The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-06 00:00:00

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John nullett, Mauritius ; Camerons, Ichaboe ; Ophelia and ,Ann, Cae of od ope ; North umerind, Ne York ; Na p Go tchez, Boston H ; John, and Min b ez, a Gambia w ; Berbice, Berbice ; Susan King, St. Lucia ; John Barnes, , St. Thomas's ; Emily, Bermuda. The schooner Tele graph, from the Mediterranean to Hamburgh o i t laden) ran ashore on the Goodwin Sands this af:,,, rooon, but got off without apparent damage, and' occedt d. FaLstounr , Nov. s.—The Esther, 'fan du Brisch, from Dunkirk to Cette, which ' e at in here yesterday, With pumps choked, has been s:,,rveyed, and is discharging. GUERNSEY, Nov. 2.-7::ne head of a vessel, being the figure-head of a Higtiland soldier, has been picked up near here. rick, , S t ulli , , aa , SWANSEA, 14ov. 4.—The Rebecca and Mary, of Lime • from Newport to Bantry, is ashore at the Aillin 5.. ute.s, having parted from her moorings, but without Mjur . RIBIIGUARD, Nov. 4.—The Cyrus, Thompson, from Igor to London, ss hich was abandoned by the crew 341,sterday in the Roads, has sailed to-day, they having gone on board again. OFF DOVBR, Nov. 4.—Helena, Starling, Surinam, for Amsterdam. Nov. 2.—The Sarah Ann, Vernon, of Ply- Mouth, is lost a t th e en t rance o f St. Au s tel Bay ; crew drOvfl le d. I SOADSTAIRS, Nov. 4.—A quantity of large onions, Intl part of a vessel's quarter came ashore on the 2d and ad i nst. RAIrerLEPooL, Nov. 4.—The Frau Jautje, Bauman, fr o* Hamburgh to Newcastle, is ashore four miles north of this, and breaking up ; crew saved. I CINOsToIIiN, Nov. 3.—The schooner Mary, for Drog heda, received damage in this harbour yesterday during the gale ; the Ellen drove in here leaky. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. s.—Wind N.N.E. to N., light.— Sid. Lyra, Valparaiso ; Northumberland, New York. Arrd. Florence, London for Madeira. bartrstorern, Nov. 4.—Henri, Bombay; Susan, Mills, Itiabradore. Off, Harmony, Sehonbeck, Surinam for Amsterdam. °FP SALCOMBE, Nov. 4.—George Comeli, Batavia for A msterdam. A PLYMoUTII, Nov ; N.W.—Arrd. C. C., Coils, Singapore. Nov. s.—Wind N. light.—Arrd. Spar- Charles, Smith, n ' Herr,Y, Ichaboe. Sid. Myrene, Savannah. Off, Ichaboe. tillsToL, Nov. s.—Sid. Sybella, Jamaica. e r- ..oioEsTER, Nov. 4.—Sld. Briton, St. John's, N.B. 'PP Sen,Ly No v. —l.loup,hton Seskerne, Proud, t ehaboe. 3 . t WA N4I 7 .A 3 Nov."3.—Sld. Undaunted, Ichaboe. Nov t 4.—Arrd. Truant, Miramichi, for tuwerAvvyth. . 41 1 4vEaPooL, Nov. s.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Sld. N O", Ewin g , B om b a y ; Aurora, Ichaboe ; Limena, ~obtlu ; Falcon, New Orleans ; Alexander Edmond, ; Britannia; steamer, Halifax ; Clyde, St. John's, "Off, Amity.'Y ork. k , Nov. 4rrd. United States, Briton, New be t* 1:41),„ a ,"Ixe, Nov. 4.—The schooner Raker, Nicholson, y .aen, from Maiyport to Ulverstone, was run on aar e - c r' s Balcary Bay yesterday afternoon ; crew , cargo thrown overboard. She is expected off. derl Ellll , NOv. s.—The Jane Lowden, Dodds, of Sun- F alici f rom St. Petersburgh to Hull, in making for the nth of Fo r th ran i n t h e L ong C ra i g at t h e S.E. o f t2 l !hkeith last night and remains, crew saved; the vessel i‘ is expected w ill b reak up. WAI NFLEET, Nov. 4.—The sloop Frankea, from Ham burgh to Hull, is ashore at Skegness, and expected to l o ta a wreck ; 150 quarters barley saved without ‘4ahaage, the remainder expected to be in a very damaged „ jtkilvvicu st a t e. , Nov. B.—A boat, nearly new, marked _ Mary, of R ochester, Ralph Macunoss master," was washed ashore on the Ist inst. on Clackton beach. to n A tr ", No.e. s.—The S ara h, S c h u lt z , f rom K on i gs b erg Antwc,rp, has been assisted in here leaky, and with a i w age.. to bulwarks, loss of sails, &c. and must discharge. f RREN POINT, Nov. 2.—Arrd. cargo sh Mary, iftedLiverpool, c q . X A illybegs, with loss of sails, and . DUNDEE.—The disgraceful act of throwing a coffin containing the body of a child into a well at the Hawk- Til (which we noticed lately) has been investigated by the authorities ; and, on Monday, John Rollo, coffin maker in Hawkhill, was charged before the Police-court with hsaiag, on Friday, the 18th ult., gone to a draw well at Hawkhill and pitched a small co ffi n, containing tke body of a still-born child into it, in order to save the burying -ground fees. A great sensation was manifested in court d ur i ng this trial, the witness (a woman) who foiled the coffin in the well next day having declared that no one had taken water from it since. Rollo was sentenced to the full term of imprisonment-60 days.— .13 urges 3 Paper. PRESENCE OF MIND IN A LITTLE GlRL.—Last Sun day e vening two little girls, daughters of Mr. Foster, ' w atchmake r , were shut- up in St. Michael's Churc h, 4.4,berystvith, having fallen asleep near the comm u a ni t o e n r Zple, and being overlooked in clearing the church f ning service. Upon awaking and fi nding the mselves ;t i the dark, the younger of the two began to cry,butthe e rr (aged 9) immediately after she had pacifie d h er, t it - il bout exploring the interior. At last she succee d edt he h e Pitting the belfry, where she set to work ringing till with all her little strength, and she did not give over i v t he church door was opened for her to return home.— ~ .T$ loan. I D? B WELLINGTON STATUE, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1 7 - 2 , 4 ' nen the pedestal of this structure shall have rece ived t h h - ee ku rr e ee l oo 7_ , d , iscolouration from nuisances committed Warren's Blacking" indeliblymarke e d f , with other abominations, the perpetration i whi ch the foggy evenings of November will much faci ; nate, It is the intention of the civic functionaries a t n o take irn 41to consideration the expediency of placing railing round the base. This hint is also ap g plicable to the Xing William statue shortly to be erected half a mile eastward. to 11 1 7 DUTY.—The following are the days appointed ~r tue payment of the hop duty in the Weald ot Kent:— urettihurst, 18th November ; Cranbrook, 1911 Novem ber ; T( nterden, 21st November. —Maidstone Journal. PALL OF A STALK AT ST. ROLLOX.-011 Friday afternoon, a little past three o'clock, a stalk, 240 feet in height, situated at the corner of the works at St. Rollox, i mmediately adjoining the Glasgow and Garnkirk Rail- I N', gave way at the foundation, and in au instant not ?fie brick was left above another. This stalk, we under stand, was only finished a few weeks ago, and about the g;teat) time it was disc overe d t h at i ts base was not secure . roans were accordingly t a k en to i nsure i ts sta bili t y, by PPing and otherwis e , an d li tt l e f ear was entertain hased blel that it would stand a whil e , w h en on Friday, as d e n stated, it f e ll w i th a most tremendous crash. Its scent was almost perpendicular, and it therefore occa 6,_eened little additional damage, for although a portion of rezbricks fell within the railway depot, and upon the ),:, no further accident was the result. Several men taw Were working close by the stalk heard it cracking a anieftruds befor e i t f e ll, an d, f or t una t e ly, h av ing ni 'ter Y l eft its v i c i n i ty, escape d . Th e w i n d was blow s. di teet .Y fresh at the time, and the stalk fell in the same us e) i t had %Is e °4 ; but its foundation been anything like ati lletu re Would not have affected the stability of the il 101147;9(i/edonian Mercury. pia;'. vitt .4 „ t 11:CTS OF THE STAGE. —lt h t i s remarkable e ar i k s a a b t l a e r`ay. Vrt l3 and generously disposed — everyand condemn %V at is we uniformly applau what is but the sentiment. ""Hazii ft r "g, when it cost a non thing duri na . ,_ kr. w• cr owded h llson, the vocalist, who has been delighting t he uses in Aberdeen an raihu t. tee last ten days, in expressing our s h e e in s g urr a ou h n e d p i e n that our co nee a l Y ve could soon b e i n o p era ti on , sa id, " You cannot 1, 0 th e - crw much persons situated as lam are indebted . tinn e d r aPidity of railway communication." He then m h en_ tro ehea that in ten weeks of the present spring he h a d a-a v ~.' nearly 6 000 miles, singing about six times e eii- Thi s ' but the perform elle, of (r_e .average was pretty good, He su ng in L. 1,. o f the weeks was more extr aordinary. . wedn_aaondon on Monday evening—in Glasg ow on be rgh es uaY evening and Thursday morning—in Edin: in G reen o n Thursday evening and Friday morning—and th e We ,°ell and some other places on the remainder of th e . eK----and was back again in London, singing on , r ,n,lght week that he had left !—Aberdeen Herald. _ m i t ile Lord Mayor had been lately giving a series of a4-21(111pdiubdlienet rintamenents to a number of private friends ..lourts ,' Mies. Amongst the latter were the °. the Stationers', Vintners', and Fruiterers' Comp.ns. Atone of these entertainments, in proposing re health of Prince Albert, his Lordship, after alluding -,2 the many estimable qualities of the Prince, and his tryal Highness's patronage of the fine arts, announced Ts Magnificent subscription of 1001. towards the fund Or erecting bath s and wash-houses for the use of the (I °r• That contribution had reached his Lordship's ands during dinner, and it emphatically evinces, as the Lord,,. Mayor stated, the warm interest felt by his Royal 1.-ugliness in everything calculated to increase the wel-- zawneho required so much the active exertions ,u T r e th o e f t h h e o public to bestow upon them something like comfort. His Lordship, at a subsequent entertain !tent, nn mentioned th a t h e h ad the further distinguished deonaotuirenaenfd h gratification o f announc i ng the muni fi cent er Most Gracious Majesty in the sum of 2001. t?;ons wa the same great ch ar i ty. The value of these subscrip ts, his Lo r d s hi p o b served, greatly enhanced by the sanction and patronage of her Majesty and her Royal C onsort, a n d h e contemplated a vast accession to the li nt of contributions in consequence of so powerful an e xample, Agan, VISITATION! OF THE METROPOLIS.