The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

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SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutatt optnion. " Who runs may read." P4111=2.g IST. On Monday the thirty-fifth anniversary of Louis Philippe's inarrisge was to be celebrated at St. Cloud; and, according to the Constitationnel, the marriage of the Duke d'Aumale was to have been solemnised at Naples on the samo day. A letter from Bordeaux of the 21st, published in tlie Journal des Debats, announces the arrival in that c ity of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula and his family. According to a Corsican paper, Louis Philippe is about to create another Duke in the person of I larbhal S e b ast i an i, l a t e A m b assa d or a t th e E ng li s h %art. I ‘e Gazette de F r ance ventures the statement that the to Ministry have come to the resolution of applying the Chambers ' at the commencement of the im tnding sessi on , for the large sum of 80,000,000 f. for purpose o f prov idi ng the fortifications of Paris 'with ordnance. tk °f ficial accounts had been received at Marseilles of arriv a l, on t h e 11th, i n th e b a y o f N a pl es , fr o m t or er roads of T un i s , o f th e sq uadron under the orders Admiral Parseval Deschenes, composed of the Ocean, Alger, and the Marengo. This squadron is ilestin ed to escort the future Duchess d'Aumale to raeilles. A decree of his Sardinian Majesty has just been Promulgated at Turin and Genoa, whereby the French o de cimal syst em i s t o b e applied to weights and mea tires throughout his dominions. The Prague Correspondent of the Cologne Gazette _lvrites under date of the 15th, that the Duke of Bor nos had arrived there, and that it was highly pro colethat he would fix his residence in Bohemia, as hadhe , purchased a large estate there. It appears that ..._nas become extremely stout. Letters from Mora '' state that Prince %Vasa has sold his beautiful estate of Eichhorn to Baron Sina for a large sum of money, an A club is about being established at Berlin, on the Plan as the Societe Italiana in that city, for the t ivation of English literature, and where only of is to b e s p o k en . A l a r g e library, to consist vi the most renowned English authors' works, is to be t a rnhased f or th e use o f th e me m b e rs. Dr. Spiker 1 Dr. Forster are at the head of the undertaking. in Accounts from Bayonne, of the 21st, state that the icC u igence of Zurbano's revolt - reached Saragossa on e n ight of the 14th, and produced an extraordinary thnsation. The inhabitants openly sympathised with to: rev olters, and on the 16th the public excitement th e e ,!;} such an extent that General Breton declared t roo oke to h e i n a s t a t e of siege, and distributed his i:vP. esnelai in commanding positions. Concha, Captain-General of the Basque d e l l aces, has established his head-quarters at Miranda a Ebro, from whence he will direct future operations grist Zurbano. r i gadier Barranechea arrived at Irun from Tolosa de 19th, and took the command of the frontier eor n. seethe entire frontier from Irun to Vera is strictly tued by Spanish troops, for the double purpose of , e venting any one from joining Zurbano from r anee, and to cut off his retreat. MAW .13.117 D POLXO2I. At the New Court, Old Bailey, John Johnson, an _‘'xpert l a d , who made his third appearance at this bar, w as Convicted of stealing, on the 13th inst., 464 yards a( Orleans cloth, value 151., the property of Mr. Co -I,neY Doule. It was then proved that the lad had 7en bef ore conv i cted of felony, and su ff ere d t h ree and La months' imp r i sonmen t. The L e arned Judge in timated that the prisoner was irreclaimable, and too 'expert to be allowed to remain in this country ; the 4enten cel therefore, was, that he be transported be 9end the seat; for ten years. Georg e Webb, aged eighteen, was indicted for „_ steal ing a silk handkerchief, value 45., from the per *" of Mr. T. Clarkson. The evidence was of a very conclusive nature, and the prisoner was convicted ; but as there was no previous charge, he was only sen tenced to six months' hard labour. At Bow street two men, well known to the police, tamed George Carter and Joseph Edwards, were brought before Mr. Hall, charged with having bur eariously broken into the shop of Mr. Plowman, 9, Agar-street, Strand, and stealing four pair of boots and four pair of shoes, his property. The prisoners lad nothing to say in their defence, and were commit ted for trial. A tall young man, who gave his name George Cook was brought up t o ele Marylebone Court d , Cuffed, and charged with h av i Og s t o l en plate of efferent descriptions, to a considerable amount, the „ lir ' n ,Pertv of Mr. Thom as S y d en h am Clarke, abar reoiding at No. 36, Gloucester-place, Portman trre ; he was also charged with stealing a watch thi a nging to the footman. The prisoner, who had no -ng to say, was fully committed for trial. ho WS. ,Nr Robert Pee; entertained at dinner on Monday t i 1 ; 11 , 11 \74 the Lord Chancellor , the Earl of Lonsdale, )07 -e,xcollency Mr. Everett, is Excellency Chevalier i ttn r ,',en, Lord Stanle - v, Sir James Graham, Mr. W. ,k--,`llitdstone, his Excellency M. Dedel, Sir Robert 11 , 1 e, Sir Henry Pottinger, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, circle, at the family residence in gardens. rel The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanhy have urned to the Clarendon Hotel, from a visit to her 441 ,iesty at Windsor Castle. /0 1 : 411, ..7 Dowager Countess Pembroke left town to-day 6: ,v-iiton House, near Salisbury, where the noble lefT''untess purposes sojourning for the winter. 4. 11 e Countess of Erroll and the Ladies Hay, who town at the close of the preceding week for Bar- Iti . e ta e o7urt, on a v i s i t to L ord and La d y C amp d en, leeted to return to Clarges-street to-day. /1, 43 4 QY Charles Wellesley, and Lady Long, Lady th Paulet, and the Hon. Lady Butler, are I t t o -- „"g the Ladies Patronesses of the Southampton rtittidytehcibisialls f u r the season, the first of which takes evening, and is expected to be brilliantly .The 11, 11 .1_ Countess of Westmorland, last week, left • 13Nstreet, on her return to join the Noble Earl ta t ,' V• Th. : Greet, Berghersh, at Berlin. The Countess I PC or4 lt i n n e d, some days with the Earl. and Countess of to h her e dli O ar n irt i l l i t r ? f r o le r a o ns st H en o d u . se,Twickenham, previous ees s i on a nd Countess of Mornington take pos lva.. of their new residence (the Earl of Gallo -4„9, it, G rosvenor-square, early next month. d. wie l l ne Earl of Pembroke, Dowager Countess of San and ,n' To l::/ tin c 'wager Countess of Aldborough, the Earl tess of Kinnoul, Lady Malet,, Lord Keane b uff ,n• Mr. Keane, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lady 1i 0n e .".? 1 ,. Lord William Butler, General Lambert,j 13 0 , 0 Ponsonby, Major-General Sir La c i."- p °rl Tufnell, M.P., Mrs. Tufnell, Lord and tn "C" anl ham, &C., are among the arrivals of the .11.,ish nobility in Paris. zooti_ villins.ceonutanitteunrd, Viscountess Loftus have gone onlfas u try until The Eas %n r d . do not intend to return to this Laser. and Duchess of Montrose's circle at tilu v-txeelleney Ernes No rthamptonshire, includes Lord and Bruce, Lord Wm. Graham, Lord Can.. _ourt of A s and T. — adir Emily Foley, &c. ___ raiser • th e c , G eorge Shee, the British Mi dt for some years past, 'ineo.rapanied by. L a d 6_tut L e berg, sir , Geo7 ltlee g , ar . has arrived from War tbointment, in wh. a i o, r . tch h e • ed his diplomatic ap ienna, c e t c s o ege thende db British Si. Alexander r Embassy t 313:?enepelvS7:12R1Y• Bliege u er r e k htl e aassr a sYu r r rived at Farrance's Hotel, gravesquare, on Saturday, from Ireland. 421 'scasaawersous. by i,nquest at IV , lttinghain on one of the sufferers i e, ie late fatal accident, was resumed on Monday, that .result is not yet known. It was expected thy, . inquest would be again adjourned. rti:lrecicolunts from St. Petersburgh speak of a corn twee a ,tre'afy for which negotiations are on foot be said tureen -11 ,_nssi and England. These negotiations are ° in a very advanced state, so that the con s, itUsion of the treaty may be shortly expected. There , e _ Only some differences on a few points, which, it is u‘l.,ight,iwill be soon adjusted. 0 ,, uin Monday evening last, the 18th inst., Mr. J. den, of Cornamuckla, in the county of Leitrim, t i i 4 fired at from behind a hedge, and wounded in lif 'lnd. Thi s i s t h e fourth attempt made on the tof this unfortunate gentleman. r cl-t lip Pears by th e l ast report of the Irish Poor .law Ziuramis, 'loners that on the Ist of January, 1844, there wer e in t, ninety-two workhouses then open 31,981 ;"Uper S , nd the charge for their support was 221,0961., "`elirsive 0. f a milli on an d a h alf expenditure in the _teetion \ workh ouses. Y et beggars are as numer as eve r , so that th ose w i g) pay the rate gain no " 31 ef from th k ' importunity of the miserable. Th e Irish p r, elates in the next session of Parliament 4)4 eath ill be, the A \rcl:bishop o f Dublin, and the J3ishos of , - a , n od Cash e l. p %; -a nixuatt.