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ebtrb THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) _ Bin - inn FUNDS. Bask Stock — 1 Indian 5t0ck............... 239 S per Cent. Red ....... 3 per Cent. Cons 3 per Cent. Red Ditto New Annuities ... P 2 Nest 3% per Cent 102% Ex. Bills. 1,011)1. I%d ... 76 pm. New 5 per Cent........ ...... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 75 pm. Jan 1800 — Bank Stock for Acct.... 2;0 Oct. 1859 ,Consols for Act. Jan. 1850 — ;India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent .... .... . Portuguese, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent............ lea% Ditto, New Ditto.-- Brazilian Bonds ... 86 Prussian, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per IRussian, 5 per Cent Chlllan, 6 per Cent M Ditto, etallic ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1824 .... ." Ditto, 3 per Cent ..«........... 33 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred lB Danish, 3 per Cent ..... French, 5 per Cent. —t —c. Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent...—. Exchange ...... ........ —f —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 183 7 — Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 62% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent - SHARE& Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings, 5 paid 4% Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7.34 Cheater and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Dublin and Belfast Junction, 24, paid 4 Dublin and Cashel, 5 paid Eastern Counties (23 paid) ..—.... Great North of England, 100 paid Kendal and Windermere, 14 paid. 34 ..., London and Greenwich (121. las. 4d. paid) lO% London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 164 Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 21 paid 48% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares, 4 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) 105% Bsiiilogne and Amiens 2 paid ..... Orleans, Tours, and frourdeaux, 1 paid SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—We took occasion, a few weeks ago, to advert to the first Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and popu lous districts. We now return to the subject, for the purpose of stating some considerations having reference to the practical adoption of the measures already indicated by the Commissioners as most expedient. The subject naturally divides itself into portions more or less distinct, and of varying importance. Foremost among these, in point of im portance, we find drainage and ventilation, each having direct relation to the chief object of the com mission. The evils developed in the course of these two branches of the inquiry are, however, evidently susceptible of very different remedies. The improve ment of the system of drainage now prevalent seems, to a great extent, hopeless, without the vigorous inter ference of the Legislature. It is chiefly under the management of Commissioners appointed under local Acts, and governed by bye-laws and usages alike destitute of uniformity and of fitness for attaining the first object of an efficient system of drainage. It aims almost solely at effecting a mere surface drainage : thus leaving the sewerage and drainage of houses almost entirely unprovided for; and confined as these laws are as to the extent of their object, they are so loosely constructed as to give rise to considerable differences of opinion ; and are, moreover, seldom enforced but wider the pressure of great local annoyance from a want of drainage. The efforts made by those who can afford to pay for a convenience so essential to health and comfort as the proper drainage of their houses, are attended with much unnecessary trouble and expense, and the convenience is at length conceded rather as a privi lege than as a common right ; while those who stand in greatest need of the accommodation, are effectually deprived of it, though immediately surrounded by every facility for it. In some of our large towns the passage of house refuse, &c. into the drains is entirely prohibited, and it is very generally forbidden to make the drains subservient to the cleansing of the streets. There being no general supervision in reference to the levels, it is not uncommon to have houses so built that they do not admit of effectual drainage, or drains no ponstructed that their contents can only be partially discharged. None but a legislative remedy can reach evils such as those just enumerated. There are, however, some others which may be cured by a better exercise of the discretion at present vested in the local authorities—such as the defective and unnecessarily expensive methods of construction at present very generally adopted, and the de tails of the arrangements for meeting the expense of improvements. A complete revision of all the Aets now in force affecting the subject, and the formation of a general plan of drainage upon a scien tific basis, with regulations fur an equitable imposi tion of the requisite expense, however, seem to present themselves as essential requisites. If the art of draining towns is but little understood or practised amongst us, that of ventilating our dwellings is scarcely more so. But the drainage is under public management, and comes properly within cognisance of the Legislature, while ventilation is rather matter of arrangement for private individuals. Much may be done in widening streets and passages, and prohibiting the erection of the most notoriously de fective class of houses, but nothing very effectual can be hoped for without the hearty co-operation of the public. It is already sufficiently obvious, that neither the value of pure air nor the facility with which it may almost everywhere be procured, are sufficiently known, Here the great barrier to improve ment is ignorance; and that is not to be re-' moved by an Act of Parliament. The poorer classes especially require to he taught to what an extent they suffer from this cause. All classes would be the better for it, and we believe any means by which the leading facts and suggestions embodied in the report we have alluded to could be made gene rally known throughout the kingdom, would do much to prepare the way for such legislative measures as the Commissioners may ultimately think fit to recommend, and at the same time tend strongly to bring about changes for the better in the sana tory condition of the people which no legislative interference, unaided by such knowledge, would be at all likely to effect. How far the Govern ment should interfere to settle the terms of con tracts between private individuals, or to regulate their personal habits in matters not most palpably and directly affecting the_public weal, is a problem yet to be solved. Should its solution be required in this case, it would, we conceive, be advisable to begin by narrowing the ground of disuussion as much as pos sible. This might be done, perhaps, most efficiently by publishing in a more accessible form a condensed view of the evidence already taken and published by the Commissioners, embodying the facts and the sug gestions of practical men most immediately appli cable to those evils which lie beyond the ordinary range of legislative enactments. STANDARD.—There is in the Church a party, we rejoice to believe a small one, who wishing well to the scheme of Tractarian dissent, and lending to the Romanising Dissenters all the aid that they safely_ can, decline: boldly to assume Mr. New man s colours. This may be good worldly policy. Such men are secure from being involved in the fate of the more ingenuous and enterprising Dissen ters, should it prove disastrous; while, in the event of success, they prepare a claim to share in the triumph; and all the while they enjoy that praise of moderation to " cowardice and craft so dear." This, however, though a good worldly policy, is not Christian policy. The presumption is, no doubt, always in favour of moderation towards those who act on the defensive, and who maintain the admitted truths, even when they happen to err on the side of excess, because their motive is originally sound and honourable ; but the presumption is against moderation towards the aggressor, whenever there can be the slightest suspi cion of the rightfulness of his aggression. " When thou sawest; &c.," says the inspired King— and how does the spirit menace the Laodiceans who "were neither hot nor cold"—in the assertion of divine truth ? It is not for us to mark out the re presentatives of the lukewarm party to wb' refer, but few 'readers can be at a loss to nem ee";n's"' the m . e Doctor Hook, of Leeds, has cause(' . e to be published, a letter addressed by him 'so a Mend in Oxford, which letter, with the , • rep . . es to it from some Remanising Disse- • -- tarian organ We copy from the Tree "sti.at'tclins been favoured with them. Dr. Hook dares that he will not attend to vote against Dr. Symons, because the majority of the members of Convocation are not disposed to set aside that excellent and pious gentleman, in e &wee with the command o f Messrs. 