The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

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Lovg s R )11, 11.- -- o rlef Tues., ue , ittle t Jown o e l ii.eo leS., f og [on., LE' 01* ,too ' ho I" - 6 0 D V sl9 do l ,OR- tea io. r the e gte ll 3, i t t o these , e d vvD S e the 00 liDg, ro ui u gh , t bro , tf ee • ci t e l he . Pr ui for iissing tend dis 7 tf et , )f ¢ c o ties A if 3 ° bo- d o, but be-, sorP eo rl7 for 1 ' 00 „ La 's 00 , ca UMMARY OF NEWS . i N. l Vubttr eptaton. " Who runs may read." The R POREIGZif. ing of the French reached Eu at a late hour on Tuesday evening. A cour i er arr i ve d i n P ar i s on Wed nesday afternoon, who b roug h t t h e i nte lli gence of the safe arrival of his Majesty. The Patrie gives the following on the authority of a letter from London :—" The King was walking at Vir a Water. An officer of his suite having perceived a group of men, informed General Athalin, and the King, having desired them to advance, asked them what they wanted. They replied that, as Frenchmen, they had com e to share in the general joy, and, being political re fugees, to solicit the Royal clemency. The King replied that he would immediately see to their affair, and at the same time gave orders to M. Guizot to write to the Mi nister of Justice to proceed to Eu to prepare an ordon nance of amnesty." We 'egret to state that the Prince of Prussia, who was lately in this country, while inspecting some build ings at B a b e l s b erg, fell, and broke both the bones of his right arm, two inches above the wrist. The frac ture was immediately reduced, and his Royal Highness wag. at the date of this account, doing well. The Journal de la Manche of the 11 th instant an nounces that the bridge at Saint LO, called_La Bar quette, h as been carried away by the sea, nd that twelv e persons, who were upon it, narrowly escaped with their lives. The damage is estimated at 1,000,0001. A Madrid letter of the 9th states that the Spanish Ministry had not yet taken any official notice of the affair of the Rayo, as Mr. Bulwer was expected to ar rive i n the capital on the evening of that day, when a sub c ommun i cation would be made to him on the sect. We learn from St. Petersburgh that the Emperor of Russia has appointed Count Orloff Commandant of the Gendarmerie in place of Count Benkendorff, deceased. Count Orloff, however, retains his functions as Coun cillor of State, Aide-de-Camp G e ner a l, an d G enera l o f Caval ry . The Paris Itioniteur publishes a return of the indi rect taxes for the three first quarters of the present year, which show an increase of 16,756,0001. as cora- Med with the corresponding quarters of 1843. A new attempt to blow up the foundation of the Pont tßouge has failed, and the employment of the mine has een abandoned, it being now d e t erm i ne d t o t ry a diving ell to effect the object desired. According t o a G erman journal, the manufactories of Saxo ny produce to the amount of 37,915,000 crowns a 400 Y e ar. The numb er o f wor k men i s 284,300. Cotton 1/Pinning and weav i ng employ 30,000 hand-looms, with Jacquards, and 4,000 worked by machinery ; there are 1,000 f or the manufacture of damask, 1,500 for frin ge, 400 s ilk J acquard looms, 300 printing presses and 64 paper-rnills. LAW AND POLICIA, f ore J ame s Davison, a journeyman smith, w as c h arge d be for. Mr. Alderman Kelly, a t Guildh a ll, w ith annoy i ng MHovvell, a hosier in Aldeesgate-street, by claiming to be his nephew, and as such entitled to be relieved, was remanded. At Bow -street, Thomas Stockes, alias Randall, a tra 'ier to a lace manufactory, at Honiton, near Exeter, :ortewas brought before Mr. Hall, having been previously re dred, charged with having caused the death of Oba ulah Garrett, a young man, aged twenty-eight years, a employed in the house of Messrs. Harvey, gold smiths and jewellers, in th e St ran d. Th e p r i soner h a d -n.aed every effort to c oncea l hi s name on a p rev i ous occa sion, and seemed deeply grieved at his situation. The Prisoner had, in consequence of the deceased remonstrat e!negverivoiyth him on his conduct in committing a nuisance I _ ll a public thoroughfare, knocked him down, and so injured him that death ensued. He was com 'flitted for wiLul murder. f W Triggey and Joseph Terne, charged with having 4'audulently obtained money from a woman named The prisoners are connected with the Kingsgate-street Court of Requests. An old woman, named Sarah Leaby, who for a long Period has obtained a livelihood by 4. diving into the y st eries of f u t ur it y ," was c h arge d at M ary l e b one with av,ing obtained a gown from M ar y M usgrove , a pretty f°°aing servant girl, under the retence of telling her ortune. She was committed for p fourteen days. Herbert Holmes, late second mate of the ship Cuba, was brought before Mr. B a ll an ti ne a t th e Th ames Police court, on a charge of feloniously cutting and wounding Captai* Matthew Macintosh, the master of the same IVessel, on the high seas. The prisoner offered no de n co to the seri ous c h arges made againt him, and it being understood there were other witnesses to be examined who were not in attendance, Mr. Ballantine remanded him until Tuesday. COVILIC-PASNIONABLII. The D uc h ess o f Gl oucester leaves town to -morrow morrow for Witley Court, on a visit to the Queen Dowager. The Royal. Duchess travels by railway to Droitwich, where the Dowager-Queen's ca rr iage s will await her arrival, to c onvey her Royal H i gh nes s and suite to Witley Court. The Marquis and M arc hi oness o f W estm i nster have left Moore Park, near Rickmansworth, for Eaton Hall, Ch eshire, for the winter. i_The Dowager Countess of Sandwich, Lord and Lady ,4"Yreour the Countess of Aldborough, Mr. and Lady ley,Lairivrence Peel, Lord H. .Seymour, and Mrs. Ma ,.,:xt,r ._ among the English fashionables who intend to T he 'll Paris. beur acli of Chichester presided at the audit for la era h r ,,,. and p res "Lula' , allotments, at Stanmore, on Thursday, of the ente,lltecGarious premiums for the goo d appearance Th,, . 4 8'es and allotments. t T litite,e: ..ight Hon. H. Labouchere arrived at Taunton on me Inso...bnerylsviasedtn, meet e t s o , Sir E. Colebrooke, and both II exceaevrielentocsattend a meeting at the Mechanics' Lista iB 4011 1 13 th E Ba . ron Niemann, the Austria e n h M le in a i v s e te e r f , abs en i . e of lis departure for V i enna, . r t s ettee for some weeks. Immediately on his Excellency's e4l l to this coant h . contemplated alliance wit ry is c Augusta Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beau tett 'll ,wt be solemnized. A, me e ti n g ItEZS CILILLANMOUS. G razin g of the Northamptonshire Farming and ti— Society Was held on Thursday, at Castle Ashby, the n the extensive farm of the Marquis of Northampton, n,"11.., president of the association, who was upon . the 'ad, attended by upwards of 200 of the principal agriculturists. of the neighbourhood. The whole of the 111',:lhing work was much admired, and the judges had ao_tillitle dif ficulty in deciding on some of the cases, in 2„un equence of its general excellence. At three o'clock Cigeentlenien sat down in a spacious tent erected upon pit'4o.!tutiful domain of the Noble President, who . oc t eu , - , gpok L ac chair, and upon giving " Success to the Some y, day h e_ ,most exultingly of the excellent results which that fe e ij u 'u appeared from its operation, and of the . k i ndly at g and intercourse it was calculated to establish and re ngth en Th e 4 • . cotrvetee.,w Police -court in the Borough is now entirely Publi c , " , and will shortly be opened for the dispatch of be jai untsi.ness. Union -hall will, as a matter of course, St ot - es i 'dlately abolished. The court is situat e . at v er :end, near the Queen's prison. The court is a a t Strikingmodious one, and the appearance is somewh uh ttit f Mr. Reeves, surveyor of the police, has lately iti `'indent- ed designs for the erection of a new Police-court aquernaquare Westminster, in lieu of Queen- Co `-'curt- A new Police-court will shortly be com- Iv at Kennington. tion f" metropolitan police have just received informa n,real -, fourt Robert Town, New South Wales, of the escape tr ati een convicts, all of whom were sentenced to be me ted ,,Bl)o r for life.' ..itt hdnesday, a numerous meeting was held at po se , e rth ; near the seat of Lord Radnor, for the pur se i v I ,' l taking into consideration the distresses . of the r inn , _,__ ,ermq ...Lases. The Noble Earl took the chair, and b e ro Interesting speeches were made. A report will rt l ,"( 1 in another part of the paper. tiell'itc Governor of the Isle of Wight is the present Lord qui s i t en aut of Ireland, Lord Heytesbury, but the per death e s and emoluments of o ffi ce were abolished on the A '," of the late Governor, Lord Malmesbury. Faris Harry Wilson, of the Isle of Wight, started for umpi re un Tuesday night, to attend a second time, as St a r ,: r e and secretary to the English champion, Mr. gen t l e kra, in the forthcoming chess match between that eeiz alan and M. St. Amend, which is appointed to Mance this day- trighSPuitious GuArro.