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a nd .Ge ood Sant Y.) &c.) Ma' iLig- n de- I.• C. the Ca' o ce, tin sel xcel- the had That :d be 311 1 ° 3 a And • ) 4 NV" , 1 (1, Fri., Cot ner 0 onl ulef- 10" . ndi ; fiefa" 'Nor' S • edo Wad., ow: ig toP I'6' tlield X 11 • ;oun. Fri" nsid e ; robe ford' ing - rk -- ~'e~ Fri+ F ott , STATE OF TRADE. Est%l, edit WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 19.—Foreign "ate bee n h eavy of sale thi s week, and transac tZtPnerally are very li m i te d i n extent. til l i, 811 WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 19. This i t h e e " of trade has- remained during the present week 14r S ame state as named in our last week's report. At tErse s , se of ~, LD WOOL .a.ARKET, DEC. 19.—The firm k,Ppi„ ,Pe growers of wool renders it impossible to , ill',..!ue market at the late reduction in price; and the ,- 1 7 of th e trade and the unsettled state of the 4i ou ltrhot and of politics, occasions consumers to act kft t i„ e Y, and generally to be indisposed to operate i 1 ; 1 4. even at these rates, so that few sales have been e t tkus Nonni The present state of the country, and the ''n tert atY of the measures likely to be brought forward ° ,14, t he evils attending a short supply of food, bas ' o l l ,` ra hle effect upon our cloth markets: both on Sa y,, "(I Tuesday the markets were dull. There is, lir e a i r ' e l . t a improved demand for goods calculated for "A States for the spring trade, and also for !Itt se, This is probably on the speculation that as Nr,ittivlt.require to be a large importation of corn . and 8 ill give an impetus to the demand for British i'd,lll4lthat quarter of the globe. The home trade is . e tt .';ld little is now doing in purchases for the 1 1 ,1 a, ' r aets, either in the cloth halls or in the ware got.p; t4:114. the • Il Te•—The manufacturers complain seriously :14tipl,Possibility of disposing of their goods, in any : s • at a remunerating price, and consequently 1 1 , 6,l,lBli_ort.time has become general at nearly all the iti t aie failure of Mr. Edward Rawson, merchant, of , t ieit a lt ,t ll Materially add to the depression; his lie ( ; t witi t i uts district being stated at more than 60,0001 ' l t i c 'sl, a „ . ;be inclement season of the year, the dearness i 4 , 14, i t "!' the scarcity of employment, the working Oa of Is . to b e feared, will have to experience an `duly'tnlsery and deprivation it is fearful to contem kt t. the admonitory lessons of monopoly are ;tisl 'eh Will our legislators consent to do our in- N I 'Palation j us ti ce ? N l til ta ° ,.llSE, DEC. 15.—The trade of this place ; 10,,,litet 7 very much this last month, and it may be id,,, toat is gra d ua lly d e creased as the price of iltte i reed. We had a dull market to-day, and a qtlea,,,,nee of buyers, owing partly to the weather. t it , , 4 .1%,,a MARKET, THURSDAY.—The dullness for le l 2 4 iid`.*ool is not in the least degree altered. The Nit, o ' 'Pg, is a mere trifle, certainly not more than 30 ii k , t apri,' average times; yet there has been no giving it,;'t T i e l to induce the spinners to extend their per kilP,t, Ni bteck in the staplers' hands here is fully an is kai k ° , ll s and b ra k es ar e n ot very plentiful, which may f,Nli ket a for by the very small quantity making, and 04sot hoar at which they have been latterly sold. 11, ' 1 4.1 1 , 4 "oar of any better tidings among the spin ts: heti: Complaints are not in the slightest abated, s k 're i n • Price can yet be obtained for yarns; there 5, 4 1 4 ,,, c 1airy than for some weeks past, and by no +.llO id in jobs pressing on the market, which have . 41 1 '• T h n many eases fur little over the cost of the kt the : re is, however, a prospect of better times: i tti we resent production stocks will not increase, 1e,', 1 ; 1 4 1 ; e at the turn of the year to see a more ''s'te st s late of things. All will rejoice in this, for stem our operative classes, whose privations are , i ti ,Jtr e ,..,,at this inclement season of the year. We ~ ig lt ag r n anything different in this day's market, is,' 4 l,," s a ly been dull, nor is any marked animation k k1 4 1 4 11 . ,,,,uring this year. Our next, a hieh will be . Pro, 'a3', will close this profitless year, and it s cl ti lksi s a a great bo on to a ll en g a g e d if the new mar- It I lk 4 7 With the year 1846, should assume a more i 4f it e , it Peet. a l tsdi ll s rEit, THURSDAY Ev-ensfes—We have been 4 1 , 1 ! 11 J since this day week in our cloth market , p4' i'ees and in demand. The market at the il)i hrt tl exhibited considerable firmness, but since I, l ll tesi2 l h of Si r R o b er t Peel we appear to have lost 11,, , _0 0 confidence. Price may hecalled ; k ites rlal, but the little that is doing is decidedly y li t'll t i: t als than on this day se'nnight. Yarns are i; t tit m e saltie state, there being no confidence in the /ti•i ' 't is not a slight reduction that would tempt 1 )t415 it la rge r i l t o , ,scale. lii 4 1 , e Norrirscaem.—The Natingham Review i tt di ("atitins a very gloomy statement of the trade at riet. 1 )1 7:11 t A - 7 --- t 0 Ai I? ---L WAY ALMANAC.K'for 1816. I,;iti 4 °-- tanael s might be properly entitled the Corn ;,, iss:atial. In the calendar, in addition to the s7tiek:alation contained in that portion of an tly lt te,:a find the various railway meetings, bank t I tee arti ca to be holden in the ensuing year rs:gu -41,146, t .LI. It is, in fact, a diary of those meetings 't,7 lll se r Yr° have also lists of both Houses of , `s"t 4 ll " lists of the stock-brokers in the three ' . t ; al . • 'sk , e t i l railway officials, of all existing and pro- i f t • i ttist s , s _ w aYs, dividends, the funds and a railway ittNy ''"a of all Parliamentary returns relating I t lk ortad attars , and digests of railway law, of the It 4: 1 04, e "s, and of legal decisions on railways. .It le,, tarl year book of commercial statistics , been published. l tts es t , t tto a , l ati T., — ,At e .'"riP ~.....-, A .IIING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. --• On ,7ie g :,'' lis•;, ve ning, about seven o'clock, as a man named "Dpa'N sso In this parish, was on his return home from ,'l4,'", ne at en : - ,, he had been to receive some money, he was i ,kle' t Z °f w " il te Wesleyan Chapel, Pickledenwood, by two . N o „ e oth e „ Sin placed his hands over Skinner's mouth, pip e the ; ' rifled his pockets of three sovereigns and a I ,,lip`„, th e 1 and although it was moonlight, he is unable Nr 4 s l 3•s r i,,,east description of the offenders, being so ex b 4, 11 r °atoned. Skinner is a journeyman . shoemaker, ‘s t t „ l 4. l .: B Pe_cted in this place.—Docer Chron i cle. i'l)• :' -Dec 18.—The Corpration of Dublin id li t • , tai ts,,kreed to . an address to the Queen, repre kii,', sre great distress likely to arise from the 1"k b t the potato crop, and praying that the ports t O N fipened, and facilities given for the extension 'lOrthllent by railways and public works. A 4 1. ' address was forwarded to Sir James Graham, II) et he 'tsi t il t •• a t that her Majesty's pleasure might be signified 'abated',,tne when the Lord Mayor and the deputation tOo rii t'u Present the address might proceed to London. "kst ob tn t the town-clerk, Mr. lord, received the follow "nication from the Home-office : k gip ~,, • ,-. 1 " Whitehall, Dec. 18, 1845. Ni t Nect,,,'Yn directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to I ', it', a e the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, en. 4s, ' ",of thDY of the address of the Lord Ma) or and Corpo :)44,'t Isitj i ty of Dublin, and requesting to be informed 4q Se be her Majesty's pleasure to receive the address l li. ""rd Mayor and a deputation from the Town i h St i • ‘,ltt t ill ) , to inform you, in reply, that Sir James Graham Ntti t ,;l l earliest opportunity of submitting the subject of , '4 h,,. 0 the Queen. But, under existing circumstances, ''t e ,',‘ some delay may take place before her Majesty's Vs t ; l be notified.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant. 4 . '4 Si:Trost. William Ford, Esq, Town-Clerk of ts -Ito,. ' , , tt : Fa ss't h - OLITAN VISITING AND RELIES' A SSOCIA• `'r t ,. ss e ,lecond annual meeting of the members and sup '''O " S t his institution was held yesterday at Willis's N 144) Ll:„James's. Tee Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of oh v, t5,,,; 4 1 , 11 t taken the chair, secrete to open the business ,Nap t) -- „"1;g• Mr. Haly, the ry, then read the th e a' report. . It stated that the society had for its '4Pitl i PLl 3'sical, moral, and spiritual improvement of the 6 , so i , eat regard to religious distinctions ; and he poke . L. t ,,, t ii) !ging terms of the success which had attended its 'Li''tt 4 x , The balance sheets showed an income during Lies,Ai t _'' e ar, including former balance, sale of Exchequer icl ( 7, 8 •1" , of 8,6911. 10s. 3d. The grants amounted to ? * 4 1(1 8t „ 8 '' and here was a present balance of 896/. 3s. Mr. N t l)os - ne 2 M.P., proposed the adoption and circulatiou of 11'4'4 the The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster s.- LS,'lto., l ' ; ''esolution, and it was carried unanimously. Sir INktie".„,"s moved the second resolution, to the effect that e nee of another year had justified the hope ex tst,4tri , the institution of the society, that the formation ~ ,,,.14'• visiting societies throughout the parishes of the a4ea tl i ,had been fully realised. Archdeacon Hale ,S:t11 ''' . 2 tesolution which was carried nem dis. Mr. VOst,',,l•P-, moved' another resolution, recommending L4t h q, i to Lgtelnent of provident societies amongst the poor, 4 1t0 0 7, seconded -by the Rev. T. Gibson, and carried tiqslCY- Votes of thanks were then severally passed t alto's; and the chairman, when the meeting sepa ,l;lh,,.. .... t f th l 4 ,--- P OLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. There is Iv s 4l 4 " t elt passes without some addition to the number k tf hp of carriages and machinery connected with steam Gi n `L e Pulsion locomotive, and stationary engines, in the :f this excellent Institution, and among the more 5 4 4.1 observe a beautiful adaptation of pneumatic 4 4,,1is t ,‘ Consists of a miniature steam-engine playing a ,V, I: ‘uo whole forming an elegant article of !,ertu. The il,,"'t p r tenerated by spirits of wine, and carries . out the h' s s t,ieh °c ,,,am of a stationary engine, having a cylinder of t gl7, l Bt t - . a of an inch diameter, with pumps, cranks, fly °O, t 5 e o f , Complete. The fountain is attached, and plays in ti t :4'th glass, in which may be placed gold-fish, and presents lire 4 , e t Proofs that the ornamental and useful may be so corn 1, ti i 0 produce sensations of extreme gratification. This ,Ito, s 44 °4 k was designed and manufactured Smith, A 1,41 it th e honour a short time since of exhibiting it to his lqit o , ghness Prince Albert, who was pleased to pay a sb,nes - Pliment upon its ingenuity. It is now deposited in rs e f '' Poi t 1 ' Institution, and will no doubt be much t hea r 4te d by Y ec nue . • ' 4 4 6 , t , the visitors during the Christmas holidays. +t t .‘ k ly b uare are numerous novelties in embryo which will . t 4t7ss,:„Produced to amuse and instruct the sight-seekers k e ,', 4 l4;:stve season of the year, more particularly those who ~,s'L spending the day in places of more quiet enjoy- It ih e 1 6 4 4 ,k p2,le Major-General John Mayne, C. 8., of the a m t h, -',,,.