The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON :THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1845 A TALE OF HORROR. A recent traveller gives the following as one of his experiences of foreign enjoyments. He had gone to sleep in his Indian tent, and continues—" I might have slept for some four or five hours, and a dreamless and satisfying sleep it was; but certainly it is—let sciolists say what they will, and sceptics throw doubts by hand fuls on the assertions of metaphysicians—that before I awoke, and in my dreamless slumber, I had a visible . perception of danger—a helpless cognizance of being bed-fellowed by peril—a consciousness of the hovering presence of death. " How to describe 'my feelings I know not; but as we have all read and heard that if the eyes of a watcher are steadily fixed on the countenance of a sleeper for a certain length of time, the slumberer will be sure to start up, wakened. by the mysterious magnetism of a recondite principle of vision ; so was it, th at with shut eyes and drowsed - up senses, an in ward ability was conferred upon me to detect the living presence of danger near me—to see, though blind, the formless shape of a mysterious horror crouching beside me ; and, as if the peril that was my night-mate was of a nature to be quickened into activity by any motion on my part, I felt in my very stupor the critical necessity or lying quite still ; so that, when I at last awoke, and felt that as I lay with my face towards the roof there was a thick, heavy, cold, creeping thing upon my chest, I stirred not, nor uttered a word of panic. Danger and fear may occasionally dull the senses and paralyse the faculties, but they generally sharpen both ; and ere I could twice wink my eyes, I was broad awake, and aware that, coiling and coiling itself up into a circle of twists, a huge serpent was on my chest. When I tell you that the whole of my breast, and even the pit of my stomach, were covered with the cold scaly proportions of the reptile, you will own that it must have been one of a considerable size. " What my thoughts were—so made up of abhorrence, dread, and the expectation, nay, assurance of speedy death that must follow any movement on my part — I never can tell in language sufficiently vivid to convey their full force. It was evident the loath some creature had at length settled itself to sleep, and I felt that, attracted by my breath, it had not approached the upper part of my throat. It became quite still, and its weighty pressure—its clammy chillness at first becoming gradually (so it seemed to me) of a burning heat—and the odious indescribable odour which was exhaled from its body and pervaded the whole air, so overwhelmed me, that it was only by a fierce struggle that I prevented myself from shrieking. As it was a cold sweat burst from every pore—l could hear the beating of my heart—and I felt, to my dismay, that the palsy of terror had begun to agitate my limbs. It will wake,' thought I, and then all is over.' "At that juncture, something—it might be a wall lizard, or a large beetle—fell from the ceiling right upon my left arm, which lay stretched beside me. The snake, uncoiling its head, raised it with a low hiss, and then, for the first time, I saw the hood, the fearful crest glittering in the faint sunshine—it was a cobra di capello. " Shutting my eyes to exclude the dreadful spectacle, I lay almost fainting, until again all was quiet. Had its fiery glances met mine, all would have been over ; but appa rently it was once more asleep, and presently I heard the Lascar moving about, undoing the fastenings of the tent and striking a light. A sudden thought struck me, and with an impulse I could then ascribe to nothing short of desperation, though its effects were so providential, I uttered in a loud sepulchral tone, 'Kulassi !' (Lascar.) "' Sahib !' was the instantaneous response, and my heart beat quicker at the success of my attempt. I lay still again, for the reptile evidently roused, made a movement, and its head, I suppose, fell on my naked arm. "Oh, God ! the agony of that moment, when sup pressed tremor almost gave waito madness ! " I debated with myself whether I should again en deavour to attract the attention of the kulassi, or remain perfectly quiet ; whether it would not be better than either to start up at once and shake the hideous burden from me. But the latter suggestion was at once aban doned by the assurance I felt that it would prove fatal; impeded by the heavy coils of the creature, weak and nerveless from excitement,l could not escape- its fangs. Again, therefore, I spoke, in the hollow but distinct ac cents which arise from the throat when the speaker is afraid to move a muscle—' Kulassi chiragh I'—(Lascar, a lan thorn.) " Again the cobra moved, and again, thank God, the ready Lascar replied— " Late houn Sahib' (I am bringing it. sir.) " There was then a sound of clanking metal ; light advancing flashed across the roof of the veranda, and at the noise of quick coming feet, 10, one after one its horrible coils unwinding, the grisly monster glided away from my body ; arid the last sound that struck my sense of hearing was the Ye, hillihi samp,' (0 God, a snake !) of the Lascar, for I fainted away, for the first time in my life."—Chambers. FLOOD IN THE RIVER CLYDE. Since Sunday, the 28th ult., the Clyde has been in fl ,od, rising gradually from four to eight feet above its ordinary level, until the night between Friday and Sa turday last, when the waters reached their height. For 36 hours previous to Saturday morning, rain fell in tee rents almost without intermission, and the aspect of the river on Friday night gave the greatest uneasiness to all who reside on its banks, or inhabit the low-lying dis tricts of the city. The flood reached its height plait foer o'clock on Saturday morning, when the descending volume of waters was interrupted, though not stemmed, by the advancing tide ; and at this time, according to the information furnished by Mr. Geddes, of the Humane Society's house, the Clyde had risen at that spot fully 12 feet above its ordinary level—containing a heavier volume of water than has been known for ten years. The Flesher's Haugh—the pretty green expanse where the healthful recreate, and invalids woo the breeze—was submerged to the extent of several feet, and by the morning light boats were seen rowing over it, and picking up the wreck which had been drifted from the main channel. For several hours large masses of crop were observed floating down, and though boats put off often and again to seize a multure from the flood, the crews found it impossible to live, from the impetuosity of the torrent, and were glad to reach the land in the safety in which they left it. Trees, cut timbers, wooden gates, sheep, barn- yard poultry, and even game, floated con tinually down, and furnished topics of observation and wonderment to the thousands congregated on the bridges and on the banks of the stream. Although every part of the city is now protected from the river itself, the greatest inconvenience and discomfort were, nevertheless, experienced by the inhabitants at the foot of Salt-market, Bridgegate, Stockwell, and other low lying parts, from the waters choking up the common sewers, and finding access to the cellars and shops of the citizens. During a considerable part of Saturday the novelty was seen of a pump inserted by a front window into one of the cellars in Jamaica-street, and discharging its contents over the pavement. From the aspect of affairs on Friday afternoon, men and horses were em ployed at any price, and till late at night engaged in transporting valuable goods from the sheds at the Broomielaw. It was, indeed, fortunate that this precau tion was used, otherwise the loss of property must have been immense, for during the night the river rose over the sheds, and swept away many articles which it bad been impossible to remove to a place of safety. Large quantities of crop and debris were observed to lodge against the sharp piers of the wooden bridge, and as it nes observed that the flood mounted up almost to its pathway, much alarm began to be experienced regarding the fate of this insecure structure. The police, at an early hour, stopped up the passage, and the building, ricketty as it is, stood out the storm. As an index of the height of the river, we may state that the piers of all the bridges were submerged, and th e t orrent was seen foaming below on a level with the arch. A large raft of wood which lay moored below the wocden bridge was the means of interrupting a great quantity of crop • and timber in tfieir downward passage, and those in charge must have reaped a good harvest which they bad never sown, for on Saturday forenoon various piles of wheat, barley, and oats, were observed heaped on the raft, which only required drying to be for warded• to the mill. We may state that every, pre caution was taken by the city police in landing pas sengers from the river steamers, by means of a long and substantial line of planking placed between them and the quay ; and it is matter of satisfaction to state the, so tar as we have learned, no human life has been lost. In the course of the morning a painfully interest ing sight was observed in the shape of a dog-house, with the dead body of the usual occupant attached to it by the chain—the poor animal having literally perished at its p;.st. In the course of yesterday the waters had greatly subsided. The fury of the torrent may be guessed from the ponderous roots which have been swept down from the higher districts and thrown upon the banks. In reference to the damage sustained from the flood, the Post of Saturday evening says :—" The flood in its progress swept many of the fields in the upper districts of the country. A correspondent at Netherfoot, on the banks of Clyde, in a note received this afternoon, says that Joseph Gelding, baron officer to Lord Douglas, has lost his whole crop of oats, amounting to about 200 stooks, and that all the potatoes are covered with water near Clyde. Mr. James Wilkie, Craignethan, had a rick of wheat carried off during last night, and about eighty stooks floating. This morning a large quantity of grain in sheaf found its way down to the wooden bridge, which it somewhat endangered by damming up part of the stream. We likewise learn that a consider able quantity of grain was carried off from the farms on the bank of the Black Cart." The Stirling Observer says :—" There has not been such a heavy spate in the Forth for some years as that we have experienced this week. On Tuesday morning. at low water, the Highland flood increased the depth of the river by eight feet, and before night it was still deeper, though not measured. The Teith, at Ochtertyre and Blackdub, has overflowed its banks, and spread it self over some fields of turnips and other crops, but we have heard of little other damage having been done." —Glasgow Herald of Monday. Ala UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION.—A young man named Porter, who resides within a mile of Reeth, in Swale dale, was out the other day with his dog for the purpose of hunting rabbits. The dog having run two rabbits into a hole amongst some stones, Porter made an effort to widen the place, and had thrust his hand and arm into the hole, and just got hold of a rabbit, when the stones gave way and closed him in so f ast that he could not stir his head or arms or body—only his legs were uncovered. In this extraordi nary position he was discovered, after being buried for ninety hours. He was taken home in a wretched condition, but still retaining his consciousness, and is now gradually recovering. His discovery was quite accidental, although the whole neigh bourhood turned out to find him.—Lancaste r g uar di an. In a report of a case at the Marlbor o ugh-skoet police-court which appeared in some of th e morning ISlbyiers of yesterday, the name of Mr. Menzies was given as that of the robber, instead of the robbed. We are very sure that our contemporaries will not lose any time in correcting this mistake. Fortunately Mr. M. is too well known, and his character stands too high, for this unlucky contre-temps to have done him any mischief. All who read the report must have, been aware that some rievous laioitalie had been coin witted. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RA ILWAY SHARES IN THIS PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES or RAILWAYS. Aberdeen .•• • •• •••• • •• Airdrie and Coatbridge • • Arbroath and Forfar .... Ditto Half Shares .... Armagh, Colr., & Portrush Bandon and Bantry Belfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down Birknlid,Lan.&Ches.Jne. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.) Ditto Half Shares .... Birminghm&Oxfrd.June. Blckburn, and Preston Blckburn, Darivn,& Bohn Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl. Boston, Stamfrd and Birm Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. Bristol and Exeter.. • • • • Ditto New .. • • • • • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester • • Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union Caledon. and Ayrsh. June Caledon. & Dumbar. June Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Birkenhead Ditto New Shares Ditto Half Shares Chester and Holyhead Cheltenham and Oxford Chichester and Brighton Churnet Valley Clitheroe Junction Clydesdale Junction Cork, Blaekrek & Passage Cork and Bandon Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford • . Cork and Youghal .. • . Canterbury and Dover Coventry and Leicester Cornwall Derby and Crewe . • ... • Direct Lon. and Manchstr Digs, Beecles, & Yarmoth DirectMan.(Remington's) Direct Northern • • .. . • Direct Norwich .• - • •. • . Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Colrne Dublin and Drogheda• Dublin and Galway . • • .. Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath . • . Dundee and Perth • •• .• Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) .. Eastern Counties . Do. New ... Do. Perp. 5 pr Ct., No. 1 Do. do. No. 2 East Dereham & Norwich East Union ....... Ditto Extension Glas., and Dum. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Shares • • • Do. New Quarter Shares Edi n b. Leith, and Granton Do. Pref. 5 per Cent.. Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles . . Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and lluntingdon • • •• Enniskillen and Sligo • • • . Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Fitwood, Prstn, & W. Rid. tianikirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr. • • • • • • Do. Quarter Shares • • •• Glasgow and Greenock.. Ditto New. • .• . •• •• • - l)itto Preference • • . • • • fi lasgw, Dmfries, and Car. I Ilsgw, liilmarnck, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster • • • • Grand Junction . • • • • • • • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths • • • • • • . • Grand Union . Great Eastern & Western t Grimsby & bit Extens. fit Grimsby and Sheffield (it Sthrn & Wstrn (hind) Ditto Extension •• • • Great Munster.. • • Grt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares Do. New 301. Shares Great Western • • •• • . • • . • Ditto Half Shares .. • I)itto Fifths .. • • • • •• •• (ittill'rd, Farehm, & Forts, HarwlCh . • • • . • • .. • • • • • • llu rs tid & Man. B. & Can] fludtlersfield and Sheffield null and GainSborough • . !Tull and Selby •. • . • • • • .. Inn° Quarter Shares.. Ditto Half Shares • • • • Inverness and Elgin .• • • isle of Jersey • • • • • • .. • . Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray • . Killarney Junctions Lancaster and Carlisle .. Lancaster and Preston .. Leeds and Bradford •• • • Ditto Extension .. • • Leeds and Dewsbury.. • • Leeds and Thirsk .. •• • . Leeds & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford Limerick and Waterford t.imrek,Ewals,&l4.ll. Jnc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds I,lv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares Liverri3Ormskrk,& Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds • . • • .. Ditto Quarters . • • • • • • London and Blackwall 141(111. Oxfd. & Chltnham. L tuition and Brignton • • • • Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon • • .• I Ditto New . ....... Do. Cluarant. 5 per Cnt. London and Greenwich •• Do. Pref. or Privilege • . London and South Wes trn Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501. Shares.. Do. New, 401. Shares.. London and York ... • • • • Ditto ( itawtry) . • . .. • • London and Windsor.... Londe, Salsbury, & Yeovl Londonderry & Coleraine Lothlontterry & Enniskilln Lynn and Ely . • .. • • • • • • Lynn an 1 Dereham . • • • • Manchnoter and Leeds • • ])itto ilalf Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares. • Ditto Sixteenths • • • • • • Manebs • r and Birkenhead Manelle.:ter & Birminghm Ditto 4uarter Shares.. I)ittu New Quarters . • • 1)o. Con. & Welsh June. Sfanehestr, Boltn, & Bury Nlnelistr, Buxtn, & Matlk Shef. and Mid. June. anchestr & Southamptn Midland . • • • • • • • • • Ditto Firths • • • • • • . • . • Di I' o New .• . 1 . ..... . iTol(!Cn.Birm.& Derby Midlnd (tWestrn (Irish) 1)o. Extension to Sligo Newest 1 & Daringtn June. l)e. New (Brandling).. Newcastle and Berwick . • Newcastle and Carlisle.. Nwestle : Durham, & Lan. Newport & Abergavenny Newry acid Enniskillen.. Neww - lt and Sheffield . North rr'tish ... Ditto New Shares .• • Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (his. at 5 Ws.) Do. Quarter Shares • • Not th Devon . .. North Kent • • • North Staffordshire North Eastern ...... .. . North Union (A) • • • • Ditto (E)........ North Wales Mineral • ... Ditto New Shares • • • • Not th Western North Wales Norwich and Brandon .. Ditto New.. • ......... Not., Bel‘roir, & Cranthm Nottingham and Boston.. Nutt, ET wsh. Val. & Man Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Birming. June Oxford and Worcester • • Oxford and Cambridge • • Perth and Inverness • • • • Portsmouth Direct.. • • • • rreston and Wyre • • • • • • Ditto Half Shares . • • • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Preston & Wyre Extena. Richmond E - .. W. End June Rugby and lluntingdon... Scottish Central • • • • • • • • Scottish Midland • • • • • • • • S'hefficld and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares . • Ditto ditto (No. 2). • Ditto ditto (No. 3). • Sheffield and Lincoln.... Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry& Grand June. Shrewsh„ Wor., & Crewe Shrws ,Wolv., Dudl, & Bir dlirwshry & Trnt Val. Us. SI irw s, I terefd,& N. Wales Slamannan South Devon . .......... South Midland •• South Eastern and Dover Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I Do. (i35.33/.68.8d.) „ 2 Do. (iss. 301.) „3 Staines and Richmond ... Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales • • . • • • • • • • • • Tean and Dove Valley • • Trent Valley .• • . • • • • • • • • Do. and HolyheadJunc. Vale of Neath • • • •• • • . • West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Court. Wexford and Carlow • • • • Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfd,Wxfd,Wick& Dub Wakefield and Bradford . • Wakfld, Penterrct, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London West Lancashire.... • • . • Worcester and Triug.. • Whitelu.ven and Furness Do. New Half Shares.. Welsh M idi and • • • • • • • • • • West Cornwall. • • • • • • • • • %Vest Yorkshire • • .. •• • • Wilsontvrn, M.& Coltness Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth Wills, Somrst, & Southam Yarmouth and Norwich.. Ditto New. • • • • • • • • • • York and Carlisle . • • • • • • York and North Midland Ditto Dalt - Shares Ditto Searbro' Branch Ditto ScAby - Ditto Extension yorkshite&Gisgow Dun. 1234 128% 24% 9 /i P - P - p - PI 18 1 41 4 7 UP 41% 334 7 'A 237 118.4 8% 6866 d 8 6136 d 24 16653 d I 3% 9653 d 12859 I - 12183 12 - 53 pl 4 %P I ,6359(1 , 151; p 208 p 12141 37 p 1 57s pi 6% 5U ,78 6 p 16 - 7s6p 39sp 3 701 4%p Oct. 14. 17656 d, 13356 d 1i 18 - 7s6d EXETER, Ocr. 15. STOCK EiClielliGE.—The sales a l. ll—Exeter, Yeovil, and DOlCllebtert 1 p.w.Fattcr, Topshazo, ead zam ott h waves line), 3 4 p.—Ditto (Head's), I p.—Cenral Corn ,vall and Devon, % p.—Taw Vale Extension, % p.—Dartmoutb, Tor bay, and Exeter Junction, 1 / 2 p.—Eastern Counties, 25 Ditto, New, 9. l 4—Bristol and Exeter, 102—Ditto, New, 16. SHEFFIELD, Ocr. 15. STock ExcrrANGE.—The sales are—York and North Mid land Extension, 28—Caledonian Extension, 5% —Derby and Gainsborough, 3—Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 123—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 6 3 / 4 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 6 3 /—Wakefield and Harrogate, 5% HUDDERSFIELD, Oar. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Nottingham, Ere wash, and Ambergate, 6 3 , —Oxford, Whitney, and Chelten ham, 2%—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 14. HULL, Ocr. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Eastern Counties, 25—North British, Carlisle, 4 1 / 2 —Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 15% —Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 7 3 4 --Axil°line, 755. p.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 6 Chelmsford and Bury, 2'4 —Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., —Derby and Gainsborough, 31. 16s.—Direct Northern, —Dudley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 50s. p.—East Lincoln shire, SIA —Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 4 3 4—Great Eastern and Western, 31. 3s.—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 13s. 6d. p.— Hull and Barnsley Junction, 5 —Liverpool and Leeds, 6 1 4—London and York (Bawtry Scrip), 5 3 / 4 —London and Manchester (Rein.), 4%—Notting ham and Boston, 4%—South Midland, 71. 17s.—Wakefield and Bradford, 51.165. 3d.—Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow, 5 3 4—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 4/. 19s. YORK, Oar. 15. STOCK EXCTIANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex tension (Norwich), 5 1 4—Midland, New, 31 3 4—North Bri tish, Carlista, 44—Cambridge and Lincoln, 6/. 