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

&MIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Taos 'Mit SPIKING P4PS39 OP SATUILDAY. GLOBE.—We regard if as a piece of great week• ness to keep harping upon the Catholic oath ; and we are surprised that Lord Stanley should have wound np_ an able speech with a topic ineffective, when not offensive. From whom, after all, proceed most of the attacks on the Irish establishment ? From the Roman Catholic Members ? By no means ? Why, one of the most outspoken recent sallies on the subject of that Church, as exclusively es ablished in Ireland, proceeded from the Gal lant and most Protestant Member for Westminster, Captain Rous. We have before us a pamphlet, pub lished by Mr. D. Perceval, containing his father's speeches on the Catholic question, in an appendix to which we find bitter and just complaints of having been taken in to vote for Captain Rous, as a Pro testant Conservative. Now, if that is all the depend ence Protestant Churchmen can place on their own members, what possible use is there in twitting Roman Catholics with hostile conduct towards the Pro testant Church ? Are the Roman Catholics the only Dis senters in Parliament who must express no opinion on that subject If they may express opinions, are they to express their own opinions, or some others ? To have made this oath good for anything as a defence of the outward Protestant Establishment, it ought to have been an oath, or engagement, neither to speak nor vote on any subject affect ing that Establishment. All general pledges are per fectly useless, the object of which is to withhold one section of the Legislature from doing what all the rest may do. If the Catholic oath had succeeded in imposing this exclusive restriction on Catholics, it would have produced a second Catholic question. If there were no Protestants who attacked Protestant ascendancy, the supposed Catholic pledge to abstain from doing so might be pleaded more colourably. But to say Roman Catholics must hold their tongues, and withhold their votes, on public ques tions, on which all other Members may speak and vote in what sense they please, is to talk idly. And what would be the consequence, if Roman Catholics acquiesced in this doctrine ? The conse quence could be no other than this, that they must all turn Repealers in a body—all at least, of those who regard it as their duty to act upon their Church feel ings in Parliament as elsewhere. Every one of them must throw their weight into the scale of separate Roman Catholic legislature, if the Perceval, and, it would seem, Stanley construction of their oath could be brought home to their conviction. Lord Shrewsbury said, very justly, last year, that " until both Houses of Parliament combined to give a different interpretation (from Lord Camoys) of the oath, Roman Catholics would be justified in giving their opinion in the Legis lature even on subjects that might trench on the esta blished religion of the country. On any other terms he would not condescend to sit in Parliament." Would the party in power think the British con nexion with Ireland greatly strengthened, if every Roman Catholic, who thinks himself bound to act in favour of his chureh on all occasions,could be convinced that he was not at liberty to do so within the walls of Parliament ? Why then, let them pass a declaratory Act of the stringent sense in which the oath taken by Roman Catholics is understood by Parliament. If they could make their majority relax corn duties, surely theycan make them tighten Catholic tests. That they won't do so—that it would annoy them amazingly if the Roman Catholics took them at their word—considered themselves, as they affect to consider them, debarred all free expression on Church subjects—and thereupon succeeded en mane, and took service, as loyal Repeal auxiliaries, under Mr. O'Connell—proves, as VIP began by stating, the weakness of talking everlast ingly about an alleged engagement they shrink from enforcing. It would seem our opponents have got such a habit of talking about this oath, that it always comes uppermost when they find they have nothing else left to say. But whatever colour there might be for throwing it in the teeth of a Whig majority, there is no shred of pretence now for a single word more about it. " You say the oath's evaded—why then, take it— I'm all submission—what you'd have it MAKE rr." All this whining is utterly ludicrous with a large majority in both Houses. It is your fault if Roman Catholic consciences are ensnared an hour longer by general terms. Make them so stringent, that no zeal ous Roman Catholic can speak or vote henceforward on any Church question. Every straightforward Tory (as Sir C. Wetherell) derided your oath, as securing establishments. Every straightforward Tory (as Mr. Perceval) demands, if you make anything of it, to make it stringent and penal. And Mr. O'Connell will be much obliged to you. What need we say more ? COLONEL STODDART and CAPT CONOLLY. We regret to have to state, that accounts were yesterday received at the Foreign-otfice from St. Petersburgh, stating that the Russian Envoy at Teheran. in a dispatch dated the 15th (27th) of December, had reported to his Government that the information which he had indirectly obtained from the Envoy of the Ameer of Bokhara, who had arrived in Teheran, bad only too surely removed all uncertainty as to the tragical end of Captain tionollv and Lieutenant-Colonel Stoddart, for he positively asserted that the first had been executed for having shown on many occasions great par tiality for the Khan of Kokan, at that time at war with Bokhara; and the second in consequence of the discovery of ' a secret correspondence which he kept up with his country men at Canbul, through the channel of Indian merchants establiahed at Bokhara. The Russian Envoy adds, that although the truth of these details can hardly be questioned, an Envoy from the Shah of Persia, who is about to proceed to Bokhara on a special mis sion, will be expressly instructed to collect on the spot the most precise information as to the details which accompanied the death of the two English officers. The Russian Envoy further says, that the agent from Bokhara, whether from fear or from delicacy, had evaded Lieut.-Colonel Shell's attempt to obtain information from him as to a catastrophe which must painfully shuck the British representative.—Times. LATEST FROM CHINA. (From the Devonport Independent.) We have received letters, by the last Overland mail, from Hong-Kong, China. dated November 30th, 1845, from which we extract the following ;—" The ward-room officers of her Majesty's ship Minden have, at their sole expense, erected a neat monument to the memory of their late measmate, Thomas Hancom, late master of that ship. About 200 men have invalided from the squadron, and will shortly leave for England, in the Rattlesnake, troop-ship. The Cornwallis, Dido, and Vixen steamer, will sail as soon as the two mails which are now due arrive. As soon as the hospital at Hong- Kong is ready, the sick soldiers will leave the Minden, and be taken on shore. The ship has been moved about two miles further out from the town for the benefit of the sick, amounting now, in all, to seventy-five--twenty-five of whom belong to the Minden. The Rattlesnake has about forty of the 55th Regiment on board, the Sapphire about fifty,find the , Lansier more. Admiral Sir W. Parker will leave here (Hong- - Kong) on the let November. Messrs. Allen and Rogers, assietant-surgeons, of the Minden, go to England in charge of the invalids in the Rattlesnake. The Cornwallis, flag-ship, sails to-morrow (Ist December), and the Admiral, it is said, will return in May. All the troops will be taken out of the Minden, and sent to Chusan, 80 that ship will only have her own sick in hospital on board." Hong-Kong barracks will be ready in about two months. There has been a survey held on board the Semarang, sur veying -vessel, Captain Sir Edw. Belcher ; her copper being all off, it is certain that the destructive worms of these seas will soon nm.ke great havoc in her, and the officers have re commendeirthat shashall be hove done. Mr. Gordon, Mate of the Cornwallis, isvappointed acting Lieutenant of the Starling; Mr. Spreat, Master command ing the Rattlesnake, has invalided, and is superseded by Mr. Xing, Master of the Agincourt ; Mr. Elliott, Master of the Dido, is appointed to the Agincourt ; Mr. Allen, Master of the Vixen steamer, to the Dido ; Mr. Giles, Second Master of the Starling, to the Vixen. Lieutenant Wade, of the Semarang, is in the Minden's hos pital. Lieutenant Heard, of the same ship, has been thrown from a horse and dragged along the ground, which disfigured him very much, but be was not at all dangerously hurt. Captain Call, and his father, Paymaster of the 18th Regi ment, go home on sick leave. Mr. Sullivan, Master, is appointed Consul at Amoy. On the 9th of November a plot was discovered for blowing !II) the markets here (Hong-Kong). Had it succeeded there is no knowing what the consequences would have been : it is very likely one of the victualling stores and the commissariat would have been destroyed. One Chinaman has been appre-. hended, and he will be hung. The police' are now burning down a range of buildings, occupied by a disaffected body of Chi ne se. The guards are all doubled, and armed boats now guard all night. On the 11th November an alarm of fire was given, and it was found that fifty houses were burning at once here. Sir Henry Pottinger is at Canton, and is not expected here till Hong-Kong is more healthy. The gunner of the Semarang has been tried by Court-martial, and broke for drunkenness. We have also received a letter from a medical gentleman at Hong-Kong, from which we extract the following :— " Sickness prevailed to a great extent ; fifteen have died in the last week, and about thirty are expected not to recover. St range to say, that although the Admiralty have fitted out the Minden, ho s pit a l- s hi p, with every comfort, the men have a great dread of being sent to her, preferring to remain in their own ships even to death. A large house . has . been taken for a military hos p ital. Mr. R hospital. The prejudc,eill IJI the againstwin bee Minaedens R . N., so strong, that it is thought no more sick s enti on d board her. The soldiers are to be t a k en out of her, an therefore the Minden will on l y have her own worth a h un d re d own sio t k t s o n C b h o u s san re i We ought to have held Chilean, it "m islands of Hong-Kong, and I thi n k we only wait for a fai r chance to take it again ; for if wedonot America or F rance will, if we allow them to do so. A g re a t . squabble " has arisen between the nobs here, the Governor supposing the .Admirals and General have not paid him p ro per_ i respeet as to salutes. Sir W. Parker has been unwell , but s recovered, and has returned from Macao. The Starling, cutter, Lieutenant Gordon, has been e expected to being found rotten. The Castor, frigate, • l " pected to arrive daily. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Feb. 16.) SUGAR.—The market has a firm appearance for West India Sugar; buyers hare been on the alert, and the demand has been good for every description for grocery and refining pur poses—indeed the market has been each day cleared ; the prices paid have been fully up to those of Friday last for good ;end fine yellow, but all common and brown qualities have brought an advance of 6d to is per cwt. To-day West India was. fair request for all purposes, and the rates previously estswilled were fully sustained ; some of the brokers have DO Buggi '4 to offer for sale. ItgriNg, 9•—:The home trade have been eager purchasers of every descr tption of Refined goods this week, paying an ad vance on for 'Wer rates of is to 2s per cwt. To-day refined goods were in request, and the lowest lump was not to be obtained under '77B.Per cwt. For Bonded Crushed S u g ar 26 s 1 in some cases Lye peen refused. ifatreertti.-e-The operations in this description of Sugar have been upon a large scale this week. Yesterday very fine strong bright yellow sold at 691 to 69s 64 fine 67* to 68s, gpod 64e to 65e, middling 61* to 635, low 5911tH 60., and Cm* brown 57s per cwt. EASt IstnA.-The rates previously established have been fully maintained for Bengal Sugar, and the trade have pur chased all descriptions readily by private contract. Foreign East India Sugar at previous prices. This day Manilla Sugar sold at market rates ; fine brown fetched 17, to lis 6d, damp 17s, and washed 16s to 16e 6d; law middling sound fellow taken in at lax pp cwt. Fortxxix...Tellow liavannah at 205 64 per cwt for ooloury rub yellow ; white cannot be quoted cheaper ; Bahia at 7s per cwt ; white at the previous currency. MOLASSES.-For all descriptions of West India better prices have been paid-Demerara at 258 6d to 265, superior 275, Antigua 265, Dominica 275, and St. Vincent's 27a per cwt. Bengal Syrup at previous rates. COFFER.-Of British Plantation only 2 casks and 27 brls have been brought to public sale during the week, which sold readily at stiff rates ; fine ordinary Jamaica rather colory fetched 72s 6d, good ordinary pale 63s to 645, and fine ordinary ragged 65s 6d per cwt. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was in good request, at an advance of 3s to 5s for B.P. sorts ; on good ordinary Ceylon the advance was not more than 6d per cwt ; good ordinary pale fetched 66s to 66s 6d, fine ordinary B. P. kind 72s to 755, middling 94s 6d, low middling 89s 6d, fine ordinary grey 78s to 86s, pea berry 89, to 102 s, low ordinary ragged 54s to 575, black 39s to 58s, very low 18s ; Mysore at 35s 6d to 36s for good ordinary green, 40s for fine ordinary, and 46s for low ordinary pale : Rio bought in at 56s for fine ordinary : and Costa Rica at 57. to 60s for fine ordi nary, and 50s to 55s for good : 117 bags Padang sold at 22s 6d for low, mixed with blacks. TEA.-In the early part of the week Tea of all descrip tions met with a good demand. On Tuesday, of 17,990 packages submitted to public competition, nearly 6,000 were sold at and immediately after the sales at previous rates, ex cepting for good Congou of the recent importations, which went ld per lb cheaper. To-day the market was quiet for Tea, but purchases could not generally have been made in Congou under the rates of the last public sales. COCOA.-The demand continues on the increase for West India, and prices have an upward tendency. Foreign is held for previous rates. This afternoon Grenada middling red fetched 48s to 495, and Trinidad low grey 44s to 465. Trini dad Chocolate fetched 3id per lb. Russ, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.---JamaiCa Rum 27 to 29 per cent overproof, common quality at 2s 8d to 2s 10d, 30 to 33 over, fair 3s 14 to 3a 4d, 34 to 36 over, good 3s 10d to 45: in second hand parcels, in all 500 puns have been sold at prices vary ing from 2s 9d to 4s 6d for 27 to 36 per cent overproof. Demerara at 2s 104 to 2s lld for 35 to 37 per cent overproof. Leewards at Is lld to 2s for proof to 5 per cent overproof. Calcutta at Is 8d for proof with certificate. For Brandy holders are firm :-Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838 selling-hhds at 5s lld, puns 5s 9d; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s Bd, puns 5s 6d; ditto, 1840, hhds 58 6d, puns 5s 4d; ditto, 1841, hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d; ditto 1842, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id, middling marks 3s 104 to 4s 6d, and common 3s to 3s 8d per gallon. Geneva for shipping is 10d ; the value of fine for duty is 2s 4d to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits at lOs to lOs 2d per gallon, cash. SAGO.-GOOfi small white Pearl at 23s 64 to 248 6d, good mid grey 218 to 21s 64, mid brownish 17s 6d ; common Pearl at 13s per cwt. Sago Flour at 18s for mid, and 9s to 13s Gd per cwt for damaged. Sound Tapioca brought 3id to 4d per lb ; South American Arrowroot at lid to 4d, and African 2d to 3d per lb. This afternoon Pearl Sago at 198 to 19, 6d fur good small white. RicE.-Bengal Rice at lOs 9d to lls for mid, and at 11.34 to lls 64 for good mid white. Madras at 9s per cwt for yel low. Java yellow at 8s 6d to 9s, and white at 9s 6d to lls per cwt. Patna Rice at 14s to 15s ; the highest price is 17s, and the lowest 13s per cwt. Carolina, cleaned here, 21s to 24s and 26s per cwt. Isinc.o.-East India at an advance of 2d per lb on the last quarterly sale. Spanish has sold steadily at firm rates. On 1.-Cod Oil at 33/ per tun ; 341 109 to 35/ per tun for .pale Seal. Sperm Oil at 70/ per tun for fine British. Lin seed Oil at 26s 3d to 26s Gd per cwt on the spot. Rape Oil at 36e for pale, and 35s per cwt for brown. Olive Oil has been in excellent demand : Galipoli at 464 Spanish 43/, and Barbary 421 to 421 lOs per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s to 32s for low to fine quality. Palm Oil fine quality at 28s per cwt. This afternoon Palm Oil taken in.-good at 27/ to '27/10s, mid 261 109. TALLOW.-For forward delivery of Petersburgh yellow candle 41s 3d to 41, 6d are the quotations for the last three months of the year. The business transacted has been upon a small scale only at 40, 9d to 41s per cwt for Petersburgh yellow candle of first quality.-American at easier rates. Town Tallow is 423 per cwt, net cash. This afternoon North American Melted Tallow sold at 35s to 39s 9d, fine Odessa Beef Tallow at 40, 6d to 408 9d, South American at 34s to 395, and North American Lard at 35s per cwt. TIM SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY it, 1R44, THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. " Leaguers meet in theatres," said the Home Secre. Lary, in his speech of fu .sday evening. They do, sir James. 'They met in Covent-garden last night ; and they will continue to meet at short intervals here and throughout the country, until all occasion for meeting shall have ceased. The League is no .ephemeral body. It has all the elements of permanency about it. Its duration will be co-existent with that of the odious monopole which it has been established to put down. Both will stand or fall together. The League has given many proofs of its vitality. It has proved itself to be something more than an abstraction. There is an at mosphere of practicability about it, which the monopo lists are at length compelled to acknowledge. There must be -,omething tangible in a body w hi c h - has spread terror and dismay amidst the ranks of the monopolists. That cannot be a non-entity which has forced the land lords and the clergy of a State Church to form them selves into a wide-spread confederacy, to resist what they call the aggressions of the League. That cannot be a mere airy nothing which has wrung from the hard grasp of an avaricious oligarchy some 15,0001. or 20,0001. in the hope—vain hope !—of opposing the fur ther progress of the League, which has been truly de signated " a Great fact." Let the monopolists go on as they are doing. Let them combine and contribute to their hearts' content. The League glories in collision. The League courts a conflict with the champions of the landed interest. Conflict is, with the League, but another name for con quest. The free-traders have challenged the monopo lists to the combat times without number. The challenge has been hitherto declined. It is now accepted, and the opposing powers are marshalling their respective forces for a decisive battle. The grand conflict is on the eve of commencing. Of the issue there can be no doubt ; nor can there be a question that the engagement, though severe, will be but a short one. Never did the League appear in better spirits than they did last night. How could it be otherwise ? The attendance was, if possible, greater than ever ; and cer tainly, intense as was the enthusiasm at former meetings, the enthusiasm displayed last night exceeded anything of the kind ever before witnessed. No one who was in Covent-garden last night can any longer entertain a doubt, however sceptical he may have hitherto been, that the days of the monster monopoly are numbered. We wish that all those oligarchists, titled and untitled, who have of late been planking down their 1001, 501., 20/., 10/., SL, &c., for the purpose of perpetuating the corn-laws, had formed a part of the vast audience. If they had, they would have learned at least one important lessson. They would have been taught the utter hopelessness of averting, or even much longer de ferring, the destruction of the bread monopoly. And this conviction would necessarily have been followed by another, namely, the folly of contributing their money to prevent a catastrophe which is inevitable. There are none, says the proverb, so blind as those who will not see. Some of the landlords are in this predicament. Though everybody else clearly discerns the impending extinction of the corn-laws, there is a section of the monopolists who shut their eyes and refuse to be en lightened. The delusion may be a pleasant one while it lasts. And were it likely to last for fifteen or twenty years, we c‘iuld understand the conduct of those monopolists by whom it is so fondly cherished. Human nature shrinks from the contemplation of distant evils. No one likes to torment hims4f before the time. It only when evils are known to be at hand, that they force themselves on men's attention. Those landlords to whom we refer are unwilling to learn how near its doom their favourite monopoly is. 1 hey not only wii not come to the light ; but they will n.,t let us bring the light to them. '1 heir conduct would be intelligible could their ignorance avi.rt the coming cala mity. But it cannot—no more than the ostrich, who thrusts i.s head into the sand when closely pursued, thereby escapes the destruction to which it is doomed. But if many of the monopolists are determ;ned not to see, they must be made to feel. If they will not now believe that their craft is in danger—the craft by which they have so long swindled and plund e red the public— they must be :nude to believe it, by bringing the threat ened ruin abolit their ears. _ • ssa %ay,. ,• • The aa proceedings of last night were well adapted to accelerate this e%ent. Mr. Hume was sinuularly happy in his re'erences to the humiliating position in which the Pr&-mier has suffered himself to be placed. Never did Minister appear in so pitiable a plight. Last year he proclaimed h's determination not to be dictated to by the Richmonds and Buckinghams, who head the mono list confederacy. Those who differed from him admired what they considered the manliness of the declaration. But how has he acted up to it ? Let his announcement the other night, that he will consent to no alteration in the corn-laws, answer the question. In that announce ment he stands the self-confessed minion of the oligarchy. He has been cowed by the menaces of dismissal from office, which the Duke of Richmond has held over his head. He has been compelled to eat the leek, and by doing so has irredeemably disgraced himself in the e,ti mation of all honourable men—even in that of the very aristtcrats whose livery he has consented to wear, and whose obsequious lacquey he has agreed to become. To the speeches of Mr. Christie and Mr. Fox we have not space to advert. Both were effective—that of the latter was particularly so. We shall probably take oc casion to recur to it, and direct attention to some of its more prominent points.