‘ India Company's service, Bombay, late of Edin -I)4,;)ast;,,'"°rth Britain, has left personalty in England 4: lef t -- g to 5,000/ Sy his will, dated Feb. 24, 1845, he i i ? as4° his son, James Edmund Mayne, Esq., in the mill tnts ;„ le u of the Hon. East India Company, two hundred :as the Northern Coal Mining Coman for which s,oks originally paid. All his other propertyhe leaves t ! . /. utors in trust for his children, viz., the interest of i;it , t 4i ' 4 %.,be at the disposal of his daughter Mary, wife of It: Pr' ne .' °Maid of the Bombay Artillery, for her life, and 4544 pal to her children at her decease. To his daughters tt:4l.lk3band Hannah, and son .John, 2,2501. each ; and to his ate ar e e r , 1 ,750/. The residue among them. The execu walso J anes and Robert Mayne, Esqrs., his brothers, who ill %„.sPpointed the guardians of his infant children. The sa d p i 7 ov r egistered in Edinburgh on the 23d of August last, t kr Ts e d in London oa the 29th ult.—Post. . ]green f:AIPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday !turning, 13 11 e kkt , 46 ' e tv and five o'clo c k, a determined attempt at suicide ilot,trY•at by J. B. Cullinford, Esq., a gentleman residing in het ,Tet, Hampstead road, by shooting himself with a t o N,ingr t ° l - It appears that he returned home to his h. his b'aPParently much dejected; he proceeded up stairs 'are a room ; in a few minutes afterwards his landlord I'4taie, faint report of fire-arms; he instantly proceeded up s - s, and pistol o a° on ea entering the bedroom he found Mr. Cullin- Cstsi ti' th e floor bleeding from the left side, and a pocket i` Ra s Yag by his sid e . S urg i ca l ass i s t ance b e i n g procured, h 4 2!",oortained that the ball had passed through the flesh \vruulue directi on , w i t h out i n j ur i ng an y v it a l part. • lat, r , h _ ItertELD Conti' _ MARKET, DEC. 19.—The ; : er ti :: 11 1 yre not large this week. Although in the same un baeline. 3 . about the corn-laws, there was to-day a firmer tisia_ltt the trade, and although an extremely limited Its a„; 4 :Nits transacted, really fine and dry wheats were frilly foe_ ""r sin m a , • . . v ie sar ~... mon sorts nothing doing. Fine barley sold at mew Ctes, inferior samples Autialtable unless at a reduction. I,'_fills_ rather cheaper einold no _alteration- .9ate id. t i l / 4 - " .°4 I . ll il. shduipg et. tb..is. eft _roe DAM. - Mart as DUTCH MAIL. Tux HAGUE, DEC. 13.—The hurricane which raged with such violence the day before yesterday, in the even ing, did considerable damage. The sea rose along our coact almost to the same height as in the extraordinary flood of February, 1825. At Rotterdam the waves of .the Meuse rose in such a manner, though it was the time of low water, that they overflowed the quays in several parts of the city, and inundated the ground floors of the houses and warehouses. The Great Mar ket and several streets looked like a vast pond. Letters from Zienckzee, of the 12th, likewise state that the hurricane did great damage there; that the sea rose as high as in February, 1825, overflowed the quays, and filled a great number of cellars; but speedy exertions preserved the neighbouring streets from great damage. The north-west side of the Great Tower was overthrown by the violence of the wind. Happily the fall of this part of the building only damaged the roofs of some neighbouring houses. Several dikes along the coast are seriously injured. DUTCH FINANCE. The Second Chamber of the States-General has re ceived from the Minister of Finance a communication relative to the payments of the instalment-4 of the loan, and of the voluntary contributions. This communica tion is of the following tenor: — Conformably to the preceding communication made to the States-General, the total of the capital of the vo luntary loan and of the free gift, decreed by virtue of the law of March 6, 1845, amounts to— Florins. For the loan IN r the free gift, the sum of 1,843,221 florins, which, by Art.l9 of the same law, represents a capital in the loan of 6,144,069,98 117,000,930,98 The total amount of the subscription of the late King William Frederick, the payments of which have been made in five instalments 10,000,000,00 A letter from Zwolle, of the 14th, says—" We are in formed for certain that his Majesty the King was pleased, on the 9th of December, 1845, to grant to Messrs. Balktmia and Company licence to construct an iron railway in the following direction :—From . Zwolle (where the line joins the frontiers of Overyful), by Hassels, Zuartluis, Meppel, Besten, Apen, to Groningen, from which place there will be a branch to Delfzyl, and another to the new fort. The concession includes the canalisation of the province of Dunthe, for which the necessary plans are nearly completed, and it is probable that the commencement of the works will not long be delayed." It is evident how important this railway will be to Overyful, and especially to Zwolle. COURT CIRCULAR - - WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prinoe Albert walked in the vicinity of the Castle precincts for some time this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing for a short time this afternoon. The Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir Francis Simp kinson, and Mr. William Selwyn, Queen's Counsel, forming a deputation from Lincoln's Inn, had an au dience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and were most graciously received. The Earl of Liverpool, G.C.8., is expected to arrive this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. The band of the Grenadier Guards will attend during dinner at fie Castle, and her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday, at Gloucester House. A meeting was held yesterday morning at Lord John Russell's residence in Chesham-place, Belgravt -square. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Earl of Claren don, Earl of Auckland, Viscount Palmerston, Sir George Grey, the Right Honourable Francis T. Baring, the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Honourable Edward Ellice, attended. The meeting broke up shortly before three o'clock. Mr. H. Tufnell, M.P., visited Lord John Russell yesterday. Mr. M‘Lane, the American Minister, arrived in town, from Paris, yesterday morning. A handsome piece of plate, manufactured by Messrs. Garrard, has just been presented, on the part of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, to the Baron de Gersdorff, his Saxon Majesty's late Resident Minister in this country. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Queen's Most Honourable Privy Council, expired at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning, at his residence in Curzon-street. His Lordship had been ill for some days past. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. THE LATE LORD WHARNCLIFFE. The deceased Lord was the second son of James Archi bald Stuart, second son of John third Earl of Bute, K.G., who married, in 1736, Mary, only daughter of Edward Wort ley Montague. Colonel Stuart, on the decease of his mother (Bareness Mountstuart in her own right), succeeded to her .Ladyship's grelt Yorkshire and Cornwall estates, and as sumed in January, 1795, by sign -manual, the additional sur name of Wortley, and subequently inheriting the extensive landed property in Scotland, of his uncle, the Right Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, asAimed, in 1803, the name and arms of Mackenzie, of Rosehaugh. Mr. Wortley in early life entered the army, and served in Canada and the Cape, but having little relish for a military life he sold out in his twenty-sixth year. In the year 1802 Mr. Stuart Wortley was returned to Parliament, by means of • his family influence, for tl.e borough of Bossiney, in Cornwall ; but it WAS not until the year 1812 that he rose to any de gree of political notoriety. In the spring of that year Mr. Perceval was assassinated, and the lengthened nego- tiations, not very disimilar from those now on the taxis re specting the formation of a Cabinet, so utterly exhausted the patience of the public, that the opportunity was thought a good one for a rising young man like Mr. Stuart Wortley to move an address to the Prince Regent. praying that he " would form a strong and efficient Ministry." This motion was introduced by a speech which every one acknowledged to have been remarkable for its tone of honest independence and high public spirit. Mr. S. Wortley continued to repre sent Bossiner till 1818. On the Ist of March in that year Col. Stuart i'Vortley Mackenzie, the father of Lord Wharn cliffe, ended his days, and his son, the late Lord, succeeded to his large inheritance. For Yorkshire, therefore, he wa returned jointly with Lord Milton, now Earl Fitzwilliam, at the general election in the year 1818. In two years fr.= that period the demise of George 111. led to another election, at which Mr. Stuart Wortley and Lord Milton were again returned for the great county of York, and the subject of this memoir continued to sit far that important elec toral district till the Parliament died almost a natural death, on the 2d of June, 1825. In 1826 he was raised to the peerage. In 1828, when the Duke of Wellington succeeded Lord Goderich, Lord Wharncliffe took office under the Noble Duke, and displayed muchlact in business. On the introduction of the Reform Bill, by Lord Grey, in 1831, his Lordship strenuously opposed that measure on various grounds, which he stated with great force and eloquence, and moved an ametdment for the purpose of throwing it out, but the Bill was carried by a majority of 41. In 1834, during Sir Robert Peel's short tenure of office, Lerd Wharncliffe took the office of Lord Privy Seal. In 1841, when Sir Robert Peel suc ceeded Lord Melbourne, the Noble Baron became Lord Presi dent of the Council, and continued in that office up to the recent resignation. On the formation of the Peel Cabinet in 1841 Lord Wharn cliffs secured the representation of that district for his eldest son, defeating Lords Milton and Morpeth, the numbers on that memorable occasion being as follows :—Hon. John Stuart Wortley, 13,165 ; E. Denison, Esq., 12,780 ; Lord Milton, 12,080 ; Lord Morpeth, 12,031. • His Lordship is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, who has represented the West Riding of Yorkshire in Parliament for the last four years, and whose suc cession to the peerage will therefore lead immediately to a new election in that county. The present Lord Wharncliffe is in the 45th year of his age. He graduated B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1821, when he was in the first class ma thematics, and second class in classics. About twenty years ago he married the third daughter of the Earl of Harrowby, by whom lie has three sons and two daughters. His Lord ship is Lieutenant Colonel of the South-West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry. The late Henry Iltifl Nicholl, D.C.L., of the Col lege, Doctors' Commons, and of Upper Clapton, whose sudden death on the 24th ultimo, at the early age of thirty-six, it was our painful duty lately to have recorded, has died in testate, leaving personal property in England estimated at 90,0001., besides freehold and other property in Wales. Letters of administration of his effects have been granted to his re lict, who, with his children divide the personalty, one-thiri to the widow, a nd two-thirds among the children. The freeholds to the heir-at-law. The deceased was cousin to the. Judge-Advocate, the Right I.lonourable John Nicholl D.C.L., P.C. and M.P. for Cardiff.