'NewnT. Ward, and Company and Dr. Hook, howeverr) 'willing to be the unattached ally and abettor of the Romani ing Dissenters, does not like implicitly to bars in h's lot with them—least of all when they seem to be seriously threatened with a defeat. This is the plain English translation a Doctor Hook's shuffling apology to his Romanising Dissenter friends, and some of his answerers have made good use of its transparent dis ingenuousness and confession of self-seeking. But though Dr. Hook will not vote against Dr. Symons, neither will he attend to support the venerable war den's claim to what uninterrupted usage has rendered bit indisputable right, and what therefore cannot be withholden f:oas him without inflicting an insult and an indelible stigma. Here is strange morality— more extraordinary religiOn ! Here, says Dr. Hook, is a grievous aggression threatene d I—acknowiedgetb u p on one who m ea most upright, pious, and honourable man ; ° I will not join . in executing the threat, not, trvever, because I believe an unprovoked aggression upon any man wrong —more wrong upon a tnan such as the warden of Wadhm —but because I think none will t a k e part i n it, save a the most despe rate of the Romanising Dissenters ; and it is not my present convenience to identify myself with them. Would such mor a lity as this be endured in any of the ordinary affairs of life ? The p rocee di eg at Oxford, it is to be remembered,'is not an election, not a contest between A and B, where ever y one is at liberty to weigh the merits of the respective candi dates, and to vote for one, the other, or neither, ac cordingly as his judgment shall direct. It is a punish. ment threatened for an alleged offence ; an aggres sion, menaced for the gratification of revenge ; or a political manoeuvre, contrived for the purpose of throwing the government of the University into the hands of a particular party. Now we car not which of the three hypotheses be adopted; we assert that no really honest man can escape from the necessity of taking a part, as far as his opportunity and convenience permit. If a punishment for trans gression is proposed, an honest man will vote to punish the transgressor, or more cheerfully to pro tect the innocent. If revenge only is the aggressor's object, every honest man will feel it a sacred duty to interpose between the aggressor and his vengeance. If the manoeuvre be purely a stroke of Uni versity politics to obtain ascendancy for one party at Oxford, every honest man attached to the University and to the Church, must feel that it is his duty to take one side or the other. Less learned men than the members of Convocation remember the infamy justly attached by the Athe nian legislator to neutrality upon such a vital question as is agitated. But Dr. Hook does not disguise his feeling that not only Dr. Symons, but the other five judges of Dr. Pusey's sermon, as well as the admirable Vice-Chancellor now in office, ought to be insulted and stigmatised ; nor conceal the fact that it is only his an ticipation of defeat, and his care for the position of himself, Doctor Hook, that prevent his join ing heart and hand with Messrs. Newman, Ward, and Company, in the attempt to affix the insult and the stigma. Honest and generous man ! His pre text is the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's sermon. And why the condemnation of Dr. Pusey's sermon ? Dr. Hook will not deny that substantial justice was done in the condemnation of a discourse which laboured without disguise to establish, against the Protestant Church of England and all the other Pro testant reformed churches, that doctrine which is the distinctive doctrine of Popery—the foundation of the power of Rome, and the great source of its errors and its crimes. Dr. Hook will not say that such a sermon, preached in a Protestant Univer sity, might not be condemned, and he does not dare to deny the substantial justice of the condemnation or its necessity. No, imitating the example of some of the less honest Whigs, in the parallel case of the repeal conspirators, he evades the question of substantial justice, rest ing his complaint upon the pretext that the party had no fair trial. What does Doctor Hook mean by a fair trial ? The tribunal was statutably appointed by the Vice-Chancellor, under the obligation of his official oath, and it comprised gentlemen supposed to be favourable to Doctor Pusey's opinions. No other form of tribunal was available without violating the statutes. No better men it was admitted, before , they gave their judgment, by the Tractarians them selves, could be found in the University than the' six gentlemen selected. The corpus delicti, the Romanising sermon, was placed in the hands of this tribunal. Dr. Pusey was made acquainted with the construction put upon its Romanising passages, and invited to explain these passages, if he could, in a manner to reconcile them to the Articles of the Church of England, to which he had more than once sworn. Neither then, however, nor since, has he ever attempted any such explanation. Was not this a fair trial ?- If not, no man against whom a plea of guilty has been recorded- was fairly tried. What is a plea of guilty ? Is it an acknowledgment that the party ought to be hanged, transported, or iin prisoned, as the case may be ? No ; it is merely a confession that the accused has perpetrated the act alleged against him, under the circumstances and with the understanding imputed in the indictment ; but after the record of his plea of guilty, is he allowed to defend, as innocent, the act condemned by law ? No; the law will not allow such an insult to its authority. This, however, is precisely the case of Dr. Pusey's sermon. His delivery of the sermon, and de clining to explain away the Romanising tendency of its objectionable passages, was a plea of guilty. Any defence after that, would be merely an apology for the avowed Popish doctrines of the dis course, and such on apology, the Vice-Chancellor and his assessors were by their oath and by the statues forbidden to hear. This is state of things which Dr. Hook represents as constituting a denial of justice. Dr. Hook, however, will, we trust, find few followers, as to-morrow's numbers will show. REMOVAL OF COMMERCIAL RE STRICTIONS. Although the commercial negotiations undertaken by the British Government with foreign Powers within the last few years did not meet with that ac ceptance and success to which they were justly en• titled as the best means of improving the advantages of traffic and of peace, yet we observe with pleasure that a considerable impulse has been given to the re moval of commercial restrictions abroad, and that the principles of a more liberal commercial policy are certainly gaining ground in every country in Europe , except in France. These subjects are still so imper fectly understood by a large proportion of the men who are invested with the government of States, that their reasoning upon them is an incongruous mixture' of political suspicions and commercial ignorance. They are disposed to apply the old maxims of State policy, which consisted in labouring by all means to weaken their rivals, forgetting that one of the greatest dangers to which a productive nation can be exposed is to impoverish its customers ; and they still attach such mysterious notions of prosperity to high prices, that they do not disdain the aid of artificia means to support them, even at the expense of their own subjects. The true reasons by which the vices of this system have been exposed and demonstrated are not unfrequently viewed by politicians of this class with excessive distrust ; but meanwhile other consi derations, less sound in principle, but more effectual in their result, insensibly urge them in the same course, and the consequence is a general, though gradual, movement in the right direction. If the ef fects of this jealous policy had not been extremely detrimental to the best interests of the world, their was something unspeakably ludicrous in the lan guage of the different States which evaded or rejected the offers of England, for no better reason than that they were British offers. " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" was the universal cry ; and our own commercial greatness appeared to have taught the world no wiser lesson than that it was unsafe to associate the interests of other countries with our own, and to adopt those principles by which we hold that the common pros perity of nations may be most securely promoted. The pedantic prohibitionists of Germany, the slave