The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-26 00:00:00

Prio 'atilt c " oa• by )1E Roeen Ro d eo ti g ev., tbea rek Ica It lo pre" tbe id tb. bit e, d th e en% I V s . toe, of, P i° rtil! - 00 Atit ler ,i .. '.r~ '~ r SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FainAv. 12 MESTER CU?. 15 to 1 tO 1 Apt Worthington's lot 20 to 1 agst Pagan agst Sir Robert (t) 20 to 1 agst Tacita (t) 15 to 1 agst The Prior (t) 35 to 1 agst Merry Andrew 17 to 1 agst Cattonite (t) 30 to 1 agst What 17 to 1 agst Pharaoh 30 to 1 agst Nutwith 2 0 to 1 agst Freedom (t) 30 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn DERBY. 7to 1 agst Ugly Bu c k (t) 27 t o 1 ags t L oa d stone 18 I r t ats Rattan (t) 33 to 1 agst V o lt r i (t) to 1 agst Cockamaroo (t) Rest as before. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 610 1 agst Discount (t) Iloto 1 agst Robinson 9to 1 agst R o bi n Adair Ilsto 1 agst Marengo CROXTON PARK RACES, 1844. Ili, 4e cePtances for the Granbv Handicap :—Knight of the Whistle 6 yrs, 12st 51b—Heslington, 6 yrs, list 101b—The ir reu i Doer 5 vrs, 1 Ist 81b—Thirsk, 6 yrs, list 51b— t, aged, lOst 121b—The Lord Mayor, aged, lOst 121 b C,,,,, Al eeer, 4 yrs, lOst 121b—R o bi nson , aged, 10st 101b— rut Arnold, 6 yrs, lOst 101b—Chance, aged, lOst 81b— ioTtagib a ge d 6 Yr% lOst 81b—Wiverton, aged, lOst 71b—Na , , lOst 71b—Ainsworth, 4 yrs, lOst 71b—President, 10et Sib—Humility, 6 yrs, lOst 41b—Delamere, 5 Jrs, lOst—Johnny Faa, 5 yrs, lOst—Leonidas, aged, 9st 101 b by Reveller, out of Chipsham, 5 yrs, 9st 101b—Donna et 10Ib 44 °te, 5 yrs 9st 101b—Fox, 4 yrs, 9st 101b—Gib, 4 yrs, rrA Inc rest pay 5 soya each. Ate ertances for the Gold Cup :—Knight of the Whistle, 6 Yr% 12st 2 1b—The Artful Dodger, 5 yrs, list 51b—Thirsk, 1 0 )11 4 Ilst 21b—Chance, aged, lOst 71b—Naworth, aged, 1471b—Ameer, 4 yrs, lOst 71b—Arnagill, 6 yrs, lOst 71b— n.'erton, aged, lOst 51b—President, 6 yrs, lOst 51b—Ains ,,;, 4 Yrs lOst 51b. The rest declared. '"ORTRAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES, Elam; 1844. - CaP for the Great Northamptonshire Stakes of 25 soya. . e ach, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared by March 1. iv..-Liistotle, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Vibration 5 yrs, Bst 121 b F L ught of the Whistle. 6 yrs, Bst 121b 2 Robert de Gorham. NYC, fist 71b --M ue, 6 yrs, Bst 21b—Venus, 4 yrs, Bst -4 Yrs, Bst---Mden Rule, 5 yrs, 7st 131b—Pine Apple, 74*, 7at 131b—Thirsk, 6 yrs, 7 s t 121b—T rue b o y, 4 y rs , r 1„ 2 , 1 ,b Priscilla Tomboy, 5 y rs , 7 s t 111b—B e li ss i ma , age d, •,Y;0-- - Aristides, 4 vrs, 7st 101b—.Ajax, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—A htlttn eoman, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—1-am-not-aware, aged, eaj_ l4-- Tamburini, aged, 7st 81b—Maria, 4 yrs, 7st 71b— Ifr''„„ inn Flathooker, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Wee Pet, 4 vrs, 7st 61b -7s s.e cer nen, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—I saac , age d, 7 s t 61b—Th e C urr i er , 747 t I b—Revocation, 5 yrs, 7st 61b—Lady Mary, 6 vrs, Th511,---Blackelrop 4 vrs, Tat 51b—Arcanus, 5 yrs, Tat 4115 o,:Bashaw, 4 yrs,' 7st 41b—The Robber, 4 yrs, 7st 41b— ...1ra of the Gipsies, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Arnagill, 6 yrs, 7st 31b ° '"tt'n, 4 vrs, 7st 21b—Wiverton, aged, 7st—Naworth, 7 st—Vitellius, 4 yrs, 7st—Daedalus, aged, 7st -5 r4l ' 6 o'r's, 7st—Reciprocity, 4 yrs, 7st—Sir Robert, 7 st—Anonyme (Sister to Jeffy), 4 yrs, 7st ko ral - 7, ein, 4 yrs, 6st 131b—President, 6 yrs, 6st 111 b Ire -7 : 5 yrs, Est 111b—Preissnitz, aged, Est 111 b 6st 111 b Czar, 4 yrs, Est 101b—The yrs, Oat 101 b Grace Darling, 4 yrs, 6 8t R 9 irsA,Vlglllill, 4 yrs, Est 91b—Antidote, 4 yrs, Cataract, 4 yrs, Est 81b Roderick, 5 yrs, Est oqn'o,nasin, 4 yrs, Gat 81b—Counsellor, 5 yrs, 6st 81b— Lochinvar, 4 yrs, Cat 81b—Illustration, 4 yrs, Est 71b Sii l f.; 5 , Yrs, Est 71b—Five-times-Five, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Me etszs' Yrs, 6st 51b—Dart, 5 yrs, Est 41b—Shocking ilsL br e la, 4 yrs, 6st—Fisticuff, 4 yrs, 6st—Xanthus, 4 yrs, liweartshorn, 4 yrs, 6st—Tom Tough, 4 yrs, sst 71b-- Vie n„.„ eate her, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Father Mathew, 3 yrs, sst 21h— `-----"qinaire, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. l'us epa ._,_LlNCOLN STEEPLE CHASES.—FRIDAY. "I" Of. 10 soya. each, with 70/. added. 12st each 14 , Four miles. (9 Subs.) nr, * / .0 - 4 1 ,°1's Crocus, aged (Owner) 1 Mr. T r 8 Cure-all, 5 yrs 2 kr • - -.g.._ ert jeY's Matilda, aged ilr,i nn _wxia's Guy, aged 4 kr, I,.."'"an's Marston 6 yrs 5 Vlifford's White lock, 5 yrs '!'LerShall's Wellingto n, 6 yrs /he Won easily by four lengths. *k Ro„, chase for a sweepstakes of 3 soya. each, and 20 beitti3 "t -s won very easily by Mr. Rudgard's The Ugly Doe, g kr. Bird's Blackbird, and three others. , 1 1a, WORCESTER STEEPLE CHASE. 12st t o - Leap for the Royal Birth-day Stakes.—Gay Lad, Ih-- Cheroot, 12st 7 lb—Peter Simple, 12st 7 lb—Van ...if% 12st 51 b—Robin Adair, list 71b—The Page, list 101 b `4elet e li, , Ilst 81b—Consul, llst 71b—Discount, list 51b— ,40, llst 2 1b—Carlow, 11 st—Lather, I I st—Creer, list ••••.e ui Ls, I l st—Lottery, 1 I st—Marengo, 11 ft—King Cole, 11 st 15 st l 'ert horPe,lost 101b—Little Peter, lOst 101b—Tom Tug, t ors„ _ n ,=wulette, lOst 101b—Ragged Jack, 10st 81b— ;"Chasi-` °J I3 --b cby Eastgrove, lOst 71b—Brilliant,10st41b lOst 41b—Forget-me-not, lOst 41b—Lady Hark d• ecl are on o r before Monday next, March 4. SWINDON STEEPLE CHASE. of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared by ~herThursday next. • fi t, 1 2st—V guard, lOst 61b—The Page, list 101b— vre..."°t, llst 91b-f i Tally h list 71b—Carlow, list 21b— Oler,, llst—Lottery,- 91b —Tally-ho, lOst 'lolb—Box t,lol&%.,Ab 'lost 10 1b —Peter Swift, lOst 101b—King Cole, lOst e a uotem, 10st 101 b Bolus t— lOst 101k-t --40.4 , lOst 101b—Bolus, lOst 51b—Charity, 10s. gat Q 8 1b, 111111411 COURSING. ee 17210T0N COURSING MEETING, FEB. 19 AND 20.- 04 eP (16 1'; dogs) was won by Mr. Jefferson's Jim-along ft-nbe ),,,;‘,•• Falcon's Fame, ran up. The Puppy Stakes (16 4,1 e lion by Mr. Senhouse's Liberty ; Mr. Curmen's 4 tZt 4 ' e lt (A_vr, • I t ea, 1., ---RLDGESIIIRE), FEB. 19 AND 20.—A sweep r. for 16 dogs was won by Mr. A. Ground's Cora— -1-0 se ," L t , at.Tt:r E ts ran np, G.--The Hawarden Castle Stakes, eighteen nes ---,Were won by Mr. Gibb's Go-lightly—Mr. Rigby's 1 • Aeje Pwinrs•st„ MEETING.—Th e cup was won by Mr. Wilson's vroa a tr• Bourne' s B us y ran up. The Lathwaite Stakes j ts 4 Mr. Lamb's Lever. I ‘ 4 lt i ,, ci„„ OWN PARK COURS/NG.gEETING. WEDNESDAY. " % ukr G. -- Mr. Bowles' Beadman beat Mr. Agg's Abelard P •ts, • is au a v v .n s Crape beat Mr. Etwall's Elastie—Mr. W. t h rkin s „„";ln-if-I- ea n beat Captain _ Wyndham's Wicca—Mr. e tle k — i f , 8 Sweetheart beat Mr. Lawrence's Latcom L'est STAKES.— Mr. W. Etwall's The Winner rtt ) 4 •Go neon's Sandlarh—Mr. W. Etwall's Witchery .tiquet rrdon's Comas—Mr. Bowles's Brocade beat Mr. .. ta. - -v frost w as „ ery , severe. 11 • ht h nIN G APPOINTMENTS. i7a- lig on amens, Monday, at Thunder's Barrow Wednes , Patellar° ; Fri Hill; 4•1-2.oursday , 3"Newmarket • d aY , Dike, 11—Brookside harriers, Mon- Telscombe Tye.—East lk,q.„_x hounds, Monde JeriV,o' n Holt, 10i.— Findon 1 34,,,1 11, Tuesda t s "II L. r ...enner; Thursday, Adversane ; Saturday, it'''.oll,ll,6rfe, •--Crawley and Horsham hounds, Monday, t lth ; Thursday, New Inn, Clinsfold ; Saturday, tced.,,,`'',,oes, Stone Lodge, 101.—Mr. Archer's houn d , edgy eY Cross • Thursday, Tregeare Lodge, 104. O II Candi l i e, o ld er s hounds, Monday, Copcut Elm ; Wednes ..„l,‘lll4,l,,,,ins; Friday, Himbleton, 104.—Herefordshire se - " e3 nsY Al b p • • Friday, Bishopstone, 10. ~L or , on ury riory on te bat% gan hounds, Wednesday, Long Croas, -hounds, Monday, Tickwall Village; Wednesday, him.„,„ (n le Wood ; Saturday Cavendish-bridge, 101.—Mr. hounds Monday ' Drakelow ; Thursday, Snel oe chart' ley Castle ' 10i —Mr. Tudwan's hounds, t.Varnfleld-gate ; Thursday, ' " Farringdon Gurney.- 11.4 4 earttr il A Y's stag hounds, Monday, Holt ; Friday, New to% Park 7,keford, 1 0i.—Tiverton hounds, Monday, Spring te 'Net S ' "nrsday, Maundon, near Wivelecombe, 104. Agti/ist sinbscription hounds, Tuesday, Buncombe Hill ; Sa t. bw lY Wood lg —Albrighton hounds, Monday, tit4; ll , t int*, iiddieton, 114.—Ludlowhounds, Tue . s- Nsate'Y Court ; Friday, Buckneli Village.—Shropsh ire t14Y1;;,„ e,„ y, sth milestone on the Baschurch-road ; Wed itc-"L'ate ; Friday, Ellertou Hall, 104.- 91 1 Rt F o nda.Lnday, Dinehope ; Friday, Monk Hopton, 9. I Il tads --,y B. W7oo's hounds, Tuesday, Churchton ; 11 x11 ; es ' Mi.—Cheshire hounds, Monday, Twem kqoaaB4l.6l, tussday, Church Minshull ; ThersdaT, eisZu‘ ; Saturday, Miley, 104.—Mr. Mare 8 y. Thurlow Town; Thursday, Bourn -141„; Pr;•""noenlgeshire hounds, Monday, Everton „Seseptici&L_Stowe Fox, 10i.—Mr. Roe's hounds, Tuesday 4 14 Tusr e ; Friday, Shilston-gate.—Montgomeryshire ho 1, Guildford ; Friday, Caer Howell-bridge.— blde :"`„.,°.% Monday, Newton Common ; Wednesday, lispZeiekiet ri dan ; Saturday, Thrup, 104.—North 41,7;"411.W're Hounds Tuesday Princethorpe ; Thursday, q ll S i .e l attlrda • Y, 104.—Essex and Suffolk e l t ,,,lttk i — otl y, Little Bently Hall ; Friday, Raydon,lo4. %&-"," Warwickshire Tuesday, Bradwell ; Saturday, Moor st t liY,l4,;; ; ;;" hounds, Monday, Walton ; es,l l ` . ) l ild te "'gt„,2ll ; Thursday, i HamptonLacy v Satu e r e d di a l y : Wheatland h ounds , Drake's Hounds, Monday, Chesterton ViT -`clls."4/', d ausbury Lodge ; Thursday, Holton Wood; 414 q% Kennell.— Lord Redesdale's Hounds, Odin • 8 Barn ; Wednesday, Barington Park ; Fri- E Mill Saturday, North Aston House, lg. 1 -, b 4 qt4, o , 'estinirs,,-"%-nAltv HOAX AT WANDSWORTH.—The ttliFmtit,,,ll3von,..ort,h has recently been the scene of an ex 14cewhich many of the tradesmen have Arb t - " 41 1 41 Cr ' o f i t'!'Y• For a period of sixteen years a man 11111 "'Moll has resided in Wandsworth, and for e Ppt„... , el, o4 l 3l srt of that time obtained his living as a brick 4N, F o ll le 4 :„ s r • About ten months since an advertisement k l N th ,'"er4, le of the papers, stating that if a John Big 'ertiZtet4, if°l A bridge Wells, but who was supposed to dier and gone abroad, would call upon Ina tt rb Vie would hear of something to his advent tc,;',Lce t;n tac t e 'ulguell, although an extremely illiterate All tici aid 44 , to perceive that he might turn this %ers.' ,ed to • n e atage• He gave out that he was the per tqlsed p:cesl4, `Lin advertisement, and went up to town on pr 4 ,, t7 t h e d.....ostensibly to see the legal gentlemen eon tiDllett,?se i„ 'Nast of the property. On his return from littiV s t r neYs he declared himself the heir to funded V I ? lel; 4 klng e f 1 4 ,0001., and from that day he discon h y nue° a bnckla.yer's labourer. Strange to say, a ; k b'e iii,l4Pectal* n'obrated found credence in the minds of oy e s ilZll4op:,adesrn.en of the town, and several not . only S o of ti ° of 1 110 " e n credit for goods, but lent him consider %Not* a kettl e trsd emei e eY• All went on well till last week, when to eu to whom Bignell (whose real name ie t.,44 l l ,: s _es4VA) be Bearsmore) is indebted to the amount e i 'net t , his o rl closely as to the precise time when he was o ti tt et e : t oto bY ; 3 3r t % a clever rogue, not the least clis- Nk ,nv e ,,, ion so Plainly put, said it was now a h e to to himself when he chose to receive his 1'4 4 of t t w ould ",,nd no doubt his creditors were in want of "ckli - me pri s had the following Thursday for two . or 1 4 sY to tsv; , caul pto town with him and . receive it. WI ! l e lils‘'• i e bird, e, out the " fortunate heir" was non tAtZing etedito„ totter feathering his nest, had flown, th 4 etb`falla' , b_ F,ondole with each other upon te fac llf t bu h er is t b!, an illiterate swindler. That the trades- yea‘.B of egran towns may not be imposed upon by efa/ e, 1 ° 1 , 4 ' his Persona description :—He is about e feet six inches in height, and has a E iT A utllo, lo . to ~,% 4* Ctn.. 