—Post. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY. — At a Special Committee Meeting of this Society, held at the oa. ce, New B r idge-street, on Friday, the 19th inst., Mr. R. Elt in the chair, upon the motion of Mr. Edwards, seconded by Mr. Hughes, it was resolved unanimously— " That the thanks of this Committee are justly due, and be hereby given to the late Chairman, Mr. Lewis Jones, for the able and efficient manner in which he discharged the important duties appertaining to that office, during the past year." At this and a previous meeting the following sums were awarded—to Richard Walker, 33 G, one guinea, for apprehending Edwin Spencer for robbing Mr. Major, White Lion, Fiuchley, of a barometer; to Sergea nt Thom p son, 12 R, one guinea, for apprehending Michael Kerrigan, for robbing Mr. Avery, Gibraltar, Deptford, of a watch ; to William Humphreys, half-a-guinea, for apprehending Wil liam Colcham, for robbing Mr. Hobbs, Spanish Patriot, White Conduit-fields, of two pewter pots ; to Timothy Wells, 83 V, one guinea, for apprehending Joseph Allen, for robbing Mr. King, Cadogan Arms, King's-road, Chelsea,. of two pewter pots; to William Ling, 77 D, one guinea, for apprehending George Thompson, for robbing Mr. Stanton, Victory, Oxford-street, of a pewter pot; to C. H. Rennoldon, half-a-guinea, for apprehending Elizabeth Robinson, for robbing Mr. Rennoldson, Coach and Horses, Ray-street, Clerkenwell, of a glass mug; to W. Millerman, 95 B, two guineas, for apprsliending William Davis, for robbing Mr. Chandler, Ship, Milbank, Westminster, of two glasses • and Sarah Ponsferd, for robbing Mr. King , Coachmakers' Arms, Belgrave-mews, Pimlico, of two pewter pots; to Inspector Frond, 11 division, Samuel Brown, and Thomas Towerey, 237, one guinea each, for apprehending two men, for robbing Mr. Wickens, Old Justice, Bermondsey-wall, of a cash -box —through the exertions of the above-Lamed individuals, the whole of the property, nearly sixty pounds, was recovered, and the thieves sentenced for ten Tears transportation ; and • to Henry Todd, 221 G, ene guinea, for apprehending Elizabeth Taylor, for robbing Mr. Hart, Duke of York,. Liquorpond street, of a glass RAILWAY PENALTIES.—We understand that the validity of the 7 and 8 Victoria it now on the point of being tested. It is perfectly clear that the Registration Act has not been complied with in many of its clauses. We hear that men of high standing and respectability, being promoters of companies themselves, have instructed their solicitors to sue for penalties under the Act. We are prepared to state, that in several companies the provisional committees have ren dered themselves liable under the 76th and 77th sec.—Rail way Telegraph and Merchant's Advocate. The Duke of Buccleuch will leave Montague House early in the following week for Dalkeith Palace, near bur. Earl g IYalkeAtli has Mind ass Duelists • 7 P r ' • ' flare OM THE SUN, LONDON, SATURD,A.,Y: APPALLING :MURDER. We are to-day called upon to record one of the most appalling murders which probably ever took place within the circle of the Channel Islands. The name of the victim is Thomas Hodge, the name of the murderer John Noon, both seamen. It appears that the individual who has thus fallen a victim to brutal violence and pas sion, was a sailor belonging to a vessel which trades be tween the port of Jersey and Newfoundland. About three weeks ago he arrived in St. Helier's from the Letter place, and took up his lodgings at a respectable houss. in 11ulcaster•street, generally frequented by the better class of seamen who have occasion to be some time in harbour. He was universally respected as a quiet, orderly, individual. On Wednesday last, the 10th instant, being the anniversary of his birthday, he treated his friends to an entertainment in the house in which he resided. In return for the compliment, his fellow-lodgers, being just on the eve of departure for a distant port, invited him on the evening of Sa turday last to a farewell entertainment in the house at which they had all mutually taken up their resi dence. The hour of ten had arrived, and the whole party were quietly seated at supper, when the individual who is at present in custody upon the atrocious charge of wickedly depriving . a fellow-creature of his life, in truded upon their Innocent hilarity. He had only arrived in port some few hours before from a long voyage, and, as was also his usual custom, had re paired to the boarding-house where the melancholy catastrophe was fated to take place. Seating himself down in the very midst of the company, he forthwith began to use language which ordinary decency would pre vent us from repeating ; oaths and imprecations, and the most obscene epithets flowing from his lips in the most admired rapidity. At last, however, his conduct seems to have proceeded beyond all further endurance, and the landlord of the house was obliged to rebuke him for his unmanly behaviour in the company of females. The re buke, however, did not seem to have much apparent effect, and Noon still continued his oaths and imprecations as before. All efforts proving un availing, it was at length found necessary to re move him from the apartment, and at this moment it is important to observe the amiable con duct of the deceased. With the view of seeing that no harm should result to the individual who had thus wantonly broken in upon the pleasures of the even ing, and whom, from the outrageous nature of his con duct, he could scarcely regard as in his sober senses, he volunteered to accompany him on board his vessel, where he was to take up his quarters for the night. Hodge had only proceeded a few steps upon his way, and was descend ing a flight of steps which led from the doorof the house to the court below, when the murderer was observed to draw from his pocket a largeknife which he always carried about his person, and handle it in amanner as if aiming at some deadly pu►pose. Before, however, the murderous instru ment reached the spot at which it was evidently intended to be struck, it fell upon the assassin's hands ; but hastily stooping to the ground, it was in a moment plunged into the thigh of the individual, who, regardless of incon venience, had so willingly volunteered to do an act of kindness. Falling back upon the steps on which he had been standing, the unhappy man uttered a scream which was heard at a considerable distance, and was in a moment prostrate in a fit of insensibility. The mur derer, however, did not wait to see the issue of his atro cious act. Uttering an oath indicative of the pleasure he experienced on having done for the ill-fated Hodge, he hastily decamped. The unfortunate victim only survived for a short space of time, and in three minutes from his receiving the fatal stab of the assassin, he had breathed his last. Medical assist ance was immediately procured, but all to no purpose. The femoral artery had been divided, and the hemor rhage which had ensued was such as to have precluded all hope of saving life had assistance arrived even within a minute from the infliction of the fatal gash. The eye-witnesses of the dire tragedy having in some degree recovered from the consternation which had been induced by the dreadful event of the moment, information was immediately forwarded to the po lice, and about twelve o'clock Mr. Centenier. Le Cronier and Centenier Du Parcq, assisted by several other individuals, set out in search of the murderer. Directing their steps towards the vessel to which they suspected he had gone, they succeeded in appre hending him about one o'clock on Sunday morning. He was found apparently asleep in bed, and when apprised of the awful crime with which he stood charged, professed an utter unconsciousness of what had taken place. Nor did he accompany them quietly to prison; for it was only after despe rate resistance that they were successful in bringing him to shore. His cabin being strictly searched, the knife with which be consummated the fatal deed was dis covered, It bore evident marks of having been washed a very short period before, which would almost induce the supposition that at the period of the rash act his senses had not been quite obscured from the influence of liquor. It is a long-pointed French blade, and altogether looks a most dangerous weapon. Upon his arrival at gaol, the strongest eftbrts were required to consign him to a cell, the ferocity and brutality of his conduct being scarcely credible. An inquest was held by the Deputy-Viscount on Sunday af ternoon, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned. His examination before the Royal Court took place yesterday, a dense crowd being collected from all parts of the town. Je rsey Times. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAiLwAlr TZAFFIC.—The following are the Total ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the respective returns are made, together with the re week in the previous year:— 1 Receipts of Rail date to which the !ceipts of the same Week ending Last week. .6 gl 4 21' . t . - v 5 NAME OF RAILWAY. Dec. 13 Arbroath and Forfar •••••• . • • • • • • Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • • • • Chester and Birkenhead . • • ...... Dublin and Drogheda. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath • • • • Durham and Sunderland ............. Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • •••• • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • • Om ;ow and Greenock. • • Grand Junction • • • • • • ....... . Gravesend and Rochester. • .......... Great North of England • • • • • • • • Great Western . • • • • • • Hartlepool .. • • • • London and Birmingham, &c. .•• •• • London and Blackwall.• • • ........ London and Brighton . • • ... London and Croydon . • • • • • • • • • • •• • • London and Greenwich . • • • • .. • • .• London and South Western. •• • • • • Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • • • • • • Manchester and Birmingham • ....... Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc— Midland Counties. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Newcastle and Darlington • • • • • • • • • • Newcastle and Carlisle . • • • • • • • • • • • • • Newcastle and North Shields...—. • • North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • • • • • • • • • l'aris and Rouen. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Preston and Wyre • • • ...... • • • • • • • • • Sheffield and Manchester • . • • • • ...... South EaStern• • • • • • • Ta' Vale •• • . • • ........ .. . ... Yarmouth and Norwich • • • • • • • • • • • • York and North Midland . •••• • • • • 480 591 605 234 572 2,333 6,772 1,603 740 16,058 1,274 31,412 681 4,051 5,097 888 3,538 5,423 13,898 2,501 1,633 433 527 408 261 309 1,835 4,621 1,365 636 4,464 14,845 26,950 607 3,542 927 4,372 DEATH OF THE EARL OF BELMORE.-.