The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-20 00:00:00

ESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS _ Preliminary surveys are now in course of progress fur th e purpose of ascertaining the best route for a nevi street direct from Westminster to Pimlico, and near to the. Great Western road, as the new line pro -I)°__sed by th e G overnment surveyors does not appear ' 4 . satisfactory to the inhabitants as they could being, in fact, only a slight modification , of .e . l ine known s ome years s i nce as Rigby Wason s. I nt% line starts from Abingdon-street, and takes a ao utherly course up to the Vauxhall-br i dge - roa d , so ti ~ or ," t, in fact, it rea ll y l eaves a ll t h e no t or i ous " slums w estminster quite unscathed. It is true to a certain " t ent that a p ret t y goo d c l earance o f wor thl ess h ouse s :till be made in the neighbourhood of Palmer's Village, 6 which it i s p ro p ose d th a t the new Government It will should pass; so far, perhaps, i t may b e we ll , as 4 4 .;i1l enabl e th e C omm i ss i oners t o e ff ec t their so 11d' impr ovements " a t a trifing expense, when , it' 'lnPared to the amount of capital required to perfect 1 4 1 new competing line, as now being surveyed. it 7 6 rs• Chaw ner an d P enne th orne ,' the surveyors tini the W oods and Forests, have been for some e Past eccupied very busily on this matter, oeipally in ascertaining the Yalue of the pro tetrtY through w hi c h th e li ne i s t o p ass ; we say their t, e, b ecause as the Woods and Forests surveyors, vi e have a very prominent pia to play in it—but i l ut a have they or th e C omm i ss i one rs thrown the n ve,anta of Westminster overboard, as if their con f' no con fence were o consequence, or as if the " ‘ i mprovement of Westminster were not j,„ ° _ lBl ,Y intended by the Government at all ? id _ the line i n t en d e d mere l y as an accommoda lin-road for Members of Parliament who happen to he ''' south o f V aux h a l - b r id ge - roa d , f or th e espec i a l e(t clmodation of the fashionables of Eaton and Bel- P e - squar es , or f or t h e part i cu l ar gra tifi ca ti on o f the R e uis of Westmi ns t er , w h ose p ro perty in that di -111 alread y so enormously increased in value, I,il, 1° thebe rendered still more valuable ? 'Why are not a i d interests and wishes of the inhabitants con tiotered , Are the " slums" of Westminster too re- Acov. en ' of filth and dust to receive the visits of the ar e V r°r s employed under the Woods and Forests, or tri these gentlemen unaware of the mass of poverty, and wretchedness, accumulated and ac terlulating on the property of the Dean and Chap- The Builder. 1,440110111 t OE REFUGE IN THE FRITH OF Fo!LTH.-- to Understand that the proposal of a harbour of refug e i rth e 1141, Shipp ing on the east coast of Scotland,to , `-e vicinity of Granton, has been for som n e time n u a n rt d e e r r . It'enusideration ofmany in fl uential parties i this _q favors able we hear, has been rece:ved en in ah t le h d e , m in os a t 1-,, --4. , 4 °1e manner, and we hope to be . 11191-.7 snort time, to discuss it in its several bearmg o s, as 4zibject is one of the very greatest importance .n t b t he wititeusercial classes and the public generally.—Ed inb u r g h u g ...tualsT ant,ea MY SCHOOLS AT SHEFFIELD.—LOs which rdWh arei-iar- l/ 40 the fi rs t stone o f t h e new sc hool '''',.,h ur t ch t ° be erected i n connex i on w i t h St. George's Shek el ' at the corner of Broad lane and Beet-street, VC' , on Thursday last. abilities Understand that a fair English danseuse, whose fenzlidmind personal attractions have rendered her a . Zse• e i a „e rival to the foreign artistes who are nowen leh - - a ' urury-lane, was not forthcoming on Satur d ay, fair called upon to sustain her part. Report says that rii,___o:e, with a gallant captain, has proceeded on a Wu_a.F .. to Gretna.—Po st. P PROFES SI ON. —At the last meeting of tb.,4 members of the Me dical Protection Assembly, , akley, M.P., moved, and it was carried undantoi .3-°4llY:—" That Dr. Jordan Lynch be requeste c feri a correspondence immediately with the presidents associations throughoutsecies of the principal medical the country, requesting to be inform e e t d .. -whether they are desirous that there should be a me 1 , 1 1 , 1 ! of medical delegates in London, and at what perio d v3'oonsider that it would be most convenient or most bileful for them t o assemble. " The o bj ect of the pro- Posed m eeting of del egates i s t o c onsid e r th e propriety f Of ta king some i mmed i ate an d d ec i s i ve steps wit h r e ere nce to Si r J ames Graham ' s B i ll f or t h e regu l ation of szePcal practice. a LORD 13YRON'S MONUMENT.— 12 . r Byron, excluded fro m the sacred precinctsof Ken- Th°rwldsen's statue of West ninster, is ab out to be erecte d i n t h e ce metery 641-green. —Literary Gazette. HER MAJESTY'S BUCK-HOUND S . --A field, con sisting of not more than forty or fifty horsemen, the nicet, on M onday morning, at B attended reemhill-hut. A beautiful stag, which went away in excellent style, upon inguted on the waste, made for Chobham, Meeterossing the Bagshot-road, near the Pelican, on to High Meech and Sunninghill, when it doubled to the right Mr.Forbes' plantations to Old Windsor-common, .and thence to Blacknest. Here, for some time, the stag was " mobbed" by the yokels of the neighbourhood, and headed in every direction to the great annoyance of the field. After doubling for Sunninghill and again back to Nacknest, it was run into and killed close to the Wheat liilst af, at Virginia Water, after a run, from, first to last, 0 an hour and a half. DRESSING WOUNDS AND ULCERS.—Dr. Langier's hew method consists in applying on the surface of the f o und or ul cer a solution of gum arabic, and on it a bit goldbeater'a skin ; thus dressed, a wound an inch in in diameter was reduced in the space of eight days to one-third or one-sixth of an inch in extent. Cicatrisa lion took pl ace so rapidly that the granulations, covered !bith a thin epidermis, were as numerous and visible as wo un d p ronefive, but.coald be touched without causing pain. . uced A b amputation of the breast, highly in flamed, a b ut four a half inches in length, and one r and a h a lf Ui breadth, under this treatment healed a- P i dlY, anti proposes applying Purulent secretion did not take place. He tat:o n of the thigh. this method to a mes.ound left by ampu- Medical Ti w of Tlae E ar l of Dartmouth has presented a donation -n guineas to the Birmingham Lying-in Hospital. l'h i e celebrated fox-hounds of Mr. Machell, of I,o'l'o.Y-bridge, have run no fewer than thirteen foxes 14 se ason, ten of which they succeeded in capturing. _. 4 4, LAD COMMITTED FOR MANSLAUGHTTAR.—A uioron iteh n Li quest was held on Monday, before A. H. : Igl- "' " r "cla at the Lamb and Cottage, on the body of we t Pritchard, a lad, whose parentes reside at instant' Rich mond -terrace, Widcombe. On the 2d i s --nt s as deceased and his brother George, who colt:beout two years older, were quarrelling, in the brothersOf the dispute, deceased threw a hatchet at his earne hitting him with it upon his 'shoulder. He bed striii,!'ll., ged, seized an auger, and hurled it at decease . pene t - ,Lnini on the inside of the, right thigh, which it Wound' to the depth of an inch and a halt; and left h a wid e. th e surface of which was a quarter of an inc diatel rofuse bleeding ens-aed, and the lad was Mate /V Y " l iveYed to Mr. Lloyd ' s, surgeon, where the was dressed. i i„ n u a to lln . ( e i nstna The brother George was taken - ""Y lot the o ff ence, and brought before the RiStrat es • an c on on t b,e 4th instant, but was discharge d, . biro. P e r , e . r tiN3 of his brother not appearing against his w o o s -ne 6th instant, the sufferer was removed by 11,1,;eased b y d was d - -er to the United Hospital, when the wound e the house surgeon, who prescribed t the i s , a ,,, l 'Y me icine, and desired his mother to confine C ontra ry to his bed, and not to bring him there again. ; 4 _ 4 the ilia directions, however, the mother took her hos pital on the following Saturday, when she ` vim again desired to take him home and keep him in bro ught ° n Sun da'', about two o'clock, the lad was j awsh to the hospital for the third time, his neck and of tin , " i ng become sti ff , and the usual symptoms alkas or o m Gel , ock-jaw, beginning t anifest them . Deceased was then bled, Egeeetting better , till after seven o'clock, when his mouth and appeared to be ..." 