traders of Brazil, and the jobbers in Portugal, had but one and the same theme; and by their deliberate suggestions or ignorant terrors their respective Go vernments were led to reject an alliance with the best market and the largest capitalists in the world. Such folly must be short-lived; snd although we do not expect them to have the candour or good sense to acknowledge the extent of their error, yet we perceive with satisfaction that in many quarters serious prac tical attempts are now made to counteract its progress. It must be admitted that the principles of commercial reform, however just they may be in themselves, are shown to great disadvantage when they are urged upon the attention of a Government by a foreign Power. In negotiations of this kind each State takes an exaggerated view of the concessions required of it by the other; each seems to forget that external con cessions are in reality at the same time internal bene fits to the domestic consumer; and the value of commercial treaty is estimated, not by a ger of its effects, but by a sort of balP loss, which is derived from view of profit and most superficial ob .....netiiite consequences, It is the of a - Minister engaged in a transaction servation of its irr evident dut of nature to promote and defend the interests of his own country before all others ; but in the dis charge of this duty he is apt to lose the credit which he may in reality deserve for equitable and prudent intentions towards the other contracting party, and, as we have repeatedly seen, the most allur ing and advantageous proposals have been tainted and made repulsive by a foreign origin. For these reasons our commercial negotiations have for the most part failed, and we must be content to wait until the progress of public opinion in various countries, the effects of competition, and the claims of internal interests bring about those changes which a more enlightened and energetic spirit on their part might have anticipated. This is the operation which we confidently believe to be going on ; and the present year has exhibited numerous signs of the command ing interest which these commercial questions have everywhere assumed. The Austrian Government has promulgated a new tariff, which shows that it is dis posed to follo w w ith c h aracter i st i c steadiness the policy begun by the treaty and the tariff of 1838. In Hungary the Diet has been agitated by vigorous debates on the subject of free trade ; and amongst the Hungarians, who are eager to assume that rank in Europe to which they are justly entitled by their population, their productions, and their free institu tions, there are few who deny that theimprovement of their commercial system is the first step to the ac complishment of their national desires. Holland, la bouring with financial difficulties which would over whelm a people of less prudence and integrity, steers her course in the same direction, and the mo nopolies founded by the late King for selfish pur 'aches are tottering to their fall. Naples seems at length to recollect that it rests with herself to carry into execution the most essential parts of the treaty .which was so inexplicably and disgracefully frus trated by L ord Palm ers t on . I n t h e ot h er S tates of Italy the idea of commercial union is gaining ground; and in the north of Europe Belgium has concluded a treaty for six years with the German Commercial League. In all these States there is the same manifest tendency to remove restrictions and to extend trade ; and even though the immediate purpose of some of these arrangements may be governed by no friendly spirit to the commerce of this country, yet we view them with no dissatisfaction, from the full conviction that the commercial relations of the world must be based upon general principles, and cannot be narrowed by that worst form of restrictions which consists in national preferences and exclusive privi leges. We have already remarked that the spirit by which the German Zollverein was called into existence is at work in various parts of Europe. It tends to assimilate the several members of the Austrian empire ; it will probably combine the Italian States ; it has even led France to make an abortive effort to join her commercial interests to those of Belgium. But the failure of that attempt (without reference to the important political considerations it suggested at the time) shows in a striking light the conditions on which alone such unions are practicable or can he profitable. They indispensably require a low standard of custom• house duties, and a good system of internal communication. In these respects France had nothing to offer to Belgium : she would have placed her within the circle of her own prohibi tive duties, but those duties would have cut Belgium off from her maritime and trans-Rhenane neighbours. She would have opened to her the market of France; but France has as yet done less than any country in Europe towards the completion of that system of rail roads which she, more than any other country, re quires. The commercial system, the ports, and the railways of Belgium already assimilated her to her German neighbours ; and although the French are irritated with the Government of Brussels for having, as they term it, " turned its back on the revolution of July," they have nothing to blame for it but their infatuated adherence to maxims of commercial policy which every other State is gra dually relaxing, and their very slow prosecution of those improvements which have already opened most important lines of communication in Europe, and will eventually contribute, as much as anything else, to the general interchange of the productions of every part of the world.—Times. THE EXCHEQUER-RILL FORGERIES.-A Correspon dent informs us that Mr. Rapello, who cut such a con spicuous figure in the well-known Exchequer-bill for geries, was the other day seen near the Elephant and Castle, and that he is now located somewhere in the neighbourhood of Wandsworth.—Sunday Times. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had, by the last letters received from Germany, arrived at Dresden, from Berlin, and were to quit the Saxon capital this week fur Vienna. (ADVERTISEMENT.) A NEW SCIENCE OF WARFARE. TO THE PUBLIC. Some years since the son of Louis XVI., the legitimate King of France, had his residence in a small town in Prussia, and his occupation being me chanical, led him to study the science of warfare. • His first production was a cannon, upon a principle entirely new, with a percussion lock, and without re coil when discharged; also a self exploding bomb shell, of extraordinary power. In the year 1829, his Royal Highness sent this cannon to Paris, through the Count Dagrut, then Ambassador to Charles X., in Berlin, but what is now become of it is unknown. This unfortunate Prince lost his only friend in the Royal Family by the death of the Duke de Berry, who was assassinated; he afterwards addressed him self to Charles X., but without effect. The determination of his family not to recognise him, although their chief obliged the Prince to seek his private rights, and throw himself upon the justice of his country; he went, therefore, to Paris, presented himself at the proper tribunal, and, after much diffi culty, succeeded in obtaining a trial. The French Government upon this fact arrested him, put him in prison, and, without allowing a judgment to pass, he was, in 1836, by order of the King of the French, sent by military power to Calais, put on board an English packet boat, and landed at Dover. With the persecutions of this unfortunate Prince, however, at present we have nothing to do ; we only know, that from the time of his arrival in England to the present day he has employed his whole time in studying the power and system of warfare. About four years since the Prince addressed him self (through an agent) to the Select Committee at Woolwich, he was accepted, and at the first experi tnent ; presented three exploding bomb-shells, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and many general officers then present must recollect the remarks made, that the explosions were terrific. The second experi ment failed, from causes which can be easily explained. 