The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

......... K Y.) Man' 3 an d 4 not ,ersons indred A rties Should heirs' FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 19.—The average price of wheat last week was 17f. 93c. ; and that of rye 10f. 69c The import and export; duties remain unaltered. The Chamber of Representatives, after having re ceived a great number of petitions, resolved itsel into a secret Committee to enter on the examination of its own budget. After having decided on this question, the public sitting was resumed, to examine the project of law relative to the importation of twelve million kilogrammes of corn from the duchy of Limburg, with a reduction of 75c. from the pre sent duties. The debate taking a political turn, the Chamber again formed itself into a secret Committee, Which, as we hear, was adjourned till to-morrow. In this Committee the Minister urged the necessity of this project of law, as he had proposed it to the Chamber. A royal resolution of the 2d of November autho rises the Commercial Bank of Antwerp to a certifi cate of the Roman Five per Cent. Stock inscribed in the Great Book of Rome, to the amount of six mil lions of francs, and for a period which will expire on the 31st of December, 1854. This permission is granted on the following con ditions 1 . To fulfil in any points the obligations mentioned mi the National Act executed the 16th October last. 2 . Not to issue certificates of less nominal value than I ,ooof. at the least, as well as the coupons, with lease to m en ti on the corresponding value in Roman Piastres. 3 . To insert in the certificates the cases which may Interrupt the payment of the interest (rcnte course), as 'well as the con diti ons b y means o f wh i ch an original share may be obtained. k 4 . To h ave t h e cert i f i cates stamped, as prescribed ° Y the law of March 21, 1839. If these conditions should not be complied with, the Permission will be withdrawn. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bansma, Nov. 20. Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., Roth— Loan Five per Cent ~,I.oan of Thirty Millions Four per Cent 9B % Three per Cent — Thirty-seven Millions, ditto (1840) lOi . lO3 102% Loa n of City, 1843, Four per Cent. Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent OO - issue of 1841....,” ..... ...,..... ....... ...... ........... ' — Brlissels Papers, Nov. 21. DUTCH FUND3.—AMSTERDAM, Money. y 1 .6. Bill,. 6214 625 i Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.... 75% '7SN Ditto ditto 3 per Cent. 96% 97 Ditto, ditto, ' 4 per Cent. 100 Datou_ittoS per cent. Vl)% 1)9% limin't gyndic, 4% per cent . _ Ditto. ditto, 3% per cast 147' . 147% Commercial Company, 4 , ,,, per cent Loan 1837, 4% per cent. Exchange on L ondon , Onemonth ...... &7 12 Two months l2i 12 Hamburgh, One month 353 2550 Dutch Papers, Nov. 20. PRUSSIAN FUN DS.—BERLIN, Ndit money 16. st. Schuld Sch., 3% per cent. per cent .. g.,„ S Prussia n English Bonds, 1830, . vi Exchange on L ondon Prussian State Gazette. Nov l7. 131 t• KEENAN'S NEW PRINCIPLE OF PHYSIOLOGY. Dr. Keenan last night delivered the second of his co urse of l ec t ures on organic chemistry, at the Western Scientific Institution, on which the room was again well filled. He went over much of the si_ 1 4 . 1111 e ground that he had traversed in his first h expo . "on, his theory being simply that the human e r. od .t y/is lul electro-motive machine, and that the el o e f t th i e ct fo y od is ~ifellerated in the lungs by the oxygenation -1- he point on which he particularly dwelt of t w he as e the eos ab sente o f nce of all philosophical explanation I nion in the theory of Liebig, who supposes heatthe ' c hief urp oses of the lungs to be generated from and the evolutions of carbon. There was great in- genuit y di splayed by Dr. Keenan in t e h udi em eo a e n e n ; er hu in t which he placed his theory before d th it Was a ccompanied with considerable fo em u i nde srepdrfeosrentthae tion o f the views of Liebig, and _ w Most part on assumption. ki first p l ace, the disputed question,e assumed, in th e that the n ervous infl uence and electricity are identical ; and h av i ng taken th at for granted, he rested 1.1. the generation of electricity in the lungsis theory o f altogether on analogy, and that of an imperfect kind. Though the generation of voltaic electricity is produced by the absorption of oxygen, it is doubted by man y phy siologists w h et h er any en ever is absorbed by the bl oo d i n the lungs ox , and there what is little analogy between the absorption of oxygen by a zinc plate fr om the d ecompos i t i on of water and the assumed absorption o f oxygen and the formation of water in lungs by the decomposition of atmospheric air. ofThe excitement of frictional electricity, which Dr. Iteenan attrib u t e d entirely to the oxydisement the amalgam on the rubber can with great difficulty nbe at tributed to c h em i ca l action, since electricity is en excited under circumstances when no oxydisa ue base is k nown to be present. Even supposing t hte id entity of n ervous i n fl uence and voltaic elec 'eiY, the an a l ogy o f the action of the lungs ears but feebly in support of Dr. Keenan's theory, and he leaves the heat of the body altogether Unacc ounted f or . I n applying his system of -4- \ l3ll r. K Y si cdcgy to th e management of the human body, -"Jeenan contended that the electricity in the nerves spread over the stomach and in the lacteals assists mainly in di gest i ng the food, and that when the St omach has more food thrust into it, in proportion to ththeus"Ygen absorbed by the blood, than the electricity and theen:lreatted. .can digest, the remaining portion of °l37disable food irritates the stomach and intestines, c ricity of the nerves is exhausted by the repletion and over work. In this manner, he affirmed. liere are quite as many of the rich starved to death fromtlYrepletion as there are of the poor who are starved v the want of food. Dr. Keenan's lecture was o e u rY well received, but, owing to his speaking with and t lic 'tes, he is very discursive, frequently repeats, 411 , 3 ' consequently, ma k es his lectures rather confused much too long. thFoRTUNATE ESCAPE. —Last Saturday, betwe . e . n . e tty ,ncl forty tons of the bind or roof of a coaipit fell ? 4 'hg to Messrs. Barber and Walker, at Kimberley, b w ork h i • A. few minutes previously several men had been .... be .iv t it : o ; pvtl i tr n A P o o a n the spot where the heavy material . fell, otht:rtunately their services had been required in some d f m t it he en p i i e t w , and . thus their lives were preserve fable 299, j at RS E OF FORTUNE.—The police-cons. V e n t % s Tr acy, wbo was struck by Mr. Ashton, of the ii ii - :' - office, in self defence, at the South Dock station, r i si 'nee been elevated to the title of Earl Tracy an Re:ti. age Liverpool paper. t :I N la FI RE. —Yesterday morning, shortly enpied c ock, a fire broke out upon the premises_ oc . • dill L y le, Mr. Richard Hanks, 11, Duke-strePt, Picca u.s ap , -I Y ' w hich was not extinguished before considerable dvoanleuatholethe ground floor and workshops, e 7 j o q u ila p ei r h o w g pe as a quantity of stock, furniture, The i,vets aTriteye,abroetdh i b a y th fi e re p ,.. h w ce a n te i r x. , and removal. "Qerstand that M. Locke, the eminent en tirnetrh, haas received from his Majesty the King . of the to hi s ~,,._. magnificent diamond fr attention .., I t 4_9 hear on the South Western Railway /Cvhe that it is in contemplation to invest his lg fleas the 144 • Gotha with "A i ling Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg liarter, as the Insignia of the illustrious Order of . t e his ~ . an honorar I- ' NISIt tO hi s an Y .night, by her Majesty, during tinguished part and other per' autos relatives in this country. A lis .Windsor Castie the Y e' i e ri e c s lud ,ing Earl Delawarr, the Premier, semble a a-- 13 ` ,high note, are expected to ?..5- week, by..royal invitation to meet t middle heir Royal BUTCHERS' 13 y in of the li g h en n e s s ulg . tiversar d. yes.terda y, at the Fre emasons' ENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The an was larger than thoaft eheistneaxsocenTt Tavern. The a b s u g ni iv b e e n r above three hundred. The Chairman was Alderman assembled last year, amounting to Challis three u nnter , who Sidney, friends .of supported by the Sheriffs, Messrs. toast, theand §Auhey, Mr. Giblett, and several other this Charity. In announcing the principal Chairman dwelt with tact and feeling on the Society purpose of the Association, vindicated the 40..oc_ieety. from the assertions made as to their want of '5! 0 . 1. u .. .uu e Tty.soma years ago, and pointed with a 11. , 0 triumph to the fact that at present the butchers London expended 1,0004 annually, on fifty-three re ....clpients of their bounty, the men receiving 20/. and the ZynlFll.l6l. per annum. The subscription s were on the usual. liberal. scale, and the evening was passed in the utmost harmony, teftAL MEICAL SUPPLEMENTAL FUND. ---Yes t isit'i, a special general meeting of the subscribers to ...,:iatsraieutntd, `vas held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir Wm president, in the chair, to receive the report of a Committee appointed to investigate the af fairs of the society The chairman having acknowledged that the fund was' in a very embarrassed state, called LI P(In Mr. Crandell, the secretary, to read the report of th e c o . . mmittee, which was exceedingly volumnious, and 'auutained the recommendation of the Committee to re 'Luce the annuities from 404 to 261. 