1 _ arne nearly closed, after which he was unable to take 'leoYrli.urishment. He remained in this state till Monday rn peet ing, about nine o'clock, when death ensued. A the inquest examination being deemed necessary, when t i t w" adjourned till Tuesday afternoon, th e ~„,,, ~ house surgeon gave it as his opinion that Whicii-lihnaud Plrodd. ezeadsles thigh had induced tetanus, Coroner, i n custod L d eath. The brother, who was Coroner, declin e d Y ',.. m tving been cautioned by the after about half antoluns clict of "Manslaughter'''. s a nY statement, 'and the jury, d eliberation, returned a vei l; acctrdingly com m itted against George Pritchard, w ho tasste.......Bath Her ald, to take his trial at the ne xt ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL-GARDENS. On Monday the :Itoyal Zoological -gardens received two boa constrictors, ~whaeinch wool . sent to this institution from Demerara in the '%/l cairn, by the Edinburgh Auxiliary Zoological Society there,,.or.dThese serpents are most beautiful specimens of their t. able species. When they arrived they were quite zeal but but the application of heat soon revived them, and t n o e o y are now very lively and active. Yesterday after n. n a South American tiger , brought by the Cherokee ze Greenock, as a present to the same society, also ar rived at the as It is a magnificent animal. At Vie first sight it rnig 7 ht be taken for a ] differ handsome ,eopard, but on nearer examination the ence from that animal is evident and strikin g. .Its spots are ar ranged in very marked squares and bands, which have the p e arance of s t r i pes ; hence we suppose it is called 842 after the tiger. It is the great jagguar of South America, and is as fierce and powerful, and as much feared i n the fore of 4 that country, as t h e t i ger .in the jun g l es of Asia. It is a ver rare an in o,:r colle ct i ons. Too much praise ca nnot he besto imal wed' upon the cap:ain of the Cherokee for his care and at tention to the animal during its long voyage. Thanks t(, him, it i s i n t h e finest health and condition, and one of the chief ornaments of the menagerie. These pre f.ientations are most seasonable, and cannot fail to excite the frequenter:, of the gardens, not only admiration for the spe inlet's, but a peculiar interest on account of their generous donors. —Edinburgh IVitness. DURHAM UNIVERSITY.—A Professorship of Ger man has been founded in this University, to which Herr LOwenberg has been appointed. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DEATH,-- 1 Mr. Vakley a n d t h e jury re-assembled at Mr . Ol n e y s, the Silver Cup, Cromer -street, to further prosecute the in- Wry re specting the death o f M r. Henry Williams, aged thirty-eight, managin g c l er k to a solicitor, residing at N °. 8, Constitution-row, Gray's Inn-road, whose death Was occasioned by th e point of some blunt instrument being thru s t i nto his left eye. After a long inquiry, the Coroner cleared the court of strangers, and examined at considerable length in private Inspector Barton and the . various police-officers seriatim. The Court having been • closed for above an hour, the jury broke up without any I verdict being formally delivered, but it was understood That they had made a general return, and that the vot oner h T „ se ad clirccted the closest privacy, for th e pur of seeing wheth er any party absconded, in .shim event, he stated, he would issue his warrant for thh I.tyPrehension of the suspected person, and then r eo p ee , e Il l? inquiry. The deceased has left a widow and tight lldreu, BANKS FOR SAVINGS. This day the new Act regarding Savings' Banks will come into operation. There are 33 sections in the same, amending, not repealing, the two former Acts respecting those establishments, namely, the 9th George IV., c. 92, and the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 14. From the day mentioned the interest payable to trustees of savings' banks will be at the rate of 31. ss. per cent., whilst the depositors are to receive not more than 31. Os. 10d. Some of the banks intend to pay as much as 31. per cent., and others not more than 21. 18s. 4d. per cent., leaving, in the former case, only ss. in every hundred pounds, and Gs. Bd. in the other instances, for the expenses of the establishments. And when it is considered that they pay no interest on fractional parts, the interest to be derived will be very great. A declaration, set forth in the recited Act, is to be signed by a depositor, a copy of which is to be placed in the deposit book. Officers of banks not paying over money in the time specified by the rules, on conviction, to he guilty of a misdemeanour. Depositors are once a year to produce their books at the institutions. At present, annuities, through the medium of savings banks, can only be pur chased to 20/. ; but after Wednesday next annui ties may be purchased to 301., and both hus band and wife may each possess an annuity to that or to a less amount. There are several pro visions in this Act to prevent the waste of funds in litigation, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, the barrister appointed to revise the rules of societies, has power conferred to decide all matters relating to deposits in savings' banks. In case a will be not proved, money may be paid to the parties entitled to the same, or, in case of persons dying intestate, a similar proceeding may be adopted. Payments may be made to married women, unless the husband shall give notice in writing of his marriage, and shall require payment to be made to him. In future rules are not to be sent to the clerks of the peace, but two copies are to be submitted to the barrister appointed for his certificate, who is to return one, and to transmit the other to the Commissioners of the National Debt. ADVENTURES OF A FOX. those of our readers who are in the habit of inn dulging themseivo With p i*:4; a into the country must know the new hotel kept by Mr. Henry Blunt, at Woolton. Amongst his live stock Mr. Blunt bas long had a couple of foxes, male and female, which, like Home's hermit, are " the wonder of the neighbouring swains.`' Bound in chains rather stronger than the chain connubial, neither the lady fox nor the gentleman fox ever ap peared inclined to rove from home, till lately a dispo sition to wander suddenly seized upon the latter, and, strange to say, he received assistance from his lady in the accomplishment of his wishes. Mrs. Fox actually gnawed through the collar of her lord, and like many an heroic female " f amous i n s t or y," heroically, for his sake, dared the vengeance of offended power. Reynard might immediately have made his escape, but whether the ancient appetite of his kind prevailed over his proverbial discretion, or whether he wished to fortify his inner indivi duality ere he set out on his travels, we know not, but certain it is that he crept slily among the poultry, and selected a fine plump chicken, on which he forth• with breakfasted. Then, " consideration, like an angel," came, and he gallantly determined upon help ing his lady, who looked wistfully on, unable to help herself. He selected for her a black Spanish cock, of a valuable breed, which, having killed, he laid before his spouse. He next set himself to work to provide provision for a future day. Seizing a fat goose, he quietly bit off his long neck, and concealed the huge bird beneath some branches in the garden. The vil lain next snapped at a fine duck, and was proceeding to bury it alive, when he was discovered, and, upon a rush being made at him, he at once cleared a wall ten feet high. He took another wall into Mr. Gibbons's garden, where his brush was seen for a moment ; but, determined to escape, he dashed at the carriage gate, which is planted with spikes, and actually cleared it into the road, where he was seen by Mr. Gore, who turned him, upon which he made across the country. He want to a farm be longing to Mr. Bibby, where lie lay concealed for some time ; but, on the following morning, he ap peared at the residence of Mr. Ambrose Lace, the excellence of whose poultry we believe he had the honour of testing. Next morning he favoured Mrs. Foster, widow of the late Mr. Foster, town-clerk, with a visit, and did her a similar favour. Here, however, he was pursued by the dogs, which seem to have given him something of a fright, for he was not heard of for several days afterwards. His next ap pearance was at the residence of our friend Dr. Shep herd, at Gateacre. Here, however, he again met with a reception which he did not like, the dogs having rushed upon him and chased him a considerable dis tance. He took the direction of Toxteth-park. Now, this very queer fox came originally from America, having, with his spouse, been presented to Mr. Blunt by the commander of one of the New York packet ships. Whether he was disgusted with the treatment he had met with in Eng land, and had determined on returning to his native land, or whether he mistook the forest of masts before him for a forest of another description we know not ; but it is certain that he " pondered refuge from his toil" in a very singular locality. Passing behind the Coburg Hotel, he crossed the bridge of the Coburg Dock, and took shelter under some loose timber. Here he was taken by Mr. Green and his man, who, seeing that he had a rope on his neck, at once conjectured he had escaped from captivity. Mr. Blunt was soon in formed of his whereabout, and, in a few days, he was taken back to his old quarters, where he may be seen living with his spouse, in apparent contentment and felicity, though he is compelled to regale on food less to his taste than fatted poultry.—Liverpool Albion. The following, though short, is a very comprehen sive provision : " Section 21.—And be it enacted, that all the pro visions of this Act, in as far as the same can or may be applicable, shall apply to the trustees and mana gers of any Government annuity society, and to the parties purchasing annuities, and to the rules and regulations to be made for carrying the same into effect." The Act has operation in Great Britain and Ire land, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the islands of Guern sey, Jersey, and Man. THE LATE SWINDLING AFFAIR. (From the Birmingham Journal.) On Wednesday a number of respectable tradesmen who had been swindled by the blind man, of whose nefarious transactions we gave an account last week, came before the magistrates (Messrs. Shaw and Nel son), for the purpose of detailing their grievances, and laying, if possible, a foundation for the arrest of the gang by whom they had been robbed. The first gentleman who presented himself was Mr. W. Arnold, solicitor, of Bennett's-hill, who stated that he applied for a warrant against a blind man, named Rice, and his accomplice, Joliffe, who had lately been practising upon him and numerous attorneys and tradesmen in the town. Indeed, he believed some of the oldest and most respectable practitioners had been defrauded by the swindlers, although they were rather ashamed to come forward. He, however, felt no difficulty about the matter ; and, considering that it was his duty to aid in detecting and punishing such persons, he should state the facts of his case, and ask for a warrant against the parties. The week before last Rice, who was a blind man, accompanied by a youth of most respectable appearance, called at his office, presented his card, and stated that he was recommended to him by Mr. Smith, of New-street, a friend of his (Mr. Arnold's). After a few words, Rice told him that he wished him to write to a man named Joliffe, of the Aston-road, for a debt of 631. 