- -A few ;lays since a lad, dressed as Csad , '4!pherd's boy„ ca ll e d at 'i.1342 George Inn, i n t hi s town, e Inquired for the landlori. On being presented to him, h e: , gave his master's respects (naming a farmer in the Ile % hbo th urhood), an d sa i d he had some sheep to attend to L iB l 4 e town, and he was to have his meals there; And 11,41,.11. a ster toldhim a l so to say, l w was to be sure and have taloY 1 'elf a pint of beer with each meal. Thinking his a wi n " 'atonabl e , th e goo d •tempered host kept him nearly itip. Z., Whe n , t o hi s surprise, he left him without inform -1,4 mi. aof his i nte ,^ded route. On th e f o ll ow i ng mar- Ivh„ (1 %, Y, the affair was red he h a d taken adv:."tage of, vs e mentioned to the gent l eman, alt when it pr ove d 44 4 ' ebee, ( tether a fabrication of the Lts.."ll's' , V z ehas not n see n i n the neighbourhood.—Y- psw , XL erest. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26 1844. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OF THE LEAGUE, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have recently spent a few days in Man chester, having visited that town partly on business, and partly that I might see anything that was worth st eing in it. During this visit I have been greatly interested with many things pointed out to me, and particularly with the wonderful manufactories, and with the skill and energy with which they are carried on. But, however strange it may seem, I have ar rived at the conclusion, that the most remarkable sight in Manchester is to be found in the offices of the great free trade association, or as it is more com monly called, the Anti-Corn-law League. The gentleman at whose house I was staying is a member of that A ssociation, and pretty regularly attends the meetings of the Council, and knowing that from a recent thorough examination of the ques tion of free trade, I had become a convert to its doc trines, he introduced me to some of its prominent members, and I spent some portion of almost every day in their society, at the Council-room of the League. I need not describe the offices of the League fur ther than to say, that they are situate in Market- ' street, within 100 yards of the Exchange, and consist of extensive and commodious apartments, fitted up in a manner suitable to the importance of the work for which they are engaged. That which struck me as most notable about the whole place, is the regu larity and frequency of the meetings of the Council, and the efficient and business-like manner in which its affairs are transacted. The first time I went with my friend and host to the League offices, was on a Monday morning ; it was a little after ten o'clock. Mr. Wilson, the Chair man of the Council had already taken the chair. The secretary of the League, Mr. Hickin, was upon his left hand, and on each side of the long table sat seve ral gentlemen, who were members of the Council. I was introduced to most of them. Mr. Cobden was there ; Mr. Woolley and Mr. Lees, both of whom are manufacturers; Mr. Rawson, a gentleman formerly in the Nottingham trade, but now I believe retired . . from business, — and who is treasurer of the League; Mr. Bickham, who is a calico-printer ; Mr. Prentice, the proprietor and editor of the Manchester Times, a paper which has long laboured zealously in the cause; and Mr. John Brooks, also an extensive calico-printer and merchant, and one or two others whose names at this moment I don't remember. On the desk be- fore the chairman were a number of letters from agents and friends of the League in various parts of the kingdom, which were read aloud to the Council, and the needful replies were agreed upon and noted down by the secretary, to be attended to during the day. Many of these letters had reference to the progress of the registra tion in different boroughs, and some requested a supply of free-trade tracts ; others applied for lecturers to be sent into certain districts, or contained reports of their progres from lecturers who were holding meetings in distant parts of the country. Of the last mentioned, one I remember was from Wiltshire, and informed the Council of the particulars of some meetings recently held in that county. I need not assure you that I felt deeply interested in these pro ceeedings, and that I gladly acccepted an invitation to come again the following day. Tuesday is the principal market-day in Manchester, and is also an important day at the offices of the League. At ten o'clock, Mr. Wilson was again in his place, and most of the gentlemen I have before named were there. I saw some who were not present on the Monday, among whom were Mr. Bazley, of the firm of Gardner and Bazley, through whose fine spinning mill I was politely shown ; and Mr. J. B. Smith, who, I was informed, contested the borough of Walsall in the year 1841, and is represented to be a gentleman of great experience in all matters of trade, and in questions of political economy. The letters of the day were again read, and the replies dictated to the secretary. During the morning, many gentlemen from the neighbouring towns called in and united in the proceedings. Several were pointed out to me :—Mr, Henry Ashworth, from Bolton ; Mr. Whitehead, from Rawtenstall ; Mr. Bright, M.P., from Rochdale ; Mr. Robert Munn, from Bacup ; Mr. Whittaker, from Ashton, and several others, came in and stayed for some time. After the regular business was trans acted, there was a good deal of conversation on various matters connected with the progress of the free-trade cause, but turning chiefly on the recent registration results, and the proceedings for attending to it in future. It is easy to perceive how important such meetings as this must become. The gentlemen who called in were in some degree representatives from the towns from which they came, and reports of what was doing in the dif ferent localities would doubtless stimulate each other to continued exertions. . _ I learned that, besides the daily morning meeting of the Council, which began at ten and generally lasted till half-past eleven or twelve o'clock, there was also an evening meeting at five o'clock, which was often for the discussion and arrangement of some points left over for further consideration from the morning, and which partook also of a social character. On this Tuesday evening the meeting was to receive further reports en the registration for the southern division of the county of Lancaster. Tea was served in the Council-room. The most active members of the Council were present, and many whose engagements prevented their regular attendance in the early part of the day. The London morning papers were in, and their contents formed the subject of conversation during tea. The abuse of the Herald, or some fal lacy of the Post, afforded amusement, whilst satisfac tion was expressed that the independent press was laying bare the sufferings of the agricultural labourers. About six o'clock the chairman resumed his place, and business commenced. The result of the late re- gistration in South Lancashire, I had learned from the public papers, had been greatly in favour of the free-traders, and this meeting was to take steps for securing the position they had gained. Tuesday and Friday evenings were set apart for this purpose. Mr. Wilson briefly stated what had been done at the pre vious meetings, and requested reports of their progress since they last met. One gentleman stated that he had the names of five persons to give in for qualifica . tions for South Lancashire, three of whom would - • also qualify for North Cheshire, and two for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Another handed in the names of five young men employed in a large wholesale warehouse, who were anxious to qualify for South Lancashire. An other gave in the names of himself, his brother, and three of his sons, for South Lancashire. A large number of names were thus handed in, and entered by the secretary in a book kept for the purpose, with the address and occupation of the parties. Mr. Bright was present at this meeting, and reported what was doing in Rochdale, from which it appeared that such was the determination of the free-traders in that district to qualify for the county, that they had hopes of making a large increase to their present large majority on the register.: One striking part of his report was, that many of the best paid and most intel ligent of the working-men were making great exer tions to obtain a county qualification, and were pur chasing freehold cottages with such funds as they had saved, and many were saving, with a view to obtain qualifications. Mr. Cobden informed the meeting that a deputation from the Council had already been appointed to visit all the towns in the county, and also in the West Riding, to have interviews with the free-traders, to confer with them on the im portant duty of enlisting the suffrages of the merchants, manufacturers, shopkeepers, and working men in the contest which must now be resolutely carried on against the infatuated monopolist proprietors of the soil, whose policy, if not counteracted, would shortly bring ruin upon