'Okra ? , untenauce. ti t; 'k i i ‘ s te Cat) " I)E ATu•—The Rev. Jeffery Da tolitsezttnrhiGnalainorganshire, met his death last e lteer t;1 14 be en made ;?' manner, A small but rather . it ev er th e PIO"p os e y aide of a new lawpit at 1 1 1 4 t %n ein eof infant n i t 4 ro o • nose at Id g a post, and into this hole 2 1. „ening, t fell, and he was discovered dead iSt;h"ncl „r„.rt di am - ":!_iole in which the body was found I :et w e nt th, depth . ,ker at the surface, two feet at bot elette ba trown h°d was in a sitting posture, k,, ji drat ed eas of the h o le, l dbl I u the he d ° 41)° ve the bear on et _P ; I tb e tti l b ece u l the eh e , t level of the head, winch was 10 , iv extri - ' 2 l l l4el s e „,;,. 1 ,,' r 0m the Sandy nature of the 12S1 k ee te hims e lf' get no Purchase, although his 've.„ - ge led q u antity e PPeared to have been most I b YY 511: c ° J. the L I Z 'nose _ sand which he had displaced p,„‘ ttr e "IS Mo ut h :74 deposited in his lap, and which NI NIa Nd terr tO eyes- S,, av L„ r.llh at the accident which ti - C - 71 1 . •T; , m 7ae IS attended with any serious 44 liabi ett l e °: . ? have made a most favourable • "•m• friends and acquaintances.— LITERATURE TRIAL ofPEDRO DE ZULUETA, on a CHARGE OF SLAVE-TRADING. Wood, London, 1844. In this thick, closely printed octavo volume, we have a full and circumstantial account of a trial which took place some months since, and occasioned no slight public sensation. The trial was that of M. Zulueta, an eminent. Spanish merchant, who was charged with trafficing in slaves, and, after a length ened investigation, was acquitted by the jury, at the October se lion of the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey. The report of this trial is taken from the short. hand notes of Mr. Gurney, and is, therefore, strictly authentic in its details. WHITEFRIARS. 3 Volt. album, London, 1844. There is considerable talent in this novel, which treats of an exciting period in English history—the Popish plot and its unprincipled manufacturers, Oates and Dangerfield—and brings us into the company of Charles the Second and his merry, profligate Court, the patriotic Sidney, the wily Shaftesbury, and many of the most celebrated charaeters of that inglorious age. The hero of the story is a young orphan named Mervyn, who is afterwards discovered to be the son of a nobleman of high rank and influence. Many of the scenes in which he is engaged are pourtrayed with singular spirit; and among them we may men tion his first interview and subsequent connexion with the notorious Titus Oates—of whom Scott, it may be remembered, leas given us such a striking sketch in " Peveril of the Peak"—his introduction toColonel Blood, and to Charles the Second,and Roches ter, and Buckingham, while carousing in disguise at a low public-house in Whitefriars ; and his connexion with the notorious highwayman, Claude Duval, who cuts no unimportant figure in the narrative. The author excels in description, and nowhere is this fa culty turned to bettor account than in his details of the great fire of London. HAYNES BAYLY'S POEMS. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1844. In these volumes we have a reprint of the whole of Mr. Bayly's poetical works, accompanied with a biographical sketch of the author from the pen of his widow, from which it appears that he was born in the year 1797, so that at the period of his death, in 1839, he could only have completed his forty-second year. From the account here given of him we should judge him to have been a man of the most friendly and companionable qualities ; and indeed his poems show this, for they abound in tender, amiable senti ments, expressed In chaste, simple, and perspicuous language. As they were chiefly intended for the drawing-room, it was not necessary that they should be conspicuous by manly nerve and vigour, and ac cordingly we find written no bold, striking thoughts or images, but instead—in the more serious songs and ballads at least—a vein of gentle, pleasing melan lancholy. As a lyrical writer, Mr. Bayly is sur passed only by Moore, in ease and grace and melody of versification. Not a few of his earlier ballads— especially his " Oh no, we never men ti on h er ," an d "Friends depart, and memory takes them," are still popular, and are long likely to retain their popula rity, if only for the beauty of the music to which the words are set. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—The quiet little town of Wantage 48 been in commotion for the past week, owing to a very interesting and lady-like girl, about 14 years of age, having been brought there by Old Harrod (who travels about with besoms), and given up to the constable. It seems that Harrod took up the young lady in his cart at Buckland, seeing that she was nearly exhausted, and her clothes very dirty, and finding she gave an odd account of herself, he very properly handed her over to the custody of Jones, who pro vided her with a bed and supper at a small public-house, and the next morning mentioned the matter to his sister, the kind-hearted good-natured landlady of the Bear, who sent for the girl to her house, and had her provided with clean clothes and every necessary. She was soon visited by the Rev. Mr. Hewlett, Mr. Ormond, and several gentlemen, who from her ingenuous manner, her evident good breeding, and education, with her intelligent replies to their questions, soon took a great interest in her behalf. It appeared that the young lady had from some cause run away from her friends in the neighbourhood of Bath, whose names she would not mention, and had been walking for two days last week in the cold and severe weather, without going into a house, mid with only a short supply of biscuits in a bag, and had actually slept under the hedges for two nights; and when she arrived at Wantage her dress bore evident marks of what she had gone through, and her little feet were dreadfully swollen, and it is only a wonder that one of such tender years did not die. Mr. Ansell took the young lady to his own house, and under the kind treatment of his wife she soon recovered the effects of her trying journey. It seems she made a disclosure of the name of her near relations and friends to Mr. Ansell, and on Tuesday a clergyman arrived from Lincolnshire, whose name a few years since came very prominently before the public, in consequence of a melancholy event which occurred in Middlesex, and claimed her as his daughter, and it turned out that she had been adopted by another clergyman resident in Bath, and from some fancied cause of ill-treatment by his housekeeper, started off on a wild-goose chase to London, and it is fortunate that she fell into such good hands, and was restored, after a week's wonder and excitement, to her friends. —Berks Chronicle. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.—" The Russian Government," says: the Journal des Debats, "has de_ cidedly declared war against the civilization as well as the gene rous and philosophic spirit of our age, and every day it is making further progress in this deplorable course. Every day the German Journals bring us accounts of parseduthins exercised by order of the Emperor against the Jews who inhabit his states. A new ukase has filled the cup of persecution to the brim, and has re duced that unfortunate population to despair. We must refer to the most unfortunate period of our history, and to the fatal spirit which dictated the revocation of the edict of Nantes, to find an example for this tyranny which has struck half a million of men. When we consider, that without any serious motive, and under the most frivolous pretext, an entire industrious population—men, women, children, and old men—have been compelled to quit their homes en masse, to break the bonds which attach them to their native soil, to renounce their affections, their recollections, and their interests, to seek in unknown provinces the slip of ground marked out for them by the despot, we ask ourselves involuntarily it be really in Europe In the 19th century, or whether it be not in the remotest corner of the East, that the rights of humanity have been violated and trampled under foot. We almost imagine that we see the transportations ordered by the Kings Darius and Nebuchadnezzar repeated in our time by a society in which human misery or death is of no weight in corn. 'unison with the caprice of a conqueror."—The .duishurg Gazette publishes a letter, dated Berlin, sth instant, stating that "various letters and journals describe the Jews residing in the Russian dominions. although severely grieved, as giving proof of energy and talent, the more surprising as the Polish Jews were generally considered to be half barbarians. The chief Rabbi, from Posen, was lately at Berlin, and received applications from various quarters to interest himself for his suffering countrymen. Some Israelites, highly distinguished in literature, amongst others M. Lehman, formerly director of the State Gazette, waited on the King of Prussia, who referred him to the Prince Royal. His Royal Highness was pleased to say, that a representation, couched in the strongest terms, should be made to the Emperor of Russia relative to the oppression practised en his Jewish subjects." The reply to this remonstrance is anxiously expected. YOUTHFUL ELOPEMENT.-011 Friday night two gentlemen arrived here from Warwickshire, In search of a yc ung lady, aged 13, who had eloped with's gentleman, aged 27. The parties were traced successively to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and thence to this island. Suspicion having been entertained; that the fugitives bad set out for Ballaugh, the party accordingly lost no time in making all possible search in that locality, but without success. On returning to Douglas, however, the run. away couple were discovered in lodgings, passing themselves off as uncle and niece I We need scarcely add, that the matrimonial knot had not been tied ; although the young lady repeatedly assured her father, who was one of the party in smell of her, that she would have " George" for a husband! On Saturday evening, the whole party embarked en board the King Orry, and returned to Liver. pool.—Monn Herold. Fox CHASE.—The other day, Sir 'Henry Every's hounds ran a fox into Derby. Poor Reynard, who was completely "run down," ran along Croas.lane, down to the brook, where two boys turned him, and he then ran through Mr. Jay's garden into a Held, where, having taken refuge underneath a heap of sticks, he was secured, and "bagged" for another day's "sport."