The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-09 00:00:00

AMER NEWS. COMIERCE OF THE UNITED STATES-VALUE OF IMP ORTS AND EXPORTS. Imports. THE SAVOY CHAPEL. The following Notice on the Savoy Chapel WA? originally privately printed for circulation among the parishioners. From the high interest, both architec tural and historical, which attaches to this, the onl . remaining porti on o f th e S avoy , we h ave thought that it would not be i.ninteresting to the public generally. to be made acquainted with what has recently been done for the restoration of this beautiful specimen of Tudor architecture, snore especially when it is recol lected that the Savoy Chapel was the place in which the English Liturgy was for the first time publicly read in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and that it was the scene of the memorable Conference between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Divines on the Book of Common Prayer, in 1661 : " On the death, without issue, of Brien de Insula, or De L'lsle, in the year 1233, certain scattered houses,' and their gardens, lying without the walls of London, on the way or street called the Strand,' reverted to the Crown. This property was grantee' by King Henry 111., in 1245, to Peter, Count o' Savoy, on his arrival to visit his niece Queen Eleanor : and it would appear that a mansion of some conse quence had already been erected on the site of the scattered houses,' for the Count lodged here during his stay in England. The manor retains the name which it received from this possessor. He bequeathed it in 1268 to the Convent and Hospital of Mont Joux : but Queen Eleanor, having formed an attachment is the place, was anxious to recover it from those legatees. They parted with it for the sum of three hundred marks ; and in 1283 she bestowed it on her favourite son Edmund (created in 1267 Earl of Lancaster). who obtained from his brother, King Edward 1., a royal licence to embattle with a wall his manor of the Savoy,' and here fixed his residence. His grand son Henry, third Earl, and created in 1351, Duke of Lancaster (being the second English dukedom), re paired, or rather rebuilt, the castellated mansion at the then very large cost of 34,6661. 3s. 4d.; according to the chroniclers he chose to make this use of moneys which had accrued to him in consequence of his dis tinguished services in France, more especially at Bergerac. Camden describes the Savoy of this the first Duke of Lancaster, as one of the fairest manors in all England unto which there was none in the realm to be compared for beauty.' " In this Palace King John of France was lodged and entertained during his captivity in 13.57. On his second visit to England he again took up his abode in the Savoy, and he died here in 1363. " On the failure of the male line of Edmund. A.D. 1361, the Dukedom of Lancaster merged in the Crown ; and on the 13th of November, 1362, King Edward 111. bestowed it on his own illustrious son, John of Gaunt, he having married one of the co heiresses (who became, ultimately, the sole heiress) of Henry, Duke of Lancaster. " During the latter years of his father's long reign this Prince resided usually in a style of extraordinary magnificence at the Savoy ; but the protection which he afforded to the principles of Wickliffe having ex cited the populace against him, his palace was sacked by an insurgent mob in 1381, his treasury rifled, his moveables carried away, or cast into the Thames, and the whole building finally burnt to the ground. It appears from a letter of the Duke to the treasurer of his household, Sir John de Norfolk, in February, 1382, that his Castle of Hertford also was seized and plundered, par les memes communes rebels en le temps del grant rumour. The Duke directs that allowance shall be made to his butler for wines thus destruz et perduz ; namely, 18 tonneles et une pipe et trois quarters d'une pipe des diverses vignes en notre Manoire de la Savoye,' and a smaller quantity in nostre Chastel de Hertford.' " Thus perished the Palace of the Savoy. The manor descended to John of Gaunt's son, 'Henry et Bolingbroke, and on his accession to the throne as Henry IV., it was vested in the Crown as part of the Duchy of Lancaster, and thus acquired its peculiar dignity and privileges as a royal manor. " There appears no evidence that any royal per sonage ever resided here during the period between the accession of Henry IV. and the hitter years of Henry VII. ; but the records mark from time to time moneys paid for the improvement of the Savoy gardens and repairs of the ancient prison attached to the Liberty. The appointments of the stewards and high bailiffs of the manor are regularly noted, and some names of celebrity occur among the successive holders of these offices. " In the will of King Henry VII. (dated 31st of March, 1509) it is recited that the establishment of royal hospitals cloth tend to the performance of the seven great works of charity and mercy, and that the same seven works do stand most constantly in six of them ;—to wit, in visiting the sick, ministering meat and drink to the hungry and thirsty, and clothing to the naked, and lodging to the miserable poor, and in burying the dead bodies of Christian people. It is then stated that the King had begun to erect a common hospital in his palace, called the Savoy, beside Charing-cross, and intended, with God's grase. to finish the same according to a plan which was de vised for the same, and signed with his own hand;' that he had endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of five hundred marks 'to maintain one hundred beds garnished to receive, and lodge nightly, one hundred poor folks, as also a certain number of priests, and other ministers and servitors;' that in case the hospital should not be finished at his death, his executors were as soon as goodly might be done' to fulfil his design, and that for the first pro vision thereof, the building, the garnishing of the hundred beds, the purchase of books, chalices, vest ments, &c., requisite for the Chapel of the said hospital,' &c., he had delivered in ready money beforehand the sum of ten thousand marks to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. In the second year of his reign King Henry VIII. accordingly granted to the Bishop of Winchester and his father's other executors, by letters patent, under the seal of the Duchy of Lancaster, the site of the manor of the Savoy, in trust for the completion of the plan above- mentioned ; and two years later he re-confirmed this grant, and gave the executors licence to found a per petual hospital, consisting of a Master Chaplain, and four other chaplains, to be incorporated by the name of the Hospital of King Henry the Seventh of the Savoy. The Abbot of Westminster was to be the visitor of the institution, and take care that prayers and masses were regularly said in the Chapel for the souls of King Henry VII. and his royal predecessors. " In the first of Edward VI. the hospital was one of the many institutions declared to be illegal as directed to superstitious purposes ; and the master and chaplains by a surrender, enrolled in Chancery, gave it up to the King. In the fourth of Philip and Mary, however, the hospital was re-established for the old purposes, and with its old statutes—the only difference being, that as there was no longer any Abbot of Westminster, the functions of visitor were to be in the Sovereign. It does not appear to what use the revenues of the Savoy endowment had been applied during this brief abrogation, but Stowe mentions that the beds and other furniture had been granted to the hospitals of St. Thomas and Bridewell, and that on the re-establishment 'the ladies of the court and maydens of honour stored the same anew with beddes, bedding, and other furniture, in very ample manner : a thing not to be forgotten.' " The hospital does not seem to have been again interfered with, or its resources diverted from the original purposes of charity, though some variations occurred in the manner of appointing the masters, during the interval between the re-foundation by Philip and Mary and the Restoration of Charles 11. " Very soon after the great Fire of London, the Savoy suffered under a minor devastation of the same sort. The apartments allotted to the chaplains, called the Brothers' Lodgings, were wholly destroyed, and it is probable that they never were rebuilt. " Towards the end of the calamitous war with Holland the greatest difficulty had been found in pro viding fit accommodation for our wounded seamen and soldiers, and shortly after the Peace was signed— the same inconvenience still pressing —Charles 11. was advised to convert the dormitory of the Savoy hospital into a military and marine infirmary. Presently (1675) the lodgings of the sisters and servitors were occupied in a similar manner. As the invalids re covered, or died off, companies of the Foot Guards took possession of the chambers, and thus by degrees the remaining buildings received a totally new desti nation. They became a regular barrack. " The last visitation of the hospital was held in July, 1702, by the Lord Keeper, Sir Nathan Wright, as visitor of all hospitals of royal foundation. There was at the time no master, but four chaplains ap peared, and on the allegation that the statutes had not been conformed to—as how couid they have been ob served, when the chambers and beds were seized on and detained for the use of the military ?