The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-05 00:00:00

bre.. 55c -10f. ; ,urg. iday u. ifei r the ,the urg, died d at to a adiz. tam cidert ry of and iger- was and &Lief% )adt ter — hat riC 4 .5 dis- th then :Mt ant. lay,. ger,, the , • in.. aorta ,ura nap— !Wore ,ul ll Lee's the ' - e or and vis- rlCkt :!5.3" 101 15 air' not. the lay' Itr witir tiort tbly o. lrlss fire•. I to lici— to had idly' e of the• ed. ing pus eas n0r............-- E Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In s the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday a fair busi- Ves was done, at firm prices. Sales, 7,000 bales=vis.. 200 Surat, at 4id. to 4-Id, ; 40 Egyptian, at 84d; affil the rest ilini erican, at 50. to Sid.=-The Share Market closed firm. r y th 22 , r1 ' 141 0mm and GlouteSter New, 17* ; Grand Junction iaA ; Great Western, 11 9 ; South Western Eighths, 17i ; Midland, 96 ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 13s. ; Rouen and T i re, 14 ; South Eastern, 351, ; and ditto New,.361. fi,,, are not a n y C o l on i a l arr i va l s thi s morn i n g, and tr d eliverytj of the morning mails was very late, owing il e , , :e heavy f a ll s of snow that have taken place. Th e LE , Ts from the manufacturing districts continue to read satisfact( -I sli 1 " 1 -Y, as respects the prospects of trade. The glt increase that has been made in the issues note s by the Directors of the Bank of England, d e Tars by the returns referred to on Saturday, tends to a, il.i!onstrate. however, that the demand for accommodation I t the bank and its branches in various parts of the country, pi not been b y any means so cons id era bl e as was an t i . C t ed• No doubt great caution in this respect continues to be i i ;rry d by tb.e Court of Directors, the more so as the mania *Peculation in cotton, in railways, and in mining shares 1 ) 1; 4 i B to be rapidly on the increase. There is an opinion - I ,,tiellt i that before the middle of the year, the Bank will ry e e v . .' 4 , a sum in bullion not far short of 20 millions sterling. .... ie ,ry arrival from South America, large remittances are iZsected to be received for some time to come, and at the p orf „ ll , t moment there is scarcely any demand for ex of —"`°". The orders for foreign grain, in anticipation momentshort crops in this country, do not at the present oli demand the slightest attention. It is true, that k ti ~ t , a month or six weeks back, there were many who 1 .,„ Vated a large importatation in the spring, but the high c that at present rules, and which is likely to con kilt% checks, in no immaterial degree, the furor ateavour of '' at the time we have referred to prevailed speculations in foreign grain. At any 8 , the Directors of the Bank of England are now in a t irn to answer demands upon them, for the exportation of st eri t r ecious metals, to the extent of four or five millions tu i r es g, screwthere. r , -ti firm market has ruled for the British Securities to-day. s'; , fis t els for Money and Account have advanced, the former from t'4l; ° 9 , 7 i, and the latter from 97i to 97*. At the present about rte are scarcely so high. The Commissioners bought ha :" ' 1 :0 0 01. Consols at 971. The Reduced Three per Cents. I.o \ e fluctuated only from 98A and 98*. A quota -113;1, i 8„. given for the New Five per Cents. namely, a- • I t is some time since any transaction occurred iiotnis Stock, and their prices were very considerably lower, ',D1.1. Saturday lir m emory serves correctly. Bank Stock was last quoted at 1934, but now sales cannot be effected above s 4 ,?* Exchequer Bills remain at 675., 695. premium, and India ;Ws at 82s. premium. 13Z, improvoment must be noticed in most of the Foreign 115'41.,i morning. Austrian Five per Cents. were worth Co - "e igian, 106 ; Dutch Five per Cents. 1011: Portuguese uverted, 48 ; the Old Five per Cents. 75i ; the Spanish Actives. have risen from 23 to 23i A, and the Three per dents. from 31i to 32* *; Mexican and Portuguese Stocks N. a trifle higher than they were on Saturday. 811 v erY varied market him prevailed for Railway l i sp — es to-d a y. The most portant features are a 14i to the London and Birmingham Shares to ~- premium • and in the Great Western to 38 k e thun. Most of the other Shares are in the shade, under It is rates. namely, London at 4A premium. and Westminster Bank Shares .1 rather lower, BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank Stock 1921 14' 3 192 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities Per Cent. Reduced Annuities / 4 .11 3 % per Cent. Annuities lOl% 102 ng A.nnuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 13-11% India Bonds,l,ooo B2 ..bitto under 1,000 B2 . - ,•onsols for Account 27%%% .xchequer Bills, I%cl. I X,d 1,0004 5002 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ' 115 Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO6 13razihan Bonds 5 per Cent. Ditto for the A cc ount. Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent Zr 5 Ditto for the Account 0 A 34 Ditto Three per Cent Ditto for the Account butch 2% per Cents 5 IA Dutch 5 per Cents. lOl% PRICBB OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. tin t . H RAILWAIE. PAID. PER SHARE. t r i, ighani and Gloucester ~_ tol and Exeter 7O t ern Counties uDitto New 25 12% to i tlt Western Or itt° % Shares 5O 72% to d/21 Junction IOO 4" n "l'on and Brighton 5O .........464 ...... to 45363 i ta ' °ll and South Western ....ncaster and Carlisle N°T6and Counties 100 rWich and Brandon lio".!Fastle and Darlington Junct. 15 v....:,trern and Eastern 45 b5%%1... to 1,1 1 2 and Orleans *.!!!sand Rouen ,11:),cnd and Havre. 20 -2% ...... to Southvre. 8 11;t ... t o Easter n and Dover P orth Midland A /4 1ft° New Shares `,s 50 S 6 %% t ° 20 57 to 58 ( Net ,„ CII ESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3.—We have . a ter an to - day, but there is no material alteration in ter ati * — ;Nanchester and Leeds Half Shares, 49 ; Dlst.nches -32. V Irrninghain, 39# to 4; Newcastle and Darlington, K, t , - ;.,,Ttehester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 9# to i ; South 7 7 to 77i. FINE ARTS. view e were favoured on Thursday last with a private ador of som e p i eces of sculpture, wh i ch are intended to a rt i s t N t v h Pediment of the new Royal Exchange. The th e has undertaken them is Mr. Westmacott, te,, em inent sculptor, and he has shown great chaste ha'ss and simplicity in his designs, and, so far as he to4l 3et proceeded—for the work is by no means tu re P te te—great skill in his execution. The sculp t() raconsists of several figures, all bearing reference 9 1 0 ereantile life, which are grouped on either side a h o i ß •h sal „,figure of Commerce, upwards of nine feet ' grou ps are for the most part detached; a foreign mer e-h'anZne w e e se e seea British and apparently in conversation with each O ther, while engaged close beside them stands a Persian trade; ; anc in another, a sailor who is tying up a bale of goods, while an agent is looking on, with a Den in his hand, as if about to take an inventory of each separate article. The whole produces a very gaming effect, and has the merit of being strictly !PPropriate, and intelligible at the first glance to ; v ery spectator. Mr. Westmacott deserves praise '' 3l ,! . liavin g rejected all fantastic mythological designs, A N1 ; 11 101 would have been utterly out of keeping in a la eh like the Royal Exchange. With it it is impos tiiible to associate classic ideas or images. The sculp re) We understand, will not be finished till May I'L l u x i : r LATE CASE OF EXTORTION AND MURDER AT t Atarihtm).--It will be recollected that . on Thursday last, his ha for f r( igh-street Police-court, a miscreant, who o la i t c e e d . I f_lo6ript ;am, atto be Joseph Burgen Smith, gentle ; g e ritiiaht ht• 0 : 1 ; 1 4th : e l . d-st ree t, Euston-square, was lmyanc. gentleman, Central Criminal Court, for extorting . money gdon's butler, under a threat of charging him_ a ulcar av mg cOmmitted a most horrible offence. Since his e ceration in Newgate, Mr. Cope, the Governor, ha.. took he that the , prisoner has assumed a false name, and took g e e eli, is John ,_ Bodle, aged 32, in whose . welfare the public ia.ri o -—e interest a few- years since, on account m o ur f his st p i g , it is said, been innocently 'ln charged with $33 ct q e , 'II-Instead, near Woolwich. November . 1 ,_ Mr. e slikt.gef.Bodle, a gentleman residing, and possessing a large 111 :'' P r operty, in that village, was murdered by arsenic v timstered in his breakfast coffee, and several mem h vartai n 'pas family nearly shared a similar fate throug the i a,, gof the poisonous draught. Suspicions reti _on e Rat "Ire-named prisoner (the murdered man's grands on, lasted l 41r e d !tres ‘. ted . , and at the Coroner's inquest, which Illi z ...", evidence was adduced of his having been seen to l a 3, 'oniet o tt e binis- in the coffee-kettle on the morning f the h e °4 which the murder was committed, besides his u e aa r he Ne''Pressions that he wished his grandfather was dead,. teßetrid then come into possession of 1,0001. a year, which, t he ' er with other facts indicative of his guilt, warranted hit o i . l ' r li i in returning a verdict of " Wilful murder " against 4edi h is trial took place at Maidstone assizes in the sc cegynonh, before Mr. Justice Gazelee, Mr. Adolphus_ ki ll ... ,etin,,. f 6 the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bod len;,-!t-ending the accused.' It occupied two entire days, and cite,,, in atod in an acquittal. The decision of the jury plo the ' the utmost excitement in Court, and was hailed with th e 'uost lively exci demonstrations of satisfaction and applause, Pahl' Dro s ie having a strong prejudice against his re . latives for tireteicutir% him. Circumstances, however have since trans 4lt th e which further dispel the mystery of the murder,. but A few Present period it would not be prudent to . detail them. frem hi,, br Inouths since he was charged with stealing 501. . fielti„l;),tiler-in-law who resides in St. John-street, Smith heard 4 s, but he managed to abscond, and had not been s cha rge elf until he was apprehended on the present infamous even • 1 ,,,, t ‘eni ni ,. 