—Derby Reporter. - HUNTINCI.—A few days since, the gamekeeper at Kentraugh, the residence of E. M. Gawne, Esq., in returning from a hunting excursion, happened to call for some refreshment at • public-house on the road side, and while thus engaged, a grey hound which accompanied him, ran out, and in a very few painutes returned to the fire-side with a bare In his mouth.. —Mono lisr old. SAILORS' STRIKE, SRIELDS.—The sailors of North and South Shields last week struck work for a rise of wages —they ask 41. per voyage for the coal trade, and 31. per month for the Baltic and American trade. The rate of wages at present paid is from 31. ss. to 31. 12s. 6d. in the coal trade, the voyage occupying seven weeks ; and for foreign, the wages have been much less. With this miserable pit tance the families of the men, to our knowledge, have been in a very miserable condition ; many of them almost starv ing. Large meetings have been held in the Seamens' Hall, when it was determined that every peaceable means should be taken to secure the wages asked, and to induce those who are on board ship to turn out. The river has for the last three or four days been covered with boats laden with seamen who have gone about from ship to ship to induce those on board to join them, but in no instance has the least attempt at violence been made. On Friday, a body of Newcastle po licemen, commanded: by Sir John Fife and Mr. Stephens, were ou the river to protect the ships, but their services were not wanted. The peaceable conduct of the seamen so delighted the Mayor, that he expressed himself in terms of warm admiration at their temperate and manly conduct.— Mae Mercury. A SINGULAR DILEMMA.—A paragraph appeared in our paper of Wednesday (derived from the morning papers) under the above heading, in which it is stated that the Solicitor of the Post-office had written to the Solicitor of Legacy Duties at Somerset House, relative to certain letters sent from the latter, on which Postage stamps formerly used had been placed, and .that upon in quiry into the matter it appeared that this attempt at fraud had been committed by one of the messengers, who received only a reprimand on the occasion. We are authorised to state that there is not one word of truth in this paragraph from the beginning to the end ; and further that no circumstance has occurred that could by any mistake or perversion have given the smallest ground or colour for such a statement. VY ----- SCENE AT A CORONER'S INQUEST.---Late on Tues day evening an inquest was held at Newing - ton, before Mr. Carter, on view of the body of a new-born male child, which was found in a decomposed state in a basket in Trinity,- gardens, by police constable 64 M, while walking his rounds at two o'clock on the previous Sunday morning. The body underwent a post-mortem examination, but the medical men would not undertake to swear that the child had been born alive. A verdict of" Found dead" was agreed to. On Mr. Brooks, the beadle, however, going round to obtain the sig natures of the jurymen to the inquisition, he found one of them (named Ward) fast asleep. After being shaken several times, he fell on his knees. lie was then taken before the Coroner, and reprimanded for his conduct. In answer to a question from the Coroner he said he could not tell the precise time he fell asleep, but he understood that the child had not been born alive. The circumstance created great laughter. A PRETTY COMPLIMENT. — " Albert," said her Ma jesty, the other day, " do you ever recal cur visit last year to 'Freport, with pleasure?" "Of course, my love," replied his Royal Highness, " fur I Can never think of Lepurt With out thinking of Eu." THE FACTORIES BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l observe the Factories Bill brought in by Sir James Graham and Mr. Manners Sutton was issued •n Friday, the 9th inst. It states that the law for regu lating the employment of children and young persons in factories needs amendment. Then follows an inter pretation clause. No child under eight years of age to be employed in factories. How humane ! Nor any young person to be employed under sixteen years. From this it would appear a boy or girl is reckoned a child until they reach sixteen. Children not to work more than six hours and a half daily. How beautifully this clause would work for a journeyman cotton-spinner (and his employers), who employ from six to eight hands, the one half of which are generally under 16 years of age. It shows how absurd it is to attempt to legislate on a subject not properly understood. Young persons and women not to be employed more than twelve hours a day, nor to work after half-past seven o'clock in the evening, and to cease work on Saturdays at half-past four o'clock. This has long been the general practice. One hour and a half to be allowed for meals. Now this is decidedly too little, and no good reason can be shown why people employed in factories should not be allowed two hours for meals, as well as masons, carpenters, smiths, and in fact all artizans, and even day labourers. Now, it often happens that public works are so situated that dwelling-houses cannot be obtained near to the work, which often compel he work-pe)ple to walk half a mile, and others a mile, to breakfast and dinner ; or to be at the trouble and expense of having their food carried to them. How painful it is to see hundreds of men, women, and children coming out of factories at the breakfast hour, and running as if they were on a life and death message !—not having as much time allowed them by their employers as to say may God bless me and my food. These great exertions must be very hurtful to many of them. Now this bad system must have ori ginated with some very selfish master, and others have followed the bad example, to protect themselves against those selfish men from underselling them. In place of the proposed alterations in the Factories Bill, had Sir James introduced a ten hours' Bill, and prohibited all boys and girls from being employed in ' factories under 11 or 12 years of age, he would have conferred a very great blessing on both old and young so employed ; the general voice of the country would have been with him. A few interested, selfish indivi duals might and would have disapproved of the measure; but what of that ? The boys and girls at 11 or 12 years of age would have been able to work the ten hours without injury, their employment being generally light. By this plan, all complex rale' and regulations would have been avoided, which would have prevented a world of trouble, vexation, and expense. Were half a dozen of boys and girls at eight or nine years of age brought before the House of Com mons, and the Members asked, will you make a law authorising such mere children to be wrought in fac tories ? I should think the unanimous answer would be, certainly not ; would you have us to disgrace our selves? The truth is, it is only the children of worth less and dissipated parents that find their way into fac tories at eight or nine years of age. Honest and in dustrious parents would not allow such young children to go into a factory. The laws of the land should be made to protect such young children, instead of putting it ,into the power of worthless parents to subject their offspring to worse than slavery. It is to be hoped a British Parliament will not allow such a foul blot ever to stain their recordS. I beg pardon for troubling you with this letter ; I in tended it for Sir James Graham, as you will see by the alterations, but have changed my mind. If you think proper to give it a place in your excellent paper you will oblige a constant reader of The Sun; should you decline doing so, there will be no harm done.—l remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, A. C. R. Glasgow, Feb. 22. TEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1844 GRIEVANCES BEFORE SUPPLIES TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—We really were anxious to see in your popular columns the petition which Mr. Perry left at your office some days ago, which, if you have read it, you will have seen was discussed and unanimously agreed to at a public meeting held at the King's Arms, Philip-lane, City, on the 14th inst. That petition advocates the principle of the right which the people have to call upon their representatives to take into their consideration the grievances which most seriously affect them before they proceed to vote the usual supplies, and the chief of which grievances are specified. The petition, with the full approval of Mr. S. Craw ford, had the somewhat anomalous heading of "To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, who represent the 950,000 British subjects who possess the right to exercise the Electoral Franchise;" and you know its fate. By a singular fatality, however, all the morning papers of this day have stated that it was from Rochdale; and we are desirous, not only that you should give it insertion in a paper which so faithfully advocates the cause of the many, but that you should correct the above-mentioned misnomer. Mr. Crawford will not fail to call the attention of the House to the contents of the document in question. We are, Sir. your most obedient servants, G. W. PERRY, • A. MORTON. Hart's Hotel, Aldersgate-street, City, Feb. 23. P.S. Since writing the foregoing, we have seen your paper of this evening, and regret to see that you have fallen into the same mistake that the morning papers have committed. Be assured that those who drew up the petition feel that they have no reason to shrine: from seeing the utmost publicity given to the petition in ques tion. Nay, they are desirous to lay it before the whole of their fellow-subjects. [We have not seen the petition referred to. Probably it has been mislaid, and our Correspondents will there fore oblige us by sending another copy.] NEW ZEALAND. The subjoined is the petition of the Mayor, Alder men, and inhabitants of Wellington, in New Zealand, presented by C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., to the House of Commons on Friday night, in relation to the late mas sacre in Cloudy Bay. Mr. Baldwin, in recapitulating the matters of complaint, gave notice of his intention on a future day, to ask certain questions of her Majesty's Government relative thereto : TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The humble petition of the undersigned, the Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors, and other Inhabitants of the _ _ Borough of Wellington, in New Zealand, and the neighbourhood, Showeth,—That your petitioners are resident at, and in the immediate neighbourhood of Wellington, in New Zealand, on the northern shore of Cook's Straits. That the British population resident on the shores of Cook's Straits, and on the southern coast of the Island of New Ulster, as far northward as New Plymouth, is computed to amount to ten thousand persons, or there abouts. This this population is surrounded by, and intermixed with, the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand, whose numbers have been calculated at 100,000 or thereabouts, .who, in the life-time of the existing generation, have been notorious for a character of the utmost ferocity, and who are extensively armed and provided with an abundance of ammunition, in the use of which they are thoroughly acquainted. That, on