The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-14 00:00:00

a re r t ° the Central Railway. the capital was 3,000,000/.; tw d he might state that the deposits were all and the capital subscribed fur, The_pecessary which were 10 per cent., gdve thenia very large t2.ltridee.d, but it would be satisfactory to know that it was i l t ifYing at interest in the hands of their bankers. a r re4°l utien confirming the amalgamation was then trwghaettelvte(;,a::stthheeyDirectors having been authorised to take might deem necessary for carrying the ta_rlngement out, a vote of thanks was passed to the Chair 4a, and do, meeting terminated. CORNWALL AND DEVON CEN TRAL RAILWAY. COMPANY. to 81).e.seial General Meeting of the Shareholders in this t eitii T7 was held yesterday in the London Tavern, to Saii e b„' the Propriety of amalgamating with the London, k a i i ,:lrY, -and Yeovil, and Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester . cheir"aY Companies. Humphrey Williams, Esq., in the The usual f ormalities having been gone through, Was e. CUS HMAN explained th e o bj ec t o f th e mee ting. It b eet , sill 'PlY the cons id eration of the resolution which had th e i; agreed to that morning by the eastern portion of p ort re. lie thought it as much the interest of the western companies.e the line to amalgamate as any other of the railro a d One great reason was, that'a large extent of ma tt ead could be much more effieiently and economically that than a small one. The Chairman, after stating re a d i " e was in the hands of the meeting, concluded by Rub t ?l3 the resolution for amalgamation, which was to be muted. L answer to a Proprietor respecting the whole route of the Thproposed to be ama'gamated; wit, !CHAIRMAN said the complete scheme formed a junction p as ' the So uth -Western Railway at Basingstoke, from which it C r 4,, hY Whitchurch, Andover; Salisbury, Wilton, Yeovil, the , ‘ "arn, Romerton, and Exeter; from thence the line took as g a c,k bone of the county into Cornwall, following mouth wssible the mailcoach road to Fal betw e an d Penzance. A line was also proposed of n Falmouth an d Pl ymou th, w hi c h wou ld b e 1 , 4 e grQatest importance this line was in a great mea thightstopleted ; i n fact with regard to the whole scheme he Xothi s aY that th e surveys were in the most forward . state re o , i eg would be wanting to complete all that Parliament` time and The sections and pl ans wou ld be l o dg e d i n g o o d would and he was sure no error would be found that have little inimical to their application. He was happy to communicated a little more information to give, which had just been de'f!rsanicated to him. Negotiaions were at presentgoing on ;aan" !t airs, with the Directors of the South Western Com , which he bad no doubt would be concluded of ire minutes, and would result in a total amalgamation t e Lue four lines from London to the Land's End.—(Cheers.) t er l‘ l s,i li s also grat i f i ed to say, the whole capital of the lines kribedeh they were ab ou t t o app ly t o P ar li amen t was sub the and allotted, with certain necessary reservations, and iy . P o sits all paid up. the' r C HAPMAN spoke at some length in favour of th e t i lalgamated scheme, and condemned the proceedings of gross reat Western Company, which he characterised as a attra te rn "c'Poly, that had never acted in a manner commen str ,N‘ith the public interests. i n t' e ast GAZELEE and Mr. ARCHER followed in the same Et l a ' ea Pressing the opinion that the whole of the West of theg,arnedwere anxious to free themselves from the thrall of A'fte..s, Western Company. rol twt seine further discussion the Chairman retired a few to and on his retu rn i n timated that he was happy be ew "le that the basis of an arrangement had t 44 tJust co nc l uded with the South Western Company and th e e other companies interested for an ama l gamat i on o f t hough tho 11°It The details would have yet to be settled, h • . gs settle might sa the announcement of this in?st importaonut and geae r ed. 'The was received with I eheerinK.) He hoped in a short time to have the th at re of calling th em t oge th er , t o su bmit a resolution on for lm question, and now he would put the motion leh the present meeting had been called. T h : resolution was then put and unanimously carried. 4 1 ) 4„t e til d !etisg, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, 4AILWAY. INTELLIGENCE. , Pty,,.., ailway,.p In g ora.,Arru, SOUTH TuEsbr.— DEVON. extraordinary the Royal n was held at general me u e r t . - kat t th" shareholders of the .ao S tt o ,e uth D . evon li ttm te the Act of Incorporation , attended. l.isirhe meeting was tul Y of Direct ors, presided. calling bP.erlit." Chairman of the Boar d Mr. fmm Thomas eeentti Gill, T h e I.4as ide r a'nd de-iernli:u3 to n7 e rY a tin g llr w' which said hav i t ti h g a tth reade theo t b h j e ec a . t d o T f ert ise of an intended railway krast"ards the eOnstruetiOn e at 0,114 towards Exeter, on the expe . diency o lPhgu f t r wi o has m g Bi as ! a t the Countess Wear to ...: l hr ii dg th e e ; . t B c 3 c h o th ns p id e e ve an ate '''Y the expediency of agt,_ f rom Laun an ceston to „. !ikons d South l'ill3tn_ of the intended rath, ay eeing to such alterationrdit.adaielwtaenarYd ev,z;;k, a. may be adopted by the the Pr-'eci, texten,ian ( "f th `.lllpany, in consequence of brai:c.. in . Laun o c t esto e n d forma (,t' the forth Devon Railway, and of a dett.l9ernwall Railway to Launceston; the amouY!t of S . to ae . - glue th• of increasing riptie,„ e expediency Devon Railway , a South several objects e ritk w ,':' to the Launceston anand 0 considr 6 an o io b n d . out the the above afor elai l the directors fully carry torN es u . and to raise an a te ddit th io tobebar toall,,e.at ; il a t til io d !als (ci t i o :i authoriset4et of Incorporation, e na d l ire ca c p to it r a s l !,o b d , fo s t borrowe s the z11,44,LY therlesoempaYny on mort e Sag fo o r r the purposes of the compere reaeired from time to tull ,- h a d the Ihe d' ln the manner prescribed the directors I las h d been I)leas bantltAx then said when eral P -ane a to ktle,,,, te ef meeting the share .d y the said Act. t ' hol ers, sev recommended tlleir-geed to them, which the directors had which they had . been 144.,4ttention and approval, 6411.},ii:r.t°„ a pprove of, and to resolutions hardly necessary fe t r that 'ciref,rs.‘ee schemes out.lt was I • but he would. sta v e ew 0 _ !he e i ,,., . 5 th.ese plans specitical m an(' with a view of C y r'nwall line, with a ee l e __ fl f ,N t 4." was m reference to the _o sum no t ex dl :5' b<oo,n,„4.gw a.nd Improving ey o , l italab voted in aid of the re authorised to which a . t was now, not ' ,O OO/ I ,,, w aY, the dire C t -ors i _Ne,,,', , fie Torbay plan had been then, as i- • o f the we undertaking. For eo th a e t N rib or a t 'toal-t'Y advanced to put the meeting i empower the directors i a n ut P h o olis eas ed ie t ti ocarry the' 4 1 1 .44 83 r egarded the Ashburton and Newton Railway, t to tx share as had been pleased to I .'k, ter:l!. To carry out t this last-named tkPt l 44 su ell a sum as, in their opinion, e _they ontribute 20,00:? . t. h t t h t e hi di: but the !- '`'iti, had 'though it their duty to c d tio sc o l : emmie,g tec t. t,,,,,," were other schemes in contempla This n,. 44 1 - : e re not in a position to bring there me sitiaul • tors was to as nt to tile the the present speci k al t f m h orw e ee a t a p i r p t d i r g o . vai Th of i''),_ 14 et;.. Ti?II ofdirec liey, Fo n g in order to enable '' e ter. '-',.,,t1e construction of a railway ~ I , b wine', would g o over . three or four mites , them to contribute a sum of f ro m Exmouth to take of the 41 4 Y a t tVOII line. It would join the lo g u e th an Dv th o. e i n t4. 11. - "N fro Top e sh toEx eter. Itha.d'beethne 111 1 ,`',. 4i reeforn that they would be consulting :kit',' °Meters in assisingin the formation of that of the L e t e e i • opinionew t the f i to adopt certain o l, ° ti nt ef 15,000/. The second scheme was thisti !iltfr44o:land South Devon ; the necessity ‘ .1.4 43 aNI extensions ham i r .tlch . rheted fiistination of the N0rth.375,0001. It Nytaesteln. g . i e sen inconsequence Railway, , . nto .f ii ^ ,ded te e Y had ‘Nready contributedti Devo Om . hlalte the co: , rse from 0 i' ll th. been t hought eDaedient on by the directors, that he lie t opi t i , - ..oniirmed eh th a e m p p a t r o t n o t f o t lf h . e au e n oo , 14. eon .011 had been . ..'neer, k th te e l'i Nt o 41 nallY to have b..°4 _„ l c t err a i i e re d c f t r i e o m n, T tr meet istee kSoritli ,110111 d take a differe. t rl, te tt ",e Xorth Devon Railway, ti ~Q uid havet h ti`' effectinghaedeiffreeectt. of lo'•^gthreat:iloine. The new arrangement Nr., go, wine would e t ,,, ON h g the line some three or four nh. • i. tr'tapei,,r attended with increased exp theiit fiLlbe advantages,tense, u and inasmucht ra l s pirts of Corn,!!' is' trafficems' there w o‘t, 1 wee e be r e 1444 lloor:Thereantatnhtet ri c o e r n t t h r e a r i n and arts e a the t p central f h Devon as we o l r l. in t tl t t he itehr, to line would cause the necessityf thea I,.° ll ki l ' nota of ,contribution, andndinireecrteo.asrs.: therefor e tual amount the line 1 4 ` ,', 14 re , e , 1° a Position to state the ac _ varying from 1t.,:40/(ltre, laelieved that a sum of ne 41( 4 kt th ° 2()°,0001, would be requisite in to e ca y rra it to til t ol a p.resent moment they considered the purpose of . ex it pe e d u i t ent A to t h t tt laee ki e j e e tlng , to sanction the d t i i r m ec a t t o e r . s c F on or tributing a sum tit e l l :, 1 th e gl':,_v?-thirds of the es in possession of t hole of tti4 tote .., eteuthe present 'Noilett fur more fully circumstance i t t , a i t '4l,at there was one other_ra.... direc lk),l, Niel BeaenteS brought before t e h namely,the s meeting had been co h n e v w e n ne r d efte h r e . to t lb , - cq 'inn. u Pon the proprietors to sanction the directors dir'its, ° ~, ' 4 att °Lint Of money necessary Pay it seemed to the tciareni,untostt_ane 14 r ttor a L 'a the present state of their affairs_e. I I timate course to . the required A k pit th e Y far the more prudent am [4l .l lill ent ie 9 ll eY, as they were empowered li t q \vii:;7lth their approval, h Nh t i cl i ev e ,, ° !! er h alf - shares—a have to e o d p a by s y e Act o t of h i nse strictly speak- Ili , d b e ,t , . it it were not deprecated at , 11 c p e res w e h n ic t h m h om e moment, tlit t • t hey :PIY regretted hereafter, b . eea ! iw.laeki thei r ! re not in a position to issue shares ij o g 11 Act of Incorporation, and the Object of until they they c lit Y beforTeY was to be enabled to pay 'the e ition which the ftitor % '," i i °l rig to Parliament. The proposberre , w if they ti . It eztiZlnnitted was, to enable them to • h deposits neces- N;kkt uf`iiea,t to do So, money to the e i xte T nt h p ey erm t e L:htkol ao arliam ent—niaiwely, 366,5t00 ount of .money ha n d te b d e b e y o Aet, ra.is ed , tl i,' this before, because he lortettqi6uy calls had not reached the m lim e i v t ti t le o r , -L to enable them to borFe"!_m.ots tter ,falooortga" h last call made put ownhidellebethne br., or bonds. an. T dt. h ot i n s e li '4,, 4 th at e 'half the capital, i involved the tell s ,Pitie, llostion. This propos' i 'if itte4ot• ssi,l,r.ould have the effect of . this p la n of very protectinga g r reed themd t o b fromthe Ithichatlea;ite tittle tb come. He thought prudeht '!ol tlle,te both upon the ground o t f h t e h m e o t r e e rms upon I ,te deltirp,"4ll,eY could be obtained, and :444!oeicello s • ''''' Plattwhich itpresented for paying thethe srehqarine.