-- We understa n d t h at never, since London was London, has the re been such a flocking thither of gentlemen con nected with the law, as during the past and resent wtoer e enkY The r eason of this extraordinary immi g ration we believe t o b e shortly as follows :—Hitherto an at admitted to the Court of Queen's Bench, London, Was supposcd to be at liberty to practise in all the courts of Westminster Hall, five in number, and the ceremonies attendant upon his admission could all be performed by Vagent or deputy. A ccording to the strict reading of a ause in the Act of last session, ever e cam practise in the s y attorney, before uperiorsign w n lB own h an d the rolls of each court cour ts, ; at must least si there is so much doubt about the matter, that many of our oldest and most experienced practitioners, in order to be on the psafe side, have been, or are going, to London for this urpose from Liverpool, and the same may be said of rne of every other place in England and Wales. It ha s been discovered that, in hundreds of in the names of deceased attorneys have been kept en the rolls, for the purpose of enabling clerks and other unqualified persons to practise in those names. The i r',ies of m etropol i tan review alluded to was therefore will i lted, and the r esu lt, we understand, has been, or be, a very considerable weedin of the list—Liver- P°°l Mercury, g to to - SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vabitt Optittan. " Who runs may read." rounxori. " The Messager of last night," says the Constitutionnel of Monday, " publishes no official news from Spain. We cannot conceive the reason for this silence. It is certain that the Government is in possession of several dispatches all favourable to the Spanish Ministry. One of these dispatches, we are informed, announces that the Congress has adopted the Address proposed by the Committee with a large majority, saving a few unimportant amend ments. Another dispatch gives details of the conspiracies discovered at Madrid and in other towns." The Duchess of Orleans went on Friday to Dreux, to pray by the tomb of her late Consort. The Moniteur publishes a Royal Ordonnance dated the 30th ult., opening to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the estimates of 1844 a supplementary credit ~; 300,000 f , under the head of extraordinary The Minister of Public Works ha ;eft Paris for Agen. On his way he will inspect the 'works of the Orleans and Vierzon railroad. All the Puril of the Polytechnic School, which was broken 11- i , about ten weeks ago, are said to have been me:lied by a simple note from the Director to pass their examivations under the new organization decreed by the late ordonnance. The Patric of Monday evening says:—" We have just learned from a positive source that the Ministry has lis tened to the counsel of violence as regards the 'Poly technic School. Seventeen pupils are to be expelled." Several of the Paris journals mention a report that General Rostolan has been appointed Commandant of the Polytechnic School. A fatal duel has just taken place in the environs of Versailles, between two pupils of the Polytechnic School. One of them was killed, and the other took flight, declaring his intention to surrender himself when the time came for him to take his trial. The seconds and the surgeon who attended them to the ground were arrested at Versailles, and brought to Paris on Friday. A gentleman named Morsant, of Tours, who died last week in Paris, has, by his will, left 100,000 f. to the hos pital of that place, to be applied to insane patients. The Journal des Debats contains a long article on the state of Greece, in which it says that Messrs. Coletti and Metaxa, or what is called the French party, are daily gaining strength in opposition to the intrigues of the English clique, led on by M. Mavrocordato. The Bayonne journals announce the arrival in that town of the Spanish Vice-Admiral Vigodet and Captain Vallerino, on their way to England to superintend the building in this country of some vessels of war for the Spanish. Governmot. • ~ .744,Vir AND POTACCD. At the Mansion-hbuse three men, named Sadd, Clow, and Vairghan', 7 wereAilly committed to take their trial at the Old Bailey, for a . murderous assault upon a police constable; named Lock, while on duty at Nicholson's Wharf. • . George Wm. Moon, Clerk to Messrs. Sutton and Co., solicitors, Basinghall-street, was committed at Guildhall, on a charge of stealing jewellery to the amount of WO/. from the iron safe of his master's country-house. At Bow-street, Mr. George William Jones, the secre tary to the Hammersmith-bridge Company, was sum moned before Mr. Jardine by Mr. George Lewis, the secretary to the Master of the Horse and clerk of the royal stables to her Majesty, charged with having de manded and taken toll from Mr. William Joseph Good win, inspector of the royal stables, and veterinary sur geon to her Blajesty's horse, for the passage of a royal carriage and horses over Hammersmith bridge, contrary to the provisions of the Act in that case made and pro vided. After a lengthened investigation, Wm. Moore, the toll-gate-keeper on the Middlesex side, was then summoned for demaedine• from the same gentleman, on the same carriage and horses, on the 26th of October last, 6d. toll, and receiving the same for passing over the bridge. Mr. Jardine convicted is both cases, and inflicted a penalty of 5/. in each. Notice of appeal was given. An investigation took place at Queen-square, which left no doubt that Frazer, the man of colour, whose case has excited so much sympathy, and for whom a consi derable sum of money has been subscribed by the bene volent, has been for years obtaining charitable contri butions under fraudulent representations. After Mr. Bond had come to this conclusion, he said Frazer should have no more from him ; and he would feel obliged_by the benevolent donors sending their addresses, in grder that he might return the money so liberally bestowed. 001724V—PAL8 8 IONFA Blip31. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and LadY.Ca roline Leveson Gower, have arrived on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, at Roseneath Ho:fise, North Britain, from Dunrobin Castle, whence they..pro ceed to Lord and Lady Blantyre's seat, Erskine House, on their way to the south. The Earl of Limerick, who has been seriously indis posed at Fonthill Park, near Reading, is considerably better. Lord and Lady Braybrook have arrived at Dover, where they have taken a house for the season. s • MISCFALANZOVII. The gentlemen cadets barracks at Woolwich, were entered on Monday evening, between the hours of five and seven o'clock, while the cadets were at their studies, and property, it is said, to the amount of from 301. to 401. carried away. The total number of persons killed by the falling of the cotton-mill at Oldham, is now ascertained to be twenty. Most of the persons killed are very old servants of the firm, some of them having been in their employ thirty years; indeed, the Messrs. Radcliffe have always been considered humane men and good masters, and have ever contributed to the comforts of their work people as far as circumstances would admit. About 150 gentlemen dined together at Radley's Hotel, to celebrate the acquittal of Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall. " Lord Denman" was the favourite toast of the evening. The Royal Exchange will not be opened for public business until after Christmas. Mr. Erle, the new Judge of the Common Pleas, will be sworn into office on Friday next, after having been made a Sergeant-at-Law, according to custom. On Friday, about five minutes past three o'clock, a stalk, 240 feet in height, situated at the north-west cor ner of the works at St. Rollox, and immediately adjoin ing the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway depot, gave way at the foundation, and in an instant almost not one brick was left upon another. This stalk was only finished a few weeks ago, and about the same time it was disco vered that its base was not secure. ALLEGED MURDER BY A BOY.—Evan Lloyd, a boy, aged about nine years, has been committed to Car marthen county gaol, charged, on the oaths of John Jones, Blaenwayn, Llanfihangel- ar-arth, and others, with having, on the 13th of September last, at Coedlanney, feloniously, wilfully, and with malice aforethought, killed and murdered one Daniel Jones, a little boy, aged about seven years, by inflicting divers blows on the right side of his head, with a stone, and thereby giving him a mortal wound. The poor deceased child, it ap pears, had been out walking with the prisoner, who arrived home by himself. As deceased did not make his appearance, search was made for him, and he was found lying on a heap of stones, by the road side, weltering in his blood. Many of the stones were covered with clotted blood and tufts of the poor child's hair. He had just strength left to state who his assailant was, when death overtook him. An inquest was held on the body, when, although the facts of the matter were well known to all, the jury returned as their verdict that the deceased had died, but from what cause, and by whose means, they bad no evidence to determine. Notwith standing this verdict, the prisoner was apprehended, and after an examination before John Lloyd Davies, and John Lloyd Price, Esqs., was committed for trial at the assizes. He is an artful little fellow although so young, and immediately on hearing that he was fully committed, he pretended to be very ill and lame. On his arrival at the county gaol, however, the surgeon was sent for to examine him, and he declared that the supposed illness was all a pretence—doubtless put on to gain commis seration.