-We regret to announce the decease of this Nobleman, who expired on Wednesday, at his seat, Castle Coole, in the county of Fer managh. The deceased, Arthur Lowry-Corry, Earl of Bel 'nor-, Viscount and Baron Belmore, ot Castle Coole, county Fermanagh, in the peerage of Ireland, was born in December, 1801, and married on the 27th of May, 1834, Emily Louise, youngest daughter of the late William Shepherd, Esq., of Bradhourne, in the county of Kent, by whom he has left three sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Somer set Richard, succeeds to the family honours and estates. The late Earl succeeded his father, the second Earl, in 1841. DEATH OF SIR JOHN CHETWODE, BART., M.P.— We have to record the demise of Sir John Chetwode, Bart.., M.P., for Buckingham, who expired on Wednesday last, at his marine residence at Bognor, Sussex, at an advanced age. The deceased Baronet, son of the third Baronet, was born on the 11th of May, 1764, so that he was in his eighty-second year. He married, first, on the 16th of October, 1785, Lady Henrietta Grey, eldest daughter of George Henry, fifth Earl of Stamford and Warrington, who died in July, 1826 ; and in the following year he married, secondly, Miss Elizabeth Bristow, daughter of Mr. John Bristow. On the death of his father, in May, 1779, he succeeded to t E h N e T ba c ro o n m etc m y m a r n so d tzle t dE h ß e at extensive family estates in the counties of Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Cheshire. At the last general elec tion, in 1841, he was returned for the borough of Bucking ham by the Conservatives, in opposition to Sir Harry Verney, Bart. The deceased is succeeded by his eldest son, now Sir J s o augr l tdi i net i r : ogLm C r uoda h n4n e feu t te r hardi doe,odte of, daughter b Ansley orn iin aHlu7edBl andlB,,War wic ks h ir e, co-he i re ss a o m f s e dr when, John belnnB,2Nleentl.edi en tering l a t h at be gentleman's nem es o f property New dgat ei LudfordlB26, h e before biassumedsowbnysi. Ti h o e n. D ls o i t r v o a . g c er b L et a w d o y d ß e, o a u n g d h s e e y v , e t r h a e l R fu e ni v ili G es eo o r t ge ra C nk he a tw re o p de, lae tl e i d e trim beenm a n a y r - re externs in m A ou s rn E i L n F g . b A y rp th o e m d T ea z t p h of G Sir John. — sig T n n o v o n t. nEs a fid — dl A er y n o n u d ng d n a i n a e n i , n h; m in us g t a e bo r, ü b t as oeFra tas griev ances, B a llycahill, under the following circumstanicnoeft E so: their :—He repre sentedone deputed himself by to tb ethe peopleG o vernment of theto inq ui re for the purpose of laying the grounmdawnoyrkfori instances he ge neral reduction of rent. From the head of each fami l lylie demanded one penny for his trouble ; in got a shilling, so rejoiced were the people at the prospect or having two-thirds of their rent forgiven. He says his name is Edmund Ryan, and that he is a Tipperary boy. It is sup posed that he has for a leng th of time been p r actising upon the credulity of the people, in a variety of assumed charac ters.—Northern Wing. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—The present is hallowed by one of the most delightful offices of friendship and affection ; the interchange of gifts as remembrances of the donors, and tokens of their esteem for the receivers. The most appro priate present becomes the first subject of consideration ; a merely useful one can afford no evidence of taste, while a pre sent possessing no claims to utility, shows a want of judgment. To combine these requisites, a more fitting souvenir cannot be suggested than Rowland's Toilet Articles, the Macassar Oil, Kalylor, and Odocto, each of infallible attributes. In creating and sustaining luxuriant silken tresses, Rowland's Macassar Oil is highly and universally appreciated; Rowland's Kalydor is a preparation of unparalleled efficacy in improving and beauti fying the Skin and Complexion; and Rowland's Odunto, or Pearl Dentifrice, is invaluable f its beautifying and preser vative effects on the Teeth and Gums. The august patronage conceded by our gracious Queen, and the several Sovereigns of Europe, together with the beautiesw d bi t c h h e a e d o o o r fi n rm th a e tin c o ircl b e y s of experience priicely o a f nd the re i g n a fa l ll m ib a le gn effia ifi e ce c t 7 an of these creative renovating specifics, have characterised them with perfection, and given them a celebrity unparalleled. ORANGE-PEEL ON THE FOOT-PAVEMENT.—Yester day afternoon, between three and four o'clock, as Mr. M'El land, a gentleman residing in Hatton-garden, was proceeding along Holborn, he was suddenly thrown to the ground with a most violent shock, through accidentally treading upon some orange-peel. When assisted to rise be was unable to stand, having sustained a fracture of the right leg, as well as a dialbWion e 4 the shoultler. ' OPENING OF THE PORTS. ST. CLEMENT'S DANES. Last evening a public meeting, called pursuant to a nu merously-signed requisition of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Clement's Danes, was held in the vestry-room for the purpose of memorializing " her Majesty to direct the imme diate opening of the ports for the free admission of foreign grain, or to adopt any other measures that might be consi dered necessary relative to the apprehended scarcity." Ik. W. Wilkinson, the senior churchwarden, in the chair. Mr. PROUT moved the first resolution, and stated that his opinion with respect to the iniquitous and pernicious corn law was well known ; it was a law for the advantage of a few to the injury of the many. He (Mr. Profit) need not state how necessary it was at the present time for all parties to unite in the extinction of those laws, when, bytheir opera tion, millions were likely to be deprived of that support which was necessary to their existence.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Front concluded by moving the first resolution That this vestry is seriously alarmed by the failure of the late crop of potatoes, and the defective yield in wheat corn, thereby apprehending before the next harvest the united affliction of famine and pestilence, and that the fear of these calamities is greatly increased by her Majesty's Ministers having omitted to exercise their authority to open the ports of the United Kingdom for the free admission of foreign grain." Mr. JAcQurr seconded the resolution in a brief speech, whiCh was carried unanimously. Mr. CADOGAN moved the second resolution— _ " That to the calamities occasioned by nature's laws we submit without murmuring; but against the continuance of legislative enactments, which tax and impede the supply of food, we most solemnly protest; and as the corn-laws still remain in force, blighting the national prosperity, this vestry deems it requisite that a memorial should be sent to her Majesty, to consider the necessity of immediately opening the ports of the United Kingdom for the admission of foreign corn, free of duty." _ _ Mr. PARKER seconded the resolution, which was also car ried unanimously. Mr. BERGER moved an appropriate memorial to the Queen, and it having been adopted, the meeting separated. ALNWICK. A memorial has been addressed to her Majesty by a nu merous body of the inhabitants of Alnwick, Northumberland, praying for the opening of the ports for the free admission.of foreign grain and other provisions. The circumstance strik ingly shows the universality of the feeling against the corn law, as Alnwick is a small market -town, entirely dependent for its prosperity upen the agriculture of the district, and under the immediate influence of the Duke of Northum berland. EVEN] NG, DI;CEMBER 20, 1845. HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF VERSAILLES. (From the Moniteur des Arts.) This gigantic work is nearly finished, and now that we may judge it both in its ensemble and in its details, now that we may follow in all its developments the grand con ceptions of which it is the imposing expression, we may do justice to the patriotic and liberal feeling that presided at its birth, to that lofty sentiment, that rising superior to the selfish exigencies of political opinions, seemed to have in view but one object, that of bringing together a vast collection of historical monuments, clas,ed in clear and progressive ordei. In 1832 the Chamber of De puties was near depriving the Crown of the Palace of Versailles, and the classic souvenirs of the age of Louis XIV. were to be effaced, to satisfy a feeling of hostile jealousy, or a sordid calculation that would add a few ad ditional millions to the treasury. A majority of seven votes saved France the shame of seeing one of its finest monuments razed to the ground. The princely habita tion where genius and talent so eft received the honours of noble hospitality was saved from the hammer of the auctioneer, and Europe rejoices at a victory thus ob tained by civilisation over barbarity. Those who from a narrow-minded motive would have sacrificed one of the proudest monuments of France, will find some con solation in the reflection that fifteen millions of francs have been circulated by the Museum of Versailles. Every one is now aware of the motive of the King in forming the Museum ; the object is evident, and the execution nobly answers the intention, and may be read in the motto inscribed on the front of the Palace, "A toutes les gloires de la France." It would be unjust to attribute to the French Monarch anything like an exclusive 'feeling, and we must confess that no Prince would have under taken what he has so generously done. Had Louis XIV. or Napoleon conceived a project, the fame of which will live in after ages as one of the proudest titles of Louis Philippe to the gratitude of a nation, they would have suppressed more than one fact, and effaced the image of mere than one man ; the King banished from this classic sanctuary only what might call up the recollection of misfortune or of crime. We perceive a strong proof of rare impartiality, a feeling of enlightened liberality, in opening the Museum to men, his personal enemies, but who have played a certain part in some of the important scenes of the political drama that has been acted for the last fifteen years seemed entitled to a place in a work intended to represent the history of the country. Party feeling was more than once invoked to assail this national institution, which in their eyes was either de mocratical and revolutionary in the extreme, or leaned so strongly to monarchical principles that tyranny seemed to receive a sanction in lauding the splendid vanity of the past. To please the one, the history of Versailles should not have descended below 1788, and to satisfy the other the'rOyal decree should have blotted out all that preceded 1789, and all that succeeded 1831. The restoration that effaced from the monuments raised by the empire, the symbols engraven upon them by the Em peror ; the Republic that would destroy the traces of the ancient grandeur of France, both found it difficul t to pardon the King his noble moderation, his steady and exem plary justice ; but the country and Europe have under stood all that is great and royal in so much equity and moderation. Abstracting from political feelings the Museum has been the object of satire and unjust criti cism, and, strange to say, even from artists. It is true there are many pictlires that have no claims to excel lence—some that may be considered bad. It would be to be wished that .all were of the first order, both in point of compositioh and execution ; but where are two thousand masterpieces of art to be found ? Where could the King have got them, where have found artists to paint them ? But this is not the