—the visitor deprived the chaplains of their places, and the ho spital was declared to be dissolved. " A Bill was soon afterwards laid before Parlia ment, to enable Queen Anne to apply the revenues of the dissolved hospital to whatever charitable objects her Majesty might think fit. It states that the parish of St. Mary, in the Strand, had long been without a church—that it was expedient to conjoin that parish and the Precinct of the Savoy—and proposed that the minister of the Savoy should thenceforth be the rector of the united parish. The Bill, however, was opposed, on the ground that its objects were not in conformity with the charitable purpose of the original foundation at the Savoy. It was lost accordingly, and has never been revived. " It would appear that the people residing near the chapel had, from a very early period, been much in the habit of attending Divine service there, but that it first came to be looked upon as in the nature of a parish church, in consequence of the sweeping de struction of sacred edifices by which the Protector Somerset cle are d th e space d est i ne d for his great palace in the St ran d an d it s sp l en did gardens. Among the churches which he thus levelled to the ground was that o f St. M ary -l e -S trand. No attempt to rebuild that c h urc h was thought of until the begin ning of the last century, and the existing edifice not opened for worship un ti1 . 1723. - OCCUPATION of t l ie OREGON TER RITORY —ABOLITION RIOTS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8. We have received this afternoon by ti,e New York packet ship, St. Patrick, Captain Seymour —a new ithip, on her first voyage —papers from that city to the 18th Dec. inclusive. The St. Patrick has experienced very rough weather; about the 24th ult. having in a gale lost main-top-gallantmast, sprung foreti,a,t, and r eceived other damage. On the same day she passed a large ship floating bottom upwards, with her stern boat and spars floating near her. The chief feature of the intelligence in the papers is the introduction into the House of Representatives of a Bill for the extension of the jurisdiction of the United States over the territory of the Oregon. Its rec eption was not accomplished without a division upon the motion to suspend the rules, the result of Which was—aves 129, noes 53, being a majority of 6in its favour. The Bill was subsequently read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Territories. It is evident, therefore, that the Il leasure will receive the final sanction of the House. The reception it will encounter in the Senate will probably be of an entirely opposite nature. The abuses and frauds perpetrated at the past Presiden tial election had attracted general attention to the Subject of the naturalisation laws ; and we ob serve that preliminary steps, to procure an exten 131°1i of the term of probationary residence re quired of foreigners, previous to their being allowed th e privileges of citizenship, and also to improve the °Peration of those laws, had been taken in both br anches of Congress. The American Republicans re quire th a t th e per i o d pr i or to natura li sation shall :" twenty-one years ; while o th ers , an d t h e most eascnable, say eleven or twelve years. The Bill in- Li ccluced by Mr. Duncan, to establish a uniform day f or the appointment of presidental electors, had Passed the 'louse of Representatives. It runs as follows : Value of free goods Z r ~ us of dutiable good 524,766,082 83,668,620 Total value of imports 4108,434,702 Exports. Value of domestic produce $100,183,497 Value of foreign produce ... 10,944,787 5111,128,284 Balance in favour of the United States ... $2,693,382 Gross revenue on the above importation 29,137,060 60 Net revenue on the above importation ... 26,183,570 94 Expenses of collection, &c. 52,953,489 66 It must be recollected, in looking on this table of im ports and exports, that only six months of the period of large importations are included in these returns. and that since the Ist July the value of the imports is very great. For the calendar year the result will look far different, not only as to the balance of trade, but in the amount of the revenue. The finances of the Government are fully as favourable as anticipated. The receipts and expenditures, as given in the annexed tables, show a very large surplus, but we should think the expenditures were rather extravagant. FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1844. Receipts. Customs Lands Treasury Notes Miscellaneous sources $26, 183.570 94 2,059,939 80 1,677,181 35 261,007 94 Total receipts Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1843 10,431,507 55 $40,813,207 58 Expenditures—Civil list, navy, army, &c. 32,958,827 94 Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1844, $7,854,379 64 ESTIMATES FOR 1845—RECEIPTS. Customs-Ist quarter, ac tual Customs-3 quarters, esti mated 21,071,300 Public lands Miscellaneous sources $31,945,018 2,139,857 120,000 $34,204,875 00 " Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, that the electors of President and 'ire-Presi dent shall be appointed in each state on the first Tues day after the first Monday in November of the year in which they are to be appointed ; provided that each State may, by law, provide for filling any vacancy or vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote ; and provided, also, when any State shall have held an elec tion for the purpose of choosing electors, and shall fail to make choice on the day aforesaid, then the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day, in such manner as the State shall by law provide." This arrival brings accounts of a dreadful conflict between a party of Kentucky slaveholders and Ohio Abolitionists. It appears that negro slaves from Kentucky are constantly passing to Canada through the State of Ohio, facilities for such escapes, it is said by some, being established throughout the latter State by the Abolitionists. On the 9th ult. a party of "negro hunters" from Kentucky, hearing that runaway slaves were secreted in the houses of Robert Miller and Absalom King, two Abolitionists residing in Brown's County, Ohio, near the town of Georgetown, proceeded to the residence of the former and discovered two of the slaves, who attempted to escape, and while Miller was in the act of aiding their escape he was knocked down and stabbed repeatedly by the incensed Kentuckians. He lin gered but a few moments and died. The two slaves were then bound, when they proceeded to the house of King, where they were met by four or five armed men, who declared their determination to resist any search of the house. Both parties being well armed, a most horrible conflict ensued. A son of Colonel Towers was killed imme diately. King, while reloading some of the fire arms in the house, was shot by some one through the window in the back part of the house, and was not expected to survive. The sheriff and his posse arrived and checked the riot, and the ringleaders of each party were arrested. But another band of Kentuckians soon arrived and commenced another acene of bloodshed. One of the slaves was hung , W ithout c eremon y f or res i sting a brother of Colonel 4. 0 - ers, who had captured him. The houses of and King were burnt to the ground, with bit their contents. They th en went to the house of A , tit,„‘ l ' l exander Gilliland, tore him away from his Y, aid beat hi m un til hi s lif e was despa i red of. t Were i n lat est accounts add that th e K en t uc ki ans b ourb on : te asing in numbers, a n d th e w h o l e neigh hirtseif : W as up in arms. The sheriff was exerting The ‘Ar''" s uppress the riot. 111 41ce a ik . e w York Sun, in conjunction with others, ti ons a 1"4 dreadful occurrence the ground for asser- Th e Bl „ in at, and attacks upon, England. Lav e o _' e rold mentions a rumour that the French Fortut:o possession of the islands of Wallace and l'he f ohn e d A mericans i n th e O regon territory have aria themselves a government, elected executive justie:glslative officers, and established courts of The rep ort o P, a Pers by this arrival also c on t a i n th e annua l oth er it the Sec re t ary o f t h e T reasury, and a few lowi, B , : e__ln s of news, from which we select the fol. Total resources Expenditures estimated 35,019,431 06 Balance in the Treasury, July Ist, 1845 $7,039,823 58 ESTIMATES FOR 1 846 —RECEIPTS. Customs Public landq 2,010,000 Miscellaneou s sources 120,000 $32,160,302 00 Total resources Expenditures, estimated 28.193,784 82 Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1846, $11,006,340 76 These estimates are based on as good data as can be commanded, but they are of little interest or deserving of much confidence. It is beyond the power of any in dividual to estimate, with any degree of accuracy, the probable position of the finances of the Government so long in advance. In a country like this it is impossible to predict what a year may bring forth in commercial matters. Where is the roan that, two years ago, imagined for a moment that the year 1844 would pro duce a revenue from customs larger than any one pre vious ? We look upon these estimates as useless, so tar as the purposes of legislation are concerned. Mr. Secre tary Bibb can look as far into futurity, as regards this subject, as any of his predecessors, but the practice is at tended with danger, and often leads us all