4 °X TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—On Friday a D,Z,a,bout eleven o'clock, imam having the appearance e43at,"'"l"entan, wrapped up a rge brown Chesterfie . ld Ny, in s who stated he had arrived from Reading, per !ail tteibe ucluired at the bar of the Bull and Anchor, 92, High 4ot, w r alk • if he was too late for a bed, a told he was tteht r -- :e 4 into the parlour, and afterpartakingof refresh eloo etired to rest. In the morning, between nine and ten he sheK,the landlord met him on the stairs, when he sated be t ak it e ld return to dinner, and left a brown . paper parcel to Viar o h e n care of. Previous to his leaving the house the 1 ,7, 1 1/n1 o , rtn aid, on examining the room in which he had slep , N'"e la . er Ytiling correct. Within an hour after his departure , udlord's wife on going to a drawer in, her bed-room, artiertrPrised to find it in disorder, and the under-mentione . d °F dee", stolen :—a new velvet vest, a satin vest, and a pair nf b:E'ln trousers. On making a further search the whole a aie w . u pper . part of the house had been ransacked, and It ptiA.tuA n -piece stolen from one of the servants' boxes. 11 4 ,,,:: - . ! the fellow mt have been disturbed, or he would f • eet nTken more. He s s about thirty-five years of ago, .five L ,lairll and a halt' inches high, fair complexion, straight iiein I v erY fresh coloured ; his boots were remarkable, torisg lea half-boots to button inside, one without but imiiept the other with onl three on. Information was ti t , f._,`,lately given to thepolice who are on the look-out for to yli ow. . . , I ,coniai n Fxamming the parcel he had left it was found , ' i ' l l ar t : ) a striped cotton shirt and two pamphlets. ..e, -ok,u rg G ot ; 1-4 8 7: ne e i. r a i sde e t d re b e ::: st ein, Chamberlain to the late Duke Gotha, arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Saturday last bearin dispatches announc has triae demise of his Serene Highness. g His Excellency, who ti:etrtlatenelled with the utmost haste, was detained two days by the inclemency of the weather, which accounts „ . eness of this authentic intelligence. it. lin immediate vacancy in the representation of o ti ee e ur. „r° , l lg, h li ofa Dudley in Parliament" is not " likely to tPhaeirseed ofr wi 9 t in h a l iptaa'ivntclresiviEslan, the present Member, who :filleiari;in.tenltilolin3 etoornremusla.lle ~..s .. uth of France tillthe and who is now on a _visit t . o , then so wn friends atiteau . bis approaching Easter, declares it Ael vain bustle of the self- parliamentary duties at that .. .(t. I t i n o d wr in t t rt h e i r ti e on has been made to the gentie dl y, .who are now much enjoying r ear.— Ten Towns Messenger. important League, with Mr. .---.1 he first person who brou ht the making of intolc:rte Shores • h died • es br ewer r perfection was Mr. J g Harwood, an eminent • t P , nE sTup , e inOctober, 1762. ~, .. 7 . ,,, , AT•lism ExTn.AoßniNany.—Benjamin Rid , r;',11,1 1 . -I ''' " Aloroing `-t.t.r," has 110 W compfeted the un t2..°4,1:1; naldiehaitstiefornWmal.ktingl.,soo nines in 1,500 successive nlllB Derformin . 1 tee beg to state that during the time Lud ab ove th g this unprecedented feat, he has walked over lades i ll , ~..tte task 180 miles, making in the whole 1,680 4'4uU co uscutiTe hom e. a sking Times. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE—The House of Commons was last night principally occupied With a debate on the outrage upon decency, and contempt alike of the law, its Judges, and the dignity and duties of his high ffice. which the Attorney-General of Ireland showed on Tuesday last. If the conduct of the chief law officer of the Govern ment in that country has provoked universal con demnation, the defence set up for him by Sir Robert Peel—followed, of course, by the subordinate mem bers of the Government—has drawn down upon the Ad ministration, whose servant be is, a similar ex pression of public disapprobation. The Attor ney-General for Ireland is a fortunate man. He escaped committal for contempt of court from the Judges; and he is now kindly screened from dismissal from his post by the Premier. The former would have consigned any other individual to the prison of the Court for contempt ; and have directed the Attorney-General to prosecute for the high offence, in order that all per sons might be warned against a similar interference with the calm and dignified administration of the jus tice of the country. The latter ought to have merged party considerations in what the public interests impe ratively demanded at his hands. The offence committed was of no ordinary description. To incite to a breach of the peace, which may involve the commission of a capital felony, is invariably treated by the Court as an offence that calls for severe punishment ; more es pecially when the alleged provocation has refe rence to any act which the party challenged has performed in connection with his public duty. In the Irish Attorney-General's case every imaginable ingredient heightens the enormity of the offence. The challenger is the highest Law-officer of the Crown ; engaged at the time he pens and transmits the chal lenge, in prosecuting a number of parties for conduct tending to disturb the peace of the country. The party challenged is one of the counsel for these defen dants. At tl e time he is challenged be is in the midst of his address to the jury in behalf of his client. That he may be able to discharge his anxious duty with effect, it is requisite that his mind be unem barrassed, in order that he may apply himself with unclouded judgment and fervid zeal to the cause he has undertaken to defend. At such a time, in such a place, under such circumstances, the Attorney-General —taking personal offence at something which the advo cate had uttered respecting the mode in which the pro secution had been conducted—pens, and causes to be conveyed, a challenge to the Counsel so engaged. He thus necessarily distracts the attention of the gentle man he challenges, and diverts it from the subject-matter of his argument, to the obvious injury of the party whose conviction the Attorney-General has employed all his professional skill and power to secure. The cir cumstances of the country, out of which the prosecution has arisen, called for the most careful abstinence from everything which could detract from the cool and im partial administration of the law. The Government has deemed it necessary to impress the public mind with a conviction of its determination to put down agitation. The majesty of the law was to be exhibited—its autho rity was to be upheld. With, or without, sufficient cause, the Government had determined to teach this great lesson to the Irish people. Intemperate speeches had been delivered at the Repeal meetings ; and, as intemperate words may incite to intemperate acts, and thus the pub lic peace be broken, O'Connell and his co-defendants are indicted, and are put upon their trial for this alleged offence. The Attorney-General is instructed to conduct the prosecution ; and, to say nothing more, has stretched his prerogative to the utmost of its limits—we think beyond them—to carry out the purposes of the Go vernment. In the exercise of his functions, this functionary evinces a temper the most irascible, and adopts a conduct the most illiberal, towards the prose cuted parties. Restrained at length by the strictures of the press, he for a time conducts himself with pro fessional decorum. But he has only " nursed his wrath to keep it warm." At length it explodes. The concen trated violence of his irascibility is discharged. A three cornered note is the missile emitted from the volcano. The counsel, who has applied the match to the combus tible matter pent up within the brain of this irate func tionary, is required instantly to apologise for some thing Ile has said in his speech, or to " name his friend," and vindicate the Attorney-General's fame and feelings by reciprocal perforation with pistol-bullets ! Brought under the notice of Parliament, the Prime Minister, if he does not positively justify, so pares down the offence as to represent it as a mere accidental ebullition of ill-temper on the part of his Attorney-General—a peccadillo so trifling as to be unworthy of notice. The Attorney-General is a man of warm temperament. He is easily excited, and ought therefore to be excused. " The Attorney-General for Ireland had, it was true, been betrayed, by a momentary irritation, into the act which the Hon. and Learned gentleman (Mr. Roebuck) had referred to, and which could not be justified ; but for this he had been reproved by the Court." Reproved by the Court ! The* reproof was of the gentlest cha racter. A fond and foolish mother endeavouring to soothe a wayward child could scarcely have expressed herself more mildly. The Chief Justice really seemed as if he feared he should draw down upon himself the ire of the Attorney-General, and become the next victim of his passion for pistols. The whole scene was scarcely more creditable to the Judges than it was to the At torney-General. The Chief Justice descended from his dignified position, and actually suspended the admi nistration of the high functions of his office, out of tenderness to the delinquent before him. Without solicitation or a single expression of regret from him, he positively coaxed and fondled the offender into a qualified admission of error. "His Learned Friends told him (be never once admitted that he concurred in their view of his conduct) that he had been betrayed into something wrong 1" And then this venerable and thus easily propitiated Chief Justice " trusted that the proceedings would be carried no further." Sir It. Peel says that which is scarcely be out by the facts, as reported. The Attorney- General did not " withdraw the latter." It was " tossed back" to him by Mr. Fitzgibbon. The only circum stance by which Sir Robert Peel's assertion can be explained, being, that the Attorney-General did not " toss it back" to Mr. Fitzgibbon, and thus intimate his continued determination for " trial by battle" with that gentleman. The close of Sir Robert Peel's speech en the occasion is decisive in favour of the Attorney- General's retention of his office, for which he has given such irrefragable proofs of unfitness—especially in the perturbed state of the country in which he is the.first law officer of the Crown :—" As to the suggestion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, he (Sir R. Peel) begged at once to say that the Government had taken no step for the dismissal of the Attorney-General for Ireland, and had no such step in contemplation." This declaration was received by loud cries of " Hear, hear !" from every part of the House. We also say, " Hear, hear !" "He that hath an ear, let him hear " the practical lesson which the Premier has given to the country, and especially to the people of Ireland. By them it will not only be heard, but understood—and, we fear, acted upon in a way by no means likely to im prove their civil and social state. STANDARD.