— Welshman. NEWPORT, MONMOUTHSHIRE, MONDAY, Nov. 4. — This day, at two o'clock, the following Councilmen were declared duly elected:—Mr. J. Clements, merchant (T), Mr. R. Wollett, surgeon (W), Mr. Llewellen, solictor (W), Mr. S. Jones, cabinet-maker (W), Mr. J. Brewer, surgeon (T), and Mr. T. Turner, sail-maker (R). THE STATE OF THE STREETS.—Yesterday at the Court of Commissioners of Sewers (the Lord Mayor elect in the chair), a member of the Court called atten tion to a paragraph which appeared in a daily paper of Monday relative to the disgraceful state of the streets between Temple-bar and Cornhill. A commissioner re marked that he had read the paragraph in question, but, if he recollected right, it was copied from a weekly journal. The Lord Mayor elect said, he was perfectly satisfied that the statement was wrong, but the matter could be easily settled by calling in the inspectors. The four inspectors said, that the contractors of the different divisions had caused the various places, according to the terms of the contracts, to be cleansed on the days fixed upon by the commissioners. Certainly Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, Cheapside, and that line, was not so clean as could be wished, and which arose from the circum stance of laying down gravel on the whole line on the Queen's visit. A heavy rain followed, which imbedded the gravel between the stones and the grooves in the wood pavement, which no description of broom could sweep out ; the consequence was, the subsequent rains would bring up the deposit and thus render those great thoroughfares, in appearance, to be in a state of neglect. When rain fell, it in general took from ten days to a fortnight before the streets could be thoroughly cleansed. The inspectors were then directed to see that the men employed by the contractors to cleanse the streets used every exertion in their power to get rid of the mud and deposit so accumulated. DARING RoßßEßY.—Sunday evening, between five and six o'clock, cne of a gang of robbers, who have in fested the locality for some time past, entered the shop of Mr. Woolf, a wholesale tobacconist in Drury•lane, and stole several boxes of cigars, amounting to 64 worth, with which the thief decamped. The tobacconist, sit ting in his parlour, observed the thief, and instantly pur sued him up Drury-lane, crying out, " Stop thief," when the fellow fell over a costermonger's basket that was on the pavement, dropping the boxes of cigars, which were recovered ; the thief, however, escaping. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—A small wager was made on Tuesday last, between Mr. Herbert, of Muckross, and Mr. T. W. Murphy, of Killarney, that Mr. Herbert would not undress himself while riding with his horse galloping ; but Mr. Herbert took off his boots, trousers, and coat while the horse was in full gallop, and having won his wager, gave it to the poor.— Tralee Chronicle. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN iN G NOVEMBER G 184 CELEBRATION of the ACQUITTAL OF HARDY, TOOKE, THELWALL, &c. The 50th anniversary of the acquittal of John Horne Tooke, Therriai Hardy, John Thelwall, •and the other persons who were tried with them on a charge of high treason, was celebrated yesterday in a public dinner, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. About 150 persons were assembled on the occasion, and amongst others we noticed the fol lowing individuals :—T. Browning, Alexander Gal loway, Richard Burnett, J. B. Burnard, James Cop pock, and Frank Tibbett, Esqrs. Wm. Coates, Esq., was called to the chair. After ample justice had been done to the excellent dinner provided on the occasion, and after the cloth was removed, • The CHAIRMAN rose, and said that he looked fot ward with delight and pleasure to the celebntion of the present day, though he regretted he was unex pectedly called on to perform the (Aka of Chairman on the occasion. The first t o ast which he would pro pose—and, ind, e a, he would not propose any toast, 11 " :fewer 'by whom originated, which had not the concurrence of his own conscientious convictions— the first toast which he had to propose was, " The People," from whom all power and authority flowed. They were before Kings and Emperors, tyrants and conquerors, for it was from them that they derived all their power.—(Hear, hear.) A sovereign could not exist without a people ; but he had some notion that a people could exist without a sovereign.— (Laughter and cheers.) They were a check upon the sovereign when the sovereign was inclined to go wrong; and when the people willed it, they could say to the sovereign, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no further." He would therefore, in the first instance, propose the health of the people—the sovereign peo ple.—The toast was drank with enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN rose again, and said that if the sovereign were a despot, and the people slaves, the toast which he was about to propose would have little value indeed ; but when the sovereign was the freely chosen of the people, and conciliated the affection of the people—when the sovereign was one whose domestic virtues and public policy cast as much value on the royal station as was derived from it, and such a sovereign they had—(Cheers) then, indeed, it became a pleasure and a value to pro pose the health of the sovereign.—(Cheers.) On a late occasion, when the present Sovereign came to open the proudest temple of commerce in the world, and to mingle with her subjects, he had the honour of eating salt with her, and most gracious and pleasant she was —(Cheers)—and proud she ought to feel in ruling over such a people.—(Cheers.) It was because they were a free ceople, and a sovereign people, that the health of the Queen at once derived its grace and its value.—(Hear.) Bearing in mind such con siderations—that the Queen ruled by and for the people —he would, in proposing the health of her present most gracious Majesty, make use of the words of, her late uncle—" May she ever bear in mind. that the sove reignty is a trust for the benefit or the people." The toast was drank with the greatest enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said that the next toast bore some reference to the subject which had assembled them together on 'that occasion. There were those who boasted of the wisdoth of their ancestors--there were those who loved their ancient institutions. He for one supported the wisdom of their ancestors so long as they were wise, and would maintain their ancient institutions so ong as they were good.—(Cheers.) He was not for change for the sake of doing mischief, but he had no objection to change if it occasioned good.—(Hear, hear.) Nor did he at all consider he was disparaging the talents of their ancestors in exercising the same fair and inde pendent judgment which they did in order to obtain institutions adapted to the nature of man and to the necessities of the times.—(Hear, hear.) They had transmitted to them one institution, which he trusted would live for ever—trial by jury. —(Cheers.) As long as men were men, differences must arise between them from conflicting interests, and who better fitted to settle those differences than those who were free from the passions and prejudices of the contending parties? To make a man the arbiter in his own case was to take them back to barbarism s th ee e ki t n r g ial th b e y re ju c r o y m —because l i n t j d u e r p y riv a e c d co e rd ac in h —the first triumph over whi c h was th e i ns tit u ti on o f g m to an th o e dictates of his own angry pa ss i ons a n d resen tments, t and left the arbitrations of his injuries, or supposed injuries, to those who were supposed free from such feelings.—(Hear, hear.) The institution of trial by jury was founded on the best feelings of human na ture and the profoundest principles of philosophy ; and however critics, whose business it was to deny everything, might dilate on its imperfections— and what human institution was not imperfect—he trusted the day was distant when any new-fangled philosophy would remove from the people of England the trial by jury.—(Cheers.) The value of that in stitution was attested in every possible way. It was attested in the names of those men whom, fifty years ago—within his own recollection— it was sought to place upon a gibbet, but whom a verdict of their countrymen sent home to their wives and children. — (Cheers.) Its value was proved by the very attempts which were made to tamper with it.—(Loud cheers.) All that occurred in Ireland lately was only an addi tional evidence of the importance of trial by jury.— (Cheers.) Those who got up the charge of conspiracy there knew the value of trial by jury, and that they could not face an honest one, and hence they dropped jury-lists—(Cheers)—hence the proscription of one class of opinions, and the exclusion of persons on account of their religion—(Hear)—hence the declara tion of the greatest judge in the land, that if such things were allowed, " the trial by jury would become a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. —(Here there were " Three cheers for Lord Denman," which was most enthusiastically responded to.) Vhy on that occasion had they recourse to dropped jury -lists and to the 'exclusion of Catholics ? Why, because they knew full well that the trial by jury, in its purity, was too august and too sacred for them to face, and therefore they endeavoured to lower its standard, and to bring it down to further their own corrupt purposes. —(Hear.) But to show how good comes out of evil, after the decision in this case had been pronounced, and after everybody thought there was an end of the case—for nobody could expect light out of darkness —the House of Lords reversed that decision.