themselves and the country. If it were necessary to come to that, they must have an other and a final struggle between the towns and the great proprietors, from whose legislation every truly national interest had suffered so deeply. At this meeting the Council-room was most un comfortably crowded, and a spirit and determination were manifested such as I have rarely seen. And, indeed, what has already been done in South Lanca shire is most important and decisive, and would seem to have opened a way by which the monopolists can be fairly grappled with. Before coming to Manchester I had, of course, often heard of the League, and I had read some par ticulars of its managements and organisation in a letter once published in the Morning Chronicle, from the pen of a stranger who had visited its head quarters, but what I have seen has nevertheless very much surprised me. The members of the Council whose names have be en mentioned, attend, was told, almost invariably every day. Every morning for six days in the week Mr. Wilson is at his post, and several other members are his constant companions in his labours, and no one is more regular in his attendance than Mr. Cobden during the Parliamentary r ecess, except when he is engaged in holding meetings throughout the countxy ; and Mr. Bright, who resides at Rochdale, ten or twelve miles distant, is generally present three times a week. Like other persons living at a distance from Manchester, I had heard of few of the Manchester Council, excepting Mr. Wilson, as Chairman, and Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, who bad both spoken at a meeting, at which I was present, In the town in which I reside, but I found out whilst in Manchester s.t there were others, and not a few, whose services, if not -" tnuch before the public, are to the full as im stain the position of the 1 ." 1 „ t portant to s.. h, e well-known litho: " °V those gentlemen. Ana the . one distinguishing ::,..ature of this movement, and a applause elevates it in my vie;; above almost every public never oth er , tha i ; eclat of public meetings and public in it . The men is n o t nee ,; as a stimulus to those who and wl:Oh°saere namesengaged of the the cause hear of, ^..rs t t h ir o i a n a g to in w t h h o e m ir l i a ta bo se u r r! newspapers, are at le and as devoted to “aun vice has given prominence and position in society. And I may also remark on the singular harmony which has prevailed amongst them. My friend, who has boen more or less with them now for five or six years, told me, that during the whole of that period he had never known anything approaching to a serious difference of opinion, and from his account, and from what I saw, they appear to have one heart, and a truly great heart it is, and to permit nothing to interfere with the object before them. I have been induced to ask for the insertion of this letter in your columns, in the hope that it may meet the eyes of the free-traders throughout the kingdom. If in half the towns of Great Britain a committee could be formed whose members could work zealously in unison with the Council in Manchester, what great things might be done ! A few intelligent and active men might meet and take tea together in an evening, discuss their progress and prospects, organise a sys tem against which no wrong couldlong be maintained, and gather round them an influence which would speedily accomplish the deliverance of their country from the evils which an ignorant and very selfish policy is daily inflicting upon it. Why should not Glasgow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Plymouth, and the metropolitan boroughs adopt this plan, which has proved so successful in Manchester ? Are there not some good, some real men in each of these populous places who are ready for the work which the eountry is looking for at their hands ? From what I have seen in Manchester lam satisfied the foolish system of the monopolists has nearly run its course. The best of causes is in the hands of men who seem never to be weary, to whom a feeling of hopelessness is un known, and whose disinterested labours are destined, I feel assured, to work a great and peaceful revolution in this country. I hope this letter may not be too long for your space, and be on that account rejected ; it contains only a very meagre sketch of the impressions left on my mind by my visit to Manchester, but I shall take it as a great favour if it be placed before the readers of your widely circulated journal.—l am, yours, &c., A TRAVELLER. November 18, 1844. POSTAL TREATY BET WEEN BEL GIUM AND ENGLAND. BRUSSELS, Nov. 24.—The Post-office treaty be tween England and Belgium was signed in London on the 19th of October. The ratifications were ex changed in London on the 19th of November. The Moniteur publishes this day the treaty at length. The following are the chief clauses : " Art. 4. The exchange of the international corre spondence will take place at Dover and Ostend. The British Post-office will continue to convey in its packets the dispatches, four times a week, according to the terms of the treaty of October, 1834. The departures from Ostend to Dover will take place on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays; the departures from Dover every Tuesday, Wednes day, riday, and Saturday. "Art. 5. However, the Belgian Government will be at liberty to establish a service of packets to convey letters, dispatches, and travellers between both the ports above-mentioned twice a week, or daily; and the Belgian Government reserves expressly to itself to enter into an agreement with the British Govern ment, in order to be freed from the obligation of paying to that Government the annual sum of 1,0001. sterling, which was stipulated in the treaty of October, 1834. " Art. 7. The packets employed by both Govern ments to convey dispatches between Dover and Ostend to be received and considered ,in both ports as men of-war, and to be free from all tonnage, harbour, and shipping duties. " Art. 9. The above packets to be allowed to carry passengers, with their luggage, horses, and carriages, but they will not be permitted to take goods on freight. " Art. 15. Persons sending letters either from Bel gium to Great Britain and British possessions, or from Great Britain and British possessions to Bel gium, to be at liberty to send the same without pay ing the postage, or to pay it in advance if they think proper, however the postage be paid for the whole distance. " Art. 16. Letters charged may be sent between the two countries, and as far as possible in transit to every country of which both offices are intermediaries. "Art. 19. Letters paid or unpaid to be charged with a postage duty of a shilling for every simple letter, this postage to be increased according to the weight of letters on the scale established in both countries. " Art. 29. Newspapers sent from Great Britain to persons living in Belgium to be delivered free of postage to the Belgian office, and to be charged in Belgium with a postage of fire centimes (id.). " Belgian newspapers, directed to persons in Eng land, to be delivered free of postage to the British Post-office, and to pay in England only fire centimes. " Art. 30. The postage for periodicals, published in Belgium or in Great Britain, to be paid in advance, viz., in Belgium five centimes for every printed sheet uner thirty square decimetres ; and in England one penny for every work under two ounces, sixpence for every work above two ounces and not exceeding three; eightpence for every work above three ounces and under four; and for every ounce above four and under sixteen, twopence more. " The present treaty to be put in execution on the Ist of December, 1844." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. DERBY. 11 to I agst Mr. Greville's Alarm 18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—taken 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Cobweb colt 22 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam 25 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken 33 to I agst Mr. Gully's Old England 40 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Collier 50 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Jinglepot 50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus 000 to 15 agst Mr. Mostyn's Black Prince—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Worley a John Davis. The above are the prices as made up at the betting. That it was neither heavy, nor, in its influence on the market, of much importance, will be seen from the fol lowing list of the principal transactions :-600 to 50 agst Alarm-17 and 18 to 1 two or three times in ponies agst Ledger-20 to 1 to about 601. agst the Cobweb colt—several bets at 24 and 25 to 1 agst Pam, who was in great force-1,000 to 40 agst Idas-1,000 to 30 and 725 to 50 agst Young Eclipse (plenty of backers)-1,000 to 30 and 1,200 to 40 agst Anti-Repealer-1,000 to 30 agst Weatherbit-1,000 to 25 agst Fitzallen-400 to 10 agst Collier-1,000 to 25 agst Lycurgus and Jingle pot-1,000 to 15 agst Black Prince--2,000 to 20 and 1,000 to 15 agst John Davis, &c., &c. Old England re ceded to 33 to 1, layers. CUESTER CUP-ENTER OR NOT. 500 to 10 each agst Alice Hawthorn, Foig-a-ballagh, Ninesour, Ratan and Morpeth—taken. RACES TO COME IN 1845, The following dates of rai appointed, or are so establishe probable that they will be alb March 12. Coventry. 