- s l, 1 -a in gad - r espect of the new schemes which the direc nv:kore,,,sanctioned. The first resolution Itet,ll4 mended the meeting to adopt, construction auhsedthe of an l• a tilk te 1 5 000/ towards the to j o i n the cleith.b,telaoluwita,,!.front'Exm.outh towards Exeter, . — ge. ti‘ s 4ht t• W. inway, at or near the Countess Wear-bria ,tclt e ot Issued X strongly recommended that new shares ^ l 4 ,e 4 ad o ,, to meet these new schem . ith which he 11 "-. "Ilttecterd ill a great many other lines 0 , 44 . a and he thought it a very proper and judicious ks:k4 i 441 4 R k e .' ti on, led to considerable discussion, tdhieshCresnty tti:su Itztifleg that it would almost amount to ' '' , 4l ret Th.:hares, rendered it DO) , the 'flaking of thOse lines which alone till the Acts of Parliament had been ob 11hr g, b.at they ehould borrow at all. ,:alf.sb:r4slc aaw no difference betwe r e i n or th o e a i; m i e ss n u t in o g f It i b et , es, and new companies requi- _..„... e . y 0 4a ,o,re their Acts were obtained ; t , 40, it Z a t B d th t at difference, because ' " 88 ai a there was a gre th evon Com et but, in r p i t :, t', kid pa, d,e would buy into the Sou t i l at hh t ilathe tir tn Zg r premiums on the shares,lial a f il the advantages tt 41.t0. weuil Ta e t ethly. would enjoy they had been original thinking, 1 11 1 t 1 N an etoefts. The Zntltledt if g f h t e e meeting was clearly against ii Pro i3B4ing balflsh;res for the present, and the reso 13 h. TI I '"'ed hy the Chairman was carried unanimously. _ (11' I se, _ 0 11 . 1,Zt I r r easeiation.reiative to the Launceston a o nd wh S i o e u h tl i i i tetti7sioa aroma 8 then proposed from the Chatr,.upo _ _ l _ IQt aria, in which Messrs. Fripp, Whiteford, wo° now ethers joined as to the advantage of the altera -1(7 ti r Por4l/ssed, by w ' hich the line will be carried roun o d . ,!,,Ogh lytii•ir utiles further by way of Lydford, msad 'a ttls'lteolamteb Abbot and' thence to Tavistock, as . was at ,',Nii.:,Devo-s'il lin e Ti i sdone in order to connect . it with the `Bl% N er44l._ bedan with the Cornwall line, bywhich a t he Cork will , rid Crecliton, on from E xeter N pe t resoall, on the broad gauge. IltreZtted to t t l having -passed, the directors were ne o x w t -, te. ~orrow the sums required for the purposes n iltp Mme Sue s ° etkress, 'options were then asked of the Chairman as to the tl "j 1 th at ' „the works on the coast, and that gentleman )v r3ia Yley w a , s-' 4 41, 'anti . re Most satisfactory, and that there were Nai ue g thrficultiei, nor any other difficulties but w ~,,(,re lit diftenities h is drbcourse of 1, 11 is iihogot over in rogol a working. The state pa4, l ea op posed to them. e , e r n h gut awe re y e now about eight r parties li Y : IPh °l ' Pipe ready, and The eseeven miles of permanent ca. e %II di Nt kJ occult WaS that they could not get the --.. ell°ugh, althottgh they had three foundries A Ice , lbeit the I . e' he Pr' nee ,panic4l IVYId4 ! (ss Aug us ; .on, to !!I by Lag, 11 _ maid. .), in Ww t : flesley yol.illnstnb her ft° r , Freg ine isua l Pon' tbs out in e tus a 51'i Sir Jao to )11 A ViS't urer 1 :e ;pooner , day, ich f e o r We ns fr table , of a c°il ir y Of P ° P l ,t glas oo sPe ci nee de e iva Ttag ei lous od oly P le ra d Iti ger,. '63e9s"t" Mr. L iu l t ; vturged her gory ia Pa w" led ' l°4 ded ia " to R id? I. i jorl , ex cur f t ervoo4 111;40 ra% e ',ter tier .Y yes terol d or e r'. to 1 tOO ken Ito 1°4 C41 ken 1 .;1 a to 0 ' to l °l ' C —t. en t ° :l4 anti'. P' ertrud:ico 'er's Warrit'r. LotteP eiWe3tl3' Maid. :',, 130. dsor• rin. vAl f : d bf panic 16~, eue Vreke i l , Afr t° • 'OO 4TO S I . 6413' 1 . 0 . ~ 1 335 h the t lO ti° ll le d . 9 P eCti' d IT: , nd .I c o o a Pei ,r '(3 t heir f°f ee II lied 0 0 ' 1 t M en d s 1 11 ' : with 11 t l 'the ir Tor r 6 o•e th 3t pit /el 0,6 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY regularly at work, and would employ more if they court get them. Ju.reply to questions . The CHAIRMAN stated that there was no truth in the state ment that lately went the round of the papers, relative .to an improved and more direct line being also constructed by this company. The Hon. Gentleman declined, however, to state when any part of the line would, in his opinion, be ready for opening. PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT.-BEAUTIFUL SPE- CIMEN OF BIRMINGHAM MANUFACTURE. We were yesterday morning litely invited by Mr. Thomas Lane, of Great Hampton-street, Birmingham, to call at Radley's Hotel; fur the purpose of examining some speci mens of his new manufacture of pearl enamelled on glass, which he is about to present, by permission, to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The present to her Majesty consists of a pair of elegant screens, on which are beautifully painted, on a ground of pure white, the rose, the shamrock, and the thistle. A pearl dove is descending with the olive-branch, over which is the imperial crown. Beneath the emblems of the United Kingdom appear St. George and the Dragon, surrounded by illu•ninated foliage. The present to Prince Albert consists of a magnificent chess-board of glass, ena melled with pearl. The squares of this chess- board are formed of quatrefoils] blazoned in the centre, and on the principal lines with the lien .and unicorn heads, in pearl and gold alternately, the remaining squares having the lion and unicorn rampant alternately in pearl and gold. In the spaces formed by the quatrefoils appear the rose, the shamrock, and the thistle, enamelled in mother of-pearl upon an azure ground. On the extreme boundaries of the square appears the Queen, enamelled in pearl, on a scarlet ground; and the border consists of a series of dol phins, in mother -of-pearl, enamelled on a sea-green ground. The table is set in a most elaborately decorated frame of papier mache ; and here the immense superiority of the new invention is at once apparent. The papier mache frame is perhaps one of the most superbly decorated speci mens of the species of manufacture ever exhibited, but it looks positively dull in comparison with the brilliant effect produced by the patent enamelled pearl on glass. We con sider this invention of Mr. Lane's as one of the most import ant improvements in decorative art that has ever been pre sented to the public. It is superior in many respects to en caustic painting and fresco, inasmuch as it is more brilliant and more "durable, for the colours are absolutely unfading, and the glass basis is so strengthened by the process of inlaying with pearl, which acts as a cement to the glass, that should the glass by some accident get cracked the inlaying holds it together. We understand that a beautiful moon light scene by Muller has bean copied in the pearl and glass enamel, the effect of which is most brilliant. Windows of painted glass might be copied in the pearl and glass enamel with the most magnificent effect; and as a decoration fur interiors we think that it only requires to be known to be most extensively employed. • T H -H We yesterday visited the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for the purpose of seeindthe . Maiiiiiiiiiii Horse , " General Washing ton," the property of Mr. Carter, the Lion King, who is ex hibiting him for a short time previous to taking him across the Atlantic. The " Mammoth Horse" is unqtiestionably the largest horse in the world; he stands twenty hands high, and weighs twenty-five hundred weight. He is of the dray horse breed, his colour is jet black, he is stout and well-pro portioned ; few horses can show such . good points as "General Washington," and his shape is matchlesss ; in fact he is a perfect -model of proportion. He is exceedingly docile and good tempered; and most certainly, as regards size and shape, he is the most remarkable animal ever seen. In the same room with him is another horse, a perfect contrast, as exquisitely modelled, as beautifully proportioned, AS "General Washing.. , ton." " General Tom Thumb," for such is the name of the Mammoth's companion, is one of the most diminutive of his species—the smallest of Shetland ponies, but, like all little creatures, he makes-up in fusSiness what he wants in power, and is most amusingly fidgetty. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS. Wednesday was the morrow of St. Martin, and, according to ancient custom, the Judges and various members of the Privy Council assembled in the'afternoon in the Court of Ex. chequer, for the purpose of performing the ceremony of pricking for sheriffs for the ensuing year. Shortly after two o'clock the Right Hon. H. Goulburn as Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Earl of Lincoln, as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests ; Sir J. Graham, as Secretary of State for the Home Department, each attending as members of the Privy Council, entered the Court. The members of the judicial bench who took their seats were,. the Lord Chancellor, Lord Denman, as the Lord Chief Jus tice of England; the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Baron Rolfe, and-Mr. Justice Erie. Mr. Baron Alderson was absent through illness. The list of sheriffs for the different counties was eventually arranged as follows : Bedfordshire—William Stuart, of . Tempsford-hall, Esq. ; Robert Newland, of Kempston, Esq. ; and Thomas Abbott Green, of Pavel:them, Esq. Berkshire—William Stephens, of Prospect-hill, Esq. ; Wil liam Henry Stone, of Streatly-house, Esq. ; and John Mercy of Winkfield-place, Esq. Bucks—Sir William Robert Clayton, of Harleyford-house. Esq. ; the Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, of Went more; William Lowndes, of the Bury, in Chesham, Esq. Cambridgeshire and luntingdonshire—Samuel Newton, of Croxton Park, Esq. ; Sir Charles Weyer Watson, of West Wratting, Esq. • Henry John Adeane, of Babraham, Esq. Cumberland—Joseph Pocklington . Senhouse, of Barrow house and Nether-hall, Esq. ; Gilfrid William Hartle7, of Rose-hill, Esq. ; Henry Dundas Maclean, of Lazonby, Esq. Cheshire—James Hugh Smith Barry, of Marbury-hall, Esq.; Ralph Gerard Leycester, of Toft-hall, Esq. ; Henry Brooke, of Grange, Esq. Derbyshire—Sir Robert Wilmot, of Osmanton, Bart. ; John Bell Crompton, of Milford, Esq. ; Sir Robert Burdett of Foremark, Bart. Devonshire—Sir Walter Palk Carew, of Haccombe, Bart.; Sir John Pahs'er Bruce Chichester, of Arlington-court, Bart., and Henry Champernowne, of Darlington, Esq. Dorsetshire--(.;harles Porcher, of Cliffs-house, Trnkleton, Esq. ; Thomas Bowyer Bower, of Iwerne Minster, Esq. ; and Henry John Reuben Dawson Darner, of Milton Abbas, E Durham—Ralph Stephen Pemberton, of Barnes and of Usworth-house, Esq.; Edward Collingwood Blackett, of Sockbarn-hall, Esq.; John Fawcett, of the City of Durham, Esq. Essex—John Clermont Whiteman, of the Grove, Thoydon Garuon, Epping, Esq. ; William Coxhead Marsh, of Park hall, Esq. ; Beale, Blackwell Colvin, of Maugham's-hall, Waltham Holy Cross, Esq. Gloucestershire—Sir Charles Cockerell, of Lezincote, Bart. ; George Bengough, of Newland, Esq. ; and John Raymond Barker, of Fairfurd-park, Esq. Herefordshire—John Partridge, of Bishop's-wood, Esq. ; Sir John James Garbett Waltham, of Kuill-court, Bart. ; and John Francis Vaughan, of Courtlield, Esq. Hertfordshire—Felix Calvert, of Hunsdon-house, Esq. ; Humphrey Harper Berchall, of Bushey-grange, Esq.; and William Parker ' of Ward-park, Esq. Kent—John Deacon. of Mabledon, Tunbridge, Esq. ; William Osmond Hammond, of St. Albans, Esq. ; and Sir Samuel Scott, of Bromley. Leicestershire—William Anne Pochin, of Barkley, Esq. ; William Wootton Abney, of Swepstone, Esq.; and Henry Freeman Coleman, of Evington- house, Esq. Lincolnshire—James Banks Stanhope, of Reverley Abbey, Esq : ; Theophilus Fairfax Johnson, of Spalding, Esq.; and Richard Ellison, of Sudbrooke Holiue, Esq. Monmouthshire—Thomas Protheru, of Malpas-court, Esq. ; Charles John Kemys Tvnte, of Cefo nably, Esq); William