10s. He accordingly wrote, and in a day or two after Joliffe sailed at his (Arnold's) office, and expressed his great regret that Mr. Rice should have proceeded against him, particularly as he did not owe all the money sued for. He (Mr. Arnold) then agreed to accept 581. on the Monday following, in discharge of the debt due to Rice; and Joliffe was about to leave, when he expressed himself very grateful for the kind manner in which the debt had been reduced, and begged him (Mr. Arnold) to accept a guinea for his trouble, which he, of course, declined to do, and Joliffe left the office. On the Monday following Rice called again, and, on being informed of the arrange ment made with Joliffe, he appeared quite delighted, observing that he never really expected to have re covered the money. He then proceeded to say that he had advanced Joliffe 301. upon some deeds, and being short of cash he had assigned the deeds to another party, at Coventry, for 201., and had not then the money to redeem the writings previously to their being delivered up to Joliffe on Monday. He then asked him (Mr. Arnold) if he could advance him 20/., and the latter replied he would if he had so much in his desk, but opening it he found he had only 101. Rice immediately said that would do for the present, as he could borrow the remainder from some friend, upon which he handed him the money, and took his I 0 U for the amount, and the boy attested it. The money and deeds were to be delivered on Saturday, the latter to be given up to Joliffe on Mon day, when he paid the 581. Before leaving the office, Rice expressed himself deeply grateful to Mr. Arnold for the accommodation, and, as a small recompense for his trouble, begged his acceptance of 31. 3s. This offer he refused, saying that it was unprofessional to accept of any consideration of the kind, and Rice then left the office. On Saturday he was hourly ex pecting Mr. Rice with the money and deeds, but the gentleman not arriving, he (Mr. Arnold) was be ginning to wonder, when he took up the Birmingham Journal, and his eye caught a paragraph headed "A New Way to Raise the Wind; the Lawyers Outwitted ;" and thinking it something strange for those honourable gentlemen to be done, he read the article, and soon perceived that he himself was one out of a number of the professional gentlemen who had been swindled. Under these circumstances he applied for a warrant against Rice and his associate, as there could be no doubt they had been acting in concert. Mr. W. Hall said there were several other per sans in the town who had been swindled, but he could not get them to the office, as they did not like to ap pear under the circumstances. The parties then left the Court. We have received several communications from gentlemen in London and elsewhere, who have recog nised in Mr. Rice, from the case reported by us last week, an old acquaintance. One of our correspon dents, a sufferer, who dates his note from the Par thenon Club, Regent-street, informs us that the blind man, when practising in town, went by the name of " C. Radley, tailor, 13, Hatfield-street, Stamford-street, Borough," and his accomplice by the name of " Charles Portlock A ttwood, of Eltham, Kent." Another correspondent, a professional gen man, who, we have no doubt, was also victimised, says he can furnish a clue to the discovery and ap prehension of the scoundrels, should any measures be determined upon for bringing them to justice. This gentleman's address we shall be happy to furnish, if required, as he is most willing to lend a hand in bringing the transactions of the swindling company to a close. It appears the parties are well known to the metropolitan police, whose vigilance they have suc ceeded in eluding ; we trust our Birmingham force will be more successful when they make the attempt. INCENDIARY FIRE AT PANFIELD.—We regret to state, that about twelve o'clock on Sunday night last, a barn upon Currant's farm, the property of Mr. Gosling, and in the occupation of Mr. John Ratcliff, of Panfield, situate about a mile and a half from the town of Brain tree, was discovered to be on fire. Superintendent Malins and three of his constables were quickly on the spot, and two engines were in attendance •, but notwith standing the exertions of those present the barn, with its contents, consisting of the produse of 9 acres of oats and 2 of beans, a stable and cartledge, were totally consumed. There appears to be little doubt that this destruction of property was wilflully occasioned, and at present there is no clue to the guilty party. The stock was insured in the Sun Fire-office ; we have not heard iI T lan n oEus CREEP ac tin May ATs l T a . last. PETER'S Essex D H o ed. c eal ic.— An alarming whether the b u ildi ngs w ere similarly protected. Mr. Ratcliff, it w ill b e remem b ere d, suffered from a similar v occurrence took plac e y ester d ay morn i ng , a t St. Peter's Quay, about three mil es b e l ow t hi s t own , th e sur face of the ground for some acres in extent, having been affected with what in this district is called the creep, being a sort of incipient earthquake, by which considerable destruc tion has been done to property in the neighbourhood, the extensive building yard of Messrs. Thomas and William Smith, the eminent ship-builders, having been rendered for a time entirely useless. The first intima tion of danger was observed a week ago, but it was very slight, amounting only to a rent in one of the houses to the north of the building yard, which was repaired, and matters continued in the same state till nine o'clock yesterday morning. It may be proper to state that the dock, though on the north side of the river, is com pletely undermined by the workings of the Friar's Goose colliery, situate on the other side, and it is supposed the accident has been caused by the working or falling of the roof, or superincumbent strata. At the period abovementioned, the whole of the men and boys, nearly 200 in number, wer e a t b rea kf ast i n th e smith's shop and store, on the north s id e o f t h e b u ildi n g yard, when they heard a thunderin g no i se , and on looking out, beheld the surface of the ground i n mot i on. Th e y ra n away from the spot, and reached a place of safety, and there they were soon joined by the inhabitants of the neighbouring house who fled in the greatest consternation. In a few minutes the heaving of the surface ceased, and, on the men re turning to the building yard, they found the ground rent in various directions, presenting chasms several feet in depth ; the bottom of the spacious dry dock, capable of admitting vessels of the largest size, was thrown up in dreadful confusion ,• the sides rent ; and the whole presented a scene of destruction which might well appal the stoutest heart. The windows in the neighbouring houses were broken, doors and framework split and crushed, and several walls were levelled with the ground. The movement was confined to the building-yard and the adjacent houses. The quay next the river has sunk several inches, and the bed of the river, which before was " high and dry" at low water, is now covered to the depth of from eighteen to t wen ty-four inches. The water in the river was agitated, and the motion was felt on board the vessels , lying near. The men employed in t he building-yard have been di sc h ar ged, and all work sue. pended, and it will b e some time before the injury can be repaired.—Newcastle J ourn al. THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OP A BRIDE GROOM—It will be recollected that a paragraph ap peared in the papers last week, giving the details of the extraordinary and mysterious disappearance of Mr. Joseph Amis, many years bookkeeper at the Bull Inn, Aldgate, who immediately after his marriage had writ ten a letter to his bride, sending her a bag of sovereigns, telling her where to obtain the rest of his property, and concluding by a statement that she would in all proba bility never see him again. It appears that previously to the wedding he made arrangements to come into the occupancy of the Kent and Essex public-house, High street, Whitechapel, and had paid a deposit as earnest money. On the receipt of his extraordinary letter, his wife and her friends were naturally greatly alarmed, and began to fear that he contemplated suicide; although they knew no cause to which to attribute any mental distress or annoyance. They have, however, since been relieved from all their fears and anxieties by the return of the bridegroom, who having " thought better of the matter," resolved to come back and claim his wife like a man. The oddest part of the business is, that he could assign no motive for his strange conduct, merely saying that he experienced a feeling of despondency with regard to his new undertaking. He is, however, now in pos session of the Kent and Essex. Lord Saye and Sele, whose death we recently an nounced, was the oldest Member of the House of Lords, of the Whig party, having entered it soon after the death of his father, Thomas, the teeth Baron, in July, 1788. In common with Lords Clinton, Dacre, and the Duke of Newcastle, he derived his descent from the Lord Saye, who, with other confederated Barons at Runnimede, compelled King John to sign Magna Charta, and from the Viscount Saye and Sele who, in the wars of Charles 1., sided with the Parliamentarians, and was the friend of Hampden, Fairfax, Denzil, Hollis, and Oliver Crom well. Lord Saye and Sele assisted in the ever-memo rable struggle for carrying the Reform Bill, and having fur more than forty years uniformly and consistently voted with the Whig party, was offered an earldom by the Guy and Melbourne Administrations, of which offer, however, his Lordship did not avail himself. He is succeeded in his title and estates by the Honourable William Eardley Twisleton Fiennes, present and twelfth Lord Saye and Sele. It is expected that the mortal re mains of the departed Nobleman will be deposited in his ancestral sepulchre at Broughton, on Saturday next. SPARROW-SHOOTING EXTRAOEDINARY.