19. Warwick. es in 1845 are either specially d by custom as to make it im :red : July 8. Newmarket July Meeting. . 16. Liverpool ditto. 25. Northampton. 26. Catterick Bridge. April 14. Newmarket Craven. 22. Bath. 28. Newmarket First Spring Meeting. May 6. Chester. 13. Newmarket Second Spring Meeting. 13. Manchester. 20. Gorhambury. 27. Epsom. June 10. Ascot. 18. Hampton. 23. Newcastle-on-Tyne. 25. Bibury Club. 26. Stourbridge. 23. Newton. 30. Goodwood. August 6. Horwich. 6. Brighton. 11. Wolverhampton. 28. Tiverton. Sept. 2. Warwick. 10. Leicester. 16. Doncaster. 30. Newmarket First October Meeting. Oct. 13. Newmarket Second October Meeting. 27. Newmarket Hough ton Meeting. FATAL EFFECTS OF ALLOWING CHILDREN TO MEDDLE WITH ARDENT SPIRITS.—On last Friday an occurrence illustrative of the above took place in this city, and one which should convey a strong and im pressive admonition to all those who are in charge of young persons. A. woman who resides near Globe-lane, and who had been taking care of a fine little boy, whose parents are supposed to be dead, was tippling with a neighbour. On going from home, with that indifference and recklessness which ever attend intemperate habits, she left a decanter of spirits, within reach of the child already mentioned. Ile, probably, having been accus tomed to those "little sips" which those immediately in charge of children often administer to them with such fatal effect, raised the vessel to his mouth, swallowed a portion of the spirits, and immediately went out to play. The effects were, however, soon apparent, for the poor little fellow began to stagger about the streets, and was going towards the river, below Parliament-bridge. Some sailors perceiving the child's motions suspected be was intoxicated, and went up to him ; they soon dis covered the truth, and also where the child lived, and had him conveyed home immediately. The woman in charge of biro, being greatly alarmed at his appearance, r n m t a o r fyo, where the m e m d o c a u l t h a dhad was h i a m t hour or fla ftuiutreteboebltiattilueedfe,llbouwt it b was too l a t e , an d a b out an e t s a o k: r n t e t r o b the e a d S m o i u s t s h i oln death put a per i o d to hi s su ff er , ng ings.--Corh 80;Lfilem Report er . IVe wi§h to al the attention pc spinners to a eye . ...i l ia nPVY Iltrthgeipiagirent,radinero74 ;I T i t p h t p b f e j g r o e d i a , P t a p , te . calculated to • -1, habit of pur selves extensive manufacturers, are in - rob the millowner. Certa.,.: 4l ' ies, -rP hs ilresePtilig them chasing yarns largely at the mills, paying part in ch.-, and getting the remainder on credit, It has been ascer ,.ined, to a certainty, that these parties afterwards sell to manufacturers, on terms much loWer than thaf.' t...Qed them for. It is easy to under they Originally • • - —Northyr Whig. stand what the result will be.— SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED GIBRALTAR, Nov. 16.—Again this week the painful duty devolves on us to record another distressing accident, which happened in the forenoon of Wed ; nesday last (th e 13 t h) , b y t h e s i n ki ng o f a boat in the bay. The troop-ship Apollo, which arrived here on Mon day last (the 11th), as mentioned in our shipping list, brought out detachments of men for all the regiments in this garrison, and, besides others for Malta, had one on board of Artillery destined for the companies of Captains Stow and Gosling, at Corfu. As the boats of the Apollo were not exclusively used to effect the disembarkation of the troops, many from the quay were also employed for this purpose, when, early that forenoon, one of the latter, conveying on shore ten men, the greater part of which belonged to the Artillery, for the purpose of procuring a few necessaries for the voyage, and with a female servant, the boatman, and a boy, making in all a company of thirteen in the boat, it was unfortunately run down by a Danish galliet which had just arrived from Malaga, and was proceeding to its anchorage-ground, and, melancholy to relate, six only out of the number were rescued from a watery grave. The owner of the boat, although an expert swim mer, has perished, and left a large family to deplore his loss ; whilst the boy, who could not swim, was providentially saved by the timely assistance of one of the boats of her Majesty's sloop Scout. The Apollo only left Cork on the 2d of this month, and as friends and relations must naturally be anxious to learn the fate of all on board, to allay the appre hensions of any relatives of the survivors we consider it to be our duty to subjoin a list of those who have perished. List of the drowned :—Sergeant Gritton ; Gun ners Leaver, Boss e y, an d L atter, o f t h e R oya l Artil lery; Sergeant Kenevan, of the 97th Regiment; Mary Ann Coyle, servant to Captain M'Quarrie, of the 42d ; and the boatman, John Ferro. Sergeant Gritton, who leaves a wife and five chil- dren, had been at a former period stationed in this garrison, where, besides having raised himself to the rank he held by his exemplary conduct and zealous performance of duty, he was universally respected and beloved by all who knew him, and we may imagine what must have been the feelings of his unhappy wife, who, on the eve of accompanying him to Corfu, was waiting his arrival on the quay, when the first in telligence which reached her was brought by the boat which had conveyed on board of the Apollo the inanimate body of her husband. What augments our sympathy in this particular case is the circumstance of her being near the period of her confinement. A subscription has been opened here for the bereaved family, and we sincerely hope that a generous public at home will respond to an appeal in behalf of the widow and fatherless children. Although the master of the Danish galliot is to be blamed for not having kept a better look out, the accident is chiefly attributed to the patron of the small boat, in having obstinately persisted to cross the hawse of the larger vessel, which as well as his own was close hauled on the wind. his own untimely end has dearly paid the penalty of this act of rashness. As independent of the body of Sergeant Gritton, which was picked up shortly after the accident, yes terday two and to-day three of the bodies have been found, that of the unfortunate woman, Mary Ann Coyle, is now the only one missing, but rom the exertions that are still making it is hoped that it will also be recovered. A difference of opinion having arisen between the Coroner and the military authorities, as to which is the competent tribunal to investigate the circum stances of the accident, no verdict has yet been made public. This melancholy event, which every day since has caused the repetition of the mournful duty of convey ing to their last resting-place the remains of the un fortunate sufferers, accompanied with all the affecting and imposing ceremony of military burial, has tended to throw a gloom over the place, and speaking loudly a solemn warning to all, impressively reminds us of the uncertainty of human life. On the 12th the Swedish frigate Josephine, Capt. C. H. Ulner, arrived here and came to an anchor, having been 26 days on the voyage from Copenhagen. On the day following the French brig of war Cygne, Captain Heureux, weighed anchor, and sailed from this to the westward. The following are the vessels of war which are still here : Her Majesty's sloop Scout, Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond; her Majesty's brig Savage, Captain Bowker; her Majesty's troop-ship Apollo, Captain M'Lean ; the Danish brig of war Mercurius, Captain Christmas; the Danish war-steamer Hekla, Captain Mourier ; the Swedish frigate Josephine, Captain C. 11. Ulner; the Swedish corvette Carlskrona, Captain Runth; the Swedish schooner L'Aigle, Lieutenant Begg, commander ; the Norwegian corvette Nordst jernen, Captain Konow. From the above it will be seen that Sweden, Nor way, and Denmark have at this moment six vessels of war in our bay, and as their presence here is con- sidered necessary, from the pending negotiations be tween Morocco and these countries, their stay may be indefinitely prolonged if they wait till a final arrange ment is concluded. The tribute, or protection douceur, or whatever other name diplomacy may give to this unreasonable exaction of Morocco from nations with which she has little or no intercourse, has hitherto been regularly paid by Sweden, amounting to 20,000 dollars annually, but since the accession to the throne of King Oscar, the Government have come to the decided resolution that, excepting the amount - due for the last year, which they agree to pay, not one dollar more shall go out of the public purse for this purpose. The amount annually paid by Denmark has been 25,000 dollars, of which two years are at present due, and, on the same conditions as Sweden, the Government of Denmark have come to the determination that the present payment must be considered in full of all claims on this score for the future as well as for the past. From the dilatory character of Barbary di plomacy, it must be impossible to predict when a final adjustment may take place, but it is anticipated that the intervention of England and France will ulti mately bring about the desired arrangement. Be that as it may—whether success or failure attends the endeavours of the mediating part'—one thing is cer tain, that Sweden, Nor way , an d Denmark are firmly resolved to pay no more tribute, even should the con sequences force them to establish cruises off the coast of Morocco, for the protection of their commerce. COMPULSORY EMIGRATION.