6s. 6d.— Ditto, New, 51. 16s. 6d.—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 4 1 / 9 —Grand Union, 4—lnverness and Elgin, 1 1 /—Lei , ;ester and Bedford, 41. 3s. 6d.—London and York, 6 3 % —Newcastle and Berwick, 194—North Kent and Direct Dover, 4%—Warwick and Cheltenham, 3 1 4—Welsh Mid lands, 414—Yorkshire and Carlisle, 4%. EDINBURGH, Ocr. 13. - STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 71. 12s. 6d. -Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151-Bri tish and Irish Union, 5/. 7s. 6d.-Caledonian, 15/. lOs - Caledonian Extension, 51. 155.-Clydesdale Junction, 20L- Direct Northern, 31. 55.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371.-Ditto, New, 181.-Dundee and Perth, 111. 10s.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 41. 145.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 76/.-Ditto, Quarters,:l9/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 141. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1/. 145.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 191.-Edinburgh and North ern, 51.-Edinburgh and Perth, 4/. 18s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 73/.-Ditto, Quurter Shares, 21/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 451.-Glasgow and Greenock, 22/. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 21. 55.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 41.-Great North of Scotland, 41. 15s. -Inverness and Elgin, 1/. 155.-London and York, 71.- Monkland and Kirkintilloch, 331.-North British, 26/.- Ditto, Halves, 71. 55.-Perth and Inverness, 3/. 14s. 6d.- Scottish Central, 14/. 10s.-Scottish Midland, 5/. 103.- -Scottish Western, 2/.165.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 41. 7s. LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Oct. 15. (Before Mr. Baron PLArr.) QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.-3IARTIN V. COLVILL.-GEORGE LORD COLVILL, SUED AS COLVILL GEORGE DORE. - This was an application to discharge the defendant from prison, on the ground that he was privileged as a peer of Scotland. His affidavit set forth that he claimed the title in 1841, as a descendant of his great-grand-uncle, who died in 1782; and that the peerage was in existence at the time the Act of Settlement was passed. In 1841 it was alleged that an inquisition held at Edinburgh had found him to be the heir to the former Lord Colvill. The point was discussed at some length on the part of the defendant, who, it 'was stated, had not voted for the repre sentative Peers of Scotland, simply for the reason that no general election had occlrred since he claimed his title. Mr. HEATON, as Counsel for the plaintiff, resisted the ap plication for a discharge. He took a preliminary objection to the title of the affidavit made by the defendant, on the grognd that, upon the face of the document, the defendant was a commoner. Mr. Baron PLATT overruled the objection. ➢lr. HEATON then contended that the application came too late. The defendant bad pleaded to the action as a commoner. His LORDSHIP overruled the second objection. It was then argued that the title to the peerage was in dispute; and that his Lordship would not, on the authority of a case which was cited, discharge the defendant from prison. Mr. Baron PLATT eventually refused the application. The defendant had done no act as a peer; and, as the courts would sit in a short time, he had better apply to the Court of Queen's Bench. Costs were applied for on the part of the plaintiff, bu refused. SURREY SESSIONS. (Before E. PE...NM-ITN, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) LAMB STEALlNG.—Wednesday Win. Scrirens, 23, was indicted for stealing two lambs, the property of William Fuller,. and in a second count he was charged with killing the lambs with intent to steal their carcases. Mr. Wallinger prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.. The prosecutor is a farmer at Tolwortb, and on the night of the 6th of October his shepherd left a flock of seventy two lambs safe in the fold. The next morning two were missing, and on a search being made, the skins and head were found in a ditch in an adjoining field. Suspicion at tached to the prisoner immediately, and upon some consta bles of the V division going to his house they observed in a pot a quantity of lamb that had evidently been recently killed, and also four sheeps' kidneys. Upon comparing this meat with the remains of the joints left in the skins, it was found to fit it exactly. In addition to these facts, it was proved that the prisoner had a very peculiar gait, and turned his toes out a great deal in walking, and this corresponded exactly with the footmarks that were observed near the sheepfold. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Chairman sentenced the prisoner to be transported for ten years. Music Licuicsus.—The Court then proceeded to hear ap plications for the renewal of licenses for music and dancing, and those of the Southampton Railway Arms, at the Kings ton station, Vauxhall-gardens, the St. Helena-gardens, at Rotherhithe, the Castle Tavern, Richmond, and the Rose mary Branch, Peckham, were granted without any obser vation. Mr. Chamock applied, under the recent Act of Parliament, for a license for an establishment to be used as a lunatic asylum, at Epsom. In answer to a question from the Bench, the deputy clerk of the peace said that the necessary notice required by the Act had been given, and the plans of the building had been deposited in his office; and the Court then granted the li cense. Mr. Richard Pierce. of the Grapes, Great Suffolk-street, renewed his application for a license to have music and dancing. Mr. Knapp and Mr. Corner supported this application, which was opposed by Mr. Scriven. It will be recollected that a similar application was made last year, but the license was refused on account of it ap pearing that after a previous refusal by the Court Mr. Pierce had continued his performances without any license; and the Court, principally, as it appeared upon that ground, refused him a license, hut at the same time gave an intimation that, if the house was properly conducted for the ensuing year, they would give him one. Mr. Knight, in support of the present application, put in a petition, signed by the churchwardens, the parish officers, several of the board of guardians, and four hundred and seventy of the principal inhabitants of the parish, which testified to the respectability of the applicant, and the good order that prevailed in his establishment, and prayed the Court to grant the license. Mr. Scriven said, he had a petition, signed by the gover nor and deputy- governor of the Queen's Prison, and a num ber of the inhabitants, praying that the license might not be granted. The Court, after some discussion, granted the license. A similar application was made on behalf of Mr. Harris, of the Salmon public-house, Union-street, which the Court also granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. Yesterday, a gentleman applied to the Lord Mayor for in formation in what manner to proceed against a person of the same name, to whom the postman, by mistake, handed letters connected with railway speculations meant for the applicant, and who opened and read them. He admitted, in answer to questions from the Lord Mayor, that the offending person, who was no other than his own brother, had, in all proba bility, no felonious intention in opening the letters of allot ment ; but lie declared that the practice was extremely dis agreeable, and might be prejudicial to him if continued. The LORD MAyon said that no offence had been com mitted of which he could take cognisance. His Lordship added that he knew out very little indeed of railroads beyond the fact that every body was talking of them, and that when a man looked into a newspaper for a litlle relief, his agony was sure to be increased by what he had met with in every page. He hat reason to believe, how ever, that although he had no shares in any railway com pany, some portion of the press would have it that he either was, or was to be, a participator in the advantages arising from some of the speculations ; for, in an article which appeared in a morning paper a day or two ago, it was asked why the Lord Mayor had stepped forward in the case of the Direct London and Manchester (Ashurst's) line ? The writer of the article in question had paid him a com pliment to which every member of the Corporation knew him to be not at all entitled ; and he believed the very re port of the proceedings in the Common Council, on the pre sentation of the petitions on Thursday last, would testify on h n e o t hy intended complaint what very indifferent authority the writer of the paragraph relied. Hi s L or d ship said it might be useful to those whose letters happ ene d to fall into the hands of persons for whom they w e t r o e t o tok know that Postmaster.th owle G y e reedy n e i r n alof ap pearedthenegligence of the servants of the establishment. MARLBOROUGH-STREET William Humphries, a solicitor, living at No. 10, Water te Coachpugi 100-row, King's-road, wa s c h arged with having stolen a number of sovereigns f rom the person of George Flowers, r n edhl Caunt, the the parlour well-knownof hat-dyer, Great Guildf or d- street. Ben o j c a c m occurred pugilist, said rob beryusaoidraeathpenhlio: house, St. Martin's-lane, of whi c h h ouse he is the landlord. The prisoner and the prosecutor w ere i n his parlour last evening sparring and joking with each other. The prose cutor was the worse for liquor. He saw the prisoner put his hand into the prosecutor's waistcoat pocket, and take out a number of sovereigns. He told the prisoner he would allow nothing of that sort in his house, and desired him to return the money he had taken. The prisoner handed the money to a person sitting in the parlour , who contrived to g e t out of the house. He then sent for a constable, and gave the ipri soner n to custody, having first taken possession of th e money on the prosecutors person, 'which amounted to a b out 28/. the prosecutor, who was evidently in a George Flowers, . from giving a very sob account o f state which unfitted him I, had been out collecting moneys the the transaction, said he . ed between 474 and 481. in go ld and previous day, and received silver. He went into his frien d _ Caunt's house to lunch, knowing that, although there were likely to be some "queer" characters in the parlour, he was in safe hands if the landlord was there. lie was told afterwards that he h adbeen robbed. Mr. HAIDWICK 'asked the prosecutor to make out the money he had when in the house, and the amo un t of the de ficiency. The prosecutor attempted to do so, but gave such a con fused and contradictory account of the affair, that Mr. Hardwick said it was quite impossible to make anything at present out of the prosecutor's story. Caunt said he saw the sovereigns taken from the prose cutor in the prisoner's hand. There were apparently about eight or ten sovereigns. On compaaing the money found on the prosecutor after the alleged robbery with his statement of the amount re ceived during the day, there was a deficiency of eight sove reigns. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery. His own money—two pounds odd—had been taken from Wm, and was in the prosecutor's possession. The prionvi; was ermanded for a few days. • MARYLEBONE. Maria Farrell, cook to a lady named Wilde, residing in Upper Bryanston-street, Portman-square, was charged be fore Mr. Long with being drunk and creating a disturbance at the house of her mistress, and also on suspicion of steal ing three bottles of wine. Mrs. Ann Wilde stated that the prisoner was her servant. On the previous day the daughter of a lady named Cun ningham, residing in the same house, was married, and the prisoner got very drank in honour of the occasion. She tw came very abusive, and threatened to stab all in the house, and to knock her (witness) down. All attempts to quiet her being fruitless, the complainant was compelled to call in a policeman and give her into custody. William Ching, D 23, said he was called by the last wit ness about 'half-past eight o'clock last evening. The cook came to the door, and told him if lie waited a minute she would give him;a drop of wine. She shortly after came out, and, taking the bottle of wine ont of her pocket, gave it to him. He returned the bottle of wine, and the prisoner was given into custody. Hearing something jingle in her pocket, he found another bottle, and whilst conveying her to the sta tion a third bottle of wine fell from some part of her person and was broken. She said the wine was her own, and that it had been given to her by the footman. Mrs. Wilde, in answer to Mr. Long, said six bottles of very old sherry were presented to Mrs. Cunningham by the brother of the bridegroom, but only threewere to be found. 1 Mr. LONG said that the woman's conduct was very bad indeed, but, unfortunately, there was not sufficient for him to send the case for trial ; therefore, she must be discharged. SOUTHWARK. ALLEGED CONFINEMENT OF A SANE MAN AS A LUNATIC. —Just at the close of the business in the afternoon, a young man, of gentlemanlike appearance, entered the Court, and, addressing Mr. Trani, requested his advice under the follow ing circumstances : The applicant said that in 1843, while a graduate in Tri nity College, Cambridge, intending to take clerical orders, he had a dispute with a clergyman, which was ultimately referred to the Bishop of Norwich for his decision. He had an interview with his Lordship on the subject. Shortly af terwards, however, to his (applicant's) surprise, a consulta tion of medical men was held, and a certificate obtained, cer tifying that he was of unsound mind. He was accordingly brought away from college by two keepers, and placed in a private lunatic asylum, although he assured the Magistrate that he was as sane and as capable of conducting his affairs at the time as he was at that moment. After remaining in the asylum—during which period he had nothing to com plain of but the circumstance of his being deprived of his liberty, and taken away from the pursuit of his studies at college—he was transferred to Bethlehem Hospital, where he was also confined for some months, and from which insti tution he had been recently discharged. Since the latter occurrence he had been residing with a gentleman named Buckley, at Peckham, who maintained him up to the present period, although he received no emolument, his (applicant's) affairs being in such a deranged state, owing to the conduct pursued towards him, that he was totally incapacitated from supporting himself by his own exertions. The object, there fore, of his application was, to ascertain if he could have re dress against the authorities of Bethlehem Hospital for de taining him there, which he considered was a gross infringe ment of the liberty of the subject, particularly as he was not of unsound mind, and then discharging him from the place, although he made no remonstrance at the time for that purr ose. Mr. TRAIL', told the applicant that it was a question with which he could have nothing to do. From the applicant's own admission, it appeared that the proceeding of which he complained had not been adopted until the certificate of two medical officers had been obtained as to the condition of his mind ; that he could not at all perceive that a charge of such a nature as that alluded to by applicant could be alle g ed against the directors of the admirable institution where had been confined, and that previously to his admission the necessary forms had been complied with, and as soon as he was considered convalescent he was permitted to leave the place. The latter circumstance must convince the applicant that the authorities had no inclination to keep him there longer than they considered necessary. '1 he applicant said that he was most unwilling to be living on the bounty of the gentleman who had acted so con siderate a part on his being discharged from Bethlehem--that the fact of his being taken away from college under the cir cumstances already described bad the effect of blighting his prospects, and that it was with the view of convincing the world how unjustly he had been treated that made him anxious to adopt proceedings against those who bad thrown such serious obstacles in the way of his advancement in life. Mr. TIIAILL having repeated that he could not see any just grounds the applicant had for complaining against the authorities of Bethlehem Hospital, the applicant retired from the Court. LAMBETH. STEALU'iG RAILWAY PARCELS.—John Wilkinson, alias Wil liam Chambers, a waggoner, in the service of Messrs. Pick ford and Co., the extensive carriers, who has been in custody for some days past on two charges, the one for stealing a box containing a quantity of plate and jewellery, and the other for a parcel containing a dozen of shirts, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry for final examination. Mr. Swah, a solicitor, attended on the part of Messrs. Pick ford and Company, to prosecute. In addition to the evidence given upon the former exami nation, and which appeared in the Morning Chronicle, the following was adduced : Mr. William Taylor, a professor of music, residing at No. 12, Arlington-street, Sadler's Wells, deposed that in the month of June last Mr. Arrowsmith, a friend of his, residing at Belmont-row, St. Heliers, Jersey, on leaving town, had placed in his care six silver handled knives, six silver forks, six silver teaspoons, and four silver salt spoons. They were all of the King's pattern, and bore Mr. Arrowsmiths's crest. Besides these articles there were two gold chains, two gold rings, and a pair of gold ear-rings, On Monday, the 6th instant, he packed all the property he had mentioned in a wooden box, on the outside of which he nailed the card now produced by the constable, and delivered it at the office of Messrs. Pickford, in the City-road, to be conveyed as directed, to Jersey, to Mr. Arrowsmith. The whole of the articles which he had packed in the box were now produced, with the exception of one ring. Charles Franklin, shopman to Mr. Fletcher, a pawnbroker, of York-road, Kennington, stated that on Monday evening, the 6th instant, at about seven o'clock, the prisoner entered his master's shop, and put down on the counter six silver handled knives, six dessert silver forks, six teaspoons, and four salt spoons, and asked him, witness, to lend him 25 shil lings on them. Witness asked him if they were his own, and he replied no, but that he had been sent by a Mr. Hop kins, 16 or 17, Kent-road, to pledge them for money to pay his rent. The witness suspecting all was not right, sent for a constable and gave him into custody. Mr. HENRY, at the conclusion of the witness's evidence, told him he had acted exceedingly well in the matter. Police-constable James Bevan, said that on the evening before mentioned the prisoner was given into his custody by the last witness. He asked him where he got the property; the prisoner said a man gave them to him in the Kent-road, and asked him to pledge them for him. Witness asked him if he knew the man, and he replied that he merely knew him by sight but not by name, but that he lived at No. 16, Kent road. He then offered to go there to see the man, but the prisoner said it was no use, as he was not to be found there. When about to search the prisoner at the station-house, he said, " I have got some more here that the same man gave me," and took from his trousers pocket th e t wo go ld c h a i ns , gold ring, and a pair of gold ear-rings, he then produced. While conveying the prisoner to this Court o n th e following morning, he said, "I shall tell the truth about this when I get before the magistrate. I stepped my foot upon the box and broke the lid in. I did not know what to do with the property, so I thought I would make away with it in the best manner I could." On searching the prisoner he (witness) found some letters which he did not particularly examine at the time, but on looking them over subsequently he found in one of them the card produced, which was addressed, " John Arrowsmith, Esq., Belmont-row, St. Heliers, Jersey," and which the witness, Mr. Taylor, identified as the card - he had placed on the box. George Seymour, clerk to Messrs. Pickford and Co., said he remembered receiving a box addressed to Mr. Arrow smith, at the City-road Basin, on the Gth of October instant, from Mr. Taylor. Ile sent it immediately to the Castle in Wood-street, to be forwarded by the van to the Southampton Railway. Mr. Simmonds, clerk at the warehouse of Messrs. Pick ford, in Wood-street, Cheapside, said he remembered re ceiving the box in question and entering it in the way-bill for the Southampton Railway. He also saw it put into the van, of which the prison er was the driver, and Trindall the. guard. Thomas Trindall deposed that he lodged in the same house with the prisoner , in Bond-street, Vau xhall , and was which the e he pr ie is f o t n th er e Cdarosvtlee. t rn he accompanied the prisoner to the eveningas tl Wood street, g t, ua inredf the m to e n t v h daz the van Southampton terminus, Nine Elms. Finding he could not unload the waggon at once, he left it for a short time to get a cup of tea, leaving the prisoner and Mr. Atkins, the check ing fegculenrd the clerk, with prisoner wase ret g u e rn ne e , d a i n n d e abr u t ni t e e a n di m ng in t u h t e v es, a w n h h e e n he discovered that the box addressed to Mr. Arrowsmith was missing. The witness did not see the box at all, nor did he see the prisoner again until he found him in custody at this Court. John Atkins, a clerk in the employment of the Messrs. Pickford, produced the way-bill of the prisoner's van on the evening of the 6th inst., in which was a box for Jersey, and found that the latter was missing. This concluded the evidence in the first case. In the second it was distinctly proved that on the 27th of last month, a brown paper parcel containing 12 shirts, and ad dressed to "Captain G. T. M. Purvis, R.A., Rev. Mr. Har rion's, Fereham, Hants," had been delivered at the booking office of Pickford, in Regent-circus, by the servant of Mr. Lodge, of Bond-street, to be forwarded to Captain Purvis. The parcel was taken to the Nine Elms station, from where it had been stolen, and when apprehended , a duplicate for seven of the shirts was found on the prisoner. He was also wearing one at thetime of his apprehension and three others were found at his lodging, as well as the brown paper which formed the wrapper. The prisoner, who declined saying anything in defence, was fully committed for trial on both charges. ATTEMPTED IMPOSITION ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL. WAY COMPANY.