question ; even though there was not a single master-piece, the Museum would still be a national monument. Painting in this case is not to be considered as the end, it is only the means. A picture at Versailles must not be considered exclusively as an object of art ; it is above all a page placed be side another, to help to form a volume of history. The Museum may be considered an illustrated work, and as such will produce a sure effect on the majority of readers. Local memory being the one by which we best remember facts, in order to impress those facts more forcibly on the minds of the people for whom the Museum was in tended, what more rational line of conduct could the King have adopted than to bring together a long series of images more or less striking by . the composition of the subjects, the variety of the episodes, and the bril liancy of the colouring ? Art must necessarily have been but a secondary consideration, and yet it is easy to perceive his Majesty did not neglect it. The royal " Chateaux," the stores of the Louvre gave in their large contributions ; the " liste civile " opened its treasures to swell the number of this vast historic collection. Among those numerous pictures, busts, and statues, there were some of a high order of merit, whiCh in themselves would have formed a valuable museum. There were those of Van der Meulen and of Philippe de Champaigne, master-pieces of David and of Gros ; the Battle of'Austerlitz, the Entry of Henry IV. into Paris, and Philip V. of Gerard, which, in my opinion, cannot be placed in the same line as the " Sacre " Aboukir, and the Pestiferes de Jaffa, but which in the esteem of the critics of the Empire and of the Restoration were works of rare merit. Martin was not, it is true, a great painter, but, like Van der Men len, he painted contemporary facts under the eye and dictation of the heroes who performed them. Battles painted by Parrocel, a few official pages by Lebuen, a few pictures by Guy Halle, Antoins Dieu, Antoine Pezy, Rodolphe limber, Dumenil, Charles and Ignace Par rocel, Pierre Leupant, Segua, Lapson. Those pro ductions would unqriestionably be misplaced in a gal lery composed exclusively with a view to art, but how could they have been rejected in a collection of paint ings representing hiitorical facts, and executed by artists who were almost contemporary with those facts. Con sidered in another point of view, they possess a certain value in a Museum like that of Versailles ; they are the record of the history of the second order of painting during the reign of Louis XIV., a history which is nowhere to be found. Pictures during the Empire re presenting military feats, scenes of the interior of the palace, are, with few exceptions, but very indifferent, so much so indeed, that it is hard to imagine they were dune at a moment when David was painting the Ther mopylae, the Portrait of the Pope and the Sacre (conse cration) ; when Gros was rising to immortal fame by productions that, tOth those of his illustrious master, will suffice to class the' French school from the beginning of the nineteenth century among the great schools of paint ing, where Guerine, Girodot, and Gerard gave to the world productions inferior to those of David ansl of Gros, but of a very high order, when Prudhoe claimed the place of a fine, soft, end delicate colourist. Weak, nay bad, as those productions may be, it is well they have been grouped and brought together, because with those of the masters who come immediately after David, they form a history of the art during the Empire both curious and instructive. All, or almost all, the pictures were ordered by Napoleon, and it would be unfair to ac cuse him of want of taste in refusing to limit his choice to the small number of artists whose talents placed them in the highest rank of art. A monarch, were he con. noisseur, and did'lie feel a repugnance for what in art is without grandeur or excellence, would, however, be obliged to make a sacrifice of his taste, and confide to mediocrity a portion of the monuments he wishes to rai.e. His taste might be shocked by the necessity of consulting more than one interest, and extending his choice to those who have but slight claims to excellence. Thss consideration, and the laudable desire of encouraging every talent, however humble, influenced Napoleon in the choice of his artists. When Denote advised him to confide to such or such an artist a work destined for one of his palaces, he replied, "As Emperor, I am not free to choose; were I in another station in life—were I even but a Royal Highness, I should have my own artists, but in the station. in which I am phccd, whilst reward ing those who by their talents honour their country, I cannot forget that there are others of inferior merit, who have a claim on my protection." Louis XIV. yielded to the same motives. Leburn was his artist, and through him came a swarm of artists of the second and third order ; so much was to be done, and in a limited space of time, that it was necessary to have a whole legion of artists. Leburn was commander of that numerous host, and taught them discipline, and so skilful was the direc tion given that the numerous productions seemed to be the work of one band. Thus were trained those artists whose productions live un consecrated by a name, and thus the works of the sellers whic,,h, strike the eye so agreeably when viewed from the terrace of Versailles, near the bason of Laton, have beere. ascribed to Coysevox, of whose pompous 'styles they seem the correct representation. A nearer inspection, however, tells us that those pro ductions remarkable for the majesty of the positions, the grace and variety of the details, belong to Hungre, Magnier, Le Regbandeir, Baptiste Juby, P. Le Gros, Run, or some other artist, to whose name and fame we are equally strangers. Napoleon was not so successful as Louis XIV. The works of his secondary artists possessed neither , • the intrinsic merit nor fine ap pearance of those . of Martin, Raon, Jubez, and others ; be was however, obliged to accept such productions, which were but! poor ornaments for his imperial castles. It is true the defects of those works were not Oilways discriminated by a man whose knowledge of the 'art was rather limited, equally unable to appreciate the distinguishing beauties of the Sabrina, or the splendid colouring of the plague of Jaffe, the battles of Aboukir and Nazareth. He was more engrossed with the subject than the style or tone of the painting, and providing the artist was faithful in recording historical truth in the material part of the details, he cared little about the truth of the colouring, the grandeur or simpli city of the composition. The King had undertaken a mighty task, and 'expedition was necessary, that time might remain for' other important works, such as the completing of the Louvre, which, vk e trust, his Majesty will execute in spite of the narrow-minded feeling of poli tical approbation , so unjustly raised against an under taking worthy of a Prince, the enlightened patron of civil institutions.'.: ARTHUR DAVITT, Professor of Modern Literature. FRIGHTFUL p EATlL—Yesterday Mr. William Payne held an inquest in the board-room of Guy's Hospital, on the body of John I , laylis, aged 47 years, lately in the ser ice of Messrs. Randall and Ca., the proprietors of the ex tensive malt-mills at south Lambeth. James Hill, an en gineer, deposed that it was deceased's duty to clean the ma chinery every morning before it was put in motion. On Thursday morning;-..between six and seven o'clock, witness had lighted the fire, and got the steam up ready for work, The engine was put in motion, but was not performing its usual work, consequently it was travelling at full speed. When witness saws the deceased last he was standing in a small space, between the wall and shaft, in a leaning position, cleaning the machinery. Witness left the room for a minute, when he was suddenly alarmed by hearing loud screams for ass istance. Witness ran to the spot, and fo und that Baylis had been drawn in Among the machine r y . The engine was stopped by witness,who, after a few seconds, found the de ceased apparently lifeless. His left leg was completely torn from his body above the knee joi nt. The right leg was also seriously injured. lie was carried to the above hospital, where he died in thqee hours after his ashuiatou. Verdict— Actifttal &attic". LORD YIORPETH for YORKSHIRE. At a juncture like the present, a Parliamentary election is regarded with more than ordinary interest, as affording an opportunity to . the expression of popular sentiments, and the manifestation of the popular will on a subject which has de stoyed one Cabinet, and may be doomed to destroy another. We do not speak of elections which are decided by the fiat of an individual—where venal or vassal constituents are transferred from one political cipher to another by the com mand of a petty autocrat, or at the bidding of a wealthypar renu—but where men intelligent enough to think, and inde pendent enough to act, for themselves, are called upon to ex ercise the constitutional right of sending a representative of their opinions and interests into Parliament. An opportu nity of this kind has just occurred. The death of Lord Wharnclifre makes the representation of the Westßiding va cant by the succession of his son to the peerage. To no constituency could an appeal be made which would provoke so important or so decisive an adjudi cation. Superior in superficial extent to many counties, the West Riding of Yorkshire exceeds every county but one in the wealth of its inhabitants, and the numerous sources of that wealth. Combining :in its population the representa tives of the oldest families among the landed aristocracy, as well as the most opulent of the manufacturing classes, it sends to the hustings the interpreters of every opinion and the adherents of every party. On one side may be seen ranged the champions of the Dukery and that older nobilty which dates its title to hereditary distinction from an epoch long antecedent to the English peerage ; on the other the deni zens of Leeds, Barnsley, and Seffield—men wbo have grown rich in the routine of mechanic toil, and the acquisi tion of industrial wealth. On no hustings, perhaps, in all England can ideas so opposite, habits so diverse, and opinions so conflicting, be pitted against one another as on those of Wakefield. The creed of an old school, the theories of a new—the sober dogmatism of hereditary rank, the adventurous speculation of a new-born fortune—the prejudices of the peerage, the longings of the people— all here meet with a numerical and dynamical force that no other polling-place in England can parallel. It must indeed be a season of profound tranquillity and of political apathy, in which the candidate of any side can centre in himself the suffrages of a constituency so heterogeneous and divided. And it must at all times be a subject of proud reflection to the man who has won the prize of its representation. For whether it be the genius of a Conservative or the spirit of a Liberal policy which triumphs on these hustings, one thing is tolerably certain—that no ignoble drudge of a party, no insignificant or unintelligent herald, will now be sent to Par liament to interpret the wishes or protect the interests of the West Riding. It was no vain or commonplace