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and bowing plumet—were all °sionista to impress him who beheld them with a belief that ghostly influence was at work ; and had he yielded to his fear and rushed from the place, he would have given another phantom-story to the already existing veritable stock. But, though only sixteen years of age, the youthful Baronet was one of those few persons whose presence of mind rarely deserts them. Summoning his faculties, and coolly investigating what he saw, he ascertained that the pale spectre was a reflection in a pier-glass (till then unperceived) of him self in his night-gear, which, as he moved, would of course seem to be moving towards him ; the wailing noise was produced by win through partially-opened windows, near which the corpse lay ; this wind, increasing in strength during a gusty night, had forced open the fold ing-doors that had been only imperfectly and hastily se cured (perhaps in trepidation) when a bed was prepared for the youth ; and the strong breeze had also given a waving motion to the black plumes placed on his father's coffin. Having fully ascertained these points, the young mourner retired to his inner apartment, deliberately bolted the folding-doors, offered up a prayer to his Maker, sad was again blessed by sleep." FRASER'S MAGAZINE. In a temperately written article on the " General Policy of the Government," wherein Fraser seems to be doubtful whether he ought to praise or blame Mi nisters for the conduct they pursued during the last sesstirn of Parliament, he insists on the expediency of the Premier's putting a final stop to the conciliation system, as regards Ireland. " Let him only appear to waver," says our monthly Contemporary, let him take but one step further in the way of conciliation, towards those whom no concessions will mollify, nor any reasoning convince, and there is an end to his Govern ment at once, perhaps to the monarchy." On the con trary,there is an end to Sir R. Peel's Government if he does not attempt to conciliate Ireland, for recent ex perience must have convinced him, as it has con vinced many other Conservatives, that a coercive system of policy will never be productive of any other result than that of increasing the exas peration, already quite bitter enough, in the sister country, and placing additional power in the hands of the repeal agitators. Fraser next proceeds to eu logise the honesty of Government, and instances Lord Lyndhurst and Sir James Graham as patrons of spotless integrity. The selection is an unfortunate one, and, to our thinking, wears an aspect of the most refined irony. " Courses of English Reading" ontains some pleasant literary criticism and gos sip. The Reviewer, however, in accordance with the taste of the day—a taste more remark• able for its eccentricity than its soundness—is over-rigid in his strictures on " Johnson's Lives of the Poets," which is a work replete with mascu line sense atkd judgment, though it may be, perhaps, deg - cient in that quick and impassioned sensi bility which is so conspicuous a feature in the poetical criticisms of Hazlitt, Coleridge, and. Wilson. Speaking incidentally of Dryden 'a trans lation of Virgil, the Reviewer tells us that "it is remarkable for its occasional splendour, but it is not happily accomplished !" This is a just observation ; the version has passages of exceeding excellence, but, as a whole, is anything but Virgilian in its tone. The sixth book of the " 2Eneid" is nobly rendered ; in places, indeed, the translator equals, if he do not surpass, his original ; but we miss the touching pathos of the fourth book, to which Dryden knew not how to give effect, for he had nothing of the pathetic in his na ture. In reference to Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard," the Reviewer maintains that it is an immoral and impious poem. This is sheer cant. The poem is neither one nor the other, but is unexceptional in both respects. Even John son, the most fastidious of moralists, says of it : " ' The Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard' is one of the most happy productions of human wit; the subject is so judiciously chosen that it would be diffi cult to find another which so many circumstances concur to recommend. The heart naturally loves truth. The adventures and misfortunes of this illustriou3 pair are known from undisputed history. Their fate does not leave the mind in hopeless dejection, for they both found quiet and consolation in retirement and piety. The story thus skilfully adapted has been diligently improved by Pope." The State Murder" is 'a striking tale, trans lated—or rather adapted--from the French of George Sand. " ClaSsics of the Table" is an amusing article on the subject of after-dinner wines. In " Roadside Sketches" the writer explains the causes—which are anything but flattering to our national vanity—why he English are so generally unpopular on the Continent. En voici _ _ _ " How they hate us, these foreigners, in Belgium as much as in France ! What lies they tell of us, how gladly they would see us humiliated ! Honest folks at home over their port wine say, Ay, ay (and very good reason they have too), national vanity, Sir, wounded—we have beaten them so often.' My dear Sir, there is not a greater error in the world than this. They hate you because you are stupid, hard to please, and intolerably insolent and air-giving. I walked with an Englishman yesterday, who asked the way to a street, of which he pronounced the name very badly to a little Flemish boy; the Flemish boy did not answer, and there wss my Eng lishman quite in a rage, shrieking in the child's ear as if he must answer. He seemed to think that it was the duty of the snob,' as he called him, to obey the gentle man. This is why we Ee hated—for pride. In our free country a tradesman, a lacquey, or a waiter, will submit to almost any given insult from a gentleman—in these benighted lands one man is as good as another ; and pray God it may soon be so with us 1 Of all European people, which is the nation that has the most haughtiness, the strongest prejudices, the greatest reserve, the greatest dulness 2 I say an Englishman of the genteel classes. An honest groom jokes and hob-nobs, and makes his way with the kitchen-maids, for there is good social nature in the man ; his master dare not unbend. Look at him, how ho scowls at you on entering an inn-room ; think how you scowl yourself to meet his scowl. To-day, as we were walking and staring about the place, a worthy old trentleman in a carriage, seeing a pair of strangers, took off his hat and bowed very gravely with his old powdered head out of the window: lam sorry to say that our first impulse was to burst out laughing—it seemed so supremely ridiculous that a stranger should notice and welcome another. " As for the notion that foreigners hate ns because we have beaten them so often, my dear Sir, this is the greatest error in the world : well-educated Frenchmen do not believe that we have beaten them. A man was once ready to call me out in Paris because I said that we had beaten the French in Spain ; and here, before mo, is a French paper, with a London correspondent discoursing about Louis Buonaparte and his jackass expedition to Boulogne. 'He was received at Eglintoun, it is true,' says the correspondent, but what do you think was the reason ? Because the English nobility were anxious to revenge upon his person (with some coups de lance) the cherhs which the grande howl:. his uncle had inflicted on us in Spain.' . " This opinion is so general among the French, that they would laugh at you with scornful incredulity if you ventured to assert any other. Foy's history of the Spanish War does not, unluckily, go far enough. I have read a French history which hardly mentions the war in Spain, and calla the battle of Salamanca a French victory. You know how, the other day, and in the teeth of all evidence, the French swore to their victory of Toulouse —and so it is with the rest ; and you may set it down as pretty certain, lst. That only a few people know the real state of thin.'s in France, as to the matter in dispute between us ; 2d. That those who do keep the truth to themselves, and so it is as if it had never been. These Belgians have caught up, sad quite naturally, the French tone. We are perfide Albion with them still. Hero is the Gbent paper, which declares that it is beyond a doubt that Louis Napoleon was sent by the English and Lord Palmerston ; and though it states in another part of the journal (from English authority) that the Prince had never seen Lord Palmerston, yet the lie will remain up permost—the people and the editor will believe it to the mad of time." TAIT' S MAGAZINE. In his monthly political article Tail, as might be expected, rejoices in the liberation of O'Connell, which he calla the " reversal of a series of injustices," and adds, " never surely was a Government so dis graced i They have done the thing at last which they were eternally twitting wiser and warier men with cowardice for not doing—measured their stren g th w ith the Agitator ; and they have Fot a most tre- Anendous fall. They have been exulting for many a month put with rude unmannerly insolence over convicted conspirators ; and it turns out that they are the convicts, false imprisonment the crime. They have taken all sorts of knavish advantages, and they have taken nothing by them but defeat and scorn.'" This is strong language, but we are not at all pre pared to -lay that it is stronger than the circum stances of the case warrant. Ministers have played 'unfair game as.regards the Irish State Prosecu tScns,aud kis but fit that they should pay the pe nalty of their unscrupulousness. " Our Hearth and Homestead" is the continuation of a domestio tale by \lr. Dials. The descriptive portions are full of fresh ness and vivacity ; and the character of Mike, a good hearted hut somewhat scampish f e ll ow, half labourer, half poacher, whose notions of meum and tuurn are exceedingly vague and indefinite, bear,. every appear ance of having been drawn direct from the Itfe. The •• Carpenter and theCapuchin Monk" is a wild legend, translated from the Swedish of Nicander. There is such tenth., vividly expressed, in the parallel between • Burns and Byron ;" and we agree with the critic that the forrnees thoughtless follies have been too often harped upon. tlundreds, we might add thousands, of men infinitely worse than ever poor Burns was, and without a tithe of his redeemin g qualities, have pa,Ased through life.esteemed and loved, and been ho "lived after death with an epitaph commemorating virtues, merely because they possessed more a. orldly wisdom and hypocrisy than fell to the share of the ofty-minded . peasant bard. We su bj o i n a por -1 t:on of the parallel, previously observing that the critic presses rather Coo . severely on Lord Byron:— " There is little of the effeminacy of poetry about 1' urns ; and, 'much, as has been said about it, there is tittle licentiousness, properly so called. It is true he is often coarse, indelicate, unscrupulous in his phrases ; but to is so, purely for the sake of the humour or the satire ...