the formation of this settlement, the founda tion of an amicable intercourse with the aborigines was laid, based upon the moral influence of the civilized por tion of the community, and the mutual interests of the two races, to the continuance of which there appeared no prospect of an interruption till the establishment of the local government at Auckland, in the northern part of this island. That shortly after the establishment of the local go vernment, the natives, acting partly on their own shrewd observation of the cond uc t o f the local government to wards the settlers in Cook's Straits, and partly, it is feared, instigated by wicked and interested persons, began to regard the settlers as intruders and opponents to her Majesty's Government, and relying upon the neglect of that Government towards the settlers, they re sisted their occupation of the lands, and in many in stances commenced violent aggressions, which, though brought before the authorities in a proper manner, were passed over unredressed. That the result has been the almost entire cessation of the progress of colonization, except in the immediate neighbourhood of the towns, and has recently led to the deplorable massacre of a number of British subjects, among whom was a police magistrate in the execution of the duties of his office. That it is in the power of the aborigines at any time to massacre the whole of the British population in Cook's Straits, and that Rauparaha, the principal chief engaged in the late lamentable bloodshed, has been known to declare that he will do it. That the settlers in Cook's Straits, and on the coast as far as New Plymouth, have contributed to the ex pense of the local government, since its establishment at Auckland, the sum of thirty thousand pounds, as nearly as can be computed, almost the whole of which has been expended at Auckland, but little benefit being derived from its expenditure by those who contributed to it. That since the establishment of the local government at Auckland, it has had at its disposal a considerable body of troops of the line, as your petitioners are in formed, and during part of the time a mounted police has, in addition, been maintained there at a heavy ex pense. That the British population at Auckland, and all the northern part of this island, is computed at not more than two thousand five hundred persons, and that the in general amicable footing of the natives has rendered any protection unnecesseary in that district. That, from the period of the establishment of the local government to the present hour, the settlers in Cook's Straits have been left without any protection, except the presence of a police magistrate and a few constables (in Wellington twelve) in each settlement; and, in con sequence of the recent alarming events, they have been obliged to prepare for the defence of their lives and pro perty by arming the population, and forming themselves into corps of military volunteers, which, however, affords little more substantial protection than is derived from the empty display of force in the eyes of the aborigines. That your petitioners conceive, that having contri buted so largely to the maintenance of the colonial go vernment, they are reciprOcally entitled, 'as a matter of right, to the protection of such an ample military force resident among them as may secure their lives and pro perty, and wipe from the British name the dishonour able stain which tarnishes it so long as a large portion of the British population is left unprotected and in im minent peril. Your petitioners, therefore, pray that your Right Honourable House will be pleased to institute an inquiry into the unprotected state of the settler. in Cook's Straits, and t 4 take such steps for providing for their future protectipn, by the residence of itn ample armed force among them, as shall seem meet. And also that your Right Hon. House will provide for *uch an immediate settlement of: the disputed claims to land as may enable the settlers to occupy that to which they may be entitled. And. lastly, that your Right Hon. House will provide means for the equal administration of British law between the aborigines and the settlers. And youg petitioners will ever pray, &c. [Signed by the Mayor and Aldermen and up wards of 700 of the settlers.] THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. The Lord Chancellor has brought a Bill into the House of Lords, intituled, " An Act to consolidate the Jurisdiction and improv4 the Practice of the .Ecclesias tical Courts of England and Wales, and for otherwise altering and amending the Law in certain Matters Ec clesiastical." It is founded on the Report of the "Eccle siastical Commission, and consists of 101 clans( ts. By this Bill all peculiar jurisdictions are abolished and merged in the respective archdeaconries and dioceses. The archidiaconal courts (with the exception of Corn wall, Nottingham, Leieester, and Suffolk) are deprived of the power of granting probates or administrations and marriage licenses. The diocesan courts however., retain their full powers, making it optional with the judge, or either of the parties to the suit, to send to the Arches Court. Licenses are abolished. There is to be ccimpen sation for loss of emolument. Acting deputies are all to become principals, and be paid by salary, to be,fixed by the judges of the respective courts out of a fee fund, to which all fees, are to be carried ; the amount of sa lary subject to the approbation of the Lords of the Tre- Bury. The Act is not to extend to tithes within the City of London. A REPUDIATION Itlon.—ln Hartford county, Maryland, there exists a small baud of men, who openly ad vocate the repudiation of public debts, and who refi Ise to pay taxes. The Baltimore papers state, that the property of one of these men was recently levied upon, by a tax-toll wtor, and that the officer was driven from the ground by a mab. The following is the account A few days ago, when t'tki collec tor attempted to sell someproperty in the infected. district, he was tbrcibly stopped. Written notices were attack up, threatening violence to ally one who should dare to bid. The collector attempted to do his duty, and a resolute individual bid for the property. A mob of some fifty men immediately rushed upon him . ; and the cry was, Kill him, kill him, kill him.' One attempted to dash out his brains irith a large stone, and another to strike at him with a bludgeon. He managed to escape, alai was chased off the ground. The collector durst not attempt to perform his duty, and ghe law is now set at defiance, air! a portion of Hartford is ka open rebellion." We hope that the Governor of Maryland will send into this rebellious county an armed force, which will be strong enough to teach these men that the duties they owe to the government, under which they live, are not mere matters of moonshine, to be discharged or not, as ther whims inadictate.—/Vew York Paper. EMPLOYMENT OF THE AIME-BODIED POOW.—A public meeting was held in the Hanover-square Rooms, on Friday, for the purpose of taking into consideration a statement ® f facts collected by the Practical and Scientific Association for the Promo tion of Improved Street Paving, relative to the employment of the able-bodied poor in cleansing the streets. Mr. B. B. Cabbell was in the chair, and amongst those present were Sir James Ha milton, Mr. Roteh, Mr. Buckingham, and Mr. Weymouth. The Report having been read, Mr. Cochrane (the President of the Association above referred to) introduced the object of the meeting at considerable length, lie detailed the particu lars of an experiment that had been made in Oxford and Regent-streets, for keeping the roadways constantly swept. This experiment had kept some thirty or forty persons employed, the quantity of filth and manure collected had been enormous, and the expense incurred was Is. 2d. per house per week, The utmost satisfaction had been expressed by the in habitants, many of whom were willing to contribute largely to such an improved mode of cleansing the streets. Mr. Pownall, Mr. Buckingham, and others spoke in support of the plan proposed, while Mr. Hannay, an Inhabitant of Oxford-street, complained that the remedy which had been alluded to by Mr. Cochrane, was as bad as the disease, inasmuch as the mud and filth had been swept up and left in heaps at the kerbs of the footways. It was stated that 9,100 or 4,000 able-bodied persons might be employed by the proposed improved mode of street-sweeping. Resolutions were passed in favour of the proposed scheme, and a vote of thanks LaylDs &Vivi to th 9 cbaiauxjll4o mectivg oeparated. SLAVERY AND BLASPHEMY. The American papers bring us no news so interesting as that which we have received from our private corre spondent. We find several communications exhibiting the heart-rending sorrows of the internal slave-trade, but, at this late hour, we cannot make room for them. 'We must work them up into an article for our next. No pressure of matter, however, can induce us to delay the insertion of what we cannot but deem the most atrocious and revolting document we ever met with. It is the sentence ofdeath passed by Judge O'Neall, at New Orleans, on a man named Brown, for aiding a slave to escape I crown is actually to be executed in April. The address of the judge to him presents the most revolting combination of cold-blooded cruelty with an affectation of piety which ever came to our knowledge. This judicial outrage must reduce the state of Louisiana to the lowest pitch of public infamy. Hitherto, in all civilised states, the punishment of death has been annexed only to acts having at least some measure of criminality; it is annexed now to the fulfilling of a sacred duty, both to God and man. Hitherto, even in the United States, we have been accustomed to see the friends of the slave only mobbed and murdered by vio lence, like the martyred Lovejoy; but at length they are to be murdered by law, and slaughtered with the coolness and pomp of a legal execution. What a fearful element of society must the institution of slavery be, if its maintenance requires that assisting an escape from it shall be made punishable with death ! Or what can arrive but a universal combination of the human race for its overthrow, when the blood of the free and the just is thus to be po ure d out, in order to slake its diabolical thirst for revenge ! The following is the murderous and revolting sentence of " the Honourable (1) J. B. O'Neall," as quoted by the Liberator from a New Orleans paper : " John L. Brown,—lt is my duty to announce to you the consequences of the conviction which you h ear d a t Winns boro', and of the opinion you have just heard read refusing your two-fold motion in arrest of judgment for a new dial. You are to die I—die a shameful, ignominious death, the death upon the gallows. This annunciation is to you, I know, most appalling. Little did you dream of it, when you stepped into the bar, with an air as if you thought it was a rine frolic. But the consequen ces o f cr i me are just such as you are realising: punishment often comes when it is least ex pected. Let me entreat you to take the present opportunity to commence the work of reformation. Time will be afforded to you to prepare for the great change, which may he just before you. Of your past life I know nothing, except that which