compliment which Lord Morpeth uttered in his farewell address at Wake field in 1841, when he expressed his determination to seek or accept the suffrages of no other constituency than that which had formerly elected him its Member, and had only then deprived him of its confidence. He appreciated the honour of his former position teo highly not to feel its loss acutely; he valued it too dearly not to hope for its restitution. That time has now come. The representation of the West Riding is again vacant. He has another oppor tunity of soliciting the support of those whose favour he values, and of testing their devotion to principles which he has consistently advocated. He carries with him the recom mendations of private character and public distinction. He adds to these the influence of high birth and ancestral con nexion. His qualifications are such as would earn for him the unanimous approval of men whe were influenced by per sonal rather than party views; they would guarantee to him the enthusiastic assistance of any party with which lie might profess to act. The Liberals would support a man whose rank and intelligence reflected honour on their side ; the strongest Tory would reluctantly oppose one who, though brought into daily and official contact with the pitch of Whig jobbery and Irish debasement, came out with his word un doubted and his purity unsullied. But it will not be on per sonal grounds that Lord Morpeth will stand for the West Riding, nor on these grounds that he can hope to succeed. A great principle is at stake—a principle to which the electors of the West Riding are not indifferent. Lord Morpeth will appear before them as the champion of free trade. In this character he will be supported; in this cha racter he will be assailed. Viewed in this light, the election for the West Riding becomes a matter of grave import and anxious consideration. The hustings at Wakefield are the first great battle-field, whereon the contest between free trade and its antagonist is to be fairly waged. It is of no slight import which side secures the superiority in the first engagement ; for the first fair omen of a contest is half the victory. It is against no trivial or contemptible foe that he may have to contend. His adversaries can send into the field wealth, numbers, intelligence, and that stubborn energy which elen insures success when every other qualification fails. That they will forbear such a contest, and that they will forbear to set the manufacturers of Yorkshire in array against its landowners, is a thing much to be hoped, but hardly to be expected. Party feeling is too strong, the ex citement of the two opposing classes is too vehement, to ad mit of the supposition that the representation of the West Riding can be won without a fight. We hope, therefore, that the men of Yorkshire will be true to the cause of free trade, and restore Lord Morpeth to the honour which he lost with so much regret and so much grace.—Times:- THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. (From the Times.) We yesterday announced that the interregnum had termi nated, and that Lord John Russell had accepted from her Majesty the task of forming an Administration. His Lord ship, as we then explained, entered upon his office with the utmost hesitation, and only assumed the responsibilities of a Minister when he found that Sir R. Peel declined to return to power—at least until his rival had experienced the diffi culties of the crisis and failed in surmounting them. If we are rightly informed, it is by no means improbable that Sir R. Peel will have an opportunity of resuming office even upon these terms. Lord John Russell has found the difficul ties of his position greater than, even after a week's consi deration, he had anticipated. At a meeting yesterday, at which all the chiefs of his party were present, so much dis union prevailed, and so much doubt as to the ultimate suc cess of an Administration which would have at the outset to encounter in the House of Commons an immense adverse majority, 'with the assistance only of the precarious support which 'Sir R. Peel could afford, that it remains until this morning in doubt whether or not Lord John Russell will, after a more exact calculation of his strength, persevere in the task he has undertaken, or resign the trust once more into the hands of her Majesty. We should de Lord John Russell in justice if we did not except him from those among whom any doubt or hesitation prevails. His Lordship has been anxious to emancipate himself from the prudery of faction, and to construct his Cabinet on the widest possible basis, so that it might be in every respect equal to the emergency, and might possess a large share of the national confidence. Like Sir H. Peel, however, he has had to encounter among his pro posed colleagues every variety of disappointment, from direct opposition to lukewarm support; and, although himself hope ful of success, and willing bp adventure upon his great enter prise, the reluctance of some among his political friends to engage in a struggle from which Sir R. Peel, with his ma jerity of 90 in the House of Commons, and his great advan tage in the Upper House, has been compelled to withdraw, may induce him to give way, and to throw upon Sir R. Peel the full responsibility of the crisis he has created. (From the Morning Chronicle.) From our first announcement of the resignation of Sir R. Peel we have not ceased to impress upon the public how many and how serious were the obstacles to the formation of a Liberal Government. In the face of them, nothing less than the absolute necessities of the public service could justify Lord John Russell in undertaking the task. Unless he could calculate upon the cordial support of the heads of the late Government, and upon the hearty and generous co operation of the whole of his own party, it was obvious that he could not so much as entertain the subject of forming an Administration; and even with such support as this, it must still be a matter of grave doubt whether his Lordship had such reasonable prospect of success as could alone warrant him in encountering the difficulties of the present crisis. It is only as the formation of a Cabinet progresses that these difficulties come to be fully developed ; and it is altogether uncertain whether they may not even yet terminate in Lord John Russell's abandoning the task upon which lie hail already entered. In a merely party view we confess we should not regret this result. While the great object upon which the heart of the people is fixed would perhaps be more surely and more thoroughly accomplished by a little delay and the wreck of another Administration, the position of the Liberal party would be greatly strengthened by throwing back the Government upon those who have fled from its responsibilities. But this this is not a time for the playing of party tricks, or for the stiff assertion of peculiar views. At what time during the last few years have we had more need of the care and watchfulness of a strong Government than at present ? If the country will require to be told why, at such a time, Sir Robert Peel broke up'his strong Government, depend upon it, it will also require to be told why Lord John Rus4ell has not been able—if un happily he shall not be able--to form any Government. „, THE IV EATHER AT LIVERPOOL.—The weather still continues boisterous, and our dispatches of yesterday state, that since the memorable storm of January, 1839, the barometer has never fallen so low. ARAB VENGEANCE.—The following appears in an Algiers journal of the 2d :—" A Frenchman, named Justine, was living in a small house near the copper mines if Mou zaia, with his family, when on the 19th ult. he was shot by an Arab, the ball entering between the shoulders. On his dropping, a party of the marauders entered the cottage and assailed the three children who were in it, a girl about 15, and two boys, one eight and the other four years old. The girl, though stabbed in 12 places, had sufficient strength left to escape, and go to Medeah and give the alarm. The com mandant immediately mounted his horse, and, followed by a picket of men, hastened to the scene of murder. The Arabs were gone, leaving Justine still living, but weltering in his blood, with his feet in a fire, to which he had been dragged by the Arabs, who had laid upon him the bodies of his two younger children. They were immediately carried to the hospital, where the daughter had been already placed, and where she and her younger brother are still living, but the father and the elder boy expired the next day. Madame Justine, the wife and mother of these victims of barbarity, was absent from the scene of blood, having gone to Medeah with a still younger child. During the night of the same day, two men, named Blache and Levy Joseph, belonging to the same copper mines, disappeared. They had gone to the market of Arba Djendel, both armed, Blache taking with him 900 f. in silver. They had two dogs with them, both of which were covered with blood, which circumstance leads to a belief that another murder has been committed." DISTRESSING CASE Or ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, as one of the keepers of St. James's-park was passing along the northern bank of the ornamental waters, he observed a female suddenly plungain and disappear. He made an alarm, and two gentlemen came up, when it was resolved, as neither of the persons present could swim, that each individual should grasp the other's hard, and thus proceed into the water, Walker taking the lead, followed by one of the gentlemen, whilst the friend of the latter held 'firmly by a projection in the bank, for the purpose of endeavouring to rescue the drowning woman, and by these humane and intrepid exer tions the keeper succeeded in catching hold of the female by the hand as she was sinking for the third time. Assisted by another park-keeper, named Farrar, Walker hastened with his charge to the Westminster Hospital, where, by means of hot baths and other remedies, she was in the course of an hour enabled to state that her name was Charlotte Ash, 18 years of age; that. she had been a servant, but having for some time past been out of a situation, she had been obliged to part with almost every article of clothing she possessed, and had suffered the greatest privations, fre quentl) going without food for days together. She had that morningl g ef h-r ti o l n, Chelsea, lodgings at No. 8, Cumberland-pla ce, ifor the purpose of p rocee di ng to 3atlbc, reu her mother, who is also a servant, but, on passing through the Park, she suddenly made up her mind to put an end to her miserable existence. She remains in the hospital in an ex.. tremely low and weak state. Low TlDE.—Yesterday, about noon, the river between Blackfriars-bridge and Somerset-house presented an extraordinary appearance, in consequence of the tide, which fell unusually low, causing the greatest inconvenience in the navigation of steam-boats and other craft, especially above bridge, where several were aground for some time. An Envoy Extraordinary, says the Constibtionnel, is expected in Paris from the republic of Mexico, to treat for the establishment of friendly relations between France and the republic.