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) If those who had been tried and convicted in Ireland for the crime of constructed treason, as were Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall, in stead of that of constructive conspiracy, there would be no appeal allowed, and a corrupt jury would have decided their fate.—(Cheers.) But after they had been found guilty, justice was done to them, and it came from a quarter whence it could be least ex pected. Lord Denman, on that occasion, spoke out in a manly and dignified manner.—(Cheers.) And it was a proud consideration for the citizens of London, that when he had been cast off by the Court, he had been elevated to the Bench by them, and had from thence risen to his present eminent position. He was well supported on that oc casion by Lord Cottenham and Lord Campbell. And here he begged to remind them that those individuals would never have been in a position to do this act of justice were it not for the Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) They had defended the rights of the people, while another, once the delight of the people of England, now their scorn and contempt, and whose name he would not mention, was found on the other side.—(Hisses, and cries of " Don't mention him.") This was a proof to the people of England how much they had in their own hands. He had endeavoured to show the value of the trial by jury. It was a dis advantage to nobody but the corrupt and dishonest, and to them he might apply the language of Scrip ture, " That it was a terror to evil-doers, and for the praise of those who do well."—(Cheers.) He would, therefore, give the " Trial by Jury."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said it demanded serious consideration, for it was the toast of the evening, and intended as an embalming of the me mory of those good and great men who, in bad times, were tried for their lives fifty years ago, and of whose acquittal this was the first Jubilee.—(Hear, hear.) Their names were John Home Tooke, Thomas Ihrdy, John Thelwall, Robert Hodgson James Holcroft, Jeremiah Joyce, Kyd, Wardle, Moore, Baxter, &c. They were now dust and ashes, and some might grieve that they were no more. He rejoiced that they once lived—(Hear, hear)—because their independence and virtue had left a legacy to British liberty which he hoped would de scend to their children to the remotest generation.— (Cheers.) They were brought to trial on a charge of high treason —for asking for that which Lord Grey asked for, and which King William granted, and which the House of Lords were forced to concede to the British people. He had lately received a letter from the widow of Thelwall, which was cleverly and beautifully written, in which she com plained of some statements relative to her husband, I made by Horace Twiss, in his life of Lord Eldon. But they could afford to smile at the puny efforts of Mr. Horace Twiss to cast reflections on the memory of so good and extraordinary a man as Thelwall.— (llear, hear.) Amongst the men who were tried on that occasion were many who were an ornament to their country by their private virtues, their learning, and talents. There never lived a more pure, a more moral, or a more religious man than Thomas Hardy. —(Hear, hear.) Tooke wrote the celebrated " Di versions of Purley," and Joyce is the author of the well-known " Scientific Dialogues." Yet such were the men who were:tried on a charge of high treason, for maintaining the principle that the people ought to have conti,olover. those who proposed the laws and imposed tax {r=' Oak, bear.) lie believed that they were perfect t, honest, and -that when they said they only wanted •a . e 'they did not want any more, and there is norl i afreifie -,the _ should not have a perfect 4 0 reform.—(Liio diets's.) e concluded .by proposing the memory 'oftliose:Wivi ls,:,Th!itoast was drank with the liveliest enthiisiapit g —E.,,, 50 ; rae- Mr. rem rose to propose-Me next toast, which was the memory of the three juries who; in 1194, ac quitted Hardy; Tooke, and Thtlwall, and of Erskine and Gibbs, their able and gratuitouS counsel oh that occasion. In the course of his speech Mr. Parry dwelt with much force op the difference between the characters of Erskine and Eldon, the former suffering an exclusion of fift ee n y e a r s &in +Ake iii conse quence of his principles, the other ever opposed to the rights of the p eo pl e a n d th e freedomof men's con science, than there was no man who oftener thanked God that he had a conscience. Ile regretted to see the life of such a man rceeived as it was by the prem. The Learned Gentleman then alluded to the state of the representation of the country, and observed that it was not a 101. franchisean aristocrat )? of petty wealth—that nahly, Tooke, iihd Thelwalr stroggled kt, tut a full, and fair, and free representation of the people.—(Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of the "Lon don Corresponding Society," and coupled therewith the memory of Alexander Galloway, one of those whom time had spared to them from those days of persecution. His honoured friend was not a mere lover of liberty, but had suffered in her cause, and the principles with which he set out in life he main tained to the end —(Cheers.) Mr. GALLOWAY returned thanks, and said that though he was enfeebled in body, his soul was as ardent as ever in the cause of freedom.—(Cheers.) He admired the principles of the Corresponding Society, because they were founded in truth, and because they supported everything conducive to the welfare of mankind. They would exclude no class, but sought the rights of every class; and it was most gratifying to him that, after fifty years, such an assembly was met together to honour the memory of those who had suffered for liberty in those days. He had himself been imprisoned for forty months under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, without knowing why or wherefore, but he was then young, and he did not mind it.—(Shame, shame.) People now would scarcely believe how much the people suffered in those days. But they had patience and perseverance, and their principles prevailed at last.— (Cheers.) He thanked them for the compliment which they had paid him in coupling his name with that of the Corresponding Society. The following toasts were then proposed and drank with enthusiasm :—" A radical reform of all abuses, and a true representation of the people of the British empire in Parliament ;" " Lord Denman and Judicial Independence;" " The Cause of Civil and Religious Liberty the World Over." The evening was enlivened by several excellent songs, sung by Mr. Lucas, Mr. Burnard, &c. R.AIL4VAY IN'fltiLtlGElKCti• RAT NORTH Ot ENGLAND RAILWAY. DA riLii4hfok, MdN Apt EiEgiN6.—A special general meeting of the shareholders of this ritilnaiy was held this afternoon in the offices of the Company in this town, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety tir atithotising the Directors to make application to Par liament., in the ensuing session, fur powers to contract a branch line of railway from a point in their own line at or near Cooper House, in the township of Dalton, to Richmond ; in the county of York. S. H. WzmuNsok, Esq., chairman of the Directors, took the thait, and in opening the business of the day said that the Shareholders pteseht were all probably aware that recently a meeting was held in Richttlundi which was very largely attended, tne meeting having been held upon the subjcet of extending the Great North of England Railway to the town of Richmond, At that meeting the subject was fully discussed, and the line propose:l by this Company was unanimously approved of. So fully was the subject then discussed that it was hardly necessary for him to go into detail as to the merits of the proposed scheme now. He felt it was a scheme which would ultimately prove of great advan tage to the proprietors at large. The resolution which he had to propose for the consideration of the meeting was— " That it is expedient that this Company should under take the formation of a railway from a point in the new line, near Cooper House, in the parish of Croft and township of Dalton, to Richmond, in addition to the Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway, which, at a special general meeting of this Company, held en the 15th ult., it was resolved should be undertaken ; that the Directors be, and they are hereby authorised to order the necessary surveys and to take all proceedings that they may consider desirable, with a view of applying to Parliament next session for an Act authorising the con struction of the above-mentioned line of railway ; that provision be made in the Act of Parliament for the pay ment out of the additional capital (authorised at the last special general meeting to be raised by the issuing of new shares) of interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, to holders of such new shares for the amount of their subscriptions till the works be completed, after which the new shares shall form part of the capital stock of this Company." Mr. PLEWS, a Director,'said he had one or two remarks to make upon the present position of this Company and railways in general. He would remind the Shareholders that this Company had lately increased its capital to the extent of 300,000/., and sooner or later the whole of that money would have to be paid up. He did not think that any Company had had more difficulties to contend with since its formation in 1836, than the present one. In the year 1836 there was a mania for railways, but compared to the mania in that respect, which existed now, the one of 1836 was nothing. Soon after the formation of this Great North of England Company the shares went down to a very large discount, and the Directors were com pelled to forfeit 3,500 shares, owing to persons who had put their names down for shares having refused to go on with them. These 3,500 Shareholders actually gave up 20/. pg. share. This