—A foolish motion of Mr. Sharman Crawford, to the effect that the House should abstain from offering any opinion upon the inviolability of the union with Ireland, and thus leave the question of the integrity of the empire an open question, gave occasion to Mr. Roebuck to allude to the late correspondence between the Attorney-General for Ireland and Mr. Fitzgibbon, the counsel for one of the traversers, Doctor Gray. Now, we do not pretend to know or to guess the motives which urged Mr. Roebuck to dis tinguish himself from the other 658 Members of the House to whom the subject was open, by coming for ward upon this occasion. Perhaps it was a burning zeal for the Constitution and the integrity of the British empire that has " grown with his growth, and strength ened with his strength ;" perhaps it was an ex cessive devotion to the interests of the profession of the law—such as is apt to grow upon men in the case of a profession in which they are very eminently distinguished ; perhaps it was an in tense horror of the possible resort to personal encounters, such as we may expect to find in a man who has through life studiously avoided them, and eschewed all occasions of offering personal offence. We will suppose any good motive rather than imagine that he was imitating the party journals in an attempt to obstruct the course of justice by " abusing the prosecutor." But whatever the Learned Gentleman's motive, we must think that his zeal carried him a little too far, in his reprehension of the Irish Attorney General's conduct—carried him the length of pro pounding (unconsciously we are bound to believe) two fallacies ; first, that the Learned Attorney-General delivered a challenge ; secondly, that he delivered this challenge (we quote the Morning Chronicle's report).— " In the presence of the chief judges of the land, the ad ministrators of the law, the maintainers of the peace, there had been one of the most gross—he would use no harsher word, for this reason, that the English language did not supply a stronger one for the purpose—one of the most gross violations of common decency perpetrated by the Attorney General for Ireland, that had ever been perpetrated." Now we deny that the Attorney-General delivered any challenge, although we are aware that Sir Robert Peel, Lord Eliot, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the other speakers who defended the absent gentleman with a generous fidelity worthy of them, and one which we respectfully assure them attaches even their humblest adherents by new ties, seem to have admitted that the note to Mr. Fitzgibbon was a challenge. The whole history of the affair will be found in an article which we have borrowed from our excel lent Contemporary the Dublin Evening Packet, and whoever reads that history will, we think, agree with us that no challenge really was delivered. We do not deny that a man of a very high but perverse spirit, and of more sensibility than discretion, might read the note as a challenge, but we certainly should not inter pret such an address to ourselves as a summons to the field, and we are not willing to yield to Mr. Fitzgibbon either in the sense of honour or respectability of station. We sometimes get such notes—we consider calmly the sub ject of them—and "if right we smile, if wrong we kiss the rod." It would be a most dangerous doctrine to lay down, that every demand of an explanation, though expla nation through a friend should be suggested in it, must be treated as a cartel, a fatal Gematria, that would extract the word pistol from every combination of letters in which complaint of a gross insult should be made. Let us rather adopt the benign rule of legal interpretation never to presume a crime where there is no express evidence of guilt. What passed in the mind of the Attorney-General when he wrote his note, within three minutes after some months' baiting with systematic and premedi tated insult had been consummated by that gross per sonal outrage which, as Mr. Wyse has very properly sug gested, was probably put by some of the traversers into Mr. Fitzgibbon's brief--what was passing in the Learned Attorney-General's mind during this agony of intellectual tt mment, it is impossible to say. He probably then re flected—Human forbearance cannot endure this longer, if it go en I shall be betrayed into some unbecoming violence of language in the face of the Court ; I will seize this interval of adjournment, and use the opportu nity of this retired place, to put a stop to it sine stopiut. I will call upon Mr. Fitzgibbon to retract his insults, or at least to name a friend, with whom a friend of mine may remonstrzte against such an intolerable persecution. There is not a syllable in the note of the Attorney- General which will not bear this interpretation ; and why should we presume that a gentleman, unpractised in the affairs of duelling, must have designed a challenge in writing it ? We, indeed, are happily ignorant of the " conclusions" of " the code," and little read. in Caranza or Pareccio ; but though we have never shuddered at a "three-cornered note," Mr. Roebuck's acquaintance with the signification of the ill-omened rectilinear proves that he is aware when men are " tremera murmure Trinacria," and a Con naught friend assures us that he is altogether wrong in presuming a challenge, for that to write in such a case as the Attorney-General's, would be the most irregular thing in the world. In all such cases, says our friend, the gentlemen of Galway, Mayo, and Sligo, always proceed in the first instance by the vole de fait, of course with all considerate delicacy—or if the practical retort be not altogether proper by reason of the place or any presence, as in church, a drawing-room, or in the company of a man's wife—they always send a friend to apologise for not having ap plied the usual remembraneer, and to arrange a, comfortable meeting ; but they never write, for a written note is open to a written reply in accommoda tion, and this of course is not what a gentleman wants. It is not our province to pronounce an opinion in such delicate matters, but we must think that the Attorney- General, who may be as ignorant of etiquette in these affairs as ourselves, has had hard measure in having his note considered on all sides as a challenge. But, a challenge or no challenge, it is untrue to say that it was delivered in the face of the judges of the land. It was not delivered in Court at all, but in a room many yards distant from the Court ; and the Court was ad journed at the time when it was delivered. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, FEBRUARY 5, 1844. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 3. (Before Lord ABLVGER and a Special Jury.) ILLICIT DISTILLATION—THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. PHIL- LIPO AND OTHERS. The Attorney-General, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Wylde, ap peared for the Crown ; Mr. Cockburn and Mr. M. Smith conducted the case for the defendants. This was an information by the Attorney-Genera; against the defendants, for the recovery of penalties for having in their premises a private still for the purpose of illicit distjlia tion, and having spirits on their premises on which no duties had been paid to the Excise. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the case to the jury. The defendants occupy a lone farm-house at Swanton Abbott, near Norwich, Norfolk. The house is situated at a considerable distance from any other habitation, and is in every respect a spot where illicit distillation might be car ried on with considerable success. From information which had been received in June last year, by the officers of the Excise, a search warrant was obtained, and three officers proceeded to execute it. One entered at the front of the house whilst the others remained at the back. ,A. not actually at work, but having the appeara nce of hav:e been recently used, was discovered. The top of the stilla d the worm, however, could not be found. One barrel, holdint; 25 gallons, containing spirits, was buried in the floor; smaller barrel, the importation of which into this country, containing spirits, is prohibited by law, and excellently adapted for the purpose of smuggling, from its small size, containing no more than three gallons, which has obtained for it the soubriquet of " half anchor," as it may be slung, with a cask of corresponding size, across the back of a horse or the shoulders of a man, was found by the officers. A sample drawer, possibly used to draw the spirits from the cask buried in the floor, was found ; also three branding irons having these letters cut in them were found, H. G., C. 8., and S. 8., which the Learned Counsel stated were no doubt intended to be brandy-casks, containing " Hollands Gin," " Cognac Brandy," and " Spirits of Brandy," as casks having these letters were found. The defence which would be set up was that the implements found were used for the purpose of brewing ; but the very fact of an hydrometer being found on the premises was conclusive evidence of the fact with which the defendants were charged, namely, that that utensil was never used in brewing ale or porter. The Learned Gentleman here minutely described the whole process of distillation and brewing. The defendant and his sons were, confused when the officer entered, and gave evasive answers' to the questions put to them, stating that the implements were used for brewing malt ; that the wort was used for feeding pigs ; and that the cask in the floor contained poison for washing sheep, and was placed there to prevent accident. The officer, however, utterly regardless of the consequences, tasted the contents of the cask, but the poison had no deadly effect, as the officer was then in Court to speak to the facts which he had related to the jury. Robert Hudson, an Excise officer, corroborated the state ment of the Attorney-General. 'Witnesses were called to prove the sale of molasses to the son of-the defendant, that they were mixed with chaff; and used for feeding cattle, the soil of the farm being exceedingly poor. Two witnesses in the employment of the defendant stated that the cask which contained home-brewed ale was buried in their preserves, because the defendant had no cellar, the sample-drawer being used to draw it up ; that they never saw any symptoms of distilling on the premises ; that the copperwas used to boil potatoes ; that one of the branding irons ex pressed the initials of the mother of the defendant, Sarah Garland (S. G.), and that an impression from it was made on the " half-anchor;" that some coloured ingredient, sup posed to be used for the purpose of colouring ruin and brandy,. was in reality treacle and water, which was made for some children. Mr. COCKBURN then addressed the jury for the defendant, and the Attorney-General having replied, Lord ABINGER minutely summed up the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict for the Crown.