The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, member that we are considering regions in which the sustenance of mere animal life hardly de mands a moment's care. When, however, you throw . high wages into the hands o' the igno rant population of such regions, it ii plain that you give them more money, much more money, than it is possible for them to consume in satisfying their moderate wants ; this money must therefore be expended in excesses fatal to health and morals, or hoarded with a view to obviate the necessity of future toil; but it is hard to say which of the two processes is the more efficacious in diminishing a labouring population, that is, in exasperating the disease by which the sugar colonies are already sinking. This is a subject of deep importance, to which we have often before referred, and to which we shall again refer fully ; at present, however, we allude to it only to show that it is not by high pro tecting duties the sugar colonies can be saved. FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Government organs evince con siderable uneasiness on the subject of Irish politics. The state of the Tories is one of conscious danger — with this additional source of alarm, that they are ignorant of the quarter whence the shock will come. Bewilderment is thus superadded to fear. It is plainly seen that the ensuing session will prove pregnant with embarrassment to Ministers. Their criminal neglect of means for improving the condition of the Irish people since they en tered apon office, has deepened and widened the dis affection with which the people of that country be held their assumption:of rule. Protestants, in whom the love of country is not wholly extinct, now openly avow their conviction that some organic change in the existing order of things is neces sary ; and manifest a disposition to merge their former differences with their Catholic fellow countrymen in a confederation, by which a radical change in the Constitution may be effected ; hoping , that thus something may be effectel for their common interests. This state of feeling in those who were wont to deprecate agitation, and to eschew all desire to meddle with established institu tions, is among the most significant indications of danger to the Government. All confidence in the ability all hope from the wisdom of her Majesty's present advisers have passsed away, even from those who were most disposed to regard Sir Robert Peel's accession to power as fraught with promise of peace and security to Ire land. To a certain extent the vocation of O'Connell has ceased. Agitation for repeal—as a definite pro position for procuring for the suffering masses of Ire land a redress for public grievances, and a relief from the physical and social evils which per vade the great mass of the eommunity is no longer in that state of fervid activity which lately seemed to defy opposition, and spurned all milder schemes as futile and treacherous. This stilling of the waves is accounted for on prin ciples which bode anything but peace or stability to the Government. The great Agitator has retired from the stage to the repose of the domestic scene. But it is to avail himself of the quietude of seclusion to observe events as they arise, and to prepare, with more perfect adaptation to their objects, his own schemes of action. The party which has hitherto agreed to denounce and oppose the power of O'Con nell, and which has been actuated by one common effort to neutralise his influence and to extirpate his projects, is now divided. A manifest inclination to fraternize with him, in order to obtain from the Legislature a modification of his own scheme, is now evinced. The policy of O'Connell, under such cir cumstances, is obvious. Federalism is but repeal under another name—a duodecimo edition of the larger work. It will, therefore, gratify the ever varying taste of the Irish people; and flatter the personal vanity of those who have broached the new delusion. To keep up the agitation for re peal while the new project is yet before the multi tude, with all the attractions of novelty fresh upon it, would be only to bring federalists and repealers into angry collision, and thus weaken and eventually destroy both. Coalition is O'Connell's obvious desire. He will pare down repeal to the dimensions of federalism ; if, by so doing, he can effect a junction of the disaffected Protestants with his followers. The sagacity for which Mr. O'Connell has been ever distinguivhed will not desert him now, when he most needs it. He sees, with intuitive perception, the bearings of his new position, and is per fectly' content to shape his course in accord ance with the views of the federalists, if by so doing he can advance his own. The greater the num bers which can be brought to act upon the Govern ment, will press out of it the greatest amount of con cession to their claims. Repeal and federalism are alike impracticable-as ultimate objects. Either may, however, be employed as means to an end. Agitation, under whatever name, is merely symptomatic of de rangement in the body-politic. Remove the cause of the disease, and the symptoms which indicate the presence of the varied maladies will disappear. The coalition which Sir Robert Peel will have to meet in the next session, and from which he and his adherents may well shrink with dread, will be a union of all who are are anxious to bring back the estranged affection of the Irish people to a reasonable and firm attachment to England—and English connexion, as the source of their own security and prosperity. To effect this, every nerve must be strained, both in and out of Parliament, to force remedial mea sures from or upon the Government; or, in the event of refusal or resistance, to drive Ministers from their posts. The necessity is urgent, for the dangers of delay are great. The people of England are determined to maintain the union intact and in violate. They know, also, that this can only be donr by making it manifest that the benefits of the union shall be felt by the people of Ireland, as well as talked of by their rulers. We have reason to believe that the Liberals will com mence the coming session with demanding from the Government an announcement of the mea sures they intend to submit with reference to Ireland. If Ministers have no specific measures in readiness, the Opposition will be ready to propose their plans; and thereon issue will be joined. What the result will be to the Government we cannot predict. That a very considerable amount of substantial benefits, tending to conciliate the affections of the Irish nation, and consolidate the scattered elements of Ireland', strength, will be the consequence, we feel assured. STANDARD.—If we were not well aware of the indisposition, not to say inability, of our order gene rally to deal with any subject upon comprehensive principles, we should be at a loss to understand the purpose of the leading article which we have copied from the Times of this day. On the 19th of October our Contemporary goes back to a discussion and decision at the end of June, the results of which dis cussion and decision are now unalterable, with no purpose that we can conceive but to raise a sneer at the reasoning of the Prime Minister. This piirpose will, however, fail ; for the reasoning of Sir Robert Peel, whether the Times can understand it or not, will be perfectly satisfactory to all intelli gent men. The British empire is composed of many parts variously circumstanced, but all equally en titled to the protection and favour of the Government. The Queen s Government would not, however, act impartially towards all the Queen's subjects, were to give to any one portion of them advantages at the expense of the rest. These are propositions, we suppose, open to no objection ; and the simple, clear, and satisfactory application of them i.tSir Robert Peel's argument upon the sugar question is perfectly obvious. The population of our sugar colonies, whatever their colour or . rank are entitled to the same care and protection ith, the population of the British islands, or of any other part of the empire, but no more. Now, protecting the population of the British colonies from the competition with the slave population of the Brazil% and Cuba, gives to our own colonies that protection which they have a right to claim, at the same time maintaining the honour of the British empire—happily bound up with the sup pression of slavery and vindicating the liberty of the human race. To protect the British sugar colonies from competition with the slave popula tion of the Brazils and Cuba was, besides Icing a consistent, philanthropic, and religious act, the discharge of a just debt to the colonists, from ashcan we had taken the power to compete with slaveholders; but to protect the British sugar eolonists from competition with other free sugar colonies by more than a moderate duty would be an act of gross injustice to the consumers of sugar in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere through the Queen's dominions, without ultimately benefiting the British sugar colonies themselves. In considering the comparative claims of different p irtions of the empire, we must! take into account the claims of the aggregate population of each por tion, not the claims of any particular class in it. The question, therefore, lies between the social