—Sol-----7-------",e farmers inp Kirkcud eVedtshire baying last summer imported what they be to be genuine Peruvian guano, and having been ,"BPpointed in the results, lately applied to Professo g ha t to analyse it for them. Mr. Johnson reports "'at the supposesud guano is a complete imposition —the _ ll .' l Y one the kind, however, that has ever come under his personal o bservation. If it contain any real guano "t all, bee a very small proportion indeed. He thinks it Lhas n made up by mixing coal ashes or Dutch peat asues---tnost likely the former, from the bits of coal 'nixed with it with chalk, common salt, a little sul- Pliate of ainnao—nia, or dried urine, and some other mat !'ers, to give it a smell. The smell is not that of guano, it . '8 more like that of the refuse of the glue manufae- TrY• The farmers are resolved to make an example of Le party from whom they bought the arti c l e , and endea vour t o recover damages for the injury th ey h ave sus tained. --Scotsman. t, EXET ER COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—e Commissioner cow On Thur s d a y _n 'mined liutton to prison a b an k rupt, answ ers• ,a li witted me - burner, f or g i v i ng prevaricating N T A linendraper, named Goodenough, late of e v y the fita°tn, Abbot, had the consideration of his application I_9r a certificate adjourned for four years from the date of in consequence of attempted fraud. Pg.buA PtROCIOUB PlG.—Yesterday John Billing, a tcher, at nampstead, who was engaged to kill a +4r . ge sow, having entered the sty for the purpose of fixing }ii and round the animal's mouth, she flew furiously at it2lo, seizing him by the right thigh near the groin, tear uX a large piece of flesh out with her teeth, and it was )r w ith the utmost difficulty the infuriated animal was pre ljuln,ented from again seizing him. On being extricated his dangerous situation, he was removed to the h ospital and it is feared that amputation must be per t° the close to the hip. i. kAL TAR OCTOBER s. —Two courts-martial will sit Ond-ss 'oon as a sufficient number of Post-Captains can be - -ene to try Lieutenant Franklin, of the Snake, the other to try Lieutenant Lowkay, o n, a Bonetta, on ‘gtorage of drunkenness. Lieutenant Bowker, of the Q.._ kes, summoned Mr. P. Villebois, formerly of the h „luzd , for. insulting him, by calling him an impertinent PUP s , Lieutenant him, had struck a favourite dog e._llvillebois', and threatened to do so again ; words : 11 3 . , _ll . of an angry nature, which led to the offence, 4 1' , V. . illeboi s was sentenced to a fine of 31., and five la ullivisotunant. NEW MUSIC. THE MUSIC OF IRELAND. Part I. By F. W. fiorncastle. This is a collection of choice speciniens of the an cient music of Ireland, harmonised and arranged by Mr. Horncastle, of her Majesty's Chapel Royal. Those who have had the very great pleasure of hearing this gentleman's lectures and entertainments upon Irish music will thank us for calling their attention to the fact, that the beautiful, perhaps, matchless, me lodies, many of them before unpublished and neglected, which he produced on those occasions, are nowplaced within their reach in a permanent form. The service which the composer has rendered to music and even to ethnology, by the preservation and publication of those exquisite (and but for him perishing) relics of ancient science and refinement, is enhanced by his judicious, as well as reverential abstinence from at tempts at improving perfection. In this respect he stands very much above his predecessor in the same field, Sir John Stevenson ; for he at once admits that the old music of Ireland as it is found is not the wild effusion of a rude and simple people, but is the production of a school in a high degree methodical, skilful, and cultivated. In harmo nising the trade songs, marches, and caoines, or funeral pieces, in the present number, he has laboured, and successfully, to supply his accompani ments strictly as they may be believed to have been in the practice of the Bardic authors, whose composi tions being only orally delivered (as was for the most part their history, poetry, and other literature), have perished in the lapse of time and the ravages of conquest, except so much as could be preserved in the songs of the common people. Mr. Horncastle must have had great difficulties to contend with as an Englishman, in collecting some of those old airs, and the characteristic traditions associated with them—the latter adding a very great charm to this book, and, if possible, in creasing the interest which we feel in the music. Thus, it is interesting to know that the caoine (or funeral chaunt) pronounced keen, so long known to us, in Eng land, as the " Irish howl," is a noble and most expres sive piece of music. Our author gives two specimens— the Bardic and the Connaught—and these are, note for note, the actual keen at the peasant's funeral at the present day. In reference to them, Mr. Horn castle—having said that " the music of Ireland takes a wide range, and includes within its characteristic melodies, songs of trades, warlike achievements, historical facts, and rural occupations, as well as many other objects, on which the fancy both of the poet and musician have been equally well exercised"—proceeds to state, that " their caoines or funeral chaunts, alone serve as examples of the most beautiful harmonic compositions, and prove beyond a doubt that music in those early ages was in the highest state of cultivation." Yet to this day the humblest of the people have been the only depositories of these great works, which remained for an Englishman to rescue from obscurity and contempt ! An adequate analysis of this work, or a bare re ference to one half of its beauties, could not be under taken here ; but it would be difficult to pass over without mention one curious fact—that the Irish hedge schoolmasters have been in the habit of teach ing their pupils to sing Latin odes to old Irish airs. The illustration given in the present volume seems to offer temptation to a somewhat interesting inquiry. It has been said that the music of Western, or Celtic, Europe was related to that of Ireland. Here we find the first ode of. Horace (of which the peculiar metre occurs but twice in the Odes) perfectly adapted, as if it were written for it, to an old Irish air, also of very peculiar character, and entitled " I'm asleep, and don't waken me." Now, sing the ode to the air, and you will find it not hard to believe that it was written to it. Nay, one is tempted to conjecture—what is not improbable—that the air was known to a nc i en t It a l y b y a t i t l e as expressive ofits character, as its Irish one ; and that Horace adapted to it his dedicatory ode to Mecwnas, as a delicate remonstrance with his patron for withdraw ing him from the repose in which he delighted, and inducing him to make public his prepared works, and to go on writing more. Fanciful as this specu lation may seem, it is not altogether unsupported. Horace more than once intimates plainly that he writes with the feeling of one who had said, " Let me be quiet," and yields to authoritative importu nity ; and, curious enough, the metre of this ode occurs only in the 4th Book, which, we are told by Suetonius, he wrote reluctantly, at the desire of Augustus. The first ode of this book is a depreca tion, and, although not addressed to the Emperor, conveys a complaint of being taxed beyond his powers. But in the Bth ode, to Censorinus, he uses the metre of that to Mecwnas, and is as the theme is much the same—his love of fame as a poet, which he really did not covet—it is clear that he wrote them in the same spirit. This 4th book was undoubtedly written under circumstances in which the air, " I'm asleep, and don't waken me," would express his temper. It may be worth asking, did he know and use the Irish tune? Whether or not, we are obliged to Mr. Horncastle for the adaptation, which gives occasion to the amus ing surmise, although few others will think this portion the most valuable of his delightful work. LITERATURE. WARS OF JEHOVAH. Raider, London, 1844. In his dedication of this poem to the Queen, the author observes—" We were much encouraged by your Majesty's most gracious acceptation of a former volume, and inspired with the hope that this present might serve as a mark for your Majesty's reign unto the latest posterity. Your Majesty's predecessor had Spenser and Shakspeare, nor are we among those who, imagining the time for celebrations of Princes past, waste their talents over a novel or romaunt in Hercules' manner when he sate to spin." The modesty of this passage is remarkable, and deserves all possible commendation. Imagine an author coolly hoping that his poem will have the effect of making her Ma jesty's reign known to the latest posterity; and in directly comparing himself to Spenser and Shakspeare Diffident creature, was there ever such shrinking bashfulness! On looking into the poem, we find— notwithstanding the author's strong impression on the subject —that it has but a slender chance of reaching posterity, or even of surviving three months from the date of its publication ; for, in the first place, it labours under the disqualification of being in many places almost wholly unintelligible ' • secondly, where it is intelligible, it is awful r u bbi s h ; and, thirdly, we are by no means positive as to its grammar, which is often exceedingly loose—to a degree, indeed, that would have horrified Lindley Murray. The poem is in blank verse—and very blank the verse is—and is embellished with several illustrations by Martin, which are certainly not among the chef d'ceuvres of this accomplished artist. But if we are compelled to enter our protest against the worth of the interior of the volume, nothing can be urged against its exterior, for it is bound in the most splendid manner, in bright blue cloth, enriched with a lavish variety of gold devices. A PLEASURE ! EXCURSION.—On Sunday morning, at six o'clock, the Severn steamer started for Cardiff with about 300 persons, on what was intended to be a cheap pleasant to-and-fro trip. They arrived all safe at Cardiff in due time, and on leaving the vessel, were di rected to be on board again at half-past four, to return to Bristol. At that hour, accordingly, the passengers re-embarked, but to their utter dismay found that the vessel could not start, the engineers having got drunk, and let the fires out. The rain now began to pelt down most furiously, and the miserable and drenched pleasure seekers were obliged some to pass the night penned up in the cabins, and the others to find lodgings in the town where they could. On Monday morning the boat returned, and the friends of the passengers were relieved from their anxiety respecting them. It is right to add that the Severn was not under the control of the owners for that day, she having been specially hired by the party who undertook the contract for the trip.