Hunter Little, of Upper Fantygoyhee, Esq. Norfolk—The Hon. Francis Baring, of Little Buckenham ; . the Hon. Charles Spencer Cowper, of Sandringham; and Wyrley - Birch, of Wretham, Esq. Northamptonshire—Allen Allieoch, of Orlingbury, Esq.; Thomas Tryon, of Bulwick, Esq. ; and the Hon. George James Finch Hatton (commonly called Lord Viscount Maid stone), of Kirby. Hall. Northumberland—Charles William Orde, of Nannykirk, Esq.; James Henry Hollis Atkinson, of Angerton, Esq. ; George Bandon, of Brockalee, Esq. Nottingbamshire—Francis Hall, of Park-hall, Esq.; John Vere of Carlton-upon-Trent, Esq. ; Thomas Blackborne Tlaorston Hildyard, of Flintham, Esq. Oxfordshire—Mortimer Ricardo, of Kiddington ' Esq. ; Samuel Weare Gardiner, of Combe-lodge, Whitchurch, Esq. ; Matthew Piers Watt B oulton, of Great Tew, Esq. Rutland—The Hon. Charles George Noel (commonly called Lord Viscount Camden), of Flitteris-park ; John Gil sh Inchley Taylor, of Preston, Esq. of - Wing, o pshi Esq. ; reß s ichard Henry Kinchant, of Park Hall, Esq.; Purveyc. Sillitoe, of Petwell-hall, Esq.; Joseph Venables Lovett, of Belmont, Esq. s omersets h,Te--Richard Meade King, of Pyrland-hall, Esq. • John PiLitthew Quantock, of Norton Sub-How don, Esq. ; and Edward Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead court, Esq. Staffordshire—John Levett, of Wychnor, Esq. ; Sir Ed ward Dolman Scott, of Great Barr, Bart.; and the Hon. Frederick Goug,h, of Perry Barr. County of Southampton--;John Beardmore, of Uplands, Fareham, Esq. ; Lancelot Archer Barton, of Woodlands Emsworth, Esq. ; and John Wood, of Sheddon-grange, Alton, Esq. Suffolk —Sir Robert Shafto Adair, of Flixton, Bart. ; Henry James Oakes, of Nowton-court, Esq.; and Thomas James Ireland, of Ousden-ball, Esq. Surrey—Charles M'Niven, of Perrysfield Oxted, Esq.; Francis Bogle Shannon Wilder, of Busbridge-hall, Esq. ; and Lee Steere, of Jayes, Dorking, Esq. Sussex—William Townly Mitford, of Pitshill, Esq. ; William Gratwick Kinleside Gratwick, of Ham, Esq. ; and Thomas Fitzgerald, of Muntham, Esq. Warwickshire—Charles Thomas Warde, of Clopton-house, Esq.; Thomas Mike, of Martoke Castle, Esq. ; and John Towers Lawrence, of Balsall-heath, Esq. Wiltshire—The Hon. Jacob Pleydell Bouverie (commonly called Viscount Folkeaton), of Longford Castle ; Wadham Locke, of Ashton, Giffard-house, Esq. ; Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, of Everley, Bart. Worcestershire—Edward Gresley Stone, of Chambers court. Esq. ; William Hemming, of. Fox Lydiat-house, Esq. ; and Joseph Frederick Ledsam, of Northfield, Esq. Yorkshire—George Lane Fox, of Branham-park, Esq. ; James Walker, of Sanhatton, Esq. ; and Joseph Dent, .f Ribston park, Esq. WALES. This is the first occasion that the sheriffs for the counties in Wales have been pricked on this day. Much inconve nience had been found to arise in consequence of all these functionaries not being nominated on the same day, and an Act, the Bth of Victoria, c. 11, was ,therefore passed last session to enable their appointment to take place on the morrow of St. Martin. Anglesea—Norris Matthew Goddard, of Ffrwdouen, Esq. ; John Lewis Hampton Lewis, of Henllys, Esq.; the Right Hon. Spencer Bulkeley, Lord Newborough, of Treiddon. Breconshire—Morgan Morgan, of Bodwigead, Esq. ; Rhys Davies Powell, of Graig y Nos, Esq. ; Penny Williams, o Cefn Pare, Esq. Camarvonshire—Charles Henry Evans, of Pontnewydd, Esq.; Sir Harry Dent Goring, of Graiglwyd, Bart. ; Tho mas Wright, of Berwenfaur, Esq. Carmarthenshire—Sir William Dundas, of Nanncrychydd, Llanelly, Bart. ; Sir John Mansell, of Llanshphan, Carmar then, Bart. ; Seymour Phillips Allen, of Kencerd, Cardiganshire.—Alban Thomas Davies, of Tyglyn, Esq.: James Davies, of Trefechan, Aberystwith, Esq. ; Abraham Grey Harford Battersby, of Peterwell, Esq. Denbighshire —Brownlow Wynne Wynne, of Garthewin, near Abergele, Esq. ; Richard Lloyd Edwards, of Brouhau log, near Abergele, Esq.; Richard Jones, of Belham-place, Ruabon, Esq. Flintshire--Samuel Henry Thomson, of Brvncock, Esq. ; Llewelyn Falkner Lloyd, of Naunerch, Esq. ; Thomas Moly neux Williams, of Penbedew, Esq. Glamorganshire—Richard Franklen, of Clementson-house, Esq. ; Thomas William Booker, of Velindra, Esq. ; and Nash Vaughan Edwards Vaughan, of Rheola, Esq, Merionethshire—Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, of Noo nan, Bart. ; John Griffith Griffiths, of Faltunddyn Fawr, Esq. ; and Hugh Jones, of Gurmddelwm, Esq. Montgomeryshire--John Foulkes, of Carno Esq.; Edward Gatacre, of Nantymeichied, Esq. ; Christop her Bullen, of Buy wilwarch, Esq. Pembrokeshire—The Hon. William Henry Edwards, of Marines; George Henry Carew, of Carew Castle, Esq.; and John Harding Harries, of Trevacoone, Esq. Radnor hire—Thomas Prickaril, of Dderw, Esq. ; John Abraham Whittaker, of Newcastle-court, Esq. ; and John Williams, of the Skreen, Esq. THE SHANE MARKET.—The Great Northern and Eastern Clothes-Line did not move a peg all the morning, and Great Trunks, which opened well, closed heavily. A juvenile Stag, whose scrip was at I discount, cried out pie ouely for his par, but got no attention.—Poach. THE GERMAN REFORMATiON. LOWER SAXONY, Nov. 3.—We learn from Baden that Ronge's reception there would have been more cordial had not the Government taken such effectual measures for sup pressing every demonstration. Our correspondent adds, "It is, however, undeniable that those among us who are the most thoroughly persuaded of the necessity of a reform in the Roman Catholic Church are decidedly opposed to his re form in the direction it has now in many places taken, and which they regard as founded on unchristian principles; it seems, therefore, more than probable, that Catholic reform among us will proceed in a distinct and self-chosen course. Both clergy and laity are deeply embued with the principles of Wessenberg, who, we have reason to know, is avowedly hostile to the direction followed by Ronge's adherents." In confirmation of these views, I may state that the clergy of two chapters in this duchy have just laid their wishes re specting ecclesiastical reform before the Archiepiscopal Col lege. The chapter of Geissengen proposes—first, the educa tion of young theologians in the principles of Wessenberg, to the exclusion of scholastic divinity ; secondly, the revival of synods; third, the abrogation of the laws enforcing priestly celibacy; and fourth, the universal use of the German lan guar4e in public worship. The Heidelberg chapter dwells chiefly on the importance of a return to the ancient practice of a regular observance of synods, trusting, no doubt, to their originating propositions for a more thorough reform. Runge is now (22d October). after a short tour in our duchy, gone on to Ulm. Dowiat left him at Constance to return direct to Dantzic. The effect of their tour has undoubtedly been the formation in several places of German Catholic con gregations, from some of which Rouge received addresses and other marks of attachment or respect, while in other places hostile and threatening symptoms of popular indigna tion manifested themselves. This was particularly observ able in some Roman Catholic districts of the kingdom of Wirtemberg. Ellwangen especially distinguished itself by the exhibition of an anti-reform spirit, among others, by setting up a target on which a full-length portrait of. Ronge was painted for the village youths to practise their shooting skill upon. The police, gowever, soon removed the offensive demonstration, lest a collision of sentiment might produce one less intellectual in its consequences. BAVARIA, OCT. 22.—1 t having been notified to Govern ment that an individual named F— busied himself in proselyting for the new Catholic sect in the neighbourhood of Wundsiedel and Baireuth, the local authorities have re ceived directions to warn him against persevering in such practices; and should he attempt to do so, to place him at once in close arrest. It is rumoured that similar attempts have been made in various other places, though speedily checked by the watchful interference of the police. BADEN, OCT. 24.—We are credibly informed that differ ences, which have for some time existed between our Go vernment and the Archiepiscopal See, have occasioned a mission to Rome for the purpose of settling some questions respecting an alleged infraction of earlier agreements, of, which the Government is, however, wholly unconscious. Indeed, the conduct pursued by Baden towards the Catholic dissidents gives, one should think. sufficient guarantee (were a certain party ever satisfied), for its reluctance to invade, even in appearance, the privileges of the Roman Catholic Church. The Ober-Rhine Zeitung, of October 25, states that Ronge and Dowiat, desirous of . evincing their high esteem and re spect for Wessenberg's personal character, had expressed a wish to pay him a visit, to which a friendly consenting reply was given. Yet Wessenberg, foreseeing that the conversa tion at such an interview would either turn, or be supposed to turn, on the questions of the day, expressed a wish , that Dean Kneuze and Sub-Dean Kotz might likewise be present, by which all false rumours would effectually be counteracted. This very natural desire, however, was un fortunately the occasion of the visit being altogether omitted ; for the very limited period of Ronge's stay in Constance ren dered a previous arrangement with the two reverend wit nesses quite impossible. Hence the unfounded, though in dustriously spread, report, that Wessenberg had declined a visit from the reformers. ELBERFELD, OCT. 25.—A Christian Catholic church has been formed in Dinsberg, and purchased the chapel belong ing to the former St. Elizabeth Convent for their public worship. BERLIN, OCT. 27.—A statement appeared recently in a Haniburgh paper, that " a deputation of the Catholic dissi dents had been honoured with an audience by the King, who had informed them that two conveniently-situated houses belonging to his Majesty, were at their service to hold their meetings in." We have authority for contradicting the above, in so far as the Catholic dissidents were not admitted to an audience ; but the King had spontaneously, previous to their request reaching him, conceded, at the suggestion of the Lord High President, the houses in question for their accommodation. BRESLAU, OCT. 25.—Our cathedral dean, Ritter, is at this moment in Rome, whence he is expected to return as Che valier d'Eperon d'Or. Dr. Thenier has already been sum moned to answer for his conduct before the ecclesiastical courts, and will most probably experience the excommuni cation-thunders so soon as the Prince Bishop returns from Vienna. MUNICH, OCT. 25.—1 t is well known that, of all the Pro - testant congregations which have in modern times been formed in Roman Catholic Bavaria, only one, that of In golstadt, has attained, after years of persevering effort, to the possession of a church and clergyman of their own. The churches in Newburg (on the Danube), Passau, Eichstadt, Landshut, &c., are still in the unhappy condition of spiritual orphans, unable to support a minister or to provide places of worship of the humblest description. We are, however, in formed, and God grant it may prove true, that it is intended by government to make such arrangements as that this cry ing evil shall speedily be remedied. The following has appeared in the Ulmport :—" Oct. 20, 1845.—M. Julius Chownitz has seen fit, in his publication, called The Reconciliation, to make an attack on my honour, which has found its way into all the ultra-montane papers. Little inclined as I have hitherto shown:myself to enter the lists with those who employ their pens in bringing accusa tions against such as they are pleased to term ' creed changers,' I must still entreat the respected public so long to suspend its judgment, until I can furnish, in a separate publication, my justification from the false charges which have been heaped upon me—my time being at this moment too much engrossed with higher and weightier occupations to admit of my doing so with the precision and extent which I desire. (Signed) WunsiLE, German Catholic preacher." BERLIN, OCT. 29.