—Eizabeth Chapman„ a middle-aged female, was brought up in custody of Mr. Henningham, the superin tendant of police on the South-Eastern Counties Railway, on a charge of attempting to defraud the directors and com pany of that railroad of half-a-crown. Joseph Lane, ticket-collector at the Bricklayers' Arms terminus, deposed that the prieoner came by the 11 o'clock re f p re h m ed ? sh Ai e h ld ad sh n e on . e train on the night before, and on collecting the tickets as i u i s e ua ti l, te h n e as a k sk ed ed h h er h er w fo e r r he e she re plied from Staplehurst, and he then requested 3 s. 4 d. as her fare. She replied that she had paid once , and had lost the hanadd she come ticket, but said the amount she paid was 2s. 4d. Witness told her that there was no such fare on the line at 2s. 3d., and asked her what she had done with the ticket. She re plied that some person asked her for it, and she had given it up. She refused to give her name or address, upon which witness felt it to be his duty to hand her over to Mr. Hen ningham. Henry Edzergton, guard of the train by w hi ch the pri soner had travelled, recollected the prisoner g e tting into the train at Staplehurst. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said she had paid ten pence to come from Staplehurst to Tunbridge, and intended at the time to get out at the latter place, and stop there that night, but a gentleman in the train had told her he should pay the difference for her to Deptford, where she resided, but this he had neglected to do. Mr. Henni ng h am sa id t h at t h e company had been very much imposed upon by persons o f the prisoner's description, who, after being empl oye d a t h o pping in different parts of the country, took a ticket, as in the present instance, for a short distance, and with it travelled to town. Mr. HENRY asked what was the wish of the company in the present instance? Mr. Henningham replied that it bad been imposed on so often, that the officers had made up their minds to punish, for the future, all persons attempting the fraud. The prisoner was convicted in the penalty of 205., or, in default of payment, to ten days' imprisonment. QUEEN-SQUARE. CONSPIRACY.—THE ROYAL BELGRAVE LYING-IN INSITTIJ TION.— Maria Locke, the wife of the manager, surgeon,ae cca4Chear, &c., of the Royal Belgrave klstitUtiOn) 25, James-street, Buckingham-gate, and Edw4i and James Locke, her sons, were placed at the bar for final examination, charged with defrauding Mr. Gawthorp, of 79, Tothill-street, of several pairs of boots. The particulars of the case have been already fully detailed. Mr. BoND said, that although the case had been adjourned, quite sufficient had been made out to call upon him to send the accused before another tribunal for that purpose. The witnesses were then bound over to indict the prisoners at the Central Criminal Court for conspiracy. After some discussion about bail, the prisoners were ulti mately required to find two sureties in 401. each, and give notice to Mr. Woolfe. The accused were sent to prison. Comber, immediately opposite the police barrack, there is a large field scarcely worth digging; and in the vicin:ty of Ballynahinch, Killinchy, and Killyleagh, the crop is much injured. At Antrim, a few days ago, Lord Massereene sold some potatoes, in the ground, at the high price of 311. per acre. They looked very well, but so extensive have been the ravages of the rot, that the purchasers are greatly d s appointed, and would gladly withdraw from their agreement. LIMERICK, Ocr. 11.—We are much concerned to state that the prevalent distemper in the potato crop has been this week found to extend its f.-mrful ravages to the county Limerick, and the fields on several farms show unequivocal symptoms of the rot or canker in the potato. At Cahirelly the disease was first observed, and subsequently at Feda more, where twelve acres were opened, and the spade la bourers left off work on finding the plant was not worth raising; the evil was also apparent at Coolyheran and other parts of the country, where no suspicion of the kind was entertained. At Kilworth, Michelstown, and a wide range of land in the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary, serious apprehensions are felt for the same result. The po tatos most exposed to this deadly plague-spot are the " white eye," for they are most prone to decay, and when the disease has fixed on these it may be deemed incurable; not so the cup and crow potatoes, and if on high ground the fanner has a better chance for his crops. There is little doubt but the .distemper now attackinc , the potatos in both coun tries is the effect of prolonged low atmosphere and excessive moisture acting upon the plant since the ea'ly part of August last,' when the rain set in very heavily. The recent moist atmosphere and frequent rains aggravate the tendency to infection. This . terrible epidemic not only threatens loss Of food in the present season, but loss of food for the next year. THE AFRICAN FEVER. (From the Medical Gazette.), In our last number we referred to the arrival of a vessel from the coast of Africa, having on board a disease repre sented to be the African fever, which had caused great mor tality among the crew. No less than 66 persons had dial, including the two medical officers. We expressed no doubt that immediate relief would be afforded by Government to the survivors, who were thus left in a most helpless condi tion; but it appears that the excessive fear of contagion caused the strictest quarantine to be observed, and in the first instance the plan adopted by the Lord Mayor and Alder men in the great plague of London in 1665 was enforced— i. e., the healthy were compelled to remain shut up with the diseased. We confess we were hardly prepared for this mode of dealing with a fever-stricken ship in the 19th century; for, even admitting the contagious nature of the malady, methods would have easily suggested themselves for imme diately separating the diseased from the healthy, and remov • ing the whole of the survivors from the pestilential atmos phere in which they were confined. The delay in adopting measures of isolation was, we under stand, occasioned by the absence from town of the chief quarantine officer at the time the intelligence was received. It is to be regretted that there is.not a medical officer at all our great naval stations empowered to act immediately in such emergencies. _ _ . . . We have probably never before had the African fever brought so near to our coasts as in this instance; and it may be worth while, therefore, to inquire into a few cir cumstances connected with it. The most accurate observa tions which have been made on this formidable malady are those of Dr. M'William and Dr. Pritchett, who accompanied the late Niger expedition. From the account given by Dr. M‘William, we learn that all who composed the expedition were exposed to the same influences, and nearly all were at trcked with the fever. Two only of the four medical officers who died had been in attendance on fever patients! Dr. Pritchett, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Stirling, and Dr. Stanger were among the few who escaped being seized with fever, although they were in constant intercourse with the sick, and Dr. M'William himself was the last person in the Albert who was attacked. The nurses on board this vessel were among the latest taken ill, and one escaped altogether. In short, there was no fact which cdme under the observation of this experienced medical officer which afforded the slightest evi that the disease was communicated from one person to another. These facts appear to show clearly that the malady must have owed its diffusion to endemic influence, and not to con tagion. It is well known that in the equipment of these vessels special provisions were made not only for insuring a free circulation °fair below decks, but also as far as possible for purifying it, or of depriving it of noxious matters. There is, however, good reason to believe, from the fatal progress of the disease, that these had no influence in counteracting the effects of the endemic poison. We learn from Dr. M'William's account, that some circumstances were actually favour - able to the propagation of fever by contagion : the upper deck was much lumbered, in a degree to prevent the free circulation of the air; and the same cause prevented it from being tho roughly cleaned. In the decks below many men were neces sarily crowded together in sleeping under a very high tem perature ; for the thermometer was seldom below 84 degrees. The steam apparatus created an unavoidable source of heat, which was constantly being diffused throughout the vessel by the active conducting powers of the metal (iron) of which she was composed. It might be supposed that this would rather lead to the cooling of the vessel by its immersion in water; but the water of .the river was seldom below 83 de grees. Under these circumstances, we think it pretty evident that had the fever been contagious some proofs of its possess ing this character would have been most probably obtained. There can, however, be no doubt that the great mortality which attended the disease, was in great part to be ascribed to the vital energies of the men becoming reduced by these depressing influences. In the absence of any medical history of the progress of the malady on board the recently arrived vessel, it is out of our power to form a conjecture whether the deaths on the homeward voyage, and those which have taken place off Portsmouth, were due to the African fever or its sequelte. If to the former, the disease may, like the worst form of typhus fever, have acquired a contagious character from confine ment, want of ventilation, or proper medical or hygienic treatment, an evil which was only likely to be increased by the plan pursued under the quarantine laws, at the first ar rival of the ship. The remedy would have been to have iso lated the effected, and placed them at once under medical treatment, whereby all danger of the diffusion of the disease would have been prevented. It does not appear probable, however, that the genuine African fever would