-- Galiontat MAIDSTONE. On Thursday evening a numerously attended meeting of inhabitants of the town, and farmers of the neighbourhood of Maidstone, was held in the Assembly-room, the Rev. Mr. Dobney in the chair. The Rev. GENTLEMAN observed, that he considered the question before them to be of deep and momentous import ance. It was desirable that a decided blow should be given to monopoly in human food—a monopoly which was produc tive of many and great evils, while it was based upon princi ples which could not be supported by the laws of nature or the doctrines of revealed truth. Mr. R. R. R. MOORE then spoke upon the question up wards of two hours and a half, during which protracted period the utmost silence and deepest attention pervaded the meeting. _ _ _ . At the conclusion of his speech the following resolu - - - tion was proposed by Mr. NRIZIES, and seconded — by Mr . SHIRELY :—" That this meeting views with deep apprehen sion the fearful consequences that appear inevitable from the acknowledged deficiency in the present supplies of food, and that in the opinion of the meeting these consequences can only be averted by immediately opening the ports for the free admission of foreign grain and provisions, and an early summoning of Parliament to consider the urgent necessity of at once and for ever abolishing all laws which restrict the supply of the people's food ; that such laws arbitrarily in terfere with the rights of industry, and are as inimical to the best interests of agriculture as they are injurious to every other interest in the country." This, upon being put, was carried with acclamation. It was then moved by Mr. CLAYTON, and seconded by Mr. STEVENS :-" That this meeting respectfully, but most ear nestly, calls upon the electors of this borough of Maidstone, as well as upon those of the wetern division of the county of Kent, in the event of a general election, to record their votes for no candidate who will not advocate the total re peal of the corn and provision laws; and most particularly recommends all those who are not on the registry for the county, and who are able to purchase a county qualification, immediately to do so." Carried nem. con. Thanks ►ere then voted to the Chairman, and the numerous assembly separated. GREENWICH. Last evening, at seven o'clock, a meeting of the members of the League, and a large assemblage of the inhabitants of Greenwich and vicinity, friendly to the total repeal of the corn-laws, were convened in the Literary Institution, Royal bill. Mr. John Wade, of Deptford, in the chair. Mr. R. R. R. MOORE addressed the audience at consider able length, and concluded by saying, he hopad they were in perfect readiness for the coming election, and that they would take care to return two free-traders for that important borough (Greenwich.)—(Cries of " We are all prepared—our canvassing books are all ready—we will give you two free traders.") The Hon. Gentleman retired amidst repeated and tremendous applause. The Lecture-hall was literally crammed: there were 1,600 to 2,000 persons present, and numbers without who could not get within the building; such a meeting has not been witnessed, since the hall has been erected, in the town of Greenwich. STEAM-BOAT COLLISION. At the Greenwich Police-court, on Friday, William Phil lips, captain of Waterman 12, appeared to a summons at the instance of the Old Woolwich Steam-packet Company, for alleged wilful damage to the Ariel steam-packet, under the following circumstances:— Mr. Lewis, of Hatton-garden, attended for the complain ant, and Mr. Pelham for the defendant. The case had been adjourned from Friday week, in conse quence of the great length of evidence to be adduced, viz., four witnesses only out of seventeen having been examined. The evidence, as in all such matters, is of the most con tradictory character. For the plaintiff, it was deposed, that on the 24th of November last, at two o'clock in the after noon, both boats started from Woolwich for London, the Waterman takint the lead, and arriving at Charlton Pier a few minutes before the Ariel, and was taking in her pas sengers, moored head and stern, and occupied the whole length of both piers, which are separated by about six feet, the entire length being about one hundred. While so lying, the Arid came up; finding her place . occupied by No. 12, a rope was cast over from herquarter abaft thebits, andsecured to the pier for the purpose of landing and taking in her pas sengers. Immediately afterwards the defendant used some foul lan guage, and called to a boy for a hatchet, which having been procured, he chopped at the rope three or four times, and succeeded in cutting through three strands of it, when the man on board the Ariel let go. John Ryan, captain of the Arid, then desired the defendant to go astern, that be might get his vessel properly alongside his own pier. This the defendant did not do, but went forward, whereby two stancheons and a rail were destroyed. The Arid then moved astern, as did Waterman 12, when the latter turned over towards the north shore. The Ariel to avoid contact with the stern of a schooner, was compelled to keep her stern-way, when the Waterman 12, ran her bow into her stern and did considerable damage to the Ariel, and caused very considerable alarm to the passengers in both vessels. The damage amounted—for cutti ng t h e rope, 6 s . ; the first collision, 18s. ; and the second one, 31.145. 6d. The witnesses were severally cross-examined by Mr. Pel ham, and their evidence much shaken, Mr. Pelham contend ing, however, principally in that matter, that the piers were illegal, and that he should certainly appeal against any con viction, For the defence it was urged that No. 12 Waterman, being 120 feet long, and the piers only 100 feet in length, she had no alternative but so to place herself. That the piers were not separated as so alleged by the plaintiff, and that the fol lowing is the true version of the affair, namely:—That whilst so lying the Ariel crossed he r b ow an d came in violent con tact, by which the first alleged damage was caused. That the rope or string was cut not until after the captain of the Ariel had been several times warned to remove it; and that by its being placed &Daft the bits No. 12 had no power to go astern. That the pier belonging to the Woolwich Company had been removed from its usual and proper position, and that when the Waterman 12 did go astern and placed he rself towards the north in o r d er to p roc eed on her passage , the Ariel also backed astern, and continued so to do until her stern came in contact with the bow of the Waterman, and which occasioned the second collision, and consequent damage. The witnesses for the defence were sharply cross-examined by Mr. Lewis, but in all the main points their evidence agreed. 'The utmost pains were taken to place the dispute in a cor rect light by neat models of the respective boats, as well as plans of the locality. After much recrimination between the laws on both sides. Mr. GROVE decided, that with regard to cutting the rope it was an unjustifiable act, and therefore fined the defendant 65., being the amount of damage sustained. With regard to the first collision, he thought the Ariel was to blame; and as to the second, he adjudged the defendant to pay the da mage, amounting to 3/. 14s. 6d., and 17s. 6d. costs of wit nesses, and 2s. the summons. Mr. Pelham then gave no tice of appeal, the defendant being nominally sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment in default of payment. COLLISION.—In the fearful collision between the to THE E Dia ß m E o c n :N c r om S pa T n E y 7 G r avesend, Bull, Hamburgh Jr:AT erald steam-boat, packet, on Saturday last, off a a d ra t4e s any with serious accidents—one of wh om, we have since learnt, is Lieutenant Crofton, of the Company's East India C Engi neers, stationed at Brompton Barr acks, Chatham, who sus tained very serious injuries. On his arrival at his quarters the same evening, Dr. Stewart Chisholm, of the Royal Artil lery, wss sent for, and on examination he found that the gentlemaa's right arm and co llar -bone were both fractured, evidently done by a severe crush, and that his head and face were much bruised and severely injured. It is considered a miracle that he escaped with his life. Dr. Chisholm lost no time in setting the bones, and we are happy to say that, under his skilful management, hi s patient has not liad the slightest symptom of fever, sad is doing as well as can be expected. The officer, it appears, was standing near the paddle-box, on the larboard s de of the Emerald, when she was struck by the John Bull, the bows of which latter vessel crushed him. ROASTING A Bor ALtvL—On Wednesday, the 10th inst., one of the most barbarous acts ever known to have been committed took place at Silkstone, near Barnsley, by which a youngboy, named Charles Chappel, had a narrow escape from death, even i f h e yet recovers. The case is re ported to be as follows :—On the men giving over working at Mrs. Clark's colliery, seve-al y oung men be gan w i t h t h e i r foolish work of jesting and stylarking in the cabin, in which was, as usual, a large fire, which ultimately ended in two of them taking and fastening a chain round the waist of Charles Chappel, by which they bong him to an iron bar which crosses the roof a short distance from the fire, and before leaving him threw a large s hovel of fire upon him, some o f which fell into one of the p oor fellow's clogs, which burnt him dreadfully (his eyes and different parts of his person being much burnt), so much so that the cries of the poor boy caused some persons to go to his assistance, who extricated him from his perilous sit uation. On Wednesday last a young man was remanded br John Thornele, —sq., at Barns ley, for examination, until 'Friday, charge d with the above offence. The others are not apprehended.—Doncaster Go zette. YACHT CLUBS.—Application having been made to the Lords of the Treasury by the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, requesting for the members of that Club the same privileges as the Royal Yacht Club and the Royal Irish Yacht Club of Dublin, their Lordships have, through Mr. Cardwell, one of their secretaries, signified that they have been pleased to comply with the request. The particular privileges requested refer to the right of being exempt from certain harbour, or other duel, the disposal of stores, and other matters of an internal and private nature. AMERICAN PAPERS. DEATH OF PROFESSOR DOD, OF PRINCETON COLLEGE, NEW JERSEY. We regret to learn, by the last steamer from America, the death of Professor Dod, of Princeton College—a gentleman well known by repute in this country. Pro fessor Dod was celebrated for his conversational talents, which were little, if in any way, inferior to those of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We copy the following tribute to his memory from a Boston paper : Professor Dod, of Princeton, is dead. He breathed his last yesterday afternoon (Thursday), at a about half past four o'clock, after a week's illness. The College of New Jersey, of which the deceased was a distinguished professor, will long mourn its irrepar able loss—the Church"; of which he was' a learned and eloquent minister—the country, of which he was an intelligent, patriotic, and faithful citizen—the friendly and the family circle, of which he was the hope and the ornament—each will mourn a dispensation—so little anticipated—so inscrutable, so overwhelming. Albert B. Dod had reached his fortieth year, and was, therefore, in the vigour and promise of life ; with all his faculties bent to the accomplishment of the great trust to which he had devoted himself—that of advancing and perfecting liberal education. His department in the College was mathematics, but his intellectual grasp comprehended all the kindred sciences—and his thirst for knowledge, combined with a discriminating taste, led him to the cultivation and appreciation of the classics and belles lettres. He was indeed a fine illustration of an accomplished scholar and Christian gentleman—showing in all things the liberalising influences of good studies upon an ingenuous nature. In his intercourse with the students of the College, Mr. Dod was most happy in conciliating their regard, while exciting their emulation. He taught them to value knowledge, as much by his example as his precepts, and he, in like manner, taught them, too, that neither talents nor knowledge are valuable, or to be valued, except as founded on and strengthened by good principles and good conduct. Of his social and domestic qualities, we will not trust ourselves to speak—for what to those who knew him not in those relations might seem exaggeration, would, to the friends that lo%ed him, sound like faint and feeble praise. But he is gone. Mullis ille bonis flebilis occidit, Nulli flebilior quam mihi. OREGON.