astray. The Washington Constitution says, a report has reached Washington that Mexico has closed her ports against the United States. No other paper, however, mentions such a rumour. The United States Gazette says—" We were yes terday put in possession of files of papers of three days later date from Barbadoes. Relative to the new Colonial Tariff Bill for 1845 we find nothing else of additional interest than that the Assembly had ad journed to meet on the next 26th of November, without having come to a definitive arrangement on all the details of the Bill. The next arrival from Barbadoes will probably bring us the filial action of the Legislature thereupon. that her It wa s Sir lienryourrently reported at the clubs last night, Ma jest has been graciously pleased to appoint Pottinger Governor-Ge . neral . of Catiadt!., in the place of Sir Charles Metcalfe, who is seriously indisposed. —Herald. ATTEMP T TO POISO N A FAMILY AT MANCHESTER. --On Monday evening last a most atrocious attempt to poison his wife and two children was made by Benjamin Anderson, a millwright, living at No. 91, Long-street, Ancoats, Manchester. It appears that fur several days past Anderson, who is in the employ of Messrs. Fair burn, the engineers, had been drinking, and on Saturday spent the entire of his wages in liquor. On Monday afternoon ho came home about half-past three o'clock and asked his wife to let him have some tea. Mrs. An derson told him that the kettle was on the fire, and as soon as she had made some for her daughter, who worked in a factory, she would make him some. He immediately became very abusive, and told both his wife and son (a boy about eleven years old) that they should not stop in the house, and under a threat of being beaten they went into the street. Anderson then bolted the door and refused for some time to allow them to come in. As she stood near the window, Mrs. Ander• son saw her husband go to the cupboard and take a quantity of onions out, which he placed in the window. After doing something else at the cup board, Anderson opened the door and left the house without getting any tea. As soon as he was gone, Mrs. Anderson again ventured, and made some tea, sweetening it with brown sugar, which she noticed was speckled with white spots, but did not suspect any harm. Upon tasting the tea, however, she was much surprised at its nauseous taste, which was accompanied by a burning of the mouth. She had remarked to her son that the sugar was covered with white spots. She then made some more tea, which she sweetened with sugar from the same basin as before, and, finding that the tea had the same burning unplea sant taste, she sent for a neighbour, named Cooper, who likewise tasted the mixture. They then made a little coffee, sweetening it with sugar which was wrapped in the cupboard, and found it entirely free from any offensive tasty. Upon examining some flour and meal which were also in the cupboard, they were found to contain a plen tiful admixture of the same sort of ingredient which had been found in the sugar. After consulting with Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Anderson took the white powder off the sugar to a druggist. Mr. Turner, druggist, after a slight inspection, at once stated that sugar of lead had been mixed with it. Information was then given to the police, and the husband was apprehended and brought yesterday, at the Borough Police-court, before D. Maude, Esq. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, when the flour, meal, and sugar will be subjected to an analysis and the proper means taken to secure the attendance of the witnesses.—Liverpool Courier. te,l(Prom the New York Herald of Dec. 18.) er e s Misid . erable effort we are enabled to give to our th Q 8 this morning the Annual Report of Mr. Bibb, Col: reta rY of the Treasury, which was presented to giv e ', eBB on Monday last. We have no time to-day to Minute -l' but analy s i s or rev i ew of this important re brief und er our money article head will be found a of th v e ie t w . a nd syn o p s i s of its contents. It is obviously co u , tr hi and i mportance to all the interests of the hardly " P e el ally the comm erc i a l an d industrial, and el ktio ,! s uoond in interest to the report on our fureign T he MONEY MARKET, DEC. 17 - to n . - St Market was rather flat to-day, and quota fell off a decline. Norwich and Worcester I l e 0 " Per cent Reading f Farmers' i, Illinois 1, 11011,118.Y1Yania s's -, f, , lndianal, Long ' Island - 1 : „ Canton 1, rkris C ana s's f. Erie Railroad and Ohio 6's closed . !atit Yesterday's prices. North American Trust ad T h „II Per cent. kiou teje c ,. e ., se of Representatives of New Hampshire has 8v ved the forth instalment of the Surplus Revenue by °te of 13 . , r ,_ _ r. 93. • diviZ Norwich and Worcester Railroad have declared a t Alli s city of three per cent., payable on the 21st inst. at I v I V at the Bank of the state of New York. Tro a „ e hEtve received the report of the Secretary of the richi l U rY, and give it at length in our columns. It will le ' '' . 4134 Y a careful perusal. It is not often that a b t U kent so able as this has emanated from the Treasury deirttk ent. , The first thing allude d to is the public c'eet t ; 1:4 I Jeing a subject of vital importaixt, it h w as , JulyarltieP4d. the attention of the Secretary at length. t Jul hlB Statement, showing the amount of the debt, 1 ' 14 44 :.... A --Li e -/-,__ .ttn oulit --,..ttur OF TUE 'UNITED STATES, JULY 1. 1844. Ou ts , ot the funded debt 5178,034 84 rek:12241/1g certificates eertifi'rY Notes of 1812 ebt f it es of Mississippi Stock, 1815 4,320 00 -sa tin , e ..., , ck qu t ti 1,3 Congress—District of thltsta tu,?lB-1836, unpaid ,1v,,,011"1ng Treasury Notes, issues of the aets ....... 2,256,207 31 441ali i tl tle 1845 5 . f . .... e . ...... ;-n..t.. ************* 5,672,976 88 lA , 0 1 1 .. 863 . 6 per colt. tl° 4 ' 53 , 5 per cent. COMMITTAL OF A POOR-LAW GUARDIAN FOR MAN SLAUGHTER.—An inquest was held by Mr. Evans, the coroner, on Friday lust, at the union workhouse, at Ross, on the body of an old woman, named Mary Jones, 82 years of age, whose death, it was alleged, had been occa sioned by ill-usage and exposure to cold, through being improperly removed as a pauper to the above mentioned union. The evidence taken was exceedingly voluminous, but the facts may be briefly told. The deceased was in the receipt of out-door relief from the Ross union, and on the 2d of last month she walked from the parish of Llangarren, where she resided, to Ross, in order to apply to the board of guardians for an increased allowance, which was granted her. On her return home, being ex ceedingly infirm, owing to her great age, she became so lame and exhausted on the road as to be quite unable to proceed, and one of the board coming up, and finding her in that helpless condition, she was removed home in a cart. She then became so ill as to keep her bed, and a day or two afterwards, her state being made known to the guardians, one of them persuaded her to go into the workhouse, where she would be taken care of and properly attended to; she refused, saying she had a great objection to the workhouse. Her condition be coming worse, the parish surgeon attended her, and by his treatment she somewhat recovered. On the 14th, however, Mr. Garness, one of the guardians, accompanied by his son, and Thomas Lewis, and Edward Tourney, went and forcibly removed her to the workhouse, without the usual medical certificate for the removal. The deceased having an extreme dread of the union house, and fearing that she would be forced to enter it, locked all the doors of the cottage, so as to pre vent them removing her. They, however, broke in, and one laying hold of her head and the other of her legs, they carried her out and placed her in a cart on some straw, with a blanket put round her, she at the same time violently exclaiming that " she would not go." The workhouse was reached about four o'clock, where the master tt!mitted her, not in obedience to the order of the guardian who came with her, as it was informal, but owing to the critical condition of the poor creature, who was suffering most severely from the cold, the frost being very intense during the day. A few days after wards she was attacked with illness, which terminated fatally. Mr. Jones, one of the medical officers of the union, gave it as his opinion that the deceased's death was the result of a diseased heart, which might have been hastened by the sudden exposure to cold. The jury, after a most careful and deliberate consideration, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Samuel Garness, the guardian, Thomas Garness (his son), Thomas Lewis, and Edward Tourney, who were forthwith committed to the gaol for trial. The case has produced the greatest sensation throughout the whole county. 1,260,C00 00 The Total debt July 1, 1844 $24,748,183 23 . rtiaae Secretary extends his remarks to some length, in 1 ' 1 1" public credit, and says that the maraet 4 ue of h is sufficient evidence of Securities safetty he Government Stocks is ectirities investments of capital in Government ziritliti..Sec.retary Bibb suggests the establishment of a t he .4 11 7 fu ud, not only for the purpose of extinguishing f th e " e 'it of the Government, but to insure the safety the (Iti,tsurPlus revenue, and to reduce the interest on d 1 "r t . i, T L h e deposit; are now used by the banks se.ccte tle--e 4 ecPing of these funds, fur whatever the y m _ a l y . st.