—The Dutsche Algemeine Zeitung gives the following remarkable declaration from ProfessorHengstenberg (who found a defender in the Prussian monarch when attack ed in the address of the Berlin magistracy), in his treatise upon the Schleurmacher School :—" If, by a striving after rule, is meant an attempt to use the press as an engine for up holding a personal and private influence, the editor of this journal (the Lutheran Church Magazine) can safely appeal to the accusers themselves to produce a single fact by which it can be substantiated. He remains precisely in the same position which he assumed seventeen years ago, and hopes and expects to remain so to the end of life. His only joy in this world is searching into the Scriptures, and he blesses the hour as his happiest in which he can sit and meditate on the Psalms. If he have, indeed, won any influence over the minds of one portion of his countrymen, it has been gained by spiritual weapons, and those alone, and few, perhaps, would be willing to purchase this small gain at the price of a degree of obloquy and abuse of which the present day furnishes no example, but with which he is abundantly served." STUTBGARDT, OCT. 29.—1 t was notified by our authori ties to the German Catholic preacher, Mr. Wurmle, from Ulm, immediately on his arrival here, that he should desist from taking any part in all such religious performances which bear any relation to social life, as for instance, bap tisms and marriages, which latter two must in future be per fonned by Evangelical divines. Now, it so happens that both of these instances exist just now, and that in the one, a marriage, the Evangelical preacher refuses to solemnise it, and as Mr. Ronge has been permitted to baptise during his stay here, people are at a loss to account for its being now re fused to every other German Catholic divine. A great many of our German Catholics set out yesterday for Esslingen, where M. Ronge will perform Divine service, and where his reception was very warm and cordial. TSERLOMN, OCT. 26.—Oar German Catholic community increases every day. Religious instruction has already com menced to be given to those who are preparing for confirma tion, and up to this time, their number amounts to twenty. The great increase of the community has made it requisite that, besides a Committee of five members, some elders be also appointed. A hymn and prayer-bookfor the German Catholic church is preparing, and in a few days the first part of it wily appear in print, and will contain those hymns which are to be chanted at the morning and evening service for the first quarter of the year. Such a book is a great desideratum, and will be an acceptable offering to all German Catholic congregations. Parson Breidenbach will shortly favour us with a visit, and perform Divine service to the German Catholic congregations in our neighbourhood. DANTZIC, OCT. 27.—The Committee of the German Catho lic community at Marienbugh makes it publicly known that the German Catholic preacher, M. Rudolph, who till now was officiating for it, arrived on the 13th of this month at Breslau, and that he will probably perform divine service there. The object of this public announcement is to refute the report which has gone abroad of M. Rudolph, who has relinquished his post at Dantzic, having returned into the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church, from which he had separated. BRESLAU, OCT. 29.—A German Catholic congregation has just been formed at Friburg, which is composed of the inha bitants of six neighbouring villages, and which, styles itself the sister Germait Catholic community of that formed at Breslau. BERLIN, OCT. 30.—Several persons at Koln, among whom are an Attorney-General and several law officers, have met for the purpose of establishing a German Catholic community there. It is the principal town of the Rhenish provinces. THE VOTATO CROP.—With one exception, the ac counts this day from the provinces do not differ materially from those heretofore received. The single case in which there is a difference, is a statement by the Agricultural So ciety of the county of Cork, that the disease has not reduced the potatoes in that country below the average amount; and that " there is a sufficient quantity" in that quarter. The necessity, however, of the observance of the greatest care in keeping the root dry, as the best means of preserving it, is averred, and planting potatoes immediately is recommended. It appears that disease does not prevent the potato from shooting freely. The late rains have caused great anxiety everywhere. The Government Commissioners have issued a fourth report. It recommends " autumn planting," and refers to cases in which it has been successfully adopted. The Commissioners agree with those who believe " parasiti cal fungi similar in their nature to those which produce mildew and dry rot to be the real cause of the malady."— Dublin Pilot. BOSToN.—On Thursday last, at a meeting of the Boston Town Council,' it was unanimously resolved to oppose the London and York Railway before the House of Lords; hitherto that project has had the most strenuous sup port of the Boston corporation. It appears that the cau-e of this change is an extensive deviation from the plan originally proposed by Mr. Cubitt, and agreed to by the corporation, for the site Of the shipping station, which, however, has now been altered on the plans, and instead of being commodious for the town of Boston, has been fined in the Skirbeck guar taro—Doncaster Gazette. MOR NJ NG, k, --LITERATURE. if 7/ 7" HISTORY of the CONSULATE and the EMPIRE FRANCE under NAPOLEON. By 1 1 1. A. Thiers. Vol V. We have already reviewed three volumes of this work, and after the pains taken in ascertaining its cha racter and the abilities of the writer, we had hoped to be spared further labour in pointing out more of his faults and wilful mis-statements. The present number. how ever, is - so extravagant .in its details, and abounds with so many' errors both as regards France and Eng land, that it will be necessary to point out a few of them, and subjoin extracts in proof. It is ti singular fact that Thiers, who seems' so anxious to place his country in the first rank among civilised nations, and who has diminished the merit of every great man in France contemporary with Bonaparte, in order to extol his idol, is the greatest calumniator of the French nation, and has done more to lower his hero in public' estimation than all the writers who have impartially, or even with national prejudices, criticised the deeds of Napoleon. We learn from him that all the French admirals in Nel son's time were rank cowards, that his very name terri fied them, that some of them dreamt of his astonishing victories, and in their waking hours could think of no thing else ; that none would venture to meet him on equal terms, and that one to whom the fineat fleet ever raised by France was entrusted by the. Emperor, trembled at the thoughts of Nelson, and fled befre clouds and visions which his imaginatio n repr e s e ntel as an English fleet commanded by the hero of the Nile. The character of Bonaparte, too, is represented in the most unfavour able light, not intentionally, for M. Thiers is constantly heaping absurd eulogiums upon his great genius, his humanity, his decision, and fifty other great qualities, many of which no doubt he poisessed, but virtually describes him as a great tyrant, as a man who cared nothing for the destruction of a hundred thousand Frenchmen, and the capture, imprisonment, or death of the best soldiers and sailors of France, provided he had only a prospect of obtaining some victory on which his ambitious, restless, and unsocial mind was bent. We shall adduce extracts to prove these statements. The mind of Thiers is altogether of the most forbidding cha racter. We can find not one French personage in his whole history for whom he seems to have anything like respect or esteem. They are all brave of course, pos sess great devotion, and would die for France, but still their defects are placed in such a light that it is only surprising how Bonaparte could have governed th e country with such agents. Talleyrand is represented as a man of the most 'ordinary' abilities, slow, hesitating, and looking only to self.' Villeneuve is described as a rank coward ; Bernadotte (ene of the best generals and most able civic rulers that France ever produced) is never mentioned but with some imputation on his character ; all the brothers of Bonaparte seem to have been very ordinary characters, even Lucien, whose decision -of character saved the hero of Marengo: from destruction, when his wavering spi rit quailed before the representatives 'of the people, or whatever other character they possessed during the coup a s tat at Saint Cloud, has the smallest degree of merit allotted to him. Josephine was ruinously and foolishly expensive in her toilette ; she was a friend of the detested Bourbons ; she was, constantly annoying the Emperor, and the Emperor, in his turn, acted to wards her like a brute. We hear of no cordiality be tween them ; but we hear of the Empress devising secretly some plans to mitigate the severity of the Con queror. Facts are related, as it were inadvertently, which leave no doubt that she was a woman of a feeling and honourable mind ; and when these became known to Napoleon, he insulted her by the rudest and nest im perious language. The murder of the Duke d'Enghien is called an " event," or a " great misfortune." The ,cruel deed, contrary to all justice, humanity, and national laws, is lamented because it brought odium on Napoleon, and roused the whole of the Continental States against him—not because it was .a crime of the deepest die, and justified the allies afterwards in excluding its author from the pale of civil rights, and chaining him on a rock till the hour of his death. The present volume embraces the history of events after the Duke's murder to the breaking up of the camp at Boulogne ; and in delineating these events, M. Thiers makes all the principal actors perform most ridiculous parts. The only sound reflect ing man who figured in the scene, appears to have been Admiral Dectio. Bonaparte was resolved to risk every thing, according to M. Thiers, and boldly advance with his flotilla on England, and revenge, by a certain con quest of Londdn, and, consequently, the United King dom, the insolence and disgraces of centuries. For some time he would listen to no advice which - might deter him from such a project, and Bonaparte at last changed his mind, and we give the reasons why : " The works of the armament along the coast of Boulogne were finished, the forts constructed, and the basins dug. The troops having completed their task, had now returned to their military exercises. They had acquired a truly admi rable discipline and precision of movement; and they pre sented an army not only inured to war by numerous cam paigns, and hardened by rude labours, but as perfect in manceuvres as though they had spent whole years upon the parade ground. The army, perhaps the finest that prince or general ever commanded, impatiently expected the arrival of its chieftain, newly raised to the throne. It burned to congratulate him, and to follow him to the theatre of a new and prodigious dory. "Napoleon was' no less impatient to join it. But an impor tant question had arisen among the professional men, as to whether the gun-boats composing the flotilla, nutshells, as