—The origin of the proposition to which allusion has been made, for the adjustment of the Oregon question, appears to be indicated in the following para graph from the Toronto Banner ;—" Mr. Buchanan, late British Consul at New York, has proposed a plan for preventing collision, which has been submitted to both Governments. It has been noticed by the New York papers, and suggests a Board of Commissioners mutually chosen. If this board does not agree, it proposes that a portion of the territory shall be set aside as mutual ground till 1860, or till it shall have contained 100,000 inhabitants for the five previous years; that then, if two-thirds of these inhabitants agree, it will be open to them to become an independent state, or to annex themselves to Britain or America, as they see fit, reserving to both countries equal rights of trade. The worthy ex-Consul's plan may be a very good one, but it would be better that every question between our belligerent neighbours and us were settled at once. It is impossible, however, to think that the formidable preparations for defence of the English coast, are dic tated from fear of an American war. The British Cabinet must have information, that, in .such an event, France will be likely to take part with the United States. The value of the Oregon territory is not great, in itself, but our Government will not allow herself to be bullied out of what is conceived to belong of right to the British Empire." The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier thus writes :—" It is, I have uo doubt, the wish of the people of the United States to treat Mexico ge nerously and liberally in this matter—more especially since she has offered us the olive branch. We ought to be willing to grant her an ample equive.,.. lent for the boundary which we propose to take, or rather have taken. This is the proper time, also, for por chasing the Californias of Mexico. Her hold is exceed ingly weak on that State, and she must relinquish it to England. Would not our people do well to take Cali fornia, with its fine harbours and fertile lands, while they can be got for a few millions, instead of marching an army across the Rocky Mountain to conquer from the British some wild and worthless lands on the Pacific North of Columbia River ? This is the time to settle this matter." WELL DESERVED TRIBUTE.—The following is a copy of a letter addressed, by T. G. Grattan, Esq., British Consul for Boston, Massachussetts, to Capt. Up ton, of the ship Governor Davis, one of Train's Line of Liverpool Packets : " B. M. Consulate, Boston, Oct., 17, 1845. " Sir—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, accompanied by one from Captain Salter, of the British ship • Glenview,' detailing the particulars of your humane conduct, in rescuing, at great risk, from the wreck of that vessel, the muter, officers, and crew, consistin of twenty-two individuals, and your having provided t hem with clothing, subsisted them on board your ship for three weeks, and treated them throughout with the greatest kindness. "For this conduct I beg to offer you my cordial thanks, and to assure you of the gratitude of the persons who owe their lives to you. Such instances of gene rosity and humanity are by no means uncommon in the American merchant-service ; and I shall have great pleasure, as I have had on similar occasions, in report trig the circumstances of the case for the consideration of her Majesty's Government. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " T. C. GRATTAN. "Captain Upton, of the American ship Governor Davis, Boston." Mr. Grattan is the well-known author of " Highways and Byeways." The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro are ex pected to return to this country on the 15th of the ensuing mouth, from Rome, after a tour of nearly six months in Germany and Italy. They were to leave Rome for Naples this month, and thence to l'lorence. ___ THE NORTHERN COLLEGE.—We are enabled to state that the Vice-Principalship of the Northern College bas been conferred upon Dr. Thomas Andrews, of this town. This reponsible situation was tendered to Dr. Thompson, of Glasgow, and by him refused. Dr. Andrews is a gentleman of high scientific attainments, and is at present Professor of Chemistry in the Medical School attached to the Belfast In stitution.—Belfast Chronicle. GLASTONBURY.—FREE-TRADE MEETING.—In this benighted, Tory and priest-ridden town, the seeds of free trade have at length struggled through many impediments and brought forth fruit. On the evening of Thursday se'n night a public meeting of the inhabitants and its neighbour hood took place. to try the strength of free trade with pro tection, and it is with much pleasure we state that the opinion in favour of opening the ports was unanimously expressed.— Somerset County Gazette. BEVERLET.—REPRESENTATION.— 0 wing totbe un certainty which prevails as to th• course which Lord John Russell will adopt, no positive announcement has yet been made as to the intention of the two parties in Beverley, but we understand the Liberals will be fully prepared with two " good men and true," should an election take place.—Hull Advertiser. SALE OF A CURIOUS COLLECTION Or BLACK LETTER BOORS AND MANUSCRIPTS.—Yesterday a sale by auction, of a curious collection of black-letter books and manuscripts, forming a portion of an episcopal library, re ceived from the Continent (commenced on Thursday), was resumed, and concluded at Mr. Fletcher's rooms, in Piccadilly. The following, from their rarity, are deserving of notice " 13iblia Germanica," without date, place, or printer's name, but printed in 146 - 2. This book (the catalogue stated) is a first edition of the German Bible, and of the utmost rarity, being alluded to by De Buie, Clement, and Vogt, in their works. It consists of 404 leaves, each page having two columns, each column containing GO lines. The book sold for 15 guineas. Two copies of the first edition of Lu ther's Bible, with wood-cuts after designs by Albert Durer and Lucas Cranach, sold respectively for Si. 2s. 6d. and 81. 15s. The autographs of the various German monarchs fetched very low prices, the highest price being 11.45. for the autograph of Charles V., Emperor of Germany. An auto graph of Napoleon fetched only 95., and one of Charles XII. of Sweden but 18s. COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—THREE PERSONS KILLED.— An inquest was held at Aspull, on Saturtav last, before Mr. Henshall, deputy county coroner, on the bodies of John Shep herd, agel 44, William Shepherd, his son, 13 years of age, and William Butterworth, aged 18. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the unfortunate individuals, who were colliers, were at work, on the Thursday previous, in a coal-pit at Aspull, belonging to Earl Belearres ; there was some foul air in the pit, which came in conduct with a lighted candle, and caused an explosion to take place. Another man, named Thomas Seddon, who was working in the same level, was also so dreadfully injured that he is not expected to recover. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death in every case; and the coroner severely reprimanded the over looker of the pit for not using greater caution in examining into the state of the pit, as to the existence of foul air in it, and also preventing the men from working with lights that were not properly guarded.—Liverpool Mercury. CHRISTMAS Boxas.—The Corporation of Colchester have taken the necessary steps to prevent the police, town sergeants, and other paid officers, from receiving Christmas boxes.—Essex Standard. WRECK OF A COLCHESTER VESSEL.—It is our painful duty to record the total wreck of the brig Mercury, of this port, with the loss of three lives, viz., Captain Nunn, jun., and two of the crew. She was on her passage from the north, coal laden, and on Thursday afternoon last, whilst off Whitbv, encountered some rough weather with a very heavy sea. About six o'clock she shipped a sea over her stern. which carried away the jolly boat and stove in her stern frame, with all the bulwarks to the main rigging. The crew then hove to till about nine o'clock, when another tremen dous sea went over her, washing away the long boat and breaking in the main hatch ; the fore bulkhead also gave h a e t a t d h . e same se t n i n m d l , ng a n d t h t e h e p I s! i i p )s began o s f e o t u tl r e d a n o d w n fi b v y e way the feet of water was found in the hold, so that the only chance of the crew saving their lines was to run her for the shore, upon which about eleven o'clock she struck. At this junc ture the captain's rope broke and he was washed overboard, but the rest of the crew took to the rigging, where they re mained nearly four hours within a short distance of the beach ; the sea, however, was so heavy that the life-boat could not put (if to their assistance; but hy means of a rocket a rope was ultimately pa4sed over tie vessel, by Ivhich four of the crew, named M'Nish, Ezekiel and S. Ben nett, and J. Baker, were pulled asbose. Robert Barrett, mother seaman, unfortunately lost his hold of the rope and was drowned; and a third, named Joseph Humm, who was in the fore-rigging when the ship parted, met a similar ma lancholy fate. The body of 'lntim was picked up the fel lowing day, but neither the captain nor Barrett had been found.—Essex Standard. _ ---- NI - A S ER.--A few days ago, died wretchedly in a garret at Boulogne, a woman who had ettained her eighty tifth year. Her relations, when they examined her chamber, found concealed in a closet money to the amount of 1,730 f. She was the owner of a farm, and also of a Louse, at Bou logne, both well let, and vet had the audacity to beg in the streets. She had when fciund by the tenant of her farm who came on business, been dead, as declared by the medical men called in, at least thirty-six houre, and probably from starva tion, as not a morsel of food was to be found is the room. The prOyerty of this miatrableMlA 4 SWUM tt 42,0.0 t ~1~ %