'lt is well known what happened to this persecuted Prince at Minerva House, Old Kent-road, when, from malice, all his inventions were attempted to be de stroyed; his landlord swore his life against him; his creditors harassed him ; and after nine months' incar ceration, he was discharged by the Insolvent Court. What became of many parts of his machinery of war fare during this time we are not aware ; but we hear of individuals, both in England and:France, pretending to put forward, as new, inventions which were disco vered by his Royal Highness as far back as 1821. The Prince, during his residence at Minerva House, it is true, had, at times, some French gentlemen with him, and, it may, therefore, be presumed, that some of them attempted to profit by the confidence he re posed in them, as will appear from the French news papers. It is, however, certain, that the principal secrets have been preserved to himself alone. His first invention, the cannon, is a beautiful piece of machinery, without the least recoil when fired, and constructed in such a manner that one man may direct a thirty-two pounder (manufactured upon the same principle) with as much ease as a musket. The sight also shows the mark at a considerable distance, by optical power, and without fail, by the self-exploding bomb shell, the object is destroyed. His second are rockets, which explode the moment they strike the object. These rockets are without sticks, go straight to the mark like a cannon-ball, and are of tremendous power. His third are bomb shells, the power of which is truly terrific, and called by Captain Warner invisible. These bomb shells the Prince will discharge from a ' cannon in any direction with a certainty to strike the object desired, and are named rocket-of-cannon. His fourth is the hand rocket, which can be used with equal advantage, either at sea or upon land; with this missile the inhabitants of any island or town, however small, may protect themselves against the united power of Europe, as the Prince dare assert, that no army, however strong in power or numbers, can take possession, whilst opposed by these rockets, and they will be found of incalculable benefit to cap tains of merchant ships, to protect themselves against pirates or any other power at sea. His Royal Highness will also show that these rockets, directed by an air ship, with the assistance of a balloon, may be sent from London to Paris, or from Paris to London, and can be made to explode at any given time, with such destructive force as to destroy everything . around them, proving thereby that a nation, in possession of this power, has nothing to fear from the combined force of her neighbours, as no fortress can stand against it twenty-four hours. It may be necessary here to state that many of the Prince's rockets are of a very p ecu li ar construction, withouttouchstick, the carry object,n o fire others with u p t o h n e mi tre s : o ai m nng e d ship on fire. Another matte:nio explode o on the side of a vessel, tearing her timbers Mull -also, which is of con- Highness. others go through the timb e r s , exel rode, and set the siderable importan ce '• . so the inventions of his Royal re" — so; that all these destructive missiles are —.Leered perfectly safe and harmless until required for action, and therefore capable of being packed and transported to any part of the world without danger. Thus it must be seen, that Government need not ex pend large sums of money in the purchase of invisible missiles, as it will be proved that many of the inven tions put forth by recent adventurers, are fallacies, and can stand no test with the original inventions. The Society of Practical Science and Noble Science of Warfare, Mulgrave House, Fulham, have pur chased several parts of these important inventions from his Royal Highness the Duke of Normandie, and propose, on the 15th instant, to show a series of ex periments upon their grounds at Mulgrave House, when the rockets, &c , will be so constructed as to be safely used upon the grounds without danger ; and the Society of the Noble Science of Warfare are pre pared and willing to forward sample rockets and shells, upon a large scale, to be proved at Woolwich or elsewhere, should the Select Committee or the Go vernment request it. The Society beg to announce that on the Isth instant the first experiment on their grounds at Mul grave House, Fulham, will be an invisible bomb shell ; the second, a visible bomb shell ; the third, a self-exploding rocket without stick ; the fourth, hand roocket, which will be thrown in several direc tious frm the top of a mast, to show that any mer chant ship can derend herself against a pirate, or even a man-of-war, at sea. The next will be a self-exploding rocket, which shall go off at a time prescribed by any gentleman present. _ _ The commencement of these experiments will take place at one o'clock, and terminate at six ; and it is presumed, that to noblemen, naval and military offi cers, and men of science, the experiments will prove interesting and valuable, BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. 4.—There hat been an improved demand for West India sugars this week, the sales reaching 700 hogsheads West India, as about former prices. The cargo of Bengals, per Mary Ironic, has been brought to market, and about 1,200 bags have been disposed off, chiefly 60s. for strong grained dry quality. N o sa l es i n M aur i t i us .—B r i sto l Alcicurg. OLDHAM.—The inhabitants of Oldham have for years been endeavouring to obtain a mail, for L.ndon, at about five P.N. daily, which they have at length suc ceeded in: getting, by raising a subscription for the pur pose. A. London and general bag are now conveyed by the railvray train leaving Oldham at 5'50 P.M., iastea(t of the 011-fashioned gig mail, when ,the box closed *V 2.15 P.M.,, for Condos. . , • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 544. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 5. IN THE MATTER OF JOHN MYNDE COOKE. This insolvent, a young man who had been an attorney in Clifford-street, Bond-street, was opposed by Mr. E. James, on the part of a Mr. Hugh Strat ford Stratford, Mr. Thomas Flight, the money-lender, and others. He was supported by Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. C. Smith. Mr. Bagley represented some creditors who were favourable to the application. The present was the first case of a prisoner heard under the new Act. The insolvent had been five months in the Queen's Prison, and was brought up on a warrant granted by Mr. Commissioner Evans. The case occupied nearly three hours, and disclosed some peculiar gambling transactions. The debts on the schedule were set forth at 40,9891. 10s. 3d., in cluding a sum of 24,0001. on a qui tam action for gambling. The credits were ],7891. 195., including Lord Huntingtower as a debtor. The complaint was that the insolvent had improperly contracted a debt with Mr. Flight, the money-lender, and that the general character of his schedule called upon the court to refuse his application on his interim order. It appeared that the insolvent began business as an attorney in 1842, and concluded in May, 1843, in which month an in junction in Chancery was obtained to restrain the negotiation of bills of exchange accepted by Mr. Hugh Stratford Stratford, who now opposed. By the admissions made by the insolvent it was proved that Mr. Stratford had played at hazard and blind hookey with a sporting man named Coglan, whom he met at Chelmsford, and lost 10,8431., for which he gave his acceptances. Stratford, Coglan, and a female played when the insolvent " played." The insolvent wen 5,0001. of Coglan, and 4001. of Stratford, and he (the insolvent) got from Coglan 4,500/. of the accept ances given by Stratford for the large sum lost to Coglan of upwards of 10,0001. He denied that he had " shared" the winnings with Coglan. Two of the 1,0001. bills were discounted by Flight for 1,6441., the rest being deducted as interest on short dates. The principal question was the representations made to obtain the discount, and on that point the evidence was very conflicting. It was stated that the insolvent had represented that he had the bills from his client to get discounted, as he was about to marry a Baro net s daughter, and required some money ; and it was sworn by him, and confirmed by a clerk, who heard through a " canvas partition," that he mentioned that they were given for a gambling affair. Two wit nesses on each side gave the version stated. Mr. Commissioner Evan eventually held that the debt had been contracted in fraud, and that he gave evidence to the statement of the creditor. The very reason in the case showed that a person would not state that the bills were given for a gambling debt, as that would prevent the recovery of the amount. He should refuse the application. Mr. JAMES asked the court to dismiss the petition, which was resisted on the statement that the bonajide debts were under 1,0001., and some of the creditors wished the property in the case to be protected. The COURT acquiesced, and instead of dismissing the petition, refused to name a day for the final order. Mr. SMITH asked the court to name a distant day when the insolvent might again appear. He had al ready been five months in confinement. The COURT refused the application, and the insolvent was remanded to prison. 