13s. 4d. ; and also the .?_nPoitnion of the law officers of the Crown that they could _ Make that reduction without an Act of Parliament lonorising them to remodel the society. The report purposes, contained a draft of the Act necessary for those The report was adopted, and thank s were voted to the Committee and the chairman of the day. ,sor L IFE, RUN DOWN NEAR GRAVESEND. ay. ing IFE.—Abot three o'clock on Monday morning, ~ somewhat foggy, as a vessel named the Ranger, u unt 80 tons burden, belonging to Goole, was working 4 ), the Reach for London, a collier brig, also beatin g stn. the the Ranger in midships with such force as to master her almost instantaneously, carrying with her the , Mr. Duffield, who, it is said, was in the cabin Itt th e __ _ f o „ .. , ti a Qua en t, and who perished. The rest of the erew, ",',ll Ilumber, had a narrow escape. The collier, after p ie v'.Lg laid too for several minutes, in the hopes of og up the ill-fated master, proceeded on to Graves b"..4,ove,here the crew of the Ranger were landed. Mr. , p, Lin Id Wa S a native of Gri ms b y , where he has left a " and tinnil y. (SUMMARY OF NEWS Oublit eptuton. " Who runs may read." PeNtZlOlg".. The Duke de Nemours went on Saturday to Ram bouillet, and reviewed the regiment of Carabineers quartered there. After the review, the Royal Duke was present at a carrousel, or imitation of the tour naments of the middle ages, with also went off with great éclat. At every point the Prince was greeted with cries of " Vive le Roi ! Vive le Due de Ne mours !" On Sunday there was a grand dinner given by the actors in the tournament, to which the autho rities of the town were invited, and the healths of the King and the Duke were toa3ted. The Due d'Aumale and Prince de Joinville arrived at Toulon on the 16th, and were expected to embark next day for Naples. A Berlin paper states that the Duke de Rovigo has been in that city, for the purpose of soliciting the King to use his influence towards restoring to him the domain of Sommerchenburg, in Westphalia, which was given to his father by Napoleon, but declared national property by the Prussian Government, on the dissolution of the kingdom of Westphalia. The Duke's visit, however, is said to have been unsuccessful. The Quirnperois announces that a typhus fever is raging at St. Brienc (Cotes du Nord). Thirty of the students in the grand ecclesiastical seminary have been attacked, and the whole establishment has been cleared except of twenty of the patients, whose cases are too bad to admit of their being removed. The English packet Wilberforce brought into Havre on Monday the crew of the French vessel the Bon Pere, of Fecamp, which went down, with all her sails set, off the coast of England, in one of the late gales. These men, seventeen in number, in cluding the captain, speak in grateful terms of the care taken of them during their passage from London to Havre. At the Tribunal of Correctional Police for the Seine on Monday, M. Orfila, the son of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, was fined 25f., and ordered to pay I,ooof. damages, for an injury inflicted upon the porteress of the house at Passy at _which his father resides during the summer months. Arriving in his father's carriage, which he was driving on the 29th of May, he entered the court-yard before the porteress could remove her hand from the gate, and her thumb was crushed between the carriage and the gate. - The price of bread at Brussels, says Galignani, is at this moment five centimes higher per kilogramme than in Paris ; but there is a still greater difference between Paris and Marseilles. In the latter place the price is ten centimes higher. We cannot under stand why there should be so great a difference as one-fourth between Paris and Marseilles. A large and model hospital, to be called the Hopi tal Louis Philippe, is about to be built by the Muni cipality of Paris, near the station of the Northern Railroad, on the ground situated at the northern ex tremity of the Rues du Faubourg St. Denis and St. Martin. The troops of the garrison of Madrid had been kept under arms during the night of the 13th, in the expectation of a revolt in the regiment of San Fer nando, which, however, did not take place. The court-martial appointed to try General Prim and his co-accused assembled on the 14th, and at nine o'clock in the evening brought the proceedings to a conclusion, but the judgment was not made public. A letter from Barcelona of the 12th states that M. Lefebvre, the French merchant, has received from the Spanish Government the indemity which had been awarded him for Zurbano's cruel treatment, and for the losses which he had sustained on that occasion. LAW AND FOLIC*. The Court o f Common Pleas was occupied in hearing appeals from recent decisions of the Revising Barristers. A suit instituted in the Arches Court by Mr. 11. W. Evans against his wife for a divorce, on the ground that she had committed adultery with a Mr. Elliott, eight months only after her marriage, was dismissed b y Sir H. J. Fust, for the want of suffi cient evidence, notwithstanding a verdict had been obtained with 5001. damages, and the lady herself had withdrawn her opposition to the suit. Several wine• merchants were summoned before the Court of Excise for not having renewed their licences, and also for having the words " Licensed to deal in foreign wines" painted over their place of business, and were severally fined in the mitigated penalty of 10s. to 20s. Robert Franklin, son of a coffee-shop-keeper in King-street, was summoned to Marlborough -street for an assault on a boy named Foy, who is in the employ of Mr. Jenkinson, baker, Fouberts•place, Regent-street. Franklin owed Jenkinson a bill, and he directed Foy to go to Franklin's and remain there until he was paid. On the boy's refusal to go out Franklin pushed him out, and this was the assault. The Magistrate dismissed the case. At Greenwich,;lsabella Collins, coffee-house keeper, East-lane, Greenwich, and Robert James, of Lew isham, apprentice to Mr. Worth, arespectable butcher, carrying on business adjacent to the female prisoner, were both committed for trial, the latter for stealing 11 lbs. of beef, and the female prisoner for receiving the same, well knowing that it had been stolen. COMICT-3PABBIONALIBMii. The Duke of Wellington had a select party to din ner at Apsley House on Thursday evening. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have gone to Broadlands, the noble Viscount's seat, near Romsey, Hants, for the winter. A distinguished party will shortly assemble there. Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley are prolonging their visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at Burleigh House, and, according to present expec tations, are likely to remain there until his Lordship goes in waiting on her Majesty. On Monday, Mdlle. D'Este left Witley Court for the Spetchley station of the Birmingham and Glou cester Railway. On the same evening the Ladies Caroline, Catherine, and Amelia Cust, Earl Brown low's daughters, arrived at Witley. Sir Robert and Lady Peel have issued invitations for dinner parties on Saturday and Monday next. Sir Henry Pottinger had a lengthened interview on Wednesday last with Sir Robert Peel at the Right Hon. Baronet's private residence in Whitehall gardens. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle mentina Villiers were to leave Arundel Castle, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk on Thurs day, to join the party to assemble at Petworth, on visits to Colonel and Mrs Wyndham. The Earl and Countess of Kenmare arrived last week on a visit to the Dowager Lady Wilmot, the Countess's mother, at Malvern 'Wells, where her Ladyship has been residing for some considerable time. Earl Howe,Teputy Grand Master of Freemasons for England, having received the appointment of Pro vincial Grand Master of Warwickshire, vacant by the decease of the late Earl Ferrers, will be duly installed at a provincial grand lodge, summoned for the occa sion, at Coventry, on Monday next. The Earl of Denbigh and the Ladies Fielding are on a tour in Italy. The noble Earl and family left Milan at the commencement of this month for Genoa. Lord Elphinstone, by the last letters, had arrived at Milan from Germany, his Lordship having passed the greater part of the spa season at Marienbad. The Earl and Countess of Eldon and their chil dren have repaired on a visit to the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Arthur Duncombe, at their seat near Pock lington. ISLISCIELM4NNIOI7II. . The new church at Camberwell, of which the first stone was laid in September, 1842, was consecrated with the accustomed ceremonies on