—Bristol Gazette. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.--The subscribers to the above charity who are connected with the trade held their second anniversary friendly dinner at the White Conduct Tavern, on Tuesday last, when about one hun dred persons sat down to an excellent repast. Mr. C. Wood, of Poppin's-court, presided. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts, as also that of " Prosperity to the Printers' Pension Society," were given and duly re sponded to. Although the festival was not arranged for the collection of subscriptions, yet several liberal con tributions were announced; and it was also intimated that Mr. D'lsraeli had kindly consented to take the chair at the ensuing general anniversary of the charity. The entertainments of theevening concluded with a select ball, and dancing was kept up with great spirit till an advanced hour on the following morning. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.---The follow ing notice was yesterday extensively posted in the City: —" The Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London and liberties thereof, hereby give notice to all persons inhabiting that portion of the City through which her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen may have occasion to pass on her way to open the Royal Exchange, that no board, scaffolding, platform, or balcony, or anything that shall project over or rest upon the footway, will be allowed to be erected or affixed before or against any of the houses or buildings in or entering into such line of route, and any such projection, if erected, will be in stantly taken down and removed as the law directs.—By order of the Court, JOSEPH llsw, principal clerk.— Sewers-office, Guildhall, Oct. 15." THE DUKEDOM OF BRIDGEWATER.—It is well known that Lord Francis Egerton, the second son of the late Duke of Sutherland, succeeded to the princely pos sessions of the Duke of Bridgewater. It is in contem plation immediately to call his Lordship to the House of Peers, by the style and title of the Duke of Bridgewater. —Morning Herald. SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING WATER.—It iS not so generally known as it ought to be that pounded alum possesses the property of purifying water. A table spoonful of pulverised alum sprinkled into a hogshead of water (the water stirred at the time) will, after the lapse of a few hours, by precipitating to the bottom the impure particles, so purify it that it will be found to possess nearly all the freshness and clearness of the finest spring water. A pailful, containing four gallons, may be purified by a single tea-spoonful.—Southern Plcutter. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1844. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Yesterday afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice walked on the Castle Terrace. This morning their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice were taken their ac customed airings, riding on ponies in the pleasure grounds of the Castle. Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal Highness Frederick, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. The auspicious event was celebrated at Kew. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou cester arrived from town in the forenoon to pay a visit of congratulation to the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and remained to lunch with their Royal Highnesses and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In the afternoon the Duchess of Gloucester left Kew, and returned to her residence, Gloucester House, Piccadilly. A deputation from the Staines and Richmond Junction Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Charles Finch, Chairman, Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Mr. C. J. Clarke, Mr. William Roy, Solicitor, Mr. H. Bird, Engineer, and Mr. J. C. Govett, Secretary, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonia office, from the Governor of Sierra Leone. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) OCT. 16.—Her Majesty has not been outside of Osborne grounds this morning. Prince Albert rode out on horseback at a quarter before four this afternoon. The royal barge left the yacht for Osborne. Her Majesty embarked from the beach, with the Prince, when they proceeded along the shore, and returned at live o'clock. There being no quay at:Osborne, the barge was rowed stern on, and her Majesty slipped across the thawls, and leaped from the bows on to the shore, like a deer, and skipped up the beach like a girl of fifteen. Turning round, and seeing a gentleman of her suite stepping very carefully out of the boat, she enjoyed a laugh at his ex pense. It is only afloat that anything can be seen of the royal visitors. Osborne House and grounds are so re tired that there is no chance of her Majesty's privacy being intruded on. The shore of Osborne is also abut out from the public by the grounds of Norris, Spring hill, and Slatwood's. OCT. 17.—This afternoon the royal yacht steamed close up to Osborne beach, when the Queen, with Prince Albert and suite, embarked on board her. She steamed through Spithead to the Nab, andj returned about four o'clock, Yesterday and to-day have been very fine for the season—Flenty of wind, a beautiful sun, and smooth water ;: the barometer rising. —Monday it was as low as 28.53; Tuesday, 28'60; Wednesday, 28.67; Thurs day, 28'95. Her Majesty is dressed very plain, and seems to be for a time tired of pomp and show. She could not have se lected a spot more retired. There were, the first day, seventeen of the rural /police stationed about the grounds, and at the different gates. These having; been told their services would not be required, there are now only five of the London police to attend to the different roads to the royal residence. Sir William Montagu is entertaining Lord Fitzcla rence, Lord Yarborough, Sir Bellingham and lady Graham, and a large party of fashionables, at Grantham House. BURIAL IN TOWNS, (pßom A CORRESPONDENT.) " The grave, dread thing ! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah, how dark The long extended realms and rueful wastes, Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark nigh , • . The sickly taper, • • By glimmering through thy low-brow'd mirky vaults, Furr'd round with misty damps and ropy slime, Lets fall a supernumerary horror, And only serves to make thy night more irksome." In The Sun of September 3 appeared a well written article, c o pi e d f rom t h e L e i ces t er Ch ron i c l e, pointing out some of the ill effects arising from the dangerous practice o f b ury i ng th e d ea d i n t owns . I t is a subject but littl e cons id ere d, an d consequen tl y th e evils arising from it are seldom thought of. Was every town within itself provided with an extensive and well-ordered burial-ground, where there would be no possibility of the coffins becoming crowded to gether, even th en t h e pract i ce would be bad and un justifiable. But taking the fact as it is, namely, that the burial-grounds are generally of small dimensions, and filled with dead, even to heaping up, how much more is a continuance of this system to be deprecated, as fraught with most imminent and dangerous conse sequences. It is strange that, whilst we boast of our advancement in the arts and sciences, and assert the moral and int e ll ectua l i mprovement of all classes of society, we should still, as a nation, tenaciously adhere to a practice unworthy the most ignorant ages of the world, and in every way revolting to the best feelings of our n a t ure. A t no per i o d, pro b a bl y, h as the spirit of the philanthropist shown itself, or been more active, th an d ur i ng t h e presen t age —i n t h e hospitals, the visiting societies, the humble individual efforts to alleviate the misery of our fellow-creatures, and in providing suitable relief for their bodily suf ferings. It is strange, too, that 'while this is being done, we look calmly on, and—by our tacit acknow ledgment of the fact, without making an effort to arrest its progress --encourage a perpetual monster reservoir of pestilence, in the crowded and heaped up masses of decayed mortality to be found in every old established burial-ground in the kingdom. Habit has accustomed us to view this state of things with indifference, and so blunted the sensitive feelings of our nature, that we bestow not a thought upon the sickness and death, which is too often attributable (although we knew it not at the time) to the inhaling of the noxious and poisoned atmosphere generated from the dead. " The main object of a burial-ground," says Mr. Loudon, "is the disposal of the remains of the dead in such a manner as that their decomposition, and re turn to the earth from which they sprung, shall not prove injurious to the livin g , e ith er b y a ff ect i ng th e i r health, or shocking their f ee li ngs, opin i ons, or preju dices. In a burial-ground, properly arranged and managed, a coffin, after it is once interred, should never again be exposed to view, nor a human bone be disturbed." Let those who read bear this in mind. No one will dispute the correctness of the assertion, while every one will admit that the principle is daily, in thousands of cases, being violated. Let us, for a moment, turn our attention to the decomposition of the body, and its results. W e are all aware of the indestructability of the bones. "In the