would show how common it was, and especially at the present day, for persons to put their names down for shares without considering how they were ultimately to pay for them. The difficulties with which this company, in consequence of this for feiture, had to contend were very great. On one occasion the Directors amongst themselves had to raise 70,000/. in the space of fourteen days, and if they had not succeeded in raising that money in time, out of their own resources, the railway would have been stopped. These difficulties, however, were now being overcome, and the line was one of the most prosperous in the kingdom. He merely made these remarks to show how necessary it was for persons who put their names down for shares to con sider how they were ultimately to pay for them. The difficulties that arose from this want of caution, he was confident, would be very severely felt by many Directors in the new companies which had lately sprung up all over the country. With respect to competing lines, he had only to say, that instead of the public benefiting by them, the public would be the parties to suffer. In the lase of two competing lines, a compromise was the almost inevitable result, and then the fares which had for a short time, perhaps, been reduced, would be largely increased, and instead of one line, the public would have to pay for the cost of two. By a late Act it was pro vided, that a railway company should not divide more than ten per cent. profit. It would, therefore, be seen, that the public would be the parties most to be benefited by having but one line, because every year that the re turns exceeded ten per cent. profit, a reduction in the fares must take place. The public, therefore, actually participated in the profits of the line. He merely threw out these remarks to guard the public against being led away by shadows. The resolutions were then unanimously adopted, and thanks having, amidst applause, been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—At one o'clock this afternoon, a special meeting of the Shareholders in the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Rail way, was held at the Company's offices, in this town, " for the purpose of considering the expediency of, and if so determined upon, of authorising a lease to be granted to the Midland Railway Company, and the Northern and Birmingham Railway Company, of the line and works of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Tyne, and Man chester Railway, with all the stations, tolls, emoluments, and other property thereof, upon terms to be agreed to at the meeting, or to be arranged by the Directors of this Company, under powers to be deputed to them by such meeting and for other special purposes. The lease to be for a term of thirty years, determinable at the end of ten or twenty years, upon the following terms, viz. :—the lessees to pay all the interest to accrue on loans, also the rents, rates, working expenses, and every other charge to which the Company is liable, and to pay to the Sharehol - ders ser cent per annum upon a share capital of 756 , 000 /., and 7i per cent. on a share capital of 144,000/. When the traffic amounts to 2,800/. per week, on the aver age of twelve months, the dividend to be increased a half per cent. ; when it amounts to 3,0001. per week, one per cent., with an additional increase of a half per cent. fur every 2501 per week, until it reaches ten per cent. The share and loan capital not to exceed 1,500,0001. The guarantees to the Barnsley and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways to be adopted by the lessees. The traffic of the Sheffield line to be managed by a Committee, to be appointed by the three Companies. It having been publicly announced, both in Sheffield and Manchester, that a counter proposition would be submitted on behalf of the Manchester and Leeds Rail way Company, offering to lease the line on more favour able terms, the utmost interest was excited amongst the Shareholders, and the result was perhaps one of the most numerously attended railway meetings ever held, up wards of 200 gentlemen being present, a great portion of whom had travelled from Sheffield and other distant places purposely to attend the meeting. The chair was taken a few minutes after one by John Parker, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. PLATFORD, the secretary, having read the adver. tisement convening the meeting, which was dated Oc• tuber 16th, Mr. N. W. PARKER, of London, and Mr. ROBERTS, of Chester, protested against the shortness of the notice, and stated that they had only received their circulars three or four days ago. The CHAIRMAN said the notice for a special meeting required by the Act was ten days, and the large attend ance proved that the notice had been sufficient. If any gentleman thought otherwise, he had better move an adjournment. Mr. PARKER said he would do so, but the feeling of the meeting being evidently against an adjournment, the business was allowed to proceed. The CHAIRMAN moved that the propositions of the Midland and Manchester Companies be accepted. Mr. ROBERTS, of Chester, supported the proposition of the Leeds Company, principally on the ground of their offering a greater per tentage to the Shareholders in this line, namely, 6 per cent. Mr. C. P. YOUNG, of Sheffield, seconded the amend ment. A prolonged discussion followed, during which seve ral gentlemen supported the original proposition ; some spoke in favour of the amendment, and two advocated ' the continuance of the Company on its present indepen dent footing. At a few minutes before five the amendment was put and negatived, only twenty-four hands being held up in its favour, and nearly ten times that number against it. The original motion was then put and carried amidst loud cheers, as was another, authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament next session for the necessary powers to carry out the arrangements. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and Directors, and the pro ceedings terminated. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—We understand that nearly 500 shares have been taken by persons in Cardiff in this undertaking. During last week some gentlemen con nected with the Great Western Railway have been en gaged surveying the neighbourhood of 'Monmouth, Usk, &c., with a view of determining the best hne of road for the South Wales Railway. THE NEWPORT AND NANT•Y*GLO RAILWAY. —The surveyors are also busily engaged in surveying this line of road, when they intend next session to apply to Par liament for a Bill. CAPTURE OF A SHEEP-STEALER.—On Friday last a man went to the shop of Mr. W. Rudge, candle manu facturer, at Pontnwyd, Newport. Monmouthshire, to sell a quantity of mutton fat which he had in a wallet ; and upon William Thayers, the foreman to Mr. nudge, examining it, he perceived pieces of Test, when he began , to make inquiries, in answer to which the man sai d he b rr o h u i g s h a t n i s t w , the er excited sheep having died of water on the b ra i n. the foreman s suspicions, and he sent for police-constable Roberts, who upon searching the other end of the wallet found a sheep skin therein, and several pieces of mut ton, which appeared to have been cut from the hind legs. The police-constable took the man to the station-house, and delivered him into the custody of superintendent Roberts, who ascertained the next morning that a sheep, the property of Mr. John Edmonds, farmer, Panteque, had been slaughtered, and about 51bs. of the hind legs taken away, leavin g th e rest of the carcase in the wood ad j oin ing the me a d ow w h ere the sheep was killed. T he p risoner was brought up the same day before the Rev s. J. Probert and David Jones, w hen upon the application of s up er i n tendent Roberts he w as remanded until Monday, upon which d ay h e was b roug ht before the same magistrates, and com m i tted to Usk for trial. M I LLERISM MAD.—Mr. Ducker, the lighterman of o ne of the largest houses in Brooklyn, on Saturday last discharged all his workmen, declaring th e world would not last beyond the 21 st inst., and probably not beyond the 16th.—American paper. Millerism i s at t hi s time making considerable stir in some parts of the States , and late papers give numerous instances similar in spirit to the above.—Liverpool Albion. TO YANGFANG. (From the Times.) Dear Yangfang.—ln case the great eye of the barba rian editor should be so bunged up with work that it I cannot, until this moon is out, look at your pithy ques tions in his Gazette of this morning, let me reply to one or two of them. We are Christians in this country by religion, dear Yangfang. We ,have no gilded idols here—no mumbo jumbos with long arms and square noses, which we fall down and worship. We never go up into a temple to pray to blocks of wood and stone. We are taught here, Yangfang, that covetousness is idolatry. None of us are covetous—it is against the tenth commandment—there fore, none of us are idolaters. Again, in this country, we all like the poor to be fed. We have three Mandarins (called, from their gracious kindness to the poor, the three Graces), who are kept in a great house, called Somerset-house. for the express purpose of seeing, and who particularly like to tee, that the poor are fed. No one can doubt, then, that we all like to see the poor fed. The nation puts theg9 Zdanda rins in that house, and feeds them for no other purpose. They are called indeed, by many, Poor•law Commis sioners, and this is a name by which they are very commonly known, but that is because they take care of the poor-law. They have been in this house nearly ' fourteen years now, but they have not even yet finished with taking care of the law. When they have done with ' taking care of that, some of our poor folks hope that it may be left to take care of itself, and that then these throe men may look a little