condition the British islands and the sugar colonies, each in iniegro, and it comes to this —are the mass of the British population in so much better a condition than the mass of the population of the sugar colonies, that it is just to raise prices, or to sustain high - prices, against the former, for the benefit of the latter P Ought we to require from the British labourer, for example, who rarely commands 12s. a week, a high price for one of the necessaries of life (for such sugar has now become), in order to pam per the West Indian negro, who can command 'Ns. a week, and who resides in a country where the demands of house-rent, fuel, clothing, and even Cod, do not, on the whole, amount to one-half of these demands in England ? This is the plain question, and the answer to it is so very plain, that it is unnecessary to go into the examina tion of the thousand artifices by which a very high protecting duty, operating against the produce of many countries, might be and would be evaded. _ any one objects that it is not the con dition of the negroes but that of the planters we are to take into the comparison, our answer is that in the P re sent state -of the West India sugar colonies, the m groes are so completely masters of the market, tliat whatever adv ant agei s conceded to the colo nies, must devolve to them , and to them ex clusively. The supply of ar labour is notoriously deficient, and they w h o e s furnish that supply can, therefore, command the adopt no other measu3re but f ti.ey will, of course, w ages but the ability of the employers to Pay, and whatever is given to the employers, by consequence, eemes to them in the end. This is the explanation of the monstrous rate of wages at present in the West India colonies generally an abuse which orerates more than any other cause to ruin these colonies, and which, if some corrective be not applied, must go on aggravating itself until the colonies shall be ruined irrecoverably. In con sidering the sofa colonies, we must constantly re• THE HOUSE OF KE . We copy the following curious article from the Mona Herald of Wednesday, showing that the Manx people also want a change in their representative system : " The enemies of legislative reform are busy in conjuring up the falsehood, that the late demonstra tions here made, in favour of free trade and legislative reform, are some how or other connected with Irish Repeal agitations. This may gull some stupid block heads, whose eyes are still half covered with old Tory scales; but to men of sense and reason, such trash cannot go down. There is not the least connexion, nor even remote relationship between the two subjects. Ireland is struggling to obtain the repeal of a com pact of union entered into 1800, and ratified by Act of Parliament, by which the two islands became the United Kingdom of Great Britain. She seeks to restore an Irish Parliament, which she surrendered in that compact, so that she shall again enjoy a domestic or local legislature. Now whether this struggle is just in itself, or whether Irish oppressions have rendered such a demonstration as has been witnessed in Ireland, for the year past justifiable or not, has no connexion with Manx reform. We have freely ex pressed our opinion of Irish wrongs, and may do it again ; but whether that opinion is well founded or otherwise, it has nothing to do with a reform in the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. We have never en tered into a compact with the British Government to merge our local legislature into the British Parliament; neither have we ever been concerned in an Act of Parlia ment which dissolved our House of Keys, or deprived us of being fully represented in that House. Again observe, the contest in Ireland is with the Home Go vernment, struggling for something which that Go vernment opposes. Not so with the Isle of Man. Thank God, we have no contest with the Home Go vernment; we are struggling for nothing but what that Government approves, and to grant which that Government stands ready to put forth its sovereign power, whenever we shall ask her constitutionally to interfere. It is apparent, then, as there is no con nexion between the two subjects, there can be no general sympathy between Reformers here and re peelers there. To test this question still further— suppose the Isle of Man were sunk in the ocean to day, would it directly or indirectly affect Irish re peal ? Or if, on the other hand, Ireland were sunk to-day, and the Isle of Man remaining, would not her rights to a representative government remain the same as they now are ? and would she not pursue and pro secute those rights by the same means, and in the same demonstration that she now does ? Again, these quibblers tell us that this recent move ment on the island for an elective House of Keys is but the effervescence of the moment, produced by the arrival of the "Radical Dr. Bowring" on our shores, who, seizing the hour of his ephemeral popularity, has roused up the elements of commotion, and set society , in a blaze. We indignantly deny this as a base per version of fact, and fling it back with contempt to the promoters and fosterers of our degraded evils. That the Manx people are grateful to Dr. Bowring for the efficient and effectual aid he has given them, in redeeming them in part from the galling fetters the license system is true. That they would be thank ful to any one who should interest himself in their favour, to tear off any of their shackles, is not denied. But we are bold to maintain, and we challenge refutation, that if Dr. Bowring had done nothing for this island, but had merely come here, proposing to aid the people in the recovery of their rights to a free and re presentative government, the very cause which he proposed to advocate, laying so near the hearts of our people, they would have come forward in the en thusiasm of demonstration and hailed him as he ap proached our shores, as the coming benefactor of the Manx people. YS, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 21, the above purpose, and on Mr. Humphries applying for the costs, the magistrate, in reply, said that he should be guided as to whether the informer should pay all the costs on the final decision of the in formation. EXETER COURT ofBANKRUPTCY PURITY OF ELECTION IN CORNWALL. IN RE ROBERT EVERY. The insolvent, a farmer of Callin g t on (C ornwa ll) , was opposed by Mr. Whiteford, of Plymouth, for a debt incurred by judgment against him, in an action for "malicious" trespass. He had rented a farm called Castlewick, of D. r. Penny, and f orc ibl y k ep t possession, on the expiration of the l ease , aga i nst t h e new tenant, after his furniture had bee n remove d . After a long examinati▪ on he was re man d e d . A curious electioneeri▪ ng anecdote came out in the examination. Captain Poade, of Slades, son-in-law to the late Dr. Penny, was latterly insolvent's landlord. During the election for East Cornw a ll, i nso l vent sa i d . he met Mrs. Poade the street a t Calling-ton. She asked who he was going to vote for ? " I don't know," said he. She said, "To be sure you vote for Lord Eliot." He said," Why hav e y ou not d one as Lord Eliot has ?" (His Lordship h a d recent l y re mitted part of his rents, and insolvent complained that his rent was too high.) She said, " This is no time for such a discussion as that." He answe re d, " Y ou have used me :very ill : " She took a blue ribbon from her reticule, and tied it to his button-hole. "There," she said, "go along and vote for Lord Eli o t, an d you shall have no cause to complain." "And so," said the insolvent to the court, "I did go and vote for Lord Eliot, and this is the way she has served me." SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY. The work for this railway is making considerable progress in St. Thomas by the contractors, Messrs. Carpenter and Co., who have the first six miles in hand. The Alphington-road will be crossed at the turnpike by a skew-bridge, the width of which will he 13 feet in the clear, the parapet walls will be three feet in height, and each 18 inches in thickness, giving an entire breadth of 16 feet. The public roadway under the main arch (which is to be 26 feet wide) will have an altitude of 164- feet, and there is to be a footpath seven feet in the clear. The viaduct by which the railway is to be carried over the Old Okehampton-road and Cowick-street, which is fast approaching completion, will be of similar breadth and parapets as well as altitude with the Skew-bridge ; and the line of railway will occupy a clear width of 13 feet. A further and larger portion of the cliff at Dawlish has been removed by means of gunpowder. Mr. Brunel came down to superintend the operation, and many gentlemen, directors, engineers, &c., connected with the South Devon Railway, were present. The charge was the enormous quantity of 1,6001b5. of gunpowder, and the operation is stated to have been complete, an im mense portion of the cliff yielding to the power thus applied, and falling in mi2ute fragments. The sea wall at the east end of Dawlish beach is now in course of construction. On the night of Tuesday all the trench executed for the foundations, which vary from 8 to 10 feet below the surface of the beach, was filled up. It is stated that the South Devon Company have consented.to take 1,000 shares in the Plymouth and Tavistock line ; and also that hopes were held out to the Launceston depu!ation that their application would be favourably entertained. There can be little doubt that the object in view in these proceed ings have been to give encouragement to the line from Launceston to Plymouth via Tavistock, as the South Devon Railway thereby expect to obtain a " feeder," and the formation of the Plymouth and Falmouth line simultaneously with the Plymouth and Launceston line, will make Plymouth the centre of the termini of all these railways.