ante-hominal part" of the creation there are bones daily discovered, which have existed 6,000 y ears a t least. Dr. Charles Loudon informs us, " that he has seen numerous human bones, in certain caves near Naples, which are supposed to be those of the Grecian colonists who settled there before the Christian era, or perhaps those of an older race, who inh a bit e d M agna Grwcia." This, of itself, should furnish sufficientarguruent for the inviolability of the grave being respected. " The health of the living," continues Mr. Loudon, " is chiefly affected by a certain descripti on o f gas, " generated in the decomposition of the body. "To inhale this gas, undiluted with atmospheric air, is in thdre has thrown out of graves where in stant death, and even when much dil u t e d, i t i s pro ductive of disease which comm on l y en d s i n death. " " This gas abounds to afearful ext en t i n th e so il of all crowded less dd burial-grounds esentin been proved to be mor e o bodies have been interred before." "In the years 1782 we prthe soi l an and 1783, when the disinterment from the burying grounds of Les Innocents, in Paris, t oo k p l ace , un d er the direction of some eminent French chemists, these philosophers wished to analyse the gas, but were un able to procure it. Fourcroy says, 'ln vain we en deavoured to induce the grave-diggers to procure us some of this elastic fluid ; they uniformly refused. The horrible odour and poisonous activity of this fluid, announces to us that it is mingled with hydro genous and azotic gas, holding sulphur and phospho- ' rus in solution. It may contain, also, another dele terious vapour, whose nature has hitherto escaped philosophical research, while its terrible action upon life is too strikingly evinced.' " The secondary ob ject of a cemetery is, or ought to be, the improve ment of the moral sentiments and general taste of all classes, and more especially of the great masses of society. In vain we look for an attractive influence or argument in the crowded churchyards of towns. Tall weeds, rank grass, and neglected gravestones, do indeed teach a lesson ; but it is one where, too often, mingled dread and disgust usurp the place of moral reflection and calm and holy feelings. " Why," says Washington Irving, "should we seek to clothe death with unnecessary terrors, and spread horrors around the tomb of those we loved ? The grave should be surrounded by everything that might inspire kindness and veneration for the dead, or that might wi n th e li v i ng to v i rtue . It is the place no , t , of disgust an d di smay, b ut of sorrow an d meditation. " Nothing can ma k e amen d s, " says C o l er idge, " for the want of the soothing influences of nature, and for the absence of those types of renovation and decay which the wood s an d t h e fi e ld s offer to th e notice of the serious and contemplative mind. To feel imagina tion force of this sentiment, let a man only compare in the unsightly manner in which our monuments are crowded t oget h er i n t h e b usy, noisy, unclean, and almost grassl ess church and ard of a large town, with the still sec l us i on of a Turkish cemetery in some remote place, and yet further sanctified by the grove of cypr us i n w hi ch it is embosomed. " " Wh ere is it, we would ask," says the learned and elegant author of " N ecropo li s Glusguensis, " " that the innate desire which is f e lt i n every bosom to live in the recollection of his companions, the pleasing hope that he may still be a remembered denizen of this fleeting world, is likely to be - r e ali s ed than at the spot 'where his ashes are laid ? Where is it that the e x ti ncta amabitur, such as Cicero professed to his daughter Tallia, and which is still the pledge of friendship off ere d at the couch of the dy i ng, i s more likely to be experienced in all its force, and all its purity, than a t t h e tomb, where all the remains of mirth and loveliness is lying ? Where is it, indeed, that the hea r t i s li kely to be so feelingly moved, or the memory to b e so power f u ll y rouse d, as a t a parent's grave or a s i s t er ' s t om b ?" " A gar d en cemetery is the sworn f oe to preternatura l f ear and superstition. The ancients, from their minds being never polluted w i t h the idea of a charnel-house, nor their feelings roused by the revolting emblems of mortality, contempl a t e d d eath w i thout terror, and visited its gloomy shrine without fear. With them death was tranquillity, and the only i mages th a t ever associated with it, were those of peaceful repose and tender sorrow." The burial-ground at Poole, Dorset,measuringabout one acre, was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester, July 3, 1781. The number of burials which have there taken place since that period to the present time, is about 6,300. Mr. Loudon calculates that in the ordinary mode of burial, with and without head-stones and monuments, with necessary roadway, &c., that the extent of an acre of ground will give 1,361 graves. Taking, therefore, the number of interments in the Poole ground from 1784 to 1796, inclusive, we have 1,369. We will suppose that each grave was seven feet in depth. The extent of the ground was then covered. From 1797 to 1811, inclusive, 1,377 inter ments took place; the ground was, therefore, covered a second time. Mr. Loudon argues th a t, f or th e health of the community it ought to be imperative that a layer of e ar th, o f not less than six feet in depth, should be left between the under and upper c o ffi ns , so th at the earth may absorb the greater porti on o f th e gene rated gases. In the ground now sp o k en o f, sup posing that the earth left between the un d er an d upper coffins was two feet in depth, the latter would then be about three feet from the surf ace o f th e ground. It then necessarily follows that in 1811, after 2,746 interments (and upwards) had taken place, that the ground was full. Not another interment could take place without the desecration of a grave. The coffin and the remains of one must be displaced to make room for the remains of another. The parish register shows, as before observed, that since the consecration of the ground, about 6,300 interments have taken place ; therefore, after the ground was filled, the re ma i ns o f th ree thou sand five hundred and upwards were added—not buried, or, if so, the majority only for a time—not one of which should ever have been placed there. " Is the human heart so callous to right feeling, that men must wait until their own parents or rela tives are dragged from their graves before they will act and speak out on this question ?" It is truly said that " use is second nature." As man, by the force of example, becomes habituated to a life that, in moral capacity, places him below the beasts of the creation, so does the most sensitive and refined in character become indifferent and callous to a practice every way worthy the most degraded ages of the world. Many there are who, looking upon the bright green sod of a country churchyard, may accuse the writer of exaggeration. There i s none. Let them beware of the exhalations of burial grounds. Pestilence and death hang over every grave. The crowded state of the ground at Poole is not an isolated case. Let the parish registers be exam i ne d , and half the towns in the kingdom, or more, will be found to tell a similar tale. Where is Mr. Mackinnon's Bill ? Why does not the Legislature step forward and put its veto upon this crying evil ? Every town in the kingdom which does not already possess a cemetery, situated at a proper distance from its precincts, should be compelled to abandon its present practice, and adopt the former. No i n t ermen t w h a t ever should be permitted within a town, except under peculiar circumstances. I would fain arouse the attention of the public to the importance of this subject ; more especially would I call upon the ministers of religion to come forward and render their aid in correcting a monster evil, and in promoting a public good. The clergy of the Es tablished Church are not permitted to bury in uncon secrated ground. Their grounds are " consecrated " to a holy purpose ; and yet, in the performance of their duty, in such as that at Poole, are not the laws of decency, morality, and religion violated ? In such cases, " consecration" becomes a farce, and the ord nances of the Church a bye-word. Poole, Oct. 16, 1844. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. H. J, Auber's opera, The Syren, was produced at this theatre last evening, with all that attention to scenery and costume which might have been expected from a management of which Mr. Bunn has the direction. It is, in fact, impossible that a piece could have been put upon the stage in a manner more complete than this opera has been at Drury-lane. The audience properly appreciated this attention to the mise en scene, and were loud in their applause as the different scenes from the pencil of the Grieves' were exhibited. The double scene in the second act, in which the lower part represents Scopetto's inn, and the upper part a winding footpath among the mountains of the Abruzzi, is a chef d'ceuvre of scenic effect. " Finis coronut opus," says the old Latin adage, and in accordance with that scrap of the written wisdom of our ancestors, the grand scenic display has been reserved for the. last ; and this last, we believe, is Drury-lane's " own thunder." In the original, the voice of Scopetto is heard carolling away in the distance, as he swims towards the barque, havinkr escaped from the guards of the Duke de Popoh. In the Drury-lane version, his triumph is represented visibly. The barque /Etna appears at anchor, her colours flying, and her yards manned by Scopetto's band, who have taken possession of her, and Scopetto himself appears on her quarter-deck, her guns firing a salute in his honour, while the Duke and his attendants arrive on the shore just in time to be spectators of his triumph. We have so lately detailed the plot, that it is unnecessary to re peat it. Suffice it to say, the original has been closely followed. The following is the cast at this theatre : The Duke de Popoli, Mr. Borrani ; Scopetto, Mr. W. Harrison ; Scipio, Mr. D. W. King ; Balbaya, Mr. Stretton ; Pecchione, Mr. Weiss ; Zerlina, Miss Rain forth ; Mathes, Miss Betts. Miss Rainforth made a most interesting Zerlina. In the delineation of the character of a warm-hearted, artless, simple-minded girl, just budding into woman hood, there is no young lady on the stage who can compete with Miss Rainforth. Such a character is Zerlina, and it received full justice at her hands. She was in excellent voice, and we have seldom seen her to more advantage. She gave her grand scena, the prima donna song in the second act, admirably, and was deservedly encored ; but her great triumph, the scene in which she showed herself an artiste in the highest sense of the word, was the duet with Scipio, in the third act. Her voice was tremulous with feeling, yet beautifully clear withal, and she infused into the music an intensity, a passion of pathos, which thrilled to the heart. She was ad mirably supported by Mr. D. W. King, whose Scipio was a highly creditable performance throughout. Harrison, as Scopetto, was very unequal. At the commencement he was hard and angular. In the quartett towards the conclusion of the first act he was very good, and in the solo at the commence ment of the second act he was excellent. In this solo he was encored, and most deservedly so; but during the whole of the first and second acts he ap peared tame. The Italian is a creature of impulse —a child of light and air —by turns the gayest of the gay, and the most sanguinary of the revengeful ; always in extremes, but ever impassioned, ever ener getic. Dum vivimus vivamus is his motto; and while he lives he enjoys life—the mere act of living—with a zest undreamed of by the denizens of the " cold and cloudy climes " of the north. Harrison did not seem to enter into the character ; he was a smug gler as a matter of business, for the gain of the thing ; whereas Scopetto delighted even more in tricking the Duke of Popoli than in plun dering him. The third act was a decided improve ment upon the former two ; he seemed to warm in his part; but even here a little more animation would be a decided improvement. If Harrison was guilty of the sin of under-acting, Stretton was certainly guilty of the sin of over-acting in Balbaya. He was very funny, but he was unnaturally so. He must pare down some of his exuberances, act a little less to the galleries, and his Balbaya will be an admirable buffo performance. Borrani, as the Duke, was per fect—polished, affable, and courteous, yet self-suffi cient, vain, and weak; never has the "foolish and the faded gentleman" been more correctly delineated. His fine bass voice told admirably in the concerted pieces, and his " Brava ! brava! ' during the prima donna's song, was precisely that of one of those be powdered representatives of the dilettanti of a by-gone age, who occasionally pay an angel's visit to the Opera on the first night of a new singer. Borrani has made this line of character his own. We should much like to see him in Baron Pompoliao. At the conclusion , all were called for, and all loudly applauded. The house was crowded to excess. Tim Six-MILE RANGE.—When Captain Warner speaks of his six-mile range, for which he required but a two-pounder, he states a physical impossibility, in the present state of chemical science ; and Captain Warner is certainly not one in whom any reasonable hope could be indulged that by his knowledge any advance will be made. By the use of the fulminates nothing would be gained, for, with compounds so loosely held together, there appears no certainty ; they are all liable to spon. taneous decomposition. The fulminate of mercury was considered safe while mixed with spirit of wine, yet while in this state it exploded, and Mr. Hennell, of Apo thecaries'-hall, was destroyed by it. Mr. Eley, the in ventor of the wire cartridges, who had repeatedly mixed his fulminate of - mercury, perished from the explosion of a pound of this highly dangerous composition. A French vessel, fitted during the French war with some new de tonating compounds, was never heard of after it sailed from Toulon. The large gun made for Mehemet Ali, requiring a charge of 401 b., and throwing a ball of 4801 b., is considered too dangerous to use. Rockets of 1001 b. are not found to move one yard. There appears to be a limit to destructive powers, and we have reason to thank Heaven it is so. The service may be improved, rockets may eventually be made to go straight, shells may be made percussioned, and a greater precision given to cannon firing. It is possible, by the introduction of the patent principle of Mr. Harding's new gun, which has given so great an increase to the power of sporting guns, we may improve that of the cannon ; but these, if effected, would be but a slight step to realising the theories of Warner or of Normandy. The evil they cause, and that is a serious though unavoidable one, is, that scientific characters are debarred from the ground these enthusiasts claim as their own. Every application for experiment is now refused at Woolwich, because 98 out of 100 applicants prove to be ignorant adventures.— (Polytechnic Magazine for September.) To project a ball, therefore, a distance of six miles, by means of any explosive force, the action of which on the projectile is instantaneous, and ceases from the moment that it leaves the mouth of the piece, is physically impossible ! But, while maintaining this position, we are not prepared to deny the possibility of obtaining that result by means of a projectile that shall contain within itself the principle of movement. This principle is peculiar to the rocket ; and, although, from this inherent cause, hitherto no cer tain result has been obtained from these projectiles beyond a limited range, still, as t h e pr i nc i p l e is known, the question to be solved is the possibility of its elabora tion—whether, for example, the combined skill of the mechanist and the pyrotechnist can so graduate this self moving principle as to impart to the projectile a velocity that will not expose it to tho law of atmospheric resist ance, and at the same time a sufficient intensity of action to accomplish its trajectory course. If Captain Warner can really attain a range of six miles, it is by this principle alone. But, even if this range can be obtained, we may question the power of directing a projectile through so long a trajectory with any degree of accuracy. —Polytechnic Magazine for October. ARMENIAN CEMENT.—The jewellers of Turkey, who are mostly Armenians, have a singular method of ornamenting watch-cases, &c., with diamonds and other precious stones, by simply glueing or cementing them on. The stone is set in silver or gold, and the lower part of the metal made flat, or to correspond with the part to which it is to be fixed ; it is then warmed gently, and has the glue applied, which is so very strong that the parts thus cemented never separate. This glue, which will strongly unite bits of glass, and even polished steel, and may of course be applied to a vast variety of useful purposes, is thus made :—Dissolve five or six bits of gum mastich, each the size of a large pea, in as much spirits of wine as will suffice to render it liquid ; and, in another vessel, dissolve as much isinglass—previously a little softened in water (though none of the water must be used)—in French brandy and good rum, as make a two-ounce phial of very strong glue, adding two bits of gum galbanum, or ammoniacum, which must h be rubbed or ground till they are dissolved. Then mix _e whole with a sufficient heat. Keep the glue in a phial closely stopped, and when it is to be used, set the phial in boil ing water.—Cyclopadia of Rece i p t s. The Duchess of Sutherland steamer, which sailed from Inverness on Monday evening, for London, was compelled by stress of weather to put back to Cromarty, where she arrived on Thursday afternoon, after being three days at sea without having made further progress than to Banff, such was the violence of the gale. Seve ral of the passengers, among whom were Mr. Tytler (the historian of Wcotland) and his family, left the ship, in tending to go by land to London. The weather having moderated, the Duchess sailed again on Friday morning at one o'clock. NEW BRAZILIAN TARIFF. The packet Linnet, Lieutenant Douglas, arrived at Falmouth yesterday morning, from the Brazils. Her dates are from Rio Janeiro, Aug. 25; Bahia, Sept. 5; PernambuCo, Sept. 15. On freight 15,0001., more or less, although it has been estimated at Is,ooo/., in gold and diamonds. Passengers Viscount and Viscountess d'Abrantes, and two servants ; Senor Macedo and Miss Macedo ; Mr. Habbe, Russian Charge d'Affaires; Mr. Falconer, Mr. Eggers, Mr. Lambert, and Mr. Holloway. The two former gen tlemen are deputed to confer with the British Govern ment in relation to the expiring treaty; the Viscount having full powers as Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary, and the Senor is ap pointed as his secretary. By decree dated 12thinst. (August), the per centage of duties to be enforced from and after 11th November, on imports cleared for consumption, is declared to be as follows : SIXTY PER CENT. Every description of manufactured :and; unrnanufac tured tobacco. FIF TY PER CENT. Ale and porter, brandy, cider, gin, hewn stone of every description, linen coffee bags of every description, liqueurs of every description, poignard_knives, refined sugar, tea, wines of every description. FORTY PER CENT. Candles —composition, tallow ; carpeting, carriages of every description or any part or parts thereof, chande liers, china inkstand's or sand boxes ; choccolate—ordi nary ; coffee bagging, earthenware ; not otherwise spe cific], fire-works of every description, furniture. Glass —ordinary plain wine, liqueur, champagne, and porter glasses, ordinary plain mugs and tumblers from 10 to 1 to the quartilha, ordinary plain decanters to 1 quartilha. (The foregoing described in ,tariff as N. 1.) Ordinary cast or wrought, or cast and wrought wine, liqueur, champagne, and porter glasses, ordinary cast or wrought, or cast and wrought mugs and tumblers from 10 to 1 to the quartilha, ordinary cast or wought, or cast and wrought decanters to 1 quartilha. (The foregoing de scribed in tariff as N. 2.) Ordinary plain cast or wrought wine and liqueur glasses, with cut or plain bottoms. (Described in the tariff as N. 3.) Square bottles with stoppers to 3lbd., without stoppers to 21bs., wide mouthed bottles with stoppers to 41bs., wide mouthed bottles without stoppers, common green or other dark bottles to 1 quartilha, chimnies, lamps, gunpowder, har ness, ivory -handled brushes, mahogany and other fine wood in boards or veneer ; paper—folio post and impe rial. hanging, painted, gilt, or silvered ; playing cards; preserved fruits, dry or in liquor, ready-made clothing, scales, shaving and other soap, vinegar. _ - TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. Aniseed, biscuit ; brass—sheet and plate, copper, copperas ; fish—salted or pickled ; flour, gall Aleppo ; iron —bar, pig, rod, and sheet ; ivory, jerked beef ; lead —bar and sheet ; leather—hog skins, kid skins, Mo rocco, sole, varnished, waxed calf skins ; osier, salt e d beef and po r k, sa lt petre , stee l , tar ; tin — bar and rod, tin plates. TWENTY PER CENT. " Barilla, embroidery of every description, not being of pure gold or silver, or being mixed with silk, linen, or cotton, handkerchiefs of linen, cambric, or cotton ; lace —cotton, not embroidered, thread, or silk ; regimental sashes of silk net. TEN PER CENT. Books, charts, damasks, dresses, embroidery of pure gold or silver, globes, hair ; instruments —mathematical and philosophical ; maps, silk net and sewing, velvet. SIC PER CENT. Gold and silver bullion, cord, lace, spangles, if of pure metal. FIVE PER CENT. Coals, gold for gilding, manufactured silver. FOUR PER CENT. Jewellery of gold or silver, gold manufactured. TWO PER CENT. Animals for breeding, diamonds, and other precious stones not mounted, plants, seeds. THIRTY PER CENT. All and every other article not included in the fore going. The amount of duty upon most articles is stated in the tariff : all other goods are to be cleared by valuation, such being subject, as heretofore, to be taken, upon pay ment of the estimated value and ten per cent. additional. The duties upon transhipment or re-export are re duced to one per cent., subject to the approval of the Legislature, and sureties must be given, until the deci sion of the Legislature be known, for 151 per cent. upon all merchandise sent from Brazil to the coast of Africa; 2} per cent. if shipped to other foreign ports. The five per cent, hitherto charged for storage and clearance is included in the above recited per centages. All descriptions of merchandise denominated estiva goods aro allowed to be landed fifteen days, other de scriptions two months, free of charge for storage ; both being subsequently chargeable one-fourth per cent. per month or part of a month. Goods re-exported subject to the like payment of one-fourth per cent. per month for such period as they may remain in the Custom house. The Government is authorised to impose upon the merchandise of any country, in which the produce of Brazil is liablo to a higher duty than similar produce of other countries, an additional duty, so as to neutralise the ill effects of the difference of duty upon Brazil pro duce, such additional duty to cease when the increased duty upon Brazil produce shall be abolished. A similar differential duty will be charged upon the merchandise of any country in which the produce of Brazil is chargeable with a higher duty if imported in foreign vessels than in national bottoms. The above recited duties on imports cannot be in creased during the finance year 1844-1845, but the Go vernment is empowered to direct the payment, in gold or silver coin, of five per cent. of the amount of these duties, upon such articles as are chargeable with more than six per cent. and less than fifty per cent. DREADFUL -URDEIL—One of those shocking mur ders, at which humanity revolts, and which is a blot on civilization, occurred on Friday morning last, about six o'clock. The victim was Matthew Brennan, who had been in possession of a farm in Coolcullun, the property of:Lord Frankfurt, since March last twelvemonths, from which two brothers, of the name of Purcell, had been dispossessed for the non-payment of rent. The unfor tunate man's throat was cut from ear to ear, the wind pipe and arteries separated, three wounds inflicted on the head, and one under the left breast. The victim of the demoniac assassin or assassins had several gashes in his hands, as though he had endeavoured to ward off the deadly blows. An inquest sat on the body on Sa turday last, when a verdict of wilful murder was re turned against some person or persons unknown. Such frightful agrarian outrages should make their due im pression on the mind of Lord Devon and his brother Commissioners, and stimulate them, as an act of Chris tian duty, to recommend to Government such measures as are calculated to amend a system prolific of the Worst of evils.—Kilkenny Journal THE CRARGE OF MURDER AT PADDINGTON.— Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a protracted inves tigation, adjourned from the previous day, was resumed before Mr. G. L Mills, deputy coroner for Middlesex, at the Dudley Arms, H arrow - roa d, respect i ng t h e death of Ann Lee, aged thirty-six, the wife of a labourer named Michael Lee, now in custody on the charge of having murdered her. The accused, who stands remanded from Marylebone Police-court, was brought to the inquest room in custody of Sergeant Thompson, of the D divi sion. The evidence, which was of a conflicting character, has already been noticed. After much discussion the jury returned an open verdict, " That deceased was found drowned, but how she came into the water there was no evidence to show," with a request, however, that the police would still pursue their inquiries. DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—On Wednesday night two amazons, named Pyne and Russell (well known in St. Giles's and to the police), had a quarrel at a public house, and it was agreed that they should settle their differences in a pugilistic conflict in the street. 'They according stripped themselves to the waist, tied up their hair, and having appointed backers or seconds in the persons of two other of the " softer" sex, repaired to Tottenham-court-road, where, pursuant to the usages of the prize ring, they prepared for the " fray," amidst a crowd of profligate and idle spectators, who !formed a ring, and the combatants commenced striking at one another right and left, and dealing knock-down blows, whilst the screams and hollowings of the crowd were like a gang of savages. At length police-constables 5 and 41 E arrived on the spot, and interfered, when they were attacked ; but they seized on the principals and seconds. The latter quietly surrendered themselves, as did also Russell but Pyne, after grea t resistance, fell on the ground, fought, bit, kicked, and tore like a mad woman, and it required eight officers to take her to the station-house ; and, strange to say, on her arrival there the officers were more exhausted than herself. She and the other prisoners were locked up, and yesterday morn ing the whole of them were taken before the magistrate at Clerkenwell Police-court. Pyne was committed to the House of Correction for a month, Russell for seven days, and the seconds were discharged with a salutary admonition. Pyne tripped lightly from the bar, saying she would have it out another day. TILE NEW VACCINATION ACT.—An extraordinary instance of the facilities afforded, by the loose manner in which the new Vaccination Act is framed, for imposition, was brought before the Marylebone Board of Guardians, at its last weekly meeting, and which, no doubt, is prac tised equally in every other district of the metropolis. Mr. Daniel], one of the guardians, expressed his surprise at the large amount paid for the purposes of vaccination, but more particularly' at the fact, that the parties vacci nated were not confined to infants or to the young, but extended to the old. He found that there were a large number of persons vaccinated whose ages were between forty, fifty, and sixty years, and in one instan ce there person n e wished sixty-two to k}earsno know of if c7n as a taedage, g t Act of ha . Parliament dbeenva . c oyer. Mr. Bushell said the Act of Parliament . contemplated that persons should be vaccniat i e v d as t: e l r ez: vaccination to infants, it y was " persons." In vague, t d h coursethe ex of a discussion, it was stated that the L e ) f c comprehensive nin g term vacci nators, who received a fee of Is. 6d. for each case of vac cination, in order to insure customers gave 6(I. out of the is. 6d. to persons of any age to come and be vaccinated, retaining for themselves the remaining shilling, and there were plenty of old people, who, in order to obtain the sixpence. were glad to undergo the process of vaccina tion. A committee of inquiry Lasa,pp ote I w N i c il o c s h t E e - n T a A b x. le sSuCs to sw,e RElV. airneads.sured, from peak p os i t i vely, that sur vaes)T7)lrrisE c , e and several other officers under the Income-tax Act, have not even yet been compensated for the vast labours and very great unpleasantness undergone, though the Govern ment have, some time ago, r ece i ve d i nto their exchequer t wo years f the tax. Well may reasonable Tories even (as they do) confess their shame at this treatment of highly respectable public officers.