—We understand the penalties amount to 6001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. - - The young man who was on Saturday week brought before the Lord Mayor on a charge of forgery, was brought up for re-examination. It will be recollected that on Saturday last it was sworn that the signature purporting to be that of the firm of Howard, Grand, and Co., was not the handwriting of Mr. Grand, who was the only person that signed for the house. Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Co., attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson defended the pri- soner. Mr. Clarkson then said, that although he was not in a condition to prove that the writing of the endorsement was by Mr. Grand, he could most satisfactorily show that it was written by Mr. Gilbert, the clerk of Messrs. Howard, Grand, and Co., upon Mr. Grand's authority. Mr. Laurence, a clerk of Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., bankers, was examined, and upon a letter being shown him by Mr. Clarkson, purporting to be written by Mr. Grand, authorising Mr. Gilbert, the clerk of the firm, to endorse the bill in question, the witness said he believed the signature to the letter to be that of Mr. Grand. It was then proved by Mr. Addison that the signature to the acceptance was in the handwriting of Mr. Gilbert. This witness said that the defendant had resided in apartments in his house, and sometimes went by the name of William Powers, and sometimes William Nicholls. Mr. Clarkson called upon his Lordship to discharge the prisoner, as it was evident the charge of uttering a forged acceptance fell to the ground. Mr. Mullens submitted that the prisoner ought to be remanded, since the circumstances of the case were very suspicious, at any rate that he should find bail. The LORD MAYOR said the circumstances were no doubt suspicious, but he did not think he should be justified in remanding the prisoner, nor did he think it right to call upon him to find bail. The case was there fore dismissed. GUILDHALL. On Aldermen Challis and Johnson taking their seats in this Court, a letter was handed to them from the Lord Mayor, the purport of which was to the effect, that the order he had issued on Friday last with respect to the treatment of William Henry Barber, the princi pal in the late will forgeries, in the Giltspur-street Compter, had been neglected, and begged that the pre siding Magistrates would investigate the conduct of those persons whose duty it was to have obeyed his di rections. Barber complained of the harsh conduct that had been pursued towards him in the above prison, by placing him in solitary confinement. The Lord Mayor immediately gave direction that that order should be rescinded, and owing to the neglect in carrying his Lordship's desire into effect, arose the present pro ceedings. Alderman JOHNSON remarked that it was a very se rious charge against the prison authorities, and dis patched a messenger to that gaol, commanding the at tendance of Mr. Whithair, the governor. After the lapse of a short time that gentleman attended, when Mr. Alderman Johnson made kkown to him the com plaint of the Lord Mayor, and inquired what was the reason that his Lordship's order had not been acted upon ? Mr. Whithair replied, that Barber bad for some time past had the society of a prisoner named Power, who had moved in a respectable sphere of life, and therefore was an agreeable and fit companion. Power, however, had within the last two or three days been discharged, and the difficulty arose in providing Barber with a suitable partner. At the present period he could only have common street thieves for companions, and he (Mr. Whithair) had refrained from associating him with them. That was the reason why the Lord Mayor's order had not been obeyed, and which still placed Barber in con finement by himself. Alderman JonNsoN hoped that no harsh influence would be exercised towards the unfortunate man. He trusted, therefore, as soon as an opportunity should oc cur, that Mr. Whithair would provide Barber with a companion. UNION-HALL. Henry Froud, a bricklayer, residing in James-street, Kennington, was placed at the bar for re-examination, charged with cutting and wounding his wife with a poker, with intent to murder her. It appeared that on Tuesday evening last, about seven o'clock, the prisoner went home, and had a few words with his wife respecting his supper. During the quarrel he seized the poker and broke it in two by beating her over the head and body. A lad named Al'Hugh wit nessed the brutal treatment, and fetched a constable, who found the woman lying on the floor in the kitchen quite insensible from loss of blood. The surgeon who attended her sent a certificate, which stated that the wife was in a dangerous state, being enciente. Mr. COTTINGIIAM, after hearing the above evidence, remanded the prisoner until this day. The wife now attended, and appeared to be suffering severely from :the prisoner's violence; her head was covered with bruises and adhesive plaster. On being sworn, she said that her husband came home rather in toxicated, when she irritated him by upbraiding him. She seized the poker, which he wrenched from her, and broke it by its coming in contact N: ith the stones. She denied that it was broken by his striking her with it. Mr. COTTINOHAM remarked that she was a foolish woman by endeavouring to cloak her brutal husband's conduct. kle could not believe a word of her statement, for it was positively sworn to by a lad, on the first exa- I mination, that the prisoner actually broke the poker by striking her on the head, and that she gave the lad two pence to fetch a constable. He inquired whether the lad was now in attendance ? The officer replied in the negative. His parents refused to let him attend again to give evidence ; in fact, they were angry with him for coming at all. Mr. COTTINGHAM said, that he should 'remand the prisoner until Wednesday next, for the attendance of the lad, whose evidence was so clear on a former occasion. He should order the constable to take a summons for him; if he did not then attend he should issue a warrant, for it was impossible that he could let such a brute escape. He then informed the prisoner that he should then commit him for attempting to murder his wife. Mr. Cottingham told the wife that it was extremely for tunate that she had not received such severe injuries as he expected. He certainly did not think she would have survived her husband's ill-treatment. Shortly after the night charges had been disposed of, a poor woman attended before Mr. Cottingham to make the following application: — She stated her name to be Catharine Beech, and re sided in Kent-street, Southwark, where she gained subsistence by going out charing. Her husband met with an accident about six months ago, by falling from a scaffold, and had been since then in Guy's Hospital. On Tuesday last he expired, and she shad .applied to follow her husband to the grave, which they refused to allow unless she paid a sovereign, when they would bury him on their own grounds, and pay the remainder of the expense. She had not the means of paying the sovereign unless she borrowed it from her friends, and she did not like her husband to be dissected. She, there fore, wished to know whether the Magistrate could not compel the hospital authorities to give up the body to her. Mr. Col-rpm:um said he was not aware df the regu lations of the hospital, but he would send an officer with her to ascertain the reason why they objected. 180 M was dispatched with the poor woman, and on his return he informed Mr. Cottingham that if the sove reign was paid they would pay all expenses, and bury the body in their churchyard, that the female and rela tives could follow, and see the coffin screwed down pre vious to interment ; but they could not part with the body unless a sovereign was paid. Mr. COTTINGHAM informed the poor woman that it appeared that the authorities could demand the sove reign, and unless that was paid her husband would be dissected ; but he would allow her a sovereign out of the poor box, and he hoped she would allow the authorities to bury her husband, as that would save her a heavy expense in burying him, for she could see him safely interred in the hospital grouuds. The applicant seemed perfectly satisfied, and received the sovereign. BUSINESS OF THE EQUITY COURTS. SITTINGS AFTER HILARY TERM, 1844. (Before the Lord Chancellor, at Lincoln's Inn.) Feb. B—The first seal ; appeal motions. Feb. 9—Petition day (unopposed only), and appeals. Feb. 10 to 15—Appeals. Feb. 16—Petition day (unopposed only), and appeals. Feb. 17 to 22—Appeals. Feb. 23—Petition day (unopposed only), and appeals. Feb: 24—T 2 h 9 e — s A ec p o p n e d al s s. eal ; appeal motions. Feb. 26 to ...jarch I—Petition day (unopposed only). March 2 to 7—Appeals. March B—PetitioLl day (unopposed only). March 9 to 13— Appeals. March 14—The third seal ; appeal motions. March 15—Petition day (unopposed only), March 16 to 21 —Appeals. March 22—Petition day (unopposed only) and appeals. March 23 to 27—Appeals. March 28—The fourth seal ; appeal motions. March 29—General petition day. Such days as his Lordship is occupied in the House of Lords accepted. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) Feb. B—First seal. Feb. 9 to 23—Pleas, demurrers, causes, further direc tions, and exceptions... Feb. 24—Second seal.. -- Feb. 26—Petitions ma general paper. Feb. 27 to March 13—Pleas, demurrers, &c., as above. March 14—Third seal. March 15 to 27—Pleas, demurrers, &c. March 18—Fourth seal March 29—Petitions on general paper. The Master of the Rolls will take consent causes, con sent petitions, and short causes, every Tuesday at the sitting of the Court. (Before the Vice-Chancellor of England.) Feb. is—Firt seal; motions. Feb. 9—Petition day ; unopposed petitions, short causes, and causes. Feb. 10 to 15—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. Feb. 16—Petition day; unopposed petitions. Feb. 17 to 22—Pleas, demurrers, &c. Feb. 23.