they were called, could brave the English fleet. Admiral Braix and Admiral Verhuell had the utmost confidence in those boats. Both of them had exchanged cannon-shots with . the English frigates, had gone out of port in all weathers, and had acquired the conviction that these light craft were sufficient for clearing the Strait. Admiral Deeres, inclined to contradict every one, and especially inclined to contradict Admiral Bruix, thought the reverse. Those of our marine officers who were not employed on the flotilla, whether from prejudice, or from the ordinary inclination to criticise what we have no s part in doing, inclined to the opinion of the minister Decres. Admiral Ganteaume, trans ferred from Toulon to Brest, had witnessed an accident which we have mentioned above, and which had cau4ed him much anxiety for the fate of the army and of the Emperor, to whom he was sincerely devoted. The sight of a gun boat, capsized before his eyes in Brest roadstead. almost keel upwards, had filled him with anxiety, and he bad instantly written upon the subject to the minister of marine., That accident, as we have said, was of no importance. The boat had been unskilfully ballasted, the artillery had beefi ill arranged, the men were not sufficiently practised, and the ill-distributed weight, added to the confusion of the crew, had led to the shipwreck. "It was not want of stability that Admiral Decres appre hended. The flotilla of Boulogne, manoeuvring for two years in the heaviest squalls, had done away with all uncertainty on that head. But he addressed the following objections to the Emperor, and to Admiral Bruix : "' Undoubtedly,' said he, ' a twenty-four pound shot has the same force, whether discharged from a gun-boat or from a ship of the line. It causes 'the same damage, •often even niore, when discharged from a slight vessel, which it is diffi cult to hit, and whose horizontal tire takes effect between wind and water. Add to this the musketry, destructive at a short distance, and the facility for boarding, and the value of the gun-boats cannot be doubted. They carry above three thousand guns of large calibre, that is to say, as many as a fleet of from thirty to thirty-five sail of the line, a fleet which it is not often easy to assemble. But where have these boats been seen to measure themselves with the large vessels of the English? In but one situation, that is to say, close in shore, in shallo ws , am id st which those large craft dared not trust themselves, to follow an enemy which, nume rous though individually weak, was prepared to riddle them with balls. It is similar to an army enclosed in a defile, and assailed, from the summit of inaccessible positions,•by a cloud of adroit and intrepid sharpshooters. But,' continued Ad.. iniral Deere', 'suppose those gun-boats in mid channel, out of reach of shoals and sand-banks, and in presence of ships no longer afraid to bear down upon them ; suppose, still further, a stiff breeze, which would render manoeuvring easy to the ships and difficult to your gun-boats, would not these latter be in danger of being sunk in great numbers by the giants with which they would be obliged to contend?' e" Perhaps,' replied Admiral Bruix, we- might lose a hundred boats out of two thousand ; but nineteen hundred would pass over, and they would suffice for the ruin of Eng land.' Yes,' rejoined Admiral Decres, supposing the dis aster of the hundred boats not to strike a panic into the crews of the other nineteen hundred; supposing the number of the nineteen hundred should not prove an inevitable cause of confusion, and supposing the officers to preserve their coolness, for hesitation and alarm would be inevitably fol lowed by a general catastrophe.' "Attention had also been bestowed upon the hypothesis of a summer's calm, or a winter's fog, two equally propitious opportunities, for in a calm the English ships could not bear down upon our boats, in a fog they would be unable to see them, and in both cases their redoubtable encounter would be avoided. But these circumstances, though occurring twice or thrice in every season, would not afford sufficient security. Two tides, that is to say, the space of four-and twenty hours, would be required to get out the whole flotilla, ten or twelve hours to cross over, and, allowing for the al ways inevitable loss of time, about forty-eight hours in the whole. Was it not to be apprehended that in this interval of two days a sudden change in the atmosphere might sur prise the flotilla in full operation ? "The objections of the minister becres, then, were very serious. Napoleon drew his answers from his character, his confidence in fortune, and the remembrance of the St. Ber nard and of Italy. He said, that his most brilliant opera tions were accomplished in spite of obstacles as great; and that while it was necessary to leave to chance as little as possible, something must be left to it. However, while re futing the objections, he knew how to appreciate them, and this man who by dint of tempting fortune at length for feited her protection, this man knew how to spare himself a peril in order to add a chance of success to his plans. Rash in conception, he always evinced consummate prudence in execution. It was in order to meet these objections that he incessantly reflected upon the plan of bringing, by an un expected manoeuvre, a grand fleet into ti Channel." Agreeably to the new scheme the french fleets were dispersed in all directions to deceive the English Ad miralty, so that, by inducing the English fleets to hunt after them, an opportunity might be found of bringing a strong French division into the Channel when England had no maritime force in that quarter to oppose it. Ville- • neuve went in one direction, some other admiral in another, and one of them was even sent to the East Indies, as if the English were such fools to forget the main chance. Villeneuve was sent to the West Indies, but there he cut a sad figure, although he had General Lauriston always at his elbow to buoy up his courage and drive Nelson out of his head. All, however, would not do. One morning " he fancied he saw Nelson with fourteen, sixteen, perhaps, eighteen sail ; that is to say Kith a force equal to his own, ready to come upon him and give him battle. On the instant he formed the de termination of returning to Europe." And here we may give an extract about this formidable Nelson, which does justice to that great commander and to the gallant men whom he had so long accustomed to victory. We hardly find any other character in the work fairly treated Nelson, whom he so much dreaded, had arrived at Bar badoes early in June, after a prodigiously rapid voyage, sail ing fearlessly with only nine sh. Imagining that the French intended to retake Trinidad from the Spaniards, he had embarked two thousand men at Barbadoes, rallied the two vessels of Admiral Cochrane, and, without staying to revictual or refit, on the 7th he was in the Gulf of I'aria, before Trinidad. There he discovered his error, set sail again, and on the Wth made Grenada, He prepared to return to Barbadoes ; to land there the troops be had need lessly brought thence, and to return to Europe with eleven sail. What activity! what energy! It is a new proof, that In wr r—and in war by sea still more than in - war by land— the c,uslity of tho forces is always of more consequence than ' eleven sail, was full of co 9 their numb. ,Nels<nlowitith, "." MenEruve wit iidence, on those seas , on which _1 "nrs !*' but - twentysail, andthose manned by heroic sa... On his return, Villeneuve luckily escaped At. to his great terror fell in with Calder, and was forcet. . fight. Thiers seems to claim the victory. " says he, " ended the battle, which might have been taken for a victory on our side, but for the loss of the two Spanish ships." These two ships, he avers, were not burly taken—they simply drifted into the English line, and Admiral Calder. hurried off with his priZes in the greatest consternatiOnAest the gallant - Villeneuve should again come up with . him, and it was by accident only that the cowardly English were not annihilated. "At day-break," _says Thiers, " the situation of the two squadrons was clearly discernible. The English were retreating, but carrying off the two Spanish vessels:" " Grief and exasperation became general on board our vessels. The crews asked to renew the action, and fight a de cisive battle. The wind was in our Gym - Ir, as on the previous evening*, blowing from us towards the English. If at this in stant Villeneuve had given the signal to bear down upon the enemy, without any other order of battle than the order of speed in sailing, fourteen of the eighteen vessels we still possessed, being of an equal rate of speed, would have fallen upon the English at once; the other four would have arrived soon afterwards, and the battle would certainly have been in our favour. Roused by the cry which arose among all the officers, Villeneuve at length gave orders for that 'move ment, and_went with Lauriston on board the frigate l'Hortense, to give his orders verbally to each chief of division. The Argonaut, the Spanish admiral's ship, having sprung her mizen-top-yard, required time to fish it Ville neuve would wait for her, which took till near noon. Then he commenced the chase; but the wind had slackened, and he saw the English steal away from 'hint without his being able to gain much upon them even under a press of canvass. Villeneuve at last, to his great . j , y, got a sight of land, and ran into Vigo, ,and afterwards entered the roadstead between Ferrol and Corunna. There he re ceived pressing orders from Napoleon "to hasten to Brest. and give battle to Cornwallis, at the risk even of annihilation :"- " But (adds the author) there was a sort of fatality attached to this unfortunate seaman, to disturb his spirit, and to lead him from pang to pang to the result which he fain would have shunned, that is to say, to losing a great battle, and losing it without obtaining the only result that Napoleon demanded of him, that of being four-and-twenty hours in the Channel." All this obloquy cast on poor Villeneuve is to lessen the disgra , le of Trafalgar. But Villeneuve would not, or could not, come to Brest, notwithstanding the follow ing pressing order from the Emperor:— " I hope, Vice admiral Villeneuve, that you arrived at Brest. Set out, lose not a moment, bring my united squadrons into the Channel, and England is ours! We are all ready, everything is embarked. 'Be here but for twenty four hours, and all is ended.' (Imperial Camp of Boulogne. 