—A very novel and successful mode of shooting sparrows was witnessed at Deptford on Monday morning. Two men of colour, who from their dress appeared to be Lascars, were amusing themselves by shooting sparrows in the proximity of the Docks, which they effected in the following wanner. Each man was furnished with a bamboo cane, measuring about three feet in length, also with a bag of clay pellets, resembling small marbles. One of the men, on perceiving a sparrow settle upon the ground, would approach it within fourteen or fifteen paces, and applying the tube to his mouth, placing it in a line with the bird, would propel one of these pellets by the force of his breath, through the former at the spar row, with sure and certain effect. In the course of a few minutes they had managed, between them, to kill no less than 13 of these birds, and were proceeding successfully, and so deadly was their unerring aim, that, out of four teen objects of the above description at which they dis charged their pellets, one only escaped, and in that soli. tart' instance the bird was at least 20 paces off the shooter when the missile was proketed at it. DEATH Or HARRY GATTIE, EsQ.—Died, at Read ing, on the 13th inst., aged 70, deeply regretted by his family and friends, Harry Gattie, Esq., formerly a most popular actor at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, and other principal theatres. Mr. Gattie's inimitable repre sentation of Frenchmen will be well remembered. Ifr. Gattie was a most honourable man, and he retired from the stage several years ago, universally esteemed by his brethren, and every one who knew him. • SUICIDE FROM DOMESTIC DIFFERENCES.--'An in quest was held on Monday, at the Black Lion, Water lane, Fleet-street, before Mr. Payne, on the body of of Anne Duck, aged 48, who destroyed herself with poison. Elizabeth Duck said that the deceased was her mother, and resided with her, her father, and her sister, at No. 1, Britton's-court. Deceased was very unhappy, and witness knew no other cause for her unhappiness than the quarrels she had with her husband. On many occasions, when suffering from his ill-treatment, she had taken poison, and on Sunday week she made a vow that, if he did not come home in a peaceable manner, she should not live another Sunday. On Sunday morninL last her husband came home, and the first thing he said to her was, " How about the lawyer," in allusion to his having been bound over to keep the peace towards her some time previous. Witness, while sitting up in bed shortly afterwards, waiting for deceased to come to her, heard her draw the cork from a bottle, and believing that she had drank poison, got out of bed to see. Shen then found two phials, both of which smelt of laudanum. Wit ness got her hot water to try and make her vomit, but find ing that ineffectual, she wentby her father's advice for a sur geon. She heard the deceased say that she had taken eight pennyworth of laudanum. Her father was a waiter at the Half Moon, Borough, but contributed nothing to the support of the family. He frequently beat her. Police-constable 327 said that be had frequently been called upon to quell disturbances between deceased and her husband. The husband he often heard use towards her the most disgusting language. Mr. Beasley, assistant to Mr. Day, surgeon, of Salisbury-square, said that, while administering emetics to the deceased, she begged to be left to die, saying that she wished the Almighty would take her. Notwithstanding all his efforts she sunk and died from the effects of the laudanum. She told him that she had become possessed of the poison by purchasing a pennyworth at a time. Stephen Duck, the husband, said that the unhappy differences between him tind his wife commenced a year ago , when he found her incenstant to the marriage vow. Two sons of the de ceased said that, ever since their childhood, the deceased and her husband had been in the habit of quarrelling through jealousy of each other. The jury returned a erdict of " Temporary insanity.* A new English church, called the Church of St. Paul, has been consecrated at Malta. It was erected at the expense of the Queen Dowager, at the cost of 13,5001. Lord Howe presented a beautiful statue of Faith, but the Lord Bishop objected to its being placed fn the church, and Faith accordingly remains in the gar- WWI TII SUN, L6NDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER .. (), 1344. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. ern nit TA (.1 —The various parties particularly charged with the national burdens have begun uy com - tn,n consent their annual outcry for remission. A motley group is already besieging the Treasury, proclaiming their several woes, and casting malicious side glances at every fresh competitor. Any attempt to settle their precedence cannot but be invidious. Each party has a claim which in itself is undeniable. Yet it is evident they cannot all be attended to ; for fiscal remission is by no means that illimitable thing some people seem to imagine. Tax-payers are a very grave kind of people, with solid apprehensions, and not easily put off with a joke; otherwise one might suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to appoint one day and hour to all his deputations at this season, and, when he had fairly got all the heads of the hydra before him, to read a chapter out of Swift's " Advice to Servants." The Dean advises the cook, the butler, the valet, the coachman, and the gardener, each to spend in his own department his master's total income of 2,000/. a year, leaving other out goings to take care of themselves. In like man ner the servants in the national household, the pur veyors of meats and of drinks, the clothiers and other ministers to the public necessities, in the sin gleness of their vision towards their own _depart ments, seem to lose all sense of other demands, and of the common responsibilities. It may, however, save disappointment to ascertain what must be done, and what, on the other hand, May be deferred. There are some broad lines of difference which must be attended to. Taxes on luxuries or on mere comforts stand on a different footing from those on the neces saries of life ; and among taxes on necessaries there is a plain difference between those which only limit the consumption, and thole which press more directly on industry, and restrict or even prohibit branches of trade. In a country like ours, w hose internal re sources are so limited that the Legislature ten years since found it necessary to pass a sort of declaratory Act to the effect that the land was not sufficient for the employment of the population, it is evident that raw materials for such employment are become ne cessaries of life in the highest sense of that term. When they can be got, they are as so much gained from the sea, or rather as so much manna from heaven. Coincident with the growing sense of our insular straitness of territory, it has become the policy of the nation to seek adventitious means of in dustry. By this time it is an established axiom that when the duty on raw material is found to exclude us from competition with foreign manufacturers, we have no alternative but to remove it. Encumbrances must be removed when they become destructive. Once afloat we must either swim or drown. The duty on cotton wool is an incumbrance of this sort. It has ceased to be a matter of choice ; the law of self.pre servation demands its removal. It is fast extending a prohibitory influence over the whole of our cotton manufactures. The cheaper the material becomes and the more our competitors acquire our manufacturing facilities—both changes in rapid progress—the more does a fixed duty become an absolute bar on our in dustry. It was at first imposed only as a temporary measure, in a season of great financial difficulty. Con fessedly impolitic at first, its impolicy has con tinually increased. The amount of its produce, which shows of course the amount of its injury, is the only reason why it has survived other duties of an exactly similar character. It remains after the duties on flax and wool and other raw materials have been , re pealed, only because it is a larger sum to deal with. But, unfortunately, its yearly continuance entails more than yearly consequences. While our commerce is hampered, the commerce of other nations is making permanent advances. The duty, s.l6ths of a penny on the pound, was only 5 per cent. on the value of the material when first laid on, and now is 10 per cent. Meanwhile, the cost of manufacture has diminished in a still greater ratio ; so that the duty, which