—Petition day; unopposed petitions, &c. Feb. 24—The second seal; motions. Feb. 26 to 29—Pleas, &c. March I—Petition day ; unopposed, &c. March 2 to 7—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. March B—Petition day ; unopposed petitions, short causes, and , causes. • March 9 to 13—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes. and further directions. March 14—The third seal. March 15—Petition day ; unopposed petitions, &c. March 15 to 21—Pleas, demurrers, &c. March 22—Petition day ; unopposed petitions, &c. March 23 to 27—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, &c. March 28—The fourth seal. March 29—General petition day. (Before Sir J. Knight Bruce.) Feb. B—The first seal; motions, and causes. Feb. 9—(Petition day), petitions and causes. Feb. 10— Unopposed petitions, short causes, and causes. Feb.l2 andl3—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. Feb. 14—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. Feb. 15—Pleas, demurrers, &c. •-I Feb. 16—(Petition day), petitions and ditto. Feb. 17—Unopposed petitions, short causes, and causes. Feb. 19—Bankrupt petitions and causes. Feb. 20—Pleas, demurrers, &c. Feb. 21—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. Feb. 22—Pleas, &c. Feb. 23—(Petition day), petitions and ditto. Feb. 24—The second seal, motions, unopposed peti tions, and short causes. Feb. 26—Bankrupt petitions and causes. Feb. 27—Pleas, demurrers, &c. Feb. 28—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. Feb. 29—Pleas, demurrers, &c.: March I—(Petition day), petitions and causes. March 2—Unopposed petitions, short causes, and causes. March 4—Bankrupt petitions and causes. March s—Pleas, demurrers, &c. March 6—Bankrupt petitions and causes. March 7—Pleas, &c. March B—(Petition day), petitions and causes. March 9—Unopposed petitions, short causes,. and causes. March 11—Bankrupt petitions and causes. March 12—Pleas, &c. March 13—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. March 14—The third seal ; motions and causes. March 15—(Petition day), petitions and causes. March 16—Unopposed petitions, short causes, and causes. March 18—Bankrupt petitions and causes. March 19—Pleas, &c. March 20—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. March 21—Pleas, &c. March 22—(Petition day), petitions and causes. March 23—Unopposed petitions, short cau ses, and causes. ----- March 25—Bankrupt petitions and causes. March 26—Pleas, &c. March 27—Bankrupt petitions and ditto. March 28—The fourth seal ; motions and causes. March 29—(General petition day), petitions and causes. (Before Sir J. Wigram.) Feb. B—The first seal ; motions and causes. Feb. o—(Petition day), pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. Feb. 10—Short causes, petitions (unopposed first), and causes. Feb. 12 to 15—Pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. Feb. 16—(Petition day), pleas, demurrers, &c. Feb. 17—Short causes, petitions (unopposed first), and causes. Feb. 19 to 22—Pleas, &c., as before. Feb. 23—(Petition day), pleas, &c., as before. Feb. 24—The second seal ; motions, petitions (un opposed first), and short causes. Feb. 26 to 29—Pleas, &c., as before. March I—(Petition day), pleas, &c., as before. March 2—Short causes, petitions (unopposed first), and causes. March 4 to 7—Pleas, &c., as before. March B—(Petition day), pleas, demurrers, &c. March 6—Short causes, petitions.(unopposed first), and &c., as leas' before. • causes. March 11 to 13—Pleas , & c. March 14—The third seal ; motions and ditto. MarchMarcla 1 1 6 5 - -( s P h e o t r i t ti c o a n us d e a s y , ) , p c., as bef or e. March 18 to 21—Pleas, &c. March 22—(Petition day), pleas, &c. March 23—Short causes, &c., as before. March 25 to 27—Pleas, &c. March 28—The fourth seal ; motions and ditto. March 29—(The general petition day) , petitions and causes. N.B. None of these Courts will sit after April 3. TORQUAY.—SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF THREE THIEVES.—On Friday night last, the wife of a farmer, named Croker, of Gabwell, dreamt three several times that a villager of Maidencombe, called Eales, was coming to murder -her. At this she was much frightened, and desired her husband to go to Eales's house, which is not far off, an d see if he was at home ; this was about twelve or one o'clock in the night. Croker accordingly got up, and proceeding towards Eales's house overtook him and two of his sons laden with a quan tity of hay and straw, which they had stolen from his (Croker's) yard, and he had lost some several times before, but had not been able to detect the thief. H e i mme di ate l y procured the village constable, and had them next day taken before the magistrates of Teignmouth, by whom they were committed to Exeter gaol to take their trial for the offence. —Western Times. MONMOUTH.--A c urious fact for the angler mouth oc curred last week in the capt ure of a s al mon in the river Mon now, near Garroway Mill. T his fish has never before been known to enter the Monnow , an d in the present instance it must have passed seven wears before it reached the spot where - it was caught. --Zfon merlin. THE MARYLEBONE. VESTRY. On Saturday, the Vestry assembled at the Court :house to consider the propriety of taking steps for put ring down the newly-established Western Refuge for the Houseless Poor of the Metropolis, on account of such , establishment being considered a nuisance to the rate papers and an injury to the parish. Mr. Arber, the Secretary to the Society for the Relief of the Houseless Poor, was present in the gallery to watch the proceedings. Mr. W. Clapp having been called to the chair— A deputation of rate-payers from . Ogle-square (where the instif,ation has been established) attended to present a mer.torial to the Vestry, praying them to use their influence in putting down the establishment, on account of the vast injury and nuisance in the imme diate neig:nbourhood, occasioned by the assemblage of large 'oodies of destitute and houseless floor waiting to be relieved by the institution. The members of the eieputation, who appeared to belong to the industrious classes, added, that the poor congregated around their houses from all parts of the metropolis ; that the nui sance was so great, that they were obliged to shut up their shops, and the majority of their lodgers had given them notice to quit. The deputation then withdrew, and— Mr. Thatny said that he considered it to be the duty of I the Vestry to protect the rate-payers by endeavouring' , 0 - _.firing t put down at once the nuisance complained of. If fi e in h - , st in i c t i n e t m i oenntwerea weather,tem it po m ra ig r h y t o b n e e, to to le l r a a s i t ed; . only , ( 1 out it was to be permanent, for a large body of .noViemen and gentle men had raised a considerable. ttmount of money, and Ivmore for its support. Th e Kely to increase rather th an nuisance,ere still diminish ; and. althougi - the agent of his Grace the D u k e of Portland had give:it the Committee of gentlemen n o ti ce therefore, engaged n was raising that such an. establishment could not be permitted to re main on his, Grace's property, they had disregarded the notice, anr.t persisted in completing their building. It was the duty of that Vestry to sympathise with the rate payers, anti earnestly request the Duke of Portland to use stringent measures to abate the nuisance. Mr. JeJSEPH regretted that they had no power under the loce I Act to remove the nuisance complained of. He would move, therefore, "That the Vestry forthwith apply to the Duke of Portland and his agent, and urge upor. them the necessity of putting down the establish meut, and that copies of the memorial presented by the deputation be furnished to his Grace and his agent." Mr. SODEN seconded the motion, remarking that, although it might be said the Vestry were wanting in feelings of humanity in throwing obstacles in the way of an institution established to relieve the distresses of the poor, still, he thought, they were acting humanely in endeavouring to protect the poor and industrious rate-payers, who no doubt were and would be injured by the Inconvenience created by the institution. Mr. WALTER denied that the institution was likely to prove injurious to the neighbourhood in the way repre sented. For the short period it bad been open he had watched it narrowly, and had no hesitation in declaring it a great blessing to hundreds of poor and destitute persons. He considered that the institution had dimi nished by one half the number of street mendicants in Marylebone, and the recipients of the bounty of the in stitution entered and left it most orderly and quietly. Mr. DETTMER said the establishment complained of would affect all the rate-payers of Maryiebone, because hundreds of poor persons from all pan s of the country flocked to this new institution for relief, and those who slept in it for a night could, b the new poor-law, be come a burthen to the parish, f or a per i o d o f 21 d a y s . - After some further (1, scussion, the resolution was carried, and the Vestry broke up. FALLING IN of the EXCAVATION OF THE ?..;EW GRECIAN CLUB-HOUSE, CITY. SEVERAL MEN BURIED. (LATEST ACCOUNT). The deplorable accident occurred shortly before twelve o'clock, on the site formerly occupied by Dove-court, Mansion-house -street, where some extensive excavations have been going on during the last few weeks, prepara tory to the erection of the Gresham Club-house. In or der to render the locality where the accident took place clearly understood, it will be necessary to explain that it is bounded on the north by King William-street and the banking-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; on the west by Charlotte-row, a narrow turning east ward of the Mansion-house ; on the east by St. Swithin's-lane ; and on the south by George-street, one side of which has been recently takea down, in order to carry on the projected improve ments in this part of the City, the whole area being enclosed by a strong hoarding. From inquiries made by the reporter, it appears that a number of men had been engaged during the morning in excavating a deep trench, for the reception of concrete, on which the foundation of the southern wall was. to be raised. The trench had been dug out to the depth of about twenty feet, and was considered nearly finished. The " shoring up " of the upper portion of the embankment had been performed with due care ; and, as the throw ing in of the concrete generally causes considerable vi bration in the ground, the foreman of the works gave directions that, before this was done, a second set of shoring posts should be applied to the lower part of the excavation. The navigators still continued to work in the trench, while this was going on; and one of the car penters, named Hillier, was in the act of placing a board against the embankment, when a large quantity of earth bulged forwards from about the centre of the cutting, and fell into the trench, burying not only the unfortunate man in question, but several others underneath it. Three or four managed to effect their escape before the mass fell; but, in a few seconds, the whole embankment, to the extent of twenty feet, gave way, burying four poor fellows under its superincumbent weight. The men were mustered and set to work instantly to rescue their unfortunate companions. Two of them were soon got out, but some time elapsed before the next poor fellow, a navigator, named John Pattisford, was extricated, and when he was found he was in so exhausted a state that it was hardly possible to say whether he was alive or dead. A stretcher having been procured, he was at once re moved to Guy's Hospital, and the exertions of the workmen were redoubled, in order to come at the unfortunate man Hillier, who was known to be still buried under an enormous mass of earth. Although the spot where he fell was accurately known, some time was lost through the caution which was abso lutely necessary to avoid injuring him by the spades and shovels used to throw up the earth. The men, however, worked with unceasing ardour, and, with a reckless daring of all personal danger, which it was almost painful to witness, for more than half an hour, and still no glimpse of Hillier had as yet been discovered. At length, about three quarters of an hour after the accident, the poor fellow was got out. The body being still warm, some hope was entertained that life was not quite extinct. Stimulants were at tempted to be got down his throat, and the temporal artery was opened by a medical gentleman who had been sent for, and was present, but no blood flowed, nor were there any signs of returning animation. The poor fellow was then conveyed by four of his com panions to Guy's Hospital, where the surgeon in attend ance pronounced that he had been dead some time.