—From a Correspondent. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY. Her Majesty having signified her intention of taking an airing on board the Royal yacht this morning, that noble vessel was got ready and under weigh soon after 1 o'clock, and her Majesty and Prince Albert proceeded on board in the royal barge, steered by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. The roads at Cowes being now nearly fully occupied by the royal yacht squadron craft, pre sented a most gay and enlivening scene as the royal party proceeded on board. The royal yacht having cleared the roads, put on more steam, and came up the Solent in grand style, the royal standard floating from the masthead. On approaching Ryde the loyal inha bitants of that place assembled on the pier, and paid their respects to their Sovereign by repeatedly bowing, removing their hats, and waving handkerchiefs. As the yacht rounded Hyde and came in sight of the foot at Spithead, the flag-ship St. Vincent saluted with 21 guns, which example was speedily followed by the Caledonia, Queen, and Victory. The ships at Spithead seemed quite unprepared for the appearance of the royal stan dard among them, for the St. Vincent had the seamen's clothes hanging . from her rigging to dry as the royal yacht passed, and the others seemed equally taken by surprise, for no yards were manned, nor did they other wise acknowledge the royal approach than by salute. The royal yacht steamed on, apparently with the inten tion of proceeding round the island, as she kept very close in shore, but when she had passed the Queen she altered her course, and steered for the Nab light, to the eastward of which she went, and then turned round to return as she came. This being clearly distinguishable, there was evi dently a deal of bustle and activity on board the ships at Spithead, who appeared determined to present a better ap pearance to the royal eye on returning; the seamen's cloth ina was taken in, and the ships then presented a more sightly appearance. On the return of the royal yacht the fleet did not salute, but all hoisted signals, and the vari ous points on both sides of the roadstead were decorated with the royal standard and union jack ; and as the noble craft passed the last man-of-war to the westward, the guns on the platform battery fired a royal salute, and the British ensign floated from the Victoria Pier and Blockhouse Fort. Her Majesty and Prince Consort were not visible upon the deck of the royal yacht at any period of the short cruise. At about three o'clock the royal yacht passed Hyde on her return to Cowes, where the royal party disembarked about four o'clock, without ceremony. Should the weather prove equally inviting to-morrow, we believe it is her Majesty's intention to take another trip on the other side of the island. We believe Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, late of the Formidable, 84, on the Mediterranean station, and who brought home the Queen recently from that station, will be appointed Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Bowles, on board the St. Vincent, in the approaching cruise, vice Rowley, who will remain ashore to assist the Comman der-in-Chief (his gallant father) in conducting the duties of this port. The funeral of the two artillerymen who met such a dreadful death on the King's Bastion on Monday took place yesterday. They were interred in the burying ground of St. Mary's, Portsmouth. The usual military honours accompanied the ceremony, and the splendid band of one of the regiments in quarters here played the " Dead March in Saul" as the mournful procession moved along, attended by a vast concourse of spectators. The brother of Walker has been in a state bordering on insanity ever since the awful calamity, and the wife, or rather the widow, has also become nearly bereft of reason. PROJECTED IMPROVEMENTS IN tiIIELSEA.---La Tu w!. Tuesday a numerous meeting of the inhabitant rate payers of St. Luke's, Chelsea, was held in the vestry room, to consider the propriety of improving the road and footways, and adopting measures to abolish Queen's elm and Royal Hospital-row turnpikes—the Rev. Charles Kingsley, Rector, in the chair. Mr. Kruse, coal mer chant, stated that - the meeting was held in compliance with a requisition signed by 175 ratepayers. Not only was the Government resolved upon building a street from the new Houses of Parliament, but an embankment of the Thames, fifty feet wide, would be also immediately commenced. It was, therefore, the interest of the resi dents of St. Luke's to do all in their power to make their district an object of attraction to visitors.—(Hear, h re e a a. Ae drs) and At the t he want present of footways the re ewretched rendered it statea almost o e st f i t m h passable. In conclusion, he moved a resolution to the following effect :—That the highway and lighting boards be empowered to obtain an Act of Parliament for paving, lighting, and otherwise repairing the parish of Chelsea (exclusive of Hans Town), and for raising the necessary sums for those purposes, and also for getting the turn pikes at Queen's-elm and Royal Hospital-row removed beyond the limits of the parish. Mr. Jeffree, senior churchwarden, seconded the motion, and said that the improvements embraced nine miles of road and sixty thousand square feet of footway, the estimated cost of which was 30,0001., which could be repaid in a few years at four per cent., and by a rate not exceeding one shilling. Mr. Davis moved and Mr. Chambers seconded an amendment, that a committee of forty ratepayers be ap pointed to consider the proposition and report thereon. Upon the question being put, there appeared 30 hands for the amendment and 88 for the original motion ; majority for the latter, 58. ST. CLEMENT DANES.—HOLBORN ESTATE.—Last night a public vestry of the inhabitant rate-payers of St. Clement Danes was held, in pursuance of an order of the Court of Chancery, to nominate eight trustees and twenty-four managers of the Holborn estate, to be sub mitted to the said court for its approbation. The Rector presided. Mr. Steele read the opinion of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd respecting the qualification of candidates for those offices, from which it appeared that, if they pos sessed real property of the yearly value of 30/., or were rated to the relief of the poor on a rental of 501., and re tained in a house in the parish apartments for themselves, in which they occasionally slept, that they were quali fied. Messrs. Dowling, Boobyer, Prout, Gannon, Stokes, and other gentlemen having expressed opinions pro et con, upon the propriety of the two offices being filled by the same person, it was almost unamiously decided in the negative. After which the nomination took place, which included Messrs. Paul, jun., banker,Twining, jun., banker, Prout, Boobyer, Chapman, Ornmaney, Wood, Collier, Waugh, Abbot, Dowling, &c. According to the Master's report, the annual income of the Holborn estate amounts to 3,9571. 10s., and there is also to the credit of the estate 21,113/. Os. 2d. sunk in Bank Three per Cent. Annuities. This estate is for charitable purposes. The reception of the Hon. F. Paul Methuen and his bride at Corsham Court on Monday evening was most gratifying to the feelings of the youthful couple. The whole town was illuminated, and triumphal arches ce ferventor n t e t rd, ancestors under ef the assembledwhich thousands froma joyful Iparts accla mations o wmhoprayers heircaw e eerfe t o theowi e e l r c he O ed m u us e ep b e a tf c h k amt t e o ht he t u h ae e nn d; s eahatitisdoymfo young h eeWhen peal,h ihs bride mi g ht f or very many long years enjoy uninter rupted c r in happiness aswanting Thebe t l e ls testifyrung outa merrythe heartfelt jhn joy of the tenantry on thi s ausp i c i ous event. permittedsomewhat subsided, hs d e dh, Mr. Methuen m to speak, e x a p n r d e s s t h e d e his gratitud e f or t h e reception he had met on his return to the hom e o f his childhood, and concluded by saying that he h o p e d they might find him the same sort of man as his fath er . df feelingsnsoe andsmse a w nothingn • ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF TWO BOYS IN A UNION WORKHOUSE. Yesterday, at the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, a woman, who was accompanied by two boys, stated that her name was Ann Church, and that she was an inmate of the Uxbridge union workhouse, at Hillingdon, as were also the two boys, her sons, twins, 12 years of age. She had to complain of ill-usage to her two sons by the, schoolmasters at the workhouse, who had flogged the boys in a cruel manner. They had been beaten with a birch rod until the blood flowed. The flogging took place on last Friday week, but the marks were still visible. Mr. CLARK reminded the applicant that the Scriptures said, " Whoso spareth the rod spoik th the child." The applicant said she was aware of that ; but chil dren were, notwithstanding that, not to be beaten top severely, as hers had been. Mr. Woodbridge (the magistrates' clerk) asked Mrs. Church if she did not know that her boys had behaved very badly, and that the board had ordered them to receive six stripes each ?