“ pro Per, without allowing the Government the kr: k tao Per cen t. interest, while the interest on the . 6 . P t IN : t r ltitB , in a short time, to a very large sum. A snik kilh„ll4(l, increased at the rate of about two millions per 354'41, which could easily be carried into effect, gent large surplus, would, in a short time, annually with the ll %7tice an amount of interest full as large as that ac• t,, A /I R on the Government debt. A modification and a tt ktion of the tariff are also recommended. The Se lt,:f,t4'tY suggests that reasonable time should be Oven, N te ( 're ,*1:1 slightest alteration is made in the Ousting 4ft, 4 Of tltlty, to enable those interested, or likely to be ta k , et ,ed, to gi:vern themselves accordingly. It is esti %vim that, un4e." the present tariff, with an importation " 41 ' to that of the past year, the surplus revenue of t he b e ar 1853 would, after paying all the expenses and golj te dness of the Ciovernment, exceed fifty millions of llittkr4. and it is in con•sideratio❑ of this and other facts, ftki, the Secretary of the Treasury recommends a gradual dottqiun in the rate of duties. It is argued that the hight'stic in of the coantry du not require such a Nil " 'rage and that it is unjust to extract from the V P i e ttr ' eN, evenue so much greater than the wants of Go ,,ent require. ti t trade with foreign nations for the year ending !nti:. av 1 844, has been more in our favour than we have isittit-,11)„4tetl• According to the official returns from the Ng j,s-t7 llepartment there was, for the fiscal year and 4ne 30, 1 844, a balance in our favour. • MYSTERIOUS PARCEL.—Yesterday information was forwarded to the metropolitan police of the following mysterious circumstance. It appears that a common white wicker reticule basket was received at the Universal Booking-office, Regent-circus, between the hours of four and eight, P. 31., on the 11th ult., addressed to Mr. Mugs prat, ironmonger, Winchester, Ilampshire. On the sth instant the basket was opened at Winchester, and on re moving some loose paper at the top, a calico bag was found, containing a light-coloured oil•silk bag, which on being opened, the body of a newly-born male child pre sented itself. The basket is quite new and is marked on the bottom with the letter " A," with two small marks over it, supposed to be the maker's private marks. An inquest has been held upon the body, and is adjourned to the 20th inst. ~ _. rns SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9 , " The ancient Chapel of the Savoy had been re gularly used by the adjacent population for some time, and had already come to be commonly called the Church of St. IVlary-le-Sa:oy, before it was proposed to Queen El;zabeth to sanction the creation of a dis trict parish, by throwing tether a part of the parish of St. Clement Danes and the Royal Precinct of the Savoy, with the hospital c aapel as its church. This arrangement, being approved of by the then Bishop of London, Grindall, was car. ied into effect ;—and, the wider annexation suggestA in Queen Anne's time not having taken place, the chapel continues to be what Queen Elizabeth left it. It is a parochial benefice in the gift of her Majesty, in right of her Duchy of Lancaster; and before the householders, beyond the Precinct of the Savoy, were admitted to the formal participation in it as their parish church, they signed an instrument renouncing all claim to any right or property in the chapel itself; or in any part of the precinct. " There is a constant tradition, that when the Liturgy in the vernacular tongue was restored by Queen Elizabeth, this chapel was the first place in which the service was performed. It was in this chapel also that the memorable conference between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian divines on the Book of Common Prayer was held, in the year 1661 ; and the result of that conference constitutes one of the most important events in the history of the Anglican establishment. " The benefice has been held by more than one distinguished ornament of the Church of England; among others, by Dr. Anthony Horneck, the favourite Chaplain of King William 111., and one of the most celebrated preachers of his age. " At various times, since the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII., the chapel is meetioned as requiring and receiving extensive repairs; but there seems to be eo reason for doubting that the existing building is the same that was erected and consecrated in com pliance with the testamentary orders of King Henry VII. The position of the altar at the northern ex tremity has been described recently as anomalous and unprecedented ;' but the magnificent work of Mr. Gaily Knight, On the Ecclesiastical Architec ture of Italy, from the Earliest Ages to the Fifteenth Century,' presents copious evidence that the placing of the altar at the eastern end was by no means uniformly the practice of rtmote antiquity. In the Chapel of St. James's Palace, which was arranged in the reign of Henry VIII., the altar is in the same situation as at the Savoy, and the beautiful roof itself, of the latter chapel, affords the clearest possible proof that its decorations were settled before Henry VIII. mooted the divorce of Catharine of Arragon, and that the drawings were executed with reference to the actual position of the altar. " The ceiling of the chapel had long been de formed and obscured under coatings of whitewash, before the ruinous condition of its wood-work di rected attention to the details of its original embel lishment; but her Majesty's munificence having authorised a complete restoration, the whole of these may now be examined distinctly, which was not the case when certain architectural critics alleged that the building must have been set apart for sacred purposes during the prevalence of puritan theories. " The chapel, now insulated, was originally, as an old print shows, connected with other parts of the hospital. It is throughout in the Tudor style, its interior dimensions 90 by 24 feet. The tower at the southern end is a modern addition. The walls within are quite without ornament ; it is probable that carved woodwork was destroyed as well as painted glass (in the northern window, at least,) during the Commonwealth. The chapel contains some elegant ancient monuments, and one which, though curious, cuts, unfortunately, into the original design of the altar-piece or reredos. " The ceiling resembles the nearly contemporary one of the chapel at St. James's Palace, being wholly of wood (oak and pear tree), flat, with a slight cove next the walls; but, instead of the angular panels which cover the whole surface at the Chapel Royal, with the initials H. A. (Henry VIII. and Anne ho leyn) painted on them, the roof in the Savoy is divided by moulded ribs into one hundred and thirty eight quatrefoil panels, each enriched with a carved ornament, either of sacred or of historical significance. The panels number twenty-three in the length of the chapel, and six in its width. The ten ranges, commencing at the north window, an d ex t en di ng considerably to the southward of th e a lt ar - steps , h ave each in its centre a shield, surrounded by the crown of thorns—each shield presenting in high relief some feature or emblem of the passion and death of our Lord; and all devised and arranged in a style of which we have many examples in sacred buildings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In one quatre foil are the garment and the dice ; in another the cross; in a third the sponge and the spear; in a fourth is the head of the high priest's servant, with the sword of Peter behind his ear. Elsewhere we see a halbert and a lantern ; the column and scourge ; a torch and cresset ; the salutation of Judas; the heads of Peter and Pilate's servant; the cock; the heads of Pilate and Caiaphas ; the five wounds on a heart, two hands, and two feet; a pelican ; an open sepulchre with three pots of myrrh. The exterior panels have angels supporting the cross, the ladder, the spear, the crown of thorns, the napkin of St. - Veronica, and the column of the scourging. he panels throughout the rest of the ceiling are occupied by bearings or badges, indicating the various families from which the royal lineage was derived, and more particularly the alliances of the House of Lancaster ; each of these panels being surrounded, in place of the crown of thorns towards the altar end, with a torce or wreath tinted with the livery colours of the various families respectively. Thus we have the Red Dragon of Cadwallader; the Black Bull of Clare ; the White Hart of Richard 11. ; the White Hind of his mother, the F a i r M a i d of Kent ; the White Falcon of York ; the White Lion of March ; the Antelope of Henry V. ; the Winged Stag of France; the Golden Lion, regally crowned, of England; the White Greyhound of Henry VII. ; the Antelope and Ibex, with curved horns and spotted skin, being the badge or Beste' of Margaret of Richmond, mother of that King, the same that is displayed so frequently on her colleges at Cambridge : and in many of the smaller compartments, what has already been alluded to as making the date of the decoration, the Pome granate of Catherine of Arragon, a badge first adopted by her father on the surrender of Granada in 1491.