—The other poor fellow rallied slightly during the afternoon, and was pronounced out of danger last evening. The catastrophe occurring as it did, in the heart of the City, caused considerable excitement, and the Lord Mayor, having had the circumstances reported to him, gave directions that the sufferers should be properly attended to. Messrs. Cubitt are the contractors for the erection of the club-house, and one of their foremen had the management of the excavation. It does not appear, at present, that blame is attributable to any party, though a mere glance at the soil, which is extremely dry and loose, shows the necessity for the adoption of every pre caution for the prevention of similar disasters. The deceased had only entered on his engagement a few hours before his death. The whole circumstances in connec tion with the affair will be investigated at the inquest, which will be held before Mr. Payne this day. FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY. 'From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of The winter season t t h hr e ou s g o h ft ou a t nd an w d ar ! h i n whichgim brought p.ar eD i into smadees favourooff levantine or satin, with small square collar, wadded Pekin damasse are made with tight high bodies, very open in front, forming cceur, lengthened to a sharp point nearly . to the waist, and often laced across a la Bernaise ; the edges may remain unornamented or have a revers of velvet or very narrow band of fur ; the ceinture is round, and chemisettes with or without collars, formed of inlets of lace or work, are worn inside these corsages, which are the most novel of the season. Revers and facings of satin quilted are very much in use on peignoirs. Dresses of plain cachemire are ornamented with bands of velvet on the bodies, high sleeves a la religieuse, and large pelerines. In ball dresses, the double and triple skirts continue in undiminished avour in all trans parent materials for young people ; sometimes a white satin skirt is entirely concealed by the two deep lace flounces, the corsage being also covered by the deep mantille of lace, reaching nearly 'to the waist. Dresses of tarlatane with double shirts are pretty, trimmed with narrow gold fringe, the berthe to match. The most elegant dresses for Court, worn at the Tuileries, were of white satin, ornamented with silver scarfs. Some velvet dresses are made open in front, with an under breadth of white satin ribbon crossing over it from side to side. A pretty novelty is the deep mantille of lace falling below the waist, and rounded in front so as to show the corsage. Black lace scarfs are also made so wide as to permit converting them into tunics ; the dentelle de velours is much approved for full dress toilettes, manteaux, and satin pelisses ; they trimmedni d Fh o uaaissilh eialgtnieat. may match the material in colour. The hair is worn rather raised and in ringlets, though bandeaux are always seen. Coiffures are rather wide in front, some are raised in the centre a la Norma, others have a simple wreath in foliage, and touffes at the side a l'Aspasie ; detached flowers are also much worn, they are generally large ones, dahlias, roses, chry santhemums. Bonnets are a little more open, par ticularly for dress ones, which are of satin or velvet, in the different shades of dark blue and black ; but for neglige the shape is closer ; some bonnets of plain vel vet are lined with light colours, and ornamented with three feathers. Capotes of satin, with wide runners, are trimmed with lace for morning wear. Manteaux and pardessus are often finished with revers of satin or velvet quilted ; the Polonaises of black satin are not very full, and do not reach lower than the knee. Pale tots of ecru cachemire are bordered with velvet. INCENDIARISM IN THE NORTH.—We regret to hear that on the night of Monday last, a stack-yard at Swalwell, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, was fired by an unknown in cendiary, and seven valuable stacks destroyed.—Durham Chronicle. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 2.—ln conse quence of t 1 navigation of the Elbe being closed, the stock of German Wools in this market has been consi derably din finished, and as the demand continues good prices are firmly maintained. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 2.—Sales of combing w' iols continue to be freely made at advancing prices. Cl othing wools are better sale than of late : prices are Iligher, and the tendency upwards although present quodati ons are muc h b elow the proportion of all other wools.. LEEDS.—There have beet' rather brisk markets at both our Clioth Rails during the week, principally for lower pricf.td goods ; this may be ascribed in a great measure to the advance which has taken place in the price of wools of low quality, Tweeds have also sold pretty freely, ;but fine goods still continue dull of sale, and prices remain aboift the same. There have been several of the larger u , 3CT s from London, as well as from Ireland, in ti) m arket during the week, and, in consequence, there has been rather more business done .uses than for the last few weeks past. quite P RADFO- P . -ADMARKET, THURSDAY, FEB. I.—There is • .t 1 average business doing in all kinds of cloth, par' ..icularly such as are suited for the Americans, for which market large quantities have been purchased, and contracts entered into, which will prevent any accumu lation of stock ; there is also a great degree of willing ness manifested by the merchants to meet the manufac turers, seeing that both cotton warps and worsted yarns have been steadily advancing, and as there is no proba ble chance of any reaction, an advance is more readily complied with. Yarns continue in good request, both for home consumption and the de-laine makers; the shippers are also open, but there is no stock on hand, the spinners generally working to order, and unwilling to accept orders, except at a further in3t2ase in price. Wool still keeps changing hands at a more rapid pace than usual for it at this season of the .year, when the condition is always considered the most unfavourable to the con sumer, and any lots that are not held for extravagant prices meet ready sale at an improvement on last week's quotations. Short wool and noils, though in tolerably good request, have not at all advanced proportionately with the combing sorts, and many refuse to sell except at a corresponding improvement. HALIFAX MARKET, JAN. 27.—We have had another very busy mareket, both in the piece and yarn trades, and prices rather higher. The wool business continues brisk, and further advance is readily obtainable for comb ing descriptions ,• clothing sorts, too, are better to sell, and prices a little higher. Middle wethers are worth 141., noils and brokes 9/. 10s. per pack. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had almost a stagnation in our cloth market since Friday, caused by a renewal of the speculation in cotton, and consequent advance. There are, it is understood, many orders in town, but as the late advance on the staple was not anticipated by the responsible parties abroad, agents here cannot, or, rather, do not, choose to act at prices so much exceeding the limited figure. The business that has been done, therefore, has been unusually limited, still at higher rates. The market closes to-day in great uncertainty, with the exception of printing cloths, which are in good demand, and saleable at prices fully equal to the advance on cotton, and in fact exceed that advance. The like remarks apply to twist; there is little doing, and prices are unsteady—Leeds Mercury RETURN OF LORD MORPETH TO PARLIAMENT. MORPETII, FEB. 2.—1 have now to communicate to you the very interesting intelligence that the restoration of Lord Morpeth to a seat in the Legislature—an.event so long and earnestly desiderated by his Lordship's political friends—is in a high degree likely to be very speedily realised. I learnt yesterday evening that an arrangement is in progress by which a vacancy in the Parliamentary representation of this town will take place almost immediately by the acceptance, probably by Captain Howard, the present Member, of the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, and that Lord Mor peth will forthwith become a candidate for therepresenta- tion. I have my information from a quarter whiCh admits of no doubt of its veracity, though the subject has not yet become matter of public rumour here. I am also informed that his Lordship is expected in this town in the course of a very few days, to enter upon his canvass of the electors. I do not apprehend, assuming that what I have stated shall turn out to be true, that any opposition will be offered to his Lordship's return, unless it come from the Anti-Corn-law League; and when we re member that that body recently pledged themselves, in the event of any borough being unable to procure a free-trade candidate, to bring. forward such a candidate themselves whenever a vacancy occurs in the representation, it is not improbable that we shall have the representation contested by the League. Considering, however, the decidedly.liberal character of the great majority of the constituency (and I speak from my own knowledge of it), and as attested, more over, by the small success of Major Cadogan, who contested the representation a few years ago on the Conservative in terest, I feel no hesitation in stating it as my conviction that any opposition, if it were attempted, to any member of Lord Carlisle's family in a quarter where their influence is all-pa ramount and all-pervading, would, at the present moment, most certainly eventuate in defeat, conic from what quarter it may, but especially if attempted against one of no less " mark and likelihood" than my Lord Morpeth ; for here, as elsewhere throughout the kingdom, his Lordship per sonally is very highly and universally respected and es• teemed, and this quite irrespective of political considerations, none of which ever move the great body of the electors of Morpeth in their exercise of political privileges.