have lain so long latent; the facts observed in the Niger expedition show that the period of latency is about from 16 to 21 days; and it may turn out, therefore, that instead of fresh cases of fever occuring on board this ill-fated ship during the latter part of the voyage, they may have been merely sequences of the malady, aggravated in their effects by the unhealthy state of the vessel. It has been long known that those who recover from this disease are liable to suffer from lesions of the mucous mem branes of the bowels, which are caused by the fever. Hit morrhage, hxmatemesis, and dysentery have supervened long after the fever has passed away, and have destroyed life. Within a short period all these matters will have been cleared up to the satisfaction of the public and profession ; since Sir William Pym, Superintendent-General of Quaran tine, and Mr. Arnott, of the Middlesex Hospital, have been appointed to investigate the matter; and their report is, we understand, more favourable than the intelligence already received would have led us to anticipate. This does, not, however, remove the objections to our quarantine regulations, which loudly call for some modifica tion. We are not prepared to say, after the sad experience of the pestilential cholera, that fearful maladies derived from endemic causes in one quarter of the globe, may not diffuse themselves by a property strongly analogous to, if not iden tical with, contagion ; but we believe it to be not only a sel fish but a dangerous policy to shut up the diseased under such circumstances. The► poison is only likely to acquire thereby a more virulent action ; and, like the gaol-fever at the Black Assizes, cut off all who come within its sphere. Moral causes, it is well known, have an important influence in bringing on an attack, so that the locking up the healthy with the affected for the period required by the quarantine laws, is virtually consiging the former to destruction. We have made these remarks, as the subject is of present interest. The history of the African fever, as given by Dr. M'William, shows it to be a disease most insidious in its attacks, most fatal in its progress, and at present apparently beyond the reach of medic it treatment.f The bare possibi lity of so fearful a malady becoming imported into his coun try, and spreading itself by contagion, is thereforet a subject which deserves the close attention of the medical profession. The above remarks were made before we had seen the re port to the Amiralty by Sir W. Pym and Mr. Arnott. We are glad to find that energetic measures have been taken, and that, on the arrival of the Eclair at Standgate- creek, such precautions were adopted as prudence would suggest. Those who had escaped from the attack of the fever (41) were removed to a clean vessel, and convalescents to another, At present there are only two men confined to bed with the fever, but no fresh case has occurred since the 29th ultimo. The report, we think, leaves it clear that the fever has, in this instance certainly, spread by contagion. In the report we have no detailed account of the symptoms; but it is ex pressly stated that the disease was marked by the occurrence of "black vomit," the first fatal case being that of a man who was brought on board after having been three days on shore. Soon afterwards eighteen persons were attacked with fever and black vomit, and thirteen died! The disease may, therefore, be some severe modification of the coast fever ; for Dr. M‘William expressly states that, " in no case of the river fever was there the slightest appearance of black vomit.' Bilious vomiting was common in the early stage of the disease." We shall take care to report any facts that may further transpire with respect to the disease. In the mean time, there is every reason to believe, as the report states, that its progress is arrested. • This plan, it appears, was immediately adopted by the Portu guese Governor of the Island of Buena Vista. t The results of the late Niger expedition were, that out of 145 whites, 130 were attacked with fever, and 40 died ; or 1 in 3-25 of the attacked. Only 15 persons escaped the fever; but some of them afterwards suffered from disorders which were probably brought on by the voyage. In a second attempt to ascend the river by one steamer, out of 8 white persons 7 were attacked, and 2 died. It is remarkable as an indication of an acclamatising influence, that out of 158 blacks, only 11 were attacked with fever, and not one died. It seems also that the blacks, or Kroomen, in the case of the Eclair, have entirely escaped the fever. AMERICAN NEWS. (FURTHER EXTRACTS.) The Orpheus, Captain Hill, which arrived at New York from Valparaiso, brought advices from thence to the 7th of July. 7 1 1;e demands of the British Government on that of Peru, consequent upon the affair of the Consul at Arica, had been submitted to after some show of resistance. General Iguin had been cashiered, and an apology had been made to the British naval commander. The advices from Hayti are to the 16th September. The blockade of Port-au-Platt had been proclaimed at Cape Hay tien, but not officially notified to the Consuls. President Pierrot had arived at the Cape, to urge on the war with the Dominicans, which the Haytiens were prosecuting with vigour and success. A large supply of muskets also have ar rived. Two considerable bodies of troops had marched, one upon Port-au-Platt, and the other against the city of St. Domingo. Trade very dull; the long drought had made fruit and vegetables scarce. The native American party assembled in great force at Philadelphia on the 30th of September. The correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser says—" There is no disguising the fact, but the new party presents a strong front, and many who had heretofore doubted, no longer hesitated to express an opinion." TO WN-HALL, WINDSOR. TUESDAY.—This morning a charge, preferred by Mr. G. E. Anson, private secretary to Prince Albert, against a job bing gardener, named William Sims, for having indecently assaulted Mary Ann Truelove, enly seven years of age, was heard before Mr. Alderman Bannister and Mr. Blunt. The child stated that she was the daughter of a labouring man named Robert Truelove, of Love-lane, Windsor, and that yesterday afternoon she was enticed to go into the Long-walk, by the prisoner, with the promise of a halfpenny. When they got to the style, the man took her little brother in his arms, crossed over into the Long-walk, and went up to the trees, where they sat down together on the grass by the side of the ditch. He then put her brother down and took witness on his lap, but she did not know what the pri soner did. He made her sit on his lap, and when some one came witness got off. Mr. George Edward Anson then deposed as follows: Yesterday afternoon I was riding up the Long-walk, under the left-hand avenue of trees, and when I got up the hill I came suddenly upon the prisoner, who was sitting behind a tree, with his feet toward the ditch. He had the little girl on his lap with all her clothes up. On seeing me he hastily threw her off, by which I saw his cloths were disordered. After a short pause, I asked the little girl, " Is that your father ?" The man immediately said, " She is my daughter." I re peated the question, and he again stated that she was his child. I then called the little girl aside, and asked her where she lived. She said at No. 2, Love-lane, Windsor, and that her name was Truelove. I understood, either from the girl or the man, that the prisoner's name was Simmonds. When I told him that I should give him in charge to a policeman, the poor little girl cried out, " Pray don't tell." After waiting some little time Lord Liverpool came up on horseback. I told him what had happened, and he immediatelysent off his groom into Windsor for a policeman. The little girl, who had a young child by her side, then began to cry, and said, " Pray don't send for a policeman, I'll never do it again." After waiting a little time a policeman came, into whose custody I gave the prisoner. The prisoner, upon being asked what answer he had to make to the charge, denied that he pulled the child on his knee, and stated that she went into the Long-walk of her own accord. In the course of his defence he accused the girl of having committed an act of gross indecency. The Magistrates, after severely commenting upon the abominable conduct of the prisoner, sentenced him to pay a fine of five pounds, and in default to two months' imprison ment, with hard labour, in the borough gaol. The man, not having the money, was forthwith conveyed to prison. THE LATE THOMAS DAVIS. (From the Nation, a Dublin paper.) While the death-knell of those whom, of all God's creatures we held most dear, is yet ringing in our ears, and it still seems a question whether there is anything left to hope or labour for on the earth, we are assured that a conspiracy has commenced, whose base object is to malign the living and the dead, and to resist and destroy the labours of love and conciliation which have made Thomas Davis immortal. Oh! poor knaves—foolish as base—you have ill-chosen your time. _ _ . Foolish knaves—to believe that the generous Irish heart, full of love and tenderness as a mother's, would go with you in bringing bitterness and anger into the house of death. Base knaves—not to feel that the true, simple people would recognise instinctively the assassin's hand (that hand that would murder with the knife as with the pen) in a blow made in such a guise, at such an hour ! We place, as a shield between us and you, the memory of Thomas Davis, already risen to be a star in our firmament. All men (even you, bringing the tribute vice pays to decency) have offered incense to his memory. He was our beloved friend .and brother. What he believed, we believe ; what he preached, we preach. How can you, sbort-sighted knaves that you are, hope that a people, who have learned to love his name as the name of a deliverer, will hate in others the principles and practices they honoured in him. You dare not lay hands on the sacred dead. The humblest of all his friends would take by the throat the highest head that ventured to breathe a slander upon him. Neither shall you touch, with impunity, all that we have left of him—his doctrines and his labours. We have spared you long, that dissension might not come into the national counsels by us; but a thousand times rather would we trample you into your native mud—a thousand times rather would we strip bare the political scare crows who frighten good men away from-our cause—rather than that a shade of dishonour, an hour of disrepute, should come on the fame of Thomas Davis. We will not stop to-day to rend to pieces the web of vulgar sophistry. God knows we have little inclination now for angry controversy! But, for the future, the memory of the illustrious dead, and the political faith which he has bequeathed to the living, shall not be misrepresented in vain. We are threatened with