'IV ESTMINSTER SESSIONS. THE QUERN V. NITERS AND OTHERS. On Saturday Abraham Myers (alias Samuel Myers), Mary Smith (alias Mary Johnson), and Elizabeth Nelson, surrendered to receive the judgment of the Court for keeping a house of ill-fame in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square. The defendant Myers was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour, and to enter into his own recognizances on his discharge in the sum of 1001., and to find twu responsible housekeepers to be bound in the sum of 501. each, for his good be. haviour for the ensuing twelve months. The sen tence of Mary Smith was that she be kept to hard labour in the same gaol for two months, and on her discharge to find two sureties of 501. each, to be answerable for her good behaviour for twelve months. Elizabeth Nelson was sentenced to one month, with hard labour, in the same gaol, and to enter into, on her discharge, her own recognizances of 201 ., and to find two 101. bail for her good conduct for twelve months. TDB QUEEN V. MOSES DAVIS THE YOUNGER. This was a similar case to the others, and the de fendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour, and on his discharge to find two sureties, to be bound for his good behaviour for twelve months, in the sum of 501. each, and to enter into his own recognizance of 1001. THE QUEEN V. VINCENT 110-WAED. The defendant in this case was willing to giro up the keys of the house, and to do all he could to abate the nuisance. He was discharged with a nominal fine of ls. THE QTIBEN V. WOOLRIDGE, HARRIS, BRAHAM, AND OALN. In these cases the learned counsel said the parties could not be found, but they had abated the nuisances, and he was willing that the recognizances should be discharged.—Discharged accordingly. THE QUEEN V. RACHEL STURGEON AND ELIZABETH FRANKLIN. The defendants were convicted on the same day of a like offence, and were out on bail, but had not made their appearance when th e i r names were ca ll e d over. Their recognuances were, therefore, ordered to be estreated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MAI?LBOROUGAI-STREED. John Thonipsdn, a person advanced in years, of very respectable a ppearance, was br oug ht bef ore M r. Maltby for final examination, charged with having committed several small thefts at the stands in the Pantheon Bazaar. Miss Juice said she attended a stand in the bazaar. a slight noise at her stand, she wa s i n d uce d On Monday afternoon her attention having been at tracted by to look into a rosewood tea-caddy, and she then missed the cut glass sugar-bason. As she was quite certain the prisoner must have taken it, she followed him until he turned into a room belonging to the porters, the door of which she locked, and then went in search of one of the constables who are in attendance at the bazaar. The sugar-bason was afterwards found in the room in which the prisoner had been detained. Brown, one of the porters, said he examined the prisoner, but found nothing on his person. On look ing about the room he found the sugar-bison con cealed in a pail of water which stood behind the pri soner. In defence, the prisoner said he had been wounded in the howl, SeitiO years back, and this ren detect hini At times wholly unconscious of his acts. He was fully committed, There were two small silver-tipped bottles found in the cell in which the prisoner had been placed, both of which had been stolen from another stand in the same bazaar. These being identified, they were ordered to be delivered to the owners. Inspector Agga said he had been misled with re slr2t to the prisoner, as far as his former statement, that he would turn out to be a well-known thief, was concerned. He had, however ascertained that the knownprisonerwas p tor the e ic police as having been con cQrned in swindling _ WORSHIP-STREET. Four well-dresssed persons, named .Henry Miller, Sarah Dewar, and Thomas and William Smith, alias Apsells, with a host of other aliases, father and son, were brought up for re-examination before Mr. Broughton, charged with ' having feloniously , obtained possession of a quantity of ;miscella neous articles, the property of different trades people in all parts of the metropolis. The prisoners were said to form part of an extensive and organised gang of swindlers, who for some time past had pur sued their depredations with remarkable tact and in genuity, and the court was crowded with tradesmen to prefer charges against them. It appeared that about three weeks ago the two first-named persons hired a house, situate No. 1, Peter's Cottages, Hammersmith, and immediately on establishing themselves sent round orders to the tradesmen in the neighbourhood for goods of every description, which were executed w ith all the alacrit y and promptitude usually m anifestedon such occasions. At the expiration of a fortnight theprisoners suddenly broke up their establishment and clandestinely re moved the whole of the property, but the police, after incessant exertions, succeeded in tracing them to a house in Harvey-street, Hoxton, where they also found the other two prisoners, and conveyed them all to the station-house. A vast quantity of miscella neous property was found at the house and taken pos session of by the police. It was p roved in evidence that the elder prisoner Smith had personally super intended the removal of the goods to the house in Har vey-street, and that the y oun g er Smith delivered u p s t m o i t t h h e alafnedwlodradystheaftkereythoef tflhieghcotttoagef the a other t pri soners. Hamme r prisoners were remanded upon a charge of fraudulently obtaining a quantity of bonnets, the property of Mr. Peat, a straw-bonnet manufacturer at Hammersmith, and the following additional charges were yesterday proceeded with. Mr. Barker, a furniture dealer, at Hammersmith, stated that about a fortnight ago the prisoner Miller called at his place of business, and gave him an order for furniture, to the amount of between 301. and 40/ , for the house in Peter's Cottages, which he said he had just taken for a term of three years. The goods were accordingly sent in, but on calling, according to appointment, for his money on the 25th ult., he found the house shut up, and that the prisoner had ab sconded. Mr. Barnes, an ironmonger at Hammersmith, and ' several other tradesmen, identified the prisoner Miller as having victimised them under similar • Clr eumstances. Sergeant Dubois sstatedthatWing received positive information that the elder Smith had lately taken a house at Upper Mitcham, in the name of Richard Ap sell, he proceeded thither on Friday, and searched the place, where he found a large quantity of new dresses and other articles, corresp3nding with similar articles which had been fraudulently obtained from different tradesmen. He also found a large mass of written documents, some of which were agreements for houses taken in different names, for various terms of years, in all parts of London. Some of these docu ments related to one Joseph Price, who had been en gaged in extensive swindling transactions, at a house in Cambridge Heath-road, and he was prepared with evidence to prove that the said Joseph Price and the elder Smith were one and the same person. Mr. James Kiplino, clerk to Messrs. Truman and Co., tea-dealers, in Coleman-street, identified the elder Smith as having obtained goods to the amount of 501., from the firm, in the name of Joseph Price, of Cambridge-heath-road, on which occasion he gave a reference to a Mr. Dewar, of Ashford-street, Hoxton, whom the witness identified as the prisoner Miller. Sergeant Dubois said that the prisoner Smith had opened no less than seven different shops, in as many different names, within the last twelvemonths, and if allowed further time he would bring forward nume rous other charges against them. Duncombe, who attended on behalf of the pri soners, submitted that no case whatever had been made out against them ; but Mr. BROUGHTON said he was clearly of opinion that a case of constructive felony had been established, and he should remand all the prisoners for another week. UNION•HALL. Win. Johnson, a young man of genteel appearance, was brought up on remand from Wednesday, charged with stealing several silver spoons and other silver articles from different coffee-houses and taverns in the metropolis. Owing to the publicity given to the charge against the prisoner on Wednesday, on which occasion he took two silver table-spoons from the house of Mrs. Hubbard, a pastrycook in the 'Wal worth-road, and substituted two metal ones in their places, the court was literally crammed with tavern and hotel-keepers from different parts of the town. Mr. Jones, the proprietor of the Three Tuns tavern, St. Margaret's-hill, Southwark, stated that on Satur day, the 21st ult., the prisoner walked into his coffee room, ordered a roast partridge for dinner, and talked very familiarly