Thursday fore noon by the Bishop of Salisbury. The service was commenced at 11 o'clock, by which time the church was crowded in every part by a congregation of nearly 2,000 persons, who were admitted by cards. Among them were Archdeacon Wilberforce, the Rev. Mr. Eden, and a great many clergymen; Sir John and Lady Pirie, Mr. H. Kemble, M.P., and most of the gentry of the neighbourhood. Another extra Gazette, extending to Sixty-four pages, was issued last night. It is filled entirely with a repetition of railway and other notices published in previous Gazettes. - At the last meeting '..1; the Royal Asiatic Society it was stated that the Rajah of Travancore had esta blished an observatory and a printing press, and that he appointed none but Christian Judges. Much interest is evinced in the musical word at the present moment in regard to the two new grand operas to be produced at Berlin—one by Meyerbeer, entitled Das Schlesische Feldlager, and the other by Spontini, named Die Athenienserinn. The latter com poser, who is now at Dresden, will shortly return to Berlin, to superintend the rehearsals of Die Athenien serinn' in which a Mdlle. Jenny Lind, a Swedish lady by birth, who has lately been studying under Meyerbeer, is to make her debut. Captain Francis Edward Holyoake, R.N., formerly our Consul at Dunkirk, died at the advanced agt of 85 years last week, at Studeley. The amount of O'Connell tribute collected in Lime rick on Sunday was 3371. 4s. 63. The Limerick Re porter pronounces that " Limerick has nobly done its duty." The amount exceeds that of any preceding year save the last. The amount at Cork was 7641. 17s. The Examiner expects that this sum will be increased to at least 9001. Fermoy contributes 701., and Clon mel 2471." A contemplated meeting of students of the Uni versity of Dublin at the Rotunda—to be attended in academicals—f o r the purpose of protesting against the Peel liberalising scheme with regard to Dublin Col lege, has been put 4 atop to by the University aUtho• title& are still silent—because barristers whd , expect pkomd tion, 'Countenance; or place, Still remember the wartiing of tord Ebrington, and say nothing—because the army and police dare not read the journals of the Liberal press or join in the cry for repeal—and because persons in every department of the few public offices in Ireland have received notice to quit or be mute. This, you will permit me to say, is at best but a very negative power, and while you stop the mouth of the volcano, you do not quench, but concentrate the fire, and notwithstand ing that there are still many waiters upon Providence— many who are still content to take the crumbs which fall from the rich man's table—the truth is every day becom ing more and more evident that the ranks of the re peelers are increasing —that nine-tenths of the Roman Catholics are practical patriots, and that a large body of the Orangemen, too, wish the cause to succeed, but their esprit de corps prevents them as yet from say ing so ; for my part, I felt I would be doing violence to my nature, dishonour to my religion, and injus tice to my country, in withholding my co-operation (humble though it may be) from the NATIONAL cause. I foreknew the consequences of my act, but could no longer stifle the expression of my conviction, when the master-spirit of our age—he whom Providence has raised up the emancipating pillar of the Irish nation—who, heaven directed, leads while he cheers his chosen p eo pl e from their l ong captivity—was sought by legal mystifica tion to be hidden from our view, whilst O'Connell was himself a captive, when an ominously sullen gloom over hung this land—when the last ray of hope was about to carry our faint prospects of justice to a foreign shore, to be afterwards so gloriously and unexpectedly revived there, by the voice of the immortal Denman, of whom it may be said in the language of the poet, Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudesque manebunt.' When there was no longer in Ireland any chance of Justice to Ireland,' I came forward, but at the eleventh hour. I did not, on that account, expect an exception in my favour for so long a time, even to prove a rule, and though I could have anticipated this mark of his Lord ship's displeasure by my voluntary resignation, I did not wish to commit so pusillanimous a suicide, but, relying on my constitutional right to act as I have done, I now willingly accept the intended degradation at the hands of his Lordship, and I shall rest content with the mens conscia sibi recti' to take my stand at the bur, as I am no longer considered worthy of a seat on that bench which cannot now be held by any one, but at the willing sacri fice of self-esteem and public independence. I cease to be a magistrate of this county, only to become a more determined national repealer.—l have the honour to re main your very obedient humble servant, "LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, ex-J.P., and Barrister. at-Law." IRELAND. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY—ORANGE MOVEMENT. DUBLIN, Nov. 20.—The statement of the Dublin Warder, respecting the anti-Peel movement amongst the divinity students, has produced some excitement in the University, and led to a decided course of action on the part of the board of Senior Fellows. The Statesman, an Orange journal, contains the following on this subject : "An article quoted in another column from the Warder, with reference to Wyse and Peel's proposed University tamperings, mentions that the Regius Pro fessor of Divinity had spoken, in his opening prelection, this term, of the possibility that this might be his last occasion of addressing them as an officer of a Protes tant University. " We understand that yesterday (Monday) the Rev. Mr. M`Neice, Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity, warned the students of the junior class, that any attend ance upon a political meeting of the sort referred to would be a direct breach of academic discipline, and would be so treated by the board. We understand, also, that this day. Dr. Elrington, Regius Professor of Divi nity, advised the senior class not to take any part in such movements ; and also explained that he did not speak of likelihood, but merely of the dangers threatened by the enemies of the Protestant cause and of the University and Church of Ireland. " Of course, in consequence of these admonitions, no public step of a political hue will be taken by university students in that capacity. "Since writing the above, we learn that a special meeting of the board was held this day, and that it was resolved to publish on the gate of Trinity College the old rule of the board, which prohibits all students from taking part in political assemblies. This rule, which is now upon the gate, originated in 1798, or thereabouts, we believe, and was revived in 1834 ; but we do not know that-it was ever before published, or that in any mode whatever a student could be reasonably presumed to be informed of it. We see it, indeed, printed in the recent new edition of the statues, but these will be in very few hands. Of course the rule will be at once and heartily obeyed to the letter ; but equally, of course, it will be found a step not without deep and ulterior consc quences to tamper with any more bulwarks of Pro testantism.” THE CORPORATION AND THE TREASURY. At the meeting of the corporation of Dublin, yes terday, the Town-clerk read the following letter from the Lords of the Treasury, in reply to a communica tion from the Council, dated Sept. 10 : " Treasury Chambers, Nor. 16, 1844. "My Lord,—The Lords Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury having had before them the letter from the Town-clerk of the city of Dublin, dated 10th Septem ber last, in reply to the letter of this board of the 31st of August last, upon the subject of the arrangements pro posed by the corporation of Dublin, for charging their estates with a sufficient sum to pay off certain city bonds and pipe water debentures, with a view to an annual saving, by a reduction of the interest now payable on those bonds and debentures, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that, under the peculiar cir cumstances in which the corporation are placed, their Lordships are disposed to reconsider the financial scheme proposed by the council, with a view to ascertain whe ther the interest on the corporate debt can be reduced in a manner more in accordance with the usual practice of this board than that originally proposed. " My Lords desire me to state that they continue to entertain objections to the plan of parcelling out so large a sum as that required by the corporation among credi tors of 1001. each. " Their Lordships are, however, informed by the Town-clerk's letter, of the 10th of September last, that the Hibernian Bank would agree to consolidate the bonds and debentures into somewhat larger amounts, such as sums of 5001., 300 t, 2001., and 1001, instead of the present 1001. debentures. " Such consolidation, if carried to such an extent as to divide the debt among a large proportion of creditors of 5001. and 3001., leaving comparatively few of smaller sums, would lessen the objections entertained by this board to the proposed scheme. My Lords, therefore, before they proceed to the reconsideration of the whole question, would wish to be informed of the utmost ex tent to which the Hibernian Bank will consent to such a consolidation of the 1001. debentures into larger sums.