* " There can be no doubt that the use of rich colours was general in the interior of our ancient churches, more especially cathedrals and chapels royal. The example of restoring the splendid blazonry which had been obliterated in times of puritan fanaticism, and afterwards neglected, was set about twenty years ago in the metropolitan church of Canterbury. It has been followed in many places, nowhere more happily or more magnificently than in the Temple Church. And the restoration of the Savoy ceiling would surely have been incomplete, had what were originally its characteristic features been allowed to remain in their recent obscurity. " The other alterations lately made were adopted with a view to the greater comfort of the congrega tion. A superfluous doorway has been walled up, and the other approach widened; but the beautiful carved work which had thus to be removed, is placed in another part of the chapel, and the new wooden carving„ requisite where it had stood, has been done exactly on its model. The pulpit (no doubt of Eliza bethan date) has been shifted to a more convenient position, and her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant the chapel a good organ, in lieu of the barrel-organ, which was all it seems ever to have possessed previously. "The great north window had been bricked up and covered by a wretched painting. It has now been re opened, and the parishioners having, in grateful ac knowledgment of her Majesty's liberality as to the structure in general, requested permission to fill it with stained glass at their own expense, it is restored in a very satisfactory manner. In the lower central compartment is the figure of St. John the Baptist, to whom the hospital of the Savoy was dedicated; the side compartments, on the same range, have the emblems of the other Evangelists. The letter L., surmounted with the Ducal Coronet, the Red Rose of Lancaster, and the Lions and Fleurs-de-Lis of the Plantagenet escutcheon, have been introduced in other parts ; and the jamb is inscribed thus This window was glazed at the cost of the Congregation, in honour of God, and in gratitude to our Queen Victoria.'" IRELAND. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT—ARCHBISHOP MURRAY. Dttnust, JAN. 7.—The story of a conspiracy in Tippe rary to murder Ai . chbishop Murray is totally destitute of foundation. It appears that an anonymous letter had been sent from seine part of Tipperary to Mr. Knaresborough, one of the resident or stipendiary magistrates in the county of Cork, apprising him that a conspiracy with this dia bolical object existed. Mr. Knaresborough forwarded the r nonymous letter to Archbishop Murray, who looked upon the matter either as a mischievous hoax, or a scheme to deceive the magistrate. The Monitor of yesterday evening contained the fol lowing : " The greatest excitement prevailed in this city yes terday, in consequence of a rumour having been exten sively circulated and generally credited, of a conspiracy having been discovered in Tipperary, the object of which was to murder his Grace Dr. Murray. As may be naturally expected, such a rumour spread like wildfire, and created the greatest excitement. For our own part, we attached no credence to it whatever ; the thing was so improbable —so outrageously extravagant, that We could not bring ourselves to consider it in any serious light. However, as the statement was confidently re peated, we made some inquiries to ascertain whether there was any foundation for it, and we believe that the following may be relied on as correct:— " A magistrate in the county of Cork received an anonymous letter, the purport of s hich was that three devils,' as the writer said, had agreed to take the life of his Grace Doctor Murray; and the writer requested the magistrate to go at once and put Dr. Murray on his guard. The letter was from Tipperary, and of course the magistrate enclosed it to Dr. Murray, stating the manner in which it came into his possession. " Such, we believe, may be relied on as a correct ac count of the circumstances which gave rise to the rumour which has caused such a sensation in this city. We confess we do not at present attach much importance to the statement. We are inclined to think that some mis chievous person in Tipperary has been at work—that he wrote the anonymous letter to the magistrate, who cer tainly acted very properly in forwarding it to Doctor Murray. " We repeat we cannot bring ourselves to believe that even among the diabolical ruffians of Tipperary there could be found three fiends in human shape to conspire to take the life of such a venerated prelate as Doctor Murray —and for what ? For merely acting according to his conscientious judgment in support of the Catholic Church, of which he is one of its brightest ornaments" The Freeman's Journal observes : " The Monitor seems either not to be cognisant of the fact, or carefully to conceal it—that this rumour was whispered about for some days, and that the calumnia tors of our land—those who would affix upon our noble, our generous people, the contemplation of a crime of deeper die than any wherewith our Saxon taskmasters ever sought to blacken the fair fame of our country-- sought in vain to get currency for their guilty lie, till a rash clergyman, connected with 'Westland-row Catholic church, perhaps in mistaken affection for the Most Rev. Prelate whose name was mixed up with this foul fraud—perhaps through over-heated zeal for the new doctrines he has espoused, that the clergy should be come the tools of the Castle, or, perhaps, to demon strate the working of Castle connexion—was found on Sunday last to give publicity to the aspersions against his countrymen, which he, at least, should have inquired into before he promulgated." The Dublin Evening Post of this afternoon contains the following:— "A rumour has been bruited abroad, to the effect that a Tipperary magistrate wrote to Archbishop Murray of a horrible plot that he had detected—the object of the conspirators being to murder his Grace, because he had become one of the Commissioner s under the Bequests Act. It is even s a id t h at t h e matter was alluded to from the pulpit of one of the Catholic churches in this city. Now, we do not know that we should think it worth our while to allude to this matter at all, if we had not learned that Mr. Knaresborough, a magistrate of Cork, had sent a letter to Archbishop Murray, enclosing an anonymous note, manifestly a fabrication, in which it was said that such a conspiracy was in progress. On this information, Doctor Murray, as a sensible man, could lay no stress whatever. His Grace, we dare say, saw it was a trick of the enemy. Wby it was gotten up—why such a flagitious libel on the country has been put into circulation —with all our knowledge of the characters of your little mischievous political folk with which the city is infested, we really cannot make out. That it is au Orange lie, we believe—but, nevertheless, the Evening Mail, though the editor must have heard the rumour, gabby as it is and virulent, deemed it more advisable, for the present, to be silent. But we are wasting too much time ou the falsehood.' " THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS COMMISSION. At the first meeting of the Commissioners under the Charitable Bequests Act, at their office in Lower Gar dener-street, the following six commissioners were in attendance :—The Most Rev. Dr. Whatley, the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, the Lord Chief Baron, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart., and the Right Hon. A. R. Blake. The following seven commissioners were absent : Primate Beresford, Most Rev. Dr. Crony, Right Rev. Dr. Denvir, Lord Donoughmore, the Dean of St. Pa trick's, Judge of the Prerogative Court, and the Rev. Shouldam Henry. The Secretaries, Messrs. W. P. Mathews and R. O'Car roll, were in attendance. MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF DUBLIN. Archbishop Murray is about to convene a meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Dublin, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature to expunge from the Eman cipation Act the clause affecting the regular clergy, which is referred to in the Bequests' Act. In Archbishop Murray's recent pastoral address, he condemned, in very decided terms, the clause against the regular clergy, against which he and his clergy had unavailingly pen tioned in 1829. INCREASED GRANT TO MAYNOOTIL The Evening Post says—" The Ministry are now in a favourable position for proposing a liberal grant for col legiate education in Ireland, oa a system embracing Catholics and Dissenters, and for giving to Maynooth a grant in some degree commensurate to the claims of the Catholics of Ireland for the education of their clergy. Indeed, we have some reason to believe that the Premier has already decided on such a step." BRIGHTON-WEDNESDAY. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Ladies Catherine aid Ann Loftus, and Lord Henry Loftus, after a stay of about two months at the Clarence Mansion, Marine -parade, took their departure this morning for London. Mr. Baron Gurney intends to pass a few weeks in Brighton, as soon as a suitable residence can be engaged for him. We regret to hear that his Lordship .is still indisposed. Chief-Justice Tindal, after passing a week with his sister, Mrs. Simmons, at the Albion Hotel, took his de parture yesterday for London. Lord and Lady Colville, who have been here several weeks, intend to leave on Friday. Sir Theodore and Lady Brinckman, who have been staying for about a week at the Norfolk Hotel, have taken a house in Adelaide -crescent. The Duchess of Norfolk is expected in Brighton to morrow from Arundel Castle. The Duchess of Beaufort is shortly expected on a visit to the Hon. Mr. and Lady Calthorpe. Viscount Lake went to town on Monday, but is ex pected to return in a few days. Among our arrivals of note is "General Tom Thumb," who has been exhibiting at the Town-hall to-day to well-filled rooms. The " General's " equipage, which was driven about the town this morning, created a good deal of amusement. Sir Martin and Lady De Crespigny, Col. Fludyer, Sir George Staunton, Sir Edward Elton, Mr. Elton, Mr. and the lion. Miss Wallia Grieve, are among the latest ar rivals at the Albion Hotel. General Sir Arthur Upton, Sir John and Miss Booth, Sir Arthur Capell Broke, Admiral and Mrs. Sykes, and Sir A. Chichester, are at Pegg's Royal York Hotel.: The mortal remains of Lady Wilmot were removed on Monday last from her residence in Kemp Town for in terment in the family vault at Chaddesden, Derby. The loss of this estimable lady will be long and severely felt by all who came within the sphere of her active benevolence. DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAILWAY. - SUNDERLAND, JAN. 6.—A special general meeting of the Durham and Sunderland Railway Company was held this day in the Exchange-buildings, to take into consi deration the propriety of altering the mode agreed upon at the last special meeting of the Company for issuing the new shares proposed to be created for the purpose of altering and extendi ng th e li ne , an d of adapting it to propulsion by locomotive engines instead of ropes drawn by stationary engines. CHRISTOPHER BRAMWELL, Esq., the Chairman of the Company, briefly stated the business to be considered, which was, that a late special meeting it was agreed to raise the capital of 180,000/. required ior the new works, and other requisite changes connected with the working of the line, by the issuing of 6,000 new shares, at 30/. each, the subscribers of which were to be guaranteed 5 per cent. per annum for their capital till the proposed alterations came into operation, when the whole of the new shares were to merge in the common stock of the Company, and the new and old Shareholders were then to participate alike in the profits and liabilities of the entire line. It was now proposed that this plan should be cancelled, and that the new shares should be issued at 40/. each, to the extent of four thousand five hundred, and that the present Proprietors should have the option of taking them in proportion to the shares now held by each in the Company ; and that the new shares of 40/. each so created should have a guarantee in perpetuity secured to them of five per cent. per annum interest, reserving also to the new Shareholders the right of participating in any greater dividend that may at any time be realised from the profits of the railway. IMr. J. J. 'WRIGHT, in a long and energetic speech, advocated the adoption of this plan, and submitted a re solution to carry it into effect, which was seconded by Mr. T. Reed, and cordially received by the meeting. Mr. W. J. BARKER, Sharebroker, stated to the meet ing that he was authorised to offer a premium of 7s. 6d. per cha s share for an re parties rt e s whatever in theso numbersouth of h gentleman tolfera4 s oain. a F ar h sah e sahr c ear o u ;e l b d p arnodkueri t was also stated by another r in London had offered to guarantee the disposal of the whole number of new shares to be created at the value of 40/. each. _ _ _ * The devices on this ceiling are minutely explained in Mr. Willement's Heraldic work. THE QUEEN ♦ND GIBSON, THE SCULPTOR.—The Queen sat for a bust to Mr. Gibson, a short time pre vious to his departure for Rome. He is commissioned to produce a full-length statue of her Majesty. The Queen and her Royal Consort were highly pleased with the work of the accomplished sculptor, whom they re ceived and treated with marked urbanity and considera tion—with a gracious delicacy, indeed —which made the artist at once at ease in " the presence." Two or three slight incidents occurred during his visit to Windsor, which are worthy of note, as exhibiting her Majesty's generous thought in regard to the pleasures of her sub jects. Mr. Gibson's attention was directed to the posi tion occupied by a statue, the work of Wyatt. Passing into another apartment, a place was pointed out as that originally selected for it. Gibson saw at once that this was a site far more advantageous to the production of his friend, and said so. Her Majesty immediately re plied, " I think with you; but, if placed here, the people would not be able to see it. During one of the sittings, the Prince of Wales was brought into the room. Mr. Gibson said, Your Majesty, I am a 'Welshman: will your Majesty allow me to kiss the hand of the Prince of Wales?" The Queen looked pleased, and was pleased; and the sculptor knelt, and " did his devoir as a cour tier."- 7 -Art Unien. ME CORN TRADE.—Although this trade has been very quiet for some time, we hear that con• iderablo orders for the purchase of foreign grain have been sent out to the Baltic. At the present prices, at home and abroad, good Baltic wheat could pay 20s. duty, the freight and charges, and just clear itself. There can, however, be no importation at present on account of tho ice.—Liverpool Times. This flattering state of the business was received with great satisfaction by the Shareholders present, and the resolution proposed by Mr. Wright w as su b m i tted to the meeting, and unanimously adopted. 345. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. G.—The Government has received from the Charge d'Affaires of Belgium, at Turin, a report which contains interesting information respecting the commerce of the island of Sardinia. This report is accompanied--I.Byavien ofthe import and export trade of the island for ten years-1826 to 1837. 2. A table, showing the number of ships that arrived in and left the port of the island in 1843. 3. An estimate of the English goods imported into the island in 1843. 4. A table of the weights and measures in use in the island, compared with the national system. His Majesty gave an audience, on the 4th of this month, at noon, to the Marquis de Reimegrez, Am bassador of his Majesty the King of the French, who delivered a letter from his Sovereign, notifying the marriage of his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale to the Princess Maria Caroline Augusta of Salerno. The King has also received a letter from his Ma jesty the King of the Two Sicilies, on the occasion of this marriage. The navigation of our canals, which has been in terrupted for more than a month, will probably bL resumed this week, if we should not have any return of the frost. turned upon his back. This wallathei !vritioißST moment. With more unaccountable presence of mind, I laid hold of his nose with my ]eft hand and with my right I scooped out his remaining organ of vision. He opened his big mouth, and champed his long teeth at me in despair. But it was all over with him. I raised my right foot and gave him a hard shove, and he glided off into the deep water, and went to the bottom. Well, gentlemen I suppose you'd think it a hard story, but it's none the less a fact, that I served every remaining one of thuse nineteen sheiks in the same fashion. They all came up to me, one ley one, regu larly and in order, and I scooped their eyes out and gave them a shove, and they went off i n t o d eep water, just like so many lambs. By the time I had scooped out and blinded a couple of dozen of them, they began to seem so scarce, that I thought I would swim for the island, and fight the rest for fun on the way ; but iost then Tim Titus hove in sight, and it had got to almost dark, and I concluded to get on board and rest myself. INCENDIARISM.--A man neated William Caskett, Kingston,ion on s w i a r s l brought finalo F u r g e h t t r u aic p ck. f h, o a ; rigre. l( ,fo e b x fic a ir. t it n ,si i ,g n a a ai t ;d who has been in custody several days, under remand, rick irlitl,:f7g::i3as.)tr-a'atijteletsfr.(a'ariet. Wal ton-on-Thames, on-Thames, the property of a farmer named Tubbs. It appeared from the depositions of numerous witnesses that the fire took place between ten and eleven at n ig h t , on the 25th of December. On an alarm b , ing gi ven , one of the police-constatdes attached to the V division hastened towards the fire and when he had got near Mr. Tubb's premises he met the prisoner coming away. He asked him some questions. and eventually the prisoner accompanied him back to the fire, and assisted to work the engines. Some suspicion was entertained of hint at this tiine, and on his being questiontd he denied that he had had any lucifer matelies in his possessi en on that day. He was searched, but nethieg siispicietes being found upon him, he was eventually allueed to defile t but, from what afterwards transpired, he was taken into custody a day or two :afterwards. It was now proved that on the night of the fire the prisoner was in a public-house at Walton, and that he had a number of boxes of lucifer matches in his possession, which he offered for sale, and in the course of the evening he gave one of them to a person in the tap-room. He left the house, which is only a short distance from Mr. Tubbs' farm, shortly after ten o'clock, and in a very brief pet iod the tire broke out. Almost immediately afterwards the prisoner was seen by a person named White running Is a direction away from the fire, and he remarked that his face was very black. A box of inciters was found in Mr. Tubb's yard, which was proved to be of exactly the same description as those which the prisoner had been se en offering for sale in the public-house at Walton. There did not appear to be any motive for the commission of the act by the prisoner, but from the above facts and other circumstances that came out in evidence, a case of suspicion appeared to be made out against him. The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the next spring assizes. DEATHS OF CHILDREN Br FlRE.