popular disfavour. No ; the people know us, and shall know you. But it is not for po pular favour we labour; but for far other results. We desire public support ; but there are conditions on which, if it were tendered, we would scorn to accept it. We would not tell lies for it. We would not hunt down, by calumny, a good man who differed from us, nor would we glorify and exalt a scoundrel who professed himself a repealer. It is a crime, we are told, to be complimented by a Conser vative. Now, we care not to conceal this fact, that there are many Conservatives whose good opinion we would feel proud to enjoy, and some repeaters whose applause we should be ashamed to possess. Which of us does not know a repealer whose praise is infamy—one whom we know to be a hollow and venal advocate of a good cause? Say that he is a po litical apostate, who now covers with coarse and vulgar adu lation a body whom he at one time assailed with more coarse and more truculent abuse. He measures out his flattery now, as he did then his vituperation, by the pence which he is paid. He is a Protestant, and he assails the very creed which he professes to hold, and audaciously puts himself forth as the champion of a faith whose tenets he does not believe. What is most exalted and sacred is not beyond the reach of his calumny. His trade is hypocrisy—his life a continued and consistent lie. Shall we desire the applause of a man like this? On the other hand, do we not know many a man who is astray on one vital question, but still sincere in his error— whose spirit shrinks with instinctive abhorrence from false hood and dishonour—in whose breast the seeds of national feeling are deeply sown, and who only waits, perhaps, to wit ness the failure of those vile attempts to raise the dead spirit of bigotry into life, to fling himself with ardour into the struggle for the independence of his country? From which of these two men is there more to hope? Of which of them shall we desire the good opinion? In the course of these protracted struggles, we have be come too much disposed to accord to mere professions that respect which is due only to sincerity—we are too tolerant of falsehood and hypocrisy—too apt to overlook the most flagrant violations of the fundamental virtues of honesty and truth. Alas ! shall the day ever arrive when true men shall come together, and look into each other's hearts, and learn that they have nothing to fear; and when association with a political knave shall be shunned as carefully as association with a pickpocket? THE POTATO DISEASE. Diustrx, Ocr. 12.—1 t is four or five weeks since attention was first called to the appearance of the potato disease in some districts on the eastern coast of Ireland, especially in places four or five miles from Dublin. People here were generally incredulous as to the existence of such a disease ; but meantime it was spreading in all directions, and now there are few counties in which the potato crop has not been more or less affected. Allowing much for exaggeration, natural perhaps whera there is such general alarm, there can be no doubt that injury has already been done to an extent which may very seriously diminish the only food of two-thirds at least of the population of Ireland. But this is not all. Where there is such a predisposition to decay and disease in the potato, the deepest anxiety must exist as to the further pro gress of the malady. Even a partial failure in the potato crop would be a great calamity in Ireland; but it is fearful to contemplate the consequennes of anything like a general failure. It is now manifestthat the disease is greatly influenced by the state of the atmosphere. During 'a Week or two of fine weather there was a decided check, and farmers indulged the belief that the pestilence had ceased; it certainly was not extending. But after a week's heavy rain, we have accounts of the appearance and spread of the disease in almost all parts of the country. This day is fine and dry ; and we may indulge the hope of the continuance of favourable weather during the potatoe digging, which is now in progress. A letter from Ardee, county of Louth, gives the following deplorable account :—" I am sorry to inform you that this dire calamity is still making fearful strides, and the state of the potato crop at present is calculated to cause the most serious alarm in districts which, a fortnight ago, were thought to be exempt from it. The greatest panic prevails at present. The ravages committed in a single week, nay, a single day, are surprising. The only theme which occupied the different persons Vat came to our market on Tuesday last was the fearful state of the potato crop. I know one gentleman who purchased for his men a ton of oatmeal to have ready as a substitute. He declared to me it was pitiful to see the poor people actually crying about their crop—their all. The gentleman I conversed with is not an extensive farmer, but he is a philanthropist, and anxious as much as possible to avert the effects likely to occur to those dependent on him from the fatal malady. I have been told of some other generous individuals who have desired their tenants to dig all the potatoes fit for use and to take them off the land without any charge. Now this is cer tainly very praiseworthy and laudable ; but if the malady proceeds at the rapid pace it has during the last two weeks, something more than indivi dual benevolence must be interposed between the poor and that destitution which must inevitably result from it. The aggregate benevolence of the country will have an ample field unfortunately to work on. In the county of Meath it was said the crop was quite safe a short time ago ; I have the fact from unquestionable authority, that the crop is bad there as elsewhere. The progress of the malady is cal culated to create the most serious alarm, and as an addition to the mischief, I am sorry to have to state that a great deal of corn, of different kinds, is still out in the fields in stook, and, owing to the heavy rain, is in a very precarious state. In some late districts there is still a good deal of oats uncut. If the weather does not take up shortly, I much fear that the potato crop is not the only loss we shall have to deplore, as I fear a great'deal;of grain in the fields is much injured." GALWAY, Ocr. 11.—We have made particular inquiries throughout this county as to the existence of the disease known by the name of potato cholera, and we are happy to inform the public that there is no reason to apprehend danger in this quarter. The crops present a healthy appear ance, and the produce is most abundant. Owing, however, to an apprehension of a failure elsewhere the prices are rather high for this season, with a tendency to advance. But there is not the slightest reason to dread a short supply in this neighbourhood. BELFAST, Ocr. 11.—The weather continues wet, and un favourable for securing the remnant of the harvest, and par ticularly unfavourable for the raising of the potato crop. From all we can learn, this crop is as defective as the reports have represented, and it cannot be denied that the rot is general in this part of the country. [Another Belfast account, of the same date, states that the grain crop is generally secured, and will prove abundant. But it is admitted that the reports of the grain crop are very unfavourable—that there are large quantities of tainted potatos at Belfast market; but still it is supposed the ac counts of the disease are greatly exaggerated.] Dovvx AND ANTRINL—There is now no doubt but that both in the county Down and county Antrim the disease has *road to a serious, though not an aliariniag extent. At MORMONISM. It appears that the ir habitants of the country in the neighbourhood of Nauvoo have been attacking the Mormon settlement, and burning down houses, for the purpose of ex pelling the Mormons from the country. The editor of the St. Louis Republican is of opinion that the Mormons and anti-Mormons cannot or will not live to gether, and that arms must decide the quarrel., He describes the process of burning the houses of Mormons, which is done with great method and decorum—ample time being a:- lowed the inmates to remove their furniture and moveable property, and no personal violence being offered. He also describes a meeting which almost took place between a party of anti-Mormons and the Mormon force under the sheriff Backenstos ; but before they actually met the anti- Mormons took to their heels and the others pursued but a little way, perhaps fearing au ambuscade. The conclusion of his letter, which was written at Warsaw on the 17th, is • -- aki fvllvwa :-» The twelve elders, or principal men of the Mormons, here addressed a propo,itln to the- anties, which was rccel;r: this evening, and which, I trust, may put a final end to M i l war. The twelve propose that they - will leave N 31161, the county, next spring, provid, d are s.TFliell ace and . the vexatious suits which they charge the antics to P led instituted against them are wi'hdrawn, and they are 8 11 , 4 peaceably to dispose of their property, and prepare for e c u___ removal. They have appointed a committee of ii' c, to coy respond with a committee of r.n equal number on the Pao the old settlers. This proposition is well recei ved of the citizens of Warsaw, and if they do nct reject t,O cause of the language in which it is addressed to them tt:',4, thinking it disrespectful), it will most likely lead to a se4 ment, and to the removal of the Mormons from among tm` It it would very desirable that this should be th e result. a dd ile Mormons offer no resistance to these proceedi.rig7tio appear, from a statement of one of t h e ir c hiefs their determination is to stick by the law, and to ' v. county for the damage which may be done to their prod [ADVERTISEMENT.] THE MEDICAL LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. The Times of yesterday, by its leading article, has r et ied o the fate of doctors and of their organic theory, far e go* ask who are the parties who have held ou t opiates as ~,e r tial to the cure of disease ? Are they not the doctor!, L'_ o o selves? And has not the British College of Health ttr.,ce? past, most strongly protested against the odious.i)rosi,:ble, The article in the Times is an attempt to arrest, it P roier eot the medical liberty I f the subject, which liberty is. docto rs in every free-born individual. We repeat, it is tn themselves who are responsible for these opiates, sons,* administered falsely as medicines danger and mystery in the path of those who otherm!_ce"rebe and would treat their own maladies.