— I am, my Lord, your most obedient humble servant, " To the Lo r d M ayor o f Dublin.. TREVELYAN." The corporation had given notice that they would reduce the rate of interest on their debentures on the 29th September last, that being the gale-day, and to enable them to make such reduction in the manner then proposed, the sanction of the Lords of the Trea sury was required. Accordingly, a correspondence on the subject ensued; and now, to a letter dated the 10th September, on a subject to be concluded on the 29th of that month, an answer is forwarded by the Lords of the Treasury of the 16th November ! The matter so treated by the Lords of the Treasury related to a saving to the citizens of Dublin of not less than 1,3001. a year. The corporation not having received a final answer in proper time from the Treasury, might have been involved in great difficulty but for the intervention of the Hibernian Bank, which en abled them to keep faith with their creditors and carry out the reduction of interest for which they had given notice. This conduct of the Treasury was the cause of much severe animadversion at the meeting of the town council, and the repealers availed themselves of so good a topic. "'— RESISTANCE TO THE POOR-RATE. The Mayo Constitution says :—" A police force, under the command of Sub-inspector Walshe, and Mr. to that rate part of the parish of Islandeady which is in the Castlebar union, on Saturday last. At first the collector met with fierce opposition, and stones were flung at him ; but owing to the conciliatory course adopteTtoivards the people, a good deal of the rate was paid, and the remainder promised. It is but just to Mr. Kelly to say that, in several cases where he saw that persons were not able to pay, he paid the rate for them himself. This creditable act ought to be stated?' ANOTHER DISMISSAL FROM THE MA GISTRACY. The Cork Reporter contains the following corre spondence, commencing with a letter to the editor of that journal : " The Rennies, Carrigaline, Nov. 18, 1844. " Sir—Having had the honour of being admitted a member of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the Ist of July, I have been now visited with the usual laconic notice of Mr. Henry Sugden, which gave rise to the following eorrespondence.—l am your obedient ser vant, " LUKE JOSEPH SHEA." " Secretary's-office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 8, 1844. " Sir—lt having been reported to the Lord Chan cellor that you are a member of the Repeal Association, I am directed to ask you, as a magistrate, whether the report is correct.— have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, " HENRY SUGDEN. " Luke John Shea, Esq., &c.' " " " Ringmaho n C ast l e, Cork, Nov. 12, 1844. Sir,—your letter of the Bth iust. did not reach me until this day, owing to my absence from " The Ren nies," and being on a visit here with my father-in-law, Mr. James Murphy, which will account for your not having heard from me in due course. " By your communication I am informed of a report having been made t 6 the Lord Chancellor that I am a member of the Repeal Association,' and you ask me, as a magistrate, whether the report is correct ? " In reply, I have the honour to state, for the in formation of his Lordship, that on or about the Ist of July last I sent a letter to Smith O'Brien, Esq., accom panied by a subscription to the repeal fund, and I am informed that I have been admitted a member of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, and I have further to add, I subscribed myself then, as I have still, the p r i v il ege (at the pleasure of his rdship) to do, a magistrate of the co un t y o f C ork, and am your very obedient servant, &c., " LUKE JOSEPH SHEA, J.P. " Henry Sugden, Esq., Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin. " N.B. Your letter directed to Luke John Shea, Esq., I presume was intended for me.' " Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin, Nov. 15. " have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th inst., and I am directed by the Lord Chancellor to inform you that he regrets he has felt it his duty to supersede you in the commission of the peace.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, " < HENRY SUGDEN. " Luke Joseph Shea, Esq.' " " The Rennies, Carrigaline, County Cork, Nov. 18. 1844. " Sir—l have received an intimation from you, bear ing date the 15th inst., that the Lord Chancellor has thought fit to deprive me of the commission of the peace for the county of Cork. I therefore beg leave in reply to say, that intelligence has come upon me without sur prise, as I have already seen so many instances of the practice, but in no case have I heard it alleged that in any amongst the magistrates who joined and who have been visited with the intended penalty of a sttpersedeas, for so joining the peaceable association of their country men for a legal object to be obtained by strictly legal means —have been guilty of the slightest violation of the laws which they were sworn to enforce, or in any manner infringed upon the principles of the Constittition, which they learned at all times to respect, and under any cir cumstances sacredly to uphold as the safeguard of the State ; in a word, i have yet to know how or when we ceased to be loyal selects, or impartial magistrates?— You will, then, allow me to say, that in my humbie opi nion, you do his Lordship the Chanttlior, in his Minis , terial capacity a great injustice when you make him thus peenoutte my doom 'sic volo, sic jubeo, stet pro ratione voluntas.' " I respectfully bow to the decision of his Lordship, but it makes the fact to me the more blear; that hotlling• can serve Ireland btit fepetti. l:Voinises have been made and at soon broken. This kingdom has been the play thing of party in every age. A Government (exhibiting some profession of good perhaps) chanced to have had a short existence one day, but again the picture is re versed, and our faint hopes are blackened. We have seen alternate courses of conciliation and coercion, tan talized by English friends, and oppressed by English foes—lrishmen are MADE to feel that no consistency can be relied upon except in the security of self-government. This, I say, is the conviction on the minds of many, and it is mine, though Government may think themselves strong because they have apparently succeeded stifling, not the opinion, but the expressio n of it in some , —because magistrates who have :got aristocratic friends! MR. O'CONNELL IN TRALEE. (From the Kerry Examiner.) From an early hour yesterday (Monday) the popu fation for twenty miles round the town were all in motion—all proceeding to the grand object of attrac tion, Tralee, from whence the procession to compli ment the illustrious Liberator was to start at twelve o'clock. At twelve o'clock, the hour appointed, there was a general move towards Mulgrave-bridge, the place appointed for the rendezvous, when the various trades proceeded, with their beautiful new silk ban ners, which had been prepared for the occasion, to take up their several positions. The Castle-street band shortly after, dressed in their splendid military uniform, drove along the street in a novel sort of chariot, being no other than the celebrated boat, be• longing to Dr. Blennerhassett, which had the honour of visiting the metropolis, with her gallant crew, when Tory injustice consigned the Liberator to Richmond Penitentiary. This boat, the famous Colleen Dhas, placed as it was on the body of a car riage, to which it was firmly bound, and bearing the inscriptions, " Hurrah, for Lords Denham, Cot tenham, and Campbell, Daniel O'Connell, and Repeal of the Union," "Remember the 30th of May," awakened in the bosoms of the spectators the warmest respect for the worthy owner. Notwithstanding the distance the quay of Blennerville is from the town, the seamen in the harbour seemed to participate in the universal ardour—the captains of the dif ferent vessels having ordered, at six o'clock in the morning, to hoist all the flags on board to respect Ireland's vindicator. The appointed hour having arrived, the procession proceeded along the Mall, with banners inscribed with the appropriate mottoes of each trade. Immediately in front of the proces sion were Dr. Blennerhassett, the Rev. Bartholomew O'Conner, P.P., Milltown ; Rev. Jeremiah Connell, P.P., Bawnmore ; Rev. T. L. M'Donnell, R.C.C„ Bawnmore ; Rev. O'Callaghan, P.P., Bally-M'Elli gott ; Rev. E. O'Flaherty, Tralee ; Daniel and Justin Supple, Esqs., Dr. King; the Messrs. Donevan, Mulchinock, Fitzgibbon, &c. The procession having passed the barrack, the gates of which, by-the -way, were closed, and the loop-holes stuffed with straw, proceeded along the picturesque and romantic glens of the new line of road to Miltown. Along this line the scene was majestically grand. The eye of man, perhaps, seldom witnessed a