—Plymouth Journal. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 18.—The raw sugar-market has been quiet this week, and the tran sactions have been unimportant ' • former rates are about supported, and fine descriptions con tinue scarce. The first cargo of Valentia raisins has arrived here during the week ; the quality is very indifferent, and the fruit small • but as the stock of old raisins was completely exhausted, the buyers are taking a few to supply immediate wants at 48s. to 515., fully expecting, and with reason, that priees, with the imp9rts, must decline several shillings.—Bristol Mercury. DEATH OF A POACHER, WHILST IN SEARCH OF GAME.—An inquest was held on Wednesday evening. at Northern Etchells, Lancashire, on the body of a notorious poacher, named Joseph enshall, aged twenty six, who died from the loss of blood, occasioned by the accidental discharge of his own gun, whilst poach ing on the Sabbath-day. The case excited considerable interest amongst the agriculturists and the neighbour hood, from the circumstance that the family of the un fortunate deceased had suffered considerably in conse quence of offending against the game-laws, a brother of the deceased having been hung at Chester, about fif teen years ago, for an attack upon one of Lord: Stam ford's gamekeepers at Dunham Massey, in this county. During the present inquiry many questions were put to the witness by the coroner and jury as to the observ ance of the Sabbath by the families of the labouring population among whom the deceased lived, and whe ther the clergymen, of whom there were two (the rector of Northern, and the incumbent of Ringway Chapel of ease), were in the habit of visiting the houses of the inhabitants for the purpose of instructing them as to their duties on the Sunday. The resident mi nisters of the Wesleyan body of Christians were alluded to with the object of showing a neglect of their spi ritual duties amongst the labouring poor. It was ad mitted that the deceased's father had • resided in the township near forty years, but had been visited only once by either a clergyman or a minister of the gospel ; and that none of the family had been in the habit of attending a place of worship. We extract the follow: ing evidence :—" David Pilgrim, a small farmer, said— I was at Henshall's house on Sunday morning last, and went out with deceased, who said he would look if he could see a hare. I told him where I had seen a hare, and he said, ' I'll take thy gun and fetch the hare.' We were at my house then, and my wife said, Dunna take it, Joe, there'll be summat amiss ; ' and my daughter also desired him not! to take it. Deceased replied to the latter, Do thee hold thy noise, it's neut to thee.' He pulled the gun in pieces, gave the stock to me, and put the barrel up the side of his jacket. We then went across a field of mine, where I gave him the stock, and left him. I met Broadhurst, the gamekeeper, and walked with him. Did not hear any report of a gun. I have got my gun back; it was found in the same field where I parted with deceased. I don't go regularly to any place of worship; but my family sometimes go to Ringway Chapel." CHEAP RAILWAY TRIPS.—One of the northern papers calculates that no less a sum than 10,0001. was spent by a recent pleasure trip party from the North to London, including the money expended in the metropolis during the few days' stay.---Railway Record. BELANEY.—This notorious character visited this city within the last few days, for the purpose of proving the will of his unfortunate wife; in the Consistorial Court of tho Dikhop of Durham.—Durham Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) GUILDHALL. James Thomas Hamatty, a clerk at Messrs. Morri son, Dillon, and Co.'s, the haberdashers, Fore-stmt, was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, charged with embezzling 1301. Mr. Humphreys and Mx. Ashurst attended on behalf of the prosecutors. Mr. Humphreys explained the nature of the charge, and said he was apprehensive the case he should make out that day was not the only one, and he should re quire time for further inquiry. Mr. Edmett, a linendraper at Maidstone, proved that he sent the sum of 1301. in notes, by halves, %a warded on the 23d and 24th of September to es srs. Morrison and Co. He received a letter acknowledg ing the receipt of the money, which he produced. Mr. Dillon said the letter acknowledging the receipt was partly printed, but filled up in manuscript and signed by the prisoner. It should have been signed by witness, and then he should have seen that the money was entered in the cash book. The prisone r had entered the receipt in the memorandum book upon receiving the first halves, but he had omitted to account in the cash book upon receiving the counter parts of the notes. It was his duty to have entered it in the cash book. The prisoner, who offered no: defence, was re manded till the 30th instant. WORSHIP -STREET. Samuel Edge, a tall, thin personage, and Charlotte Edge, his wife, were brought before the Magistrate by Sergeant Dubois, and charged with being part of the very numerous gang of swindlers who have del frauded tradespeople to an almost incredible extent in all parts of the metropolis and environs, and two parties, of whom seven or eight in numbhr are al ready in custody, at this Couri, upon many charges, The female prisoner was first charged with having been concerned with Henry Miller and Sarah Dewar„ alias Miller, his reputed wife, in obtaining no less than seventeen very expensive bonnets, from Mr. Feats, a tradesman at Hammersmith. Miller and the woman Dewar, who passed as his wife, had hired one of a set of cottages in that neigh bourhood, called Peter's-cottages, for three years cer tain, but after a few weeks' occupation, during which they kept up a dashing appearance, and gave extensive orders to all the neighbouring tradespeople, they shut tip the house and removed away clandestinely in the night-time, and afterwards sent the keys to the lodg ing by another of the gang named Smith, jun., who had the impudence to demand a sovereign for his trouble in delivering them, but was given into custody and the keys taken from him. The day before they so disappeared they obtained the seventeen bonnets from the shop of Mr. Peat, and upon their apprehen sion lately in Harvey-street, Hoxton, two of the bonnets were found in their possession, together with a variety of silk and other dresses, false fronts and ringlets, &c., in which the females of the gang were in the habit of disguising themselves in their preda tory visits to the different tradespeople whom they victimised. Mary Anne Gibbins, shopwoman to Mr. Peat, identified the female prisoner now at the bar as having enacted the part of servant to the others at Peter's cottages, and received the bonnets. The two prisoners were then charged with having been concerned with the others in defrauding Mr. Mussared, at Hammersmith, of boots and shoes. Miller and the male prisoner, whom he introduced as his nephew, first ordered boots and shoes for them selves, and when they were taken to the cottage fur ther orders were given for the females of the family, and a number of pairs of boots and shoes supplied, after which another order was given for some more, which were to be delivered by a particular day, but before the time arrived the whole party had dis appeared. Mr. BaouwsroN remanded the two prisoners for re-examination with the others. UNION•HALL. William Brocksopp, formerly in extensive business as a grocer and tea-dealer in High-street, Southwark, was brought before Mr. Traill on remand, charged by William Brocksopp, jun., his son, with stealing a gold ring, a gold pin, and portfolio, his property. On Wednesd:sy last, the accused was given into custody by his son on the above charge, when it ap peared that the articles above specified were taken out of a box belonging to the complainant, and left in the care of the accused, who had been for some length of time struggling against adversity with a large family. The complainant on examining the box, and finding the articles missing, questioned his father on the sub ject, and it appearing the latter had pledged them, and had objected to restore them, was given into cus tody by his son. Mr. TRAILL, who could not help expressing his surprise at a son bringing such a case before the pub lic, adjourned it over, merely making the accused enter into his own recognisance to appear this day, the magistrate and every other person in court; who heard the details, believing that an ariangement would take place betwe the parties, and that no more would be heard of the charge. In this expectation'', however, a disappointment was experienced, for when the case was called on, the complainant immediately appeared, and, in answer to Mr. Traill, said that no arrangement had 1-een en tered into respecting the charge. The accused then handed in a note, of which the following is a copy, that he received from his son since the last exami nation : " 13, Norfolk-place, Kent-road, Oct. 16. " Mr. Brocksopp,—lf you are willing to deliver me the articles I claim, viz., the two rings, gold pin, and prtfolio, or give me the tickets and the money for which they are pledged, I . will drop any further prosecution. If they are not delivered up on these terms, you must take the consequences. If not settled by to-morrow by four o'clock, my solicitor has my instructions to make out the necessary brief.