22d of Aug st.)" . _ He bad taken shelter in the bay of Cadiz, in. the very opposite direction, for the best reason in the world. His whole fleet would have been annihilated by the vast force the English;had ready to meet him.. Napoleon then "called Villeneuve a coward, and even a traitor, and directed orders to be instantly drawn up for bringing him by force from Cadiz into the Channel if he were gone to Cadiz." Decres, however, contrived to frustrate the order, as he considered the assemblage of the English fleets between Ferrol, Brest, and Portsmouth to be "horribly dangerous." Then his wild rage fell Upon Decnt and though Decres knew perfectly well, and Napoleon also, that Villeneuve had gone into Cadiz, still the farce was kept up. Napoleon was " incessantly upon the sea-shore, looking for some sudden arrival upon the horizon. Naval officers, stationed with their glasses upon the various points of the coast, were employed to observe all that was visible upon the sea, and to report to him." At last Decree persuaded him that the fleets had sailed for Cadiz. Then follows a scene which we will leave M. Thiers to describe. It represents Bonaparte in the very worst light —a tyrant, and even a tyrant to his intimate friends; a hypo. critical deceiver, who knew that his admirals could not accomplish impossibilities ; who covered his own defeat at Boulogne by heaping upon them disgrace ; who made their treachery and their cowardice, as he was pleased to call their judicious and only safe measures, pretences for breaking up the camp, and marching with his whole army against Germany—schemes which he had already prepared, aud'which he would have carried into effect had even all his fleets ventured to obs•y his crders. But we doubt if any such orders ever were given. Never was a scene for effect better got up in France, but France only, than the following : " It was with deep grief, mingled with violent bursts of anger, that Napoleon at length gave up all hope of seeing his ' fleet arrive in the Straits. Such was his irritation, that a man for whom he entertained no ordinary friendship, the learned Monge, who almost every morning made a very military breakfast with him in the imperial hut on the tea shore, Monge, on seeing him in that disposition, discreetly re tired, judging that his presence would be troublesome. He went to M. Daru, then principal secretary at war, and told him what he had seen. At the same instant M. Darn him• self was called, and had to repair to the Emperor. He found him agitated, talking to himself, and not seeming to perceive the persons around him. Scarcely had M. Daru arrived, and still stood silent and waiting for orders, when Napoleon went up to him, and addressing him as if he had been acquainted with everything, said, ' Do you know where Villeneuve is ? He is at Cadiz 1' Then he launched out into long and fierce invectives against the weakness and incapacity of all who surrounded him, said that he was betrayed by the cowardice of mankind, deplored the ruin of the most splendid, the most secure of all the plans he had ever conceived in his life, and displayed in all its bitterness the grief of genius abandoned by fortune. Suddenly mastering his agitation, he all at once calmed himself, and with a surprising facility recalling his mind from those closed ways of the. ocean to the open roads of the Continent, he dictated, for several hours in succession, with art extraordinary precision and presence of mind, the plan which will be given in the followint , book. It was the plan of the immortal campaign of 1805. There was no longer the slightest trace of irritation either in his voice or in his countenance." By the Author of SOIREE IN THE BELFAST DIS TRICT LUNLVTL.; ASYLUM.. • . (From the Northern Whig.) • On Thursday evening last the annual soiree was given to the patients in the Lunatic Asylum, by Dr. Stewart, whose and effective system of management entitles him to all praise. On entering the apartments w h ere th e entertain ment was; given, an d which were tastefully ornamen t e d w i t h evergreens, and briantly lit, we were greatly struck with the appearance which their inmates presented. There was none of that violent .or outrageous conduct which we are apt to associate with our- ideas of madness—on the contrary, there was among all the patients, with but a single excep tion, a prevailing quietness of demeanour; and, but for the occasional wil;:ness of their glance, •and the incoherency of their expressions and conversation, one would never ima gine, for a moment, that they were other than sane men and women. In one of the apartments appropriated. to their use, on the evening in question, at the end of which there was a plat form erected for the visitors, a considerable portion of whom were ladies, there was a pianoforte and a violin; the latter instrument was played, in' an astonishingly correct and ani mated manner,- by one of the patients, while a number of others, male and female, joined in one of the Most. extraor dinary dances it was ever our lot to ivitness. 'lt would be impossible to conceive anything more fantastic or outre than their movements. One girl, with, a pair of shoulders like a Hercules, performed a most remarkable summersault, to the infinite amusement of the whole company. They 'all seemed to enjoy- the exercise, and kept up the dance with great spirit for a' considerable time, re:ieving each other by turns. In passing through the room adjoining that in which the dancing was going on, we fell into conversation with one of the patients, a keen-eyes, middle-aged' man, who was pos sessed with a wonderful idea of his own dignity and majestic pretensions—" Do you know," said he, " what's all this about ?—I cannot, for the life of me, conceive what all. those ladies and gentlemen are doing in there ; -, but perhaps they're fond of amusement, and they have come to see the dancing— ' that's just it. Maybe they are the Royal Family—:ah ! if', they are, I'll speak to them. Do you know what it is—l have been shamefully treated—l have been made. a prisoner of wrongfully, by men who compassedl my defeat, knowing, that if they thus secured me; my claims to the throne Would be forgotten' and neglected. lam heir not only to the throne of England, but to the thrones of France and Scot land. If I have said anything offensive to you, I hope you will forgive me; but you know it is 'an exciting subject to converse upon—to be heir, as I - am, to - thethroneS of Eng land, Scotland, and France, is a-matter of some importance both to myielf and the nation at - larg,e ; and I certainly do think, that if the public considered' my case with the atten tion and respect due 'to such a' proceeding 'of the State us has involved me In ruin, and by which, as you see,. I have been made a prisoner, . that immediate steps would be taken by the Lord Chancellor, if he have any honesty in his soul, to restore me to that position in society whiCh I once oc cupied. Ah ! here comes the Queen !" .- • Just at this moment a' very Queen girl, leahing on the arm of a gentleman, approached. "Alt, your Majesty! " cried the patient, " won't I have your Majesty's gracious pardon ? Are not you the Queen of England - " Not exactly,' replied the lady, - " Oh ! well, then, if you're hot the - Queen of England; you must be the Queen of Spain. You laugl=there con be no doubt of it—you are the Queen of the British Isles—your Majesty, I kneel before you (kneeling down), I again entreat your Majesty's smiles—l hope you won't forget the ferment though. - The Prime Minister * as your Majesty very well knows, 1s under deep obligations' to me : and don't think I would be expecting too much, if I asked - you -to make me an Admiral. Such an appointment I am' fully entitled to; it would only be commensurate with the ser vices I have done to the State, leaving my pretensions to the throne out of the question altogether. And your Majesty, perhaps you may not be aware of the fact, but I can inform you, that I have fought and bled in the cause of truth, and in support of those principles which placed your Majesty, and your royal ancestors, upon the throne of these realms. Why, I should like to know, am Ito be kept here- - -it is a very wearying kind of life, and my faithful subjects—God knows what is to be c o me o f them in my absence I The Le gislature are imperatively called upon to investigate the mat ter, and that with the slightest possible delay." At this particular place, the heir to the throne became very incoherent; and, his attention having been caught by some object, he rambled away from the group. In a retired corner of the dancing-room, surrounded by a number of the visitors, was an intelligent-looking man, who had been for some time an inmate of the Asylum, reciting an extraordinary piece of composition. ' This man was a poet, and the verses were his own. He dwelt upon those passages which he himself admired, with great emphasis; and was evidently highly gratified with the applause of his auditory. Opposite the poet, in another corner of the room, was a patient, who, we were i n f orme d, h a d b een a graduate in Trinity- College, Dublin. He was a man of quiet demeanour, and, judging from his conversation, which was plentif u lly interlarded, with quotations from the Greek and Latin Fa thers, a scholar of no mean pretensions. He gave some long passages from the " First Book of the iEneid," but could not commence with the words of the poet, till he had gone over the four lines of doubtful parentage which precede that exquisite production. He afterwards recited some of the most striking passages from "illomer's Iliad," dwelling, With. rapt and solemn air, upon the sonorous and grand sounding syllables of the magnificent Greek. 'He said he delighted in the Greek tragedies above all other writings —there were a loftiness of sentiment, and - a dignity' to be found in ! them, for which, in other compositions, we looked in vain. • The - Latin playwright Terence was the only one who at all ap proached those inimitable writers in spirit, and grandeur of conception. Leaving the classical enthusiast, we came upon an old Armagh choir man, who was seated at the piano, thundering away, with the most exemplary perseverance, at " God save the Queen." He afterwards played some snatches from the antique Cathedral services of the seventeenth century; and ' a minor chant of Dr. Woodward's. He had quite the organ style and touch, and had, evidently, been accustomed to that instrument. It seemed to s, Chat he imagined lie was seated - at the organ, from the peculiar way in 'which he shifted, in the fingering, and' the sustaining effect be gave the music, by his manner of grasping the chords. One of the visitors afterwards played for him the College Chant, and Dr. Battishill's in E. "Ah," said the patient to him, when_ he had done, "you're not so goad a player now as when you were organist of St. Patrick's I" The dancing and amusements were kept up till ten o'clock, the utmost harmony and good-humour prevailing among the patients; and the visitors shortly afterwards departed, pleased with, and astonished at, the entertainment they had been spectators of. We cannot conclude without expressing our warm admi— ration of the benevolent and excellent system which has been adopted by Dr. Stewart towards his patients, with such signal success. The harshness and cruelty of the old mode-of treat ment are, in this valuable institution,, entirely done away with ; and the freedom from personal restraint enjoyed by the patients, so far from being an evil, has been attended by the most beneficial results. The following composition was taken down, from the dic tation of the poet mentioned in the foregoing sketch, and sung by him before several of the faculty, who were present on the occasion SONG. THE VILLAGE BARBER TURNED QUACK DOCTOR. A village barber born and bred. (I trimmed them in a minute), Made something of t'outside the head, Though there was nothing in it ; I learned to bleed, and stumps to draw; But ne'er lock-jawed the Proctor; So up to London went, 0 la! And set up for a Doctor ! • SlN:mug—But I couldn't forget my old trade of periwig making, so I depended all upon puff—cured patients that I never saw, and killed all that .I did see; so, to prevent ac cidents, I invented a new medicine, that would neither kill nor cure—got a patent for it—cured their purses of a ple thora, and my own of a galloping consumption ! But the main chance was my maxim and motto, so I drove along in the capacity of a Quack, quack, fol- de-rol diddle-lal-de-daddi 0 ! Quack, quack, &c. My patient knew as well as I ; And, so the way I nicked them, Was let them live or let them die, I'd never contradict them • Whate'er they fanci e d, that tried— If cured, my skill was shown, Sir; But if, as oft it proved, they died, The fault was all their own, Sir, SPOKEN.