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held two inquests at the London Hospital, on the bodies of two children, destroyed by fire. The first was on the body of Henrietta Bagster, aged five, whose parents reside at No. 2, George-yard, White chapel. It appeared that on the 12th ult., whilst lighting in play a piece of paper at the fire, she ignited her clothes, and was in consequence so severely burned that she was removed to this hospital, in which place she died of exhaustion, arising from her burns, on the sth inst. The second inquest was on the body of Edward Stevens, aged four, whose parents live in Prince's -court, Birdcage-walk, Bethnal-green. Whilst sitting, three weeks ago, on a little stool before the fire, a spark flew into lap, and instantly his dress was in flames. He expired on Tuesday. The Coroner re marked that mortality amongst children, the result of fire, was at present remarkably great, and that within a few days he had held eight inquests on bodies so de stroyed. Fire-guards would prevent such calamities ; but no advice or reasoning could, it appeared, induce poor parents to make general use of them. Verdict, in both cases, "Accidental death." CRICKET MATCH IN SKATES.—OD Thursday, the 26th ult., the Sheffield Skating Club, by permission of Mr. Paxton, played a game at cricket on the ice in skates at Chatsworth Park, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire (Scottish Pond, Swiss Cottage). At the commencement (tithe game several loads of wood were brought to tl.e pond side for the purpose of making a large fire, which had a very animated appearance, and at the conclusion of the first innings refreshments were ordered by Mr. Paxton to the pond side for the members of the Skating Club, which were kindly accepted. After lunch the game was resumed, arid the scene had a more pleasing appearance, in eons, quince of several ladies skating oil the pond. When the game was over, the members com menced some excellent figurative skating, which was carried on for some tine., after which the ladies in skates and members of the club danced Payne's Qudrilles, which concluded the day's amusement. FATAL RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday (Tues day), at the Manchester Infirmary, an inquest was held on view or the body of Nathaniel Horstall, labourer, thirty-three years of age. The deceased had been in the employment c f the Manchester, Bury, and Rossen dale Railway Compeny, and in the afternoon of Satur day, the 28th ult., whilst disengaging a horse which was drawing three waggons loaded with etude he fell across one of the rails, and a wheel of the first waggon caught his right arm. In that state he was pushed about four yards along an inclined plane, and received a compound fracture of the arm, and contusion of the neck and chest. He was conveyed to the infirmary, where amputation was performed, but he died on Saturday morning lust. A verdict of Accidental Death was returned.—Aian chester Guardian. TROOPS FOR VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—CRATIIAM, JAN. B,—The Commandant of this garrison, Sir Themnis Willshire, K.C.8., issued yesterday garrison orders, commanding detachments from the 51st, 58th, 96th, and 99th Regiments to hold themselves in readiness for em barkation to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land. The troops were inspected this day in heavy marching order. The 51st King's Own Light Infantry furnishes 22 men ; the 58th, 196 men ; 96th, 18 mien ; and 99th, 45 men ; making a total of 281 men. These troops are to march from this garrison on Friday, the 10th instant, en route for Gravesend, when they are to embark in boats from the Customs-quay on board the freight-ship Ann, of 800 tons burden. The troops are to be under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, of the 58th, with the following officers of the same regiment :—Captain Joseph Henry Laye, Ensign George Henry Wynyard, and Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Moore Philson. Assistant-Surgeon William M'Andrew, of the 96th Regiment, also embarks with the above. The 58th leaves behind a detachment at this garrison of 5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 1 drummer, and 53 privates, under command of Captain George Ponsonby Hume and Lieutenant Petley. ANOTHER DEATPI IN THE MILLDANK PRISON.— Yesterday Mr. Higgs held an inquest in the Millbank Prison, on the body of Harris Nash, aged 22, a prisoner. It appeared from the evidence of Captain Grove, the go vernor, and Dr. Bally, physician of the prison, that de ceased was received into it on th e 9th October last, from the Model Prison, Pentonville, having been convicted on the sth January, 1843, at the St. Alban's Quarter Ses sions, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. When admitted to the Millbank prison, he was in good health, though somewhat emaciated, and went on well until the Ist instant, when he was seized with violent inflamma tion of the bowels, accompanied by a loss of appetite. He was immediately removed to the infirmary, treated therein carefully, and appeared to recover, until Sunday last, when he had a violent relapse, causing such ex haustion that he died on Tuesday. A post mortal examination showed inflammation and incipient mortifi cation of the intestines to be the cause of death. , Verdict —" Natural death." APPREHENSION, ESCAPE, AND RECAPTURE.—We stated last week that John Gillespie had been appre hended in Carlisle, on a charge of breaking into the shot of Mr. Grindel, of Wigton. On Saturday he was taken to Wigton, and a clear case made out against him. The, prisoner was then conveyed to "the lock -up by Hethe rington, the officer, to wait the departure.of the train for Carlisle. In the meantime Hetherington went to obtain some refreshment, leaving the prisoner, with a pair e': leg-irons on, in the charge of two of the Wigton police men. On his return, great was his astonishment to fine', that the bird had flown. Some kind friends outside, nose, applied a crow taking advantage of the watchmen's dozing propeusitiaa l b i a a r d e reward of' Si. was ()flared for his apprehension, bat , to ai t tn he os d t o u o n r d o e f r th D e ° l g o be ck r - IY up 's , a v n e 7 set the prison er f ree. without effect until Tuesday night, when he surrendered, himself in Carlisle.— Tyne Mercury. CURIOSITIES OF POLICE .-- A great bo o k i s yet to he written on our police-courts. We believe that se nse gen ius—heaven -appointed n h e t a h ve mean en-ap m po t i i nte e, d andfu r a t e work--will one du) are ;ai g that luminary we can on ly gather up materials for the opus magnum. At Clerkenwell, Elizabeth Phillips was arraigned before the celebrated Mr. Greenwood, charged with having stolen the watch of a tradesman, in Sadler's Well Theatre. It was proved that the police knew nothing tc her prejudice, and that she had lived with her father,. the same place for seven years. The girl herself, In a. passion of tears, exelaitned—" Why, my God ! severai people will come forward to prove I was at home at' Friday evening. At the time this gentleman and lad., speak of, I was fetching a pint of beer for my fatlec:. from the Swan public-house in Keete-street. Send fe: Mr. Fryer, the landlord. Oh, do pray, Sir, do, fer lan innocent." And the innocence of the girl was prove beyond doubt. She had, however, been taken into cus tody at Sadler's Wells the night after the complainer had lost his watch, she having been at home on the. Friday. Whereupon, what did and what said the sale sagacious Magistrate ? Why—" Mr. Greenwood di. charged the girl, telling her to be cautious how sl visited 'theatres in future." And wherefore ? 'l'h accuser might have made the like mistake as to person: identity, had he been robbed in a church ; yet woue Mr. Greenwood have then advised the girl "to be eau • tious how she visited churches in future ?"--Punch. WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS RAILWAY.—Tt. share list in this undertaking is rapidly filling up, at,.;.: bids fair to be soon completed. Up to the Ist inst. tee application in Whitehaven alone amount( dto the sef ot' 114,5801., independent of the shares which mig have been taken in London, Liverpool, Manchester,,:m.. The projectors feel sanguine that they will cbte.iri Act early in the ensuing session, without any cliffac tate. —Tyne Mercury. At a meeting of the Directors of the WllitehavE am Junction Railway, held at the Company's office in T haven, on Monday, the stumbling block eel). ich has hitherto retarded the work, was completely 8 nd satin factorily removed, so that we may now look for Immo diate and active steps being taken for COW' aencing the. undertaking.—Cumberland Pacquet. We (the Courrier Beige) have just received letter from Berlin, which states positively that thi Prussian Cabinet understands the 19th article of it: treaty of the Ist of September, relative to the impor tation of our iron into the State of the Zollverein, aw it is understood in Belgium. On this point, there. fore, the two parties are agreed, but at the same tiro it has been thought proper to take the opinion of the other States on this question. A SHARK STORY. BY THE LATE WILLIAM P. HA 11 ES, ESQ. (From a New York Paper.) " Heartless villiain !" I shrieked out, in the torture of my disappointment, "may reward your in humanity." The crew answered my prayer with a coarse, low laugh ; and the cook asked me through a speaking -trumpet, "If I wasn't afraid of catching cold "—the black rascal! It was now time to strip ; for my knees felt the cool tide, and the wind dying away, left a heavy swell, that swayed and shook the box upon which 1 was mounted, so that I had occasionally to stoop and paddle with my hands against the water, in order to preserve my perpendicular. The setting sun sent his almost horizontal streams of fire across the dark waters, making them gloomy and terrific by the con trast of his amber and purple glories. Something glided by me in the w a t er , an d th en made a sudden h a lt. I looked upon the black mass, and as my eyes ran along its dark outline I saw with horror that it was a shark—the identical monster out of whose mouth I had just broken my hook. He was fishing now for me, and was evidently only waiting for the tides to rise high enough above the rock to glut at once his hunger and revenge. As the water continued to mount above my knees, he seemed to grow more hungry and familiar. At last he made a desperate dash, and approached within an inch of my legs, turned upon his hack, and opened his huge jaws for an at tack. With desperate strength I thrust the end of my rod violently at his mouth; and the brass head, ring ing against his teeth, threw him back into the deep current, and I lost sight of him entirely. This, how ever, was but a mo men t ary repu l se ; f or in the next minute he was close behind my back, and pulling at the skirts of my fustian coat, which hung dipping into the water. - I leaned forward hastily, and endea voured to extricate myself from the dangerous grasp; but the monster's teeth were too firmly set, and his immense strength nearly drew me over. So down flew my rod, and off went my jacket, devoted peace offerings to my voracious visitor. In an instant the waves all around me were lashed into froth and foam. No sooner was my poor old sporting friend drawn under the surface, than it was fought for by a dozen enormous combatants ! The battle raged upon every side. High black fins rushed now here, now there, and l ong s t rong ta il s scattere d sleet and froth, and the brine was thrown up in jets, and eddied, and curled, and fell, and swelled, like a whirlpool in Hellgate. Of no long duration, however, was this fishy tour ney. It seemed soon to be discovered that the prize contended for contained nothing edible but cheese and crackers, and no flesh ; and as its mutilated frag ments came to the surface the waves su b s id e d i n t o their former smoo th condition. Not till then did I experience the real terrors of my situation. As I looked around me to see what had become of the rob bers, I counted one, two, three--yes, up to twelve successively—of the largest sharks I ever saw, float ing in a circle around me, like divergent rays, all mathematically equi-distant from the rock, and from each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with gloating, fiery eye, fixed full and fierce upon me. Basilisks and rattle-snakes, how the fire of their steady eyes entered into my heart ! I was the ceetre of a circle, whose radii were sharks! I was the un sprung, or rather unchewed game, at which a pack of hunting sea-dogs were making a dead point. There was one fellow that kept within the circum ference of the circle. He seemed to be a sort of cap tain or leader of the band, or rather he acted as the coroner for the other twelve of the inquisition that were summoned to sit on and eat up my body. He glided round and about, and every now and then would stop and touch his nose against some one of his comrades, to consult or give instructions as to the time and mode of operations. Occasionally he would scull himself towards me, and examine the con dition of my flesh, and then again glide back and re join the troop, and flap his tail and have another con fabulation. The old rascal had, no doubt, been out in the highways and byways, and collected this com pany of his friends and kin-fish, and invited them to supper. I must confess that, horribly as I felt, I could not help but think of a tea-party of demure old maids, sitting in a solemn circle, with their skinny hands in their laps, licking their expecting lips, while their hostess b us tl es a b ou t i n t h e important functions of her preparations. With what an eye have I seen such appurtenances of humanity survey the location and adjustment of some especial condiment, which is about to be submitted to criticism and consumption. My sensations began to be now exquisite indeed ; but I will not attempt to describe them. I was nei ther hot nor cold, frightened nor composed but I had a combination of all kinds of feeling and emo tions. The present, past, future, heaven, earth, my father and mother, a little girl I knew once, and the sharks, were all confusedly mixed up together, and swelled my crazy brain almost to bursting. I cried and laughed, and shouted and screamed for Tim Titus. In a fit of most wise madness, I opened my broad bladed fishing-knife, and waved it around my head with an air of defiance. As the tide continued to rise, my extravagance of madness mounted. At one time I became persuaded that my tide-waiters were reasonable beings, who might be talked into mercy and humanity, if a body could only hit upon the right text. So I bowed and gesticulated, and threw out my hands, and talked to them as friends and brothers, members of my family, cousins, uncles, aunts, people waiting to have their bills paid. I scolded them as my servants ; I abused them as duns ; I implored them as jurymen, sitting on the question of my life ; I congratulated and flattered them as my comrades upon some glorious enterprise ; I sang and ranted to them, now as an actor in a playhouse, and now as an elder in a camp meeting, in one moment roarimg— " On the cold flinty rock I will lay down my head"— and in the next, giving out to my attentive hearers, for singing, a hymn of Dr. Watts's, admirably appro priate to the occasion:— " On slippery rocks I see them stand, While fiery billows roll below." What said I—what did I not say ?—Prose and poetry, Scripture and drama, romance and ratiocina tion—out it came—Quatndiu, Catalina, nostra pa tientia abuterey—l sung out to the old captain to begin with—" My bra ve assoc i a t es , partners o f my toil " — so ran the strain. "On which side soever I turn my eyes"—" Gentlemen of the jury"—" I come here not to steal away your hearts"—" You are not wood, you are not stone, but"—Hoh l—" Begin, ye tormentors, your tortures are vain"—" G oo d friends, sweet friends, let me not stir y ou u p t o any sudden flood"—" The angry flood which lashed her groaning sides"— " Ladies and gentlemen"—My very noble and ap proved good masters"—" Avaunt! and quit my sight ; let the earth hide ye"—Lie lightly on his bed, 0, earth !"—" Oh, heaven and earth, that it should oome to this"—" The torrent roared, and we did buffet it with lusty sinews, st emm i ng it as id e , an d oaring it N . th hearts of controver s y"—" Gi ve me s ome d ll rink, T- tania"—" Drink, b o y s , d r i n k, an d drown du o the sorrow" i R —" Fo o r m l a ir s ooroiutndtroythmreonl,l ands uchcom comfort to t me for my —" lovers, Fello w cause, and be silent that you may he citizens, assembled as we aree truth upon andtthiss interestingheauty,,_ occasion, impressed with th e Isle of beauty, fare thee well r—‘i‘islie t pr a equ e a ni quality of mercy is not strained" -- “Magna veritas —" Truth is potent, and"—" Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors"— " Oh, 114:Ay you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity ; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what, weep you when you behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ?" Ha! ha r !—and I broke out in a fit of most horrible laughter, as I thought of the mincemeat par ticles of my lacerated jacket. In the meanlime the water had got well up towards my shoulders, and while I was shaking and vibrating upon my unc. stain foothold, I felt the cold nose of the captain , af the band snubbing against my side. Desperately, and without any definite object, I struck at one of hi 's eyes, and, by some singular fortune, cut it out cl can from the socket. The shark darted back and halted. In an instant hope and reason came to my relief, and it occurred to me that if I could only blind the rmonster I might yet escape. Accord ingly I stood ready for the next attack. The loss of an eye did not, seem to affect him much, for, after shaking his bead once or twice, he came up to me and agahl Wtter; he was about half an inch off, S ( 11. \ ?-:- \ i •.! .'7:`' „_fr 7-----. 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