—Times Cor respondent. THE SNOW STORM. SUNDAY.—The following particulars were collected yester- ' day, throughout the afternoon, from the various officials con nected with the London and Dover, and the London and Brighton, the Great 'Western, the London and Birmingham, the South Western, the Northern and Eastern, and other railways,_ the details of which will be read with interest. TH L E ONDON AND DOVER RAILWAY.—Upon inquiry at this terminus, it was stated that there had been considerable obstruction on the line, arising from the heavy fall of snow which took place on Thursday night .and Friday morning, and which has continued since at intervals. Some uneasi ness was occasioned on Friday morning by the late arrivals of the up-trains, which leave Folkestone at forty minutes past eleven, twenty minutes past one, and fifty minutes past three o'clock, the earliest of which should have arrived at the London terminus at half-past three o'clock, and the latest at twenty-seven minutes after ten. Before they had reached Penshurst and Staplehurst the depth of snow was so exces sive that the three trains were detained for some hours at those stations, and it was found necessary to employ the united power of the three engines to accomplish the journey, which was not done until between three and four o'clock the next morning, being a delay of above five hours beyond the time at which the last train was due. On Saturday and yesterday brooms were attached to the guards of the engines to clear away the snow from the metal, so as to afford the fianches of the wheels to have an unterrupted passage on the rails. Throughout yesterday the trains, with trifling exceptions, arrived at their destina tion within a brief period of the regulated time. An acci dent occurred, however, which was most fortunately not attended with fatal consequences. It has been already made public that the entire line from London to Dover is to be opened on Wednesday next, on which occasion the Directors will invite the auth.ities of Calais and Boulogne to a banquet in celebration of the completion of this undertaking. In pursuance of this intention several of the Directors, with an express engine and a carriage attached thereto, yesterday made an experimental trip, and on arriving at that part of the line where it is intended to have a branch from New cross to the Bricklayers' Arms, the engine came in contact with a truck, which was nearly demolished, and the party had a narrow escape of being . thrown down the embankment, and meeting with serious if not fatal consequences. The down train, which left London at eight o'clock on Friday morning, did not reach Folkestone within fifteen miles, thereby occa sioning serious inconvenience and delay to the passengers. An extra engine was yesterday attached to each train. _ THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON PAILwAy.--41ie trains on this railway, the reporter was informed, had not exceeded 20 minutes delay in any of the arrivals, but the effect of the thaw upon the drainage and bed of the line is not yet known, as the cuttings in many places are very steep. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGIIMAM.—Mr.III,orris, the acting officer of police, stated that the train which leaves Birming ham at half-past eight o'clock on Sunday mornings, bring ing with it the mails from the great northern towns, arrived at the terminus, Euston-square, yesterday, at twenty-five minutes past one o'clock, being five minutes in advance of the usual period of its arrival. From the circumstance of this train bringing up the Irish intelligence connected with the State trials, much anxiety prevailed respecting the state of the line. It was apprehended that in the event of the wind veering round to the north, some obstacles would pre sent themselves to the afternoon (seven o'clock) train, but every precaution had been taken to avoid any casualty. THE GREAT WESTERN.—The up train from Swindon, propelled by the Centaur steamer, and bringing the mails from the principal cities and towns on this line, arrived at Paddington with the loss of only three minutes. The ploughs and brooms were attached to the engine, and proved quite successful in clearing away the snow, which at Twyford cutting was from sixteen to eighteen inches in depth. To the weight and solidity of the engines may be attributed the efficient operation of the machinery employed. All the pre parations at Slough were completed on Saturday for her Majesty's reception at that station, and up to a late period yesterday the decorations made use of had not been removed, as no intimation had been received of the postponement of her Majesty's visit to Windsor, in consequence of the lamented death of his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha. THE SOUTH WESTERN.—On Friday the train which brings the mails from Gosport, Portsmouth, Southampton, &c., was about five hours beyond time. A number of men have been since employed on the line, and, in conjunction with other measures, have succeeded in removing any impe diment in the transit of passengers, &c., as usual. The fall of snow, owing to the direction of the wind, appears to have been heavier upon this line than on any other. On Saturday the mail-train was four hours and twenty minutes beyond time. The greatest delay, however, that occurred yesterday was half an hour. _ THE NORTHERN ANDEASTERN.—The delays upon this - - - -- - -- - line, as well astupon the Greenwich and Blackwall, h . ave been very insignificant, so far as the information furnished by the officers of the several companies may be relied upon. In none of the above cases were the engineers, police, or stokers allowed extra clothing. THE BRANCH COACHES.—Upon inquiry at some of the principal booking-offices, the clerks doggedly referred to the railways for information, and affected the utmost ignorance of any non-arrivals. TilE METROPOLIS, &c.—The number of applicants for re lief and shelter at the different refuges for the destitute was, as might be expected, considerably increased. About two o'clock the snow abated, and from that time until about four o'clock a small but thick sleet fell. Towards the latter part of the afternoon a heavy ground thaw set in, which rendered the streets exceedingly dirty—an effect which was to be mainly attributed to the police not having put the law in force compelling housekeepers to remove the snow from the pavement opposite their doors. DEATH OF GENERAL CUNNINGIIAME.—This Gallant Officer, whose decease has been officially reported at the India House, has been in the service half a century, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General 28th June, 1838 (the Coronation brevet). KNACKERS' YARDS.—On Friday night a petition from the Committee of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and complaining of the inadequacy of the law relating to those places, and praying for relief, was presented to the House of Commons by the Honourable J. S. Wortley, and we are informed that a Bill for consolidating and amending the laws now in force has been prepared under the direction of the Committee of the Society, and will be introduced in the early part of the session. I ANNUAL LICENSING OF PUBLIC- HOUSES. The Magisfrateg of the Newington division of Surrey have appointed the f2llowing days and places for renewing• licenses to the Licensed Victuallers, ,in their respective dis tricts, viz.: Bojur - Cit 074. SOITTIIWAnK.-011 Tuesday, the Ist 'of March, at the Three Tuna Tavern, St. MargAret's hill, at ten o'clock, A.At. ; Bermondsey, RotherlOthe, Newingt -n, Canibenvell, and Hatcham, On Mondh:V, the 4th of March, at the Sessions-house, New-• ington, at ten o'clock, A.M. ; Lambeth, Clapham, Streatham, Christchurch, and the Ufa Liberty, on Thurs day, the 7th of Mardi, at the Sessions-home, Newington, at ten o'clock A.M. The Magistrates have also appointed to meet at the Sessions-house on Friday, the 16th of February, at ten o'clock precisely, for the Purpose of receiviog com plaints against Licensed Victuallers living in the aboib-men tioned districts, and also to receive applications for licenses to new ale and victualling houses. HoLnonx DivisioN.—The Magistrates of the Holborn Di vision have appointed Tuesday, the sth of March for renew ing publicans' licenses, the meeting to be holden at the Board. Rooms of the Holborn Union, Gray's Inn-lane, at the follow ing hours for the respective districts :—St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St. George-the-Martyr, at ten o'clock ; St. Giles-in-the- Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, at eleven o'clock ; Liberty of Saffron-hill, Liberty of the Rolls and Hampstead, at twelve o'clock ; Paddington and Duchy Liberty, at half past twelve o'clock. TOWER DIVISION, MIDDLESEX.—The Magistrates for the Tower Division, have appointed the General Annual Li censing Meeting for the same purpose, to be holden at the Court-house, Osborne-street, Whitechapel, on Monday, the 4th of March, at 11 o'clock, A.M., for publicans residing in the following districts :—St. Mary, Whitechapel ; St. George ; St. Matthew, Bethnal-green ; Bt. Catharine, Ratcliff ; Christ church ; All Saints, Poplar ; and St. Botolph Without ; Ald gate. The said meeting will be adjourned to Monday, the 11th of March, for the districts of St. John, Hackney ; St. Paul, Shadwell ; Mile-end Old Town ; St. Leonard,Shore ditch ; St. John of Wapping ; Mile-end New Town • Norton folgate ; St. Mary Stratf or d, B ow; B rom l e y St. leopard ; and St. Anne. DEATH of GENERAL BERTRAND. (From the Paris Messenger.) " The faithful friend of the Emperor, the companion of his labours and of his long exile, died on the 31st ult., at Cha teauroux, his native town. When serving as a national guard on the 10th of August, 1793, Bertrand placed himsel f in a battalion which was proceeding voluntarily to the Tui leries to defend the King. He served subsequently in the corps of engineers, and passed rapidly through the grades; was in the expedition to Egypt, where he fortified several places, merited the confidence of the general-in-chief, Bonaparte, and received, almost at the same time, the commissions of Lieutenant-Colonel, and General of bri gade. After the battle of Austerlitz, in which General Bertrand covered himself with glory, Napoleon ad mitted him amongst the number of his aides-de camp. He equally distinguished himself at Spandau, at Friedland, and principally in the construction of the bridges over the Danube, which were destined to facilitate the passage of the French army to Wagram. This campaign, and that of Russia, displayed his talents and bravery in such a light, that the Emperor appointed him Grand Marshal of the Palace after the death of Marshal Duroc. His successes were the same at Lutzen, Bautzen, and Leipsic, and if he experienced some checks at the passage of the Elbe against Blucher, we must ascribe them to the fortune of our armies, which was beginning to totter. Itwas Bertrand, however, who covered our retreat after the sanguinary battle of Hanau. In these two circumstances, and those which lowed the departure of the Emperor from Paris, Count Bertrand thought only of saving the remnant of our army, and almost always saw his efforts and arrange ments crowned with all the success which it was possible to hope for in the midst of such disastrous events. On his return to Paris in 1814, General Bertrand was ap poined Aide-Major-General of the National Guard, per formed that campaign of France so astonishing by its suc cesses and Teverses, and followed Napoleon to the island of Elba. On his return with the Emperor, on the 20th Mardi, . . he served him with his accustomed deVotedness. After the fatal affair of Waterloo he never quitted Napoleon. Ile fol lowed him to his last exile, partook of and softened his mis fortunes, and thought only of returning to France when he had received his last breath. It was with joy that General Bertrand saw the revolution of July, and the triumph of the national colours illustrated by so many victories. It was with profound emotion that, ten years later, he saluted the ashes of the Emperor, which had been brought across the ocean by the Prince de Joinville, and saw France award to this great shade brilliast and unanimous homage. The name of General Bertrand was associoted in this homage with that of the Emperor, as the finest model of honour and fidelity. It will remain anited with it to all posterity. History has rarely recorded a devotedness so pious, a fidelity so firm, so pure and noble a memory. It is little to become illustrious by one's own labours, and to have served France truly. General Bertrand, by his worship of genius and misfortune, has raised himself to the same height in which hovers the glory Of Napoleon. This glory will shield him from oblivion." MANLY SPORTS RELIEF BlLL.—Bell's :Life in London of Sunday, Feb. 4, price 6d., contained a copy of the Bill to be presented by the Duke of Richmond to the House of Lords, for the repeal of the statutes of Anne and Charles, and for legalising horse-races, foot-races, boat-races, regattas, rowing -matches, sailing-matches, fencing-matches, putting stone, wrestling-matches,lcricket, tennis, fives, raquets, bowls, quoits, curling, golf, and other manly games and for regulating bettingthereon, with a copious digest. Bell's Life in London of Sunday, Jan. 7, with the gratuitous stamped Supplement, consisting of 24 folio columns of the Chronology of Sporting Events, 1843, has been regulary kept on sale, and copies can be had till the end of February. A sixpence or six Queen's head ',stamps, sent from the country to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will insure a copy of the two sheets by return of post. AGATE BUTTONS.—The principle of forming tes serce by the pressure of dry powder, has been applied to the manufacture of various kinds of buttons. They are called " agate buttons," and are made from the disintegrated granite which is brought from the neighbourhood of St. Austle, in Cornwall. Compared with the cost of mother-of-pearl, they are about one-third the price.—Birmingham Paper. MARSHAL DROUET D'ERLON.—The .Siede pub lishes the following biographical sketch of the late Marshal Drouet d'Erlon :—" This distinguished officer took an honour able part in the campaigns of the Empire. In 1792 he en rolled himself in a battalion of volunteers ; seven years afterwards he was General of Brigade. In 1803 he was ap pointed General of Division. This rapid advancement was the reward of his activity in several military operations with . our armies beyond the Rhine. He fought at Jena and at, Friedland, where he rendered important services, par ticularly on the former field, where ho contributed to the defeat of the Prince of Wurtemberg, who commanded the Prussian reserve. He subsequently com manded the 9th Corps d'Armeel in Spain. Amongst the successes he obtained, he forced the British General Hill to retreat to the walls of Lisbon, and car ried by assault the col de Maya, notwithstanding it was vigorously defended by the Spaniards. In July, 1813, he was one of the Lieutenants of Marshal Soult, and when the British army invaded the South, he assisted at all the affairs with the Duke of Wellington, and finally at the battle of Toulouse. After the first restoration, he presided at the first Council of War, which acquitted Excelmans, who was ac cused of having corresponded with Murat, ex-King of Naples. After the 20th of March he was named Peer of France by Napoleon, who intrusted him with the command of the first Corps d'Armee, at the head of which he performed prodigies of valour at Fleurus and Waterloo, which were, unfortunately, useless. He afterwards assumed the com mand of the right wing of the army, under the walls of Paris, and retreated, after the capitulation of that capital, behind the Loire. For this reason, he was persecuted, and exiled by the Government of the Restoration.' DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—TWO LIVES LOST.—A melancholy accident occurred in the township of Swanland on Monday morning last, by which two poor fellows lost their lives. It appeared that a number of men were "marl • ing" on a field belonging to Mr. Todd, of Swanland, and situated on the road side, between Hessle and Ferriby. A pit to the depth of about twenty feet had been sunk, when about a cart-load of chalk fell on two men out of three who were working in the pit, and killed them instantaneously. One of the sufferers was a native of Swanland, and 57 years of age : the other was a young man, named William lord, 22 years of age, a native of Wiltshire, who, we understand, was to be married in a month. The man who escaped was an elder brother of Ford's, and had come with him from their native county to teach the labourers here the process of " marling." It seems that the two unfortunate men at the time they suddenly met their death thought themselves quite safe, but were watching the survivor, whom they thought to be in a dangerous position. The old man's body and legs were dreadfully mangled—every rib being broken; the chalk had fallen on his back, knocked him to the earth, and crushed in the whole of his body : his head was uninjured. In the case of Ford there was no injury perceptible except on the head, which had been nearly cloven in two. An inquest was held before Mr. Conyers on Tuesday night, when a verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. The bodies were in terred at Ferriby church on Wednesday. We understand no blame attaches to any one, pits having been sunk to a much greater dspth in other parts of the same field.—llull Adrer. THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.—lnstructions have been given by the committee superintending the erection of the new Royal Exchange, to sell the triangular block of buildings facing Cornhill and Threadneedle-street, known as Bank-buildings, and which is to be taken down for the pur pose_ of fonning the western approach to the new Royal Ex change, and the site for the Wellington statue. The portion to be sold comprises the premises occupied for many years by the Sun Fire Office, the house where Messrs. Ladbroke and Co., the bankers, carried on thebusiness of the establishment, and several residences adjoining. The sale will take place by auction, the materials consisting of about 200 rods of brickwork, thirty tons of lead, a quantity of columns, maho gany desk, &c. BACIWZLL. -AN EARLY BROOD. Mr. Henry Watts, of this place, had on the 15th of this month, a duck, which brought forth thirteen ducklings. The duck stole her nest, and the young ones were hatched in the open barton. This indeed shows the mildness of the season.—Somerset Gazette. ANTI-MALTHUSIAN.—A short time since, at the village of Uphill, in the parish of Linkinhorn, a poor woman, the wife of a miner named Granville, was delivered of three boys, who, with the mother, are doing well. They were baptised at the parish church of Linkinhorn, on Sunday last, by the names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. A subscription has been set on foot for the relief of the poor family, and nearly 50/. have been already subscribed.— West Briton. THE MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.III every direc tion we see or bear of remarkable things, in consequence of the peculiar mildness of the season. At Cotherstone, near Barnardcastle, an apple-tree, in the garden of Mrs. Rowland son, appears at present in full leaf and blossom. A sunny knoll in the Flatts Wood, Barnardcastle, has been for the last few weeks overspread with primroses. Similar wonders are recorded in various parts of the country.—Durharn - Chronicle. The following is a list of the game killed during the last week by a small party on a visit to the Hon. H. Wilson, at Didlington Park :—On the two first days, phea sants, 279 ; partridges, 13 ; hares, 225 ; rabbits, 216 ; wood cocks, 12 ; snipes, teal, and other water-fowl, 29—total, 774. Three last days, pheasants, 180 ; partridges, 21; hares, 177 ; rabbits, 178 ; woodcocks, 7 ; teal and ,other water-fowl, 52 — total, 615. Grand total, I,3B9.—Norwich Mercury. SHEPTON MALLET.—CURIOUS FACT.—There is living in the parish of West Pennard, an old miser, who had an extraordinary crop of apples last season. For the last six weeks he has had a horse and cart, with a barrel and tub, one to put the sound ones in, and the other the rotten ones, that nothing might be lost." He finished picking them on T s T s day last. The old man lost two beasts and tw t os a g zei / ye. t week, through kindness in over-feeding. — isToeuPthe ground In sur T pr i i i s E ed I w V it il b A rfa ß l the first fall of snow that has r ofl . s Y no e , s v t , erd dee a p y inine 7o;n 7nn i r r s t e : ve nl v i s er i e s 3 last all sorts of flowers peeped 1844. Even on Wednesday ler' and shady lanes around us-,--prim this vicinity during the entire }ear of 1843, and thus far in from the garden bon_ The nectarine trees have not d their green leaves, and we have a spray of oak with droppe leaves upon it.—Shretcsbury Chronicle. green roses, snowdrops, crocuses, Szc.