—Advertiser. LORD LYNDHURST'S CIIARGE TO THE FYX JURY. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) A Committee of the Goldsmiths' Company, appointed to try the coinage, assembled at the Privy Council Chamber, when the Lord Chancellor addressed them nearly as follows : " Gentlemen, —You are assembled here to-day to try the value of the coinage ; and, as the coal-merchant is said to have remarked that Coals is coals,' it will be for you to say if money is really money. " Gentlemen, there is no pleasure in life without some alloy, and money. which is one of the greatest of earthly delights, has also its alloy ; but you will have to take care there is not too much of it. Formerly, every gold watch weighed so many carats, from which it became usual to call a silver w atch a turnip ; but this will not, at present, form a branch of your inquiry. Troy weight. gentlemen,wederived from th e h eavy responsibility the habit of tossing up t h e i r co i ns i n the pre sencere under to th • eir creditor s . Th e R omans °itinwe rrein the o s f the legions, and if a pie ce o f money went higher e Gentlemen, will not be q uired to do this. It will be sufficient if you ring the money on the mahog an y dining •table that you will find ra above en the tip s o t f i n the da r ensign's o Iyu prepared for you. " The early Italians used cattle instead of coin, and a person would sometimes send for change for a thousand pound bullock, when he would receive twenty five-pound s h ee p, or perhaps, if he wanted very small change, there would be a few lamps amongst them. The incon venience of keeping a flock of sheep at one's banker's, or paying in a short-hornel heifer to one's private ac count, led to the introduction of bullion. "To return, however, Gentlemen, to the duty that will devolve upon yourselves. You will be called upon to examine into the unhealthy custom of sweating sove reigns; and, with regard to this point, will do well to re cnllect that Charles 1. was, perhaps, the e.trlie-t sove reign who was sweated to such an extent that his imme diate successor, Charles: 11., became one of the lightest sovereigns ever known in this country. " With these remarks, Gentlemen, I leave you to the discharge of your important duties. There are weights and scales in the next room; and while British honesty holds the beam, I am sure that British wealth can never suffer ; for it is the boast of our blessed nation, that the merchant may hold his head as high as the noble—(aside) if his washerwoman has put sufficient starch in his shirt collar." (The Learned Lord's speech was so much ap plauded when he arrived at the beautiful little figure of the merchant and the noble, that the concluding words, spoken aside, were not audible.) The Foreman of the Pyx Jury, in the enthusiasm of the moment, asked the whole of the Privy Council to a banquet, to be given the same evening in the Hall of the Goldsmiths' Company. The Lord Chancellor, in the name of the Privy Council, observed, that they were all indisposed. and that their medical attendants had said, that by all means they must all keep quiet, and therefore could not accept the Pyx Jury's polite invitation. The Jury then amused themselves by tossing up, weighing, breathing upon, biting, and otherwise experimentalising with the coin of the realm, which they declared to be honest and satis factory.—Punch. Windmill-street. DEATH FROM EATING SPRATS.—Mr. Baker held t a h n i rt i y 7 s u i in q uest an yeosilteanrdadycoaltourinthean,Cohfesquoe.rss: Providence-row, Finsbury-square, on the body of Mr. Thomas Wiley, aged Samuel doggridge said he was a lodger in deceased's house. He returned home from the London Docks on Tuesday night last, and deceased invited him into the parlour to smoke a pipe. Witness sat with him for about an hour, and at twelve o'clock deceased parted with him, and went to bed. De ceased was then in perfect health. At four o'clock the next morning the witness was awakened and told that deceased was very ill. He got up and dressed himself as quickly as possible, but upon reaching the bedside he found him dead. Mr. John Cantling, surgeon, of No. 11, Finsbury-square, said he was called to attend deceased, but found him dead. Witness had since made a post mortem examination of the body, and found that deceased had died from inflammation of the stomach, caused by eating some sprats for supper on the previous night. He was informed that deceased had eaten very few, but his stomach was previously diseased, poker given him by his wife, a and the number was fully sufficient to aggravate the corn pgaint. Persons with weak stom achs could not be too careful in eating sprats. Verdict " Died from the effects of eati;:ig sprats, the stomach being previously in an unhealthy state." CHAHoit OF MURDER IN 17•.TORVVICH.-011 Thursday woman or, apparently o n his view death evening an is \quest was held at a pu blic-house, the s ign of the Plough, i_Nt. Benedict's - stree t, before Mr. Wilde, City Crone by that day in conseq uenc e , as was re ported, of a blow with .„. oct.;:albthoue 1 p about bo:y.ofTJhoe p arties ke p t one o f thosehn Seeley, aped 65, who came infamous public-houses whoh abound in this city, th e Cooper's Arms, St. DfargareeP• The deceased Seeley, di e d on Thursday afternoon, and .as rumours of his ill-treatment by his wife had got abroad, g , ea t excitement was occasioned. A jury was summoned alm(ist i mmediately after; and an is quest. held about six o'clock; in the evening. During the in quiry there was a great crowd ontiide the house. The wife of the deceased, Mary Ann Seeley, was present, while the inquest was going on, and often interrupted the witnesses ; asserting that deceased hat 0 1 struck her, and that she never used the poker at all. The i quest was adjourned till —Norfolk Chronicle. • GARWAL—One day lost week a fine large salmon was caught in the trap at... Garway Mill, in the river Mon now. This noble fish must have leaped no less than seven weirs, before arriving at Ow place where it was taken; and the fact of a salmon being f mind in the Monnow is, we are assured by a most experiauced disciple of lsaak Walton, without procedent.-s-lierefttod Timer. t STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 16.—0 n account of the continued demand for Foreign Wools, and the temporary suspension in the supply from Germany in consequence of the frost, the stocks of some descriptions have already become very bare, and for such as remain on hand full recent rates are demanded and generally obtained. ExGustt WooL, MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 16.—We have not any alteration to report iu this branch of trade this week, .either as to demand or prices. There is considerable business doing, and prices are very firm. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 16.—The demand for all kinds of combing wools continues good, and the improved tenns of last week are fully maintained. Low clothing wools are much sought for, at advanced prices. Blanket wools are comparatively neglected, and prices without variation. LEEDS.—The markets at both our Cloth Halls were very lively both on Saturday and Tuesday ; but the demand is principally for low goods, upon which a trifling advance has been obtained, whilst the demand for finer qualities is with out any alteration, and prices are lower than at any period since 1829. The demand continues brisk for Tweeds both for foreign and home demand. There has been a little im provement in business in the warehouses during the week, particnlarly for the home market, whilst the foreign houses continue to be doing a steady business, considering the early period of the season. HOLMFIRTIL—There has been a moderate share of busi• ness done here during the past month, principally in low fancy goods. Manufacturers continuing to confine them selves to the orders received, stocks are consequently low. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, FEB. 15.—There is quite an average attendance of buyers at our piece market to-day, and a full business doing, and late prices fully main tained. The demand for yarn for home consumption con tinues ; also several export houses (who have been doing but little of late, owing to the Elbe being frozen) have made their appearance as buyers, which is calculated to cause the spin ners to be busy for a length of time. Prices without altera tion. There has scarcely been so much animation in the wool trade during the week, as for some time past. Prices are very firm ; in fact all kinds of wool may be quoted dearer in the growing districts since our last report. _ _ MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—Though the specu lation in Liverpool is not so extensive this week a.s of late, still neither spinner, manufacturer, nor buyer, seems to know what to do : the small business doing, however, may be said to be at about half the advance that has taken place on cotton, and this applies to all kinds of cloth except printing cloth, which at present finds buyers at very full and satisfactory prices ; fine yarns are also an exception, which sell pretty freely at paying rates.—Leeds Mercury. TROOPS IN IRELAND. An Account of the Total Rank and File of all Arms in Ire land, on the Ist day of January in each year front 1830 to 1844, both inclusive : Years. Rank and File. Years. Rank and File. 1830 1831 " 16,701 1839 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 A Alutant-General's Office, Fl bilti MACDONALD, A.G. 