your trial furnished. It told me that the crime for which you are now to suffer, was the consequence of a want of attention on your part to the duties of life. The strange woman' snared you—she ' flattered with her words,' and you became her victim. The consequence was, that, led on by a desire to serve her, you committed the offence of aid ing a slave to run away, a n d d epar t f rom h er mas t er ' s ser vice ; and you are now t o di e f or i t Y ou are a young man , and I fear have been an idle as well as a dissolute one. If so, these kindred vices have contributed a full measure to your ruin. Reflect upon your past life, and make the only useful devotion of th e remnant o f your d ays i n pre paring for death. ` R emem b er now thy Creator i n t h e days of thy youth,' is the language of inspired wisdom. This comes home appropriately to you at this trying moment. You are young, quite too yaung, to be where you are, and, if you had remembered your Creator in your past days, you would not now be in the felon's place to receive a felon's judgment. Still, it is not too late to remember your Creator ; he calls early, and he calls late ; he stretches out the arms of a father ' s love to you, to the vilest sinner, and says, Come unto me, and be saved. You can perhaps read; if you can, read the Scriptures ; read them without note, and without comment, and pray to God for assistance, and you will be able •to say, when you pass from prison to execution, as a poor slave said, under similar circumstances, I am glad my Friday has at last come.' If you cannot read the Scriptures, the ministers of our holy religion will be ready to aid you ; they will read and explain to you, until you will be able to understand, and, understanding, to call upon the only One who can help and save you, Jesus Christ, ,'the Lamb of God, who takcth away the sin of the world.' • To Him I commend you ; and through Him may you have high, which that opening of th e d ay-spr i ng o f merc y from on ich shall bless y ou h ere, and crown you i n an ever lasting world as a saint f or . ever an d ever. • The sentence of the law is, that you be taken hence to the place from whence you last came, thence to the gaol of Fairfield District, and that there you bq.closely and securely confined until Friday, the 26th day of April next, on which day, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, you will be taken to the place of public execution, and there be hanged by the neck till your body be dead ; and may God have mercy on your soul." —Anti-Slavery Reporter, Feb. 22, 1844, DRAINING the - HAARLE - IVI LAKE. The determined industry, the phlegmatic persever ance, of the inhabitants of the United States of Holland have been exhibited to Europe by the laborious under takings which, on every side of Reiland, present them selves. Nearly a seventh part of this land has been rescued from the sea; and wherever the traveller is placed ho recognizes the marvellous barriers that have been formed to prevent its encroachments: ho sees an artificial coast, formed from the granite rocks of Norway, dykes, buttresses, constructed with a solidity which seems to promise to resist even time itself. Amongst the objects which have long oc cupied the attention of the Hollander has been the drainage of the lake of Haarlem, and the conversion of its bed into cultivated land; various projects have, at various times, been conceived, have been discussed, and, from various reasons, abandoned. A plan, which was considered feasible, was laid before the States-General in April, 1838, and great hopes were entertained that the idea which was suggested was one.which might easily be carried into execution. After, however, due and careful deliberation it was abandoned, in consequence of the re• jection of a Bill brought before the second Chamber. At length the Government has undertaken the great work, and every prospect is entertained of the successful issue of the enterprise. A vote has been obtained from the Chamber of 4,533,333 dollars, but this sum will bo by n• means adequate to the expenditure that must neces sarily be made. It has been ascertained by calcula tions, founded upon the profit obtained by other drainages in Holland, that so large an interest will be returned that a loan of much greater extent may very safely be advanced. The lake of Haarlem is calculated to be about fourteen English miles in its greatest length, and as many in breadth. About 70,000 acres are covered by it, and it has been asserted that every year nearly 250 acres are encroached upon. The depth of the water has been variously estimated, but it is supposed to be, upon an average, twelve feet and three quarters, and the mass about thirteen and three quarter millions of cubic reeds of water. The manner in which it has been de cided to carry out the drainage is as follows A channel is to be formed, one hundred and forty three feet and a half in width, supported on each side by an enormous dyke; into this is to be poured, by means of six steam engines, each of two hundred horse power, the whole of the water contained in the Haar lem Meer, and three sluices are to conduct it into the German and the Zuyder sea. It is expected that this undertaking, commenced in May, 1840, will be completed in the course of the present year. It is un derstood that it will be requisite that every spring, the action either of steam engines or water mills, should be called into action, to preserve the re scue d l an d from fresh inundation. Of what Holland is capable an idea may be formed from the recollection that large tracts of land are below the level of the sea, and that not only the safety, brit absolutely the existence of the country is dependent upon the dykes, which have been at various times raised up. Near the great dyke of the folder is the Beemster Polder, a tract of land of upwards of 8,000 acres over which water rolled uninter ruptedly, and where now there exists a healthy, indus trious populutiou o f 3,000 souls.--Polytechnic Review. CORN-LAW MEETING. A meeting was held at Guildford on Saturday, for the purpose of adopting measuses to oppose the pro ceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League. It may be necessary to state that a great number attended who did not approve of the object of the meeting. Among those present were—J. Trotter, Esq., M.P. ; R. D. Mangles, Esq., M.P. ; Colonel Delap, Capt. Pyner, Capt. Wright, C. Cooper, Esq. (Mayor of Guildford) ; C. Barclay, G. Best, J. Bonsor, H. Currie, H. Drummond, R. Gates, R. Goldhawk, jun., J. Ware, W. King, T. Lomax, G. Marshall, Geo. J. Pardon, J. P. Shrub, E. T. Upperton, &c., and between 400 and 500 tenant farmers. It was a very uproarious meeting, the mono polists wishing to carry everything their own way, and the friends of free-trade equally determined to oppose them. Numbers, however, prevailed, and the usual sliding-scale resolutions were carried. Mr. Mangles, the Member for the borough, made an excellent speech against the resolutions. Mr. R. GATES proposed the appointment of a Com mittee to act in defence of the agricultural interest, and to correspond with the other societies in the country formed for the same object. Mr. PRICE advised the meeting to be careful how they adopted this resolution, for he declared it ill ega l, an d a ll who assented to it rendered themselves liable to be in dicted.—(Laughter.) He added that Mr. O'Connell was indicted under similar circumstances; indeed, his offence, he considered, was not so bad as theirs.—(Laughter.) Mr. PAINE seconded the resolution, and said he hoped it would go forth that no candidate would stand any chance at a future election if he did not pledge himself to the principle of protection to agriculture embodied in the sliding-scale. A petition, embodying the resolutions, was th en agreed to, and a motion carried, that it should be pre sented to both Houses of Parliament. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. Last night afforded another verification of the Tlonte Secretary's remark, that " Leaguers meet in theatres." And such a meeting! Our only regret is that Sir James was not present. Had he been there to see the vast assemblage—to witness the intelligence and enthusiasm which beamed in every eye—and to hear the deafening applause with which the various speakers were greeted, he would have quailed at the sight and trembled at the sound. The unwelcome con viction would have forced itself on him, that to struggle any longer against the tide of popular feeling, now so strongly running in favour of corn-law repeal, were one of the most hopeless enterprises in which any man or body of men ever embarked—quite as hopeless as were the endeavours ofDame Partington, with no other means of resistance than her mop, to repel the aggressions of the rude Atlantic, v-tuka on the eve of entering her humble domicile. If such a meeting as that of last night could fail of its object, we should never hereafter have any faith in the power of public opinion. But the meeting of last night will not, cannot fail of effect. It must contribute materially to accelerate the extinction of the landlords' laws. The corn monopoly must now be felt by all who were present, to be much nearer its end than it was befete he meeting took place. Of the numbers who last night crowded Covent-garden Theatre, we shall say nothing. The place was crammed— crammed to suffocation in every corner. But vast as was the assemblage, great as was the concourse of persons pre sent, they were nothing as compared with the numbers who would have been there, had there been room for all who were desirous of attending. From what we have heard and what we know of the eager desire to obtain tickets of admission, we feel-that we use not the language of exaggeration, when we say that at least from 20,000 to 25,000 persons would have last night raised their voices in favour of repeal, had tickets boon procurable, and the building been large enough to contain them. As it was, it was a prodigiously large assemblage. " Monster meetings" are no longer con fined to Ireland. They are no longer limited to the effort to achieve a repeal of the union between that country and this. We have now our " monster meetings " in Govent-garden Theatre, in favour of another description of repeal—the re peal of the corn-laws. What is more, ours are weekly " mon ster meetings." The meeting of last night was emphatically a " monster meeting." But for the unavoidable evil-of limited space, the mass of human beings which presented itself to our astonished view last night, would, we repeat, have been thrice as immense. Need we say who was the " lion " of the evening? Who but him who is at this moment the " lion " of the land ? Everywhere all eyes are just now directed to Daniel O'Con nell. And this not only in every part of her Majesty's domi nions, but throughout the civilised world. Need we say that all eyes "in Covent-garden were last night immovably fixed on this extraordinary man ? We shall not attempt to give any idea of the reception lie met with. Arc we asked the reason why ? Because no idea can be given. The scene which the theatre presented when he made his ap pearance, and again when he rose to speak, is not to be described. Such a reception as he met with was worth living for. It was more ; it was worth dying for. o w T o h u e l d "convicted