sight more imposing than what was there presented. As the dense mass of human beings wound along this meandering road, the mountain presented the appearance of some mighty encamp ment, as the banners moved in front of its heath-clad sides, while the national airs, re-echoing from every hollow ravine, spoke as if with a thousand tongues to the Irish heart. Having gained the summit, the whole body, which could not have amoun t e d t o l ess th an fift y or s i xty thousand pe rsons , halted to await the arrival of their illustrious Lib era t or. Th e d e l ay was b u t s h ort, when the cheers of thousands who accompanied the Liberator on his route proclaimed his near approach. Nothing could equal the enthusiasm of the multitude on his arrival. As he slowly passed along, the lines were drawn up to meet him. Having again formed, they moved down the mountains, and on reaching the barrack, outside the town, the several bands, on passing by, struck up the royal anthem—" God save the Queen, —amidst loud cheers for her gracious Majesty. The procession at length arrived in town, and conducted the Liberator to Miss Connor's house, Denny-street, where he alighted amidst general accla mation. Mr. O'CoNNELL then presented himself at the window, and was received with the most deafening cheers, which continued for several minutes. After silence was restored, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman said—Fellow -countrymen,—l am anxious that the bands may now stop playing, as I am unwilling that the men who have done me the honour of accompanying me to town may be exposed to the rain. In the fullest tone of satisfaction and delight, I must express my warmest thanks for the very kind reception my friends have given me this day, in my native county.—(Loud cheers.) It has been observed that no man is considered a prophet in his own country; however I have received marks of your affectionate regard beyond anything I could anticipate. It is impossible for me to find words to describe how I feel. I again thank you for your kindness. My gratitude towards you is not founded on the consideration that the compliment is personal. No, my gratitude to you is for Ireland—(Cheers) — and your devotion in the cause of Old Ireland— (Loud cheers)—for which every man of you is ready to die if necessary. And are you not ready to live for it ?—(Loud cheers) Yes, you are, and your attachment to it to day proves it. You are deter mined to stand in support of fatherland—(Cheers), —for liberty and Ireland—(lmmense cheering),—for repeal of the union and Ireland.—(Tremendous cheering.) For this I have laboured as during the struggle of Emancipation ; but I had always an ulte rior object—not, however, to place the Catholic or the Protestant in the ascendancy, but to make both the possessors of property in the land of their birth. —(Loud cheers.) For this have I struggled—to have Ireland for the Irish—Scotland for the Scotch— Wales for the Welsh—and with all my heart, England for the English.—(Cheers.) But I insist that Ire land must be for the Irish.—(Cheering for several minutes.) For my attachment to this principle they sent me to the felons' gaol—to a prison for one hun dred days—(Loud groans)—but here I am as merry as ever.—(Long continued cheers.) They had no more right to send me there than I would have to send the judges who tried me there. How much they would deserve it you all can judge. I need not re mind you of the law having been violated, the packed jury and the jury lists.—(Groans.) I committed no crime; my only crime was my love for Ireland— (Cheers)—but if it is a crime to love Ireland, let them punish me again; for I love Ireland as much as ever. (Great cheering.) I have now come from my na tive mountains, still determined to struggle against the enemies of Ireland, looking for the great and mighty object of all our aspirations, liberty. And oh I what can expand the human heart in its greatest amplitude more than the obtainment of liberty and the amelioration of the condition of the people ? If the people of this country had employment, how happy would they feel ; if the absentee rents were spent in works of public utility, how different would be the state Of the labouring class. If we had the 6,000,0001. a year expended amobg the people, to how many would it afford employment ? It Would put in circa- ' latioh 500,000/. a month, 125,000/. a week, or about 18,0001. a day, including Suntlay,--(Loud cheers.) What employment this would aff or d. What w cheerful Country would this be, You would have the farmers comfortable—you Would have the labourer able to bhtain fiom the farmer re i tntmetatioh for his labour. —(Loud cheer s .) don t ineah to detdifi you at this late hour by other topics on the repeal question, but I have been informed by gentlemen in other parts of the coutity that the people are alive to the subject— I Perei'Ve by this day's display that Kerry is alive. —(Loud cheering.) I have sufficient proof of that fact by your conduct to-day.—(Loud cheers.) Your peaceful, orderly conduct in the national cause must be crowned with success.—(Cheers.) Let us have no anger or irritation, no hatred to any man. lam now contending for the interests of Protestants as well as Catholics. My heart beats only for the good of Ire land. I begin now, and will not cease until we have the Parliamont House again in College -green.—(lm mense peals of cheering, during which the Liberator retired.) Mr. O'Connell shortly after appeared at the win dow, and advised the immense assemblage to disperse to ieir homes, on which till quickly separated. The TIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EYENIN G, NTOVEIVIBE 2l Castle-street and Square Temperance Rooms were brilliantly illuminate. LITERARY PROPERTY. The last number of the Phrenological Journal con tains the following letter from Mr. Combe, " On the Law of Copy r i g ht," w hi c h p l aces t h e subject in a new light :---• " Sir,—During the whole period of the recent con , troversy regarding the amendment of the law of copy ' right, I preserved silence, bein6 aware of the ten dency of self-interest to bias the judgment; but now, when the question is settled, and is not likely to be revived during the lives of the existing generation of authors, I am desirous of placing on record the views which occurred to me on the subject, and which are in some respects different from any which I saw stated by the learned and able writers who took part in the discussion. As the result at which I have arrived seem to be directly, and, I hope, logically deducible from the principles of phrenology, they may, perhaps, not inappropriately find a place in your pages. " With the view of avoiding details, which now possess no interest, I shall proceed at once to the main point in dispute between authors and the public. The former claimed a perpetual property in their works; while the advocates of limited copyright opposed their demand, as unfounded in justice, and detrimental to the public interests. The oppo sition was maintained chiefly on two grounds, viz., Ist, That property is the creature of the law; that authors, therefore, have no inherent right of property in their works; and that any extent of exclusive privilege of publication conferred on them by the Legislature is a boon for which they should be grateful, but which they had no right to demand ; and, 2dly, That the public interests require that a limit should be set to copyright, otherwise authors, or their representatives, might capriciously withdraw the most valuable and useful works from the circulation, or sell them at a price so extravagantly high that only the affluent could procure them. " The first argument, that authors have no inhe rent right of property in their works, appears to have been drawn from an opinion of Bentham, expressed in his Theory of Legislation. Property and laws,' says he, are born together, and die together. Before laws were made there was no property : take away laws, and property ceases.' Phrenologi cally and philosophically, this dictum will not stand investigation. The organ and faculty of acquisitive ness are inherent not only in man, but in many of the lower animals, and give rise in both to an instinctive sense of property. Lord Kaimes justly remarks that man is a hoarding animal, having an appetite for storing up things of use and Chancellor Kent, of the State of New York, says that the sense of property is inherent in the human breast, and the gradual enlarge ment and cultivation of that sense, from its feeble form in the savage state to its full vigour and maturity among polished nations, forms a very in s t ruc ti ve portion in th e history f human society.' (Kent's Commentaries, ii., 318.) I need not enlarge on this proposition, because it is admitted by ph reno l og i s t s i n general, and is, besides, placed in the clearest light, and very ably supported, in Mr. Hurlbut's excellent lecture on the Right and Moral Relations of Pro perty,' published in vol. xv., p. 97, of your journal, to which I beg leave to refer. "Co-existent with this sense of property, we find in man organs of conscientiousness, benevolence, and intellect, and