—The applicant replied that she did know that their conduct had been bad, and that the flogging was ordered by the board, but eight stripes had been inflicted, until the blood flowed. Sir W. S. WisEstAst said every nobleman's son wail flogged with the birch on their bare in the publia l schools. The applicant said—But not until the blood ran. W. S. WISEMA.N replied—Oh, yes ; I have beeN myself flogged so. Mr. Woodbridge said, that the board of guardians hall already inquired into the case, and it had been proved before them, by the evidence of the schoolmaster and the, master of the workhouse, that six stripes only had been) inflicted. The applicant said, the board had behavedvery shame fully towards her : when she complained to them, they laughed at her, and told her, when she said she had gone , into the room to bee that the boys were not too severely' puni:hed, that she ought not to have done so—that it, was very indelicate. Sir W. S. WIsEmAN said he really did not see any necessity for issuing a summons in such a case. Mr. Woodbridge inquired if four boys had not bee flogged, and no complaint made on the part cf the othe two boys ? The applicant replied, that the mother of one was not, an inmate of th e wor kh ouse, and the other boy had n o , mother. Mr. DAGNALL said he thought, as the charge had been; publicly made, it would be better to issue a summons against the schoolmaster, in order that a full inquiry might be made into the matter. Messrs. Cox and Clark concurring in that opinion, a summons was directed to be issued,.and the hearing wag appointed for the next bench day. RENTAL OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. The official returns of the overseers, &c., of the ea-, rious parishes of the county of Middlesex, of the rental 4 of their sever a l di s t r i cts, h ave b een made to the ma 4 gistrates of the county, to enable them to fix the amount of the county-rate for the ensuing year. 'rho: amount of those returns is much greater than or, any former occasion, and which may be attributed t the following circumstance:—On the returns of last yea being presented, the Court was surprised to find th difference in the amount of the parochial returns at at those which were made by individuals under the Pro.", perty-tax Act, and the attention of the parish officers was called to the subject, and an explanation required of the difference between the two returns. In order Lei show the ex t ent o f t h e d i fference, the magistrates had se statement prepared, showing the difference in those re- , turns as regarded the several parishes, hundreds, &c., i. 14! the county. Of the extent of those differences soms idea may be formed by an extract from this document from which it appears that in the year 1843, the: rental of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, watt returned by the overseers as amounting to 600,796/4 while the return under the Property-tax Act, of the an 4 nual value of the same property, was 909,568/, a dif4 ference of 308,772/. In the parish of St. Pancras, tb return of the parish officers was 566,3201, while tha under the Property-tax Act was 1,251,737/, making: a difference of 685,417/. In the parish of Marylebone a the parish return was 816,5721., that under the Pro, perty-tax Act was 1,132,3244 a difference of 315,7524 There were also the follo w i ng differences between th 4 two returns :--Paddington, 392,955/; Clerkenwelli 127,7361.; St. Luke's, 61,90/, Shoreditch, 147,1541. ; St., George's, Bloomsbury, 69,496/, &c. When asked top explain these enormous differences, the parish officerW stated that the returns under the Property-tax Act; were made by the occupying tenants, and set forth the rents they actually paid, without any' deduction for repairs and laud-tax, for which se veral charges and allowances had been made, by the parish officers, and which had been fully' explained in the last return made by the officers of St. Pancras parish, particularly as regarded the London and Birmingham Railway. The overseers of St.' George's-in -the-East attributed the decrease in the amount of their returns to the falling off of the business in the sugar houses and other large establishments in that district, which had gone to such an extent that many of them were now closed altogether; in addition to which, owing to the number of workmen who had thereby been thrown out of employ, a great number of small houses, formerly occupied by them, were now' untenanted. Mr. Jarford wished to know if that was one of the? parishes in which a great number of inferior houses had, lately been ere c t e d, w i t h t h e most astonishing rapidity,; and evidently for th e p ur p ose o f gett i ng them finished) before the Metropolitan Buildings' Act came into opera.' lion. lie feared the erection of such houses would provsk a great evil to the parish. The overseer replied in the affirmative, and said thaw many of them, after having been occupied a short time; were deserted, and the parish thereby compelled te, pay a county-rate upon a parcel of empty houses. Tlei parish officers were anxious that the attention o 4 the magistrates should be directed to this subject, and; they hoped that they would not be called on to pay ths) county-rate upon a rental which was never received., The officers of St. Ann, Westminster, attributed the de-4 ficiency in their rental to the pulling down of several houses in Cranbourne-alley and the adjoining courts, to make way for the recent improvements in that neigh bourhood. A variety of other explanations were given by various' parish officers, but the returns in general are far greateg, than those of former years. JEWEL ROBBERY. On Wednesday morning, a fashionably-dressed young man, who gave his name and profession Gust Shulte Johsohn, professor of the German and French languages, was examined before Major Allen and Major Willard, of the Brighton bench, on a charge of attempting an extensive robbery of jewels. The prisoner had called at the shop of Mr. Cochrane, Brighton, and of Lon don, jeweller, and representing himself as interpreter to the Countess Rivolski, who he said was staylag at the York Hotel, selected a diamond brooch, value 225 guineas, representing a butterfly ho vering over a flower, which the Countess had seen in passing the door, and likewise a sapphire! and diamond brooch worth 20 guineas, and two pins value 181. and 161. All these articles ho i wished to be taken to the Countess for approval ;' and Mr. Cochrane, consequently, accompanied him in, a fly to the York. They entered a sitting-room on the first floor, when the prisoner knocked at till door of an adjoining bed-room, appeared to liste4 and then went in. In a few minutes he returned', said the Countess was unwe ll , and in bed, ani that she wished him to send in the articles for inspec-. tion. Mr. Cochrane, however, refused to part with that jewels, whereupon the prisoner again entered the cham4 ber, and on returning the second time, said th Countess wo u ld no t d e t a i n th em a m i nute, as slid merely wished to see whether the butterfly.; brooch was the same that she had seen in thsi window. Seeing Mr. Cochrane hesitate, he tol/ him he was sure he could get 2201. for the but 4 terfly, but that, in that case, Mr. Cochrane must make him a present. Mr. Cochrane then intrusted, him with the butterfly and the sapphire brooches, with which the prisoner again entered the bed room. Mr. Cochrane waited his return for a couple of minutes with great anxiety, and them opened the passage-door, when he found the pri4 soner, who had passed through the bed-room into the passage, creeping stealthily past the door. Mr: Cochrane seized the prisoner near the staircase, and: having recovered the jewels, sent him to the Town hall. From the evidence of one of the waiters at the York, it appeared that the prisoner had hired the apartments about an hour before, for the Countess' Rivolski, who, h e sa il, was related to Count Nessel.. rode. The prisoner was committed for trial. A report, on which we are disposed to place some reliance, and which is, indeed, iu a great measure eon-, firmed by Mr. O'Connell's late manifesto from Derry-i none, has reached us, that the leading members of that remnant of the Irish Whigs (including Sharman Craw] ford, Lord Charlemont, &c.) are at this moment occu pied in arranging the terms on which they propose one more to sell themselves to Mr. O'Connell. A form declaration of their adhesion to the cause of fedcralis will, we are told, make its appearance in a few daysi, with the names of several of the most influential mem bers of their party appended to it. Our informant's all along ai sins t ). letter has reference solely to the Irish Whigs ; but there c an be little reason to doubt that the Lichfield H ouse, conspirators on this side of the water are parti es t o t h o f 'Phis isb e tll ec preciselyase ; w andl'a we ill, have if ve possible, t w t e i o c m ip p a r ,d t. would the wretched Whigs who a r e parties to it to lower 8 a abyss of degradation than they occupy already. and O'Connell is th e last card they h Federalism., have to play, and isi evidently expected by them to my Her a ld. turn out a trumn.—M r orri ANNUAL SALE OF PRINCE A INC STOCK. —The sa annual 1 LIIER TS L IVE F ARM Prince Alb ert ' s li ve stock, selected e of hi s R oya l Hi ghnes fr om th e N or f olk an‘ Flemish f arms, at Windsor,, will take pl ace i n a few in the oc cu p at i on o f t h e P r i nce Park. Th e p ort i ons whic days, at Norfolk Farm, i n th e G reg have been selected for thi annual sale consist of between 70 and 80 Scotch gallot ways, Welsh short-horned cows, heifers, and Shctrand in fine condition for stall-feeding nearly 500 Sout Down ewes and wethers, a beautiful ;' Suffolk car stallion, and a very . extraordinary and well-bre Suffolk boar. COUNSEL TO THE IRISH OFFICE.—The Dublin states that Mr. Batty has been appointed to the long vacant place of Counsel to the Irish Office in London; which had been tilled by the late Mr. O'Hanlon. Mr; Batty has been for several years a Lunacy Commissioner 4 Jointly with the Attorney-General he had publishe4 the law reports which bear their names.