was a mere trifle at first, is now so great on the coarser cotton fabrics as absolutely to prevent competition in them with the American manufactures. e The Ame rican has, of course, great advantages over us . to begin with ;—the cotton produced at his very door, at least in the southern states, where factories are fast springing up in the very midst of cotton fields. We must cover in some way the expense of carriage across the Atlantic, and other charges, amounting, it is said, to 7-16ths: of a penny in the pound, before we can compete with him in the neutral market. This unavoidable burden we almost double. The result is, that in South America and other quarters, even in China—China, which our own arms have opened to the commerce of the world,—we are losing ground, which the Americans, with the assistance of our financiers, are now fast gaining from us. We impose ourselves on the produce of our own industry a differential duty compared with our greatest rival. We enter every port of the world with a difference of 5-16ths of a penny in the pound between English and American cotton manufactures ; a difference which we surmount in the finer descriptions, where skill and labour have more play, but which is quite insurmountable in the commoner and more domestic articles. The duty is said to be in effect 30 per cent. on the cost of " domestics," as they are called, the chief cotton export to China, among other places. Under shelter of this " differential duty," the Ame rican manufacturers are now making a greater push than ever , and other natious are following their example. Of course, they desire nothing better than its continuance. Indeed, if they had imposed it on us in the shape of an export duty at the American port, supposing that otherwise possible, it would not have been so much to be wondered at. The case may be rendered more clear by an illustration which will come home to many a benevo lent mind. ¶Years ago there were very great endea vours to devise some means of employment for the idle and half-starved women and children in our agricultural districts. All kinds of simple, laborious, and unproductive industries were projected for this purpose adapted to the humble strength and expert ness, and no less humble ambition of that class all kinds of tedious spinnings, knittings, weavings, and plaitings. Suppose an ingenious clergyman's wife had discovered some material out of which rustic hands, with the assistance of our peculiar national akill, could procure decent employment and support, and become the benefactors instead of the burdens of the earth. The fair inventor would quickly have been installed in a niche between Mrs. Trimmer, of school celebrity, Mrs. Montague, the friend of sweeps, and other worthies of benevolence. Her cause would have been held sacred, and her proteges would have been preserved by their country's enthu siasm against all competition, but that of their own increasing numbers. If other nations had taken the hint, as undoubtedly they would, how jealously should we have watched the race, and seen that our own little ones had at least fair play, if not a little sly help ! If there was to be any difference of facilities, we should have considered it our place to set the balance against the foreign rival, and take care that the English runner had not to carry any weight beside her own. The much hoped-for vision has been realised, and that far be yond all possible anticipations, though not exactly in the place and manner in which it was schemed. " There is a Divinity that shapes our ends ;" and the provi dential supplement to our agricultural resources has been achieved, not at the cottage hearths of Bucking hamshire and Suffolk, but under the smoky chimneys of Lancashire—not under the pious attentions of elderly ladies and their chaplains, but under the more masculine auspices of Cromptons, Arkwrights, and Peels. We may not easily recognise the aspira tions of youth in the sober realities of age. We miss the picturesque outline and the Elysian hue. But there substantially is the thing we desired. Let the philanthropists of the last generation transfer their sympathies to the more successful undertakings of the present. What would they have felt if the Minis ter, driven to cruelty and shamelessness by his exi gencies, had suddenly put such a duty on the mate rial we have supposed the ingenious lady to discover, as should at once render whole counties of women and children helpless against foreign competition, and cut off half their demand ? It would have been thought madness. The case of our cotton manufac tures is only different in that it is vastly larger and more important, and its women and children, or rather the whole empire, are more thoroughly em barked in it. CHRONICLE.—It is rumoured that Lord Ellen borough is going to the Admiralty. We sincerely wish he was there. His Lordship is so sure to do the contrary of what his employers wish and intend, that, ten to one, he might actively set about putting the navy into something like an efficient state. Guns, trumpets, blunderbusses, drums, and thunder have such charms for him, that he would probably go to sea in propria persona, and find himself as much at home ou the quarter-deck as he was in the tented field of Gwalior. Lord Haddington some time since sent four vessels to sea on a cruise of practice and experiment—a melancholy ghost of what was a British fleet. But lest they should use powder, or get too expert, a spare Lord of the Admiralty was entrusted with the command, a sailor who never smelt powder, or, we believe, ever got under fire. There was a second in command who had; but he would have been but too capable of instructing Admiral Bowles, and consequently of putting him to shame. But, for fear that anything so very derogatory to the navy should take place, Captain the Earl of Hardwicke was sent down, at the eleventh hour, to air his earldom on board of a man-of-war, and gather a share of that instruction which he was incapable of communi cating. One would think that the old " hearts of oak" on our list of admirals, if too superannuated to fight, might at least be made use of to instruct, and to instil some share of that old spirit which prevailed in the days of Nelson. But the Tories seem deter mined that our navy shall not resemble, in traditional spirit more than in efficiency or force, that glorious navy which made the world of waters, and,'-by cense eDf treei o r e f n I c a h n de ffi t o e o e , r o s u at th'leVpeorhtsamveouhteharddinthnaetr onede dared, in the exuberance of his heart, that light cow may now be imagined, in many districtsitirntst -Y -):. : -.. ',. ---- as fabulous in his attributes as one of the Littlenore- English Saints. Nevertheless - , the possibility Of cow- keeping is not, it appears, extinct; for Mr. Grey and !he Rev. W. S. Dilly assure us that it still slzs_ists • in s c i e North of England ; and that not onlyk,repwii. are kept on cottage allotments, but that the cot-' tage tenants keep themselves off the parish. However, we do not present the north of our island as a la bourers' Utopia; nor do we assert that the " binding , system" would be all-sufficient to restore " a bold pea santry." We believe that, in the southern districts, a peasantry of a very different character has grown up in many places under the old Poor-law, and is pinched under the new. The provident virtues were rendered useless and objectless ; and the improvident vices show their fruits. The system of allowance in aid of wages was introduced to palliate the effects of a real revolution in the state of the cultivators of the soil, produced by war-prices, changed habits, and agricultural speculations. The palliative was a quack-medicine, doubtless ; it was not the pure milk from one's own cow ; parish provision for families was a sorry substitute for indivi dual prudence in entering on marriage ; and parish pay had no principle of growth in it for the resources of its recipients—though it had for their numbers. Still, while agricultural speculation was ascendant, and the tide of prices rising, the system could go on. But when the tide . had turned, and the old parish practices were abandoned, it became imperative to seek some substitute. The land, and property on it, still remain, in the last resort , chargeable with indigence. tis clear that it must either make an effort to throw off the population supposed redundant, or an effort to enable that po pulation to keep itself above indigence. The throving off method has been most in favour—emigration Cie most " familiar word." But emigration is exceed ingly costly ; notwithstanding certain quack pro mises to the contrary. Emigration is exceedingly inadequate to transplant any great " surplus" from the soil. Can the supposed " surplus" be put in the way of keeping itself where it is' One reply to this question is extension of freedom to buy food with labour. This was long withheld, and is now only imperfectly conceded,—for the sake of those agricultural speculations which have revolutionised the state of the peasantry. But it has appeared of late that agricultural speculation can neither support its own pauperism in idleness, nor set it all at work on sufficient wages. Yet, somehow or other, sup port must be furnished. Commerce is one aid ; are not allotments another ? Agricultural capital, it is said, is insufficient to carry on the extent of cultivation it undertakes to the high pitch to which it might, and ought to be carried. Well, but one grand portion of agricultural capital are the labourers' hands and arms. There is a sort of absurdity in those lying idle because agricultural capital cannot use them. They are themselves capital. The only indispensable pre-requisite to the operations of this capital is the supply of food to the labourers in whose bands and arms it consists. But that is im perative by law already. To say that men, who must be fed, cannot work to a profit, is to talk idly. They can, at all events, work to a diminution of loss. But is it true that these manual capitalists, supplied with a field to work on, cannot work profitably? The farming speculators, by their own account, cannot cultivate the land as it ought to be cultivated. So far as that is true, so far they are not its natural and proper holders. The land has been viewed too ex clusively as an object of moneyed speculation and monopoly. It is, however, something else than this, and something more. It is a grand national instru ment of production—an instrument pledged by posi tive law to the national support. That any given class of capitalists cannot operate to suit their account, is only a fresh proof of the necessity of calling in aid those who can. It is a gross absurdity to assert, in one breath, that the land would take much higher cultivation, ami to assert, in the next, that the best use of national capital would be to make advances out of it for the expatriation en masse of the culti vators! STANDARD.