—A Curious circum stance occurred a few days since to Dr. Blarney, of Uni versity College Hospital. Some domestic differences induced him to make up his mind to go abroad, and without consideration he repaired to the docks, where he made an arrangement with the captain of a ship about to sail to Sydney, to accompany him in the capacity of surgeon. Two days before the vessel left Dr. Blarney repented his hastily formed determination, and having made up his mind not to leave England, he paid a visit to the captain for the purpose of acquainting him with s a h l i te s determination.rationinhis p lans, The And captainf feeling nsgee convinced a v in ma e ed z amazed a a t t d t u h r i ing the short time that would elapse before his departure he would be unable to provide himself with another Bur g( eon, he induced Dr. Blarney to go on board. Having secured him in the ship, the captain politely informed him that he intended compelling him to visit Sydney, in conformity with the agreement entered into between them, and a day or two after the ship, with the repen tant Doctor on board, set sail for Australia. Lord Northwick's Picture Gallery has, within the last few days, undergone an important improvement, by which its rare and costly treasures of art will be ren dered available to theii noble owner at all hours. An apparatus for lighting the apartment with gas having been erected, two large pendant lamps on the principle of the bude light have just been introduced, one at either end of the gallery. These afford an illuminating power so ample as to exhibit the pictures to considerable ad vantage, bringing out the brighter colours with m uc h force and brilliancy, and though of course not at all comparable to any s t t h e e m p uorfe artificial light of m illuination day, he r etofore yet infinit e ly supe rioremployed. The effect would probably have been further improved had it been practicable to have commanded the same volume of light equally dispersed from one rather than from two sources of illumination, as the cross lights interfere occasionally with each other, and throw a con fused glare upon objects viewed across them, an effect which, were all the rays to emanate from a common centre, would possibly not occur.— Cheltenham Looker-on. A STRANGE POST-OFFICE Pikitcnra.--A few weeks ago, a person in a village a few miles wes t of Paisley committed a serious assault upon a man in his own house ; he was in consequence sent for by the Pro curator-Fiscal, in order to be examined before a ma gistrate. This being done, it was thought expedient to commit him for further examination, and, for his better security, he was ordered to be sent to Paisley prison. With this view, he was manacled, and put into a coach, along with a sheriff-officer. Another officer w a s sea t e d on the box beside the driver, and off they went. By and by they came to the village whence they set out, and having stopped for some necessary purpose, in a few minutes again started, and sped on their way. In about half-an-hour they came to the Paisley toll-bar, where, of course, they stopped, and where they were made aware, for the first time, that the coach-door was open, and the prisoner off. This information effectually roused the officer in charge, who had fallen into a nap on the stated, el he might have I V way. He made all diligent search for his lost one, b u t to no purpose. In the course of two days, however, h e received by post a packet of some size and weight, in forming him that his late prisoner was sell a n d a t liberty, and moreover wished to p a ro m ve assi h v im e himself an f honest man, by returning to the officer the property h e ironhgd entrusted handcuffs. t o This, s i t v keeping, ‘ a namely, paying the postage, which amounted to only 2s. Bd. Glasgow National. PAINF .. BI3 G#4.117p.-- - At a meeting of th 9 Highway )1040, on Thursday, an offer was !wee to sell thfelipui7 missioners a quantity of Chinese granite, at Os. per square yard, being about half the price gene i a ll y pa id . --‘,,,;te is of very superior quality, a n d i s o f li g h ter The 6 , " -'- se* mien sent . The spec' to the Couuissioners has been nicely squared by the elestials,and it appears to have formed a portion of colour than is found in tnis Some Paper: LITERATURE. DRAMATIC LIBRARY. Sherwood and Bowyer, London, 1844. We have here a republication of several of the best comedies and tragedies in the language, which are brought out in weekly Parts, each Part containing one entire play, and at the trifling cost of threepence ! Verily, if this be not cheap literature, we know not what is. Seven Numbers of the series have already made their appearance, including, amonli other dramas, Shakspeare's King John, Sheridan s Rivals and School for Scandal, and Massinger's New Way to Pay Old Debts; and each of these plays is printed on excellent paper, and in the neatest possible type. When completed, the Dramatic Library will form a series of very convenient pocket volumes. THE BETROTHED. 2 Vols. Burns, London, 1844. This is a translation, fuller and snore faithful than any that has yet appeared, of I Promessi Sposi, or the Betrothed—an Italian work of fiction, by Alessandro Manzoni, a writer well known on the Continent, and whose present novel, which is justly considered as his master-piece, has long enjoyed an almost unrivalled popularity among his countrymen. The high moral maintained throughout the Betrothed does the author great credit, and forms a striking contrast to the majority of modern French novels, which are written with an utter disregard to every sense of re ligion and morality, and seem penned for no other purpose than to astonish the reader by their licentious extravagances. The great charm of Alanzoni is the simplicity of his incidents, all of which possess the rare merit of probability; and there is not a single character, male or female, in the Betrothed, of which it can be said that it is in the slightest degree exag gerated in its lineaments. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen will hold a Privy Council at the Castle on Thursday next, at half-past two o'clock. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, took an early promenade in the plea sure grounds. After the return of the royal party to the Castle, the Prince, accompanied by the Dukes of Saxe Cobourg and Wurtemburg, and the Earl of Liverpool, and attended by le Baron de Alvensleben and Colonel Arbuthnot, left the Castle in the mail phaeton, to shoot in the royal preserves. Mr. J. E. Anson and Colonel Wylde attending, on horseback. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken for pony and walking exercise. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out in the afternoon. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen. The Marquis of Granby, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby took their departure from the Castle to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by Baron de Alvensleben and Captain Vyner rode out on horseback in the Great Park this afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined the royal circle at dinner. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended at the Castle. his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived at his residence at Kew last evening, from a visit to Colonel Wynd ham, at Petworth House, Sussex. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir Ed ward Knatchbull. The Council sat three hours and a half. A deputation from the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, consisting of George Stacey, Robert Forster, J. Hinton. Jos®h Cooper, Samuel Gurney, Josiah Forster, and J. Scoble, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. The Portuguese Minister and the Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. Sir Robert P. e 1 had a dinner party yesterday at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. GREAT ROBBERY AT MESSRS, ROGERS AND TOWGOOD'S BANKING• HOUSE. A robbery to an awful extent was committed be tween Saturday night and Monday morning, in the banking-house of Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and Co., bankers, of Clement's-lane. It was stated that bank notes to the amount of from 35,0001. to 40,000/. or 41,000/. were stolen out of the iron safe which is de posited in the hall of the inner office, and that securi ties to a very large amount have been taken by the thieves. It is a remarkable circumstance connected with this robbery, that on the morning of yesterday, when it was first discovered, there was no internal appearances from which suspicion could be entertained upon en tering the office that any robbery had been _perpe trated, or attempt at robbery had been made. Every thing was in its accustomed order; the iron safe, in which the cash and securities were regularly depo sited, was locked, and the iron chest, in which it was usual to deposit the master-kay of the safe, to which there were two locks, was also secure. It was, we understand, the practice of the partners of the firm, of which there are said to be four, to re lieve each other in the heavy cash business of the house at stated periods, and each of them keep keys of the safe and iron chest; and it is supposed that one of these gentlemen left behind him his keys upon some occasion of hurry or forgetfulness, a d that with these keys the places of former security were violated. Some force had been used on a tin box in which several valuable securities were kept ; but it appeared that the thieves had made some mistake with regard to the exact position of these documents, for they worked on the wrong side, and are so far disappointed. They laid hands upon enough, how ever, to console them for their blunder, as appears from the enormous list of bank-notes announced in a large handbill issued last night. In that handbill are the particulars of the stolen Bank of England notes, which amount altogether to 40,7101. Of those bank-notes there are 168 for 51., 40 for 101., 37 for 201., 10 for 301., 12 for 401., 9 for 501., 10 for 1001., 5 for 2001., 1 for 5001., and 35 for 1,0001. The handbill states that further parti culars of the bills of exchange will be published, and that whoever will give such inform a ti on as w ill to the apprehension of the guilty party or parties, or either of them, and recovery of the property, or any part thereof, shall receive 3,000/. reward, or a part thereof proportionate to the sum which shall be re covered. Mr. Hobler has been employed by the banking house to investigate the case, and has secured the able assistance of Daniel Forrester, the officer. As the firm do not belong to the Committee of Bankers against frauds and forgeries, Messrs. Bush and Mul lins have of course nothing to do with the prosecution. It appears that the money was deposited in the iron safe ; and, as usual, a clerk was appointed to watch over its safety during the day, and another clerk to perform the like duty during the night. One of the partners remaining at home yesterday, the day clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours, which was granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening the other clerk came, and remained during the night ; but when business was resumed yesterday morning, and the iron safe opened with the ordinary key, it was found entirely empty ; and yet no force whatever had been used in the employment of the means adopted to rid the chest of its valuable con tents. Of course, all is conjecture upon the subject. Notes to the amount of 35,0001. have been stopped at the Bank ; and Forester, the active and intelligent City police-officer, is engaged in endeavouring to trace the party guilty of this daring and flagrant crime. MR. MACREADF.—The baggage and effects of this gentleman, containing a co ns id era bl e port i on o f t h e splendid dresses worn by him in his dramatic delinea tions, and which he took with him In Ms professional tour to the United States. have arrived in the St. Katha rine's Docks, by the ship Quebec, from New York, and this eminent actor personally attended their examina tion by the Customs officers yesterday afternoon, and went through the usual forms of declaration, &c., re quired for their delivery as British returned private effects, duty free. Some of the dresses are exceedingly handsome. The majority of the company engaged by Mr. Mitchell for the ensuing English performances in Paris left town on Sunday morning for that capital, and Mr. Macready intended to take his departure at the same time had ho not been detained in order to obtain posses sion of his baggage. He was to leave for the French capital last night by the Dover Railway, to make the ne cessary preparations for the completion of the arrange molts for the performance of English plays at the Opera Italien, which commence on Monday next. REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE BAR.—During Michael mas Term, no less than 54 persons were called t o t h e bitTz whici;a t t the commencement of term, as appeared by publication of the fact, numbered 2,243 individuals. Of the 54, 15 were called by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, eight by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, 29 by the Middle Temple, and two by Gray's Inn. TIM SANATORIUM, OR HOME IN SIC:=NZSi- - Vi§s Burdett Coutts h4s glade the inu4ific4it'd6Palion to ads excellent instituti o n. of 50/. STRIKE OF THE BARKING FISHERMEN. i _ No fewer than sixty fishing smacks, belonging to Barking, in Essex, are at this moment lying in the River, a little below Woolwich, their crews having brought them home from sea, and struck work. As the Barking fishery has long been one of the prin cipal sources of supply to the Billingsgate market, a few particulars respecting its present condition, and the alleged causes of the strike, may not be unaccept able to our readers. The total number of smacks belonging to Barking, though nominally sailing from the port of London, is about one hundred and sixty. These are wet-bottomed vessels, generally of from fifty to sixty tons, and carrying each three men be sides the captain, and about the same number of ap prentices. Their principal fishing grounds are off the coast of Holland, and during the cod season in the North Sea and about the Orkney Islands. In the summer and autumn it is not unusual for many of them to work out of Harwich, Lovrestoff, or Yarmouth, or the eastern coast. The kind of fish they are employed in catching varies with the season and locality ; it is mostly cod, sole, haddock, or plaice. A smack's cargo commonly contains more than one of these varieties. The dura tion of the voyages is also subject to a correspending variation from the same circumstances. Where seve ral smacks are the property of a single owner, or of two or three in the same family, they are generally worked in fleets of from fifteen to thirty sail, each smack in its turn bringing to market the fish caught by the whole fleet. In this way a large fleet is en abled to keep up a regular and constant supply ; thus a fair average of the market is secured, and the time of absence from home rendered less variable and un certain. Frequently, however, the smacks only come up the river as far as Gravesend, and having dis charged their cargo of fish into the hatch-boats that ply between that place and the London market, they take in fresh provision and return to sea. This is called making a " Gravesend voyage." It tends to keep the men longer from their homes and families; but effects a great saving of time to the owners. Formerly these Gravesend voyages were not so com mon as they are at present ; and the men generally found means to get home on the average once a month. But to meet the increased competition that the supply of fish by railway has introduced, the owners have made them more frequent, till the usual time of absence has increased to:six or eight weeks, and often more. One extensive proprietor, the owner of about fifty vessels, has also, for the last year, employed a very fast-sailing cutter to carry provisions to his smacks, and those of the numerous small owners who are his dependents, and to bring their fish back to meet the boats at Gravesend. By this means, the I crews of more than half the smacks belonging to the place have been kept out at sea for periods of from three to six months. This lengthened absence from home and its comforts the working fishermen have long felt to be a great privation, their stays on shore being always much shorter than those of other sea men. The middle class of owners, thinking probably that a partial return to the old system would place them on a more equal footing with the extensive proprietor above referred to, lent a favourable ear to their complaints, and, with their concurrence, the crews of seventy vessels have struck, and re turned home. The other owners have, it is said, promised to take an additional hand in each vessel, to prevent any being thrown out of berth should the men's demands not be acceded to. The apprentices, of whom more than two hundred are already on shore, will, of course, be thrown upon their masters' hands. The demands of the men are for increased wages and shorter voyages. Their present rate of wages is— men fourteen shillings a week, and mates sixteen. They want this to be advanced two shillings in each case, and the time of absence to be limited to one month. The majority of the owners seem inclined to grant them this, but others are averse to all con cession. The general opinion, however, is, that " the owners must give in." The reasons assigned are, that this is the most profitable part of the year, that "all hands" are in the strike, and