examined on Fri day at York, before B. Hague, Esq., and were by him committed for trial at the next assizes, Walker for a. burglary at Methley, and Hudson for burglaries at Nor manton and Methley. Hampshire, Fisher, and Glover, were remanded for further examination on Tuesday, when John Hampshire was committed for trial at the next assizes, charged with having, on the 12th of March, burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Isaac Beaumont, of Gildersome, and stolen therefrom a piece of check. The other parties charged along with Hampshire (Clover and Fisher) were discharged. True bills were found at the last assizes against two others of the gang, and bench warrants are now out for their apprehension; another is in Wakefield House of Correction, and will be apprehended on this charge so soon as his present term of imprisonment is terminated, and the other individual, to complete the number, is well known, and, no doubt, will soon be taken. Mr. Sanderson, solicitor, of Leeds, is. con ducting the prosecution against the prisoners, and there is little doubt that ultimately the whole of this formidable gang will be brought to justice.—Doncas ter Gazette. SINGULAR OUTRAGE. The police have, during the past week, been making• inquiry into the circumstances connected with a most. extraordinary outrage which occurred on the Friday evening of the Great Cattle-Show. It appears that a number of persons had got upon a wall which sepa rates the green from some private property on the north side, for the purpose of having a better view of the cattle leaving the show-ground, while a consider able number were assembled in front of the wall inside for the same purpose, when a pistol was discharged. among them, which, as afterwards appeared, had been loaded with slug. The pistol was believed to have been discharged from a garden inside the wall, and we understand smoke was seen rising from among sonic shrubbery in it immediately afterwards, while a person dressed like a lady, and wearing a turban, was observed hastily to enter the house si tuated within the garden. The police instantly entered the pre mises, and there found an elderly lady standing at a mirror, and fitting a bonnet upon her head. She, however, denied all knowledge of the transaction, and though a strict search was made for the pistol, it; could not be found. Under these circumstances, and as no one directly saw the pistol fired, the police did not deem themselves justified in taking the lady into custody. An elderly man, a servant belonging to the house, was strictly questioned, and he also denied all knowledge of the matter. By this gross out rage five or six persons were wounded, two of them boys, one not more than six or seven years of age. The elder boy, about ten years old, was taken to the police-office, where several slugs were extracted from his arm by the sur geon. A policeman was also slightly wounded; though fortunately none of the parties were very Ma terially injured. It is difficult to account for the pi petration of so cruel and cowardly an outrage as this . ,. and our belief is that it could hardly be the work of any one but a lunatic. The occurrence took place at the verge of the police boundary ; the pistol having been discharged beyond the bounds, while it took effect within. The case has accordingly been re ported to the _eounty authorities, though the city police have been making every exertion to bring proof to bear against the party suspected ; as yet, however, without success. Glasgow Argus of Monday. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—TIIE COVENTRT STRE ET LINE.—The Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, under the powers vested in them by the Act 4 Vie., c. 12, have issued their plans for the new street leading from Leicester-square to Long -acre*, which will be called Cranbourn-street, and which will be of a width from house to house of between 53 and 54. feet. In a few days the commissioners will lease the ground for building the houses. It will be let out in. plots, each having a frontage varying from 19 feet to 112 feet, leases for which will be granted, according to the lot, from September 29, 1844, for a period of eighty or forty-two years, " at a rent of one peppercorn for the first year and at such rent or rents for the remainder of the term as shall be agreed upon." The houses are to be erected according to such plans, sections, elevations, and specifications as shall be approved by the commis sioners, subject to the inspection of the architect.. The whole of the buildings are to be completely finished and. rendered fit for habitation by or before Christmas, 1845, under penalty in each case o f f or f e i ture of thelease ; hut they are expected to be finished long before that period, as the lessees may commence the houses as soon. as they obtain the agreement from the commissioners. The lessee is to reimburse the commissioners for thel expenses incurred in building the vaults and sewers and paving the street, at the rate of 1301., or 61. 10s. rent per annum, in lieu of reimbursement, for a frontage of 45 feet 4 inches. The ground excavated for the basement stories and foundations of the several houses is to be carted away at the cost of the lessee, and, if required by the commissioners, to be deposited to fill up the h ground in the Green Park, for the intended widening of Piccadilly. The lessee is not to carry on the business of tripe boiler, tripe seller, slaughtcrman, soap boiler, tallow welter, blacksmith, farrier, chinineysweelTr , or other offensive trade, without consent of the commis sioners. GET Ur, GIRLS. — The editor of the Portland' Express, in discoursing upon early rising, th j i l s k sbeian this wise:—" tip with you ! Don't sleep ve, tiful Caroline, .Jane, morning.—Mary, Ellen, Abby, Sarah, • Eliza Jane, Hannah ! andallrestUli of grass. You not brush away the dew from the beautiful girls, arouse—wake up, rise, and see the the sun shine, ai z i y i only lose the best portion o f the day, while you ling( r in your bed, hut you depress your spirits and contract sluggish habits.—what if you are sleeply ? Jump oi:t ' of the bed—fly —stir about, and in a few moment you will be bright as larks. We would n t give a straw for girls who won't get up in the morning. What are they good for ? Lazy, dumpish creatures—they are not fit for wives or companions. Our advice to young neeii who are looking for wives would be—never select a fe. male who dozes away the precious morning hours. She may help to eat, but will never prove a help •mate."