—We are conscious of no rancorous feeling to the Cabinet of 1835. On the other hand, having done our part, however inconsiderable that may have been, in depriving them of the opportunity to pursue their evil course, and having witnessed their ignominious expulsion from office, we could willingly forget that England had ever been disgraced by such a Government—assured, as we are, that a repetition of the stain must remain for ever im possible. The indulgence of this forgetfulness is nef, however permitted to us. As always happens, the malice of bad men proves too strong for the restraints of prudence ; and we are reluctantly compelled by the demands of justice—of justice to ourselves as well as of justice to others—to recur to what posterity will consider the most odious of the crimes of the late Administration—the construction of the Court placed round the innocent and unsuspecting Queen, at her accession to the throne, at the age of eighteen years ! This is a topic upon which the bitterest enemies of the Melbourne Ministry might expatiate with pleasure; but it is one which we see revived by the retainers of that Ministry with an astonish ment qualified only by a recollection of the rage and heedlessness of malice. The writer, whose rash ill-will has forced us back upon the hateful topic, charges the Standard with having taken part in the denunciation of the Melbourne-formed Court The charge, like every other charge ever brought against this journal by the same writer, is false. We took no part in the denun ciation, cordially as our feelings sympathised with it ; on the other hand, we exerted ourselves earnestly to restrain the public indignation, because though we knew and felt it to be just, we remembered that there are classes of crimes, to name which in the presence of a young and inex perienced woman is an offence ; and becau ad se we h full confidence that the native good sense and ad mirable education of the young Queen would carry her, even in a corrupt Court, through the danger of misconstruction the only danger to which her pure and lofty nature could permit her to be exposed. As we foresaw, so has it proved ; the Queen has passed happily through the danger spread round her. But is the guilt of those who spread the snares lessened by the vir tues of her for whose feet they were set ? Are we the less bound to honour the men who, though un necessarily, and at the risk of offence, raised the warning voice for her protection, because the beloved object of their care has proved herself worthy of such ready and absolute devotion. The time has arrived when we can, without scruple, render justice to these truly loyal and devoted subjects of the Queen. The exemplary and honoured wife, the happy mother, can now look back not only with complacency, but with pride, upon the dangers of mis construction to which her treacherous servants ex posed her inexperienced youth; of pride not only in her own faultless course, but of pride also in the noble people who reposed upon her prudence art unbounded confidence, while they abhorred those who had exposed it to a trial, terrible to any young woman of eighteen—most terrible to a youth ful Queen. The matron Queen can now appreciate her true friends—can distinguish between those who placed about her person individuals unfit for female society, and those who even rashly raised their voices against the profanation. None need regret exposure to perils through which they have gloriously passed ; and none, with a heart like our Queen's, will be un grateful to the friends who watched her progress through these perils with even an excessive anxiety. steamers had been got ready at Cherbourg and the northern ports to make a dash at Portsmouth and burn the dockyard, had war beet; declared. All we can say is, that there was liolltIg• at Pori;:l"outh to prevent oat' t:'"'esstion of the threat, nor is there. Were Lord Iladdington and Sir Robert Peel Ministers of Charles 11., and bought by Louis XIV. to deliver up to him the naval power of England, to be crushed and insulted without possibility of defence, they could not have earned the money more fully than they have done. There fore, with all his folly, his petulance, his contempt of civilian and commercial interests, we should wel come Lord Ellenborough to the first Lordship of the Admiralty. In the Cabinet there are abundance of tame elephants to render the wild one harmless. But in his department Lord Ellenborough would at least bestir himself, and get in order and preparation those materials for a row, which, when copious and at hand, go so far to prevent other parties from provoking it. Even at the risk of strengthening the Tory Adminis tration, and rendering it somewhat respectable in these departments, in which it has fallen below contempt, we pray for the riddance of its somnolent non-enti ties. More than once have we been driven to the very brink of war, because Lord Aberdeen had dog gedly determined to keep on his night-cap, and not raise his head from his pillow. We know, on the most positive authority, that in the Morocco affair Lord Aberdeen was warned, six or eight months before anything occurred, of the inevitable difficulties that would arise, unless Great Britain took steps to ob viate and prevent them. Of this Lord Aberdeen was not only repeatedly warned by his own consuls and servants, but, we learn, by the French Government itself! What steps did Lord Aberdeen take in con sequence of this very fair warning of the French Government ? How did he exert himself? What did he do ?—Nothing! We could point out another case in which English influence has suffered annihila tion, and in consequence of which English trade will suffer curtailment, in which Lord Aberdeen was most fully and fairly warned to exert himself, and obviate the evil results to his country. But this, as every other warning, hie Lordship answered with his uenal pooh, pooh ! And the French steamers would have been in Portsmouth harbour ere any other ejaculation more lively or to the purpose would have been elicited from his Lordship. With such facts before our eyes, we do ardently pray for the paying off of the present hulks which occupy the Admiralty Board and the Foreign office, and the substitution, if not of Lord Ellen borough, at least of some active clerks, who, if they do nothing to further the nation's interests and augment its force, will, at least, not act as checks and dampers. The activity of the French in their naval department is quite wonderful ; nor do they make a s!,cret of it. Day after day the Moniteur comes forth with a frrn.h ordonnance for docks, founderies, schools, and colleges for gunnery, hydrography, and every department of naval art. In addition to the money lavished on their dock-yards, their anxiety for raising a supply of well-instructed officers is prodigious. They prepare to officer fleets after fleets, making up her cadres of a naval force superior to our own. And all this time the Single-ship Administration of the navy is resting on its oars, with one flag-ship to guard three ports, and an experimental squadron under the command of the most inexperienced seamen on the navy list. In order to get up and bestow a kind of premium upon our Ministerial schoolboys for slum bering over their task, the Times puts forth a solemn boast that they have preserved pe ace. Peace, indeed ! The awe, so long and so wisely inspired by the power and the spirit of the British lio n, has bee n u p to this period sufficient to keep At a respectful distance , the curs which bay at him. In Lerd Palmerston s . time the French talked of war, indeed , but they seriously thought of it as little as they did of restoring the Roman empire. It is only since the fall of the Whigs, and the reign of their pusillanimous succes sors, that the French have become emboldened, not merely to talk war, but to brave it. And we have not only borne this, but the Tories have provoked them to insult us, in order that we might practice meekness and habitually swallow shame. In Ota heite, our Prime Minister himself cried out that we had suffered a " gross outrage," and that he would have reparation. Well—he got no reparation, and he swallowed the outrage. And we are now called on to congratulate Sir Robert for keeping peace ! The Times might as well congratulate the hound that has run to his kennel submissively, after a good horse whipping, for having kept the peace. Peace is always to be