--rtot for the sake of indelicacy. There is no gloating 0 e ir vice a s in 'Juvenal—no painting of it for its own ~- make.. ' Holy Willie's Prayer' and The Jolly Beg gars' may be too strong for refined tastes ; but the one is a richly-deserved castigation of a class too numerous in this country, and the other is life, real life, though it be the dregs of it. But his highest efforts are his purest, and they show the natural bent of his mind, which was virtuous and honourable. The Cottar's Saturday Night' is a picture of piety, benevolence, love, affection, and contentment, which, we believe, could only come from a pious and benevolent mind. No radically vicious man could have so ardently delighted in the description. It came fresh from an honest unsophisticated heart. His thoughtless follies' have been rather too often harped upon. With kis festive soul—his adoring companions— it is wonderful they were so few. But he has himself immortalized them by his touching confession. There was at least no hypocrisy in his character. He would have pleaded guilt) , at once at any bar of morality. He would have given judge and counsel no trouble in search ing for evidence. They and the world were welcome both to the full knowledge of his sins, and his manly repentance of them. His works have toned and improved the feelings of his class. " Byron's weakness was, to be thought strong. This desire shines through the most of his poetry. He wished to appear above prejudices, and opinions, and rules. He was too high to be guided by them. He despised the vulgar elements of human composition, and looked upon himself half dirt, half deity. Byron was a weak man, and the weakness of his nature was the strength of his poetry. His works were the diction of his passions. He was their intellectual bondsman. It was his slavery to their mandates—his entire devotion to their gratifica tion—his intimacy with their operations—his intense concentrated experience in their indulgence and contem plation—his long obedience to their slightest impulse — that enabled him to paint and shadow, and compare and contrast them so vividly. He was a poetical gladiator, exhibiting for fame and gold the nakedness of a mind diseased.' His feelings were passions, and his passions crimes. Under their command the voyage of his life was made with a false compass, and a false chart. He read history and used it, not for healthful instruction in the ways of man—not for great, or correct, or useful views of legislation—not for philosophical analysis—not for the sake of tracing to its source any art, or any sci ence, or any profession : he read it to illustrate his pas sions—his own passions—pride, revenge, love, fear, ha tred, jealousy. Often ho lauds highly and enthusiasti cally, the wise, the brave, the virtuous, the patriot, of a past era ; but it is to gratify his scorn of the fool, the coward, the libertine, the traitor, of a later time. He draws an angel of light ; but it is to contrast the angel with a demon. He looks into the grave of a father for a scourge wherewith to lash the son. He raises the dead, to mock the living." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1844. NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW. Like most first Numbers, this is got up with con siderable care, and if the work be carried on with the same tact with which it has been commenced, we see no reason why it should not meet with a fair portion of success. At any rate, its cheapness is in its favour, for it coats but a shilling, and for that small price, gives a very liberal amount of matter. The first article is entitled "Advances Since the Peace," and its object is to show the rapid strides in social, poli tical, and commercial improvement that the country has made since the memorable year 1815. Great Britain—says the writer, who, like the celebrated Doctor Pangloss, is something of an optimist— "seems destined to reach a pitch of unrivalled power, splendour, and happiness ; and the more serious maladies that now menace her, we feel convinced, are medicable, and the result of too rapid, rather than too dilatory, an advancement. Time has been hardly left for arrangement, but with freedom to urge all claims, there is little doubt of a final equitable ad justment." " Gipsies" is an intelligent essay on the subject of these migratory vagabonds, whose numbers, it seems, are now fast diminishing in every country of Europe. "Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon" is a review of Mr. Horace Twiss's recent memoirs of this eminent lawyer, who is no favourite with the Reviewer as a politician, but is accused, and not unjustly, of being actuated, throughout his public career, by the most selfish motives. We quote from a notice of the Diaries and Correspondence of the First Earl of Malmesbury," an account of Catherine the Second of Prussia, and her favourite Minister, Prince Potemkin. " But we must hasten to accompany Lord Malmes bury to Petersburgb, where he became stationed in 1778. Here the Sovereign was a woman, and amongst the most remarkable of her order and sex. She had dethroned her husband in self-defence, and usurped his place. As Grand-Dneltess she had shown herself a su perior person, cultivated her mind, and was distinguishd for beauty, accomplishment, and ability, which had been evinced by an equitable code of laws she prepared for the future government of the empire. But her trail hus band, insensible to her deserts, attached himself to a low feure.le, and pretending to be jealous of the Empress, pro jected her perpetual imprisonment, and perhaps violent death. Apprised of his designs, Catherine anticipated their execution. Availing herself of her popularity, and the services of a few devoted friends, Peter 111. was seized, and after a short imprisonment destroyed; one of the Orlows performing the office of executioner, first by clandestinely administering a stupifying dose, and next, aiding its effects by a vigorous manual grasp, the traces of which were visible on the neck of the wretched Prince, when his body was exposed to the gaze of the populace. Whetker the Empress was privy to the latter part of the tragedy is doubtful ; it was certainly not displeasing to her, for when the horrible news was communicated, it made no abatement of her gaiety at table, and Alexis Orlow became her first favourite. " The first seven years of Catherine's reign were the most splendid in the Russian annals. She governed judiciously and with dignity. Firmness and regularity were enforced in the public administration, and order and exterior decorum maintained in the palace. But the female Sovereigns of Russia, however capable, had never been able, throughout their career, to resist the seduc tion of licentiousness. Certainly the private virtues of Princes are not equally important with public capabili ties; between a Sovereign orderly, pious, and decorous, but weak, prejudiced, and obstinate, and one able, wil ling, and zealous to advance national happiness, there can be no hesitation about preference. But Catherine was needlessly obtrusive in her abandonment ; more shameless than any of her predecessors. The post of favourite was as public an appointment and as open to competition as that of Minister. Handsome men of little minds were mostly preferred. No confusion of function was allowed, the Empress being too shrewd to allow the minions of her pleasure to intermeddle with the higher duties of government. After her passion was satiated — a short term mostly sufficed—they were dismissed, ge nerally with an injunction to marry or travel, and loaded with magnificent gifts of lands, presents of jewellery, and pensions. "Lord Malmesbury says of the Court—' the leading men hero are too rich for corruption' (a mistake which his Lordship found out), too headstrong to be persuaded, and too ignorant to listen to plain truth.' The two most influential personages at the time of his arrival were Prince Potemkin and Count Panin. The Count was Foreign Minister, a man of no great capacity, indolent, deceitful under a guise of frankness, and in the pay of Prussia. The Prince had been a lover, but was then set aside; he always maintained a great influence over the Empress, and directed her in the choice of his successors. He was a man of brilliant but superficial parts, like the Buckinghams of the Stuarts ; sagacious and quick of discernment; full of wit, levity, and cleverness, but im pulsive and without steadiness of purpose. He lived without order, eating, drinking, and sleeping . at all hours, and thought nothing of treating our Minister to an airing in the rain in an open carriage at midnight. Discontented and satiated with voluptuousness, Potem kin often said he would withdraw to a cloister, deter mined to lead a life of total abstinence. He was sud denly carried off by fever, which he vainly tried to baffle by the force of an iron will and constitution; appearing abroad half-dressed, and eating raw turnips to allay the fires that consumed him." NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGHT ON BRUSTERORT, BETWEEN PILLAU AND MEMEL. In consequence of an error in the translation of the following notice from the Prussian Government, which appeared in this paper of the 26th inst., it is repeated i.