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+~.~~~, LITERATURE. SCOTT'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, 2 Vols. Cudell, Edinburgh 1836. We Lave here Si r W. Scott's , " Tales of a Grand father ;" those, we mean, Nvhich refer to the History or Scotland reprinted in two volumes—for the use of schools. A better history for that purpose was neier yet published. It is embellished with a well engraved map of the country. WI NDSOR.-TUESDAY. Yesterday morning his Majesty reviewed the 7th regiment of Hussars in the Home Park. Their Majesties and suite were escorted to the ground by a guard of honour formed of the Roy a l B lues and Life Guards, and his Majesty was pleased to express his approbation of the manner in which the various movements were performed. In the evening the King entertained the officers of the re ment, and o f t h e regiments lying at Windsor, at a grand dinner in St. George's Hall. There were also many of the Ilezghbouri ng no b ility and gentry present, among whom we no ticd Lord A s hb rook, Sir William Freemantle, Miss Bathurst, " 1 .'33 Harvey, Si. Joh n Elley, Colonel and Mr. Mil man , a nd Sir W . and Lady Lumley, &c. Most of the Royal visiters took their departure from the castle this morning. To-morrow the Xing will bold a Council at St. James's. COURT CIRCULAR. Mr. Galvao, the Brazilian Minister, transacted business yes terday at the Foreign Office. tt42 / 4 The arquis of L ans d owne h as near l y recovere d f rom an a d i 44 7 for of M gout. Hi s L ordship left Lansdowne House yester- , his seat, Bowood Par Noble Marquis.k Wilts. The Marchioness of ansdowne accompanied the FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. st Lord and Lady Rancliff, at the Berners Hotel, Berners'- M reet, fr om their ; eat, Bunney-park, Nottingham; Vice-Ad iral from and the Misses Gosselin, at ditto, from their seat Ben .P 3 Hall, Hertf or d ; L a d y H arr i et D rummon d and hunt , ditto, fr om t h e i r seat, Albury Park, Su rre y ; Mrs. Fs and Mi ss Hunt, at ditto, from Italy ; G. P. Major. and tics. .Y.ajor, at ditt o , f rom C ornwa ll ; t h e R ev. J, ditto DEPARTURES. 11 ; 1 ' 11 6 Rev. Robert Biscoe, Miss Biscoe, and family, from the ~r o ors Flotd, Bernerm.street, for Cambridge; Captain wers, from ditto, for Nottingham; Alexander Grant, Esq., from Arlington street, for Paris. mraixauss L'dy and the Misses Conroy have arrived at Esher, from Tunbridge Wells. fa T he far qu i s an d M arch i oness of Downshire and mily have gone to Hillsborough Castle. G r ee lonel St ru t t an d t h e Baroness Rayleigh have left sve nor-square, for their scat, Essex. The E arl of Abingdon and Lady Charlotte Bertie L ave left town for WigthOrn Abbey. The Countess of Mulgrave has left Mulgrave Castle, for Dublin Castle. Lieut. e Hon. r Bosville Macdonald, °f the I st Life Guards, has th resigned his appointment on the S taff of the Lord Lieutenant, and returned to bead-quarters. 4 _ The Earl o f S efton has been entertaining the Earl nd Cou ntess of Cha r l ev ill e an d a se l ect party , at S to k e F arm, Perk s . party at the H oo, Welwyn. Some persons distinguished in lite • and the arts were guests on that occasion. The M arquis of Salisbury is on a visit to his friend t u lle Earl o f Aberdeen, at Haddo House, Meldrum, N. B. His ii ° _ r dship is on th e ere o f returning to the south, to join the arehiones s and his family at Dover. Lord Ge orge Seymour is gone to N orr i s C our t, I s l e of ight, fro Hampton Court Palace. Lord de linos left town last week for Paris. Lord Godolphin, in his splendid yacht the Anna, arrived in the Margate Roads on Monday last, f rom a cru i se . Lord P etre is entertaining a few s e l ec t f r i en d s at Thorndon Hall, in Essex. Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lady Charleville, Mr. , WS ayne, M r . B yng, L ord Fitzallan, &c., are at Newmarket week, on their way to Doncaster races. Lord and Lady Howden are entertaining at Grim 't4n Park Lord and L a dy A c h eson, M r. and Mrs. S. Adair, C e ptains Hotha m and D a lli ng , R . N ., and T. Price, Esq., of le raenthorpe. I , Lord Forrester left Gunton, in Suffolk (the seat of ' 1 " ° Earl of Suffield), yesterday, on a visit to Colonel and Lady — l , 4 . 4 rEt Meyrick, at Auberies, in Suffolk ; from thence his Lord s proceeds to Longshawe, to join the Duke of Rutland and a P a rty for grouse-shootine on his Grace's Yorkshire moors, after which the Noble Lord will return to his seat in Shrop shire, to receive a large party of friends during the autumn. Al r• Baron Bolland and Lady Bolland and family, Williamaoq, Es Yonne- Bart M. P., and Lady, Andrew Law delight ul I‘ll. young, Bart., fashionables, are visiting at the Sir Vfli l i n : T ir of Mrs. Lawrence, Studley Park. indispos Knighton, Bart., continues seriously The e at his house in Stratford-place. lion. Gen eral Upton and Lord and Lady Ri vers, Mr. Thomas S. Duncombe, and Lord Adolphus Fitz seatn.ce left tow n on Saturday for Auberies, in Suffolk, the or Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick. Colonel and at Lady Catherine B u lk e l ey h ave arr i ve d L ongford Castle, Wilts, from the N ew F orest . sbo l l . L owt h er, Esq., M.P., is exp ecte d to ta k e a rt tri H p to the Continent during the vacation. William Hutt, Es Countessq., and his Ldy, the Coun tess of Strathmore, have arrived at their scat,a Gibside, near Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Capt a i n L o f tus G ordon ' and Major Wilkinson are gene to the Highlands of Scotland. / 10 1\1 r. Kemeys Tynte has left town for Halswell use, Somersetshire. to „ 14 , rs• Th om p son , a l a d y o f f ortune res i ding at Chel te-aro has presented three clocks to the c h urc h es of that our t ot , a libe ra l an d we ll -t i nte d a gift it has seld om f a l len to to announce. te n l.4ol : c ! li Ashburto n h av i ng re f use d th e use o f Abbots /it f orTichborne w the H. H. races, ichten th c e s ya r r . e . this year to t a k e pl ace L , Down, near r ° RlCole a n d Si r Philip Egerton, it is known o n t rg all scientific men, have been long engaged in devoting leer° their ti me and money to the formation of extensive col or; t . °B el ohis head a rganic remains ; and due honour was give n t o th em t the l a t e meeting of Savans. tie sd G ai ish orne Park, th e seat o f t h e i n f an t L or d Rib tit e, son o f L ady John Russell, is to let during the mine " his Lordship. at Uxbridge alterations and improvements arc in progress pre House. p ar T , ", Spacious mansion adjoining Lord Ducie's, in „,•:lane, has been purchased by Col. Baillie. Or, the the decease of the late Lady Charlotte Denys, 13 4 r Pavi lieo, Sloane -street, Sir Francis and Lady Shuck it is e7ein a large accession of property. to be i held to be so excessively ungenteel to be known Ish o n town during the month of September, that persons tens avoid avoid it have been known to close their front shut back P a Per up their blinds, change their tradesmen, live in the .tii..ksettlements, and only take the air by owl light ; and all 'this not to be thought ungenteel I Lord ,of 1„_ Sidmouth has munificently offered six acres p ose ' c r e at Reading, as a free gift for the site of the pro °luny hospital at Reading, in which town his Lord- Plisieistuth•er' Dr' Addington, practised for many years as a alt ep li ,. a . r dwieke -II all, in D er by s hi re , h as b een un d ergo i ng lin e d and improvements; the principal staircase is now count eestors : wi th the sp l en di d ancient tapestry from Chatsv:orth, re ing the chival rous d ee d s o f t h e Duke of Devonshire ' s Th • th ‘t e Marquis of Hertf or d' s su i te i s so numerous than er y few foreign inns ca n manage to f east an d l odge more and family of this ext e n s i ve an d monopolising character, t h e on °l 'd Hertford' s p r i nce l y h a bi ts are a l rea d y too well known Isai e Contin en t to a d m i t o f competition. His Lordship for the N et h er l an d s t hi s day. ,x4Zde the t h at the intention which at one time Nav e „,, s o assemblin g Parliament aga i n i n t h e mont h o f Year -•••"°" is abandoned ; but that the two Houses will next •L eeds l e u c e.t.. early in January inste a d o f ear l y i n F e b ruary. _ rery. sp,,„ PuKE OF WELLINGTON'S PROPERTY IN n r evivinr , banner which reminds us of the war of 4 eseliC t , t depe %enee, the .Spanish revolution has deemed itself that' -e " f rom all gratitude to the man who most contributed foreifrom struggle towards freeing Spain from uttihl,,,i,evesien—the Duke of Wellington. The Granada t ee nation stupidly included the Duke's property, which was oo no. . dividu gift of liberated Spain, among such belonging to °r dina ry a o s, reputed Carlists, as it has exacted from an extra- T he ntribution._ Journal des Debuts. 41 an . 11 1:11e of The Beggar's Opera may be named can beuroirable collection of old English melodies. Nothing rito s uch eenly beautiful andoriginal than many of these. d: t wmusi c as this that the o country may appeal w . i . th s anent confidence, as affording an indisputable proof of kre.Tgies. —Alusical World. Vcip(7.l:gths_i..Zagtssllitoalldniaill,'fo_irt is said, has concluded an engagement Drury-lane, and has also succeeded . in en .ristitas for Malibran to sing twelve nights before b u • • tes ufo t r i t n g the late visit of his Grace the Duke of t4hee N ohleß nd ar i, e ,. E ad of Chesterfield in the County of Brecon Z._s 4 e L ndi n , ...lit out daily on the Duke's moors. After e i r • d ed t i le i n . e, 11 .0 11l on horseback in the morning, his Lordship w wn Le d ay , in such a way as to astonish many a elchm an I ,A arq u i s of When the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, r s t ie l d left orce)ster, and the Earl and Countess of Ches -0., '..inusk-.l.ark, the hospitable mansion of J. Bailey, unty , ney vislted the extensive iron manufactory at Illto4ttiuraet:r'e olifiltehre ihey w ere in' Lich interested in seeing the le finished iron e W11111)10 metal, from the smelting of the ore re a ttended on rail for the Birmingham Railway. They over the works by Crawshay Bailey, Es., q whose experience and skill as an ironmaster qualified him to give the noble party every information. ELOPEMENT.—Sorne time since the daughter of a gentleman residing at Camberwell, a young lady of great personal beauty and accomplishm en t s , di s appeared from h er father's house, and no traces of her could be discovered. Her parents were overwhelmed with distress, which, however, was in some measure alleviated by their receiving a letter the day after the flight, assuring them that she was well and in safety, and that they might rest satisfied they would hear from her again. What added to the mystery was, that the young lady had taken no clothes with her, except those which she wore on the day previous to her elopement. Thus things remained for near three weeks, no traces of the fugitive being discovered till Friday last, when the following curious circumstance led to the discovery of her retreat. A friend of the lady's father being at the Haymarket Theatre on the evening in question, his at tention was attracted by the appearance of a lady and gentle man, who were in the adjoining box to him, the former of whom he was persuaded be had seen before, but could not recollect when or where. At length, from some circumstance, he re collected that the resemblance of the lady which had struck him was his neighbour's lost daughter. After the play was over he watched them home, and saw them enter a house in Oxen den-street, Haymarket. The following morning he imparted his suspicions to the lady's father, who, anxious to satisfy his hopes and fears, immediately set off with his friend to the house in Oxenden-street, where be discovered his long-lost child. A satisfactory explanation immediately took place, from which it appeared that the lady was married to the gentleman who ac companied her to the theatre on the preceding evening, and who is the son of a most respectable clergyman, residing in the country. Immediate information of the circumstance was for. warded to the father of the gentleman, and affairs are in a fair way of adjustment. A list has been printed, by direction of the House of Commons, of all mates and midshipmen now serving in the navy who have passed their examination for lieutenants prior to January 1, 1835.. The number is 425 ; but since that period 173 have passed their examination at the Naval Col lege. Of the first number 86 passed in 1834, 76 in 1833, 52 in 1832, 62 in 1831, 54 in 1830, 36 in 1829, 12 in 1828, 13 in 1827, and Bin 1826. There. is lin 1816 and lin 1817 ; the remainder are distributed in the intervening years. _ _ On Monday week, between the hours Of ten in the morning and three in the afternoon, a dwelling-house, at Brompton•en-le-Morthen, was broken open and entered during the absence of the family, and two parcels of title deeds, wrapped in brown paper, and the probate copy of a will on parchment, &c. were feloniously stolen therefrom.— Doncaster Gazette. We are glad to find that a Society is likely to be formed in this country (similar to one in the diocese of Bath and Wells), in connection with the Incorporated Society in London for Building and Repairing Churches and Chapels. We hear requisitions are in circulation in the different dean neries to convene a public meeting of the laity and Clergy for the laudable purpose of establishing such an institution.— Dorset Chronicle. The Cour Royale at Orleans has just decided that pocket pistols are not to be considered as prohibited or con cealed arms. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary meet ing was held on Monday evening, when an interesting con versation took place on the ravages of a new species of aphes, described as a new blight by the market gardeners, in the vi cinity of the metropolis, which principally attacked the cab bage and broccoli plants. In the course of the observations it was stated that the best remedy that had been proved was equal parts of an infusion of tobacco and lime water, frequently cast over the plants. Some account was also given of the new silk worm, recently introduced to the notice of the Members, and a memoir was read upon some Indian insects, in a letter addressed by Mr. Benson to Mr. Kirby. Fulton is claimed as a native of New York, :and it was recently so stated by one of our city papers. This dis tinguished individual was born in Lancaster county, Pa., and came at an early age to this city to pursue the profession of landscape and portrait painter. fly this pursuit he realised, while here, a sufficient sum to purchase a farm for his mother in this State. At the acre of twenty-one he went to England, and became a pupil of Benjamin West, President of the Royal Aca , lemy, also a native of Pennsylvania. He remained in Europe till 1806, when he returned to this country, and set tled in New York, where be died in February, 1815.—Phila delphia Price Current. The German Courrier has the following, under date of Vienna, August 25 :—" The E m p eror an d E m p re ss of Russia, under the title of Count and Countess de Rostopchin, and the Hereditary Prince, will be present at the coronation at Prague ; the King of Prussia, under the title of the Count de Teck, will also attend this imposing ceremony, which will be surrounded with extraordinary magnificence. The Prince de Lichtenstein has already expended 250,000 francs in pre parations for it." The Diet, in adopting the project of reply to the French Note, has conciliated public opinion. Uniting frank ness and energy with courtesy, M. Monnard has achieved, in the happiest manner, the task of replying. Every line ex presses a full measure of Swiss indignation and susceptibility. The Commission was unanimous for adopting the project ; and the same unanimity took place in the Diet. The ballot pro claims this rare conformity of views and sentiments among the Deputies of the 22 Cantons ; Radicals and Ultra, together with the Moderates of all shades, were agreed on the great question of national honour and independence.—llelvetie. MRS. GRAHAM.—The following has been ad dressed to the editor of a morning paper:—" Sir,—l have this day visited Mr. Graham, and have great pleasure in announcing her perfect convalescence, and she may, I consider, now (with a proper invalid's carriage) be safely removed to town. " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, "JOHN POTTER, Surgeon. " Ongar, Essex, Sept. 4." A QUA TICS.—The Greenwich match amongst the apprentices was rowed on Monday, and won by young Holland, ssho bids fair one day to astonish the crack men of the river. CRICKET.—A grand cricket-match is to be played to-morrow at Bernard's-heath, St. Alban's, which excites much interest, as it is expected to be well contested. The parties are ten gentlemen of the Cashio Yeomanry, with their Cap tain, Lord Grimston, against eleven others of the three troops of South Herts Yeomanry. USEFUL INVENTION.—Much curiosity has been excited in Oxford by repeated trials of a new invention in tended to regulate the speed of carriages when descending a hill, by means of which the coachman can instantaneously or progressively lock both the hind wheels. The apparatus was applied to a four-horse stage, which was loaded with passen gers, and, on ascending and descending a hill, was found to answer all the purposes intended. The inventor then pro posed that the coach should be taken down the hill without the horses, and it was frequently stopped while proceeding at the rate of twelve miles an hour. Many practical Gentlemen bad ample proofs of the principle of the invention by having the coach lifted up, and the two bind wheels allowed to turn free on the axle, when it was found that a two-pound weight, placed on the extremity of the wheel, would gently bring it round, but when the first degree of retarding power was ap plied, it took a weight so placed of fifteen pounds to bring it gently round ; the second degree thirty-six pounds; the third degree fifty-six pounds; and the fourth degree three quarters of a hundred; but with this weight no one person was capa ble of moving . either wheel on its axle. Mr. R. Pearson, or ganist of the city church, is th e i nventor . —O x f or d P a per. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the King and Queen public-house, Hare street, Bethnal-green, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on the body of James Henney, a silk-weaver, aged 25 years, who had flung himself into the Regent's Canal on Saturday last. John Monier said that the deceased married his daughter about fifteen months ago, and in nine months afterwards she died during her confinement. Her death had very much affected the deceased, who was very much attached to her, and drove him to drink a good deal, and latterly he exhibited symptoms of unsoundness of mind. On Friday night he slept at his (witness's) house, and the following morning he got up at six o'clock and went away, after which he did not see him alive. Juror—Had he been to Bartholomew Fair ? Witness—l don't believe he had. Juror—My reason for asking you was, that on this day twelve months we had an inquest on a young man in this neighbourhood under nearly precisely similar cir cumstances to the present. The young man in that instance had been to Bartholemew Fair, and having seen something there that displeased him he returned home and drowned him self.—" Temporary Insanity." A gentleman residing in the vicinity of this town (Derby), nearly two years ago gave directions to the keeper of his lodge gates, to offer employment to every able-bodied man who solicited aims, at 2s. a day and a pint of ale. Dur ing the time that has since elapsed, this offer has been made to 150 beggars of this description ; out of that large number only one accepted the offer, and he was employed in the gar den ; he did not stop above three or four days. One of these idle rascals, on being expostulated with, said he had rather beg than work—it was a better trade ' • that was a poor street in which he could not get 3d., and he could go through twenty in a day.—Derby Reporter. OPIUM EATING IN INDIA.—Mr. Kerr tells us that in the famine which prevailed in the East Indies, in 1770, opium was purchased by the unhappy sufferers, at exorbitant prices, to allay the cravings of hunger, and to banish the dreadful prospects of death. My friend Col. Kemp, of the 13th regiment of Bombay infantry, tells me he also has known opium used by the Indians, during a famine, to allay the pains of hunger, though not to banish the prospect of death, as above stated ; since no persons meet death more easily than the na tives of India. Colonel Kemp also tells me that the astonish ing marches made by the Pindaree horsemen were effected by giving the horses opium, their masters not having time to give them their usual f00d.... f. Pereira's Lectures, in Medical Gazette. POPULATION OF BEDFORD.—When the census was taken in 1831 the population of Bedford was 6,900. From a return recently ordered to be taken by the Town Council, the population is said to be 9,850, being an increase of about 3,000 souls in six years. In the latter calculation it is said that several houses have been admitted, and it is generally supposed thz.t had Lord John Russell been fully aware of the anti-Malthusian principles of the Bedford people, the peti tion Quarter S ess i ons wou ld no t h a ve for been refusedthe retnoevtla the inhabitants. of the iith bitants. - , Northamptonshire, attention has been attracted to the sale of Mr. Garratt's celebrated dock at Great Harrow den, which took place on Wednesd ay l ast. The sheep, natives of the county, combined all the grand points sought after— sir', quality, and wool. They fetched high prices :-638 guineas was given for 49 shearling,s ; 42 two-shears brought 416/. 16s. ; twelve others were sold for 1291. 13s. ; and for 228 ewes and theaves 1,195/. 15s. were paid. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. ISP6. THE NEW REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS. The following is a copy of a circular letter which has been issued to the clerks of the Boards of Guardians throughout the country : " Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset House, August 27, 1836. " SlR—The Commissioners of Poor Laws for England and Wales re quest you to call the immediate attention of the Guardians to the im portant public trusts with which the Legislature has invested them by the provisions of the Act of the 6th and 7th William IV., cap. 86, for the establishment of a registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England ; and also of the Act of the 6th and 7th William IV., cap. 85, fa* the regulation of marriages in England, which Acts received the Royal Assent on the 17th instant. " The Commissioners have (Erected that a copy of each of these Acts shall be herewith transmitted for the information of the Board. " On reference to the 7th section of the Act for the establishment of a registration of births, deaths, and marriages, it will be perceived that the duty which first devolves upon the Guardians is to divide the union into such districts as they may deem the most convenient, and as the Registrar-General may approve, to be registrars' districts' for the registration GP the births, deaths, and marriages which may take place within them. " It will be perceived—(l) That the division into districts must be made—(2) The districts named, and—(3) A statement of such proposed division forwarded to The Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,' for his approval, on or before the Ist day of October next, " The other duties (in relation to the last-named Act) with which the Guardians are invested are less pressing as to the time of their perform ance; but the Commissioners now advert to them because the conside ration of the appointments of the local registrars may, to some extent, influence the determination of the proper districts for registration. " In case you, as the clerk to the board,should not yourself think fit to undertake the office of superintendent registrar of the district, or should not be deemed to possess the qualifications which the Registrar General may, by any general order, declare to be necessary, or in case your ap pointment should not be approved by the Poor Law Commissioners, it will then be the duty of the Guardians to appoint some other person who possesses the requisite qualifications to be the superintendent registrar. " It will next be the duty of the Guardians to appoint persons to be registrars for each of the registrar's districts into which the union shall have been divided. " Each person appointed as a local registrar must possess such qualifi cations as the Registrar General may by any general rule declare to be necessary. If the person appointed as registrar by the Guardians be an officer of the union, his appointment will be subject to the approval of the Poor Law Commissioners. " The duties of the registration of the births, deaths, and marriages (which it is expected on the average may be about twenty-nine births, nineteen deaths, and seven marriages, in every thousand of the popula tion), will not in general suffice to occupy more than a small portion of the time of any person within a district of convenient distance from the local registrar, or from the superintendent registrar, and the probable emoluments would be inadequate to obtain the exclusive services of a person properly qualified; as the duties may also, in general, be conve niently performed by the paid officers of the union, from the tenor of the Act it is suggested that it was the intention of the Legislature that the several offices should be performed by the paid officers of the union, where no obstacles to that arrangement exist. " The Commissioners trust that when the time arrives for nuking these appointments, the Guardians will appoint those officers whose ordinary duties are the most consistent with the duties of regis tration. It appears by the schedule (B) appended to the afire. said Act, that the Legislature has declared that in the registration of deaths, the cause of death shall be recorded; it is evidently impor. tent that this record should be made with care and exactness; and for this purpose the Commissioners consider that the public would derive advantage from the duties of the office of registrar being per formed by a medical officer of the union, when those duties are not in consistent with his engagements, and he may be disposed to perform them. " These officers will be the better qualified to perform these duties, amongst other reasons, from having been accustomed, in pursance of the orders of the Commissioners to keep a register of the sickness and mortality amongst the classes in receipt of parochial relief, in which re gister it has been prescribed that the known or supposed cause of the disease and death shall be recorded. " Where the medical officers may decline accepting the office of regis trar, it appears to the Commissioners that the class of officers next best qualified to perform the business of registration are the collectors of the peor.rates appointed by the Board of Guardians. " The Commissioners are of opinion that where paid collectors are appointed, or may be appointed, to collect the rates for the union, those officers will, as compared with the relieving officers, possess superior qualifications for the performance of the duties of the office of registrar, inasmuch as the business ofcollection, with occasional and comparatively rare exceptions, requires them to visit every house in the union, and in the occasion of such visits gives them opportunitiel ofmaking inquiries with relation to the business of registration. The duties of the collec tors are isl other respects regular, and it is also their duty to make en. tries, as collectors, with exactness and regularity, which are the quail& cations of a registrar, " Where any medical officers are willing to accept the office of re gistrar, and an appointment is made from the officers of another class, the Commissioners request that the reasons for the preference may be stated to them, in order to judge of their adequacy, as grounds for the approval of the appointment. So also where the paid collector of the rates of the union is willing to accept the appointment (the medical officers being unwilling), but a preference is given to an officer of another class, it is requested that the grounds of the preference should be fully stated. " Where paid officers of the unions are appointed as registrats, it is desirable that registrars' districts should as far as possible be made coin cident with the district of the officer appointed ; that being usually a district traversable from one extremity to another in the daily perfor mance of the duties of the office. Each district must, however, be made coincident with known boundaries, such as those of parishes, townships, or hamlets. " The Commissioners have mer ely indicated such arrangements as it appeared to them would be found most conformatle to the business of the union, and to the attainment of the objects of the Legislature, as re gards the business of registration. " You will obtain by reference to the Act itself, the requisite infor mation as to the particular duties of the officers, and as to other material points, which do not come within the province of the Commissioners. " Signed, by order of the Board, EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary. " To the Clerk of the Board of Guardians." The following is a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Poor_ Law Commissioners, in answer to an inquiry as to the formation of temporary districts for registration : " Poor. Law Commission Office, Somerset House, 1836. " In reply to your letter of inquiry with relation to the appointment of local registrar, the Poor-Law Commissioners for England and Wales direct me to state that wherever there is any immediate prospect of any parishes which are not placed under the control of a Board instituted under the Poor-Law Amendment Act, being in the course of the pre_ sent year included in an Union, it will not be conducive to the objects of the Legislature to form temporary districts for registration, or appoint officers, or mate other arrangements which must be superseded when the parishes are placed under the control of Boards of Guardians, " The Commissioners will not, therefore, exercise their power of ap pointing local registrars until, from the progress made by their Asst s . tant Commissioners, it should appear that the public business would be more impeded by the delay in the formation of Unions, than by th e change of the arrangements when the temporary districts and the tem porary officers shall be snperse , ded by the paid officers of the new Unions. I have the honor to be, Sir, " Your very obedient servant, "EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary. " The Commissioners are unable to inform you as to the time at which any proceedings will probably be taken with relation to the district for which you propose yourself as a local registrar." In the night of the 24th ult., a tremendous storm raged at Auch, in the Gers. The gusts of wind were so vio lent, that several houses were blown down, and upwards of forty of the inhabitants crushed to death in the ruins. The whole country round is rendered desolate. The vineyards are totally destroyed. About five weeks ago a weaver, residing in Green.. street, Arbroath, named Robert Mill, interred his wife in the churchyard of Arbirlot, after a very short illness. It was im mediately whispered that the husband had acted foully, and that a public inquiry should be instituted to satisfy the relatives of the deceased. The rumour acquired strength from various circumstances ; and on Monday week the public authoritie s having become acquainted with the current suspicion of mur der, caused Mill to be apprehended, and the body to be disin. terred, when the stomach and viscera were extracted by sur geons, in order to be tested by a chemical process. The ex citement of the populace was extreme during the whole of the time occupied by the examination of the medical gentlemen, which lasted till midnight on Tuesday. Mill's deposition was to be taken on Wednesday morning ; but, ere it dawned, he had gone to give his evidence at another tribunal 1 The jailor, on going to his apartment, at 7 o'clock, found him suspended to the iron stauncheons of the window, and Dr. Cochran, upon being called, declared him to have been dead several hours before. From the exceeding smallness of the cord, the in dent in the neck was fully an inch in depth, and it was rather a surprise that the cord did not break. There was no cover ing on the body hitt the shirt, which shows that he had formed the fearful resolution while in bed, and had instantly put it in force. The result of the examination of the contents of the stomach of the wife has not yet transpired. The public are naturally construing Mill's suicide as an index of guilt, but now, as a matter of course, no accurate judgment can be pro. flounced. We learn from the Gentleman's Magazine, that in the year 1765, a petition of the peruke-makers was presented to his then Majesty George 111., setting forth the distresses of themselves, and an incredible number of others dependent upon them, from the almost universal decline of the trade, oc casioned by the then mode of men in all fashions wearing their own hair; and by the French hair-dressers continually pouring in upon this nation, by whose artifices, and the facility with which the British public are inclined to prefer French skill and taste in every article of dress, they were deprived of a great part of that pittance which the change of fashion still left it in their power to obtain. To this petition the King re turnea a kind and gracious answer, assuring them that " he would at all times use his best endeavours to promote their wishes." In ridicule of this sally of the barbers, a mock peti tion was set on foot from the Company of " body carpenters," as they were styled, imploring his Majesty to wear a wooden leg himself, and to enjoin the same honourable badge upon all his Court. It is stated that within seven miles of Kiddermin ster there bad not, for twelve weeks, a drop of rain fallen in the neighbourhood. In some parts of Gloucestershire leaves were plucked from the trees, with which the cattle %vac fod dered, owing to the scarcity of grass. A SUITABLE SIGN.—The following very appro• priately connected sign may be seen at Dewsbury Agent for the sale of Morrison's llygeiau pills." Just above is Brown, joiner and coffin maker."—Do n caster Ga zette. _ It is worthy of remark that on the Oxford circuit there was no trial for murder; whereas; on the previous cir cuit there were no less than 12 trials for murder. On this circuit there was an unusual number of persons tried for high way robbery and housebreaking, committed with great per sonal violence ; and three of the former, who were natives of the sister kingdom, were executed at Shrewsbury. HERRING FISIIING.—This occupation, of so much importance to Berwick, Spittal, and its neighb o urhood, has latterly proved very successful. The shoals of herrings off the coast have been great. Several boats deeply laden have lately entered the river, and the average has been no less than from 25 to 50 crans per boat. The herrings arc also of a superior quality. A CORONER'S INQUEST. (From the new a::d most amusing Novel " Bilberry Thurland.") AN EXACT MODEL OF MANY GREAT MEN'S ORATIONS. Should the reader feel not in a mood for relishing moving scenes and affecting discourses, we hereby forewarn him not to proceed further in the perusal of this chapter than the present sentence. The death of Bilberry' s companion was sufficiently touching ; but we may venture to assert that the inquest upon his body, and the solemn deliberations of the jurymen, will be found beyond comparison to excite pity and terror to a much more fearful degree. So much un tutored sapience, so deep a gravity, as were then shown, and so many tender hearts as were there assembled together on such a tragical occasion, surely cannot fail to excite piti ful emotions in the breast of whoever shall peruse this story. And yet we know there are in the world a kind of pumpkin headed witlings who love to snake an exhibition of their philosophy by laughing over a corpse, and turning to mirth the collected sagacity and feelings of a whole parish or hun dred. If the reader be one of this kidney, we pronounce him a goose beforehand, and recommend him to lay our book down, that he may violate no man's pathetics by an unseasonable merriment. For, though it be admitted that some people do clothe their grief in a very odd garment, yet should he once open his mouth to laughs before the ver dict is finally given, he may, without further consideration or inquiry, set himself down as a cinder with not a single tear in his tanks. Throughout the preceding evening the parish constable had been so busily employed in summoning together the brain-pith and marrow of the place, that by half after ten on this melancholy morning there was scarcely a sage head within his jurisdiction that was not in attendance. Noah's Ark was the sign adopted by the benevolent village publican who the evening before had given Bilberry half a pint of ale, and whose house was now selected for the holding of the inquest. Many of the sapient parishioners had objected to sitting over the body under such a sign, because it was so directly, and as it were in the teeth of Providence, opposed to a case of drowning ; while others of equal philosophic light took the matter in the opposite scale, and pronounced that no sign ever hung by man could be more appropriate to the case in hand, it having a certain connexion with the Great Deluge. And these last logician s were th ey th at carried the day, though their victory is not rashly to be taken as evidence of the better cause ; inasmuch as, when the case is fairly and impartially examined, it will be found that the most prevailing argument for holding the inquest there was, because there stood within ten miles round no, other house at which it could be held. The body having been .previously removed from the curate's house to the inn, there was plenty of time, before the arrival of the coroner and jury, for all tender-hearted people to gratify that certain strong curiosity which cannot but be felt on these unfortunate occasions, to inspect the corpse of the deceased. Very early in the morning most of the hangers-on and idlers of the village had assembled about the doors of Noah's Ark,—as curious a company of strange animals as ever entered the door-way of that more ancient vessel from which it took its name,—and by their numbers plainly pointed out that the place was about to become the scene of something extraordinary. In short, during several hours prior to the sitting of the inquest, it was a complete rendezvous for both the curious and the careless ; and might rather have been mistaken for the entrance to a penny show, than judged for what it was in reality. Numberless were the gossips who passed in to take a glance of the body, and came out to prophesy to one another by what means, if they had been tried, his life would in all probability have been restored. The good landlady herself, who by the great projection of her stomach might have been taken for a near relation to the famous Mrs. Burton, was all morning in a state of un common agitation in consequence of the recent melancholy event ; rising from her breakfast half a score times, and working. up and down stairs from the bar to the room in which the corpse was laid, and back again, like a perpetual motion ; lamenting all the while that such little things as him should be so suddenly cut off before they bad arrived at the age of manhood. The bar-maid, a pretty creature,—the kitchen-maid, an other pretty creature, with red fore-arms like two mangel wurzel roots,—and the out-of-door-work wench, a sweet specimen of full-grown female mortality, had never any one of them seen a dead body in their lives ; but knowing that they themselves must eventually come to the same condition, they expressed an earnest and serious desire to behold the body, that they might be the more forcibly reminded of their own latter ends : therefore, with permission of their mis tress, each one of them, severally and respectively, took a very alarming look at the poor creature on the table. In like manner also, until the assembling of the jurors, was a great body of the virtuosos, curiosos, and antiquarians of the village wonderfully gratified. When the combined brains of the country side were brought to a point, and the coroner for that division of the county had taken his official seat, Bilberry was summoned as a principal witness. When he entered the room, two or three purblind jurors mistook him fbr one of the curate's scarecrows ; since, as he now learned for the first time, that gentleman was in the habit of dressing sticks in his old clothes, just as he had dressed witness, and erecting them, like so many clerical students, along the borders of his onion beds and pea-rows. This degrading mistake being rectified, Bilberry was called upon to state what he knew touching the accident by which the poor youth, over whom this in quest was held, had lost his life. In answer to which our hero had the surprising satisfaction of telling over again, for the third time, the same astonishing tale to nearly the same audience ; since least three-fourths of the jurymen were present the previous evening when he first told it over the landlord's ale, while the remaining few strangers had doubt less heard it repeated by every mouth they had met on the high-roads ) since. The majority having thus some small previous insight into the facts of the case, he was not troubled with many questions and was soon dismissed. Next were called in the men who had fished the body out of the mill-dam, whilst half the population of the village, either as aiders and abettors or spectators, waited outside to attest, if needful, the truth- of their statement that it was taken out, one of the selected jurymen having previously propagated his belief that the law required much evidence on that particular ; so that every charitable soul, wishing to forward the ends of justice, thus generously left his pri vate business at a stand•still in order that he might attend to the business of the public, which would have gone on equally well without him. These men having deposed to the taking out, and, by dint of much speaking, at length satisfactorily answered the interrogations of the learned jury as to whether the head or the heels came first,—if the beat ing of the heart could be perceived,—and whether the boy spoke after being taken out or not, were dismissed likewise. Then four huge fellows, whose bare words could hardly be taken, deposed on oath that they drained him, and found the body like a bottle of liquor. Various other sequent and less consequential matters having also been attested to, the jurymen felt satisfied with the perfect fulness and truth of what had been adduced, and proceeded to take a view of the body. Then the coroner addressed the jurors in the following eloquent speech, which we give exactly as delivered by the official orator himself : " Gentlemen," said he, " on rising to address you on this heart-rending, awful, and most tremendous occasion, .I am quite conscious that it is an absolute impossibility for any Jan- - guage, either English, Greek, or Hebrew, to do justice to the most amazing excitement of my own feelings. Feeling as I do, Gentlemen,—and feeling as you also must do, 1 think your own feelings will better explain to you how I feel than— than—in fact, Gentlemen, to sum it all up in a few words, I feel myself to be of the most wretched description. " Having this poor boy here before us lying dead, and at full length, like a spring-onion pulled at an unexpected mo ment from its parent earth,—viewing, as we all do, this corpse before our eyes, stiff in death, and returned to it's mother dust,—perceiving, as even the most ignorant of us must perceive, that death in like manner will in all proba bility one day or other make us no more than the equals of this ; what emotions, what sublime and terrific sensations, must fill our minds! For my own part, Gentlemen, I must saY,—and 1 speak it with all pomposity,—l feel very grand ; and at the same time that I express that sentiment, I shall beg also to be permitted to hope that I may be allowed to express anoth er . A n d what i s this other ? It is one, Gen tlemen, in which I confidently trust to find you all unani tnously acqueeze with me. In plain language then, and to come at once to the business of this morning, I trust, Gentle men, it will be universally admitted that you have now heard all the evidence which has been delivered in your hearing. • That is a position which, let me trust, I may assume with confidence ; for I hope no doubt remains upon any of your minds of your not having heard what has been advanced by this respectable body of witnesses. However, it still, not withstanding, yet remains with me, as coroner for this north ern division•of our native county—a county which I may say, without flattery or egotistical insinuations, contains with in its own limits some portion of the first intellect of the known world,---!'a county, Gentlemen, in which the best hogs are bred, and which abounds in that pride and ornament of the human race, lovely and delicious women ; a county celebrated in the annals of our island as the scene of some of our most determined and obstinate elosagenients with those northern barbarous invaders the much-boasted Romans ; though, if I am to express my own opi nion upon the character of that foreign people, of whom some of the most learned of us have read the history of the notor i ous Doctor Goldsmith, a clever man i n his way, but w h o met With but small encoura gem ent, which I am sorry to say is too often the fate of genius ; for —would you believe it, gentlemen ?—I have read in some of my book s t h at Mr. Goldsmith lived once in Green- Arbour -court, which I am happy to be able to inform you, from my own ocular inspection, as I have been in London, is a nasty, dark, contemptible alley against that huge pri son the Old Bailey. —The Old Bailey, did I say ?—yes, gentlemen, the Old Bailey, that sink-bole of corruption, and all that is abominable in human nature. For surely, gentle men, it can be no new information to you, that all the scum and off-scouring of society is daily poured into the prison so • called ; though, for what reason, I believe is not satisfac torily known. If then, gnntletnen. as a n'itive of this comity, and a subject of these mighty realms, whose dominion of the seas is indisputed from the eastern to the western poles, and from the tropic of Capuchin to the tropic of Crab,—if, as a free-born Englishman, and a loyal subject of the Kin g , I may be allowed to express my private opinion of the Ro man nation, I shall say, in the beautiful language of one of our 'own newspapers, it was too contemptible to he worthy of notice. And with that I dismiss that shabby people from my recollection. " And now, gentlemen of tine jury, I am arrived at that part dray present charge in which I feel myself called upon to say a few words upon the subject of my speech. But I beg to observe in the first place, that it is not my intention to oc cupy much of your very valuable time in dwelling upon that with which you are already so well acquainted. It is needless for me to remark that when the body now before us was taken out of the water, all signs of life had fled. But, gen _ tlemen, I do feel it incvmbent on me to observe upon that fact ; that though to your well-known ignorance it might appear that therefore the vital spark itself was fled, yet I have to inform you hose in some particular cases a man may be drowned and alive at the same time. For this discovery I believe the world is indebted to the great Sin Isaac Newton, or, as he is sometimes poetically termed, the Immortal Bard of Avon. He it was, gentlemen, who first demonstrated that animation may be what is philosophically termed, suspended ; as, for instance, when a man hangs himself up on a beam. There we have a proof positive of what that great oculist denominated sus pended animation. In the same manner, a body like this on the table may appear to your weak eyes to be dead, when at the same time the vital spark is yet alive. Hence it is, that on occasions of this kind the body is blown into; either by bellows or mouth, for the purpose of setting that spark again in a blaze of life and glory. The present case, it appears, was not a case of this kind ; though the Reverend Mr. Jagger, our invincible curate, did try every remedy to no purpose. The boy, it appears, voluntarily went into the water ; therefore it is not a case of murder. There does not appear to have been any assault and battery committed by which an accident might have occurred : the whole cir cumstances are clear, and lucid, and translucent. In the last place, then, I hope you will consider amongst yourselves what verdict the case may to you seem to require ; and with that hope I throw myself with confidence on your integrity and good sense. " Firmly relying, gentlemen, on the proper discharge of your duties before this neighbourhood, the country, and the world, I leave the matter in your hands, fully convinced that you will speedily come to such a decision as shall seem in all its bearings of a character worthy to emanate from the suns of your superior wisdom." The coroner sat down amidst a buzz of admiration and applause. The jurymen declared they saw the merits of the case exactly as had been described in the excellent speech of their coroner ; notwithstanding which, there was an obstacle remaining to the giving in of their verdict,—they could not agree in their opinions ; almost every man having one peculiar to himself, and which he esteemed as too highly valuable to be surrendered merely for the sake of pleasing his neighbours. One was for a verdict, that the deceased died by the visitation of God ; another, for temporary in sanity ; a third, for cramp in the stomach ; while a fourth long-headed fellow, more deep than all the rest, would neither agree with his friends, nor deliver an opinion of his own beyond this,—that, bring in whatever verdict they might, a deodand of six shillings-the value of the boy-- ought to be laid on the river. This notion was set aside by the coroner himself, who burst into a loud laugh, and inquired of the philosopher who promulgated it, from whence he would get his money. They argued two hours in the endeavour to reconcile one another to the adoption of cne general opinion, but at the expiration of that time they were farther off an agreement than at first ; having only talked up their individual bi gotry and perverse stupidity, instead of producing mutual conviction : the burden of each one's song being, that he had as good a right to his opinions as others had to theirs ; they on the contrary replying, that they also had the same right to their opinions as he had to his. And thus, between their mutual rights, all went wrong together. Seeing no prospect of a conclusion, the coroner at length put in : but it was only like stirring up the fire. They flared and flamed ten times fiercer than ever ; began to denominate each other the most stupid and bigoted fel lo xs that ever ate cabbage and bacon ; and finally would have fallen to a general and indiscri*iinate basting of one another's hides, had not the coroner interposed with some very severe remarks upon their conduct, and called upon them to remember—what in all probability they had no perception of before—that they were men and Christians ; concluding his harangue by informing them that they had better settle their verdict at first, one way or another, for they could not leave the room until they did. True or untrue, no one present was able to doubt his word ; and as this alarming statement carried great weight in empty stomachs,—for many were now pining for their beans and beer,—the scale began to turn a little. The village baker, who bad been all the morning the most noisy and strenuous oppositionist in the room, taking- out his watch at this moment, found it was high time his pies and bread were drawn. " Gentlemen," said he, " if Ido not go directly, I shall have my oven spoiled ; so, for God's sake, bring in some sort of a verdict—l'll agree to any thing you like. They are burning now, I know they are. I could almost fancy I smell them. Do let us agree to something." This short but pathetic appeal was not lost upon them : they all expressed their readiness to prevent so dreadful a sacrifice, or else it is not to be conjectured by what happy circumstance their discordant opinions would ever have been reconciled. Five minutes more had scarcely elapsed before they gave in the following verdict :—" Mr. Coroner—We sec it is out of the question getting us all of a mind, so me and two or three chaps hereabout have agreed amongst ourselves to say as how we think this young fool went into the welter of his own accord ; and as that argues that he drowned hisself of his own voluntary motions, we are determined to bring it in as ar vardick that he was guilty of a fellow d'ye see." The coroner told them that would not do ; they must all be of one mind, and consider whe ther accidental death was not the most proper verdict. " Well, stir," replied the foreman, "onythink as you think well : we'll say onythink. Put it down as we are all of a mind that it is natteral death from natteral causes." The coroner complied with this, and the investigation ended. By the death of Captain Sir Christopher Cole, K. C. 8., a vacancy has occurred for a Colonelcy of Marines, which, it is said, will not be filled up.— Greenwich Gazette. In a recent public lecture•delivered at Stocjaon, on the evils of intoxicating liquors, the speaker gave the following graphic description of their effects, viz., that they were " knock-downable," but not " get-up-able." The enemies of this cause must admire the eloquence if not the argument of this sage._ Shields Observer. Mr. Tyler, the land-agent and steward of the Earl of Egrcmont, lately deceastd, has left a property to his rela tives exceeding in value three hundred thousand pounds. This gentleman was another and an honourable instance of merit and activity raising their possessor from an bumble station in life to respectability and fortune. A girl, named Ann Revil, only 17 years old, an ap prentice to a milliner in Salisbury-square, Nottingham, poi soned herself on Thursday morning, under rather extraordi nary circumstances. It appears that she had been keeping company with Robert Webster, by whom she was in the family way, and that he had treated her with great coolness in conse quence, which preyed on her mind. ;The called early in the f morning at a druggist's shop, and purchased half an oul , ce , o i, arsenic, saying it was for her mother to put on the bedstead, and went to Webster, to whom she gave a watelapler, poison, g him to keep it for her sake; she then divided . giving him half, and telling him she would take it t i t t a . while He pretended to put it to his mouth, but threw I,l7.cay.would. very sick she drank up the other half. She speedily l, Dy d without effect, and and ill, and the stomach-pump she died . in the course of :le Sc was returned.— Friday morning, and a verdict of Fein Nottingham Journal. th© a d a a s y. a. ? A i n ' inquest was held on . LORD CLIV.E tive sight to observe who in a few years was to raise .--It is a -curious and not tnnstruc the man ' talents and heroic daring., to an himself by his commanding all his t ' • coua rymen in the acknowledged pre his first touching the shores of East, for several months f a h t i e s r future glory,acknowledging ' that that country, the scene o in . pre-eminence above with a sensitive diffidence, from the exertion of introducing h imse lf . Though he knew not one family it, and shrinking,. • affectionate, he was wayward and reserved. From this time when Madras was taken, there are n o accounts of him, except some anecdotes, tending to p rove t h at he was very till 3im ,17 46p ill suited to the condition of life in which he was placed. His impatience of controul and wayward and impracticable firmness never forsook him. On One occasion it appears that his con. duct to the Secretary under whom the writes were placed on their first arrival was so inconsistent with the rules of official discipline that the Governor, to whom it was reported, com manded him to ask that gentleman's pardon. With this order he complied rather ungraciously ; but the Secretary imme diately after, before his irritation had time to subside, having invited him to dinner, " No, Si r ," rep li e d Ci ve, " t h e Gover nor did not command me to dine with you." He is stated to have hazard e d, on more than one occasion . , the loss of the ser vice, by acts of wildness ; and a story was long current that, either in a fit of despair or of low spirits, to which he was sub ject from his earliest years, he made at this period an attempt upon his own life. A companion coming into his room r in t Writer's -buildings was requested to take up a it out of the window ; he did so, and it went off. Clive, who d, pistol. and fire was sitting in a very gloomy mood, sprang up, and exclaimed, " Well, I am reserved for something ! That pistol," i to his astonished friend, " I have head."—Malcolas Lord Clive. t%lice snapped at my Own THE ARMY. (CIRCULAR.) Horse Guards, dept. 1. Slit; I have it in command to direct your special atten tion to his Majesty's warrant, dated the 18th ult., which has been transmitted to you by the Secretary at W ar , an d to express Lord Hill's desire that you cause the provisions Of that document to be fully explained to the non-commis sionel officers and soldiers composing the regiment under your command, impressing upon them, by every means in yOU7 power, a due sense of the important advantages thus held out to them as the reward of perseverance in obedience to their military superiors, and in general good conduct. The principal object at this letter is to enjoin command ing officers to take care that, so far as depends upon them, • none of the benefits conferred by the warrant in question shall be enjoyed by any but the well-conducted soldier : that nothing amounting to misconduct, in the ordinary ac ceptation and meaning of that word, shall on any account be overlooked ; and that every instance of misconduct shall be distinctly registered against the individual in the regi mental records, as to preclude the possibility of his coming into possession of either additional pay or pension, to which his behaviour as a soldier, and as a member of society, shall not have established his claim under the provision of the warrant. . The General Commanding-in-Chief is too well acquainted with the high principle of the officers of the army, and has too confid en t a re li ance upon t h e i r l ove o f or d er, discipline, and subordination, to suffer himself to entertain the re motest suspicion that any of them will ever lend their in strumentality towards obtaining for the unworthy any of those rewards which their King and country have provided exclusively for the meritorious soldier. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble servant, JOILIN Re A g I im A e C n D t. ONALD, A.G. Officer comm an di ng _ PARIS THEATRICALS. VARIETIES.—A drama, the precise qualities of which it would be difficult to describe, was brought forward here on Wednesday night, before on e o f the most closely-packed audiences we have seen in this theatre for years, founded, or purporting to be founded, upon the biography of Kean, the celebrated tragedian. It is entitl e d Ke (pronounced, iot o as the ajiche kindly acquaints the p u bli c, " Kinn "), Disordre et Genie, and is written by M. Al exan d er Du mas, who, we must take leave to say, has ues tn, but calculated m of the liberally upon the presumed ignorance of th e P ar i s i an pub lic, not only of the life of the actor i n question, commonest usages and customs of English society. We find Kean the idol of the public and the hero of Covent garden (a theatre at which, by the way, he never acted above a few nights in his life, Drury-lane being the scene of Kean's performances ; but let this pass), and also a perfect Richelieu in the beau monde, being contended for by ladies of the highest rank, and disputing the heart of Countess Kefeld, lady of the Danish Ambassador, with no less a personage than the Prince of Wales, who is his intimate friend. His , Royal Highness, how ever, rashly refusing his assent to Kean's modest request to yield up the lady to him, the actor takes occasion while acting Romeo to feign an access of lunacy, and insults his Royal friend before the public in the grossest manner, for which, in consideration of his great talents, the Prince only allows him to be transported for one year to America, whither he carries off a young lady, a certain Miss Anna Danby, the richest heiress, we are informed, in all Angleterre, but who, struck with Kean's genius, is determined to follow him, and become an actress. Into this framework is introduced a London pot-house, where the tragedian and a watermark treat the public to a regular " set-to," in which our hero, it is scarcely necessary to add, floors his adversary. Here a certain Lord Melvill is detected by Kean in an attempt to carry off the above-mentioned Miss Anna Danby, having basely inveigled that young lady to the public-house by writing her a letter in the actor's name. This Lord Melvill now refuses to fight a duel with Kean, because the latter is no gentleman ; whereupon the actor shows the Lord up in • his true colours before a number of his connives, and the nobleman is right glad to make his escape in a whole skin. We have also a morning scene after an orgie, in which Kean and three or four blackguards are discovered asleep over the wreck of their night's debauch ; with the visit of a poor Jack-Pudding, to request his old friend to assist him by a benefit, to which Kean consents, promising to enact Falstaff. Among the absurdities of this strange rhapsody, not the least amusing are the terms in which the London actors are made to address the audience, being invariably " My Lords and Gentlemen."—Galignani's Messenger. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—This mmning a good deal of interest was created by the ceremony of laying the founda tion stone of a new school attached to the Church of England, caused by a difference between the Clergymen of the Establishment and the members of the new Town Council, on the subject of the introduction of the Irish sys tem of education into the public schoOls of the former. When the Council determined upon adopting the Irish system of education in their schools, a meeting was called at the Amphitheatre, and a public subscription was en tered into, which, in a few weeks, amounted to the large sum of 10,000/. for the purpose of founding rival schools. This occurred about ten weeks ago. At the time the subject caused a good deal of controversy and heart-burn ing in the town, and the local papers were inundated with dissertations pro and con, on the Irish system of educa tion. The subject has been partially revived to-day by the ceremony which took place, and the large assemblage which congregated to witness it. About ten o'clock the children attached to the Church of England began to assemble in the yard of St. Peter's Church, and shortly after the procession began to move, headed by the members of the Tradesmen's Conservative Association, accompanied by banners and suitable inscrip tions, followed by the members of the Operative Conser vative Association. The followed the children, amount ing, it was calculated, to nearly 3,000 of both sexes. The procession was closed by forty Clergymen, dressed in their canonicals, preceded by the Rev. Rector Brooks, who was supported on his right by Sir Thomas Brancker, and. on his left by James Aspinall, Esq. (the ex-mayor) who acted in the capacity of treasurer. The site of the intended new building is in Bond-street, at the north end of the town, in the midst of a very nume rous and constantly-increasing labouring population. The procession having reached the ground the super scription on the plate was read, and the plate was then placed over the stone. James Aspinall, Esq., then presented a silver trowel to the .Rev. Rector, with snitable address. The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS then said, that his first duty was to express the pride and satisfaction which he felt in executing the trust which the committee had been pleased to confer on him. Liverpool, from being a small town, had risen during the last century to a high rank in the scale of commercial cities while, in the number and extent of her in stitutions she had been surpassed by none. Her benevo lence and liberality had kept pace with the increase of her wealth, and in administering to the wants and sufferings of those who were labouring ulider distress or sickness she proved that 'assistance was not asked in vain. But the occasion which had given rise to the present meeting had t a c ai displayed another feature in the character of th e town— it hadt the the principles ccall f, reli gion as shown ve as ahfathma it ottlyld, to rise assert a of that sacred faith in which they were all interested— in_ which they were • all brethre n . I t h a d proved that, while they were actively engaged in ' the business and pur suits of this life, they w ere b y no rocans insensible to the more important business of eternity. (Cheers.) How stood the case as regard e d the tow The present to wn council, at thencouncil and these schools ? suggestion of their educa tion committ ee , resolved to admit the system of education which prevailed in Ireland into their schools. That system might suit the peculiar circumstances ltr,asakin o d f o l f reland, and . might be found t o wor k well. ina en tered into b e t ween Protestant, Presbyterian, and Catholic, s order to bring the children of their respective modes of lorship h armon i ous l y together. But. the Bible was sacri fiv ced for the purpose of producing this result. TIM Irish system had been introduced into this town, where it was not wanted, where it did not apply, and therefore he could not help saying, that, so long as teat systenreontinued in opera tion, the Bible was-virtually excluded from the schools of the corporation. The march of intellect, as it had been called, was progressing with giant strides ; but while edu cating the people, he trusted they would never permit a spurious philosophy to interfere with the word of God. After a few other observations, the Rev. Gentleman con eluded by hoping that God would prosper their undertaking., after which the ceremony of laying the stone was gone through by the Rev. Gentleman, and shortly after the meeting separated. EXTRAORDINARY AMBITION.—it was the am bition of the late Dr. Hunt to fill up th e w h o l e of the large chancel window of his parish church with old stained glass. As be was too poor to purchase it, he begged, borrowed, and —ted it, whenever he had an eppoannitv ; and thus, by kil degrees, he left to his parishi oners one of the - finest windows in the kingdom. Whenever the doctor found a solitary piece or two of old glass in the window of some small country church, he endeavoured to procure it in some way or other. In one of his excursions, he had taken some trifling bits, as he thought, unperceived, but was followed and seized for the theft, tlie glass being found safely deposited in his coat : poel:ct. He would have been committed fur trial, had not his friends In tel cored and rescued him from his unpleasant prediennient.by restoring the g l ass to i ts former situat i on . would ne ver a d m i t that.he h a d acted - wrong n this respect,— ..-Inyler's Rambles. however, i