purchased—at first cheap enough —a spirited nation has but to abate its spirit and barter its honour in order to satisfy a rival. But the satisfaction is brief, for the cowardly pur chase of peace but emboldens the rival to ask each day for concessions more substantial. It is Otaheite, our Consul, and our missionaries one day— it is the occupation of Morocco another—it is the right of search given up next. In fact, since the ad vent of the Tories we have paid a yearly tribute, in one shape or another, to French ill-humour ; and that French ill-humour is not the least abated. The causes, and elements, and materials of war have aug mented with every year and every act of Tory rule. The policy has been to meet this with pusillanimity and obsequiousness, not with spirit. Now, we main tain that every concession does but embolden the French to demand more ; whilst, had they been met from the first with spirit, we should have long since heard no more of either their caprices or demands. The result of Lord Aberdeen's policy has been to con vert one of the most timid, and cautious, and uneasily seated of French monarchs into a conqueror and a hero. We do not say that had Lord Palmerston remained in the Foreign-office, but even had any Tory of spirit and abilities represented England in that department; one of the two kinds of policy which were before a Minister would have been fol lowed with something like consistency and success. Either the maintenance of the old English tone of spirit would have defied and silenced clamorous brawling and empty threats ; or if the contrary policy of deprecating French wrath by conciliation were adopted, then a certain degree of vigilance and of address would have been employed to prevent those collisions and causes of quarrel which have been per petually starting up. The untoward and disgraceful events of Otaheite ought to have been prevented. The merest idiot must have foreseen such results from the way in which things were abandoned there, with authorities which must clash, and with the English flag on board a " ketch "—a thing just sufficient to provoke insult, not repress it. The same story may be told of Morocco, of Greece, of Spain. No spirit, no foresight anywhere. Ministers had neither the wisdom of courage nor the wisdom of timidity. They on two occasions employed the language of the bully, and shrunk from it ere they could appreciate its effects ; and they showed the meanness of the sneak without even a sneak's prudence. There is but one opinion in all Europe with respect to the foreign po licy of the present British Cabinet, and that is, the somnolent pusillanimity of the head of the Foreign Department is only to be equalled by the total and dense ignorance of the Premier on all subjects not exclusively domestic. GLOBE.—The question of Land Allotments to the labouring people has not, we think, been yet fairly considered under all its aspects. We observed re cently that it might be considered as a mode of part payment for labour. It is a circumstance which never should be left out of recollection, that, till lately, the payment of agricultural labour formed a large item in parish rates. No doubt the system was a vicious one ; but it arose out of real difficul ties. Those difficulties recur on its abolition ; and the question is what new means can be found for meeting them. The late Lord Winchilsea, in a Re port to the Board of Agriculture in 1816, made the following statements, which appear to us to throw light on the present question, as well as on the past state of things, from which we have not yet escaped in their consequences. His Lordship, speaking of the causes which oppose all attempts to better the labourers' condition, mentions, as one great cause, the dislike which the farmers, in general, have to seeing the labourers rent any land. Perhaps, he continues— " Oise of the reasons for their disliking this is, that the land, if not occupied by the labourers, would fall to their own share ; and another, I am afraid is, that they rather wish to have the labourers more dependent upon them ; fur which reasons they are always desirous of hiring the house and land occupied by a labourer, under pretence that by those means the landlord will be sure of his rent, and that they will keep the house in repair. This the agents of estates are too apt to give into, as they find it much less trouble to meet six than sixty tenants at a rent-day, and by these means avoid the being sometimes obliged to hear the wants and complaints of the poor. All parties therefore join in persuading the landlord, who it is natural to suppose (unless he has time and inclination to investigate the mat ter very closely) will agree to this their plan, from the manner in which it comes recommended to him ; and it is in this manner that the labourers have been dispossessed of their cow-pastures in various parts of the midland coun ties. The moment the farmer obtains his wish he takes every particle of the land to himself, and relets the house to the labourer, who by these means is rendered miserable; the poor-rate increased ; the value of the estate to the landowner diminished ; and the house suffered to go to decay, which, once fallen the tenant will never rebuild, but the landlord must, at a considerable expense. Who ever travels through the midland counties, and will take the trouble of inquiring, will generally receive for an swer, that formerly there were a great many cottagers who kept cows, but that the land is now thrown to the farmers ; and if he inquires still farther, he will find that in those parishes the poor-rates have increased in an amazing degree, more than according to the average rise throughout England." These statements, which seem to us to bear strongly I o n the present posit ion of this question, bring the withdrawal of land from the peasantry in close con nexion with the rise of poor-rates. The same logic of facts would seem to show that the withdr awa l o f money from the parish should be followed by the re storation of the previous " land privileges." It may be true that the peasant's character has been altered as well as his condition; and that the peasant who kept a CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER. An inquiry took place at Navestock, last week, before Mr. Lewis, the coroner, and a respectable jury, touching the death of Martha Phillips, the wife of a labourer, who was found dead in a field in that parish. It appeared, from the evidence adduced, that the deceased was found lying on her back in one of Mr. Hicks's fields ; an umbrella and can of beer were by her side, and her clothes were in disorder, and her pocket turned inside out. On her being removed some blood came from the right ear. There were appear ances about the ground as if there had been some struggling. Rebecca Phillips, a daughter of the deceased, stated that she was in good health and spirits the day be fore. She went out with a can for some beer for dinner at about half-past twelve o'clock. There had been no quarrelling. Her health was not generally good ; she complained usually of pain across the chest. Sach's beer-house, to which she went, was about a mile from the house of deceased. William Millbank, a ga rdener, who was sitting at the beer-shop when the deceased arrived, stated that she called for half a pint of beer and drank it ; and that when that was done, she called for another. Two men, named Baker and Young, were there and had beer also. She 'went away about a quarter before two o'clock, and took three pints of beer away with her in a can. She asked Young if he was going home to dinner ; he lived under the same roof in the family of deceased. Before she had got out of the yard Baker and Young followed. They were a little fresh but not drunk.: Another witness stated that subsequently to this he saw the deceased and Young walking together under an umbrella, and Baker walked on before. It wasp stated that deceased frequently got drunk, and would then fight. Baker deposed to having seen Young and the deceased go together into the field in which she was found, and lie down on the ground. When he: came out of the field he had a snuff-box, which he said she had given him. But he put a stone into it, and threw it away, and several times told him not to say anything about what he had witnessed. Young, who was in custody, stated in his defence, that as they were going along the road, the deceased made a proposition to him, and asked him if he would give her any money. He told her no; she then got over the gate, and he turned back. The CORONER having summed up, the jury returned PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES. We have been rtquested to state, in reprinting the following from the Manchester papers, that Messrs. Richardson and Roebuck are one of tii4 lai'kesi and oldest retail firms in tho, nitdklnci and northern coun ties, having a t amexion among families of the upper classes such as is possessed by few other traders in England; their opinion, therefore, on the matter lii question, is entitled to very great weight. The extent of their candle trade may be judged of by the fact of their purchases of the Patent Candles being to the amount of five thousand pounds sterling at a time. " Richardson and Roebuck beg to state, for the in formation of the public, that the chief cause why the Composite (Price's Patent) Candles burn better than any other is, that they contain a very large proportion of the hard substance obtained by pressure from cocoa nut oil by a patent process. It is a fact known to chemists for some thirty years past that cocoa-nut oil contains more hydrogen in proportion to its carbon than any other oily or fatty substance, and that it therefore gives a bluer flame, and one more absolutely without smoke, and less injurious to the eyes (in consequence of its greater similarity to the beautiful, bluish-white, light of day), than the flame of any other substance used in candle making. Believing Price's Patent Candles' to be in comparably superior to any of the many imitations, at whatever difference of price, Richardson and Roebuck continue to recommend them to their friends ; and they are happy to announce that they have made such arrange ments with the Patentees as will enable them to reduce the price.