—l remain, Sir, yours most re spectfully, " WILLIAM BROCKSOPP. " To Mr. W. Brocksopp, sen." Mr. TRAILL said &id he expected to have heard no more of the charge, when the complainant imme diately answered, that as the prisoner did not think proper to restore the jewellery articles, he should go on with the charge. lie then proceeded to describe that the rings and pin belonged to him, and that the box from which they were taken was opened without his sanction by the prisoner. Mr. TuAu:r, said that, after all, the complainant could not produce evidence of the stealing of the ar ticles, the utmost being that of illegally pawning against the father. The complainant said that he was still willing to forego the prosecution, if the accused restored him the articles. The accused (in strong terms) denounced the con duct of the complainant, for the harsh steps he had adopted towards him, and said that, even if he was adjudged to restore them, he had not the means of doing so. The complainant said that, if he did not proceed with the charge, the prisoner would not stop until he deprived him of all his property ; that his father, some time ago, was the cause of preventing him from ob taining 2,0001. The prisoner denied the assertion. Mr. TRAILL (to complainant)—Then, I suppose, you have adopted this proceeding against your father out of revenge ? The complainant, however, declared that such was not the case, and complained loudly of his father's general misconduct. The accused retorted. The magistrate stopped the recrimination between the parties ; and, after some further evidence respect ing the charge, adjudged the accused to restore the gold ring and pin to his son, saying at the same time that if he did not consent to do this, an order would be immediately issued to compel him. The accused declared that he was wholly unable to redeem the articles ; and he was then informed of the consequences if he neglected to obey the order made upon him. William Batty, the proprietor of Astley's Amphi theatre, was summoned at the instance of Birch, the informer, for suffering certain exciseable liquors to be sold on his premises without a licence for that purpose. Mr. Humphries, the solicitor on the part of the de fendant, contended that an information of that nature must be laid by an officer of excise or some person authorised by the Board, and not by a common in former. After some discussion upon the point, it, howevei, was over-ruled, and the case proceeded. Birch then called his witness, George Pratt, who stated that he was a watchmaker out of employ, and that, on Tuesday night last, he went to Astley's Am phitheatre. While in the theatre he went into the pit saloon, and was served by a female with a glass of gin-and-water, and some time after had a repetition of the " dose," when he observed a lady taking a glass of wine, and two gentlemen called for a glass of brandy-and-water, with which they were also served. He added that he was acquainted with the person of Mr. Batty, and saw that gentleman going into the private entrance of the theatre, when he (witness) was going into the pit. Mr. Humphries said it was incumbent on the in former to prove that the defendant was the owner of the theatre. Birch immediately drew forth a bill of the play, to prove the fact; but this description of evidence not be a being c o o e n n s vi id c e ti r e e n d , sufficient ßirch th ebnystahide that ma he gistrahatde n 0 0 0 sus tainother r means then of proving the fact; that everybody knew, since Ducrow's death, that Mr. Ba tt y was .the pro- priet:Lrs. ori l pt thought, would ugh h t,add e ge e u d r ßir d. ch, that no obi this ection of Mr. TEAU.L said it was most important to prove the ownership of the premises where the alleged in fringement of the Act took place. Birch then said that he procured the bill of the play to save the trouble of applying at the Lord Chamber lain's office ; that in case the magistrate considered the allegation not proved, he should obtain other evi dence. Mr. TaAu.L—You must before I can convict. The Summons wee then ordered to deed over for STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, OCT. 18.—The de mand for Foreign Wools has been somewhat inani mate, this week, and sales not very extensive. Prices, however, are very firmly supported. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, OCT. 18.— The mauufacturers have bought very sparingly of wools this week ; but as there is not any general reduction in their consumption, their stocks of wool are decreasing ; and it is expected they will shortly be in the market again as purchasers. Prices in the country are very firm ; and higher than the rates at which the partial sales which have lately been made in their markets, have been effected. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCT. 18.—There is a dullness in this branch of business, and scarcely any sales passing, but from the continued absence of con sumers, dealers are lad to hope that shortly they must see them again in the market as buyers. LEEDS.—This week we have had two of the dullest markets which have been held during the autumn. This applies more particularly to heavy winter goods, the stocks of which are on the increase, but there is no alteration in prices. Rather more business has been done in finished goods than for the last week or two, by the home buyers, but the foreign houses are doing little. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is no im provement at our piece market to-day, and the com plaining of the manufacturers is greater than we ever remember, and the total stoppage and abridgment of the time of the working of the looms is con siderably on the increase, and without some decided alte ration for the better, we fear the prospects for the winter will be discouraging. Yarns are not so ready of sale as a few months past, to meet which there is a growing disposition on the part of the spinners to stop machinery, for they complain loudly that they cannot realise prime cost. There is still a. slow de mand for all kinds of combing wools, and the trans actions during the week are extremely limited, and last week's prices barely maintained. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—There has been an unprecedented demand for cloth this week, buyers to a large extent for India and China having been numerous • shirtings, in consequence, are a little higher, whilst all sorts are firmer and buoyant. The advance in wages has now become general. It is hoped the demand will continue, so as to justify the advance. There never has been so complete a clearance in our twist market as at present ; still no very decided advance can be noted. The market may he called firm, with a strong upward tendency.— Leeds Mercury: THE RATAN AFFAIR. The investigation into the Ratan affair, by which Sam Rogers, the jockey, and a Mr. Braham, his friend, living at Newmarket, are charged, with other professi - mal betting men, of laying large sums against the horse to procure its defeat, has been entered into by the stewards of the Jockey Club at Newmarket. The inquiry has originated in a joint letter from Cap tain Rous and Lord George Bentinck to the stewards, and the examination commenced on Tuesday. The court consisted of the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Strad broke, Colonel Anson, the Duke of Beaufort, and Colonel Peel. The public press on the occasion v ere refused admission, an intimation being given that the stewards had employed a short-hand writer of their own from the office of Mr. Gurney, and they should hereafter publish what portions of the evidence they deemed expedient. Captain Rous opened the case, stating the facts simply as they had come to his knowledge.