—Patient—Doctor, I'm very ill. Doctor—Let me feel your pulse —put out your tongue; ah ! your complaint's a polyphosbia, as we say—vulgarly. a diascordium of the biliary duct. Patient—Duck, Doctor? I believe it was a wild duck did me all the mischief. Doctor—Well, well; we'll soon tame the wild duck—you shall have a narcotic, a cathartic, a sporific, and a sudorific. Patient—Soap and suds, Doctor? I'll never be able to swallow them. Doctor— Well, then, you shall have an anodyne. Patient-0 yes; I should like to dine--pray, Doctor, what may I eat? Doctor —Well, what do you like best? Patient—l likes goose and gravy soup, Sir. Doctor—have them, by all means—no thing's so good for the bile as g oose an d gravy soup; but avoid a wild duck as you would a Quack, quack, fol-de-rol, &c. At last I published, through the town, My patent, simple sirrup, My name got up, and then went down, And made a pretty stir-up. I said, in all complaints 'twas sure The worst of ills to smother, - And so it was, for it would cure One just as well as t'other. SPOKEN.-Oh, it was a charming composition : sugar, vinegar, mustard, and magnesia —sweet, sour, hot, and cold. If that was not calculated for all cures, I don't know what was. However, the medicine took whilst they took the me dicine ; and I took the 'money, so somebody was the better for it. The patent proved its utility, and the stamp duty service to the State. The physicians fretted, the surgeons were in a stew, and the apothecaries in a big passion. But a fig for the faculty, say I ; while in the stream of popularity, I drove on a swimming trade, which i s ver y na t ura lf or D uc ks that swim over the water ! ‘TOVEMBER 14, 1845; Chorus—Quack, quack, fol-de-rol, &c.. THE MANDARIN AND THE ENGLISH L A DY.--T_ o he degraded position of females in China is well known. N a ; No thing astonishes the Chinamen who visit our merchants by our Hong-Kong so much as the deference which is paid countrymen to their ladies, and the position w se hich the express helater are permitted to hold in society. The Very tl,hiethir theirdisgu disgust at asenedinwgonoduerrlhaodlivesmpeenrmcsinttesdo farto atfsoirtget h table dignity. wits wiAthy h o im un t g o H En o g ng li .ic English o m n e g r , e w hr e t re re t c h e e n e t o ly up too le took his yisityouth fuledby a wealthymandarin.to T d h u e ,el l l a w tt i e t r h rdeeglaigrdhetdonthehelr nlaiylove.. at tentively, and seemed ments. When she at length left the apartment, he said to the husband, in his imperfect English, " What y ou g i ve for that wifey wife yours?" " Oh,' replied the husband, laugh ing at the singular error of his visitor, "2,000 dollars" This our merchant thought would appear to the Chinese rather a high figure, but lie was mistaken. "Well," said the mandarin, taking out his book with an air of business, 'spose you give her to me, I give you 5,000 dollars." It is difficult to say whether the young merchant• was more amazed or amused, but the grave air of the Chinaman con vinced him that he was in earnest, and he was compelled, therefore, to refuse the offer with as much placidity as he could assume. The mandarin was, however, pressing, and went as high as 7,000 dollars. The .merchant, who had no previous notion of the value of the commodity which he had taken out with him, was compelled at length to declare that Englishmen never sold their wives after they once came into their possession, an assertion which the Chinaman was slow to believe. The merchant afterwards had a heart) , laugh with his young wife, when he told her that he had just di • covered her full value, as the mandarin' had offered him 7,00 ; tiollars for her.—Liverpool Albion. Thy , f.xpenses of conducting the municipal election of four councillors for Richmond, Yorkshire, are estimated at 3,0001. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. BACHELORS OF 3IEDICINE.=-1845. - FIRST Divlst9N.—Matthew Bains, King'a'College ; Frede rick James Brown, University College; D av id P eter E vans , King's Colleg e; Frederick John Hensley, King's College; Alfred Jackson, University College; John Ody, King's-Col lege; Thomas Palmer, Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland; Charles Bland Radcliffe, Leeds School of Medicine. Samuel Hop kilts Steel, King's Colle ge , ; , Phillimore Stiff, Uni. versify College; Robert Bowie Nalcott, St. Thomas's Hos vital :Charles Matthew Wayte, Guy's Hospital ; Ewing Whittle, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. SECOND ISIVISION.—Thomas Herbert Barker, University College; James Duncan, Kin g ' s College; Archibald Red foord Ridgway, London Hospital. BACHELORS ('F LAWS. FIRST DIVISION —Edward Mulhallen Marum, Carlow COl lege ; Phillip Anstie Smith,University College. TRIBUNAL CORRECTIONAL. (From the Boulogne Gazette.) On Wednesday there were a great many causes before the Court, among the others two for attacks upon an adversary with a knife, One was to a certain extent accidental; but the other was a base attempt at assassination, in which two Englishmen from Calais were seriously wounded. It ap peared that the parties had been in, an estaminet on the p or t and had there quarr e ll e d : on the Englishmen leaving they were followed by the other parties and a row was the conse quence, during which Bouloy, one of the assailants, used his knife, which was produced in Court stained with blood, a formidable weapon, laid open the cheek of. one man to the extent of three inches, inflicted three wounds on the top of • his head; another upon his ear cutting down tbe neck and laying bare the carotid artery, which the knife just escaped, and other wounds upon the body to the number of nine; the other EngliShman was stabbed in the back. Fortunately the'parties had, as an adversary, a man of a. forgiving dispc* Sition, 'who made slight of his wounds, and would not remain in bed so long as to send the part les before the criminal as sizes, although, when he left his bed, it was with considerable danger to his safety. On the trial the facts were proved, and the assailant, who had been already in prison for five weeks, was further condemned t o 40 days; imprisonment, damages, and fine. • - • ROBERTSON v. Seorr.—This was an action by Dr. Ro bertson Against Dr. Scott for injurious language against him in the street, capable of wounding his honour and reputation. The feels,' as stated in the Court, were these. The Medical Society of Boulogne called together its members and those English gentlemen, authorised by ordonnance, practising in Boulogne. At this meeting Drs. Scott, Robertson, and Camp bell attended. AU adjournment took place, at which •Dr.• Seat attended, but the other two were not present. It reached 'Dr. Scott that the absentees gave as their reason for not at." tending that they would not meet - the Society if he attend because he had no right to be there, not having a regular 'ordonnance (it appeared, on the trial, because it Was not re gistered). • Dr. Scott was much annoyed at touch a report, 'calculated to loWer him in the opinion of the French medical • profession, as a man asserting what was not 'fact, and thrusting himself, upon that assertion, into a society. where he bad 11 . 0 right to be, and he made such inquiries as lad him to believe that the whole calumny emanated from 'Dr. Robertson,. At once he resolved to see bins, show him the ordonnance under which he practised in France, and re quest that he would contradict his former assertions. The -first place.where they met was in the shop of Mr. Abraham, tho chemist, where Dr. Robertson was sitting down. Dr. Scott took a chair and sat opposite to him, 'saying, " I have been looking after you, Dr. Robertson, all the morning, hav ing understood that y ou h ave stated thatl I have no ordon sance to practise in France, will you oblige me by reading this?" handing to him the ordonnance. Dr. Robertson im mediately replied, rising at the same time, " I shall not read it., I don't wish to have any cornmsinication or anything to do with you," and he made towards the doorway, in which Dr. Scott placed himself, saying, " but I wish to have something to say to you." • Dr. Robertson then pushed violently past him ; shoulder met shoulder and Dr. Scott was nearly upset into the street. General Willis was passing at the time and he was called upon to depose as to what lie saw and heard. From his deposition we gathered that Dr. Scott said, " you have stated, Sir, that I have got no ordonnance."—" And I say so still."—" Then, Sir, you state a falsehood."—" I will go and lay the whole affair before the Procureur du Roi."— . " And I will accompany you," replied Dr. Scott, " that be may at the same time hear both sides'of thequestion." Such, so far as we could gather them, were the-facts of the case. The lawyers pleaded for one hour and a half on Thursday morning, pour et contre each doctor, and the Substitut called upon the Court to condemn Dr. Scott to a fine of 25 francs and the ex , pences,for having stated in public that Dr. Robertson had uttered a gross false' ood ; falsehood is a hateful vice. reproved by morals and religion, and the accusing any man of it in the public streets was calculated to Nure his reputation, particu larly that of the honourable profession of medicine. It mat tered not whether true or false. No man has a right to pro claim in the streets the misdeeds of another, if he did the law punishes Lim. He therefore called on the Court for the pe nalty, &c., against Dr. Scott. 31. Marteau was proceeding to defend his client, when the c i ourt interrupted him, stating it was unnecessary. The judges then retired, and, after a quarter of an hour, returned into Court, when the President read the judgment, vi bleb stated that the provocation received by Dr. Scott was a suf ticient excuse for bins for the words he used, they therefore acquitted him of the charge, and condemned Dr. Robertson to pay the expenses. SEDUCTION and MANSLAUGHTER. (From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.) Yesterday afternoon an inquest washeld before the borough Coroner, on view of the body of John Ratcliffe, of Union place, Howorth- street, Everton, who met his death under the following circumstances Mary Charnock, a young and respectably attired woman, who sobbed bitterly during the whole time she was in Court, deposed that she was unmarried, and the daughter of William Charnock. She resides with her parents at Upholland, and was well acquainted with the deceased. She had had a child, of. which he was the father.