—Market-place, Manchester, Nov. 15. 1844." Price's Patent Candles burn without snuffing, like the finest wax, and are cheaper, in proportion to the light given, than the commonest tallow ones. They are sold by respectable dealers throughout the country, at or under one shilling per lb.; and whole • sale, to the trade, by Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall; and Palmer and Co., Sutton-street, Clerken well. Purchasers must insist upon being supplied in the shops with " Price's Patent Candles," or they are very likely to get some of the imitations, on account of the greater profit afforded to the dealet on these latter. SURREY THEATRE. On Monday a new drama, in two acts, entitled The Seal'd Sentence, was produced at this theatre. Valentine Dournay, a young artist and author (Mr. J. T. Johnson), is betrothed to Laurette (Mrs. R. Honner), the daughter of a rustic labourer. Victor Lavitte, the son of the mayor of the commune (Mr. N. T. Hicks), is deeply enamoured of Laurette, and seeks to displace Valentine in Laurette's affections. The drama opens with a pretty view of a vineyard in the ♦icinity of Paris, followed by the bridal festival, The young lovers having returned from the marriage ceremony, Victor Lavitte is in despair, and deter mines on ruining Valentine, and, as nothing was more easy, more common, or more natural in that age of terror than to denounce any individual as a traitor to the Directory or the republic, Lavitte appears, fol lowed by gens-d'armes. They seize Valentine, who is taken to the prison of La Force, is first (as we subsequently learn) condemned to death, but his sen tence is commuted to deportation. Valentine is, how ever, permitted to carry with him his bride, and they, with many others, are embarked on board a French brig of war, commanded by a gallant old veteran, Captain La Roche Girard, whose sympathy is readily excited in behalf of the youthful couple. Having proceeded to sea, the sealed sentence is opened by the captain, who finds that Valentine is doomed to be shot. The marines kneel and fire, and Valentine falls over the ship's side, and thus ends the first act. A period of years is supposed to elapse between the first and the second act, which opens with Russian scenery and the proceedings of the grand army. Captain La Roche has become a soldier in that ill fated army, and is the protector of Laurette, who for a long time previous has been insane, with only lucid intervals. The villain Victor Lavitte appears in the same army, and dies covered with wounds in pre senting his body to the charge of the Cossacks to save Laurette, who in despair rushes out, and by her efforts induces the French troops to rally ; and finally, much to the surprise of all parties, Valentine Dournay re-appears, he having become an officer, and having fought in Egypt. He refers to the stratagem of the old captain (which remains a secret between them), and shortly narrates how he escaped by swimming some enormous distance ; and all ends happily. We should not do justice did we not refer to the admir able performance of Mrs. R. Honner as Laurette, not only as the raving maniac, but throughout the various incidents which arise. A TYRANT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The almost daily accounts from South America bring fresh news of the atrocities of a monster who, it would scarcely be imagined, existed in the nine teenth century. General Rosas, the Dictator of the Argentine Republic, still continues his work of blood and destruction. The last packet has conveyed strong remonstrances to the Earl of Aberdeen on this subject ; and the British resident at Monte Video has addressed a very eloquent appeal to the Foreign Minister, setting forth the dangers to which the English mercantile and other interests are exposed by the permissive policy as it were, indulged in with regard to the Dictator. From the time that Rosas first appeared as a public man to the time at which we write, he has, it would appear, been guilty of the massacre of thirty thousand souls—to say nothing of probably an equal number who have been forced, through his despotic proceedings, to take refuge in strange lands. In the year 1836, Rosas, after the Royalist party had yielded to the patriot brothers, determined to strike terror into the minds of the in habitants, and he caused to be brought from the con fines of the province, a tribe of Indians who had be come his prisoners. On their passage they endea voured to escape, when, without regard to trial, or any other ceremony, and with no respect for age or sex, one hundred of these poor wretches, fathers, mothers, and children under nine years of age, were butchered in the very streets of Buenos Ayres. They were brought from their prisons in groups of ten or twelve, and shot by platoons of soldiers—and many who were merely wounded, and who endeavoured to crawl away, were dragged back, had their throats cut, and their brains beat out, and afterwards left as food for the dogs and swine of the city. In 1839, Dr. Vincent Maze, the President of the National As sembly, and second magistrate of the city, was assas sinated in his private apartment in the House of Representatives, at seven in the evening. He was the intimate friend of the Governor, and had been heard to say that the knowledge of the waylaying and massacre of General Quiroga and escort would; cost him his life. Two days after, the son of Maza being suspected, by Rosas, of conspiracy, he was arrested, and eventually followed the fate of his father—the two bodies being afterwards cast into a dung-cart, and thrown amongst those of other victims. The widow and survivors of the Maza family was even forbidden to wear mourning, or to perform any rites and ceremonies in their church, for the victims! Numerous other crimes, too horrible for detail, could be enumerated—all of which are attributable to this vile Republican adventurer ; yet such a man is allowed, in the face of Europe, to pursue his career of bloodshed and murder, unmolested! The conduct of our agent, Mr. Mandeville, which is extremely vacillating, is loudly and generally con demned, and appears to excite much indignation amongst the English residents, especially when com pared with the noble conduct of his predecessor, Mr. Hamilton Hamilton, who, not many days after his arrival, applied to the British Government to be re moved from the scene of Rosas' Dictatorship, as he deemed any communication with him derogatory to his honour and the principles of our national policy. It is to be hoped, however, that the vigilance of Com modore Purvis, who is in command of our fleet in these seas, will speedily place matters on a better footing, and the confidence reposed in him apparently by the residents would seem to mark him as a fit pro tector for our merchants. He is decidedly averse to Rosas ; and probably, but for the countenance the Dictator receives at the hands of Mr. Mandeville, that inhuman dealer in horrors would, ere this, have been deprived of the means of effecting further mischief.— , Glasgow Saturday Post. ig TIIE KING OF TITS FRENCIL—WINDSOR, MON DAY.—On Saturday afternoon Baron Talleyrand, the Count de Noailles, and M. Rabandy, arrived at Windsor, from the French embassy, for the purpose of having an interview with Mr. T. Clark, the newly-elected Mayor, having been commanded by his Majesty Louis Philippe to present the worthy chief magistrate with the sum of 5,000 f. (200/.) to be distributed amongst the poor and necessitous of the town during the ensuing winter. Two beautifully executed gold snuff boxes have been pre sented from the King of the French to Messrs. Russell and Stead, the inspectors of police who were on duty at the Castle during the visit of his Majesty to the Queen. The female domestics also, connected with the suite of apartments occupied by his Majesty, were likewise pre sented with valuable rings set with diamonds and other precious stones. MAJOR AND MRS. G. DARBY GRIFFITHS " JOUR NEY ACROSS THE DESERT."—Much that is new will occur to most readers in their perusal of these volumes, the whole of which is written with remarkable ease, freedom, and spirit. It appears that with few excep tions their literary composition is from the pen of the lady, while all the illustrations, of which the number is considerable, are from drawings made by Major Grif fith at the actual moment, and on the spot to which they relate. The Journey from Suez across the Desert is throughout very graphically described, and presents much useful information for those who may adopt the same route. Majo r G r iffith' s exc ursion to the pyramids of Gizeh is excellent in its way. The most picturesque portion of the first volume, however, is that which re lates to Mrs. Griffith's visit to the Harem of Mochtah Bey, at Cairo. The visits to Pompeii, Herculaneum, &c., are charmingly sketched, bringing freshly be fore us the scenes of eighteen centuries ago. We re gret exceedingly our want of space to render justice to this delightfully attractive work.—Naval and Military Gazette. ~S ~~; 1 ._.... I ..--. 1r 7. - 417 ' r - ... - ,-1, 4 .....- 7.* t S;; , . t