about his acquaintance with some wealthy hop merchants in the Borough. He then countermanded the order for a partridge, and ordered a mutton chop, and having taken some sherry negus, left the house, and soon after his departure a silver spoon, a salt spoon, together with a silver mustard pot and spoon, were missed. Mr. Jones had no doubt as to the prisoner's identity. The landlord of the Golden Cross, Charing cross, stated that the prisoner dined at that house on I burs day; he had dinner in the coffee-room, and when he was gone two silver spoons were found to be missing. The proprietor of the St. Paul's Hotel, St. Paul's Churchyard, stated that six weeks ago the prisoner dined and had tea there, and having paid his bill he left the coffee-room. He had, however, scarcely left the house when a silver sugar-basin and tongs and tea-spoon were missed; but he got clear off, although pursued by one of the waiters. The landlord of the Ship Hotel, Charing-cross, stated that about a week ago the prisoner called there and had a glass of gin-and-water in the coffee-room, and that he decamped with a silver table-spoon, a salt -spoon, and a tea-spoon, which latter article he had with his gin and water. The proprietor of the pastry-cook's shop at the corner of Gracechurch-street, identified the prisoner as having had a bason of soup in the refreshment room, and having paid for the same, it was discovered that he had taken two large silver spoons, leaving in their places two metal ones very similar to them in appearance. Mr. COTTINGHAM said three cases out of the num ber should be selected upon which to prosecute the prisoner, who was asked if he wished to say anything in answer to the numerous charges alleged against him. The prisoner merely said he should leave the case in the hands of his solicitor. Policeman 160 M stated that the prisoner was an old offender ; that about twelve months ago he was in his custody on charges of a similar description; that he was convicted at the Surrey Sessions of stealing various articles of plate from the Hummums, and sen tenced to six months' imprisonment. The prisoner was then committed, but he will be brought up again on Wednesday next. Mr. Joseph Ashford, landlord of the Queen's Head, Green-lane, Tottenham, was charged with wilfully breaking the panel of a third-class carriage belong ing to the Brighton Railroad Company. Robert Sutton, guard, in the employ of the Com pany, stated that the defendant came from Croydon in the Brighton train on the preceding night, and that when they arrived at the terminus he commenced hammering away at the panel of the carriage with a stick until he did damage to the extent of 10s. The defendant being called on to answer the charge, said it was very important to the public that all the circumstances of the complaint should" be known : on the preceding night he arrived by the half-past nine o'clock train at the terminus. The tickets were collected from the passengers, and he wanted to get out in order to meet the stage at the Flower Pot to take him to Tottenham. The door of the carriage, however, was kept closed for upwards of ten minutes after their arrival, and he admitted that he knocked with his stick to get out; that he did not strike with more violence than was necessary to make the persons hear, and owing to the detention he lost the stage, and was compelled to walk home, where he did not arrive until past one o'clock in the morning, Mr. CotrtsdtiAtt inquired as to the cause of such a detention after the arrival of the train at the terminus ? The superintendent said that they were obliged to wait until a Croydon train, which was about to start, was got out of the way. The superintendent added that great force must have been used to break and damage the pinel of the carriage in the way it was, and that the defendant's arm was seen thrust out of the window striking away at the side of the carriage. Mr, CO/ItNiittAtit was astonished to hear that a passenger should hare been kept locked in for such a length of time after the arrival of the train and the collection of the tickets; but it was the duty of the Company to have seen that there was no impediment at the ter minus on the arrival of the ttrde the e i ob n bute , arnda a da inmnudt. manage ment oaeTpßtnahestyeeo. have put many of the passengers to the inconvenience its,rtebraluutt:tance he compelled him to do so. of being detained for such a lengt sw h ,ootafauns o l f time. If any o unavoidable accident over which g t u h es e td C os o an m ye that h o n a y : the d c w a n a r rf c moi o are n gn t set r u o bel, l yhea h i sna a g d adpep occurred,ptraenrnle,teni proved, o: nhbetuht defendant ee n i fne t ant h rhd e ria r i sv e niatn w l he e dd ( e t d he t m htt a t gi t s h t e rat d e a ) m m a wfdloirighi CROYDON. The presiding magistrates, Messrs. Adams, Barclay, and Lucas, were occupied for a considerable time in the investigation of a case arising out of the alte ration in the bastardy clauses of the Amended Poor law, which have only just come into operation, and the professed object of which are to give greater facilities on the affiliation of illegitimate children, and to throw some portion of responsibility from the mothers of such children upon the putative fathers. It will be seen, however, that from the difficulty of procuring what is sound corroborative testimony of the evidence of the mother, it is almost impossible to make out a case against the father, and the hardships created by these clauses in the original Poor-law re mains unabated. A young man named Stephen Smith was sum moned by a girl named Emily Peake, to show cause why he should net have an order made upon him to support an illegitimate child, of which she had been delivered, and of which he was alleged to be the father. Mr. Penfold, the clerk to the bench, in answer to a question from the chairman, explained that the proceeding was taken under the last Poor-law Amend ment Act, which had just come into operation, and under which the mother of the child, or her friends, were empowered to take this step to compel the father of an illegitimate child to support it, without any in terference on the part of the parish. The complainant, a respectable-looking girl, appa rently about eighteen years old, was then sworn, and she deposed that she was delivered of a female illegi timate child on the Ist September, and the defendant was the father of it. Sh e was unable to support the child herself, and therefore desired that the defendant should have an order made upon him to support it. In answer to questions from the bench, the com plainant said that the defendant had been keeping company with her for some time, and she expected to have been married to him. The intimacy between them which led to the birth of the child took place on the 24th December. The magistrate said that the complainant had so far made out her case as to swear that the defendant was the father of her child, but they could not act upon that declaration unless it was corroborated by other testimony. They therefore wished to know what evidence she could produce in support of her state ment. The complainant said that she wished her mother and sister to be examined. The mother was accordingly sworn,_ and in answer to questions put to her , stated that all she knew upon the subject was that the defendant had been keeping her daughter company for two or three years, end that he broke off the connexion about two years ago, and then renewed it again of his own ac cord last December. She never saw anything im proper take place between her daughter and the de fendant, and when she discovered her daughter was in the family way, and she informed her the defend ant was the father of the child, she went to him and asked him what he intended to do, and he then denied that he was the father of the child, and said he could not approve of paying anything towards its support. Mr. ADAMS asked the mother whether defendant had always denied to her that he was the father of the child ?