the corresponding mental powers, evi dently intended to serve as guides to his general con duct, and, consequently, to the proper exercise of his acquisitive propensity. Human laws are, or, at least, ought to be, simply transcripts of the dictates of the latter faculties, enlightened by knowledge and expe rience. Laws may regulate, but cannot confer, any just rights. They may legitimately expound, define, and protect them ; but the moment human legislators assume the power of creating rights which nature has not previously bestowed, they commit injustice, and prepare the way for the introduction into society of insecurity and suffering. " Mr. Locke observes, that the labor of a man's body and the work of his hands are properly his;' and it seems no undue str e t c h o f th e propos iti on t o ffirm that equally should the labour of his brain, embodied by the work of his hands, be his. The man who procures from nature, or obtains by purchase, certain raw materials, and by his own labour and ingenuity works them up into a machine or piece of furniture, is recognised by all civilised nations as the exclusive proprietor, in perpetuity, of the article produced ; and I am at a loss to discover on what principle it can be maintained that an individual, who, from ori ginal invention, or the current science and literature of his age, composes a book, should not possess the exclusive right, in perpetuity, to this product also of his labour and ingenuity. " But it is agreed in the " Second place, that the public interests require that limits should be set to copyrights, otherwise authors or their representatives might capriciously withdraw valuable works from circulation, and thereby retard the progress of society in virtue and civilisation. It is a very ancient and a very sound maxim, that nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapienta dicit ;' in other words, nature is so constituted that it is never neces sary to rob an individual of his just rights, in order to promote the real advantage of society. The rights of the one, and the interests of the other, are in all cases compatible; because the same great Being who laid the foundation of society in the nature of man, also conferred on the individual his rights; and He is too wise and powerful to have rendered the two con flicting. A few elucidations will, I hope, show that the case of copyright forms no exception to this general rule. " Books may consist, Ist, Of new ideas never be fore published to the world; 2dly, Of the science and literature of past and present ages, mixed up with the author's own observations and reflections; or, 3dly, Of the expressions of fancies, emotions, and passions, common to the human race, but invested with a peculiar charm by the author from the man ner in which he embodies them. Newton's Principia, Harvey's work on the Circulation of the Blood, and Sir Charles Bell's Dissertations on the Functions of the Spinal Nerves, all of which communicated dis coveries, may be selected as a specimen of the first class ; Dr. Neil Arnott's Elements of Physics, of the second; and Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, of third. I ask, then, what does a perpetual copyright in such works imply ? Not an exclusive proprietorship in the ideas and reflections, in the fancies, passions, or emotions, embodied in them ; but simply in the author's peculiar mode of expressing them—in that combination of words which he employs in order to convey them to the world. The ideas themselves, with all their consequences and applicatiois, are left free as air to the public, although the copyright of the work in which they are embodied he preserved inviolate to the author and his heirs. In our own day, Sir Charles Bell's discovery of the nerves of motion and feeling is transferred to every systematic work on physiology in Europe and America, although the copyright of the special essays in which he an nounced it still belongs to his representatives. " In regard to this class of works, then, there is no reason for maintaining that the public interests require that the discoverer's copyright should be limited. " In regard to the second class of books, I trust that I do no injustice to Dr. Arnott in saying, that all the principles of science which enter into his treatise, pre-existed in the works of his predecessors, and that the peculiar merit of his composition, in my opinion, consists in the clear arrangement and perspicuity of elucidation of his propositions. If a perpetual copyright were granted to Dr. Arnott, it is clear that the whole principles, or, in other words, the entire raw material of the work, would be left as free to the public as they were before he wrote. The only thing of which it would then be in his power to deprive them, would be the advantage of that curiosa felicitas docendi, in which his peculiar merit consists. But the talents which produced those results were conferred on him, as an individual, by the Creator, when He gave him a peculiar conformation of brain, and a temperament characterised by fineness and activity; and it is difficult to discover on what principles of justice society can consistently deprive him of the advantages of that gift, or limit his en joyment of it, while they respect the right of property in perpetuity in tables and chairs, made by the hands of far less talented and less accomplished men. " It is argued, however, that were the law to recognise a perpetual copyright in this work, Dr. Arnott, or his heirs, might capriciously deprive the public of the instruction it contains. In so far as re gards the author himself, nature has given a pretty effective guarantee against such an unreasonable course of conduct; because a brain in which the organs of benevolence, conscientiousness, love of ap probation, and reflection, were so deficient as to render the individual capable of acting in such a manner, could not compose such a work. It is an extreme supposition that his heir or assigns might be so in fatuated—it is supposing them to be insane, and, nevertheless, at large ; but as such an occurrence might happen, I shall, for the present, assume that it actually does present itself, and inquire into the means Whith nature has provided for the protection of the public interests in such an emergency. They are simple. "The ideas contained in the work are public pro perty; and all that is wanted is a re-expression of them in such a form as may supply the void occasioned by the withdrawal of Dr. Arnott's treatise. The power of composition depends on temperament and cerebral development, and nature has not confined those gifts to Dr. Arnott. She has ushered into the world other brains and temperaments capable of running the race in which Dr. Arnott has conquered; ' and if his work were withdrawn, and the public needed his ideas, other individuals would speedily appear to supply the desired information. In point of fact, every author on science knows and feels that he holds his place only until an abler brain appears to wrest the laurels from his brow, and the bread from 44. his mouth. He stands in a situation similar to that of the champion of England in the barbarous age of pugilistic combats. rtorti the first hour of his pub lication to the last day of Ms fame, he is exposed to the chalingt of every rival who chooses to enter the field with a view to occupy his plac e; an d as the public never f a il s , sooner or later, to award the prize to the highest merit, he holds his supretnacy only Mind ha IS able to distance every competitor. The law which limits his copyright may desp o il hi m of his bread, before such a rival has appeared. It may wrest from him and deliver over to men of infe rior capacity, the profits of his genius, at the very time when these men acknowledge that they cannot, by the exercise of their own powers, rival him in the career of public usefulness. If they could do so, there would be no need of infringing his rights ; for the publication of a treatise of higher merit would extinguish his work, and bring it to an end by natu ral dissolution. Even assuming that it might be cen turies before a writer appeared capable of producing such a clear, eloquent, and instructive elucidation of the principles of mechanical science as the work in question, this would only present stronger motives to Dr. Arnott's representatives to enlarge its circula tion ; but if they were so insane as not to do so, the inherent rights of all authors should not be violated because the representatives of one happened to be mad. " This argument applies to works of every kind, the substance of which consists of useful and practical ideas. The law which regulates patents for mecha nical inventions denies to all individuals the exclusive use of principles ; and, in like manner, no author claims, or can justly pretend to, an exclusive right to particular ideas, facts, notions, or scientific postulates or inductions. All that he contends for is the right of property in his own special combinations of the elements of thought—leaving to all the world the free privilege of making similar, or better combinations of them, at their own discretion, and to the buyers