— (TRANSLATION.) " The Sea Light ,exhibited on Brusterort has been improved, so as to show two fixed lights, the position and elevation being the same as the former, and visible in clear weather at a distance of about 2} German miles, within 101 degrees of the horizon—namely, from 'West by North, as far as N.N.E. (W. by N. bis N.N., Ost.)" " Both:Lights will be exhibited for the first time on the evening of the Ist of October, 1844, and kept burn ing from sunset to sunrise throughout the year.' Sir Robert Sale, in addition to being appointed to the command of a regiment, has received the lucrative appointment of Quartermaster-General of her Majesty's forces in India., for which place he proceeds overland in December.—Liverpool Albion. THE GREAT WESTERN.—This fine steamer, which sailed hence on the 17th ult., arrived out at New York on the 31st ult. She left again on her return, on the 14th instant, with between twenty and thirty pas sengers, was telegraphed off Holyhead at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and arrived in the river about mid night, after a passage of fifteen days and a few hours.— Liverpool Albion of Monday. RAILWAY FARES.—The travelling public will be agreeably surprised in the ensuing week to find that the groat northern lines, including the London and, Birming ham, Grand Junction, and York and North Midland, have spontaneously agreed to make for the future a large reduction in their fares. A boon so unexpected, and some would even say so uncalled-for, must be regarded as a great public benefit, the value of which will be en hanced in the estimation of the public by the good grace with which it is bestowed. These very men whom the public have been taught to regard as grasping monopo lists, have shown in this case, as indeed in ever other case throughout the whole history of railways, that the pub lic interest and that of the railways mutually depend on each other, and that the latter can never seek to develop itself without consulting and promoting the former.— Railway Ch ron i c l e. ATTACK ON A DUBLIN GAMBLING Houss.—ln formation havin g b een given to the authorities that t , gamblin was carried on at house which Cad been opened exta ensiely for cigarnd read ing-rooms for the milit ary , a n rid y at ni P g ‘ h ‘m t b A r :r k - e- S q up u e u) r : - ' intendent O'Connor and some of the detective force effected an entrance into the rem' however, find persons at the time p e lB ne- es. ed th i e n b gambling, They did not, but among other articles which were in aenhainvdolreyotfeweltoiethuma party - in was othue' loaded,seclr a g n o d t p b o y ss t e u s r s n io i n n e they turning et could throw a - high number for himself and have one to follow for a player unconscious of the deceit. a T o h w e accounts of several officers cers of the garrison with the con cern were also taken possession of, showing that the buiinoss carried on was of rather en extensive nature.— Saunders. COLLIERY EXPLOSION. DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. This calamity appears to have been even more dreadful than we at first announced. The number of men in the pit at the time of the explosion was nearly 150. Only one man, it is said, has escaped alive or uninjured. Upwards of 100 dead bodies have already been brought to the bank. It is utterly impossible to describe the dreadful anguish of the surviving relatives. One man was found unsinged, with his cap in his mouth ; he had probably placed it there in order to pre vent the foul air getting into his mouth. Several had their fingers closed into each other, and pressing on their mouths. Fifteen putters (boys and young men employed in taking the coals from the hewers to the bottom of the shaft) were in one lump—all clasped together. They had their clothes on prepared to ascend. When working they are nearly naked. The state of the relatives beggars all description. Each cottage had its dead father or brothers, or both. Three men at the bottom of the shaft were saved. I The shock was so great that the roof near them had fallen down, and so blocked up the passage as to stop the further progress of the bad air. These men, thus providentially rescued, were the first who brought the intelligence to the bank. The explosion was not heard by those outside the pit. The men, when asked the cause of the dreadful accident, say that the state of the pit must have been known to some persons ; but it doe* not appear that any com plaints had been previously made. One lad had his bones sticking out of his thigh; many had their bones broken, some were very much scorched, while others to all external appearance were uninjured. The "after damp" is generally fatal to those who escape the immediate effect of the explosion. The three men saved are John Thompson, waggon wayman ; John Hall, hewer ; and Coats, putter. These three were at the bottom of the shaft when the explosion occurred. An equally disastrous explosion occurred twenty years ago at Wallsend, about four miles from Newcastle on-Tyne. A hundred and one perished on that occasion. Wallsend was then under the superintendence of the late Mr. Buddle, who was also the head viewer of the Northumberland and Durham coal trade ; and it strangely happens that Mr. Foster, the present head viewer, is the practical superintendent at Haswell and some neighbouring collieries. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PIPERS OF YESTERDAY. STANDARD.—We are not surprised at the dead silence of the Times on the subject of the "mayor alty." A reasonable time ought to be afforded to our Contemporary to digest the " great fact," that its influence in the City is not quite so extensive as it has taught us to believe. It is I true that its campaigns against Mr. Alderman Harmer and Mr. Alderman 'Wood were entirely suc cessful ; but the cause must be referred to the extreme weakness of the candidates, rather than to any extraordinary influence exercised over the citizens of London by our Contemporary. Such, indeed, was the self gratulation with which these successive victories were proclaimed by the Times, that it seemed to fancy it had secured a pa tent for the rejection of any aspirant to the civic chair whom it might desire to exclude. This flattering delusion must, or ought to have been dissipated by the proceedings of the Common Hall on Saturday. After exaggerating the clamour against the successful candidate by every possible means—by denunciations of his fitness for the office to which he aspired ;—earnest admoni tions to the Livery in its leading columns; and letters from the übiquitous Mr. Rock, under every variety of signature, elsewhere ; it is obliged to confess that its imperious mandate has been de fied, and its authority not only disputed but set at nought. It is no part of our present business to a: count for its suscess on the occasions referred to. Suffice it to say, that the cases were widely different from that of Alderman Gibbs, because the proof of the correctness of the imputations by which the parties were declared to have been disqualified had preceded the allegations. In assuming, therefore, to have con trolled the decision of the Livery on those occasions, our Contemporary was entirely beside the mark. In the case of Alderman Gibbs its exertions have far distanced any of its previous efforts to bear down a victim. The labour was, indeed, worthy of the difficulty of the task. It charges him with refusing to submit his accounts, when the simple fact was, that he did submit them to the only parties competent to audit them, so far back as December, 1843, since which time they have been printed and published. It is true that these accounts, audited by men of character and station in the City, have been ques tioned by Messrs. Rock and Co. ; and equally so that the Alderman has afforded every facility for their examination, and that the Master's report upon them would have been concluded, but for the vexatious interposition of the plaintiff. Well, these accounts disposed of, what other charge has the Times to allege against its victim ? It admits that it has none. The gravamen of Mr. Alderman Gibbs's offence appears to have been that he was in Chancery ; whither he was forced and detained in order that some excuse might be afforded for the recent attempts of the Times to obstruct his passage to the civic chair. Mr. Alderman Gibbs could not repudiate the select vestry which had existed from time immemorial ; but he proposed that the question should be tried by a court of law, and offered every facility to hie opponents for bring ing such an inquiry to a speedy issue. Had this proposal been accepted, that question would have been decided a month ago ; but a decision which was so likely to be in his favour was not to be thus pre cipitated. The object of his assailants was to induce the Livery to believe that the charges which were impending might terminate unfavourably to the defendant ; and that meanwhile the Livery should " wait until he was cleared." The proceedings before the Master in Chancery for the purpose of establishing the correctness or incorrectness of the Alderman's accounts, have been delayed in a similar manner, and, as we must believe, for a similar object. The Livery would, indeed, have been "des titute of all sense of propriety," if they had not at once seen through the motives and objects of his assailants. If, however, they have preserved their self-esteem, they have lost the countenance of the Times. We presume that they will have no difficulty in adjusting the amount of the balance in their favour. The result of this contest is useful beyond the vindication of an upright man from the imputations which have been cast upol him; for it has shown that the influence which ' has cowed so many worthy and respectable people is a mere bugbear, which has no manner of existence, so far as the City of London is concerned, save in the imaginations of the alarmists themselves. The claws of the would-be lion have been clipped, and, roar he ever so loudly, his roar will never again be mistaken for the " thunder" of the king of the forest. In its present position " silence is wisdom." GLOBE.