n ot w - i l " Convicted conspirator " though he be, there was not l on in e gly am ha on v g e ex n immenseth elag conspirator" was, of all men in that vast assemblage, the men most to be envied. Mr. O'Connell is threatened by the Tory journals with two years' imprisonment. He must have e dsituations multitude N v t him. wh felt hie reception last night to be more than an ample com pensation for whatever punishment may be inflicted on him, even, indeed, should the threatened two years incarceration in a gaol be extended to four. We question whether a public man ever before met with such a reception. It was empha tically a great fact—a most significant circumstance. Never, we are sure, did Covent-garden before witness such a scene. Mr. O'Connell's speech was, of course, the speech of the evening. Apart from the peculiar circumstances under which it was delivered, it was one of the deepest interest. It was decided in its tone—eloquent and powerful in its expo sures of the enormities of the bread monopoly—and most withering in its denunciations of that heartless aristocracy for whose benefit and by whose agency the corn-laws are upheld. Mr. O'Connell's speech will give a mighty impetus to the cause of the League. One single sentence in that speech— had he uttered no other—would have been of infinite service to that cause. We allude to his assurance that Ireland will offer no impediment to the achievement of corn-law repeal, but that, ou the contrary, the entire population of that agri cultural country are strenuous advocates for the extinction of the bread monopoly. The importance of this announce ment of Ireland's adhesion to the cause of corn-law repeal— for it was never formally made before—it were impossible to overrate. It will infuse fresh spirit into the minds of the League : it will spread terror and dismay in the ranks of the monopolists. The other speakers of the evening were Mr. James Wilson, Mr. George Thompson, and Mr. Robert Moore. For the speeches of these gentlemen we must refer to the report of the proceedings, which we give in another part of our paper. We have repeatedly remarked since the resumption of these anti-corn-law meetings, that every successive demon stration of the Leagu e was helping forward the consummation of the great object it has in view. If that was true of any previous meeting, it was doubly so of the demonstration of last night. Every one present must have felt as if he saw. the statute of the bread monopoly . smashed before his eyes. What the six thousand persons in Covent-garden fancied they saw last night, they will ere long see in reality. The corn-laws are not worth twelve months' purchase.—Atirer tiser of Thursday. . - 'KB GAME or FOOT-BALL.—On Shrove Tuesday • vast number of people from the various hamlets and vil lages surrounding Kingston flocked into that town to witness the game of foot-ball, which, according to ancient custom, is annually played on the above-named day. As the foot-ball is kicked through the principal streets of the town, the whole of the shopkeepers put up their shutters, to prevent the de molition of their windows, consequently all business ie sus pended, and the day is one of general holiday. At eleven o'clock a procession, composed of the principal tradesmen in the town, started from the Town-hall, in the market place, and paraded round the town, accompanied by a splendid band. The procession was enlivened by the dis play of a great number of flags and streamers. The pro cession, on its return to the Town-hall, divided itself into two parties, and immediately commenced the game, one party having a gold-coloured and the other a silver-coloured all. The game continued until six o'clock, when both balls having reached the place from whence they were started, the playing ceased. The band struck up " God save the Queen," after which the players, well tired out, re turned home. The superintendent, an inspector, and several sergeants of the V division were in attendance to preserve order, but all went off well, and their interference was not required. Three years since an attempt was made to put down this 'game both at Kingston and Richmond, so far as kicking the ball through the streets went, but although at the latter place the police succeeded in effecting their object, at Kingston they got sadly maltreated, and it was afterwards deemed advisable by the municipal authorities not again to interfere. At Hampton-conrt, Hampton-wick, and Ted dington, the game of foot-ball was also played. In the two former places the ball was kicked through the streets, and trade was suspended, as at Kingston ; but at Teddington the players confined themselves to a meadow in the vicinity of the village. At either of these places there was not the slightest disposition to riot manifested. A notice has been posted up at Boulogne, stating that the Commissary of Maritime Inscription has been in formed by the consular agent of France at Brighton, that eight fi shing-boats, from various parts o f F rance, had been arrested for being found within the English fishing-lines, wiithout either blue flag or streamer, and contrary to the treaty of 1839 ; and that with great difficulty the consular agent had prevailed on the English authorities to let them go without subjecting them to fine or imprisonment, as the case warranted ; but that hereafter no such indulgence was to be shown to any vessels taken in similar circumstrnces. ST. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK.—On Thursday an ad journed meeting was held in the Vestry-room, Roger Cunliffe, Esq., in the chair, for the p ur p ose of further considering Mr. Alderman Gibbs's accounts. Messrs. Howett, Rock, and other speakers, having expressed themselves much dissatis fied with the conduct of Alderman Gibbs, and the manner in which he had prepared his accounts, and having stated that the parties selected by him as auditors had not been ap proved of by the vestry, and that three of them were unable to manage their own affairs, resolutions of want of confidence in Alderman Gibbs, and declaratory of the incompetency of the auditors selected by him, were passed ; after which the vestry adjourned. Dr. Croly was present, but took no part in the proceedings. THE SPITALTIEI2DB WEAVERS. —Last week, a general meeting of the journeymen broad silk weavers, of Spitalfields, Bethnal-green, and the vicinity, was held at the Crown and Anchor, Cheshire-street, Water loo-town, to hear the report of the committee relative to their interview with Mr. W. E. Gladstone, President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Gale having been called to the chair, briefly stated the object of the meeting, when Mr. Slier wood, ono of the- deputation who waited on the Board of Trade, said, that at the interview there were present Mr. W. E. Gladstone, President of the Board of Trade, the Earl of Dalhousie, and Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, with whom they re mained two hours, and by whom their representations were listened to most patiently. The object of the deputation WM to show the intense privations and sufferings endured by the labourers in consequence of the operation of the principles of free trade. They pointed out that in thg nar 1797 the weaver at Manchester received 26e. 8d..1, er week, whereas '4 6d the wages of the weavers no w were 3 .. They urged that the Government should, as formerly, gi ve , them - some legie that a lavi was pass lative protection. In the reign o fEdw a rd.they s tated ovary ve IV ed protect the working man, and in every successive rei gm to that of Elizath same system was adopted, v . i nen the sheriffs and m agis tr ates were em powered tAS r.,ee that the price of food and articles of necessity should "ltot exceed the means of the labourer to purchase them. The effect of the present system of free trade was, that ttie manufacturers amassed immense fortunes, much large' than was ever in the power of the farmers to obtain. Kr. Gladstone directed the attention of the deputation to the difficulty of giving legislative protection, but assured them th at Government would be most anxious to take their re- Pnesentations into consideration. The report was agreed to, aud a resolution was unanimously adopted; advocating a legislative enactment for the protection of labour. Another retiolution was carried, thanking Mr. Oastler for his exer genie in their cause. The meeting separated about 11 o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ADVANCED SHIPS OF THE LINE AT SHEERNESS.--,-TO the seventeen advanced line-of-battle ships complete at Devonport and Portsmouth, we are enabled to add the following reported complete at Sheerness:—Howe, 120; Waterloo, 120 ; London, 92 ; Asia, 84 ; Achilles, 76 ; Hawke, 72 ; Hercules, 72 ; Russell, 72. Total at the three ports, 25. The Cornwall, 50, is also fitted as an advanced frigate, so that there is now ready a frigate at each port. The Ganges, 84, at Sheerness, will be corn plete on the 30th March. - The Trafalgar, 120, advanced ship of the line at Cha tham, is fast progressing in her fittings, and will be ready to go out of dock by the end of next month. The Dee troop transport, Master Commander Thomas Driver, arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday, from Ireland, last from Plymouth. She has been brought alongside the dockyard jetty to have several defects made good. The Prince George transport, Lieut. Ward agent, ar rived at Portsmouth from Woolwich yesterday morning, and came into harbour to embark a draft of the 20th Regiment for Bermuda, to which island she is bound with government stores ; she has also on board a party consisting of 60 men of the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners, going out to join their respective corps, stationed on that island. The Scourge, first-class steamer, about to be built at Portsmouth yard, is ordered to be ready for going into the water by the Ist of September next. The Centaur, first class steamer, will be laid down as soon as the Scourge leaves the dock in which she is to be built; in the meantime her keel and other timbers of her frame will be all prepared; she will consequently be ready very early in the spring. The Centaur is to be similar to the bcourge, excepting she will be longer ; she is to be 200 feet between the uprights. The Daring, 12, built at Portsmouth by Mr. White (the yacht builder), is to be floated out on the 29th inst. No man of war at Spithead. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Fear less, Dee, and Echo steamers ; and Prince George, transport. In Basin—Victoria and Albert yacht. PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenants—Richard W. Peng (1836), Charles F. Schomberg (1838); additional of the Tartarus, and Cospatrick Bailey Hamilton (1840), to the rank of Commander. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain—Hon. John Gordon (1818), to the America. Lieutenants—Charles Evelyn Rowley (1843), to the St. Vincent; George Marriott (1842), to th e F orm id a bl e . Paymaster and Purser—Benjamin Wickham (1835), to the Tortoise, as store-keeper of the Island of Ascen sion, vice M'Arthur. Assistant-Surgeon—John Gordon (1837), of the Sa tellite (additional), to the Penelope. PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ACORN.-2,3711. 