—The mother said that he had. Mary Anne Peake, an elder sister of the com plainant, was next examined, but she was unable to prove more than that the defendant had kept company with her sister for a considerable time, and that having broken off the connexion with her for a year and half, he came to her mother's house on the 24th of December, and in the evening her sister and the defendant went out for a walk about seven o'clock, and did not return until after nine, but she did not know where they went to. The CHAIRMAN inquired whether the witness had ever had any communication with the defendant upon the subject? The witness said, that three or four days before her sister was confined, she went to the defendant and told him she was very ill, and at the same time charged him with being the father of the child. He hesitated a little while, and then said that the child was not his, but he told her he would come and see her sister. He did not, however, do so. The complainant was then recalled, and The CHAIRMAN having explained the law to her, told her that the magistrates had no power to assist her, unless she gave them some corroborative proof of the truth of her statement. They wished, therefore, to know whether she had any further evidenle to offer, or whether she had anything more to state to the bench in corroboration of her testimony? The complainant said she had no further evidence to offer, but again asserted that the defendant was the father of her child. The BBNCII, after a short deliberation, expressed their opinion, that the statement of the complainant had not been sufficiently corroborated, and they therefore discharged the summons. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. DEPARTURE OF THE FOREIGN MAILS. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 7.—The next mail for India, &c., via Marseilles, will be dispatched from hence this evening, Monday, Oct. 7. The next mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian Is lands, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 7th inst., and for Egypt and India on the evening of the 2d NovembPr. ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN MAILS. The next mail from the English and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies is due this day. The next mail from Mexico, Honduras, and Havanah, is due this day. The next mail from Bermuda, New Granada, and San Juan di Nicaragua, is due this day. The next mail from Lisb,)n, Madeira, Spain, and Gib raltar, is due the 9th inst. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals-Planet, Millie ' from Ceylon, off Ports mouth, sailed March 16, Mauritius July 6, St. Helena August 18 ; Sir Robert Sale ; Ingleby, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed May 28, St. Helena August 21 ; Canopus, Stroyan, from China, in the Downs, sailed April 6, Anjer June 2, St. Helena August 3 ; Ophelie and Anne. Barker, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed May 2, St. Helena July 29 ; Tyne, Robertson, from Port Philip, off Torbay, sailed April 26, New Zealand May 23 ; John Hallett, Austen, trom Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed June 26 ; Vanguard, Garwood, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed May 4, St. Helena August 13 ; Mary, Grant, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed May 30, St. Helena August 10 ; Cape •Packet, Lamb, from Madras, off Hast ings. sailed May 23, Mauritius July 6, St. Helena August 18 ; John Knox, from Batavia, off Hast ings ; Buteshire, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed May 14, Mauritius, July 13, St. Helena August 20 ; Nautlilus, Gibson, from China, in the Downs, sailed from Hong-Kong April 12, Anjer June 4; Seringapatam, Peckett, from Madras, in th e D owns , sailed April 19, Cuddalore April 29, Mauritius June 6, St. Helena July 28; Kinnear, from Hobart Town, in the Downs, sailed June 6 ; her Majesty's ship Clio, from Bombay. at Portsmouth, sailed May 20, Trincomalee June 9, Cape July 30, Ichaboe August 11, St. Helena August 21, Ascension August 24; Platina, Wycherley, from Port Philip, in the Downs, sailed April 9. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope-Couch, Bell, July 11, from Rio; Hope, 12th, from Liverpool; British Settler, 14th, St. Helena 15th ; Chanticleer, 19th, from Algoa Bay; Canning, 22d, from Ichaboe; City of Sydney, 26th, from Mauritius; Zoe, 28th, from Bristol; Colony, 29th, from Ilha de Mayo ; Athenian, from London. Arrivals in Simon's Bay-Her Majesty's ship Isis, July 11, from Mauritius; her Majesty's ship Conway, 23d, from West Coast. Departures from Simon's Bay-Her Majesty's ship Helena, July 12, cruising; Caudahar, 22d, to London. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GORTON RACES.—SATURDAY. The Claret Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added. Heats, two miles. Mr. Thompson's b g by Shrigley, out of Fenella, 5 yrs (Darling) 1 1 Mr. Singleton's Teresa, 3 yrs 0 2 Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah, 3 yrs 2 0 Coheiress, Xanthus, Staley, and Hampton, also ran. Won easy. A Cup of 50/., added to a Handicap of 10 soya. each, &c. Mile and three-quarters. Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun, 3 yrs (Riley) 1 Mr. Flintoff's The Rhine, 4 yrs 2 Little Hampton and Sir R. Bulkeley's Bay Middleton mare also ran.—Won cleverly. The Hunters' Stakes were won by Mr. Thompson's Jack. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT SLOUGH. On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. John Charsley, one of the coroners fur Bucks, at the tap at the railway station, Slough, on the body of Miss Jane I3uckstone, a young lady, twenty-nine years of age, the niece of tae late Mr. John Travers, who met with her death by falling from one o f th e windows of the Royal Hotel, as detailed in the fol lowing evidence : George Boulton, a waiter at the Royal Hotel, was the first witness examined. He stated that, on that morning, at a quarter past five o'clock, in conse quence of hearing a noise like some one breaking into the house, he got up and went into the area, where he heard groans. On opening the shutters of a room on the ground floor, he saw a woman lying on he ground, on her stomach, with her head completely doubled up under her body, and bleeding from the mouth and head. Her shoes were lying about a yard distant from the body. He immediately called up Mr. Dotesio, to whom he handed the body through the window, who took it in his arms to the room where it is now lying. The deceased arrived at the hotel last evening, with two other ladies. Mr. Charles Dotesio examined—l am the pro prietor and landlord of the Royal Hotel, at this ration. At a little after five o'clock this morning, the last witrn.ss knocked at my bed-room window, and told me that some one had fallen out of the window and was dying. I instantly got up and went into the parlour, where the window was open, and received the body from Boulton, and took it to the apartment where it is now lying. The deceased was in her night clothes. I placed her on a mattress brought by Boulton, and fetched the bed-clothes from off my own bed with the view 'of warming her, and put my pillow under her head. Having just left my bed, the bed-clothes were warm. I immediately sent for Dr. Bryan, who arrived within twenty-five minutes after the body was discovered. I then had my housekeeper called up, and got her to call the aunt and sister of the deceased. During that delay, while I was alone in the room, I kept rubbing her hands and feet. She got warm, and I thought began to breathe. I asked her if she knew where she was, and who I was ? She made an effort to speak, but could not articulate. After the aunt and sister came down, she moved her hands and arms two or three times, and pulled a loose tooth out of her mouth. About half-past six o'clock this morning, deceased's sister gave me a letter for her brother, which I dispatched by the guard of the luggage train to town. The brother has since arrived. The deceased, with her aunt and sister, slept at my house some weeks ago, on their way to Bath, and they were now on their road from Bath to London. Dr. J. B. Bryan stated that the deceased lived for about an hour and a half after his arrival at the Royal Hotel. She was not sensible, but retained, to a cer tain extent, the power of motion. The injuries she had sustained, which would have been produced by falling from a height, consisted of a very severe con cussion of the brain, and the lower part of the spine was also severely injured. George Powlesland, a waiter at the Royal Hotel, stated that the deceased and two other ladies upon their arrival last night, took tea and retired to rest about ten o'clock. Ann Meades, housekeeper at the Royal Hotel, stated that after she had called up the aunt and sister, she went into deceased's bed-room, the window of which she found wide open, and the blind drawn up. The table had been removed from its usual position under the window. The deceased's watch was lying in the middle of the bed, which appeared to have been lain in. Dr. C. J. Fox, of 13, New Broad-street, London, stated that he was called in by the brother (who is also a medical man) of vie deceased to see his sister, about Christmas last, who, he wa• informed, had been suddenly seized, while cleaning her teeth, with a diffi culty of articulation. When witness saw her he found her tongue drawn to the left side, and she was slightly paralysed. She was put under particular treatment for many weeks. The tongue gradually returned to its proper place, and paralysis subsided, but there was no affection of the mind that witness could