after the wealth of the poor. In Cathay, I believe, you would call these three men barbarian eyes. In England we are longing to have them put out. You seem to wonder at the condition of the poor here, and you ask why they are not properly supplied with work. But how little you cs have observed the face of the country, Yangfang, if you wonder at this. In England we have people that we call " Boards." Now a board, as you well know, is a thick wooden plank, which is sometimes thicker at the head than at the opposite end. If it is soft or yielding, the board is generally thought useless. The harder and denser a board is, the better, generally speaking. If it splits, it is done for, as we say. It is also a very common expres sion in this country (as you must have observed in your travels) that a man is at the same time both boarded and done for. Now these boards that I speak of are common all over England. They it is who board up the wife from the husband—the husband from the wife and chil dren. You ought not, therefore, to wonder that if Eng land is boarded all over, the poor should sometimes be done for. Our three Mandarins that I spoke of just now, are like yours. They " grind the faces of the poor"—that is the " real English honest word" which you ask for. And there is a Great Book, Yangfang, which you may never have heard of, but the words of which are true, that says, in plainer English still, that men who do grind the faces of the poor shall be accursed. One answer more, and I have done. We do, as you say, empty our native manure into our rivers, and send to Ichaboe for birds'-dung. But the reason is very plain. We like proverbs here i❑ England, and are believers in them ; and we have an old one, that " the farthest way round is the nearest way home." Now, we are mightily fond of home, and not a little proud of it either, and Ichaboe, as you know, is the farthest way round. Don't you see ? We have also another saying in our homely tongue, friend Yangfang, which we think something of— that "cleanliness is next to godliness." You have been into our churches, I know, and have noticed that, al though in England there are 100,000 very dirty men, a very dirty man is never seen in them. Now, there is an old-fashioned impression among some of our people, that it is not a bad thing to worship our God; and I be lieve that it is this impression among others which in duces them to do (what at first sight may naturally surprise you) something towards making them cleanly. " Dirty ' with us is a term of reproach. For instance, we call the American nation a dirty nation for filching our money from us. Anything low and dishonourable we call " dirty work." You have noticed the barnacles on the bottoms of your junks at Wangfong. Immorality sticks to a dirty man as close as those barnacles stick to the junks' sides. Do you see why an Englishman should be clean? But, perhaps, it is not the same with you in your province of Quantang. You must live a long time with us, my dear Yang fang, before you can quite understand us. There is good as well as evil among us. We have Mandarins who brighten, and who never grind the faces of the poor. Your friend, Saturday. JOHN BULL. N AMINO OF STREETS.—At the Court of Commis sioners of Sewers, yesterday, Mr. Hickson, the principal freeholder of the property situate in Water-lane, Fleet street, attended with a memorial signed by the other freeholders of the remainder of the property, praying that the Court would allow the name to be changed into Whitefriars-street. The Court acceded to the applica tion, remarking that whenever the owners of property applied for such an alteration, the application would be attended to. BIRTH IN A MAIL COACH.--On Saturday last a young woman, a native of Swiubrook, near Burford, Oxon, who for some time past has been living in service at Oxford, was proceeding from that city to her home as an inside passenger by the Oxford and Cheltenham mail-coach, and when about thrce miles from Burford she was suddenly seized with the pains of labour, and safely delivered of a fine boy. On the arrival of the coach, with this singular addition to its load, at the Bird-in-Hand Hotel, Burford, the mother and child re ceived the kindest attention from Mrs. Humphries, the worthy landlady, and are both doing well. The South Wales Turnpike Trusts Commissioners have concluded their circuit, and have examined into the affairs of every trust in the southern division of the principality. The monetary affairs of the different trusts have been ascertained to be in a much more healthy state than was supposed to be the case. We understand the award of the creditors of the trusts will be given on the Ist of January, 1845, and of course the necessary ar • rangements for carrying the Act into effect by the ap pointment of county roads boards and district boards and officers will be commenced at the quarter sessions, which will take place in the week following the beginning of the year.— Welshman. We find the following in the Glaneur du Haut Rhin of the 25th ult :—" Since the opening of this rail road through Alsace our physicians have been called to render assistance to cure several diseases caused by tra velling in open carriages. Travellers run in all haste in order to arrive at the station-house before the starting of the train ; they enter the waggons in a state of per spiration, and are exposed to currents of cold air. Hence we see neuralgias, pleurisies, and consumptions multi plied, and even acute opthalmia, caused by the ashes car • ried into the eyes by the wind. Several physicians have given the epithet railroad catarrh" to the cough now so prevalent in our district." LONGEVITY.—Three persons died in Stromness within the last fortnight, whose united ages were 277 years—being, respectively, 94, 92, and 91 years—pre served their faculties to the last, although—what seems very wonderful—the eldest had been deprived of sight and hearing for some time before, but had them restored in a great measure lately. Another person died a week before, in the same small town, aged 80. There is a woman living in Evie a hundred years old, said to be the "oldest inhabitant' in Orkney. She, however, is not the person alluded to often under that designation, as she is iu her second childhood, and remembers little or nothing, and cannot be taken as a general reference. —John 0' Groat Journal. _ _ CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Yesterday a case was heard at the Clerkenwell Police•court, which ought to be known throughout the trade. Mr. Sargent, of the Kings and Key, Fleet-street, sent out, to order, one pint less than two gallons of spirits. He did so without a permit, under the impression, which we believe to be generally prevalent, that licensed victuallers are privileged to send out, without a p erm it, any quant i ty o f spirits under two gallons. While proceeding with the order for delivery, the messenger was stopped by Excise officers, taken into custody, and conveyed before the magistrates at the Clerkenwell Police court. The case having been set forth by such officers, the magistrates declared that a penalty of 1001. had been incurred. Mr. Sargent thereupon stepped forward, and stated that the messenger had acted under his directions, and that he had proceeded under the impression, general he believed, that the law sanctioned his conduct. The magistrates immediately said that under such circumstances they should mitigate the penalty to 25L, repeating that the law only allowed the sending out of quantities under one gallon without a permit. Mr. Sargent immediately paid the fine. It is to be hoped that there may be an appeal to the Commissioners of Excise ; and that in a case of such obvious correctness of intention, where no infraction of the law was contemplated, Mr. Sargent, who has been only six months in the trade, acting on a general (though it now appears erroneous) impression, the penalty may be entirely remitted. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday morning, about five o'clock, as an engineer, named Henry White, was proceeding by Westbourn-green, Paddington, he beheld the dead body of a man suspended by the neck with a cotton handkerchief, one end of which he had fastened to the top of some wooden paling on the premises of the Great Western Railway Company. The deceased was im mediately cut down, and shortly afterwards removed to the station-house, Paddington-green ; life had evidently been extinct for some hours. The deceased, who ap peared to be about fifty years of age, was dressed in a black coat, waistcoat, and trousers, and Wellington boots ; a razor was found in one of his pockets, but there were no papers of any description upon him by which any clue could be obtained with regard to his name or connexions. THE TELEGRAPH AT . THE ROYAL MILITARY ASY LUM, CHELSEA.—It having been found that the steeple of the church, in course of erection by the Marquis of Westminster, on his Pimlico estate, at the corner of the fine new square recently formed, called Chester- square, and Elizabeth-street, Pimlico, will be exactly in the line of view between the telegraphs at the Admiralty and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, which continues to Wanstead-heath and Portsmouth, aiM will prevent their working for the important purposes for which they were erected, the authorities have given permission for the telegraph to be removed from the Asylum to the Royal Hospital, which will do away with the difficulty, and answer the purpose equally well. The conditions upon which the removal has been sanctioned by the Ad miralty are, that the Marquis is to be at the sole ex pense of removing the telegraph and the extensive machinery, and re-erecting the same in the appointed position. THE FOG.