—We are, Sir, .l" in oi der „ g ht dient servants, MORISON, MOAT, and Co., For, and on behalf of the body of Big e British College of Health, New-road, a to ts . ro London, Oct. 16, 1845. scie*ntfi T i e e ll ally Telling administered i l n v i o s r t l e d red tl i i s at a aproo i ss o s n i s mp a o r , e 4ti l o u n e:li a c n it a i, :w o et d r ogi : the day is not far distant when the people will stand it. TO A FATAL OCCURRENCE MILITARY OFFICER. A very considerable and painful excitement 113.5rl 1118 dge, last few days prevailed in the village of Elstr ee, ware, from the general rumour that Lio ten nerv , f Edward James Metcalf, of the Royal Horse At" the ovt, been killed in a duel by a brother officer, and hattt; had been removed to his residence in the dead ef r i. ce , t l and that it. was the intention of his friends to c . oli alt affair from the public, and to bury the corpse w .s o,, vestigation of the circumstances leading to his 1 and rt port was so current that every body believed l ic g atrair became so public that it was the general to.P_ versation. The parish authorities lost no time T.,0,01). the necessary inquiries, and succeeded in aseetta i ; e ; ill b : the report of the unfortunate gentleman havingx,d from duel was without foundation, although he had the effects of a pistol-bullet under circumstances ci rcle d to t o afflicting nature. Notice was immediately for ° jr.a,i ii •pg Coroner, and an inquest was held at the Articholteeweido village, when the following evidence was given in 0 lie 0 the melancholy affair : „, to t" is let William Howard stated that he lived as gro°": tely' Colonel Metcalf. He uccupied the room iminedialith 10,01 that of his master. On Saturday night last , °l i e poteiii witness saw him go into his apartment for tl °Oa, dressing to attend a party ; witness heard hin t to h is about an hour after, and he (witness) then 'v olt iol° o l In a short time his master returned, and again ,t rit vessf,,ht. room, but did not remain long before he left. ring" tbel99 to sleep, and did not hear any more of him du i ot o° oo o At about seven o'clock the next morning , be,". o e -lies , „ e ig room, as was his custom, to call the decease"' d i e s b not rbol, entering, he was astonished at finding two c 5 ,1 3,,,. in the sockets of the candlesticks, and his ills s i t ; nor had the bedclothes been disturbed. ', ' „f o n ver'; ;be behind the screen, which divided the room, 1,0 s fr pt deceased sitting on the sofa, with his head reeilt;llo3, side, weltering in blood, which appeared to c° mouth, although his lips were closed, and lie Icl to r r e i : c tile Witness made an immediate alarm, and hastene'declor, the attendance of a surgeon, who, on ar riving' iec eel, deceased to have been dead some hours. Th e eist °e 'ra liij undressed, with the exception of his drawers 0,04 witness afterwards found the pistol, now Pro' tie es / drawers, which were hanging about his legs . P- The deceased was a widower, and lived by 110 s Al tP about 57 years of age. to l , o o' " Captain Robert Maynard stated he was with the unfortunate gentleman, who wasfod ,sreae netted. Witness saw the remains of his Gal lsli jor, e .,s after the last witness gave the alarm. The nis t 'l l l have - been recently discharged. On opening 510.' 1 ,, „ I t whole of the upper jaw was found to be conini e l e t c o t,; (l .a r and the ball had lodged in the hack of the be au ' lot -otis" sequently extracted. Witness was confident th ceased never intended .suicide, but that his someway or other by accident. He was a nst tic ,oo l ° l spirited man, and the last in the world t° - murder. 1 , 'O l 0 In answer to questions, A 'll h t, ° r ed o 1 Captain Maynard said he was strengtben e- had that it was accidental, from the examination i te A it t or„ the pistol. Upon looking at the ramrod be feitn-the difficult to remove, from which he believed that i was about to draw the charge of the pistol, ha d oppi,, could not shift the ramrod with his hand, lie," 3 ' t op ii, teeth of his bottom jaw to a small ridge near t ° go ° in so doing the jerk must have caused the p istol ,d 1 ' tiv.'" produced the dreadful event. • e The pistol was closely inspected by the „ ant and the ramrod certainly was difficult to rem';,:er s 4 „',. Captain Maynard further stated that h en-. ;0' 1 '0" thing in the conduct of deceased indicating ne I`ei. Pe /0 could state that in all his experience he bad 'd. man more careless of fire-arms than the d eceta the or continually trying experiments with therm w it!' t a l ee, Major Thornton said he was at the party' tor e ceased, who was in high spirits. H e : - (deee 9se d h d t upon a shooting excursion the day previous, Sn pheasants. ed datins By the Jury—There was no gambling introone- i tbt evening, by which the deceased lost money. Lieutenant Mahon said the pistol which "c-o`,bet calamity was his property. He lent that and O dea tti", o f deceased a short time ago. Witness thinks his„ r ioa cidental, as the unfortunate gentleman was n°' ft* less of fire-arms. rdi et ' After much discussion, the jury returned a' e bt I°' the deceased was accidently shot." Jed ten The inquiry lasted three hours, and was at-4,1): merous friends and brother officers of the dove s ' he was highly respected. IRELAND. REPEAL IN MAYO. no el' l A 01011 CASTLEBAR, SUNDAY EVENING.—Mr. SnI , cc ll o o l larney on Thursday morning at eleven. On „ad "et, Ih he arrived at Castlebar, amid the usual che ers , a lvLa I ,t , lions of the multitude. The day was ' exceedl a Li; yet, although the rain poured down in torre,, oo pari ee tt o past ten o'clock until four, upwards of so' •} the, S D ; P h i; tended in the procession, and remained lal v e frew o nie of was over. The procession commenced to ra° t hat 1 1 79 t; called French-hill (a locality designated bY I. is ut ;_ k consequence of a defeat in that particular 61)°,4 the French for who landed in 13alliiia), at 11cey c l ` of o'clock, and arrived at the place of meeting Iv f lul it‘ r e , cb" 11; The rain still continued to pour as ', the„id' heaven were opened, in the midst of wni c- b P I " -lit taken at the place of meeting, in Castleba r, - wh i t ,`"ie Esq., M.P. oft , ot 9 dh:da tto co t ri ll ell ted s fo l. re Various resolutions were proposed and carr Tbe I tic e w an hich c L h e t a h ri eprish people Gentleman w e b r r e i e t fl r 3 e - a Mr. O'CosNELL addressed the meeting. e /101 e alluded ing his determination to persevere in his stri*o until the object was accomplished. thenA petition for a repeal of the union w as 1 01 . after which the vast assembly separated. B "` THE DINNER. 3 ,jeu A pavilion was erected for the dinner, : i o cl" e n „ the same evening; but inconsequence of Oct as ; f;" the weather, the persons who attended abg t he been called on to dine in the open air. and "i' e tio",o After the Queen's health was pro pose... _ o at , lee tv4 Royal Family, the CHAIRMAN proposed in e i w G g re at health of " the Liberator of his country"--- i c ioa".o 1 , 4 1 1 14 Mr, O'CONNELL said if it were an ansP toP I As ir „it it the ..th , ro o he would endeavour to say something ° 00 th then pressed upon his mind, but he w ould , t o 401 of the inclemency of the weather, endeavow.:oo he' o pleo some of them, in . order to leave all inipres P iit ,t of what his intentions were, and to su°sericed out. 04 Mayo how those intentions ought to be w eoa ties,. s (Mr. O'Connell's object was to secure tlie e% i o o '7 1 60 of the British Crown. He felt that that co n n f . th e oi cb eri o in extreme jeopardy by the wickedness 0„ le tt e h a ist ift ev ii nister, by the rancour of Stanley and A l to n. t el or 4 olt Graham. He believed it was in such a P° s t ,, the ,t bi' le 1$ did not shrink from their own intend tb, lo ap consequences would happen. It was re-res e " to t' ject was to injure and destroy that conne.": 0 , stic", a d under foot. But his struggle was to place !' to ineelt to p; as that the interests of both should be ma, 00 ,1 ar e , 100 justice done to Ireland. He defied any rain ed ar% co ce„ io • that the connexion can be long maintat his iilD, .03CP 0 Of circumstances after his death, and when 0 1 ' sseff se" et tle d i e gone. He had, thank heaven, obtained an,a e ,P it thate r for t i o ; fluence over the present generation, or at „ os se ee ts,,o them of his own time of life ; but who cog lead g I, J,y consequences—who could answer for tb t l i cn" lo ' t ie ,"'it when his voice was heard no more ara c ' t b b o tliP en e policy then really was to act as a drag ell fir onns„ e car but after his death, he could no.",' 4.44 litnie ;0 1 would not run with such a rapidity as;;; ec rs.),.,aen` for country and emancipate the other.--,sbparit-_eiony O'Connell) believed the restoration of the o .lll, ie co v e lla_ tio o ye absolutely essential to a continuance T oot it was hardly worth having without % te l t a g!i i " e : t `i je r domestic Legislature.—(Cheers.) He rep r '__ ci , to 1 , 0 of would submit to it, but he would not p r .c_",,. t heal iit a ct ob le people of Ireland to do so ; e would t hey s tr e theY ca'39) e advice, but when the control was gon i ,!,. ed be " „ i r. it" themselves. Mr. O'Connell then la' d describlag, o ver 1016 length on the power of the aristocracy , 04,44 as destitute of all political power, a ___„ o „, he eV; tle; oligarchy of which Sir Robert Peel, "" that a fte f r on t wee Peel, was the instrument. He declarethe Croton 0 bet co p" the union, his object was to rescue of connelctTeo; grading thrsldom, and make it the link oil ed G e , ll „id be e 'lsi r the two countries. The Hon. and u e„ be , .0 0 , t he eluded, by saying that Ireland sho then p rop man's be, a nation. Mr. O'Connell man's health. Mr. D. BROWNE returned thanks. The next toast was " the Archbishopool tinee,e)!,bsookte„; Dr. WHALE returned thanks in a i l. y t t r i rit ru d C o ,', lo c Mr. BAurtErr and Dr. GRAY s eve „ r _I; _ , ; r , s o _ e a . " ol " The 'B2 Club„' Lord Ffteneli," 1 r , and at el ham, and Campbell," were next given the assembly broke up. 4 0 rrao' 3 --- 1 . 1 ,, A R_----- -00 K FORA RAINY DAY• BY 0 4 ° ~I I „nekellis SMITH.—This new book, by the Author of - , 1 0 A i ; tY is Times," is replete with interest, arid eel"Ali;ok t,,e,ttO variety of information. The author has getle.e inc iu - 1 (° . in year ig ih c: t f dii l n i v i te s or b sti i hfi r t ee h ap , ah : i n ssi d nig n i f a ee r ,N r . eg a n t i Nt e ,s d i nog c f l i r t.th o i n: logie a I I Y If, t° li' °t, celebrated personages, and infinitely Clii'ttibsaien4s7staVeeelaitteliti4elt:l.: character. We glean, for instance, many A 6 . , C _.., r , '.3 ° ,l l which the general historian forbears to recorui-r;og°,oto, glimpses of what London was some 5i st y e 4.5 Ore', its a description of Maryleboue -gardens, _l ber , st l o o The e _ book is, indeed, aptly entitled one for a 1 .3 .r 0 wr 0 13 1) r, without in the amusement afforded by the ",,,,ol g por hands; an d if a gleam of sunshine burst forth , e the oriotig tate to lay down his book to avail hinfseif !t ot for.iioi' 1 tiler will -without noff,v a,,,,0f, time enjoyed the perusal of a workfor this a il 0 0 ~ going forth to bask in it. We have?octipti i 4 much. " A Book for a Rainy Dax " wil l s°° hauds of every one.--.Sunda ,y Tinto. trusnlaitelnyousnov:nceednts:h.eB'rce. gie)ft. the g,_.4,0330,1130, b(7 ,5." 7" * ",..„ t t .1 V ) " an n i , ;; ; ln n at t b i:en ,s? ~~