the right of preferring the works which they find to be most instructive. " The third class of publications embraces novels and poetry ; in short, all works of fiction and fancy. What would a perpetual copyright of such works imply ? It would confer no exclusive property in the emotions, incidents, and ideas, which form their sub stance ; but solely in the special combination of the words by which they are expressed. On one occasion Mrs. Siddons happened to read one of the sublimest passages of Shakspeare in the presence of the late Mr. Sotheby, the translator of Oberon and other works. When she paused, he exclaimed Fine words! Grand words !' and, after a few moments, added ' Now, these words would not have occurred to me This remark renders the thing which would be covered by the copyright of such works as clear as the noonday sun. It would be, as in the other instances already cited, only the special combination of words by means of which the ideas and emotions are expressed; and the power of making thi s com bi nat i on i s a gift so pecu liarlyindividual that no species of property can surpass it in sacredness. It depends on a particular size and combination of cerebral organs, and a par ticular temperament, which impart strength, fire, re finement, and sublimity, to the products of the pen. If man can be said to create anything, it is such works as those of Shakspeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and Campbell. These are pure luxuries to the public ; they cannot justly be viewed as articles of necessity, because the ideas and sentiments contained in them may all be applied to general use. It is only the magnificent forms in which the inspired sons of genius have embodied them that are claimed as sacred ; and it appears to me to be a mere wanton exercise of power in the public to appropriate these, while a re presentative of the author is to be found alive on earth. The first and grand motive to the composition of such works is the conscious delight of creating them; the second, the love of fame ; the third, the hope of doing good, directly or indirectly; and the last and least, the expectation of pecuniary profit. Every age produces its own sons of genius; and if, by such incredible suppositions as I have already allowed, the representations of a Shakspeare or a Milton were to step the sale of their works, no substantial interest of the public would suffer; for, even could the copies already issued be recalled, new minstrels would arise, who, writing under the same inspirations, and guided by the lights of science and of a more advanced phi losophy, would, in all probability, sing new songs of emotion and fancy, not inferior to those of their pre decessors in fire, energy, and refinement, while they might surpass them in purity, truth, and all the grander elements of thought. " With all deference, therefore, to the able indi viduals who have controverted the title of authors to a copyright in perpetuity, it appears to me that jus. tice supports their claim, and that the interests o society are not exposed to the least danger in gran ing am, &c. " GEO. COMBE." SUICIDE BY A GENTLEMAN ON EPPING-FOREST. On Wednesday last a gen tl eman , — named Scott, committed a most deliberate act of suicide by hang ing himself from a tree in that part of Epping-forest O which is known by th e name o f Phillipson s IVarren, High-beach, and this circumstan ce , together with the discovery of skeleton o f an o ld man, named John Harris, who was supposed to have been murdered, near the same spot, has created an unusual degree of excitement for some miles round the country. It appeared that on the same morning (Wednesday) Mr. Scott had arrived from his residence in the neighbourhood of Steine, at the asylum of Dr. Allen, on a visit to a female patient. For some reason or other, Dr. Allen, on his making his appearance at his house, wrote to deceased's brother to apprise him of his being there. About one o'clock in the day the deceased was observed walking about the forest near High-beach, but there was nothing in his manner to attract particular notice. About three o'clock, a man named John Clarke, in the employment of Mr. Phillipsen, of the King's Oak Tavern, High beach, having occasion to go into a small thicket adjoining the rabbit-warren, found the deceased gentleman suspended from the forked branch of an oak by a white silk handkerchief. He with much promptness cut him down, and with the assi s ta n c e o f Paine, a police-c ons t a bl e belonging to the N division, conveyed him to the King's Oak Tavern. The body was warm at the time, and Mr. SeaH, a veterinary surgeon, who happened to be at the inn at the time, opened several veins and arteries, but no blood flowed, and it was evid en t th e v it a l spark had fled. In the course of the afternoon, Dr. Allen and the brother of the deceased arrived at the King's Oak, when the latter seemed dreadfully affected, and desired that every respect should be paid to the remains of the de ceased until the Coroner's inquest was held. The body, or rather the skeleton, of the man Harris, remains at the same house, and an inquest is appointed to be holden on both this evening. The disappearance of the deceased was attended with much mystery, and the general impression at the time was that he had been murdered. It seems that he was in the employment of Captain Southey, son to the late poet laureat, who is lord of a manor in Loughton, and the last time he was seen alive was on th night of the 28th of June last, between ten and eleven o'clock, by a lad named Cannon. On that day, it appears, he changed half a sovereign at the King's Oak Inn, where he was in the constant habit of calling, and in the evening was at a beer-shop, in the company of some notorious poachers. He left shortly after ten o'clock, in com pany with the youth Cannon, and after that had not been seen alive. The fact o f his absence under such suspicious circumstances, had for some time engaged the attention of the police, and from what tran s pi re d it was found that out of he change he had received he had not spent more than a shilling, yet strange to say when his skeleton was discovered there was not a farthing about him. The spot where his remains wore discovered was a very secluded one, and had it not.been for the annual custom of cropping each tree this might have remained there for years without being found. It was evident that the cord with which he had been suspended had, after some con siderable time, given way, and the body was on the left side, 'and the ancles r a th e r con t rac t e d w h en found. ot the slightest cause has been assigned for the suicide. GLANDERS.—The Siecle states, that the facts of glanders affecting human subjects are multiplied. It appears that since the year 183 S, more than thirty indi viduals have sunk under this terrible malady, which at the present moment counts as many victims as patients. MM. Fleury and Monneret, physicians attached to the Academy of Medicine, at Paris, state that " glanders and farsy, acute or chronic, may be transmitted from horses to men, and from one man to another, either by inoculation or by infection." Amongst the',measures re commended to prevent the spreading of this fatal malady, " every stable intended to lodge permanently several horses ought to be constructed in such a manner as to supply each horse with 5o cubic yards of air." CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATII OF A DISSENTING MlNlSTER.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Golden Eagle, Stepney, on view of the body of the Rev. Edwin Parsons, aged 47, a Dissenting minister, attached to Baalam chapel, Mile-end-road. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased was residing in Assembly-row, Mile-end. On Friday morning last, be tween twelve and ono o'clock, he was alarmed by a noise, which he thought proceeded from his garden, at the back of the house. He immediately went out of his room to go down stairs, when his foot caught against something, and he fell down nearly half the flight of stairs. In his fall he knocked down some flower pots. Mrs. Parsons afforded him immediate assistance, and he was carried into his room. The deceased gradually sank from the effects of the injuries he received, and died on Tuesday last. Verdict, "Accidental death." Deceased was highly respected by his congregation, over which he had presided many years. Mr. Ramshay's (of Naworth Castle) celebrated blood stallion, Liverpool, died at Brampton on Sunday last. It is believed that, by the &cense of this fine animal, the loss to the owner will be to the extent of some hundreds of pounds annually.—Newcastle Acker- COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—This being the natal day of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the band of the Royal Horse Guards serenaded at nine o'clock this morning on the eastern terrace of the Castle, performing several martial and other pieces. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle early from Frogmore Lodge, to offer her congratulations on the happy return of her royal god-daughter's birthday. The Royal Duchess after wards took breakfast with her Majesty and the royal party. The illustrious party went to Frogmore-gardens in the forenoon, the Queen and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha riding in a pony phaeton, and Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Wurtemberg walking. The royal party afterwards returned to the Castle in pony carriages. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their usual airings this morning. His Royal High - ness Prince Alfred was taken a drive in the middle of the day. The Royal Family were again taken out in the afternoon. Her Majesty and the royal party drove out in pony carriages for an airing this afternoon, the Queen and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg in the first carriage, Prince Albert and the Duke of Saxe Coburg in the next carriage ; the Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, attending the illustrious party. The Hon. Miss Hamilton and the Hon. Miss Stanley have arrived at the Castle, and have suc ceeded the Hon. Misses Paget and Liddell as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Countess Wratislaw, Mr. George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir George Couper, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band Afterwards attended in the Castle. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday after noon for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Lord Granville Somerset transacted business yes terday at the office of the Board of Trade. OLPYIPIC THEATRE. This theatre, under the new management, seems to progress in public estimation, and the new drama, introduced for the first time yesterday evening, will yet more establi s h th e lessee's claims to the support of the admirers of the sock and buskin. The piece introduced was entitled Six Degrees of Crime; and exhibited in the most striking manner the various stages of vice which, deepening in colour as the pas sions are more depraved, eventually terminate with that fearful, but unfortunately too common climax — the scaffold. The hero, Julio Dormilly (Mr. J. Hud son Kirby), from the man of fashion, sinks into the confirmed roué, and, after figuring as the gamester, the thief, and the assassin, is at last doomed to death at the hands of the public executioner. Such a plot necessarily involves many situations, which, from their severe realities, rather grate upon the sensibi lities of the more refined part of the audience ; but what is thus lost by the seeming absence of delicacy, is more than compensated by the lifelike development of the story. The intensity of passion was most admirably pourtrayed by the transatlantic ar tist. As the man of fashion, he was faultless ; and as he degenerated into the ruffian, his acting (if we may use a seeming contradiction) was of a still higher character, simply because it gave scope for the display of more concentrated passion. Of the auxiliary characters we would particularly mention the Lacaille of Mr. B. Rogers, one of those gentlemen who are said, in common parlance, to "live upon town." Mr. Waldron, Mr. Broadfoot, Mr. P. Emery, and Mr. Smith, were also well up in their several parts. Miss L. Melville, as the heroine of the piece, Louise, evinced the same lady-like appreciation of character which we have ever observed in this young lady's acting. In the ball-room scene, Mr. Flexmore, without doubt the most happily grotesque ballet master on the English stage, was much and deser vedly applauded in the Cracovienne, a la Fanny Ellsler. The drama throughout was highly suc cessful, and at the conclusion Mr. J. H. Kirby was called before the curtain, and announced the piece for repetition amid unalloyed applause. Don Cresar de Bazan followed, and concluded the evening's enter tainment. THE FIST ULA INFIRMARY. A numerous and influential meeting of the sub scribers to this excellent institution was held at the London Tavern, for the transaction of special business. Sir Chapman Marshall was, in the ab sence of the Lord Mayor, who had to attend a meeting of the Common Council, unanimously called to the chair. The honorary secretary, Mr. S. E. Merriman, read a letter from Mr. Howell, who ' communicated in it his resignation as treasurer 'of the charity. Mr. Howell stated he exceed ingly regretted that frequent absence from Eng land, and a feeling that he could not adequately dis charge the duties of his office, induced him to resign. He, however, though officially retiring from their valuable institution, should always feel a deep inte rest in its welfare, and contribute to its support. The resignation of Mr. Howell having been ac cepted, and a vote of thanks passed to him for the zea lous and liberal assistance he had at all times afforded the institution, it was unanimously resolved, " That J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., be requested to accept the office of treasurer." Mr. Masterman, in returning thanks, said he had, for many years past, had the gratification of witnessing the great advantage de rived by the poorer classes from the Fistula Infirmary, and the great kindness and skill of its excellent founder and honorary surgeon, Mr. Salmon. The chairman then stated that their esteemed friend, Mr. Ogden, who had for the last twentyyears acted as their honorary secretary, was about to retire into the country, where he would permanently reside amongst his friends. That gentleman had in consequence resigned his office, very much to the regret ofevery friend of the institution. The vacancy had been filled up by the Committee, and their new honorary secretary, Mr. Merriman, who was lending his able and active exertions in promoting the welfare of their charity, was now present at his post. After a warm tribute of praise to Mr. Ogden, the cordial thanks of the meeting were voted to that gentleman, and it was further resolved that such vote should be presented to him emblazoned on vellum. In accordance with a recommendation of the Committee of the charity, the meeting resolved that a honorary physician to the Infirmary should be appointed. • A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, who, in acknowledging it, spoke in strong terms of the great value of the Fistula Infirmary, and the great bless ings it had conferred upon the poorer and industrious classes of the metropolis. The meeting then broke up. We understand that the sum subscribed for the purpose of presenting the founder and honorary sur geon of this valuable charity, Mr. Frederick Salmon, with a testimonial of the esteem in which he is held by the friends of the Institution, already exceeds 7001. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. So thin was the attendance, and so few were in the vein to back horses, that to attempt a list of market prices would only.be to lead our readers astray; we shall, therefore, confine ourselves to the bets actually made. DERBY. 1000 to 40 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas 1000 to 40 agst Mr. Gully's Old England 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Stanley's Minikin colt 875 to 25 twice, and 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Jacques s Anti-Repealer. 350 to 10 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse 2000 to 25 agst Mr. Worley's John Davis 1000 to 10 agst Mr. H. Hill's St. Pancras. A ll the bets, except the one agst Idas, were afterwards offered. THE FOG.—Yesterday afternoon we were visited with one of the densest fogs that has occurred in the metropolis h wele of th for some eg n night, , and yearst past,rendered which the continu ed streets inthe during t h e vicinity of the river nearly impassable. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.— On Thursday evening a cattle dealer was robbed of a sum of 1001. in a notorious house in Greensick. It appears that he suspected the parties of robbing him soon after he entered the house, and charged them with the theft ; the landlady indig nantly denied the charge, and desired him to count his money and see if he had lost any,on which the simpleton d asi r jail% dash If u ,tsaesa madehandfulm ne it a nmo t ney ee m y m on o e n y, e - y proveda and tnedo began tsatkr eonn to count gfraom it. temptation him wi th; N . t l e t; which they escaped to the street. The parties were soon after taken into custody, but the money has not been re covered.—Scotsman. CONSECRATION OF CAMBERWELL CHURClL—Yes terday morning the Bishop of Winchester consecrated the new church at Camberwell, built on the site of the one destroyed by fire in 1842. The church, which has been erected at a cost ofi 14,000 L, will accomodate 1,500 persons. The design is in the style of the latter half of the thirteenth century, being the transition between the " Early English" and the " Decorated Style." The plan is cruceform, having a central tower and spire. The spire, which may be seen from a considerable distance in every direction, is 207 feet in height. The Bishop arrived shortly after eleven o'clock, and having gone through the prescribed forms, preached a sermon from the 12th chapter of Deuteronomy, sth verso. A COllOO. Lion wag mute at the dose of the serviee. Y.) If irTY r tha t roil tow S for