'eb. 14, 1844. THE WEATHER.—SCOTLAND.--The comparative mildness of the weather here, with the plough going in the vicinity of the town, and our streets and roads free from snow, is strikingly contrasted with the interior of the Highlands, where the storm has been severely felt. The road to Perth, between Moy and Dalnacardoch, is quite blocked up by snow wreaths of great depth. The mail bags from Dalnacardoch are conveyed on horseback ; and all letters south of Dunkeld are sent round by Aberdeen, a circuit of eighty additional miles to Inverness. This day appearing settled, with symp toms of thaw, a body of men have been set to work to clear away the snow, but it is supposed that nearly a week must elapse ere the Highland road can be rendered passable for vehicles. Fortunately the letters from the ;south arrive re gularly, with the exception that the delivery takes place here at eight o'clock in the evening instead of eight in the morn ing. In Ross-shire the coast road is quite clear;, but in Sutherland and Caithness the mails are carried on horseback, owing to the depth of snow.—lnverness Courier. Diesmunow.—On Friday last, Mr. Payne held an inquest at the White Hart, Shoe-lane, on view of the body of Samuel Townsend, aged thirty, whose death was accelerated by privation and destitution. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a pattern-maker, and lived at No. 3, Green-street, Marlborough-row, Chelsea. He had been out of work sixteen weeks, during fourteen of which he had been suffering from consumption. Last Monday he was en gaged to work at the iron-foundry of Mr. Pontifex, Shoe lane, when he took a lodging at Mr. Beckwith's coffee-shop, No. 77, Shoe-lane. On Wednesday he was so ill that the foreman advised him to go home, and assisted him there, about ten o'clock in the forenoon. Soon after he appeared dying, when Mr. Bullen, surgeon, attached to th e Farring don-street Dispensary, attended, in whose presence he died. It was stated in the room that the deceased had left a widow and an infant, one month old, wit!! six small children, and that he was in such reduced circumstances that the whole of them were without food two days of the preceding week. The unfortunate widow, who had her baby in her arms, said that they had been \.in extreme distress, and that her hus ' band's illness proceeded from a cold. Mr. Buller stated that death arose from inflammation of the chest, which, he had no doubt was aggravated by privation and want of oomfort. Deceased was, a few years ago, a powerful robust man. Verdict, that the deceased died from inflammation of the chest." At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr. Buller gave up his fee allowed by law, of one guinea, to the widow. The Coroner also contributed 5e., and the jury 175., making altogether 2/ 35., which was most gratefully received by her. NEVER TOO LATE.—DUBLIN, FEB. 14.—A scene of rather a remarkable character occurred in the cabin of the steam-packet before her starting :—Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Mau rice O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Morgan J. O'Con nell, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Nicholas Maher, the new Member for Tipperary, were aboard, and the present Government re porter, and the late one, Mr. Bond Hughes ' were also in th e cabin. Mr. Steele, who accompanied ir. O'Connell to the packet, shook hands with the Government reporter, and was engaged in some playful conversation with him, when Mr. Bond Hughes joining, addressed the Head Pacificator. Mr. Steele immediately and good-humouredly responded, and ad dressing Mr. Bond Hughes, said—" Mr. Bond Hughes, you I did not s p ea k t h e were under a m i sconcept i on w i t h regar d to Behemoth,' for fair, and manly than quotation ; but I am bound in honour to declare, that I never in my life heard evidence more straight forward,ro e responded, d m e d o monster andte r m askedee t gam Steele Mr. i Hughes, fh yours in describing the peace r. objec tion to shake hands with himp,iaenaBduthe in courteous h te s theoul feel art wou ld latter replied that, ..t . hat, on of the cabi n where this occurred, O'Connellthe eo ntrari, a - Itileietowre.. At this moment Mr. and shook hands with Mr. Bond Hughes , 'l Ir. Steele t e l l ing him playfully of his observations about the unspoken "Behemoth," &c. Mr. Bond Hughes was treated • with marked respect by every one of the traversers present, Mr. Ray among the number.—Chronicle. WALMER, FEB. 15.—This day, about one o'clock, a party of about 50 to 100 farmers, gardeners, watermen, and master seamen, met and pulled down a gate, posts, railing, &c., which had been recently illegally put up adjoining the barracks by the lessee of the turnpike trusts. One mile from this spot there are six bare and gates, e 4 each of which tolls are demanded. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 17. The Cvurt sat this morning for the purpose of delivering judgments in the following eases, which had been leftfor the consideration of their Lordships MASON V. FAILNELL. In this case the Court said it was the opinion of their Lordships that the rule which had been obtained for a new trial ought to be discharged. - LL AND OTZERS, ASSIGNEES, V. =TM The Court directed that in this case the male fora new trial should be made absolnte. HIINT v. HOOPER AND ANOTHER. The Court in this case said, that the rule should be made absolute for a nonsuit. HEATH V. CHILTON. In this case the rule for a new trial was ordered to be made absolute. HART V. WINDSOR. This was an action by the plaintiff to recover the amount of one quarter's rent for a house and premises in the Wands worth-road. The defence was, that the house was so infected with noxious and disgusting insects called bugs, as to render it altogether uninhabitable. The case was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe, at the nisi prius sittings at the last term, when the jury returned a verdict in favour of the defendant on that plea. In the course of the trial it was proved that the house in question was situated in Spring-garden's Wandsworth road, and had been let for the term of three years to the de fendant at an annual rent of W. A few days prior to the fa mily entering upan its occupation, they discovered that there were " bugs" in two of the rooms, whereupon they caused such means to be applied as they conceived to be of a nature calculated to get rid of them. In this attempt, however, they were not successful, for on the first 'night of the family endeavouring to sleep in the house, not a single person was able to obtain the slightest rest, in consequence of the numberless visitations of thew insects. On the following morning, it was found that tio sheets between which the defendant and his wife had tried to repose presented a mass of " bug carcases and bug's blood." In the course of the succeeding day, the " army" increased, and as day followed upon day, for several days, the "force of occupation" had become so alarmingly exten sive as to render it a matter of absolute impossibility that human beings could continue to remain in the house. The defendant, therefore, sent an intimation as to the state of the dwelling. A series of communications ensued between the parties, the landlord offering to endeavour to rid the house of its "insectorial" inhabitants. To this proposition the defend ant, it appeared, was willing to accede, provided he was also allowed a quarter's rent, to cover the expenses he would neces sarily be put to in procuring another residence for his family whilst the proposed "siege" was being laid and carried on. The landlord, however, declined to make the required allow ance, and, upon the quarter having expired, the defendant refused to pay the rent in consequence of having been com pelled to quit upon the ground that the house was not in a habitable condition. The matter subsequently came before the full Court on a motion to set aside that verdict for a new trial, and on the ground that the terms of the contract set out in the lease did not necessarily imply that the house was to be put in a habitable condition by the land lord. There was another ground. The lease set forth that some garden ground was let to the defendant, as well as the house, and the question was raised whether even though there had been an implied contract as to the reasonably habitable condition of the house, the tenant had the power or authority to abandon or give up the possession of both. On behalf of the defendant, it was contended, principally upon the authority of " Smith and Marrable," that the landlord was bound to put his house in a reasonably tenantable and habitable condition. The COURT now decided that, according to all the old au thorities, a landlord was not bound to put his house in such a state of habitable repair as was contemplated in the prevent case. Their Lordships, therefore, were of opinion that th• rule should be made absolute. It would, however, be well that in all future leases this condition should be expressed. Rule for a new trial absolute. DOE DEM. YORK V. WALKER. The Couwr, in this instance, gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff. BANKRUPTCY COURT, Feb. 17. LN RE CHARLES JAMES MATHEWS. .... Saturday was appointed fur the investigation in this case to be resumed, and numbers of persons, on coming to the Court, were disappointed, on learning that the examination had been adjourned to Thursday, the 27th inst. It seems that, some days after the hearing on the Bth instant, an ap plication was made, on the part of the opposition, for another day, and on the 27th was named. The insolvent did not, however, obtain an enlargement of his protection until Thurs day last, when it was endorsed for the day mentioned. The following is a correct copy of the proposal on the schedule for the creditors:— " The proposal of Charles J. Mathews for the gradual liquidation of his debts. That is to say, that the said Charles James Mathews will pav into the hands of an official assignee, to be appointed under his estate, a sum of thirteen hundred and fifty pounds annually (such sum being taken as an average of half the receipts of the said Charles James Mathews, on the last five years) out of the earnings of him self and wife so long as they are in engagement, and enabled to perform, such sum to be paid in equal monthly parts. But should either the said Charles James Mathews, or Eliza, his wife, be unable, by accident, ill-health, or other unavoidable cause, to exercise their profession, the said Charles James Mathews will then pay into the hands of the assignee afore said, one clear half the earnings of whichever of them shall be enabled to continue their profession, out of which sum of 1,3501 is to be satisfied a certain annuity of 3001, to the Mar- Mis of Abercorn, which sum the Marquis is liable to pay to Messrs. Parke and Freeth, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, as the surety of the said Charles J. Mathews, the principal sum, consideration for such annuity, the said Chas. J. Mathews having been discharged from under the Insolvent Debtors' Act' in the month of June, 1842 ; and the said Charles James Mathews is to be at liberty to retain the trifling articles of jewellery and the wearing apparel of the said Cherie* James Mathews, and Eliza, his wife. (Signed) "Dated the 22d Dec., 1843." "C. J. MATHEWS. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. On Saturday Francis Bedford Smith, solicitor, of No. 17, Bethnal-green, who was convicted of a violent assault, in conjunction with his groom, appeared in Court. The parti culars of the case we gave on Saturday. The defendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, but afterwards of fered to compromise the matter by paying 50/. Mr. BALLANTLNE said that the defendant having paid the 50/., had done all that the prosecutor required, and therefore, perhaps the Court would discharge him. The CliAiRmAN—I think then that I must not send the man to prison after the master has been set at liberty. The Court having agreed to alter the sentence passed last night on the defendant Smith, and the other man having already passed one night in prison, we must pass a nominal sentence upon him. The sentence upon you, Smith, is, that you pay a fine of Is., and be discharged, and we shall send for Skel lington from the House of Correction. At a subsequent part of the day Skellington was placed at the bar, and the Chairman, addressing him, said that the Court had thought fit to alter the sentence passed upon him last night, and the sentence now was, that he pay a fine of 405., and be imprisoned until the fine be paid. Mr. Crouch, the barrister, hoped after Mr. Smith had paid 50/., a smaller sum would be imposed upon the prisoner. The CHAIRXAN (angrily) told him he might think himself very lucky to be let off so easily. Mr. Smith then paid his groom's fine and walked off. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) BO IV-STREET. Some little excitement was occasioned at the door of the station-house opposite the above Court by an omnibus being driven up containing some passengers, among whom was a young man of respectable appearance, and who was immedi ately handed over by the conductor into the custody of the police. He was soon afterwards placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, and charged with having stolen a purse containing 6s. 6d., the property of a Mrs. Inglis, one of his fellow passengers. That lady stated that she resided in Hardwick-place, Com mercial-road, and that yesterday afternoon at two o'clock she got into an omnibus in Regent-street, and took her seat near the door. Her purse was in her pocket at the time. The prisoner got into the omnibus soon afterwards, accompanied by another person. The prisoner remained in the vehicle but a very short time and then left it, and the prisoner was no sooner gone than the conductor asked witness if she had lost anything, adding that he suspected that the prisoner was one of the swell mob. Witness immediately felt her pockets and found that her purse, which contained the sum of 6s. 6d., had been abstracted. Witness did not perceive anything suspicious in the conduct of the prisoner previous to his leav ing the omnibus, but having informed the conductor of her loss, he at once went in pursuit of the prisoner, and gave him into custody. Edward Morgan, the conductor, stated that he took up the last witness in Regent -street ; the prisoner, and another young man, entered soon a ft er, and they s ubsequently de sired to be set down opposite to Somerset-house. Witness, suspecting that they belonged to the swell mob, inquired of the lady whether she had lost anything, and on being in formed that she had, went in pursuit of the prisoner, whom he eventually overtook in Newcastle-street, and gave into custody. On searching him 2s. 4d. in money was found, and a valuable gold pin, which he wore in his stock. The prisoner declined saying anything in answer to the charge in the absence of his legal adviser Mr. Twyvonn said it was a suspicious circumstance that the prisoner refused to give his name and address. The prisoner in answer to this observation, said that his name was withheld because he did not wish his friends to know of the situation in which he was placed. The prisoner was then remanded, the worthy Magistrate refusing to admit him to bail. LAMBETH-STREET. Thomas Backwater Proctor, a well-dressed man, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Norton on a charge of being concerned with a gang of three or four others in carrying on for some time past, a most Impudent system of fraud, by which they had obtained, from various persons, principally poor struggling persons, property amounting to over 500/. Mr. Payne, tne barrister, appeared on behalf of the pri soner. From the evidence addaCed, it appeared that the prisoner occasionally enacted the part of a servant to a person named Melsam, not yet in custody, and in that character used to find out where there was property—ouch as horses, carts, &c.--for sale, and calling upon the owners, represented that his master was in want of such articles, and was not particu lar as so price when he got an article to suit him, and next took his master as he called him, to look at the property, or had the property tsken to some house where he had just taken lodgings. The master, who certainly was not particuitzr to ten shillings or a pound, always purchased the property, and this done, he invariably gave ten or twenty shillings in cash, and a bill of seven days' date for the remainder. The Court was completely crowded with the victims of the j gang; and after one or two of the charges against the pri soner were gone through, Sergeant Teakle, who apprehended the prisoner, informed the Magistrate that the prisoner stood indicted, with two others, IA a clear case of horse-stealing, at Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, and in which the evidence against him was perfectly conclusive. Mr. NORTON, on hearing this, thought the best course would be to send the prisoner into Buckinghamshire to be tried at the next assizes, and if acquitted of the charge of horse-stealing, that he should be brought back and tried, with ✓other parties now in custody, for a conspiracy to defraud, or any ether charge which the offence might amount to. The prisoner was then remanded to a future day, prepara tory to his being sent to Aylesbury for trial. VEssEts SPOKEN Wire.—lsabella, London to Trieste,l9th ult., lat. 37, lon. 10 ; Milo, Sunderland to Cadiz, 4th inst., lat. 48, lon. 7 ; Cornish Diamond, Liverpool toOporto, by the Templar, arrived at Liverpool. Templar, of Liverpool, Calcutta to Cape of Good Hope, Dee. 2, let. 26 S., lon. 34 E. ; Argaun, Calcutta to London, 6th tilt., lat. 22 S., lon. 35 E., by the Admiral Van Heemskirk, arrived off Torbay. Camer ton, Liverpool to Honduras, Bth inst., lat. 46, lon. 10; Eliza beth Mary Ann, Liverpool to Messina, lat . . 48, lon. 8, by the Notion, arrived at Falmouth. Bride of Abydos, of Shields, 14th inst., lat. 47, ion. 7, by the Elizabeth; arrived at Fal mouth. Prince of Orange, late Glover, Liverpool to AfsiCa, Nov. 23, let. 24 S., lon. 35 W. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND. The Right Hon. Gentleman is in the nnexamp'e•l po sit on, that lie holds one • , f the h zh , st offices in the State through commisseration and sufferance. HIS Par liamentary friends defend him not. They offer m rely the apology that he anticipated that a set would be made ups m him, and though he was resolved to be governable he broke out at length into lawlessness. The more he anticipated the less he is excusable, on the grounds of rashness. No body but himself observed that there was a particular call upon his valour, but when the call was made, he could not pretend that it was unexpected, and he was the less excusable for extravagance ia the course he thought proper to ad , pt. The storm having come on, it passed away with an in noxiousness to him almost miraculous. If Fitzgibbon played his cards as some persons say he should have done, the grand State prosecutions could have been de htroyed at his stage of the proceedings. Oue can Ne 1 imagine the effect of taking the infuriated Attorney • General at his word, and repairing to a distant spot to give the "satisfaction" demanded. From this pent he has escaped, and he has had to deal with a most indul gent Bench, though in the progress of this trial a gentie man had been brought under the animadversion of the Court merely for a want of due courtesy to the High Sheriff. One comfort the Right Hon. Gentleman has, and it is no small one in these bad times, that the Pre mier has proclaimed in Parliament that the Government has not contemplated, and does not contemplate his dis missal. There is, in this respect, also the comfort to the people, that while the Right Hon. Gentleman remains in office he must be a damaging adjunct to the Tory Go vernment. The Judges of the Queen's Bench are greatly blamed in London on account of this affair of the Attorney- General. The chief responsibility in the matter lay with the head of the Court, and if the needful had not been done he was of course principal'y in fault. It was ob served that the member of the Court who was most for ward in urging on an assertion of its authority was Justice Perrin. There was, however, on the whole such a failure as to provoke amongst our neighbours even the humiliating sentiment of derision. The Times has ob served, with characteristic insolence, that the Court did its best to facilitate an accommodation for the " jontle men." One thing should be remembered, when all others are forgotten, relative to this unique business, that the principal official parties obnoxious to blame are persons pushed into their station by Tory appointment. Mr. Smith is Sir Robert Peel's Attorney-General, and Mr. Pennefather, who was so sympathising, or (more correctly speaking) who was bewildered a manager for the "jontlemen," was his Chief Justice.—Dablin Pilot. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI NEERS-TUESDAY. (GEORGE RENNIE, Esq., in the Chair.) A paper was read byMr. J. Grantham, describing a series of experiments on an iron vessel called the " Liverpool Screw." This boat was 65 feet long, 12 feet 6 inches beam, and had 3 feet 9 inches draught of water ; she was propelled by two high pressure oscillating engines, with cylinders 13 inches in diameter, and 18 inches stroke ; the pressure of the steam in the boiler varied from 501bs. to 60113. z. the square inf.h, and it was cut off at one-fourth of the length of the stroke, working the rerrainder by expansion ; the nominal power Has 20 hor es. but it did not really exceed 18i horses. The cylinders were placed diagonally, with :both the piston rods working upon the same crank, the driving slat being beneath the cylinders, and running direct to the propellers, without the intervention of either gearing or .ands. The screw propeller was enlarged th ee times, and at last was left at 5 feet 4 inches diameter, by 20 inches in length ; it was set out with a pitch expanding from 10 to 11 feet, on Woodcroft's plan; it was made of wrought Ton, with four sh , ,rt arms with broad shovcl ends, whose united area was 16 square feet, 13 feet only of it being immersed, as some portion of the antis was constantly above the w ater ; the angle of the centre of the dolt was 45 deg. The spe , d of the propeller was generally 95 revolutions per minute. With these dimensions the speed attained was de scribed as 10} statute• miles per hour. The amount of " slip " of the screw in the water, as ascertained by Massey's log, was stated not to exceed five per cent. Several experiments were detailed, which showed that there was not more tendency to "li-t," or to turn round by the action of the screw than with the paddle-wheel , , and the vessel was stated to have exceled a 1 the other steamers of the port of Liv, rpoul in towing out vessels in a rough sea. Designs were submitted on this principle for a steam frigate, and for large steamers working with oscillating cylinders direct upon the main shaft. In the discussion which ensued, the various forms and modifications of screw propellers and th..ir relative merits, were very ably treated by a number of speakers. Mr. Rennie gave a sketch of the introduction of a kind of screw used by Mr. S. Brown with his gas engine. which was tried on the Thames ; the more successful attempt of Mr. Smith, and the building of the Archi medes and other vessels. He mentioned also the claims of Mr. Sauvage, of Boulogne, to the invention, and his being recently rewarded by the King of the French. Mr. Rennie entered largely into the theory of the forms of the propellers, and in this he was followed by Mr. Farey, Mr. Galloway, Mr. Samuda, and others ; and M. Normand, of Havre, who is celebrated for giving such superior forms to the vessels built by him, gave a slight sketch of I the Napoleon French frigate, in which he eulogised the engines constructed by Mr. Barnes, and the general re sult obtained with the vessel; but it appeared that the speed was not superior to what had been obtained with paddle-wheels. A model was exhibited, by permission of Sir H. T. de la Beche, from the Museum of Economic Geology, showing all the kinds of valves used in pumps for drain ing the Cornish mines, and the merits and defects of the various kinds were very ably explained and commented upon by Mr. Jordan, under whose directions the model was constructed. Mr. J. Taylor gave an historical sketch of the introduction of the various improvements, the causes which had led to them, and the effects they produced. The length of the discussion upon the screw propeller left so little time for the subj. ct of the valves, that it was announced to be renewed at the next meet ing, Tuesday, Feb. 20. EXTRAORDINARY REVELATION OF A MURDER COM. MITTED IN IRELAND ELEVEN YEARS AGO.--NORTRA.3IP TON, FEB. 15.—A curious revelation has been made by one of the soldiers of the 83d Regiment, at present stationed at our barracks, by which the perpetrators of one of those cruel and dastardly murders which we are constantly reading of in the Irish papers, are likely to be discovered and brought to punishment. The man's deposition was taken before J. Mar shall, Esq., one of our borough Magistrates, yesterday, but as the parties are still at large, the examination was strictly a private one, From what I can gather, the murder in ques tion was committed in the year 1832. The witness was then a boy about 12 years of age, and was with others in the field gathering blackberries, when he observed four men, whom he knew, and whose names, I understand, he mentions, run across the fields towards the high road. They were armed. Shortly after the witness heard a cry of " Murder" proceed ing from the road, and then two strangers passed him and his companions, as if coming from the direction of the cry. He asked them what the cry was about? but the only reply they made was to tell him to go about his business. `When the witness got upon the road, he saw the four men he had first seen in the fields standing over another man whom they had on the ground, and were beating. Soon afterwards the murdered man was brought home by the police. The witness told the circumstance to his father at the time, who desired him to hold his tongue about it, and beat him. It appears that the unfortunate victim had made himself unpopular by taking a quantity of land which had previously been let in small holdings, and he was therefore waylaid on his-return from market, and murdered. The party who saw the murder committed, mentioned the parti culars shortly afterwards to a Roman Catholic priest residing in the neighbourhood, but, thanks to that gentleman's con. scienciousness, the subject has remained a mystery up to the present time. I understand that copies of th e depositions have been forwarded to the Secretary of State, and to the magistrates of the district in which the man states the murder to have been committed. NUMBER or ENGLISH IN FRANCE IN 1844.—The following is an official return made by the municipal authori ties to the Minister of the Interior and Prefet de Police, in Paris, of the number of English residents (domicilies) through out France on the Ist of January, 1844 :—Paris, 25,000; St. Cloud, Versailles, and St. Germain-en-Laye, 6,000; Rouen, Havre-de-Grace, and Dieppe, 5,000; Harfleur, Honfleur, and Caen, 2,300 ; Fontainebleau, Orleans, and Tours, 3,500 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, Po, Barreges, Montpellier, Nismes, and Marseilles, 3,500; Aix, Avignon, and Lyons, 600; St. Quin tin and Lille, 1,500; Amiens Beauvais, Arras, Abbeville, and Montreuil-sur-Mer, 2,800; Boulogne-sur-Mer and vici nity, 7,000 ; St. Omer, 2,700 ; Cassel, Warmhout, and Armen tieres, 300; Bergues and Dunkirk, 2,000; Guines, Marquise, St. Pierre, and Calais, 4,800; making a total of upwards of 66,000 English residents in France. Admitting that each, on an average, expends five francs a day, the annual sum spent by the English will be above 4,820,0001. sterling. This re turn does not include the number of English who pass through France on their route /to Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Mediterranean, and India, which, on an average, exceeds 50,000. The facility now afforded by the London, Folkstone, and Dover Railway, and steam-packets to pas sengers for Boulogne and Calais, from Southampton to Havre, and Brighton to Dieppe, has greatly increased the number of visitors, which this summer will, in all probe be from 60,000 to 80,000. EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE NOVELTY. Since Monday last, the neighbourhood of St. John's Chapel, St. John's-square, Clerkenwell, has been the scene of great in terest and curiosity, in consequence of a ceremony of a most novel and extraordinary character having taken place. The Rev. Mr. Hugh Hughes, minister of St. John's Chapel, in the course of his visitations, to relieve the poor in the lower walks of life, and afford them religious aid, discovered a great num ber of persons, of both sexes, living together in a state of pro fligacy. Through the medium of his exhortations they were brought to a sense of the impropriety of such a mode of life, and 86 men and women, consisting of butchers, costermon gers, tailors, shoemakers, and others of various trades and callings, consented, at the suggestion of the Rev. Gentleman, to appear at St. John's Chapel, on Monday last, there to go through the matrimonial ceremony, gratis. Every arrange ment was made for the occasion, and at an early hour the galleries were filled with highly respectable persons, male and female, in order to witness the ceremony, and the body of the edifice was crowded, while the greatest interest was manifested outside by numerous spectators. The police and Bucklaw, the beadle, were in attendanee to keep order, and prevent any inconvenience. At eight o'clock in the morning the " happy couples" began to arrive, and they were ushered through one door into pews. The Rev. Gentleman at length tuck his station at the altar, and commenced his labour, when he continued to go through the solemn ceremony amid the greatest silence, until lie successively solemnised 23 mar riages, some young, some middle-aged, and others old re pentants. On Thursday the chapel was again crowded, and the same ceremony was performed with 23 more couple, but the remaining 40 did not appear at the appointed time. There is no doubt, however, that they will come forward, as the doors of the chapel are gratuitously open to them. A RARE VISITOR.—A few clays since, Captain Searson, of this town, shot, on the banks of the river Trent, a rare visiter, from the Arctic regions, called the Dusky Grebe. It is beautifully marked, and being a novelty so far south, was placed in the hands of Mr. Reid, of this town, for preservation.--Doncaster Gazette. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE: (Abridged from the Post.) We trust tLe I , .ssee h s frunitd his progrartme more than his ordinary a' men and sin. erity of purpose. 1 itir,ng the pat season we fou ,, d he had t-udoenly brought her Majesty's Theatre to that degree of splen dour it ought always to have po.sessed. and in which it had, until his time, been lamentably deficient ; and we thought it but fair V , yield him that measure of appause, without which lessees, no more than virtuosi, can brilli antly enact their parts,- still under present circum stances, we must watch his progress with a jealous eye. The theatre must fill. Apart the daily increasing taste for music—particularly vocal and dramatic—there are numberless incentives to attend her Majesty's 'rheatre. It is the rendezvous of the aristocracy, 44' al, those who shine in society—of all the literary and tasteful men who throng to the gr , at metropolis, as well as of all foreign ers or distinction visiting this country. 