---Lord George Bentinck entered into the entire history of the case, drawing deductions, and showing the neces city for inquiry. It is understood that Rogers, in the first instance, voluntarily went to Mr. Crockford, and stated that overtures had been made to him to lose the race, and that, impressed with a belief that if he did not appear to accede, the parties who held out the temptation would find some other means to attain their end ; he had agreed to lay 10,0001. to 2,0001. against the horse, and signed his name to this bet on the solicitations of a Mr. Braham, in the book of Mr. Ives, a gentleman well known in the betting circles, and that, subsequently, other bets hal been made against the horse, on his account, by a gentleman named Crommelin, at and after the Chester Meet ing, to win a stake, if the horse lost, of 1,0001. — The inducement of Rogers to make this statement is not known. By some the confession of the circum stance is attributed to anonymous letters sent to Mr. Crockford, senior, which that gentleman sent to Rogers's father ; while others assert that he made the disclosures of fear of discovery, and to gain protection should his guilt be discovered. The statement was then communicated to Lord George Bentinck, who, on the Wednesday following, publicly called over Sam Rogers's betting-book at Epsom, Mr. Ives being present. Lord George Ben tinck required, if any bet were not mentioned it might be claimed, but neither Mr. Ives, or any other person answered. Sam Rogers solemnly declared his inten tions to have been pure, and that he never would re ceire or pay if the horse won or lost ; he at the same time made statements highly prejudicial to the bets made by Mr. Crommelin. Lord George Bentinck placed the fullest reliance on all these statements of Rogers, believing him to have been imprudent, but sincere and honest, and, under this persuasion, he permitted him to continue to ride for himself and the Duke of Richmond. His confidence in him was the firmer because, on oath before a Select Committee of the -House of Lords, be denied that he had or was to receive any portion of the bets he had laid. Sub sequently Lord George Bentinck discovered that Rogers had departed from truth in many material points, and more especially that he had actually re ceived 1,6601., a fact disclosed by Braham, who ab sconded. Braham's story of the transaction was also quite at variance with Rogers's, and he owned that he himself had solicited Ives and Crommelin, through Stebbings, to execute the commission, assuring them that, however good the horse might be, he was in capable of winning the Derby ; and further, that in stead .of 10,0001. to 2,0001., the actual bet laid by Rogers, through him, to Mr. Ives was 5,0001. to 1,0001. With Ives the negotiation was made in Febru ary, with Mr. Crommelin not till the Chester Meeting. Messrs. Ives and Crommelin, in explaining on their part, said they had betted only on the firm belief they had in Rogers when he represented that the horse could not win, and they were both desirous of a full ex planation, so as to refute the calumnies against them. On the first day Sam Rogers and Braham were exa mined ; and on Wednesday, Rogers was again called in, and followed by Mr. Crockford. Foster, a shoe maker, a friend of Braham, was next examined, after which Mr. Ives was called in, and entered into the most unreserved account of his portion of the transac tion. Some warm altercation ensued between Lord George Bentinck and Mr. Ives, and at last the court was cleared. On Thursday morning, Rogers, Bra ham, and Foster, as well as Mr. Ives, were recalled. At the evening sitting, Mr. Crommelin was called in, and entered into an account of his conduct from first to last, refuting what had been said in his disfavour. This led to the recal of Rogers, who said and unsaid, and equi vocated so palpably, that he was ordered to withdraw, and the impression in favour of Mr. Crommelin w as general and conclusive. His defence, and the re examination of Rogers and Braham, lasted from five till eight o'clock. On Friday Mr. Ives was again called in, and Mr. Hill and Mr. Sadler were likewise evidence ed e r n t c h ee printed, nha witnesses adjourned d j n i n g nu ronbeenin re order ea r c tt tohtenheneadslt subject tn d hhjc e eee d e: wt and tihtt n: court e e u s r s ret eevs Monday d i b di n examined. e evidence annbynegee read I h e an ia t e s e d oed t l io i t Houghton n f Meeting.a nyfresh information interim eaa be offered, the stewards will be prepared to receive it. —Bell's Life. RECKLESS CONDUCT OF PlTMEN.—Th.threepi t men recently brought before the magistrates of this borough, and removed by them to Essington, charged with having drawn the flame through the Davylamps for the purpose of lighting their pipes, have been committed to Durham House of Correction for three weeks. Sunderland Herald. 'fru Br sr INCOSIE-TAX.—Dean Swift proposed to tax female IJeauo, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms. He said the tax would be cheerfully paid, and very productive to a Cateinty. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. FIRST REPORT OF THE CO,IIIIIISSIONERS FOR INQUIRING INTO THE STATE OF LARGE TOWNS AND POPULOUS DIS TRICTS. We proceed at once to quote, from the interesting evidence of Dr. Southwood Smith, the following pas sages, as illustrating the almost i nconce i va bl e condi tion f wretchedness which prevails among a numerous community in one of the largest suburban districts of London : " The evils which you described in 1838 as referable to these districts still continue, and with increasing viru lence ?—At the present moment with increasing viru lence, certainly. "The districts referred to contain a vast population, not in one part of London, alone, but in different parts of it, to which the same considerations apply ?—Th fever districts of the metropolis are situated in different parts of it ; and it is in accordance with ordinary ex perience to find fever raging in some of these districts, at the very time that others are enjoying a temporary immunity from it. In former years I have found, on my personal examination, some localities in which there was not a single house in which fever had not prevailed, and in some cases not a single room in a single house in which there had not been fever. I observed this parti cularly in certain localities in Bethnal-green and White chapel ; now, during the present year, there has been a very remarkable absence of fever in these its ordinary seats, while in other districts it has been more than com monly prevalent. "Did you attribute that, in those districts, to bad drainage, or want of water, or some causes of that kind? —ln every district in which fever returns frequently, and prevails extensively, there is uniformly bad sewage, a had supply of water, a bad supply of scavengers, and a consequent accumulation of filth ; and I have observed this to be so uniformly and generally the case, that I have been accustomed to express the fact in this way. If you trace down the fever districts on a map, and then compare that map with the map of the Commissioners of Sewers, you will find that, wherever the Commissioners of Sewers have not been, there fever is prevalent ; and, on the contrary, wherever they have been, there fever is comparatively absent. " This statement is made in your report—' It appears that the streets, courts, alleys, and houses in which fever first breaks out, and in which it becomes most prevalent and fatal, are invariably those in the immediate neigh bourhood of uncovered sewers, stagnant ditches and ponds, gutters always full of putrefying matter, night men's yards, and privies, the soil of which lies openly exposed, and is seldom or never removed. It is not pos sible for any language to convey an adequate conception of the poisonous condition in which large portions of both these districts always remain, winter and summer, in dry and in rainy seasons, from the masses of putrefy ing matter which are all owe d to accumulate.' Does much of that to which you refer still remain in the same state? —lt is essentially the same. I have very recently been over the same places with a distinguished foreigner, who takes an interest in the welfare of the humbleticlasses, and who was desirous, his attention having been drawn to these reports, to test their accuracy by a personal in spection of the places described. Before we set out on our visit he could not conceal that he thought the de scription exaggerated. From the cleanliness, neatness, and apparent healthfulness of the main streets and thoroughfares in London, he could not bring himself to believe that there could be large districts containing hundreds of thousands of the people c allowed, year after year, to remain in such a neglected and poisonous con dition. It would be incredible,' said he, 'it would be unworthy of your state of civilisation, were such descrip tions true, even of a few isolated places; but when it is asserted that they are true of the localities in which a very large proportion of the population resides, I own I feel curious to see these places.' It so happens that the district over which I took this gentleman has been im proved in some respects since these reports were written. A common sewer has been made in the most densely crowded and filthiest locality; and the very worst place I ever saw, namely, Baker's Arms-alley, a narrow court in Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel, has been materially changed for the better, by the building of the Blackwell Railway directly through it. But these improvements relate only to a few of the larger thoroughfares ; the places most concealed from the public view, the most close, crowded, and filthy districts, remain wholly un altered. When my foreign friend saw these places, he admitted that the wretchedness of their condition had been understated—when he expressed his astonishment that a concern for the common safety had not induced the authorities to attend to the sanatory condition of these extensive districts, I told him (but he thought the statement scarcely mended the matter) that these places were as unknown to our legislators, to almost all our people in power, as, an hour ago, they had been to himself. " Have you, from your experience in these matters, formed a strong opinion that fevers and other diseases to which the humbler classes in these populous districts are subject, might be, to a great extent, removed by cleansing, draining, and improvements in building ? Every day's experience convinces me that a very large proportion of these es ils is capable of being removed ; that if proper attention were paid to sanatory measures the mortality of these districts would be most materially diminished, perhaps in some places one-third, and in other places even one-half. " Are you aware that the rate of mortality is actually found to be nearly double in some of the neglected dis tricts in the east, compared with what it is in the western part of London ?