—SO dense was the fog during a great part of yesterday, throughout the metropolis, that gas, oil, and candles were called into general requisi tion, not only in the public shops, but in private houses, and the coach thoroughfares were so exceedingly dan gerous to travel, that it required the omnibus drivers, &c., to exercise the utmost caution in the management of , their vehicles, in order to avoid accidents. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. -- The Queen and Prince Albert walked out in the course of the forenoon, in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert again promenaded in the pleasure-grounds. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took equestrian exercise on their ponies to-day in the Home Park and pleasure-grounds. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Lord Portman, Lord and Lady Ashley, and Sir Henry Wheatley, took their departure from the Castle to-day. The Earl of Morton has arrived at the Castle, and has relieved Lord Byron from his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Captain Meynell has suc ceeded the Hon. Captain Duncoinbe as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw, and Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. A military portrait of General Sir Robert Sale, and a large miniature of Lady Sale, by Mrs. Henry Moseley, were submitted to the inspection of the Queen and Prince Albert to-day by Mr. Henry Moseley. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously pleased to express their approbation. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl left Windsor Castle on Monday, and proceeded to Kew, on a visit to their Royal High nessess the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Ecclesiastical, Commission for England held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in White hall-place. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Rochester, Sir James Graham, and the Dean of Westminster. A deputation from Manchester, Consisting of Air. Schwabe, Mr. Hastie, Mr. G. H. H a ll, Mr. Leo Schuter, Mr. Glandenning, Mr. E. Potter, and Mr. D. Ilauregard, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, upon the subject of the recent ,Belgian Tariff. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches for the Governor of the Falkland Islands were sent off yesterday evening from the Co lonial-offibe. Dispatches were also sent off for the Lieutenant-Governor of the Gold Coast, and the Go vernor of Sierra Leone. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Colonel Peel, M.P., in Park-place, from Marble Hill, Twickenham ; the Hon. F. Cadogan, at Queensberry House ; the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Ches terfield House, from Newmarket ; Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., from Brighton ; S. N. Frangopule, Esq., at Nel son's Hotel, Portland-place, from Brussels ; C. Savory, Esq., at ditto, from Bristol ; Mr. William Smith, from Hall Place, Kent, for Melton Mowbray. DEPARTURES. Mr. Poulett Somerset (Coldstream Guards) for Lady Charles Somerset's, at Brighton ; the Count and Coun tess Deventy, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle street, on a visit to the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. F. Baring, at Ruckenham, Norfolk ; Lady Edward Thynne, from Richmond• terrace, for Brighton • Mrs. M'Pherson Adams, from the St. George Hotel, Albemarle-street ; Sir John Lister Lister Kaye, Bart., from his house, in Portland-place, on a shooting tour ; J. R. Reid, Esq., from Nelson's Hotel, Portland-place, for Weston-super- Mare ; D. E. Hugor, Esq., from ditto, for Liverpool ; D. H. Browne, Esq., from ditto, for County Mayo ; Isaac Pinto Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; Major Hyde, from ditto, for Bridge wa t er ; Wyndham Anstruther, Esq., from ditto, for Scotland ; W. B. Gates, Esq., from ditto. CHANGES. The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland, at Newton House, near Bedale, Yorkshire, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of N orma nby, at Mulgrave Castle ; the Earl of Norbury and Lady J. Toler, on a visit to Lord Blayney, at Castle Blayney, from a tour. V P lc roma _ ARK.—The contract for three miles o park paling has been re taken by a Mr. Marshall, its execution having been thrown up by Mr. Hull, of Go dalming, who had previously taken it on terms of 1,5001. below the highest tender. Workmen are engaged in forming Old Ford-lane into a straight line of road, and a row of houses, called King's Arms-row, has been levelled. Within the last three weeks upwards of 700 loads of rubbish have been brought from the works in progress in the formation of the new road at White chapel, to fill up the excavations, and for other purposes. A circle has been staked out in the Grove-road, which is to form one of the principal entrances into the park, and some progress has already been made in the drainage of many of the fields. The chief part of the tenants in habiting the houses forming the remaining wing of Bonner 's-hall have vacated their occupancy, prior to the demolition of this interesting structure, which will com mence at once. This is ono of the most picturesque parts of the locality, the venerable trees which still re main showing it to have been the remnant of a formerly well-cultivated park. The active arrangements for its formation are under the directions of Mr. Pennithorne, the late Commissioner in Ireland under the Poor-law in spection. BANK FORGERY. —A forgery of 51. notes of the Stockton and Durham County Bank has just been dis covered, though there is reason to think the amount in circulation is not considerable. One, it has been ascer tained, was issued by a joiner at Stockton-upon-Tees, named Watson, of whom the police are now in pursuit. The forged notes are very coarse and bad imitations of the original. They have been evidently printed from wooden blocks, on rather coarse blueish paper. Watson c is described as being five feet ni ne or ten inches in height, g gait. He is ac companied red that ed tt by face, asupposed ed a confederate, with ginger whis kers, e black swaggeringderate, d with the small-pox. It ap pears a o parties went tog e th er i n t o the c l e r ia vh sa is n k tdw e r mo s, Vic toria Inn, at Stockton, and called for two glasses of rum and some tobacco, for which they tendered one of the forged .5/. notes. The landlord, not being able to change it, sent it to the post-office, where change was given, and the forgery was discovered by the post-master about an hour afterwards. Information was then given, and the parties were traced to Darlington, where they had suc ceeded in changing another of the forged notes. There all trace of their movements was lost, but police-officers have been sent off in various directions, and the parties cannot long elude their vigilance. Eight notes are known to have been passed. Watson was some time confined in Newcastle gaol fur smuggling a quantity of manufactured tobacco. _ _ --.----- CUSTOMS.-It having appeared that some of the "orders" which are issued to the tidewaiters on board ships in the docks, and vessels and steamers in the river, by the registrar or officer whose duty it is to issue such documents, and which alone authorise them to deliver any part of the cargo from the ship's hold for the pur pose of the same being landed or delivered overside, had not the signature of that officer, and fears being en tertained that the revenue is exposed to risk in conse quence of such irregularities, and that goods might be delivered without the 'proper authority, directions have been given that in future no such delivery order be issued from the office of the registrar, without the same being stamped with a seal to be provided for the purpose, bear ing the words, " Registrar's-office, Customs, Legal Quay's," &c., as the case may be ; and the tidewaiters have received instructions not to permit any goods in future to be delivered from the ship upon the receipt of such orders, unless they be so stamped in compliance with this regulation. S - , -.. S •,~. \; jr 6,1 THE LORD MAYOR ELECit. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIY: - 7 ';.-- Slll,—At the request of some of my friends, vflio think _ that the public should be disabused of the false\ ifuttres sions which an article published in the Times, of the 30th . ult., was calculated to raise, respecting my motivva ,for' not appearing as Lord Mayor Elect in the civic proces sion from Temple-bar, on the opening of the Royal Ex change, I must request you will allow me to avail my self of your columns to make the truth more generally known. I beg to state that in answer to an application from the: Town-clerk as to what duty I would prefer to undertake: on the 28th, I decided to form partof the out-door proces sion; when, on Wednesday, the 23d ult., the Lord Mayor informed me privately that he apprehended the expression of some unpleasant feeling towards me, which would prove an annoyance to her Majesty, and he therefore urged. ine to take duty in the Royal Exchange. I consented, but on the following day I was advertised in the public journals as one of those intending to ride, and as, upora inquiry, I did not believe the accuracy of the informa tion upon which the Lord Mayor had made his request,. I again expressed my intention of riding, and prepared acco7dingly. At one o'clock on Monday morning, '2Bth, the follow ing letter is as delivered to me from the Lord Mayor :- 4. Mansion--house, Oct. 27, 1844, Twelve u'Clock. "My dear Lord Zayor Elect,—l regret exceedingly that any circumstance -Eh, old have intervened to prevent the fulfilment of the intention . you had formed on .Wed nesday last of attending with you: brethren in the Ex change instead of joining the process.: n at Temple-bar. I trust, upon a full consideration of all the circumstances of the case, you will permit the reasons by which you were then influenced to induce you to abstain froto taking a place in the procession. " As Chief Magistrate of this