—The selection of Mr. Alderman Gibbs, by the Court of Aldermen, as Chief Magistrate for the ensuing year, is made the subject of a triumph by the Harald. Nearly two columns of exulting comment are appropriated to the occasion. The powers of the eulogist are peculiarly adapted to the theme. The Herald, which has failed as an organ of Government, may, possibly, acquire noto riety as the adopted advocate of Mr. Alderman Gibbs. If " The Gibbs' Gazette" were to be introduced as a second title, the thing might take, or rather be "taken." It would indicate the special mission of the journal ; and impart a kind of Aldermanic and Mayor-like importance to its character. Whatever appeared in its columns would bear the unquestion able stamp of truth, and be redolent of integrity. The signature of the Alderman of Walbrook would not give it a more sure passport to public confidence. . . . . The Court of Alder men had an undoubted right to select which they thought most eligible of the two Aldermen returned to it by the majority of the Livery. We are not disposed to quarrel with their choice. The cir cumstances in which they found themselves were by no means such as to render it of much consequence to the character and influence of the Corporation, as to which of the two Aldermen, to whom the Livery had limited their choice, was selected for th e . office. It was fortunate for Mr. Alderman Gibbs that there existed strong grounds to justify the Court of Alder men in again passing by his competitor for the Mayoralty. Had there been any other candidate before the Court, we do not believe that even the Court of Aldermen could have had the temerity to elect Mr. Alderman Gibbs to the office of Chief Magistrate, surrounded, as he is at the present moment, with the most grievous prejudices and im putations. Whether they be created solely by his wrongheadedness, and imperturbable obstinacy, as his friends maintain ; or whether they be the re sult of absolute breach of official trust, as some have not scrupled to assert ; one thing is certain—the dignity of the office will be obscured, and the effi ciency of its administration will be diminished. An individual placed in a post so elevated as that of Chief Magistrate of the metropolis of England should be not merely free from the imputation of having abused any public trust confided to his keep ing ; he should have done nothing which would , seem to imply that he has not fulfilled that trust with fidelity. Mr. Alderman Gibbs may be, and probably is, free from the graver offence of malver sation of the parish fah& of St. Stephen's, 'Walbrook; I but he has acted, with reference to the accounts of the receipts and disbursements of these funds, as if he were interested in preventing an investigation into their integrity. For nearly twenty years they had remained unaudited. This alone, when discovered by the parish ioners, was calculated to excite suspicion. The legal ex istence of a select vestry in that parish was questioned ; the neglect of the select vestry to perform the duties which pertained to it, was beyond all doubt. The unaudited accounts', of the churchwardens for nearly 20 years ; the deplorable state of dilapidation of the parish church, one of the most beautiful edifices in Lon don, the chef d'oeuvre of Sir Christopher Wren ; and the salaries of lecturer, organist, and other servants of the church, unpaid for two years—these glaring proofs of neglect showed that the self-constituted " select" body had proved their incompetency to promote the welfare of the church, and to protect the interests of the parishioners. When, therefore, the demand for an audit of the accounts became loud and ge neral—when the parishioners urged their reason able claims to a fair statement of the way in which the large sums which had passed into the hands of their churchwarden, Mr. Alder man Gibbs, had been appropriated ; and asked that this satisfaction should be attained by the whole of the accounts, with the vouchers, being placed in the hands of a competent and disinterested accountant, whose report should be conclusive—we do maintain that Mr. Alderman Gibbs owed it no less to himself than to the parishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose pecuniary interests were involved, and to his fel low-citizens generally, who had an obvious interest in his reputation, as one of their magistrates, to sub mit his accounts to a full and fair scrutiny. He has thought it consistent with his duty to himself, in his private and public relations, to decline to do so. He at , length rendered an account, it is true, extending over nearly twenty years, including multifarious items. This account was audited by the " select ;" but the examination of vouchers was dispensed with. The Alderman-churchwarden refused to allow any pa rishioner, not being one of the " select," the slightest satisfaction. He has thus given occasion for grave suspicion that his accounts, so long withheld, would not bear the light. The question of their correctness has been made the subject of a Chancery suit, as the only means of compelling the Alderman to produce the vouchers, and other documents, to attest their correctness. That the Court of Aldermen had no discretion between elect ing Alderman Wood or Alderman Gibbs, may be an excuse for their choice of the latter. But how humi liating must be this consideration to every one who regards the character of the Chief Magistrate as likely to influence the public estimation in which the Cor poration should be held, and the confidence which the administration of the immense revenues intrusted to its administration, should inspire ! There will be the usual civic pageant on the coming 9th of November; there will be the: usual pigmy court at the Mansion house during the coming civic year ; and the Mayor will bear the title of " Lord," and will be addressed as " Right Honourable." Fah! " Worth makes the man ; the want of it the fellow ; The rest is nought but leather and prunella." Mr. Alderman Gibbs' right to the respect and con fidence of his fellow-citizens, and of the public ge nerally, has been placed in abeyance by his own acts. He would, for once in his life, have acted wisely had he voluntarily postponed his claims to the office of Chief Magistrate until that right had been established. He has taken a different course. After his election by the Aldermen had been announced to the Common Ball, " he left the Hall," the reports state, "by a private door," without addressing the Livery, as is usual. In this there was more of caution than of courage. We hope before the day of the grand inauguration banquet, the award of the Master in Chancery will show that nothing worse than obstinacy is imputable to the Lord Mayor elect. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSIOiV-HOUSE. Yesterday a meagre shabby-looking fellow, in a dark green coat, who stated his name to be Edward Roberts, was brought before Sir P. Laurie, in the custody of John Mitchell, City policeman 579, charged with having stolen a clock, value 41. 10s., in the house of Mr. Simpson, licensed victualler, in Feachurch-street. As clock robberies have been greatly in fashion of late in the City, several sufferers attended, at the suggestion of the officer. Mr. Simpson, o wner of the Red Lion public-house. Fenchurch-street, stated that on Saturday, the 28th of September, the prisoner walked into the house, with a bag in his hand, and had something to drink in the par lour, after which he left the house. Witness, however, having observed that the bag he carried appeared to be more bulky as he went out than it was when he entered, followed him, and found the parlour clock in the bag in his possession. Sir P. LAURIE—What de you say to - this charge, pri soner ? Prisoner--1 admit I took it. I have a wife and six children in great distress, and I really did not know what to do. Sir P. LAURIE—T suppose you merely took the clock in order that you might be brought before a magistrate to make known your unfortunate situation ? Prisoner — Yes, Sir. Sir P. LAURIE—And you confess that you stole it ? Prisoner—l do. I Arel so pushed I did not know what I was about really. Sir P. LAURIE—Very well. Let us hear what the policeman says. Mitchell, the policeman, stated that when he took the charge from Mr. Si caisson the prisoner had about him a large piece of wire, which no doubt had been used by him to make the bag look bulky as he entered the house, that no suspicion mi ght be caused on his departure. Sir PhITER LAURI S (to the prisoner)—This was rather an ingenious thought: to strike you in your distress. Prisoner—l found that piece of wire on Saturday in Friday-street quite promiscuously. The proprietor of the White Hart public-house in Upper Thames-stresst, stated that a person, whom he believed to be the p risoner, came into the house with a blue bag, and calling for a glass of stout, paid for it and took it into the parlour, requesting the newspaper at the same time. There - eras no other person in the parlour. After some time the party came out of the parlour and handed the newspaper into the bar, saying that he ob • served the witness w as very busy, as really was the ease. The clock was missed immediately after the departure of the visitor. Sir PETER LAURI Cs---What do you say to this charge, prisoner ? Was it the distress of your wife and family that brought down this clock also ? Prisoner—l don't know, Sir, of taking any other clock than Mr. Simpson's. Sir PETER Lilian a (to the second complainant)—Ar e you sure the prisoner ris the man ? Complainant—l can not swear to his identity, but I think ho is the person. The landlord of as *other public-house stated that two men walked into his. parlour one day, one of whom he believed to be the prisoner, and after having remained for a short while di sported. Ono :of them came to the bar and had a pint o f porter, a glass of ginger beer, a nd three-halfpenny wosrth of gin, which he mixed together, outside the bar, as a. medicine, no doubt for the p u rpose of engaging the attention of the barmaid, ob serv i n g to her at the same tire le, that it was " rum physic, wasn't it ?" When the cli )ck was missed a bandbox was found in a corner of the r DOM, which no doubt occupied the place in a bag they carried, which was afterwards filled with the clock. ......._ ..