—I am ; and this interesting and im important fact is dependent on several circumstances, and not on any one cause. Thus a larger proportion of the people who reside in the western part of London con sist of the wealthier, while the eastern part is prin:ti pally inhabited by the poorer classes. The higher value of life indicated in the western district is partly owing to the better food and clothing of the wealthier classes, to their more temperate habits, and less exhausting labour, and especially to the better care taken of their infants and children, and, in general, to the more favourable circumstances under which infancy and childhood, the most precarious and mortal epochs of human life, are placed.* But still the poorer classes, in these neglected localities and dwellings, are exposed to causes of disease and death which are peculiar to them ; the operation of these peculiar causes is steady, unceasing, sure ; and the result is the same as if twenty or thirty thousand of these people were annually taken out of their wretched dwellings and put to death, the actual fact being that they are allowed to remain in them and die. I am now speaking of what silently, but surely, takes place every year in the metropolis alone, and do not include in this estimate the numbers that perish from these causes in the other great cities, and in the towns and villages of the kingdom. It has been stated that "the annual slaughter in England and Wales, from preventible causes, of typhus fever, which attacks persons in the vigour of life, is double the amount of what was suffered by the allied armies in the battle of Waterloo." This is no exaggerated statement ; this great battle against our people is every year fought and won ; and yet few take account of it, partly for the very reason that it takes place every year. However appalling the picture pre sented to the mind by this statement, it may be justly regarded as a literal expression of the truth. lam my self convinced, from whatl constantly see of the ravages of this disease, that this mode of putting the result does not give an exaggerated expression of it. Indeed the most appalling expression of it would be the mere cold statement of it in figures. " But great as the mortality from these causes may be, do you think the mortality alone includes the whole of the evil 2—Certainly not; the number of people who die can be taken only as an indication of the much greater number who fall sick. The mortality, even of the London Fever Hospital, to which the worst cases of fever in the metropolis are sent, is not, on an average of ton years, more than one in seven; in some years it is not more than one in ten or twelve, and, comparing the number attacked with the number that die over the whole kingdom, the mortality would not, in ordinary years, amount to one in twelve ; so that the number of sufferers from this disease is at least twelve times greater than the number of persons that actually perish from it. " The classes of the population referred to are chiefly those occupied in labour; in case of their being affected by fever they are, of course, disabled from obtaining sub sistence for their families?—This is among one of the most powerful causes of pauperism. The returns made in the year 1838 to the Poor-law Commissioners from the twenty metropolitan unions, in answer to queries sent to the medical officers, with a view to ascertain the actual prevalence of fever during one year, contained in the several unions, as well as the number actually attacked with fever. From these returns it appears, that of the total number who received parochial relief in most of the districts, a very large proportion received it in con sequence of their being ill with fever; but in one district, namely, St. George's, Southwark, out of 1,467 persons who received parochial relief, 1,276, that is, the whole number with the exception of 191, are reported to have been ill with fever. This is an unusually large propor tion; but these returns in general place in a very striking point of view the pauperising influence of fever. "If this be the case, the power of the humble classes of getting their bread and maintaining their families is extremely diminished by the neglect of sewage, draining, and cleansing which exists in these localities?—There is a special reason why it must be so, the knowledge of which has been taught by large experience, though that knowledge has hitherto been confined to very few: but the fact itself is one which ought to be familiar to the mind of every man, and more especially to that of the legislator. There are certain diseases which prevail so remarkably at certain epochs of life, that you may assume that three-fourths of the persons who die at those epochs die of those diseases. Now it is established by indubitable evidence, that of all the acute diseases to which the human frame is subject, during that variable, but most important, period of human life which inter venes between puberty (when the dangers of infancy and childhood have been passed) and old age—of all the acute diseases which cut short this, the most precious part of the term of existence, and the only part of that term which it is in the power of human precaution and wisdom to extend indefinitely, fever is incomparably the most prevalent: so prevalent, indeed, that it may be said to be the disease of adolesence and manhood. I was first taught this fact while making some researches into the cause and results of fever, derived chiefly from the records of the Fever Hospital, and as long ago as the year 1830 I published a table exhibiting the evidence of it. I took out one by one the ages of all persons who had died of fever in this hospital during the four years from 1825 to 1828, both inclusive, being [the four years immediately preceding the year in which I was making the investigation." We are able to state, from authority, that one day next week a marr i age w ill take phiee between the H on . Horace Cochrane, sucomi sun (if the Earl of Den(l3nald, and Mrs. George' Carnegie, widow of the late G eGrgu James Carnegie, Esq., nephew to the late Earl of Nor theek.—Court Journal. - 1844. COPPER TANKS AT ST. HELENA. Some letters lately appeared in the Times, stating that the water supplied to the India ships touching at St. Helena contracted poisonous qualities, by being kept for a long time in tanks of copper. Some of the passen gers and crew of the Moffatt, from Bo:nbay, having been seized with severe symptoms, and of a suspicious character, the symptoms were attribute to the water being poisoned as above. This induced Messrs. Ma son and Dawson, the doctors professionally attending one of the parties, to institute an inquiry into the matter, for which purpose Dr. Venables, of St. Vin cent-place, Islington, an eminent physician, well versed in animal chemistry and toxicology, was re quested to undertake and assist in the investigation. The report is so far satisfactory, inasmuch as it nega tives the presence of copper in any form, the analysis showing that the water did not afford even a trace. A specimen, taken from an iron tank in which it was kept on board the vessel, held a large proportion of peroxide or rust of iron in mechanical diffusion. The peroxide, it is observed, was evidently derived from the rusting of the tank, and diffused through the water when agitated or disturbed. Otherwise it was found tolerably pure and wholesome, free from any bad taste or smell, specific gravity 1.0025, slightly acidulated with carbonic acid, and probably holding a trace of iron in solution. Some very useful obser vations upon the danger of using water kept in copper vessels follow. Thus it is stated :—Copper is not readily attacked by pure water, but under the joint influence of air and moisture it is corroded. By agi tation the crust becomes detached, and is diffused through the water. A fresh portion undergoes the same process, and by a succession of corrosions, &c., the water may become strongly impregnated with a poisonous form of copper, which, by the agitation of the water in the casks communicated by the motions of the ship, will be mechanically diffused, and persons drinking it almost to a certainty poisoned. During cooking, too, the insoluble oxide may be rendered so luble, and thus converted into a still more active and speedy poison. Hence the propriety of doing away with copper tanks, if in use, and their replacement by others of a less deleterious nature, are strongly urged. The labours of Dr. Venables an d his colleagues are a public benefit, and highly creditable to their zeal and philanthropy. THE OPENING OF THE NEW EXCITANGE. The preparations which the joint Gresham Com mittee are making for the reception of her Majesty Queen Victoria and her