14s. 6d. more prize-money is announced for distribution to Com mander Adams and the late crew of the Acorn, 16, being proceeds arising from the capture of the Portu gueso slave-vessel Minerva, on tho 31st of December, 1841. The payments will be made on and after the 6th of M:rch next, in the following proportions:—Flag of the station, 148/. 4s. Bd. ; commander, 277/. 18s. 9d. ; first class, 951. 13s. Bd. ; second, 57/. Bs. 2d. ; third, 28/. 14s. Id.; fourth, 191.25. Bd. ; fifth, 91. I Is. 4d.; sixth, 6/. 7s. 6d. ; seventh, 3/. 3s. 9d. CuiTHAN CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT.—The whole of the officers belonging to the convict establishment at this port have been informed that their services will not he required hero after the 31st of March next. Those whose periods of servitude entitle them to receive it will be recommended for superannuation; and the con vict guards, whose servitude is short, will have the op portunity afforded them of proceeding in the same capa city on board the Thames to Bemuda. It appears from documents just presented to the House of Lords, that the amount of fees and sums of money which became payable to the Clerks of Enrolment, the Six Clerks, Sworn Clerks, and Comptroller of the Hanaper, under the old constitution of the Six Clerks' office, in the one year ending October 29, 1842, was no less than 77,3191. 19s. Id. Also that the amount of fees and additional fees received in the offices of the clerks of enrolments, clerks of records and writs, and taxing masters under the order of 26th October, for the year ending 29th October, 1843, was 77,0711.75. (ex clusive of fees received in the offices of the Masters, &c.) The amount of salaries, office expenses, and compensations payable under the statute 5 and 6 Vict. c. 103, was 76,815/. and upwards, for ono year only ! MANIFOLDING.—A few days ago, a person in Hull, carrying on an extensive business, hit upon the follow ing plan for raising the wind. He held a bank note for 501., which he cut in two, and taking one of the portions to an ac quaintance, informed him that he had just received it by post, the other portion being to follow in the course of a day or two, but as he wanted the money immediately, he could not wait for its arrival. This friend in need, on receiving the half-note, advanced the cash, and another friend did the same on receiving the other half. Here were a hundred pounds made out of fifty ; but the business was not yet com pleted. Taking his hundred pounds to one of the banks, he procured a note for that amount, and having again recourse to the process of cutting, actually obtained 200/., on the two halves, with which he decamped, and has not yet been heard of.—Doncaster Gazette. TIIE WILLS FORGE nIES.—We learn from a source on which we place reliance, that Mrs. Dorey, one of the parties charged with being an active agent in the exten sive conspiracy by which large sums were obtained by means of these forgeries and fraudulent personations, has made a full confession ; and that the document is in the hands of the authorities. We presume that the fact of such confession having been made was the cause of Mrs. Dorey's solicitor taking• no part in the last exa mination of the parties before the Lord Mayor, beyond requesting that the unfortunate woman should be allowed to remain in the Compter until the eve of the session. VIGILS.—(FROM A CORRESFONDENT).—It is given out that there will be " vigils," to-morrow (this) night, at the new Protestant church at Wilton-place. Will the Bishop of London be present ? TOTAL LOSS OF THE ELBERFELDT.—lnform ation was received in town on Friday afternoon, of the total loss of the Dutch steamer Elberfeldt, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, when about 25 miles east of the North Foreland. This vessel was built at Blackwall about three years since expressly for the Rotterdam and Manheim trade. She was proceeding hero for the purpose of being overhauled, and if necessary undergoing repair. Captain R. Stranock, of the General Steam Navigation Company's steamer Giraffe, one of the most experienced commanders in the Rotterdam trade, was requested to bring her over—and, although his charge has been so unfortunate, no blame is attached to him. He had to contend against a heavy gale and sea. When off the place above-mentioned, she was struck by a very heavy sea, and she went down almost in stantaneously. The crew, consisting of 14 men, had only time sufficient to throw their boat overboard, and only two men enabled to get into her before she went down. Provi dentially, they were enabled to rescue 9 others ; but 2 stokers and the cook were unfortunately drowned—most probably drawn down by the suction. There were no passengers on board. The survivors, after having been in the boat for about 3 hours, in the constant expectation of suffering from a calamity they had but just escaped from, were picked up by a Dutch galliot bound to Flushing, and landed at Rams gate, from whence they started by the Herni steamer, and arrived in London between 3 and 4 o'clock. The Columbine Mail Steam Packet, belonging to the General Steam Com pany, made the passage from Rotterdam, carrying the Dutch mail, with her usual success, and arrived at her moorings yesterday. SUPPOSED INCENDIARY FlRE.—Joseph Lakin, of Sheepsbeai„ a youth of respectable appearance, and rather a sen. Bible lad, about the age of la, was committed for trial at the Assizes on a charge of setting fire to a wheat straw stack, on the 21st inst.; on the premises of Mr. W. Jacques (lately pur. chased by Mr. Harriman), at Sheepshead. The evidence is but circumstantial at present, and the deed is denied by the lad, who says he was not out that day until breakfast time, when he ran with his bread and cheese in his hand to the bell-house, because they were doing some repairs al the bells, and he went to look on ; he found two joiners coming away from the bell-house, when he turned off, and went right by the church.yard and blacksmith's shop of Mr. Thornhill. When he got there he saw a great blaze above the houses and ran in the direction of it as bard as he could, till be came to the yard where he thought it was, and asked a labouring man at work in the barn If he knew what was the matter t He smiled, and said no. Prisoner pointed to the lames, and the man then came out and said the wheat-stack was on fire.--Leicestershire Mercury. HABITS OR THE DUTCH BOEBS.--Thtir ()MUM. tions load them to rise early; and before six the "vrow' or guile woman of the house has her shining brass kettle of coffee on the equally resplendent brazier of charcoal which supports it, and sitting down by it, proceeds to dispense its contents to all corners . At eight the " vrow," re spectfully approaching her husband, who has returned from his work, notifies that breakfast is on table. Of this meal she herself seldom partakes, at least not in company with the other members of the family ; re maining at a side table she prepares the tea and coffee, which a female servant hands to the rest of the party, while she herself rises and presents a cup to her husband. The breakfast table is well covered with eggs, ham, biltoague or cured venison, cold meats, fresh butter, and excellent home made brown bread ; one f the children is called upon by the father to say grace, unless a very aged petson, as a grand father or grandmother, be present, in which case they ask the blessing. Breakfast concluded, all depart to their re spective tasks, from which they return at twelve to dinner ; this meal consists of substantial joints of fresh or corned mutton, and frequently a couple of fowls, butter, cheese, and excellent, wholesome, unadulterated wine ; pastry is often added, but all is put on the table at once. The dinner service is invariably white ; and, as well as the table-cloth, is always most scrupulously clean. In large families, where the father has sons of such an age as to be able to mperin tend the business of the farm, he usually indulge% himself with a siesta, and contrives to be in or about, th e house about three o'clock, at which hour a servant fade round a tray, containing small cups of tea, with ire;ik i a silver ewer, and t wo cut-glass jars meats and the othe r w ith water, inwi PP:a filled w ith swee t frequently in small silver forks, with which :l ..ch stand two or more very the confection, and repl ace th em i.:(ley help themselves to the water. The labour of the day being over, about sfsven. the family assemble in the hall, and a glass of wine is banded to each ; few speak except the master of the house, and he is listened to with respect. A woman'a voice is, seldom heard, save in answer to a question ; at eight the "• vrow " announces that supper is ready; this meal much resembles the dinner in its compo nent parts; it; is, perhaps, their principal meal ; about nine a small glass of spirits, which they term a " sopee," is brought to each of the men, and the party separates for the night. The Manners of these hospitable and simple people are in htinctively and innately polite ; with less action than the French, they display more warmth than the English, and never did any class of men make on my mind a more f avoura bl e Impression than the Dutch Boers of the Cape colony.— Baynes's Ramble in the East, &c. DARING ROBBERY.—On Wednesday information was circulated throughout the metropolitan and city police dis tricts of the following robbery ;--Between seven and nine on the previous evening it was discovered that the house of Mr. Dean, No. 31, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, had been robbed of a dispatch box, covered with red leather, which contained four 51. Bank of England notes, a five guinea piece, a gold watch, makers' name "Dubois and Wheeler, Gray's inn court," ten sovereigns, in a packet, which had been sealed up since the year 1828, which year, or the previous ono, the gold was dated, and were all now coin, a silver breastplate, or gorget, of the 67th Regiment, with the Royal arms ont with green green stones, two hair ditto, a gold Geneva wa t ch, t gold chain and bracelet with a gold heart, a ditt o makers' name and e " Treundle," with hair chain and two gold seals, a e number of other valuable articles ofjewellery. The robbery can in no way be accounted AN (~ - THE NEW FACTORIES BILL. .