__ ._____ It appeared from tho statement of the policeman that in ono week five do cks ,had been stolen out of public• houses. Prisoner—l can give most respectable references to prove that lama rt ispectable man. I know nothing of these charges. Sir P. LATTRIE—Bit you confess - that iyou stole Mr. Simpson's clock ? Prisoner--I confess I took that, but my distress— Sir P. LAURIE—I understand what your object is, You think, by pleading guilty to that charge, and making a pitiable representation and appeal to the jury, to get off with a sligl it punishment and a good deal of sympathy. But Ish all disappoint you in that expecta tion. I believe you to be a most e xperienced and dan gerous thief, and I shall take all the cases which may be brought up against: you to-morrow, to which day I remand you, in order to spoil your chance of escape at the Central Criminal Court. The police said they were convinced, from the descrip tion which had been given by many other publicans, who had been robbed of their clocks, of the person who had committed the plunder, that the prisoner was the thief. It was further mentioned that the person suspected of most of the robberies of the kind sometimes wore a blue frock.—The prisoner w'as remanded till this day. A young woman of comely a ppearance, named Eliza beth Vickery, who had. taken a quantity of laudanum some days ago, for the purpose of destroying herself , and who had been in a dazigero es co ndition in consequence of the attempt, was brought up for examination. Sir P. LAURIE—Why did you make this attempt upon your life? Prisoner—Because I %vas in great trouble. Sir P. LAURIE—I stopped the mania for drowning at Blackfriars-bridge by resolute measures, and I trust I shall be able to stop the mania for poisoning. There is now a young woman in'. St. Bartholomew's Hospital who will be brought beforei me at Guildhall, upon a similar charge. I shall commit her for trial as soon as she is well enough to be placed at the bar, and to-morrow I shall commit you for trial, after I have heard the evi dence of the surgeon who applied the stomach pump. The prisoner was remanded accordingly. A woman, named Maria King, who frequently has amused herself by breaking windows, was brought up on a charge of a similar kind. She frisked into the bar si t r ro p u E b r ll it of L supporting iußlE-. h a e y rs w e h lf y . anl smiled up on th e Ald erman, an d it was qu i te ev i dent that she - expected mere l y a few d ays ' exempt i on from the -- did you do this mis chief ? Prisoner (sinirking)—r m sure I can't say. Sir PETER LAURIE Well , you must go to prison for fourteen days. Prisoner —Very well, Sir, I shall go (tossing her head). Sir PETER LAURIE --I wish it to be known, and I don't think a bett er opportunity can occur for making it known, that in all cases of this description I consider it necessary to order that the smallest amount of diet con sistent with the preservation of life should be adininis tered.—(Great laughter.) Prisoner—What do you mean by that, eh? Sir PETER LAURIE--I mean that you"shan't get fat by breaking windows ; that's all.—(Laughter.) The prisoner, who was thunderstruck at the idea of this abridgement of the comforts of her usual place of re tirement, moved off in the custody of the policeman, sorrowful it not repentant, UNION•HALL, Yesterday Joseph Brassington, in the employ of an army accoutrement maker, was charged before Mr. Cot tingham with stabbing his wife in the breast with an awl. The complainant stated that the defendant was in the habit of constantly ill-using her, and that on Saturday he got into a passion with her, and in a struggle wounded her in the breast with an awl. The wound, however, fortunately was not of a serious character, but it might have been so, and the chief object in bringing the case before the bench was to have him bound over to keep the peace. Mr. COTTINGHAM asked the prisoner why ho mal treated his wife in the manner she described? The prisoner said that he held a good situation, and allowed his wife ample means to make home com fortable, but that instead of doing so she rendered it miserable by her extravagance. That she had pledged nearly the whole of his goods, even to the bed they lay upon, and to give the Magistrate a proof of her pro pensity for getting rid of the property, he said that she had pledged a new suit of his clothes. That he kept a fowling-piece in a case, over the fire-place, in his bed room, and that hearing a noise as if thieves were at the rear of the premises, he got out of bed with the intention of firing it off to alarm them. When he went to take down the fowling-piece he found that it was gone, and that his wife, in order to impress him with the belief that the weapon was still there, had stuffed the case out with rags. She afterwards confessed that she had pledged the gun some time previously, and ht declared that it was to procure liquor. Mr. Corrationum asked the prisoner to explain why he had used so dangerous a thing as a sharp awl when quarrelling with his wife?—He declared he had the in strument in his hand, having just left off work, and tnat it was not intentionally done. On being pressed en the subject, the wife admitted that she believed it was accidental. Mr. Corrmorum gave the wife a severe lecture for betraying such a total disregard of her husband's in terests by pledging all his property, notwithstanding he gave her so liberal an allowance for housekeeping. The Magistrate at the same time condemned the conduct of the husband in resorting to violent means to produce a reformation in his wife's conduct, and added, that as the wound in her breast did not appear to be of a serious nature, he should, instead of inflicting any other punishment, direct the warrant to stand over for a month. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday, amongst the charges brought before Mr. Henry was ono against a middle-aged female named Margaret Healey, for stealing a piece of ham of the value of fourteenpence, from the shop window of Mr. James Jenkins, a cheesemonger, in the Mile-end-road. The complainant, Mr. Jenkins, stated that about half past ten o'clock on Saturday night, the prisoner came up to his shop-window and deliberately took a piece of ham which was exhibited for sale, and walked leisurely away with it. Witness followed, and, upon coming up with her, asked her for the piece of ham she had taken, but she refused to give it up, and requested she might be given into custody • in fact, she insisted upon being given into custody, and a policeman coming up at the time, he gave her in charge. At the station-house she persisted in keeping the ham, and being detained on the charge. The accused, who, from her address and manner, it was evident had seen better days, declared she had com mitted the act in order to ensure a shelter for the night. She had, she said, been turned out of the workhouse of the parish of St. George's, Hanover-square, about one o'clock on the Saturday, without a single farthing in her possession ; and after wandering about she scarcely knew where, and being without the means of procuring a morsel of bread, or a shelter for the night, she had, in a moment of despair, determined to commit some act for which she might be taken into custody. The manner in which she had taken the ham, would, she hoped, prove that her intention was not to steal or deprive the owner of it. On the contrary, her motive was that which she had before stated. Mr. Jenkins here said he was perfectly convinced the article had not been taken with a felonious intention, and it was not, as he had before stated, his intention to give the accused into custody, had she not requested him to do so, and kept theham. lie begged at once to withdraw the charge, and requested that the piece of ham might be given to the poor woman for her use. Mr. lIENnv, from what he had heard, was of opinion that the taking was not felonious, and desired ,the ac cused to come out of the felon's bar. She did so, and in reply to questions from the magis trate, stated, that when a girl, she had been taken to Rome by a lady named Foster, who sent her to school there, and also apprenticed her to the dress-making. While there, besides learning her trade, she had ac quired a knowledge of the French as well as the Italian language, and also perfected herself in all those matters to qualify her for the situation of lady's maid. She subsequently returned to England, and by advertise ments procured the appointment of companion to fami lies going abroad. Amongst those whom she had lived with and attended, were Mrs. Hume and Mrs. Chaloner, Irish