Illustrious Consort, on the opening of this magnificent edifice, on Monday, the 28th inst.,' are upon the most extensive scale. The Chairman of the Gresham Committee, Richard Lam bert Jones, Esq., and a special sub-committee, have met every day during the week, in order to give the necessary directions ; and, seconded as they have been by the energy and ability of Mr. Tite, all the arrange ments for the grand ceremonial are in a great state of forwardness. At the west end of the building, in front of the portico, is a temporary covering, which is so con trived that if the weather prove favourable it can be removed on the morning or the day appointed for the royal visit. Her Majesty will be received at this barrier, in front of the steps of the portico, by the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and by Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Gresham Committee, the Master of the Mercers' Company, and a certain number of the Court of the Mercers, thus representing the two cor porations, who are the joint trustees of Sir Thomas Gresham, the original founder of the Exchange. Her Majesty will be conducted quite round the merchants' area in procession, attended by the former gentlemen and the architect, who will explain the nature of the arrangements and decorations of this important part of the structure. The procession will then continue up stairs, through the grand staircase of Lloyd's to their magnificent apartments, to their library, which is to be fitted up temporarily as a throne-room. Her Majesty will here receive the address, and afterwards retire to the private apartments fitted up for her until the banquet is ready. As the new Exchange is fire proof, or rather as each separate establishment is distinct from its neigh - bour, a door-way, in order to obtain a suite of rooms for her Majesty, has been cut through one of the party walls into the apartments to he hereafter oc cupied by the Corporation of the London Assurance. These rooms are in the front, towards Cornhill, and are now being arranged with the same simple ele gance which characterises the rooms built for her Majesty at the Farnborough station by the same architect. The number of visitors to the dejeune will be about 1,400, beyond which number it is found that accom modation cannot possibly be afforded. Of these about 700 will be seated in the Ambulatory, and the same number will be seated in Lloyd's apartments. 11Mr. Staples, of the Albion, as has been already qated, has the contract for the dejeune, which is to be on the most splendid and liberal scale. The plate will he supplied solely from the stores of the Corpo ration of London and of the Mercers' Company, and not, as has been incorrectly stated, partly from the Goldsmiths' Company. In the Ambulatory and merchants' area every pro vision is being made to protect the company from draughts, or the encroachments of bad weather. The north and south entrances will be closely boarded up, and ample protection will be provided at the east and west ends. A very thick and brightly ornamented carpet will be laid on the parts of the area and build ing on which her Majesty will walk, and under the tables and seats for the company temporary flooring and drugget will be laid down, so that there will be complete security against damp. The seats will be Confined to a double row, quite round the Ambula tory, which, from its ample dimensions and noble height, will admit of such a regulation, without at all being liable to be prejudiced as to the view of its architecture. The tesselated pavement in - the open area is finished, but it is not intended to introduce the statue of her Majesty, es has been somewhere erroneously repre sented, until the marble figures now being carved by Mr. Lough, can be entirely completed. We are in formed, upon good authority, that that gentleman has finished the model, but it was never intended for the Gresham Committee to put up a mere plaster figure, when a few months will suffice to complete the sculp ture in a material worthy of its subject, and the grand position assigned to it. Her Majesty will arrive at Temple-bar at twelve lo'clock. A speech will be delivered, according to custom, upon the visit of the Sovereign to the City, at !St. Paul's, by a scholar of Christ's Hospital ; and it ;is believed, if her Majesty have time to hear it, nother will be spoken at St. Paul's school by one of 'the youths on Dean Colet's foundation, of which place of education the Mercers' Company are trustees. The procession from Temple-bar to the Exchange jwill be led by a certain number of the Corporation, Aldermen and commoners, on horseback, in accord lance with ancient custom. It is supposed by the Committee that her Majesty kvill arrive at the Exchange at about one o'clock, and !leave the building on her return to Windsor at three. ;Her Majesty will appear in state and in the state !carriage, accompanied by her Ministers and suite. Most of the distinguished Members of both Houses of Parliament, and all the leading merchants and 'bankers, have been invited. As the day appointed for the ceremony approaches, ithe anxiety exhibited amongst the crowds who are :constantly seen collected around the superb edifice 'becomes every hour more eager and urgent. The following is a description of the interior :—Passing 'through the grand portico, under a lofty archway, the ivisitor proceeds at once to the grand area, or mer chants' walk, which is surrounded by an arcade sup ported on massive pillars. The area is beautifully laid with a tesselated pavement, and the decorations of the arcade in a building of such a structure form the most novel and not the least attractive of its fea tures. These decorations are after the plans and drawings of Mr. Sang, and have been elaborated under his constant -personal direction, on the system of wax painting which he introduced into this coun try three years ago, the colours not being mixed with oil s but with wax and some other ingredients, so as to give not only peculiar brilliancy of tint, but a hard ness and smoothness of surface, combined with dura• bility, unequalled by any oil painting. The side walls and roof of the arcade surrounding the merchants' area, divided into compartments, have afforded great scope for the exercise of this distin guished artist's taste and skill in arabesque painting. The side walls are divided into arched panels, by pilastres corresponding in character with those front ing the area, and the ornaments of the different compartments, arches, and panels are at once strictly classic, and in keeping with the architectural charac ter of the edifice. Each arched panel is surrounded by a quiet gillosh frieze, upon a Pompeian red ground, quite original in its details, embodying, amidst all its brilliancy, a great many neutral tints, which soften down the dazzling effect of the positive colours, and give a light and extremely pleasant aspect to the whole arcade. _ _ In the semicircles, the wall arches around the whole of the arcade, some very bold ornaments have been introduced upon dark, positive grounds, all different from each other in general design and the minutest details. These are surrounded by clusters of fruit and flowers, executed with almost incredible trans parency of colouring, upon a black ground, which produces at once a most striking and pleasing effect. Immediately under these wreaths of flowers and fruit there are candelabra, in the style of the Logii of Raphael. The middle panel is surrounded by scroll ornaments, and has a Roman tablet in the centre, enriched with pralysque, on whirls the differPnt mer cl!ant.; v.lilks will be inscribed. ....... Tir.2 deliige:s the candelabra and medallions intro duced in the different panels vary almost in every instance, while the mythological and commercial emblems represented in the compartments of the roe' and side-wall panels, give a character of the wes t agreeable variety to the whole. The base of the side panels is painted in neutral tints, and is skirted in the wainscot, which harmonizes well with the architec. tural arrangements of the arcade. The arms of the different nations are intreeec ed , into the principal cover s o f the roof; also the arras .t. the Right Hun. Magnay, the Lord Mayor of London, she Mercers' Company, th Building Co mittee, Mr. Tite, the architect, and Mr. Sang , t he artist. ORLEANS, TOURS, 4nd BORDEAUI‘ RAILWAY. The ergineer of the Chemins de Fer has lately, visited the works on the line between Orleans ailcl Tours, and gives an account of their progress. Ill° line from Orleans to Tours is about 74 m il e s log , and has many bridges crossing roads. There are °,, curves under 650 feet radius, and the gradient s sl° extremely favourable. From these facts, we Dial safely say that the working of the line will be eas f i and secure ; and one trip through the country wh ic the line traverses will be sufficiently c onvincing the productiveness of the enterprise. It is diffic a to conceive why Bullot, Drouillard, Martin, and Co., refused the terms offered by the Chambers, in 18I q; The bridge which crosses the Loire at Mount L°llli. is almost finished ; it is executed by M. Lavaure, Nantes, on the plan of the Fonts et Chaussees, is elegant, solid, and enduring. The only works °f importance which are still unexecuted, ar e the stat ion at Tours, and the bridge which crosses