11:,y appearing there, the gay memhers of so-iety proclaim their ar , rival —ascertain who amo.gst their f iends is in town— receive their visits and combine their movements in the career of pleasure. When a C. urt mourning, or any. ther untoward public event, stops for a time the current of pleasures, the Opera is still the never-failing resource. Here for the first time the aristocracy of wealth meets on an equal footing the aristocracy of lineage, whose ranks it may ultimately recruit ; and here likewise the pro vincial visitors in their hasty railroad tr ps to town have an opportunity of seeing at one glance the dist.n;:uished characters who are the subjects of con , ergati-n in the most distant parts of the land. And here, it is sad, also " that in the snug causerie* of a box are laid the foundations of more marriages than in the contest with fair rivals in the turmoil and exhausting amusemenis of crowded mats and balls " We, who entertain our warmest allegiance to Euterpe, must regard the vocal troupe most vigilantly—for, as to the ballet, we are d-stined to be overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the followers of Terpsichore. No doubt the ballet will make the fortune of the florists, .and the stage be impassable from the showers of bouquets.. Stephan, Carlotta Grisi, Cerito, Fanny Elssler, and Taglioni herself, are announced, independent of another Florentine ballerina of rising fame, Mademoiselle Frasi. The Germans, the French, the Swedes, the Italians, each have their fair representative, whilst John Bull is to play the part of Paris to these rival goddesses. It must be confessed that there is great piquancy , in this union or succession of talents. The public had abundant op portunity of observing last year how varied are the sources of effect in this art, which has only lately attained so high a degree of perfection, concealing all effort, and combining grace with poetry. The new ballet of Esmeralda is destined to set off the peculiar style of Car lotta Grisi, so well suited to the heroine of Victor Hugo. The chef d'oeuvre of the lamented Princess Marie of Orleans' chisel, the beautiful statute of Jeanne d'Arc at Versailles, has suggested another ballet, and a character well adapted to the pure style and remarkable mimic powers of Elssler, for " Fanny Elssler est la grace sans mechancete," as was once said by that admirable critic, M. de Stendhal—so devoted to the stage that he wrote his best works at the back of his box at La Scala, to the sound of music. So far as we can at present judge by the lessee's pro gramme of the fast approaching Opera season, the most hypercritical will be satisfied. We trust the finished picture will be worthy of the boldness of the outline— all will depend on the taste and feeling of the executive. The lessee should not relax in endeavours that are sure to be rewarded, for, independent of other extraneous at tractions, this year are expected visits from many of the most illustrious and several august personages of the Continent, not excepting Louis Philippe, and they are sure to draw to her Majesty's Theatre those numberless spectators who are attracted as much by the wonders before as behind the scenery. Considering art as our paramount object, we shall still not be unmindful of this prevailing curiosity, and from time to time we shall in dicate the habitual places of the distinguished sub scribers to her Majesty's Theatre, to guide and gratify the casual observer, and at the same time record the upp•.rt given to that splendid establishment by those who are its principal attraction and m nament. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The far-famed ballet of the Beauty of Ghent was produced at this the itre on Saturday, with the most complete su cess. Monsieur Albert, the composer of the ballet, superintended its production, anti Mademoi.eile Fleury and Monsieur H. Vestris sus tained the principal characters. The plot is simple, and easily understood—a great merit in a ballet. Beatrice (Mdlle. Fleury), the daughter of Cesarius (Mr. Howell), a goldsmith of Ghent, is heti othed to Benedict (Mons. H. Vestris), a young Flemish officer. The Marquis de San Lucar (Mon.. Albert) would fain induce her to elope with him. Like Victorine, she sleeps upon his proposal, and, in a dream, goes through the splendid misery of the situation to which she would be reduced by her acceptance of the Marquis's proposal. Then comes :he misery without the splendour, until at length she re turns to Ghent, a miserable destitute paupe.-, and sees Benedict married to another. The only refuge left for the wretched girl is to die, and she throws herself into the canal. She wakes and finds it has been all a dream; and the ballet concludes by her marriage with Bene dict, whose hand she joyfully accepts, repulsing the pro fligate Marquis with scorn. There is a comic part, that of Zephiros, a dancing-master, which was acted with rich humour by that first of buffo dancers, W. 11. Payne. It is 2 perhaps, the best thing that Payne has yet done, and the audience were convulsed with laughter whenever he appeared. The scenery by the Grieves is exceedingly beautiful, and the groupings are most Returesque. The scene in the first act, representing a Flemish fete on the banks of the canal of Ghent, is in fact a tableau vivant from Teniers. It is one of the most beautiful things we have ever seen. Nothing could exceed the elegance of the groupings in this beautiful scene. In this scene there is a splendid procession of the authorities of the city, in which is in troduced a figure of Fame standing on a globe ; the globe turns round perpetually as the procession proceeds, while Fame keeps her position standing on one foot, with her trumpet to her mouth. This was followed by the pas de llvroyne, admirably danced by Messrs. Payne, Delferier, and Madame Petit Stephan, after which Miss Clara Webster, the first of English dancers, performed a pas seul with the most exquisite grace imaginable. The scene concludes with a pus de deux by Mons. H. Vestris and Madlle. Fleury. Madlle. Fleury is very beautiful and exceedingly graceful; her dancing is charac terised by ease, elegance, and neatness ; she performs the most astonishing feats without apparent effort. It was much and deservedly applauded. M o n s . V es t r i s i s a pupil of Monsieur Albert's, and has only recently made his debut. He his worthy of his name. His tours de force are truly astonishing. and they are all performed with the utmost elegance arid apparent ease. He bids fair to be the first dancer in the world. The mantle of his ancestors has fallen upon him, and he will be a worthy representative of the Vestris dynasty for another generation. In the second act we have a magnificent masquerade scene, and a splendid illumi nated pavilion, belonging to the Marquis, in Venice. The splendours of this scene surpass even those of the far-famed masquerade scene in Gustavus. A grand di vertisement is introduced in this scene, consisting of a pas Cracovier, by M. Delferier and Miss Clara Webster ; a pas de Nayades. by Miss O'Brien ; a p:s de deux, by M. Vestris and Madame Petit Stephan ; and a pas de Diane avec Poses Antiques, by Mademoiselle Fleury. This pas de Diane is one of the most classi cally beautiful performances we have ever beheld. Nothing could exceed the grace and elegance of Mdlli Fl ury's poses from he antique. She gave us ail the positions of the huntress goddess from the ancientsta tues, while her attendant huntresses were grouped around her. This, perhaps, is the mot classical per formance ever introduced on the stage. It is needless to say that she was rapturously appl Aided. The first act was a tableau vivant, illustrative of the Flemish school o' art. The third act illustrates the Italian school. When the curtain rose and discovered the park and villa of the Marquis, with figures picturesquely grouped in the foreground, we could almost imagine we were lo ling on one of the marvellous creations of Claude Lorraine. The scene changes to the ancient ruins of the canal of Ghent, and we again return to the Flemish school. This ballet is by far the most magnificent that has yet been produced here, and we are not surprised at the almost unparaileled success which attended its production at the Aeadiun'e in Paris, and which will no doubt be equalled, if not exceeded, by its success in this country. At the fall of the curtain Mdlle. Fleury was called 'tor, and led on by Albert. She was ereeted with thunders of applause. Vestris was also called for. and appeared . leading on Clara Webster, and acco m p an i e d hy D' t. ferier, who led on Madame Petit Stephan. roe b?;flet was preceded by Balfe's opera of the B ol 4emian Girl, which was represented for the fiftieth time, and the attraction of which seems to increase at, each represen tation. The house was crammed. very so at, even in the slips, was occupied before the rising of the curtain. The following distinguished members of society visited Drury-lane Theatre last week:—The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duke of Leeds, Marquis and Marchioness of Normanhy, 79 Marchioness of v al e is ru bu itue. Dowager Co'un tess of Westmoreland ; Ladies Villiers, Somerset, Foley., C M o a n r yn clu g is h e a s m o , f Ea L r an l a s n d rCou e nt a e n s d s of B Poi timore, Graham, Woolmore, Burgoyne, Errol, Count, Kiel mansegge ; Ears of Chesterfield, Cardiga Munster , Jersey, Errol ; Lords Castlereagh, Macdotteid, Alfred 13 - aget , Graham, Glamis, Sussex Lennox, Adolphus Fitzelarence, w Graham, Maidstone, Foley, Strathaven, Curzon, Wenhir,k, Russell, Strafford; Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., Sir BellinOtaill Graham, Bart., Sir Thomas Gage, Bart., Sir John Cpbell, Bart., Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., Colonel Peel, Colonel Cavendish, Hon. E. Byng, Hon. Mrs. Lister, Mrs. Morier, C. Standish, Esq., M.P., T. S. Dun com b e , Esq., Hor4, Craven Berkeley, M.P., Hon. Grantly Berkeley, 1.P., Hon, F. Sta;thope, &c. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S GRAM) PARLIAMENTARY DmcErt.—On Saturday evening Sir Robert Peel received a very numerous circle,at dinner, of his supporters in the House of Commons, at his residence, in Whittahall..gardens. The banquet, which was of a sumptuous des,cription, was served up in the picture-gallery. Covers wP,re laid for forty-eight; and the following noblemen and grntlemen constituted the party :—Viscount. Grimston, Vise :., , ,mit Ossulston, Lord Hen niker Right Hon. C. W. Wynli night Hon. C. E. La w , H on . Francis Chart e ri s , H on . R. Neville, Hon. A. Duncombe, Si: Edmund Hayes, Bart., SAlt J., Hanmer, Bart., Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Wt., Sir W. Jollitle, Bart., Hon. F. Scott, Sir J. Owed /ft H. Stuart, Mr. C. Tumor, Colonel Bruen, Colonel Wyndham, Mr. George Reptevn, Mr. George Palmer, Mr. Montague Gore, Mr. C. 0. Margan, Mr, Master, Mr. Munclay, Mr. W. Marti n , M r . M‘G efA chy, mr..Lockart-,. Mr. Cornwall Legh, Mr. Lawson, Mr. F. FLoklison,,Mr. Hardy,_ Mr. Gregory, Mr. D, Gordon, Mr. J. IT. S. Douglas, I D a i , r. Dodd, Mr. bickinson, Mr. Colville, Mr. Collett, Mr. R. r C y- . ton, Mr. Buckley, Mr. Botfield, Colonel H. Baillie, 11 . • .H Baillie, Mr. Castell, Mr. Allix, • - and Mr. Adderley. A similar entertainment will be given on Saturday next by the Right Hon. Baronet. NVORKSOP.-A few days previous to the commence ment of the late severe weather, a labourer employed in Mr. Knight's quarry, situate at Lady Lea, discovered amongst a quantity of stone and rubbish, which he was removing, a bird's nest, containing three yonng ones, all of them alive and apparently doing well.—Doncaster Gantt., PROMISSORY NOTES. The return of the circulati o n of promissory not!