City, entertaining the deepest anxiety that no circumstance should occur to interrupt the harmony which ought universally to prevail on this happy occasion, I deem it my duty to convey to. you a knowledge of the opinion which I have heard ex pressed in so many quarters, that you are likely to be the object of a demonstration of unpopular feeling, which the consciousness on your part of its being undeserved can form no justification for your unnecessarily placing your self in a situation to call it forth, particularly as your po siti in in the procession so near to her Majesty would un avoidably make her acquainted with the existence of a feeling but little in harmony with the sentiments the oc casion should inspire. " If contrary to my wishes and expectation you should consider it your duty to ride, I can only say that it shall be my earnest endeavour to repress, by every means at my command, the exhibition of any such demonstration as I have described, and I feel it right to add I am satis fied that your intended compliance with my wishes on Wednesday last was dictated by a reflection upon what appeared clue on the occasion, and not by any considera tions personal to yourself. " I am yours faithfully, " WM. MAGNAY." I appeal, therefore, to the good feeling of the public to judge whether I should not indeed have been wanting in respect to the Chief Magistrate of the City, and in loyalty to her Majesty, if I had indulged my own inclination after the receipt of such a letter from the Lord Mayor. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, MICHAEL GIBBS, Lord Mayor Elect. Walbrook, Nov. 4,1844. The Great Britain steam-ship will make one or .wo experimental trips down Channel, and then proceed ,o London. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT SEA.—We deeply regret to record the intelligence of the death at its. under peculiarly distressing circumstances, of one of the most intrepid and highly-respected captains in the American trade out of this port, Captain Simpson, of the Llan itureney, Quebec regular trader, which took. place on the 14th ult., as more fully stated in the fol lowing extract from the letter of Mr. Willoughby, the mate, dated Dover, October 27, 1844, and addressed to the owner :—" We have had nothing but heavy gales.; of wind on the passage home, and, on the 14th October, in let. 48 N., and lon. 22 W., blowing a hurricane. and sea running mountains high, the ship scudded under close-reeled topsails ; at eight r.m. it was the captaii:s watch on deck, when a tremendous sea pooped the !hip, and . carried away the stern and ' jolly-boat, and eveUtlung on the quarter-dec . k, wlth a quantity of provisions, and filled the cabin with . water. I rushed on deck, ana found the ship in a fearful state. The captain, cook, an; boy were miss ing. I called all hands on deck to bring the ship to, and employed the men in taking in the canvas. I then found Captain Simpson and the cook lying on the forecastle deck, with their heads cut and bruised in a dreadful manner, and not able to speak ; all possible speed was made to get them below in the forecastle, and every attendance was paid, but it was all in vain ; the cook died at nine P.m., and the captain at ten p.sr. He died without a struggle. The boy was found in the main-deck, desperately bruised afid insensible; he is still alive, but in a dan gerous state. The ship is not much worse."—From other sources we understand that the Llan Rumney, having been struck by a heavy sea, Captain Simp son, the cook, and boy, had been struck by some timber, probably part of the deck cargo. The name of the cook is Grant Shield, of this town, and that of the boy Tom. The remains of the lamented cap tain were brought ashore yesterday, on the arrival of the Llan ltumney at this port.—Hull Advertiser of Friday. EXTRAORDINARY AND DISGRACEFUL OCCURRENCE, - - —On Saturday afternoon, a woman residing near Watt street, Hawkhill, Dundee, having occasion for water, went to a draw-well in the neighbourhood to procure a supply. In dropping her pitcher into the well, the cord broke, and the vessel fell to the bottom. Haying pro cured the aid of some of her neighbours, they succeeded, as they imagined, in fixing a hook to the pit cher, commenced hauling it up, but instead of a pitcher filled with water, they were struck with horror on disco ver that they had brought up a coffin ; which, on being examined, was found to contain the dead body of a new born child. The coffin with its contents was conveyed to the office, and in consequence of the activity of the officers, the following facts connected with this disgusting affair were soon discovered. The wright named Rollo, who made the coffin, was traced out in the course of tho evening, and through him the father of the infant, ars individual named Nicoll. It appears that the mother was delivered of the child, which was still-born, at her residence, Chapelshade, at a late hour on Friday night ; and the father, being a member of a yearly society, applied next morning for the customary allowances for the funeral of a child, which was immediately paid to him. He then bargained with a manufacturer of cheap coffins at the Hawkhill, who not only agreed to furnish it, but also kindly undertook to get the sextoli at Logic, with whom he said he was well acquainted, to finish the interment cheaply—for a dram. The father, the undertaker, and another individual called on Satur day morning on a public-house-keeper in Small's Wynd, in order to procure the means of paying the sexton ; but it is scarcely necessary to say that he was never called on to officiate. In the course of Sunday the father was apprehended, but was liberated on Mon day, it having appeared that the undertaker and his companion had left him in Small's Wynd, and gone, as he conceived, to the churchyard of Logie, but in reality to put the coffin with the dead body of the infant into the well. After his liberation, the father had to carry the coffin from the police-office to his residence, and from thence to the burying-ground, being accompaniol by several officers to see that the funeral was completed. —Glasgow Saturday Post. A NEW SPECIES OF TEMPERANCE. --• A new species of temperance society (a provisional one, how ever) has just been formed at Cernay (Haut-Rihu). Thu beer-drinkers have entered into a pledge with eactt other not to drink a drop of their favourite liquor until the brewers return to the old usage of making it with out any other ingredient than malt and hops and water. They have appointed a committee in each canton to taste the beer offered for sale, admitting that which they find genuine, and rejecting all other. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE WHITECHAPEL WORK HOUSE.—Yesterday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at tin, London Hospital, on the body of Mary Ann Baxter, aged thirteen. Catherine Brennan, a nurse in the White chapel Workhouse, of which deceased was an idiotic in mate, said that on the 2d ult. they were in the females* yard, which is surrounded by a brick and mortar waif fourteen feet high, on the top of which is an addition of four feet, composed of bricks, having an opening of silt inches between each, to serve as a species of trap fur paupers endeavouring to escape. A strong wind on th 3 day mentioned blew down about twenty-five feet of the upper wall, and some of the bricks fell upon the head of deceased, inflicting a wound on the crown of the head. She was placed under the care of Mr. Foster, the work house surgeon, and apparently recovered, but on Sunday last died in a fit. Mr. Foster, the surgeon, was of op nion that deceased died from effusion on the brain, co result of the blow on the head. The Coroner and jut' y having viewed the wall, did not think it safely constructett, and the former undertook to write to the board of guar dians suggesting the proper remedy. Verdict, " Acci dental death." AN INCIDENT OF THE MAIDSTONE PLOUGHING—, MATCH.—A short time before the Maidstone ploughing match a young man who works for a small farmer itz this neighbourhood asked his master permission to try his skill on the occasion. The master made several eh. jections—particularly on the score of his team, which was not the best matched in the world. However, the man pressed his request, and at last obtained permission. He accordingly went to the match and took his statka among the three-horse ploughs, amidst the jeers of tl.e lookers-on, who were very merry at the expense of 1 is team, asking him if he meant to win with two old hors. , e and a donkey—one of his steeds being very small, and , the leader a veteran nearly thirty years of age. St. 1, nothing daunted, he persevered, and presently merrimt at gave place to admiration. Notwithstanding all his draw backs he finished his work second, and gained the first prize ! We may add that be was the youngest plough. man in his class, though his horses were the oldest,-.• Maidstone Journal. APPEALS AGAINST THE DECISIONS OF REVISINCf BARRISTERS UNDER THE REGISTRATION OF VOTERS Acr.—Up to last night (Tuesday) 27 appeals to the Court of Common Pleas against the decisions of revising barristers, under the Bth Vic., c. 18, s. 62, had been en tered for argument. There would have been a innels larger number, but, in many instances, the same poi: te arising, they have been consolidated. The principal por- , tion of the appeals relate to decisions given upon the question of lodgers' qualifications. After this day (Wu d.. nesday) no further appeals can be entered, as the Act re quires it should be done within the first four days of the term next after the decision. The cases set down are f, the City of London 4, Westminster 2, Bristol 2, Cam bridge 2, Taunton 1, north division of Northampton 2, borough of Northampton 2, Tewkesbury 1, South Lan cashire 3, Totnes .2, West Riding of Yorkshire 2, Bury 1, Lichfield 2 Rd Westbury 1 £ c 0: =Cf ir4 6.