the highw a y at the Faubourg Barmier at Orleans. It w ill "- proper to enter slightly upon the details of thss! works. The earthwork in course of execution °!n the right of the Fauxbourg Bannier appears to be 0 intended for the construction of a station. We bit! reason to believe, however, that if it has not alreal been decided to accept the use of the Paris gi g Orleans terminus in common with that comp an Y , is at least under serious consideration. The part ° the railway near Orleans crosses the Fauxbl e Bannier on embankments, and a bridge is t°,„ constructed to cross the highway from Paris to v e h ii, leans. This bridge, which is not yet comnien c b j e will be of such magnitude as to occasion considerat.e delay. After passing the Fauxbourg Branier t h e delay. After passing the Fauxbourg BrAnler los line is bifurcated ; one branch joins the Orles il t station, and the other meets the Paris and Orleall, s° nearly three-quarters of a mile from the latter el; The body of workmen employed on the earthworthe does not seem to be so well organised as to give 05 best result ; thus all the earth is removed by tn e ., 3 o of tumbrels, each drawn by three horses, which c° 7„, drag a tenfold weight with waggons moving on• porary rails. In conclusion, the works still lit7v finished between Orleans and Tours are suffloiel:4 advanced or unimportant to allow of the expec t t - 6, that the opening of the line may take place in 1 °,,, m on the anniversary of the day of adjudication. it , greatest, and indeed almost the only serious difficill lies in procuring the requisite stock, but this Ig o , probably be surmounted by proper arrangeol il a s As for the rails, by dividing them among va rh- te manufactories, they might be obtained in tim e It commence laying them in the beginning of 1845. r is to be hoped, therefore, that the month of (Nobs; 1845, will witness the opening of the Bordeaux ° —Railway Chronicle. NOWTH DEVON RAILROAD' via TIVERTON. (Abridged from the Second Edition of the We'' t erS Ties. to° An important meeting m ofthe gentry of Ti l i er „ and its neighbourhood, as well as the leading tam"; men of the town, was held at th e Guildhall, river Friday, October 18. # the The meeting was Convened by requisition to the Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gamlen, Esq,,% w ps consider the propriety of co-operating with the of Southmolton and Barnstaple for the Purl% of extending the railway from Tiverton to the I • Te r " t ber Devon, via Southmolton, and for taking such °- to means as might be necessary for endeavouring 0, secure to the country between Tiverton and .I , tlf staple the advantages of railway communication . The meeting was most respectably atteufi, Among the gentlemen present we observed: as . Heatheoat, Esq., M.P., W. Hole, F. Hole, IL ford, A. Brewin, Rev. Carew, of Collipriest, tf, Toms, J. Barne, F. 0. Patch, Rendell,l%o. Tripp, J. Loosemoore, Carew, Jun., Esqrs.; - 51 7,.1 Besley, Trix, Ellerton, Parkhouse, Paine, and j e " all the leading tradesmen of the town. The 'Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gamlen , 5(1. having taken the Chair, f the Mr. HEATHCOTE, M.P., moved the adoption o following resolution :—" That it is the opinion of t'd'ed meeting that in the event of a railway being ex ten from the Bristol and Exeter line of ra ilway to n$1 ;,10 staple and the North of Devon, the m ost desir e o f line in a mercantile, agricultural, and general poin t n - j view, is by the way of Tiverton and Southmolton, that a memorial, expressing the opinion of this lue e e ing, be signed by the Mayor on its behalf, and ini tti „,l diately forwarded to the Directors of the Bristol it" Exeter Railway Company." The memorial was subsequently signed o n bell itif of the meeting by W. H. Gamlen, Esq., m _ a yor. Mr. F. 0. PATCH had great pleasure in secondres the resolution and the memorial, which were car ri unanimously. no se Ac Committee was then appointed for the purr l e of o-operating with the Committees at BarnstsP and Southmolton, in the furthering of this object. cg Colonel HARDING moved, and Mr. Alderman seconded, a vote of thanks to the Mayor, which cordially carried. ; eat) The MAYOR, in acknowledging the comphe l nie said it was the most i n fl u e n ti a l, as w ell as n u — to rous meeting, which he had been called uP °ll preside over. 43.01 Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Coley office, from the Governor of New South Wales. fr i. ALARMING IN TELLIGENCE.—MURDER.---Mi l vai day evening considerable alarm was created in thia e l is by a report that a man had been horribly murde r • w eti the neighbourhood of Whorlton. The discovery, for t ;u made by a party of boys who had wandered that I:i be the purpose of gathering blackberries. There co u ' o g , no mistake about the matter—they actually saw th e di and the gaberlunzie-like dress in which it was clo p ' " Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood, re And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in na t° For ruins wasteful entrance." of It was a trying moment, and fully bore out the vi () •", - A be Macbeth, that no person, at the same time, cond " wise, amazed, temperate, and furious." They q uic tlia left the scene of horror, and did not venture to brl ge Ll anything of their dreadful secret, until safely 1° , 4 0. within their respective domiciles. Rumour then menced to do its work, and in a short time a hti e old coach, with a county officer and a town's policenia ° 'f o ral accompanied by a guide, were on the road, to P er oro the offices of humanity and justice. The fatal 51 3 % 0 0, reached, and one of 'the policemen, on touching the - AO' declared that it had been dead for a considerable "reel The discovery was soon made that the object waell ° !.. g .l3 * man, and the result of tt.e night's adventure had source of considerable merriment. One report °IP e i'a* that it was " a m a n of staw," wh o se original dat.,!,bt,eo to frighten birds, but was never intended to fr'b f t bs man ; while another alleges it to have been par t ° O 9 to 'remains of a dead animal. It is impossible for coo . determine, as the officers of justice are not yell tnunicative on the subject. —Newcastle Advertiser ,-—_-_-_----- BIRTHS. .._ • of the On the 10th inst., at Burnham Westgate, the w ife Rev. J. R. F. Meek, of a son. Air°' On the 17th inst , at Trinity-square, Southwa rk ' Bevan, of a daughter. of ° On the 18th inst., at Blackfriars, Mrs. Charles O NO, daughter. re el ' On the 18th inst., at Oxford-square, Mrs. Jonat han of a son. Se l On the 20th of May, at the Waimate, Bay of Islandfhp. Zealand, the wife of the Bishop of New Zealand MARRIED ~~. r At St. George's, Hanover-square, William Jellki ll c e ' of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, to Lou's second daughter of the late Hon. Sir William Oldna ll Pt' , Chief Justice of Bengal. v r ecler ie ra At St. Martin's Church, Colonel Louis Theodore H OP - Leon Belin, to Henrietta Newport, eldest daughter of L. Captain Tinley. 3d Royal Veteran Battalion. viipt °6 On the 15th inst., at Inverness, Patric Park, Esq. , se- o f ft. Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, to Robins, daugh ter Carruthers, Esq., of Inverness. Cale On the 17th inst., at St. Margaret's, Rochester, Allan, 63d Regiment, to Rosa Anna, third daughter late Major Colley, Royal Marines. h 0 1551' On the 17th i ns t., a t T a i ton South Devon, Jo —ti Ja ne ' Esq., of her M a j es ty' s 48th Regiment, to Henrietts daughter of Lie u t enan t-C o l one l J. B e ll, C. 8., late of her jesty's 48th Re g i men t. Gra vdet On the 17th inst., Mr. Spowers, to Miss Jane Bluett. Smithfield, eh On the 19th inst., a t 73, Long-lane, West 106 William Baldwin, a ge d 64. ck-P ,re Oa the 20th inst., a t hi s res id ence , in Tavistf Theo- Tavistock-square, Mr. George Horncastle, late of t ue 0' Royal, Drury-lane. ()n the 19th of September, at Goderich, , „ A d* Upper Ca n , Hyndman, Esq., Sheriff o f th e H uron Di s trict. - t prigl e ' On the 12th inst., H anna h, th e w if e o f Thomas '. Esq., of Timberhurst, near Bury, Lancashire. ,_ o tori., A , On the 13th inst, at Pentonville, Mrs. Sarah T.", c) a flelt - On the 13th inst., at Culwerth, Northamptonshlr'ilare- .‘,s daughter of Mr. Foster, Hunter-street, Brunsvrick -sci ,b, rol l ' On the 14th inst., in York-road, Lambeth, Elizabe" of the late Dr. Waite, W of oodford, Essex. On the 15th inst., in Coborn-street, Bow-roa d ' Mil mu/ Thomson, Esq., aged 63. ~ L . m .str`" On the 16th inst., M r . Th omas M or t on , o f Rea ''-''-- fa Holborn, aged 70. am Wi llis On the 16th inst., at Hanover-street, p ec kb--- , A it fr till °".. Walters Footner, Esq. On the 17th inst., Charlotte Ann, the wife of ,--' of Mickleburgh, of Thanet House, Margate. wife o On the 18th inst., at Pent onville, Eliza Ann, the W. Harding, of Judd-street. Brunqwick-square. , ~.• ---- ---- - - -- • -------7.. , _-: - _-_ -. ! -- _ - _ - - " _ ,lily ' '', ..4t 14(;',-1-n.l: Pri/A,. , .1 :1 ! &.:1:-:1;,:i 1.)::, - * 7,11T11. 1a" .40. i 'of No. 1 , 14 bt,a.A,l, i'fiut4r, at lAe Sun -;::• c ''collol Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in l ue :.!:. Middlesex; Monday, October gi, i,844•- • ' J I Z h, ?Aie,, Le 1, _ Ti Posed Abet mile Plee e E To a Mr tnate toe OWO ra Th - ; t ake . likokkt An be all( ha, Isi i b ,..........'nk • ei 1I .........