discover. She was recommended to go into the country for change of air and Aeeise. Witness had seen nothing of her since she left London Miss Hannah Travers, the aunt of deceased, resid ing at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, deposed as follows : _My two nieces reside with me. The health of the deceased for many months had been in a very infirm state. During the last three months we have been travelling in the south of England for the improve ment of her health, and we were now returning home. Yesterday evening she was more than usually cheerful. She had no apprehension of consumption since Midsummer. I believe the unfortunate occur rence of this morning to have been purely a ccidentali Constantly, while we were at the sea-side, I carr ie her a jug of salt water every morning before sevee o'clock. I usually found her half dressed, lying °° the bed, with a book beside her, and the window 0 1° 11. She required all the air she could obtain from feeling occasionally a clifficulty in breathing. Neither 0 1 bed-room door nor that of deceased, was locked, b u d the outer passage-d o or I l o ck e d my se lf. She // never known to walk in her sleep. This being the whole o: the evidence, the Coroner+ in summing up, said there was no doubt her death was occasioned by the injuries she sustained by th e fall, but that with reference to her s tat e of mind 6 t the time the evidence was only inferential. The jury returned a verdici that "The decea s came by her death in consequence of a fall from! window; but whether that fall was the result of gi ceP dent or not does not appear." The body was removed to London the same night. The family of the deceased are anxious to state tint the above accident occurred from no fault in the or rangements of the hotel. Under the painful circa ? stances they are desirous to acknowledge the etc' treme kindness and considerate attention they ezi!, rienced throughout from Mr. Dotesio and WU member of his household. THE EDUCATION IVIANITESTO' The following amusing article we copy from the Church and State Gazette—a " knife-to-the•cles te supporter of Sir R. Peel on the fall of the Whigs r . ' ref " Lord IVharncliffe has certainly a great aptitude oo 4 I surprising people. We have scarcely recovered breath at the astonishment into which we were thr4 l at his late , xtraordinary exploit in the House of 14° 1 '0 where of an assembly of judges he made a societi , dupes, than we are again the victims of an excited s e l f sibility, and stand confused with wonder, am use/et and indignation at his Lordship's provincial perfor m anees at Barnsley. (10 " This noble and astute Peer is undoubtedly tha° of diplomatists : he betrays under an affectetiowd oe s exceeding measure of love. He cajoled the aloe s , Peers into a desertion of their duty, by anxiously 0 1 0 ing them that it would be for their own ulisP e ss d able benefit, if they permitted the law mice of WhigF.;s to free the lion of agitation from the healthy toils l a bound him. The noble dup. of this crafty couns e e. obeyed in the very unconsciousness of their ignere64 Without well knowing what they were doing, they se , that of which they now pretty well know the 0%, quences ; and Lord Wharncliffe, having been so 0 00 chievously successful in deluding the Peers, carrie 3 , ho his vocation of arch deceiver by trying to mystify ecs people. He has for ever destroyed the etfiet ee d; of the House of Lords as a last court of sPli c o t, and so vivacious is he in his evil doing, t ' having bruised the coronets of the peers, „ I s turns restltssly to an assault on the duties 7 1 4 privileges of the clergy. He is so well pleased at he!, s o rendered the Lords rit.iculous, that he has attempte"og strip the clergy of their dignity and usefulness. -IO stabbed the State he assaults the Church. May be 5 , in the latter an antagonist more powerful than the titude whom he cheated into a dereliction of duty. `.;si his assault on the Church be less successful in its Ind than his attempt on the Peers. The latter was eile c o by a species of petty larceny, and succeeded ie_e es through the ignorance of those whom he desigu eu bd his victims; the former partakes more of the old, P lc 0 0 spirit, of the old highwayman. We trust the clergy neither be alarmed by the boldness, nor deceived hi_s; coolness of their aggressor. Forewarned is forearsT:ii, and if they are not speedily arrayed in all their pel! s u rest after such a note of waret, as that sounded l e o , Barnsley speech, and reported in s r columns of 10 :411, a too tardy arming will not only not i ssevent the for o w oo but that fall itself will fain to win sympatn; who faltered, when they t.hould have stood firm. del , "It is needless for us to point out to our clerical r oll 1,0 the portions of that speech which appear to us W WII pregnant with prospects of danger to the Church.,,ja confine ourselves to directing attention to it, and l e l big the least suspicious of our readers to form at /eist i `V own opinions thereon. We are satisfied, howevel s id with us he will see in this Barnsley m anifesto a ar e of charge to the clergy, made by one assuaiispost authority above that of the highest dignitary 0 00 Church. This charge will be seen to be replete 0 ' of deceitfully affectionate persuasion to the clergy sea` confederate to their own wrong. It will be see n 110 there is an already cut and-dry design to deprive d o ministers of the Church of their right, privilege+, il k and office, of being the irrespon s ibl e r e li g ious tesev ie ras ei the young. It would have been little had Gove rn s ,. Of declared that the m i n i s t ers o f eac h sect m ight ,",,,s0 Mentors of thei r own p ecu li ar f o ll owers ; b u t it's that that sane Government should be preparillg c li ber which is to deprive the clergymen of the Church e ' ss lho 4 laid of their right of being the uncontrolled co° ll , - 1 01 9 of that Church's children. The new Governll 3 e n Zial is evidently one of those centralising projects „ 11 ..no m"tbi quietly to transfer the education of the people . s ' s s4 4i „: clergy, who are their natural instructors, to sh•ssiitis, vocal superintendence of a General Board in I f y ape" street. The real design is well enveloped it; Si o d i eles* cious colouring, but it is clearly discernible ee f o trabe r ! The very fears,spologies,explanations,and resOisti wee' which, notwithstanding th e bold n e s s of the P'", : for o the speech of him delegated to demonstrate alone a sufficient ground of suspicion. But, s tr .:hif) of all the sophistries which enwr ea th e it and byo it is intended to delude and mystify the clerglitir amounts to simply this, that the latter shall be ile ass il Cher the superintendents of the education of c o flocks, than as they are the deputies of a Mix ed ijieo mittee in London. The freedom that is pronsiied=_A to is nothin g more t h an that granted to a wan confilsol a room, with th e lib erty o f not l eav i ng i t. The he es our Church are th e on ly t rue an d na t ura l guark as t her sons. To the former the education of the Post may be safely entrusted ; but here is a despoiling P :t ss above the Ch urc h, an d th at p ower i s now directed t effecting of a grievous injury. and striking at thg st iti' leges of that Church. Lord Wharncliff e talks 0 1 t eSi ties ; but, granting them as undeniable now, O w % re' • be made a means of further assult hereafter. s ".;:e, test, then, against this new Government plan, we l ' i , s ei giving the direction of the entire education of th e ;10 0 of England to the Government Ministry of the daYeP os e it in the possible keeping of Arians and Atheists. ' o ols ever we may think of the orthodoxy of the P r io io' occupants of power, what is to ensure us against t o " fidelity and heresy of future Ministries ? Some ' site Lord Melbourne might make an educational sue d 110 tendent of some hereafter-to-be Mr. Owen ; e n s tli f , Church would in such case protest in va i n agait t ior, Socialist doctrines of the teachers whose instrwe they are bound to obey. The possibility of such %AI must not be for a moment permitted. In this matte ,1' Church must be the master—the Government „Te On this question, the latter must look up to the ti for instruction, and nut down upon her to traos e . 3 l oo percilious directions that are expected to be e. 1 4011, obeyed. Lord Wharncliffe,o l from his speech, p ier f conceives the whole aff a ir t o b e arrange d by the I s 0 announcement of his plans ; and the " hear, be er s O s , a psrtion of his auditory to be the recognition° o ost,, Government's condition as rulers, and the clergy ' tion as slaves. But thi s i s an un d ue h asten ingo, founded conclusion. The clergy are forewarned' ac we said before. forewarned i.ibrearmed !" 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