-; payab'e en demand, durn4 the fcnr wee';6 ending 7 , d inst.. by the Banks of En grand. Ire•and. rather more inte-es‘ in. 11ia,., usok., ez.hibitia.: "ery decidea increase—principay by the Bank of E-r, land—that will not b e lik e ly t o ga i n th e a pprobation 0 , those inclined to a cautious policy. the dist:owl' brokers may easily account for alma lance of molief and its low value, for although in rather mire request, no one o ffers hi g h er ra t es , when such an addition is made in four weeks to the paP e h : circulation of England alone. The Scotch Ba"' have been far more prudent. ENAILAND. Bank of England now 21,82 8, 02 Last time - 2,860 6) 4,93 038 4.82 2 . 6 2 1, 63 0 Private Banks now Last tame Increase.. Increase.. ,• 3446,433 • 3,234+ 999 20,43' Joint• Stock Banks now Last time Increase SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private. and Joint-Stock Bank /46 last time 2,901 ,1 Now 2,79 1,4 u . 110,3 4 " Deer. ase IRELAND. Bank of Ireland now 3,591,1 Last time . --------.. 9 1 . 35° 6 Increase Private and Joint-Stock Banks now 2 ,429,5 6 Last time ------ 6 68A' Increase Bullion now 3 Increase 9 w Last time -----:, 842,(P'' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HEREFORD STEEPLE CHASE—FnmAY• 7lb The Hurdle Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added, 1 19 '0 each ; the winner to be sold for 3001., &c. Heats, on e and a half. 1 1 Mr. Jenkins' Lycurgus, list 71b (Byrne) Mr. W. Taylor's Nora Creina (late Kate Kearney)' 9 list 91b Mr. Holman's Flight, list 71b Mr. I. Day's Prei ssn it z , li s t 71b Mr. R. E. Clarke's Little Robert, list 121 b Mr. Tollitt's Sister to Ferneley, list 21b Won very easy. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. COVENTRY, 1844. Nominations for the Trial Stakes.—Ben-y-Ghlo• 4 0; Ninety-one, 3 yrs—Moustache, 3 yrs—Celeste, 3 yrs — bt g of the Gipsies, 4 yrs—Aurungzebe, 4 yrs—Venus, 4 Yr' by Muley Moloch, dam by Velocipede, 3 yrs: Handicap of 10 sows. each, h ft if declared Mar — 6' David, 5 yrs, Bst 111b—Chance, aged, Bst 101b—Jessica' 7st I llb—Fama, 6 y rs , 7st Alb —Jack, 5 y r s, 7et, r l o pe° , Pickwick, aged, 7st 71b—The Curate, 4 yrs, 7st 71b -- '3 yr* aged, ist 61b—Aurungzebe, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Celeste , 6st 71b. Nie l / The City Stakes.—Akeley, 4 yrs—Europe, 4 yrsr:proh -3 yrs—Exciseman, 4 y rs —Th e M a j or, 5 yrs— Suit 6 yrs—Chance, aged. A Silver Cup with a Handicap of 3 sovs. each. TO, rie glef —Utica, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Th e Major, 5 yrs, Bst 21b' 5 yrs, Bst. Yea r Nominations for the Hurdle Stakes.—Ballugang' Simple, Mudlark, Roulette, Councillor. FIRST REPORT from the COMMITTEE on RAILWAY; $ ll The Select Committee appointed to consider wile the- eue' „ and what new provi s i ons oug ht to b e introduced into Railway Bills as may come before this House dir' l3 D 'ubli c present or future s ess i ons , f or t h e advantage of th e 1 5 se! ° and the improvement of th e ra il way system, an d like d e 0 consider whether any an d w h a t c h anges oug h t to be r a wer° the Standing Orders relating to Railways, and sc u° tim e empowered to report th e i r o pi n i on t h ereon f rom time t Cher' to the House ;—have c ons id ere d th e matter re f err ed to and have agreed to the f o ll ow i ng Report : o° l Resolved, That it is the opinion of this CornEeLt t . e i toel the following clause be i nser t e d i n a ll t h e R a il wa y Pl coming before, or passing through Parliament; viz., coat " And be it further enacted, that nothi ng herein ce , ttbif shall be deemed or cons t rue d t o exempt the ra ilway , pre; or the said recited Acts authorised to be made from tm d a t erF t visions of any general A c t o f P ar li ament, or of all bide' Act relating to Railways which may pass during the P or any future session of Parliament." ••••••••••••••........ s LOSS OF THE BRITISH BARQ U E BOLIVAR. The following has been re, eived at Lloyd's :"" 44. " Foreign-office. Feb 16, is „ 1 ,10 " Sir,—l am commanded by the Earl of A berdrosti transmit to you, for the informati on o f the C„ bili g , he r and Committee at LI, yd', a copy of a di-pa. ch 0 . ,, c) r tisig Majesty's Consul at the C a p e V er d I s l an d s , re p o the loss of the British barque Bolivar.—l am. Sir , " Your most obedient humble ser vant. ..4, (Signed) " CANNv " To William Dobson, Esq.' &c. &c. (Copy.) " Gape Verds, Oct. 2, 18 0 43 t . 1i° "Sir,—lt becomes my un pl easant d uty to r-nhoot° total loss of the British barque Bolivar, Francis l'ob 0 master, bound from Sierra L eone t o E ng land, cargo of timber. w oo " The Bolivar, in consequence of ma king inue11, 50 04 4, endeavoured to get into one of the ports of these I 0 1 : but, the leak increasing, the captain and creivistrog doned her, and took refuge on b oar d th e English _.'" - i iiii S Adrastus, which had remained by them for th re ` previous. .. 0 rt rl'i " The captain and crew were landed at a 0--°„, o r and sent from thence to the British Consulate he cos st r it is my intention to send the whole to th e ff e r. ~,f ° • Africa by the first English vessel that lusY ° oci w Gambia or Sierra Leone. One man has died,: d Of t whole, including captain and mate, have ree ei w e bere tenance and clothing, with medical attendance was necessary.—l have, &c., (Signed) "John Bidwell, Esq." TEA DRINKING.— What a ctiiious thi n g..t i o , t o " JOHN RE7l°:fass, that all of a sudden the remotest nation of the r co oce , ool , wise unknown and foreign to all our habits, shou t our 11 :0 6 us a domestic custom, which changed the face o f t, or '. iir ing refreshments ; and that instead of ale and ra e thioes. e i ei all the polite part of England should be drinking a s, P si o slf' fusion, and setting up earthenware in their bne,rotiPail with preposterous scenery. We shall not speak cam $ O v o til for our parts, of any such changes in the history ° it ' ! l icit . . oi habits, any more than a change of the wlec l ' Aou btl ner conies from the west, and now from the east , - t i o a u'd tl O some purprse. It may be noted, that the institut 119 ,0 0 0 drinking' followed the diffusion of books araong s breald,4l4,, grow of more sedentary modes of life. Th e horh e Thre' upon cold beef and "cool tank ar d s ," were an activeatic, cop al generation. Tea-drinking times are more at the . „te, to reading ; riders in carriages, or manufacturersookoo 7 or the steam-engine. It may be taken as t l on junl i g be i : more sedentary, the more tea-drinking. Th e c o oth l o p - not the best in the world; but it is natural, tills° . d olg .re er ter be found. Tea-drinking is better than drantil9,os:ititat practice which, if our memory does not deceiv e . c i r clet / O.V/ ing in amongst the politest and even the faires l sr. P es , ..; the transition from ales to teas. 'When the la te st iffg n i op ur, by an effort worthy of him, suddenly le ft off th e t e 1 „r t it t il l 'o brandy and water, by which he had been teTr to oo,,y i t ai„ v j his disappointments, or rather to loosen his and "eocif, pleasant hour of supper, he took to tea-drink-11 A s b i ,1 be owned, was latterly tempted to make ani e ll o yeatle for his loss of excitement, in the quantity but it left his mind free to exercise its 1131,:waerS;it ....pri t d ij as Waller beautifully says of it " The palace of the serene ;'',. ~„,t olo o°'' not to be sure, the quantity, but the tea itself' .-17,...10,111; the other drink. The prince of tea-drinkers was st Olds t .vs one of the most sedentary of men, and 'cho to, tlit7 tvo It is to be feared his quantity suited tarn vol.ll°.'sol' fo, a cups, which we hear such multitudinous stole very small in his time.--. Leigh _aunt. . M k s very sup e er u st ß i E tion " ie lt it fa er, r!: of England, t o p — H P,briNG-CouGii. -- ' - me v - e lo ° .r. of a reuw' l y for the hopping-cough, an ,-- .I,lrcinuwi inquire l, of Daenvyonosnheirriedin, an g d ,iowi r ilis re i v eb er t o Dented P. regarded as a specific.—Afirron ----- E14.: -..-....,.., - - - IP° ( BIRTHS. , ' , A rle s of o f 'On the 2d inst., at Florence, the lady 01 " the ~ of a daughter. del' ...„n o h On the 15th inst., at Leominster, near Ai Pal' the Rev. E. H. Ravenhill, of a daughter. go eliPt lecli On the 15th inst., the wife of Charle s 1, the citor, Thavies Inn, Holborn, of a daughter; ivap oo go , On the 15th inst., at Moseley-hill, near of Alfred Smith, E sq ., o f a d au ghter. e gont' s " Plificf o ftV On the 16th inst., in Tichfield-t e rrace, .` Sheraton Baker, of a son, still born. On the 11th inst., at Tartaraghan the Hon. and Rev. Francis Clements, of a sf);,.. n barn , mo ts On the 14th inst., at Park-place, CUeL" if , of John Beau fi n Irving, Esq.,. of a son. t he Ny On the 16th inst., in Finsbury-circus, Ile s' ' Milligan, Esq., of a daughter. t he c g', a. 11 tertaA MA RBlE figiigf‘ l ilive r v" c1 1( ' On the 15th inst., at St. Mary, '''.:- Recto,.,', the lady of John Langley, M.A., Mr. He Degs/oor City-road, to Marian Greenwood, e ldest .." nriti. s kl e eitt Wells, Esq., of Wallingford, Berks • t the .'" tO ,ti On the 30th of November, 1843, a . .. r , vill,,Ary , h Dickinson, t , e go , Henry 9Lrls! ti ll g ° f . ja la of ..• ioe, op s g s ood Leeds. P art, Esq., ofl3lshtuas 1 1 I Allnion,ddeaJuagnhetieror,oJfajmoseespEdward Le B E r sci et . o c igesaw' o e, On the 13th inst., Thomas _ f Tito 00 thi r(l egh te' as geeou On the 15th inst., at Dorking', ,T hom _ E m ily, - oarl efl o f Charles Barclay, Esq., of Bin-y-iii"' to r' boo °f V et E W s i q g . , a n of , Bankto Fannie, House. youngest George, do of the Rev. James Joyca, Vicar of Arthur' „ otir t 0 dog TwOenent.hEe s q l5 . , t h of i i ks \ t ; a , r a e t , IHVeidrftozdt.oAjrtaine,r;orvegraepie. -'quar ' fLo t the late Rau th a Norris, Escill.,Lh. e lon e e dilloiledric jit;c o e o b ri e : On the 16th inst., in Manchester. Ew a o .. , 00 .. ,, i0 o f we B e au , - .. PP Viscount Glensworth, grandson te de jeam b , Inure, father-in-law of his Excellency pes t at this Court. On the 12th inst., at Paris, r ,oup the g elc t dog f B ri On the 9th inst. ,Gertrude o b or ter ofJohn Mills, Esq. Dar lot, lot E s4 ' We d ,„ T On the 4th inst., at Paris, Henry. A r.,, rd's4lll Shire Sussex. et Be df° r d , S On the 14th inst., in Percy- le ten stre . !.,,. ildf ° ' as , von Hoist, historical painter, aged 54 ' ~,, GU .. 1300 ‘4llaltord, 11. r Jo - On the 15th inst., at , r gr. Charles de St. Lea, Esq., aged 76 ' • eldest daughter s ilty I . On the 15th Inst., Ann, vdel of Maryland-point, Stratford. ~c e _., 0 . , ch., A 0 Angelica fills , ' „bo o On the 16th inst., in Norfolk-cre,e:l,..„. the a. vine Ann, the wife of John Mackeni.i, _ . r- ts b :tiottn, Ou the 15th inst., at Gonalston , ..`u`' John Francklin, Esq. of OP' London : Printed and Published by 3115,13;72 s" - No. 112, Strand, at Thr Sun Office, ":". " 1 9, 164 F County of Middlesex, Monday, ebratiri • -at Tj ►ij la Ii i ~a eu