ladies, closely connected with the Fitz william fa mily. She subsequently lived in the family of Lady Pulteney, in Piccadilly, for five years, and also in the service of Miss Baker, in Park-lane, for two years, both these places being in the parish of St. George, Hanover square. Nearly three weeks ago she went four days and four nights without a morsel of food of any kind, and dur ing the time had frequently entreated the police to take her up, but all refused, saying that she was neither riot ous nor drunk, and told her she must make application to the workhouse. She at length dropped in the street from weakness and exhaustion, and was then carried from the place where she lay, in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, to the workhouse of St. George's. There she was con fined for a fortnight in the sick ward. On Friday last the parish doctor pronounced her to be sufficiently reco vered to leave the sick ward, and on the same day a young lady, whom she understood to be the doughter of the matron, came to her, and said she might go to the needle-room or leave the house altogether ; and she re plied that she would go to the needle-room, as she cer tainly:had not sufficient strength to leave the house, and another thing, that she was without the slightest means of supporting herself. She accordingly went to the needle-room, as it was called, and, on the following day, was sent for to appear before the matron. and on enter ing her apartment the matron asked if she was the per son who had been brought into the house in such a dis tressed state ? She replied she was the same, upon which the matron observed that she had been discharged by the doctor, and therefore she must go out of the house. She replied that she really was not in a fit state to be discharged, for that she was still very weak, and that she had not a place to go to, or the means of pro curing food or lodging, and she therefore hoped she might be allowed to remain in the house a few days longer. The matron replied that she must not, and the wardswoman at this time moved her on to the porter's hall. She complained to the porter of the state she was in, and he took her to the office of the overseer, next door. She informed the officer of the circumstances of i r her case, and begged he would either permit her to re main in the workhouse, or pass her to the settlement of her late husband, in Rutlandshire. His reply was that he thought the parish had done very well for her in keeping and supporting her for a fortnight. " I cried bittlerly, sa id the poor woman, " and begged he would take m y distressing case into his kind consideration, upon which he told me to sit down, and on my doing so he sent for the porter, and reprimanded him for bringing such a case before him. The porter then took me out, and I left the house about one o'clock. I was then re commended to go before a magistrate, and made my way to Marlborough-street Police-court, but was told there that the magistrate was investigating a case which was likely to last for some time, and that I had better go to the parish officers. I left the place, and walked about in a state of bewilderment, I scarcely knew where, until about half-past ten at night, when I formed the resolu tion of getting out of the streets, and to the shelter of the station-house, and with that object solely I took the piece of ham, as has been described." Mr. HENRY remarked that it was hardly credible that in ithe wealthy and influential parish of St. George's, Hanover-square, and where the applicant for its bounty had been a resident as a servant for seven years, the persons in the charge of its poor could act in the manner described. The poor woman assured his Worship that every sen tence she had uttered was perfectly true. Mr. HENRY asked if she could refer to those families whose names she had mentioned, for a character ?—She replied she could with the most perfect confidence to every one of them, and particularly to Mrs. Hume and Mrs. Chaloner, who knew her by her maiden name, M‘Gill. Mr. HENRY next inquired what she would wish done for her ?—She replied she would most gladly accept a situation of the most humble kind, until she could get herself a little about. Mr. HENRY observed that she was evidently a person of superior manners, and it was not at all likely that she could get such a situation at that part of the metropolis as would answer.—She replied that she would feel thank ful for any situation in a tradesman's family. She de clared that she had never written to any of those dis tinguished persons she had lived with for a single penny; on the contrary, her sole wish was to live upon the fruits of her labour. Mr. HENRY said he should feel happy to bo the me dium of procuring her a situation or the means of sup port, if her character up to the present was found to bear out her statement. He certainly should communicate with some of the parties she had named, and in the in terim should take care that she had what was necessary for her maintenance. The magistrate then directed Cooke, one of the officers, to procure her a decent lodg ing in the neighbourhood and see that she was provided with what was necessary. In expressing her gratitude to the magistrate for his kindness, and humanity her feelings overpowered her, and the poor creature wept bitterly. CLERKEIV WELL, On the 16th inst., John Gray, a police-constable, 157 E, was charged at this court with aiding and abetting: William Campbell, an apprentice, to run away from his master, and with other misconduct. The complainant on the occasion was the Rev. T. Kelly, a clergyman of the Established Church, Rector of Stitongan, in the county of Dublin, at present re siding at 18, Regent-square, in this city. The po liceman, who had been previously considered a good officer, -was convicted and fined in the penalty of one pound; he has been since dismissed from the force. To sustain the complaint, the apprentice, a boy about fifteen, was called into the witness-box. He deposed that he lad been apprenticed to the rev. complainant as servcat two years before by the Dublin Protestant and Orph an Society. Having been cross-examined by Mr. li.umphreys, who appeared for the defence, he admitted that his master had beaten him several times; once whilst naked with a horsewhip, and on se yeral other occasions cuffed and kicked him. To disprove his evidence the complainant called two servants, who swore the treatment of the boy had been kind and considerate. Mr. Kelly admitted, however, having beaten him once with a birch-rod on the naked person. In the early part of last week the boy came to this court, stating that he had been again beaten by his master, and with the marks of stripes on his body. He was refused the war rant because he had not the money to pay for it ; he subsequently, however, obtained the money, and got the summons against Mr. Kelly on Wednesday last, which was to have been heard at this court yesterday (Monday), at two o'clock. About that time the parties were in attendance. The reverend com plainant, after a private communication with the clerk, went into the Clerk's-office, the clerk then privately communicated with the magistrate, and dry, too, went into the Clerk's -office, where the boy also was. The matter was disposed of in private, and nothing transpired regarding it in open court. A number of little boys were brought before the Ma gistrate, charged by an officer under the Commissioners of Woods and Forest, with throwing stones, and so en dangering the lives of passengers. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, Thomas Sleeman, a wheelwright, and John Sharp, a sackmaker, in the employ of Mr. Wright, coal merchant, at Ratcliff-cross, were brought before Mr. Broderip on a charge of causing the death of a girl named Ann Conolly. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased and her sister were stationed near Mr. Wright's coal wharf, each with a basket of fruit before them on the ground, and the prisoners commenced backing a large coal waggon to which no horses were attached along a declivity leading to the wharf. The deceased was sitting on a stone with her back to a post at the side of the wharf entrance. One of the prisoners was in the shafts and the other at the wheel backing the waggon down the incline, and they called out to the girlsto get out of the way or they would be run over. The deceased stooped to pick up her basket of fruit, and at the same moment the waggon started down the in cline at full speed, and overpowered the men, who were unable to stop it. The wheel caught the deceased, and ' she was crushed in a frightful manner between the waggon and the post. Her sister, a younger girl, would have shared the same fate had she not been hastily pulled away by a waterman named Dunbar, and just in time to save her from being crushed by the next wheel on the same side, and the prisoner Sharp also narrowly escaped destruction. He was at the wheel when the waggon run down the incline, and close to the side of the covered way. He made a sudden spring towards the street, and escaped unhurt. The deceased was taken to the surgery of Mr. Buchanan, in Ratcliff. The blood was then flow ing profusely from her nose and mouth, and she was unable to speak. She died a few minutes afterwards. The sister of the unfortunate deceased, and the other witness, said the occurrence was quite accidental, and,the prisoners said the waggon suddenly ran back, and they were unable to stop it. Mr. BRODERIP—The death of the girl appeared to hare been the result of accident, caused by her anxiety to save her little stock of fruit, and as the case would be investigated by a constitutional tribunal, the Coroner's jury, he would accept of bail for their appearance on Monday next. The prisoners immediately entered into sureties, them selves in 601., and two sureties in 301. each, and were liberated. DREADFUL AFFRAY