that the men of other places are not suited to the particular kind of fishery in which the inhabitants of Barking are en gaged. One thing is certain, that if the strike con tinues long the loss to large owners will be very great. Those who continue at sea will obtain high prices for such fish as they can bring to market, though it is doubtful whether this advantage will be more than overbalanced by their participation in the general loss. CHURCH-RATES. -ANOTHER VICTIM. Devoutly indeed should all sound-hearted Church men pray, that the Church might be saved from its friends. Our readers recollect the proceedings which took place a few years ago at Leicester and other places, in consequen ce o f a consc i ent i ous objection which several Non-Conformists held to churchriAtes. Another recusant has been victimised to the bigotry of a clique of devouts, who choose to re-establish some of the worst practices of the Inquisition, and promote the cause of Christ by penalties and dungeons. We have not time to enter upon the whole parti culars this week. A few of the facts, however, we will briefly state. A milkseller, named Wragg, who for sixteen years has been a consistent member of a Baptist church, and who has a wife and four small children, objected, with others, on conscientious grounds, to a church rate levied in St. Werbugh's parish. A " small and secret junto" (to quote from the letter of Air. Gawthorn, inserted elsewhere) directed the Church wardens to cite Wragg into the Spiritual Court of Doctor's Commons, where expenses have been run up against him to the amount of 231.! Further steps have yet to be taken, the result of which will be the ruin of the poor man and his family, and, in all pro bability, the incarceration of his person in a dungeon, since, we understand, he is determined not to pay. We shall have more to say on this subject next week—and probably for many a week to come— meanwhile, we have to congratulate the clergyman who is reported to have taken part in these proceed ings on the Christian spirit which the act displays. How strikingly in accordance with the precepts of Scripture is an iniquitous proceeding like this! What an unction the godly man must lay to his soul when appealing to the God of love and mercy for an approving testimony to the correctness of his princi ples!—Derby Reporter. TUE SIGNS OF LONDON.---It is not a hundred years since a great part of London was disfigured by signs suspended from almost every house in which any busi ness was carried on. By degrees the metropolis was cleared of these incumbrances, many of which projected from the houses, and completely spoiled the appearance of some of the best streets. To a very late period the signs of inns and public-houses in country towns and villages stretched across the public reads, but with the progress of taste and improvement, nearly all these remnants of vulgar display have vanished, It is, how ever, melancholy to observe that a kind of re-action has for some time commenced in the metropolis. The smal lest trader must be distinguished by his name and occu pation being displayed in the largest letters. Not satis fied with enlarging the letters of the alphabet, all manner of companies, dispensaries, infirmaries, and societies, are now occupied in covering the whole front of the tene ments they occupy with huge boards or plaster entabla tures, announcing to the public the peculiar merits of their institution, or the wondrous cures they have achieved, or hope to achieve, at the expense of the public. Surely such institutions, if really meritorious, would at tract public:attention without so much outside show. It savours very much of quackery, and should operate as a caution to the public. It is like " the sellings off at 20 per cent. under prime co s t," " t h e great sacrifice for ready money," and the numerous attempts on public credulity that have met with the fullest explanations in the exposures that have recently taken place in the Bank ruptcy Court. 'e have lately been infested by an extraordinary number of vagrants, many of whom care not what out rage they commit, in order that they may be sent to the House of Correction. The fact i 9 too notorious to be denied, from whatever cause it may spring. On Wed nesday the magistrates were occupied a considerable time in adjudicating upon vagrancy cases, and private hear ings of a similar nature are occuring almost daily. In some instances the offer of liberation, upon condition of leaving the town, has been immediately rejected, and the longest term of imprisonment allotted the accused con sidered as a boon. During the past week a man and his wife, who had just escaped from " durance " (?), were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for begging about. Leamington streets. The man took a stone 4 2'."m his pocket, on being appre hended. n.^ deliberately deliberately th rew it at the window of Mr. ewby, chemist, High-street, breaking a pane of glass valued at 2/. The woman broke two panes in the win dow of Mr. Cranwer, whitesmith. These offences arose, in both instances, from a refusal of relief. On Tuesday night no less than six vagrants tore up all their clot); - es (excepting only their nearer garment, and in Snie in stances even this was partialiy mutilated) .nto pieces about three inches square, and in this 1 2 ) .;ght were ac tually arraigned before the magistrates the following morning. They were all senterTed to one month's im prisonment, with hard laboor. Money and refreshments, we are informed, have on some occasions been offered to induce the offent!ers to leave the town, but without avail ; they seem determined to " winter " in the House of Correction. It is probable the subject will be intro duced at the ensuing sessions, with a view of remedying the evil,--Werzeich Advertiser. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE—The orchestral An tinous Jullien had an immense audience last night upon the strength of the announcement that Sivori would play his amusing variati ons on th e N CarnavaldeVeni e s v e e Venice.'' before congregated within Such a vast assembl age of people, re believe, was n l ed s of the movementtheatr theatre. The wi " promenade was so ro i m p oss ibl e ; a nd the boxes and galleri es were equally the t e r o w w a d l well filled. Sivori was:received with great applause, and hi s grotesque variations—never before played by him more perketly or humorously —were encored by a hr.. , cape of voices, There will be n (`-' t. : —“uinet Council on Thursday, at truoiu tut the Ministers are expected to be present. THE TRAGICAL EVENT AT MILE-END. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. As soon as the excitement consequent upon the shocking discovery had in some degree abated, the apartment in m hich the unhappy creatures had de prived themselves of existence was strictly examined by Mr. Porter, the constable of Stepney. The Im fortunate couple appeared to have taken the most de liberate pains to accomplish their fatal design. The supposition that they had gone out to church is sus pected to be somewhat groundless ; for it is now conjectured that, instead of going out, they must have slammed the door and immediately concealed them selves in the apartment in question, as they were not heard during the whole evening to re-open the street door. The corpse of the young woman, who was attired in a black satin dress, with jewellery oa her fingers, and her hair done up in ringlets, lay 0,1 the face, with the left arm resting on the chest al her betrothed, his right arm being under her head ; and he lay on his back. He was dressed. Neither of their countenances were distorted. On the table was found a letter bearing the following superscription : " To Miss Margaret Chapman, Lucas-street, Com mercial-road. " It is our last and sacred wish that this lfiter be delivered into the hands of the above latly. Such is our final request, and whomsoever may find this we pray they may give the same to her. The handwriti ng is that of the youngyou C. W. D." man, and displays much firmness. The letter was sealed' with black wax, with the following motto : " Absence pains, but cannot alter." Not the remotest idea can be formed by the fami ' lies of the deceased respecting the cause of the de plorable occurrence. No doubt the contents of the letter will assign their motive, and will be read betore the Coroner's jury. The deceased Duckett was a gentlemanly young man, and it is stated that he was a clerk in the Tower Hamlets Court of Requests House. Such, however, we understand, i s no t t h e case, tor, as we are informed, he has not been in regular employment for some weeks past. This is reported to have been one circumstance that must have affected his mind, although he never wanted for anything, his father being in a respectable way of life as an ac countant. As regards his unfortunate partner, the poor girl, her mind of late has been affected ; shn e, was the daughter of a surgeon (deceased), and 'nor mother resides in Cannon-street -road, in a respoat a v e sphere of life. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, whilst Mr. G. Littlewood, lamp-contractor, Upper King-street, Bloomsbury, was driving a horse in a chaise cart along Aylesbury-street, Clarkenwell, towards the Green, the horse, a vicious animal, suddenly took fright and dashed forward with fearful rapidity. On descending the hi 1 on the west-side of the Sessions-house the horse fell and rolled over. The sudden jerk threw the driver out of the cart, and his head came with great force against Vae kerb -stone. Constable G 102 ran to his assistance and found that Mr. Littlewood's skull was entirely kaiocked in. He was conveyed in a state of insensibility to a sur geon's near the spot, who seeing his hopeleas state di rected his removal to St. Bartholomew's. whither he was conveyed in a cab, and after reeeiv;:ag every attention from the house surgeon, expired at half-past eleven. Mr. Littlewood has left 4 wife and family. He was about forty. INQUEST ON MAJOR DE HAVILAND.—Last night Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, held an inquest, at the Coach and Horses, Mount- street, Berkeley-square, on the body of Major Charles De Haviland, a geaieral officer of the army. Mr. Stevenson, of 37, Uppa-r Gros , venor-street, surgeon, stated that the deceased came to town on Saturday week from Guernsey, in. order to place himself under his care, who at the petied was suffering from a disordered stomach, occasions e: by drinking too freely of wine, and taking little 01' no nutriment. De ceased was al s o t rou bl e d w i t h tm affection of the heart, and experienced also a sever e attack of spasms. Major De Ilaviland was not confined to his room, but was able to He walk to the residence of his medical adviser daily. was extremely cheerful, and hi s health was rather improved since his arrival in town.—ThonsasFi o tt de Ha viland, Esq., judge and magistrate of the islend of Guern sey, described the state of the deceased, w how he said was his brother. Ile stated that on his arrival in tow n on Wednesday last, he found him considerably better. Deceased had laboured for a length of time under a dis ease of the heart, and was also subject to spasms. Wit ness dined with his brother on Thursday last. On Friday he was with him in the evening. The deceased had a violent attack of spasms, which lasted the greatest pars of the evening, but towards half-past nine o'clock he seemed relieved, and witness left, not apprehending the slightest danger. Deceased had refused to have any me dical aid, ,Mr. Stevenson, his own medical attendant, being out of town. The jury returned a verdies—" D;ect, by the visitation of God." ECONOMY OF GAS.—A lecture, by Dr. Jones, On the advantages of napthalised gas, now forms cam Of th e subjects of instru c ti on d ur i ng t h e day exhibWon of the Adelaide Gallery. The napthu distilled from coal dering the manufacture of gas, when purifie'‘, is extremely volatile and inflammable, and when properly burned it yields a brilliant light, in censequence of the large quantity of carbon it contain. & It has been ascertained that coal gas when passed through naptha absorbs a portion, and its illuminating properties are thereby greatly increased by the larger amount of carbon. TO effect this absorption the gas is passed through a Leal( containing shelves whereon sponges dippt d in ns.ptha are placed. By adopting this plan, and by usia g a dry gas-meter it is found that a saving of twenty-five per cent. in the cost of the gas is attained, after adding the expense of the naptha. About one-half the quantity of napthalised gas gives an equal amount of light to double the volume of gas not so prepared. Dr. Jones repre sents the alleged danger and inconvenience attending the use of the naptha to be altogether unfounded, and to have been suggested by parties whose interests are af fected by the improvement. DRUGGING A POLICEMAN. —On Saturday morning, about two o'clock, constable 183 L was discovered lying insensible in Arlington-street, Waterloo-road. He was immediately conveyed to the station-house, Tower. street. The divisional surgeon administered restora tives, and in three hours the constable was sufficiently restored to his senses to state that while he was on his beat in Arlington-street, shortly after one o'clock, a wan of colour he had some slight knowledge of treatc.d him to a glass of gin; he was requested to partake of another, which he declined, saying he did not exactly like the taste of the first. He then prou?ded a short distance, when ho was overtaken by atup ~r, and fell down in sensible. The doctor stated that he had drunk a deadly mixture, which would have terminated his existence if he had drunk half a glans more. The constable is a steady sober man, and has boon in the force about eighteen months. The police are on the 100k -out for the person who gave him the liquor. INTERESTING FACTS.--The following is the sub stance of a communication from Southport, the ftyrourite watering-place, about twenty-three miles north of Liverpool :—" On Monday, 11th inst., after a heavy gale, which had forced out the tide far beyond its ordi nary limits, a poor boy picked up a pocket-book which had drifted to the shore. He hastened to display the prize to his father, who, after examining the cont,,,nta and discovering that they consisted of upwards or 1204 immediately went to consult the Rev. Mr. D., who kindly ascertained that the treasure belonged to a gentleman, who, on crossing the Mersey, at . Li . verPool, on the 9th inst., was nearly d rowne d , an d on being r , Ficued from his accident, found that his pocket-book - was ail' in the water. The tide must have carried fit down the Morley out to sea, and thus brought it into the hands of the worthy labourer in question, who, on restoring the pro perty to its delighted owner, was presented with 16/., and is now building hirreielf a modest cottage with the re ward of his probity,".—Hampshire Telegraph. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RODBEIt. —On Tuesday last, at the Manel , :ester Royal Infirmary, an inquest was held before SI:. Chapman, on the body of Gideon Has lam, Vasil:l.er and painter, of B olton. Burnden,n l ear e It appeared that about half-past s even o,e of owk rlrod. in Isfe Sunday n had os s a ; b rui the s e on the d•- : the 10th instant, thedeceased lying in the gig-house on the premises_ Blair, vitriol hiolleemadn manufacturer, from fact theurer„o nose, and anrsledy M ceased w top of his head, which appeared to cause him much pain. A dead i t d u r t k e eah, a , a e n d be e a n n k o i lalekde,n w t e r r u e n r c o h u e n o t n i with which it appeared near him, and two doors were found to have been forced open, which left no doubt that the object of the deceased in entering the premises had ber_,n to commit a f elony. It was also ascertained that th e d ead turkey was one of 36 which had been roosting in a loft in the gig-rouse, above the place where the deceased was lying. Re was. not capable of giving any rat i onal account of himself 'at the time, and by the advice of Mr. Moulden, surges ;n to the county constabulary force at Bolton, he was corsveyed to the Manch es t er Royal Infirmary, where he - , died on the 15th inst. from the effects of fracture of the shall. While in the infirmary he stated, that hc, and another man went to Mr. Blair 's premises about two o'clock in the morning of the 10th instant, with., the intention of having two turkeys each for their di:iners ; that he was intoxicated at the time, and slipped from the loft, and that he thought it was cowardly it: fllai companion to leave him in ''s.a, o i. et te itt which i was round. The jury returned a Ye:tato the Pff":,‹; that the death was occasioned by frac ture of the sku:i, received though accidentally falling from the loft. The deceased has legit a widow and two , c hildren, and was 26 years of age.—Manchester Guardians V I CE-CHAN CERY—(YESTERDAY) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLO R of ENGLAND.) 'r \ BORN V. BO HN . .) j In this case there were two m o ti ons ; one on behalf of •-•-, Mr. Bohn, the well-known bo o k se ll er of York-street, ••:-; Covent-garden, who is the exec.:tor of Mr. Joh n Bohn, ' - the testator in the cause, to tli..charge the order f,,r a tt .:> injunction made by his Honour on Tuesday lastiariil.t.„ L ., other on behalf of the plaintiffs, to h ive M r. Bohn cbs'll`• mitted for a breach of such injunction. His Hosoua was of opinion that the plaintiffs had been wrong in applyisg to Mr. Bohn to have the testa tor's books and stock delivered to them, and that he ought not to part with the stock to any persons except the auctioneers appointed by the Master to sell it. On the other hand, his Honour considered that the plaintiffs had a right to be present, and see that proper lists were made of the books before the executors parted with them. It was sworn by Mr. Bohn, and by several other per sons that accurate lists had invariably been made, but it did not appear that the plaintiff had always seen th e m. Eventually it was arranged that no order should be made on either motion, it being understood that the order on Tuesday last was not to twe acted on, and that all parties' costs of both motions should be paid o:tt of the testator's estate. ;10 ods . di og