- Seven weeks last Sunday, at about the hour of four in the afternoon, he came to her father's house very muc h i n liquor. She was sitting .by the fire, and her fath e r was l y i ng upon the bed in one of Abe upper rooms. She desired the deceased to leave, as she had reason to know that her father was very indignant with her seducer, and that if they happened to meet together some evil consequences might possibly ensue. The deceased. however, not only refused to do as be was de sired, but said he would go up stairs and see the old man. At this moment the father came down stairs, and told the de ceased several times to quit the house. The deceased still refused, declared positively that he was determined not to stir, and said the old man was unable to put hire out. The father then took hold of the poker from the fireside, and the witness, fearing that fatal results might follow, stepped be tween them with the illegitimate child in her arms. They pushed her aside, however, and in her agitation she was un able to say which of them.struck. She did not see her father. strike with the poker, but they had a scuffle, the deceased fell, and the floor was sprinkled with bloOd. This was the' substance of her evidence. The deceased was subsequently conveyed to Liverpool in a whitechapel, and on the 22d ultimo he was admitted into the Northern Hospital. He then had a large abscess, occu pying nearly the lower half of the right thigh, and two small abscesses below the knee ; and after lingering in great agony until Sunday last, he died. Upon a post mortem examination by Mr. John Thomis Jackson, the house-surgeon, it wa s f oun d th a t h e h a d a frac ture of he ninth rib on the left side, a large abscess on the plura, another abscess on the outside of the chest, and another on the lower third of the right thigh, communicating with the knee joint. Mr. Jackson was of opinion that the abscess on the chest must have been the result of external violence, and that that, and the abscess on the knee, produced the death. Mr. Superintendent Brown took the dying declaration of the deceased on Thursday last He then said that Charnotk came downstairs on the Sunday in question, with a bar of iron, or poker, in his hand, that he first pushed him, and then struck him with the poker below the right knee, and that, when down, he kicked him three or four times on the right side and leg. lie added that his reason for calling at the house was, t 6 get a watch and 12s. which Mary Cher nock had, belonging to him. The CORONER, in summing up the evidence, said the cir cumstance of the case showed that the father had received great provocation—first, in the fact that his daughter had been seduced, and secondly, by the deceased refusing to leave the house. But great as the provocation might have been, it did not warrant the use of personal violence; and the question for the jury was, whether there was evidence of malice prepense, thereby making .the crime one of murder, or whether they thought it might be reduced to man slaughter or justifiable homiciee. The jury, after a few minutes' delibrati o n, re t u rned a ver dict of " Manslaughter;" and William Charnock, wh o i s a t present an inmate of irkdale gaol, will be tried on the charge at the approaching winter assizes. Sir Robert and Lady Perl will bP honoured by a large and distinguished circle at Drayton Manor next week. A small Dutch cutter has been seized at Hull having on board upwards of 7,0001 b. of smuggled tobacco. The captain and crew are all in custody. PROBABLE VACANCY IN THE REPRESENTATION OP CAMBRIDGE.—The lamented death of Sir John Mortlock will afford Ministers an opportunity, of which no doubt they will gladly avail themselves, of shelving Mr. J. H. T. Man ners Sutton, by transferring, his valuable services from the Home-office to the Excise; so that what with his sinecure, a salary for doing next to nothing, and sundry other odd pickings from the public purse, -our amiable Member may set himself down quietly for the remainder of his life, con sider himself a tolerable fortunate individual, and, like his friend, the Rev. Mr. Crick, bless his stars that he was " born a Tory." Some time before the news of Sir John's death had reached Cambridge, a letter had been received from Mr. Adair, announcing his intention of visiting Cam bridge to pav his respects to his old fri e n ds and future con stituents. middle of next week, and we make this Gentleman may, we believe, b e ex statement that it might be considered th a t hi s visit was entirely owing to the probable vacancy in the represents,- ut tion of Cambridge. The electors will, no doubt, have ample the e he " 1 apportunities of meeting Mr. Adair during his sojourn here, and, let our election come when it may, he is ready to ta k e the field.—• Cambridge Independent Press. ESCAPE OF A CONVICT. —On Monday evening, about five o'clock, the conv i cts employed in the Woolwich • Dockyard during i the day were mustered, as • usual, on their return to the Warner hulk, where during the night, and found to be all present. On their return to their night quarters, several of the convicts are engaged in bringing down the hammocks from a place constructed on the side of .the deck for stowing them during the day-time, and while engaged on that work, • which generally occupied from half an hour to three quarters of an hour each evening, one of the con victs took the opportunity, apparently for many suc cessive days, of boring through the plank at the stern of the Vessel, and in a very dark corner, and each day flied up the holes he had made with putty; blackening it over, to prevent suspicion. His plans appear to have been admirably effected; and he was enabled on Monday evening to elude the vigilance of the officers, and effect his escape, by tying the ropes of two hammocks together, and lowering himself at least a depth of 30 feet into the mud of the river, where he left all his' clothes, with the exception of his shirt and shoes. The name of the convict is Samuel Bridges, aged - 24 years; he was born at Bromyard, in Here- - fordshire, and was found guilty at the Worcester assizes, on the 15th of July, 1843, of stealing an ass, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. He was a basket-maker, stout made, with (lark hair .and grey eyes, and is five feet three inches in height. It is- suspected he must have had accom plices to assist him in his escape, as he often spoke to his fellow•convicts of going to America in the event of being liberated. His footsteps were traced round the east en t iii . the dockyard, but- there all traces of him were lost.- AN AMERICAN WELL.—A practical artil scientific gentleman offers for 30,000 dollat% 'to sink an Artesian,Weir in Boston to the depth of 1,700 leetiby which it is' estimated - that more than a million of gallons of the very best water'. c) . f.",'• can be throWn into the city every day, and to:a heiglit , n 3.••••••• at least 100 feet above the surface - of the eartli. effort. is about to be made to raise the money by SUbseriptioh,^ 1 American paper. : ..,,,.;;; T r ' z . • \:45, . • .1% . • . o_, GITHA OF .THE .FORES7I "/?odenhurst" 3 Vol?. In this utilitarian age, when everything assumes a practical character, when the very fictions are full of politics, or pictures of real life, a novel of this kind is indeed a novelty. It is a tale of " auld lang syne," a history of the Saxon kings. We constantly hear praises of the "good old times," but, certes, if this picture be correct, they were hardly so good as the present. The constant struggles between the Saxons and the Danes form the groundwork of the story, and the hundred perils and escapes of " Githa of the Forest" are worthy of the old days of knight-errantry—now imprisoned by her own countrymen, now ab ,ut to be sacrificed on the altars of Odin—carried captive to Denmark—saved, and recaptured. Never did hapless damsel suffer more truly in " hairbreadth perils, escapes, and snares ;" " none but herself could be her parallel." These extravagant adventures give an air of improbability to the tale, but perhaps, on that very account render it more interesting to the lovers of romance, and for these it was evidently written. Many of the skirmishes between the Saxons and Danes are described with 'vigour, and the character of the Northmen is admirably pour trayed ; they are represented as fierce and im placable invaders, men of stern, unpitying tempers, yet the slaves of superstition; willing to surrender their victims at the command of the seers, or ready to shed their own blood as a sacrifice on the altar of the terrible Odin. One of their strongest passions was the untiring thirst for vengeance, and showingno pity for a fallen foe ; yet, amid all this ignorance and cruelty,we find instances of generosity that would do honour to Christians. Such characters and such scenes are well suited for a romantic tale; but the earlier portions of this work are deficient in force from the constant repetition of similar scenes, and the numerous trifling incidents without apparent aim or object; the chief interest is reserved for the denoue ment, and the last volume is by far the best of the three. We conclude this fanciful and romantic tale with it feeling of thanksgiving to fortune, which has placed us in the 19th, not the 9th, century, when the peaceful encounters of Whigs and Tories form a pleasing contrast to the fierce struggles of Danes and Saxons, and wh( n the heart's blood shed in the temple of Odin is exchanged for the sacrifice of principles on the altars of expediency. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAlLS.—Wednesday the following notice, relative to the days appointed for the dispatch of the next foreign mails, and the vessels by which they will be conveyed, was posted at the Chief Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand :—" The Great Liverpool for the mails of the 20th instant, by which the next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, &c., via Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of that day. Peninsular Mails : The Madrid for the mails of the morning of the 17th instant, for Lisbon, Spain, Madeira, Gibraltar, Vigo, Cadiz, Oporto, &c. West Indies : The Teviot for the mails of the morning of the 17th instant, for the British and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras and Havannah), and for Ber muda and San Juan de Nicaragua. The next mails for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, rid Marseilles, will be dispatched from thence on the evening of the 24th instant. America: The Cambrian will sail from Liverpool with the mails of the evening of the 18th instant. TROTTING MATCH FOR 20L—Wednesday the match between Mr. Hill's :brown horse, and Mr. Wardle's black horse, to trot two miles in harness for 10/. a-side, came off at Wandsworth Common. The usual trotting conditions were complied- with. Both horses went away at a good pace, and turned the first mile, nearly together, in 3 minutes and 32 seconds. They then made for the winning-post, the black horse going ahead, closely followed by his opponent, till within 250 yards of home, when the brown horse broke out to a gallop, and Mr. Wardle's horse went in an easy winner, accomplishing the two miles in seven minutes and a quarter. SUDDEN DEATH OF J. PEEL, EsQ.—We regret to have to record the death of this gentleman, which took place at the Abbey, Burton-upon-Trent, on Tuesday morning. Mr. Peel was in good health up to the period of his death In the morning he was taking lunch about eleven o'clock, and was observed suddenly to drop, and closing his eyes he almost instantly expired. Mr. Peel was formerly partner in the extensive cotton manufactory at Burton-upon-Trent, and wes universally respected by all classes in the neighbour - hood.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. BIRTH IN I CAB.—Wednesday morning, Mrs. El;s%- both Mendurst, a married lady, residing in Church -street, Portman-market, entered one of the Paddington omnibuses, accompanied by her sister, for the purpose of proceeding into the City. On arriving at the end of Oxford-street and Tottenham-court-road, the lady was suddenly taken ill, and she and her sister alighted from the omnibus, and procured a street cab, directing the driver to proceed back as quickly as possible, which he did ; but before they arrived, the lady had given birth to a male infant. She was carried to her bedroom with the infant, and medical assistance was promptly rendered. BODY OF A:FEMALE FOUND DitowNED.---Wednes day fcranoon the body of a woman, who appeared to be about forty-foirr years of age, was found in Sir George Duckett's Canal, a branch of the Regent's Canal, at Old Ford, near Bow. The deceased, who is supposed to have been only a few hours in the water, is under five feet high, of fair complexion, with hazel eyes and dark hair, and had an old wedding ring on her finger, rings in her ears, and a thimble in her pocket. Her dress was a dark Merino cloak, over a lilac gown, and an old straw bonnet, trimmed with black velvet. The body Was talon to the sign of the Three Colts to await the inquest. THE lIMWE, Nov. 1 l.—lt .is said that her Royal High ness Princess Albert of Prussia is prevented, by indiiposition, from her intended visit to the Hague. CE. n ag. 7