AT HALIFAX. A MAN KILLED. (From the Halifax Guardian.) On Monday last a most melancholy catastrophe oc curred in the neighbourhood of Chapel Fold, Smithy Stake, in this town, arising out of a quarrel, which, though apparently insignificant as to its origin, yet quickly led to the death of its originator—a man of the name of Daniel Martin, a railway labourer, aged twenty four, and a native of Cork. The unhappy individual who has been the means, accidental or otherwise, of the death of Martin, in this encounter. is a man named James Tansy, of Sligo, aged forty, and is a maker of besoms. We may here state that Tansy has hitherto been known and respected in his locality as a very quiet, inoffensive, and industrious man. About three months ago his wife died suddenly while engaged in washing, leaving him with a family of four little children. Both Tansy and Martin lived in Chapel Fold. The circumstance leading to the tragical death of Martin occurred at the Sun Inn, in Smithy Stake, at which place he was drinking in the forenoon of Monday last. Whilst there his sister, accompanied by another woman, came into the house, and called for something to drink. On seeing this Martin became very angry, and ordered them both out, and was about to inflict personal chastisement , upon his sister, who however made her escape to the door, upon which Martin followed, intent upon thrashing her. The woman ran home to her lodgings, the house of Tansy, into which she ran, imploring protection from the fury of her brother, by whom she was immediately followed into the house, and struck several times. At this time Tansy and his children were quietly engaged in getting their dinners, and there was also present a man named John Rocks, who lodges in the house, who interfered in behalf of Martin's sister, where lie was struck by Mar tin, and sent against the table at which their children were getting their dinner, thereby upsetting the table and dinner things, and causing general confusion. At length Tansy thought it time for him to interfere, and rose up for that purpose, still retaining the knife in his hand which he had been using at dinner. He went to Martin, told him he would not allow such conduct in his house, and endeavoured to put him out. On this Mar tin, who was a most powerful athletic fellow, imme diately turned upon Tansy, whom he began roughly to handle. At length it became a struggle for mastery iu the house, and they collared each other, Tansy haring hold of the knife and Martin's coat collar in his right hand at the same time. Martin being the taller and more powerful of the two, gave Tansy a complete swing round against the wall ; and it would appear from Tansy's statement at the inquest, that the point of the knife being in the direction of Martin's left ear, the latter, during the turn at the wall, drove his head against it with great force, Tansy's elbow resting at the time against the wall, thus giving a double force to the contact with the knife, which entered just below the left ear, and inflicting a wound three inches internally and one inch externally. Immediately the blood gushed out in a fearful torrent against the wall, which, with the floor, was drenched with the crimson fluid. The unhappy man finding himself in such a state, rushed to the house door, and a cry of "murder" was instantly raised. A man who happened to be passing by at the time, and see ing the dangerous state in which Martin was placed, seized him and held together the wound so as to prevent the issue of blood until the arrival of Mr. Tucker, sur geon, who had been sent for. That gentleman tempo rarily secured the carotid artery, and bandaged the wound, during which it required six men to hold the unhappy man, who, in his paroxysms of pain, at one time overthrew them all. In the meantime Tansy went to the police-office, and requested that Martin might be taken into custody on a charge of assault. Martin was taken to the infirmary, where every attention was imme diately paid to him ; but he had lost much blood pre viously to his arrival there, nor did he recover from insensibility up to the time of his death, which oc curred on the following morning at a quarter to ten o'clock. On Wednesday afternoon, at four o'clock, a jury was summoned at the infirmary to view the body, after which they proceeded to another room in the institution, where the inquest was held before G. Dyson, Esq. Af ter a long inquiry, a verdict of " Manslaughter" was re turned, and Tansy is in custody. I T , JCORTSOKEN WARD.—OFFICIAL DECLARATION OP THE POLL.—Yesterday afternoon, at five o'clock, a wardmote of the ward of Portsoken, adjourned from Friday last, was resumed at the late workhouse, in the board room, Cock and Hoop-yard, Houndsditch, to re ceive the official declaration of the poll, upon the elec tion of an Alderman, in the room of Alderman T. John son, on which occasion there was a numerous attendance of the electors, principally of the Jewish race. Mr. D. Salomons arrived a few minutes before the Lord Mayor, accompanied by his friends. Mr. Sheriff Moon was not present. The Lord Mayor, preceded by the mace bearer and the sword of state, having taken the chair, announced the result of the poll to have been for Mr. D. Salomons, 168, for Mr. Sheriff Moon, 136, and declared Mr. David Salomons to have been duly elected Alderman of the ward.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. D. Salomons then addressed the electors, and moved a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor. Mr. llill seconded the motion, which was agreed to unanimously, with loud cheers. His Lordship thanked the electors, and the wardmote was dissolved. JAMES COCKBURN BELANET.—An inquiry was in stituted before the magistrates at Belford, on Tuesday last, respecting the burning of the property belonging to James Cockburn Belaney, and the breaches of the peace committed at North Sunderland, as stated in our last. Mr. Belaney, accompanied by his brother, the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and Mr. Abbs, his solicitor, were present during the inquiry, and it is understood that steps have been taken to sue the hundred for the amount of the damage. The dwelling destroyed is not the romantic mansion of Belaney, on the edge of the cliff, but a farm-house, where he had been residing, and which belonged to the trustees of the late Lord Crewe, and it is said to be in sured. Belaney's new house is known by the name of the " Cave," and it has been built so close to the sea that the spray will, in a storm, blow against the windows. It is a curious place. The soil has been cut away from the top of the rock en which it is built, and, so far had this to be done, that the roof of the house is nearly level with the ground of the land side. It is surrounded with a high wall, so that no one can obtain entrance to it but by -descending a flight of about twenty-one steps, and then the door, instead of swinging on hinges, is made, like & portcullis, to draw up into the wall. The sea view is, of course, extensive, and the situation would seem not a disagreeable one in summer, but during the blasts of winter it must be exceedingly cold and dreary. What trifling furniture was saved from the fire, was on Mon day conveyed in a cart to Aytoun, about ten miles north of Berwick-upon-Tweed, where Belaney's father resides. So universal would seem to be the feeling excited in the case of this unhappy individual, that it is stated his London solicitor, having been recognised the other day at Doncaster races, was attacked by the mob, and actu ally ducked in a pond.----Newcastle Journal. The Poor-law Commissioners have decided that all occupiers ofhouses compounded for to the poor -rates are entitled to have their names placed upon the rate-books. Occupiers of parts of houses, whose several rents amount to 10f. per annum, are also, we understand, entitled to be placed upon the rate-book. This decision, if strictly acted upon, will have the effect of adding greatly to the names on the register.—Nottingham Review. THE WOODEN PAVEDIENT.—On Saturday last it was agreed to unanimously, at a vestry held in the parish of St. Marylebone, that part of the wooden pave ment in the said parish should be removed, and that a granite pavement phould b 9 substituted, THE NEW SHERIFFS. Testarday afternoon, the presentation of the new Sheriffs (Messrs. Aldermen Hunter and Sydney) took place in the Court of Exchequer, before the Cursitor Baron:(Banks), at Westminster. The civic procession arrived shortly after two o'clock, by water, accompanied by the state barge, with the Lord Mayor and the civic authorities, at Westminster-bridge, when his Lordship and the Corporation immediately proceeded to the Court of Exchequer, where they were received by the Cursitor Baron and a large body of spectators. His Lordship and Sheriffs elect were ushered into Court by the several officers to the Chief Baron. The RECORDER addressed the Court to the following effect :—Mr. Cursitor Baron, I have the honour to pre sent to this Court William Hunter and Thomas Sydney, Esqs., chosen by the citizens of London to fill the office of Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Middlesex. Mr. Hunter has been for upwards of twenty years a member of the Corporation of London, and a representative"of the Ward of Coleman-street, in the Court of Common Council; placed during that period in nearly all the standing Committees of the Court, he has been succes sively called upon to fill the chair of each Committee. On the retirement of Sir William Heygate, occasioned by the election of that gentleman into the office of Chamberlain of the City, Mr. Hunter was unanimously chosen Alderman of the ward he had so long and ably represented in the Court of Common Council, and he has now the happiness to find that the opinion formed of him by the inhabitant householders of his ward, founded on an experience of his character and conduct for so many years, is entirely in accordance with the sentiments of the citizens at large. The Livery of London) having conferred upon Mr. Hunter the shriev alty on Midsummer day last, he will, at the expiration of his year of service, have perfected the legal qualifica tion of candidates to fill the office of Chief Magistrate of our ancient city. The Livery have appointed with Mr. Hunter a gentleman and a merchant of London ex tensively known, esteemed universally, and in every re spect worthy of the same important trust and distinc tion. And I may be permitted to anticipate the accus tomed forms and solemnities of admission into office, when I announce to you, Sir, the fact of Mr. Sydney's recent election as alderman of the ward of Billingsgate so recent, indeed, that the interval required by law be tween election and admission had not expired when the Court of Mayor and Aldermen were assembled on Satur day last. The transaction in which we are now engaged is not an idle and unimportant ceremony—a vain and empty pageant. The citizens of London (the metropolis of the commercial world) in the exercise of their ancient and chartered right—of their undoubted right to place whom they will, as " Sheriffs of London, and Sheriff for the metropolitan county of Middlesex," here, in her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, present these gentlemen, thus discreetly chosen, in token of their loyalty to the Sovereign, and in the exercise of a great public trust, with which the administration of the law, and the liberty of the subject, are intimately connected ; exhibiting, after the lapse of centuries, the unabated energy, the usefulness, and the security of free popular municipal institutions, which, taking root in the foundations of the monarchy and the Constitution, have grown with their growth and flourished with the increasing prosperity of the empire. The Recorder, in a few words, complimented Mr. Musgrove and Mr. Moon, the gentlemen who had just filled the offices of Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Middlesex, so much to the satisfaction of their fellow , citizens, and to their own honour. The CURSITOR BARON then addressed the Recorder to the following effect:—His Lordship said that to the Court of Exchequer exclusively belonged the duty of recognising and superintending the rights and privileges of the citizens of London to choose their own magis tracy and sheriffs, which rights, after many centuries, were granted to them by the Crown, and after having been severed from the royal prerogatives had been given to the citizens of London, which they had retained up to the present moment, and which these gentlemen, on the part of the citizens, attended to claim. The Learned Baron said he fully agreed with the Learned Recorder that this was no idle pageant in which they were en gaged, but that it was a solemn recognition on the part of the Sovereign to the authorities of the first city in the empire, of their full rights and privileges, and on behalf of her Majesty that Court fully recognised the rights and privileges which were claimed at their hands. The Cursitor Baron then paid the Sheriffs elect and the late Sheriff a high compliment for the manner in which they had been chosen by their fellow-citizens. He then said it must be a gratification to the gentlemen who had just retired from office that they had received the unanimous thanks of their fellow-citizens, and he trusted that when the term of the year of office expired with the Sheriffs elect that they would meet with the like high and cheer ing reward, which would be the highest reward that could be paid any individual ; and on behalf of her Majesty lie begged again fully to recognise the rights and liberties of the citizens of London, and the Baron desired the officer to record the names of the Sheriffs elect. The usual ceremonies of the Court were then per formed by Alderman Thomas Wood, as the senior Al derman (not having passed the chair), doing suit and service by counting the hobnails and horse-shoes, and chopping sticks, after which the civic procession re turned by water. • Last night the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex gave a grand banquet in honour of their inauguration into their high office at the London Tavern. Alderman William Hunter, the senior Sheriff, presided, supported by his colleague, Thomas Sydney, Esq., the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Mayor elect (Alderman Gibbs), the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the East India Com pany, Lord J. Russell and W. Masterman, Esq., Mem bers of Parliament for the City of London, a very large number of the Aldermen, including Alderman Salomons, the Recorder, &c. The dinner and wines were of the first order, and neither pains or expense appeared to be spared by the providers of the feast in furnishing an en tertainment worthy of their character and of the occa sion. One feature of the scene was not less important, though perhaps not quite so obvious, as the good cheer displayed on the well covered tables—namely, the ven tilation of the room. It appears that it has been thoroughly ventilated by artificial means, and the comfort and pleasure felt by the whole party, gave every reason to believe that the reality did not fall short of the appearance. About two hundred and seventy gentlemen sat down to dinner, and the gallery was filled with ladies. A military band was in attendance, and a company of glee singers added greatly to the entertainment of the evening. The routine toasts on such occasions—namely, the Queen, the Queen Dow ager, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family, and the Army and Navy, were drank with the usual enthusiasm. The health of the Lord Mayor and the Lord Mayor elect were drank, the former with considerable approbation, the latter with some manifestation of dislike on the part of a portion of the company. In replying to the toasts of the " Members for the City of London," Lord J. RUSSELL, after thanking the Sheriffs and the meeting, observed that the example of the City of Lon don was looked up to by the whole country for freedom and commerce, and by following that example England surpassed every other nation in the world.—(Hear.)The country at this moment enjoyed the inestimable blessings of peace ; if it were a peace obtained by the dishonour of the English name, it would not be a bless ing but a curse ; but he was happy to say that it was one in which the honour and best interests of the nation had been consulted. In conclusion, he trusted, that when the time should come for the Members for the City to relinquish their charge, they would be found by their constituents not unworthy of the honour that had bean conferred on them.—(llear.) The remaining toasts were then disposed of, and ;be party broke up about eleven o'clock. A MAN KILLED BY A BULL.—A man, named Daniel Jones, a tenant of Mr. William Thomas, draper, Carmarthen, was tossed by a two-year-old buil, on a farm in Llanllawddog parish, on Wednesday. The animal threw him high into the air, and as he fell caught him on his horns and again threw him. His death al most immediately ensued. The verdict returned by the coroner's jury, who met at the house of the deceased, Clwtancochon, was to the effect that Daniel Jones had met with his death, but how did not appear in evidence. Welshman. BIRTHS. On the 26th ult., at Amble, in the county of Northumber land, Mrs. Thomas Browne, of a daughter. On the 26th ult., Mrs. Pegg, of the Royal York Hotel, Brighton, of a son, still-born. On the 26th ult., at Bridge House, Hampstead-road, Mrs. John Simons, jun., of a son. On the 26th ult., at Upper Seymour-street, Portman- square, the lady of John Newman Tweedy, Esq., of Port.au-Prince, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Croydon, Surrey, Mrs. William Baines, of a son. MARRIED. On the 17tla ult., at Holly Lodge, Loughborough, the Rev J. Bowles, D.D., Rector of Woodstock and domestic chaplain to his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to Ellen Mary, the youngest daughter of the late Sir William Walker, High Sheriff of Leicestershire. On the 24th ult., at Rendham, the Rev. Stanley Miller, Vicar of Tannington, to Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the late James Rowland Morgan, surgeon. On the 26th ult., at the Collegiate Church, Manchester!. Alfred Woods, Esq., of Li ver p oo l ; to J ane, e l dest d aug h ter of Joseph Higgin, Esq., of Manchester. On the 28th ult., at Croydon, Samuel Thomas, son of Air._ Charles Jones, of Stratf or d, t o E mma J osep hi ne, daug h ter of Mr. Joseph Moate, of Warlingham, Surrey. DIED. On the 23d ult., Samuel Emden, Esq., late of Park-road , Surrey. On the 21st ult., at Oxford, Adam Sedgwick Conybear e Buckland, youngest son of the Rev. Dr. Buckland, Canon of Christ Church. On the 3d ult., Captain Joseph Hammell, late of the 9th Regiment of Foot. On the 15th ult., at Liege, Jessie, eldest daughter of the late John Wigstone, Esq., Trent-park, Middlesex. On the 23d ult., at Fairy Croft, Saffron Walden, Charles Fiske, Esq., aged 69. On the 25th ult., at East-road, Roston, Mary, relict of Mr. William Potter, aged 72. On the 25th ult., at Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, Miss Anna Oliphant, aged 72. On the 26th ult., at John-street, Bedford-row, Emily Free man, second daughter of the late T. Edwards, Esq., surge on, Clapham, aged 17. On the 29th ult., at Earl's-terrace, Kensington, Fra ncis Ludlow Holt, Esq.,Q.C., and Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. On the 29th ult., Mr. John Davis, news-agent, of Broad' street, Bloomsbury. On the 30th ult., Mary, the wife of John Bright, E 94. ' F.L.S., of Brunswick-place Brixton-hill. On the 30th ult., at Higham Lodge, Walthamstowt El iza Maria, the wife of E. A. Lloyd, Esq. 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