` , ICMT4 The manner in which the new Factories Bill will affect employers and workmen in the country districts, and especially in the woollen manufacture, is shown in the following letter from a highly respectable manufac turer to a gentleman in office. We do not know how it will be possible to work the Bill when the mills shall be running only eight hours a day, as thl ivere for three fourths of the year from 1839 to 1842 inclugive. The children can then only be worked four hours in the day ! and for the pittance which this would earn, their parents will hardly be induced to let them work at all. We think the mill-owners in the woollen trade will do well to consider the sug ' gestions in the following letter ; and if thff think them well-founded, to get up memorials and petitions against the Bill, and to send deputations to represent their case to Ministers and Members of Parliament. The Bill goes into Committee next Friday, so that there is no time to be lost. The following is the letter we have referred to:— Birstal, near Leeds, Feb. 17, 1844, " Sir,—l have• received copies of the New Factories Bill from Mr. Aldam and Lord Ashley. The country mill-owners still entertain the strongest objection to the half-time clause in the new Bill. A deputation would certainly be sent from Batley, if we could entertain any opinion that our representations would receive attention, but all trading matters receive such slight attention from the Government or the Parliament, that all feel such a sense of injury that no one will troublehimself further, except in cases where the whole country can be stirred up to take an interest in the subject. ‘, The clause which prevents the employment of women more than twelve .hours daily, is a good and valnsible alteration. While I freely acknowledge and approve of this change, I should be wanting in duty to myself, and those by whom I have been formerly deputed on this question, as well as to the labouring classes themselves, if I did not protest against the half-time clause as appli cable to woollen mills. The case of woollen mills is peculiar, and ought not to be subjected to the same de tail of legislation. Allow me, onc e more , t o go over shortly the points of objection— " 1. In Mr. Saunders's Report the objection of increased expense is mentioned, but he does not allow it sufficient weight in the declining and unprofitable state of the woollen manufacture, which it is admitted can bear no additional burden. As he admits, there will be an in crease of wages necessary to procure short time piecers as compared with full time hands, I need not go into the reasons for it. I may just mention that their oily garments is one, and that this will be an objection to their attending schools for other children. " 2. It will be felt to be a great hardship when children who have attained to twelve years of age, arc compelled to work for half-time wages. "3. As our country mills work for hire, and are irre gularly employed, working generally during the winter months only eight hours, or merely during the day light,—to employ children six hours, and that only before or after noon, will subject them to inconvenience and loss. If we work only half the day, and th a t on l y b e f ore twelve, or after one o'clock, we shall have to begin early, and light up our mills at a great and needless expense ; if we begin at noon, we shall have the cost of lighting up at night. To be compelled to employ two sets of Children for eight hours' labour will be an intolerable grievance. During the last four years, our mills have not been employed more than eight hours daily for the greater part of each year. " 4. In times of good trade we found it difficult to ob tain children for piecers, because their parents can then earn a sufficiency, and will not trouble themselves to send their children early and regularly to mills. This difficulty will be greatly increased when only half wages are to be earned. "5. In our country mills, to which children come from all quarters, and from considerable distances, to attend school will often be impossible, and will be a bar to the employment of children so situated. At piesent, under the eight hours' system, where any number of children are employed, schools are kept on the premises. Under the half-time system, this cannot be done better than it may now be done; besides, parents will not be at the expense of making a separate provision of dinners as they now do. In populous towns the half-time system may work well, but cannot do so in our country situations. " 6. Nothing can show the oppressive nature of tha present short time enactment in a more forcible manner, than Mr. Saunders's own report, dated 20th October last, in which it is stated that, with an actual increase of 15,000 hands, there is a decrease in the employment, of children under thirteen years of age of about 2,000. Taking into consideration the condition of the labouring classes, this statement, properly understood, indicates their deteriorated state, and the oppressive working of the short time clauses. " If is not practicable to retain the eight hours' clause for woollen mills in the present temper of Government and the House of Parliament, I would submit that it would be for the benefit of all parties to allow chil dren to enter on full work in woollen mills at twelve years of age. It would materially lessen the tax on woollen millowners, benefit the parents, and pro mote a more cordial attention to the education of children, and lessen the inducements to infringe upon the correct observance of the Act. If this cannot be obtained,a clause ought to be inserted to enable children to be em ployed eight hours, when the mills work only eight hours; at any rate during six hours of daylight in win ter, when the mills only work that time. If the clause is enacted in its present extreme character, it will only produce a dogged sullen acquiescence, and there will be no cordial eflert made, because it will be felt to be one rous, and an undue interference with labour. " The clause permitting the employment of children on alternate Saturdays the whole day is omitted. I fear there will be some difficulty about clocks; our country church clocks are so irregularly kept, that they will be a very imperfect guide. " I am at a loss what to say about compensation for ac cidents; it seems to me unjust to require damages from millowners not required from any other department of employment. Accidents generally happen from careless. ness and inattention, which millowners cannot prevent. I think there ought to be a clause restricting the power of prosecution to cases of wilful neglect after notice given. We find that the workpeoplo in the neighbourhood of Batley are quite as strongly opposed to the regula tions of the new Factories Bill as their employers; and we know that those of Pudsey, Parsley, &c., have the same objections. They feel that the half-time provi sion will make the labour of their children of little or no value to them. The families of the poor have, ever since the commencement of the manufacturing system, derived most important benefit from the labour of the children; which, when so regulated as not to in jure their health, is a positive benefit to the children themselves, in giving them habits of industry, as well as in providing for their better nourishment and clothing. The workpeople arc, therefore, quite alarmed at the prospect of the time being so arranged that the children can never work more than six hours a day (for the half hour is merely put in to cover accidental overstepping of the rule by a few minutes)—that generally in she woollen district, where the day's work is eleven hourz t they will only be able to work five hours and a half a-day,--and that in bad times, when the mills run only eight hours, they will only be able to work four hours a-day. We last year published a letter from a workman in a large mill a few miles from Leeds, expressing, on. behalf of himself and his fellow-workmen, the strongest objections to the proposed plan. We have just received a communication from a meeting of the working men of Batley, written in evident and lively alarm. They see clearly how the Bill will affect both their employers and themselves. The following are two or three sentences of their letter : "You are right when you say it (the Bill) will dimi• nish the income of labour: it will to a great amount. It will be impossible for it to work in this district, without a great disadvantage both to the la ) ,ouriug class and the millowners, more than anything that ever came into operation before. In winter tr.me, the children will be drawn out of bed at five o'ck)ck in the morning to work (in order to complete six hours' labour before 12 o'clock), and they then will have too play in the afternoon,—de stroying the capital of the employer in lighting up in the morning, to play the day-light away." They call the Bill " one of the most outrageous sehpmes that ever was invented by man." It behoves the workmen generally, as well as the em ployers in the woolen districts, if they concur in the views taken above to move instantly. Petitions will be sent from Batley and th e neighbouring townships, signed by all classes. But, if any good is to be done, Deputa tions both of masters and of intelligent workmen should be sent up to London, to wait on Ministers and lifebibers of Parliament; and as the Bill goes into Committee on Friday next, the deputations should go immediately— otherwise they will not be able to see the Members be fore the Bill has passed.—L Mercury. EFFECTS OF Ranwitirg.--Within the last month the two principal peatmasteue of Rochester have appealed against the amount at which their premises were rated to the poor, stating, as the ground! of their claim, that, in conse quence of the decrease of traffic on the road to Dover, the value of their property is materially depreciated. On the last application of thin nature, the guardians said that .pro perty of all kind in that city was materially lowered in value, and the board of guardians for the parish of St. Nicholas, Rochester, have consequently determined to reduce the valua tion of the whole parish. It is understood that the propoied reduction will amount to one-fifth of the whole. A musical drama by Rodwell, to be entitled. Thi Maidens of Munich, has been accepted at Dinry.lan• Theatre._ Dr. Kernan, for 26 s yesxs Roman Catholic Bishop of Clothes, died on Tuesday last at Carriskosasross. DEaL. — Government has sent gratuities to the three boats' crews who so intrepidly ventured their am lives a few weeks back, to save the crew of a brig wrecked on the Goodwin Sand. A subscription was also entered into ranong • the inhabitants, when between 30/. and 40/. was collected and distributed among them. SALMON FISHING.—The fishing for salmon in the Tyne opened on the 10th inst. Several have been takers since that time, bat the price continues high. The fishing season com menced in the Tweed on Thursday 'last. In consequence of the melting of the snow up the country, the river was too much swollen to admit of work being resumed at all the stations. At those, however, at which it 4111 commence, the success w as very encouraging; all of them ha.ving obt a i ne d fi s h, s o me of t hem sis and seven each.—Netecastie Advertiser. Tho Mint sustained st loss by its OF MARY " the pmt year of coin from the Bank of England during Consolidated Fund For the purchase of silver and copper 9,483/. The sums i.ss ne d out of the bullion for coinage amounted during the past year to 350,0001. period amounted to 276,606/., and the copper c The silver coin deliv ere d purchase of old worn silver T AMENDED Pooll— nE into the Miut.ofiice durin o g in th to e lo B , a 9 m B4l. PAlusu LAW BILL. —Yesterday a meeting of the Directors and Guardians of the Poor of the parish of 3farylebone took place in the board room of the workhouse, New.road, Mr. W. Lowe in the chair. Mr. Rathheae, after adverting to various parts of the Bill, moved the appointment of a Committee to co.operate with the vestry, pa d opip)oustittihoonrdtsootvhoeaseincclaotLesoliiikiceiz t r o i s h affect ione rtheir n d l 0 %0: e i r n t p e a r r a i s s t h s es , a„d to c atn h u en a t s c o a n n t i h ed e s b u y bj a ec i non t A h l e en r i e.s be o r i s u t o i o f n P . w ar h l second the beard, after COM@ Maine business, separates' ..rge lrr. majority,chanowuoidr xe • —4-1.,•1114z?„i5.,2: