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I"' • int i n oi l , a,u00 0 0 . 0 ) itt, " I ' .1 MAGAZINES.-(CONTINUED.) POLYTECHNIC MAGAZL\'E. The periodical before us is a literary as well as a scientific publication, and the present Number, be sides containing an intelligent treatise on " The Connexion between the Geological Structure of a Country and its Natural Scenery," has also several well-digested and apparently impartial notices of new works, among which we find a brief favourable review of Mr. Neale 's tale of " Shepperton Manor." BRITISH MAGAZINE. Until lately, this Magazine was an advocate, though a moderate one, of the Tractarian tenets, but it has mow discovered the injurious character of this heresy, and.in the Number before us makes the aniende hono rable, in an article headed " Modern liageology," which exposes the fallacies of the Tractarians, and shows how close a connexion exists between them and the Church of Rome. BANKERS' MAGAZINE. As its title implies, this Magazine is exclusively devoted to the discussion of monetary matters, in which much kno ,vledge of business is exhibited. The, best article in the present Number is one on Savings' Banks. THE BUILDER. This is one of the numerous cheap weekly Maga tines so rife in the present day. It appeals to the tastes of a large class of readers, for it is not merely devoted to the consideration of architectural subject:: alone, but contains several entertaining and well written articles on literature, on the fine arts, on mechanics, and also on matters appertaining to agri culture. It is carefully edited, and the Part betore us, which is the eleventh, and forms a portion of the second volume, is embellished with a variety of cha racteristic wood-engravings. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. Among the most interesting papers in the present ISTtpnber, we rniv single out the one entitled the Naval Chaplains Note-book," which is penned in a light, gossipping spirit, and contains some anecdotes olthe once-celebrated Lady Hester Stanhope, and also of the Greek beauty whom Lord Byron has immor talised under the title of the " Maid of Athens." Of this young girl, we are told that " her height was moderate, and in person she was somewhat slender. Her rich dark hair was formed into a graceful ringlet on the crown of her head; her complexion was that of a brunette, and her dark umber eyes retained the im pressive wildness ascribed to them in the noble poet's °de." Of the remaining articles, the beiit is the " Glance at the Approaching Session," in which there are one or two useful suggestions on naval and military matters. COLONIAL MAGAZINES. Two monthly periodicals, both devoted to the con ideration of Colonial topics, are now lying before us, he one published by Simmons, and the other by Fisher. Each displays nearly equal care and skill in the getting up, and, in their remarks on our different Colonies, adopts a temperate and rational tone, steering clear of party spirit or exaggeration. CHURCHMAN'S MONTHLY RE VIE W. This periodical is a decided opponent of the Tree tarian tenets, for, in a notice of the Rev. Mr. Close's recent work, under the title of the " Restoration of Churches is the Restoration of Popery," we find the Reviewer observing that the Tractarians, " in what has recently issued from their press, have committed themselves to Popery in its whole length and breadth." The review is cleverly written, and is by no means deficient in spirit. RAILWAY REGISTER. • The Editor of this Magazine is a gentleman named Clarice, who, so far as we can augur from a first cumber, bids fair to acquit himself of the task of superintendence with great skill and judgment. The Work, as may be surmised, is wholly of a practical character, professing to be a monthly record of a engipeering and public enterprise, for railways, Canals, harbours, docks, mines, steam navigation, Patehts, inventions, &c: The present Number is em bellished with a curious sketch of a newly-invented life- boat ; and contains, among other articles of in• formati on , an ingenious essay on the popular subject of railway extension. THE FORTY-SHILLING FREE HOLDERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. toi et ciel t'aidera is an adage with our neighbours, although we need not travel so fur in search of its verification. A conviction of the truth of the I _ ili duge seems to be operating on the minds of a very ""'fie portion of the industrious and provident classes of this country. Deeply imbued with a conviction of the necessity of the abolition of our restrictive commercial C ud; the question with them has been, Who is to lead the forlorn hope?—for it appeared as doubtful in its result 6 4 it was desperate as an enterprise. Where was there 1 1 breach in the massive and apparently impregnable f ortifications of feudalism and monopoly? Its ramparts Could not be scaled without an apparatus too costly to "limey thither a sufficient numerical strength to cope *Pith and to defeat the defenders of selfish monopoly, and to expel the aristocratic exclusives from the citadel of 'our Constitution. With many the belief was strong that one who had attained to command among the mo bopolists would turn traitor to his professions, seeing that his origin was from among those who were ex 'eluded and oppressed, and in whom he had sedulously l aatilled a belief that he pitied their condition, and *mild relieve them to the utmost of his power ; but shoe who knew his deceptive character a ffi rmed that his 3t was to postpone the attack, for that he was afraid am his partisans would turn traitors to him and deliver Gls post up to his opponents. It was between these op route opinions that the mind of the country oscillated. • lt eeonnoitring parties frequently made observations, and „, i 'buoy were the schemes submitted to public considers m°ll, not one of which was practicable. It remained for the active and practical mind of Cobden to conce:ve the Van fur hi s c l ear an d com p re h ens i ve j u d gmen t t o cense adate the requisite power, and for his cool intrepidity to L _ d utd and guide the impetuosity of the attack on that reach whi c h hi s k een e y e a l one had di sce r ne d. His W and raised the standard of " The Patriotic Forty-shilling 'retholders," to which hundreds have flocked, while thousands more are anxious to enlist ; and it is to faci litate the attain men t of this object that I have presumed ° trespass on your attention. It is evident that in "4vidual exertion eannot accomplish it, but that com bLination and confidence is necessary to success, as free "old property in the environs of London is seldom to be turehased for less than 7001., and all small freeholds . k e tett more than their relative value, being eagerly pur -7."aBc, ed for the sake of the perpetuity. som e amount of capital is requisite for the purchase of property by a confidential party, and public opinion un- Nueetionably selects the Anti-Corn-law League as the It gent in whom truth and confidence might safely be re tred• The actual amount of capital so employed need comparatively small, provided the principle of a de- Pcmit bank were adopted. Suppose that land of the i t4i tte of 2,0001. or 3,0001. were purchased and divided tad portions of the value of 40s. a year, when deposits ®fi ght be required of such individual amount as would deuxburse the League for the original outlay upon which session might be prepared—for which an Act passed last ,'vssion gives great facilities—and delivered to the ZPositers for qualification and security, the parties Zetnselves having no real connexion with the property ~e _ ';eh might be let to some member of the Council and tr, let in allotments, or entire, the depositors receiving 'W il l the secretary only their 40s. a year. To accorn 4uate the system to the means of the necessitous of the t il ustrious classes, which ought to be a primary object in I,:. l consolidation of the system, depositors, upon giving ti ii ;ee to the secretary, and at the expiration of a certain tiz t i Should receive their deposit, the League substi s,hig another member desirous ol becoming an elector, 11" , e 4 Would greatly facilitate the registration of voters itn the accommodation of depositors in case of ne• :eel; this plan adopted, thousands might become pos taosed of the franchise, who otherwise, could never ob ,„`ll.that privilege ; while others of larger capital could t iZ,lf for the four metropolitan counties. But to make 11 ,. 1 Plan entirely successful, the power to withdraw is tit'onecessary. Calamity might overtake a small depo deal., and it is with that class the League will have to j ut When his small capital would become of the highest kkirtance to him. According to the success which may attend the ti oo g f l le Registration, so will be the measure of opposi s rern the supporters of monopoly. ° Ping as the present system of registration worked 1 0 ,the exclusive advantage of the protected classes, so atn would the supporters of monopoly be its most Biel upholders ; but as soon as they discover that ~i ic i ; t9 be turned to their absolute annihilation, no effort pi ed b e e wanting—no means will be scrupled at—no e „__g t ! will be regarded—to frustrate the exertions to 'Tate commerce and industry from the last rem -4"8 of feudalism. Should the efforts of the League promise success, there / 1 / 1, 1 ! he, next session, a second edition of Lord Stanley's l ul ) l 3 lieable Besides, there to England, despite the pledges to maintaines_t_ inviolable the franchise of the Rotor m Bill. is a precedent for such a proposal in the 1 61 , 1f d r , a b w e.hisernent of the forty-shilling freeholders of Ire ye._ same political privilege wes extinguished for the ,„„'•Yss public reasons that this will be attempted—to sup possibilit The biiFopinion, political rights, and national claims. attention of the country ought to be directed to the to yof such a scheme, and kept on the alert so as r t '• P j e e i pared to frustrate any such attempt, in the event the desirendg ef t f ru c tde before the new registration can have Altih..ou,gh, fa r t. from believing that every man to his acre if v s _ ;me panacea for England's ills, I yet think that av P r o e were let in allotments, at rents of the national v be lu t. e would prove an individual as well as a prOdUcerti t, by which the incendiary would become p auper s the poacher an honest cultivator, and the k! e a proprietor • and so the commercial classes, in eleu is as much ,"eLIPIkug themselves , • will help others, and so restore that Pride s — a bold the strength of a country as a country's when peasantry to a status in society—so that 'tie rce 11 ," trade crowd our ports, and extended. com the ittitaLeditniaultate our . industry, there will remain a class, and e creation of thepresent strugg l e, to record Learetbensber the • , existence of the Anti-Corn- law remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, * iztQn, Dec. 2, 1844. A IigO4I.ANIC. COURT CIRCULAR. A change has taken place in the intention which we announced respecting the Lying in State of the remains of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda, and we understand that the ceremony will now take place at the Ranger's House, at Blackheath, on Monday next, the 9th instant, from twelve to four o'clock. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time in the pleasure grounds adjoining the Castle this morning. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for air ings in the forenoon on the Terrace and pleasure grounds around the Castle. Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and. the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha to day. Mr. D. IS.lacnee had the honour of submitting to the Queen, in the presence of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemburgh, the portrait of her Majesty, which he has been commissioned to paint for the Municipal-hall at Glasgow, by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of that city. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was pleased, on the part of her Majesty and himself, to express his entire satisfaction at the manner in which Mr. M. had. fulfilled the commission entrusted to him. His Excellency M. Dedel transacted business on Tuesday at the Foreign-office, and embarked the following morning for Rotterdam. Mr. Ashbel Smith, Chargé de Affaires of Texas, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on the Ist inst., and has since left town for Liverpool, en route to Texa 4. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in White hall-place. There were present the Bishop of Llan datr, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Salisbury, and the Dean of Westminster. The Marquis of Bristol had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday, an•i resumed the appeal from the Preroga tive Court, " Jones v. Godrich." Dr. Haggard was heard in support of the appeal. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR CLAREMONT. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Reigning Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtern berg, will take their departure from the Castle on Saturday, for Claremont, where the Court will remain until after the funeral of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, which will take place on Tuesday next. According to present arrangements, the Court wit leave Claremont for Windsor oa Wednesday. THE LATE DR. THORN. We have received several communications from Eng lish residents at Calais, complaining bitterly of the con duct of the English authorities there in relation to the late unfortunate murder of Dr. Thorn. They consider that their interests have been neglected by the British Consul, and they attribute in a great measure the acquittal of M. Sallior to a memorial got up under his auspices, and signed by him and by twenty-two of the English residents in Calais. M. Martinez, the advocate of M. Sallior, in putting this memorial in evidence, said that those who signed it represented the wealth and respectability of the English residents in Calais. The great body of the English residents protest against this assumption. This memorial was got up in secret—there was no public meeting called on the occasion—it was privately hawked about for signatures—and only twenty-two, out of upwards of a thousand English residents in Calais and its neigh. bourhood, attached their names to this certificate of character for M. Sallior. The second name attached to this memorial is that of the clergyman ; and of ail the others, the only known name is that of Mr. Morton Dyer, the ex-Middlesex magistrate. The rest of the twenty-two are unknown to fame. The English residents, however, do full justice to the exertions of the Procureur du Roi, whose conclusions appear to have been unanswerable. The deceased and M. Sallior were observed standing closo together in the vestibule of the Hotel de Ville. Dr. Thorn was seen to fall by the sentinel, who picked him up and laid him on a table, while Sallior wen t i n t o hi s office. The sentinel was loosening Dr. Thorn's cravat when Sallior entered the vestibule and said, "My dear friend is dead— send for a doctor." The defence of Sallior was that he was so intoxicated, that he recollected nothing— that he knew nothing of what had occurred. " That is impossible," replied the Procureur du Roi, " for while the sentinel thought he was only intoxicated, you said that he was dead. You were the first to desire that a doctor should be sent fur." The Prefect of the department, too, exerted himself to the utmost in behalf of M. Sallior. This was but natural, for if, as has been stated, M. Sallior is an agent of the secret police, he might, had he been condemned, have made revelations which would have been anything but agreeable to the Go vernment; and as a proof of the extent to which the infamous spy system is carried in France, we may state that the English residents have deputed a mem ber of their body to bring their complaints personally to this country, because they are convinced that any letters which they might write on the subject would he stopped at the French Post. office. The reflecting part of the French community appear to be as dissa tisfied with the verdict of the St. Omer jury as the great majority of the English residents. With the feelings of the French, however, we have nothing to do, but the conduct of the English Consul in this affair certainly demands a searching inquiry. THE ICE TRADE IN INDIA. (From the Madras Atheneum.) Ice has become a great article of export in America -60,000 tons are annually sent from Boston to southern parts, the East and West Indies, &c. The ice-houses near the lakes and ponds are immense wooden buildings . holding 10,000 to 20,000 tons each ; some of them, indeed, cover half an acre of ground. They are built with double walls—that is, with an inner wall round, two feet from the outer one ; and the space between is filled with sawdust—a non-conductor, !making a solid wall, impervious to heat and air, and of ten feet in thick ness. The machines employed for cutting the ice are very beautiful, and the work is done by men and horses in the following manner :—The ice that is intended to be cut is kept clear of snow, as soon as it is sufficiently thick to bear the weight of the men and horses to be employed, which it will do at six inches ; and the snow is kept scraped from it until it is thick enough to cut. A piece of ice is cleared, of two acres in extent, which, at a foot thick, will give about 2,000 tons. By keeping the snow off it freezes thicker, as the frost is freely allowed to penetrate. When the time of cutting arrives the men commence upon one of these pieces by getting a straimht line through the centre each way. A small hand-plough is pushed along the line until the groove is about a quarter of an ii eh in width and three inches deep, when they commence with the " marker"—an implement drawn by two horses—which makes two new grooves parallel with the first, twenty-one inches, the gauge remaining in the first groove. It is then shifted to the outside groove, and makes two more. The same operations go on, in parallel rectangular lines, until the ice is all marked out into squares of twentj-one inches. In the meanwhile, the plough is following in these grooves, drawn by a single horse, a man leading it; and he cuts up the ice to a depth of six inches. The outer blocks are thou sawn out, and iron bars are used on splitting them. These bars are like a spade, of a wedge form. In dropping them into the grooves the ice splits off, and a very slight blow is sufficient to separate theta; and they split easy or hard, according to the weather in a very cold day. Ice is very brittle in keen frost; in comparatively softer weather it is more ductile and re sistible. Platforms, or low tables, are placed near the opening made in the ice, with an iron slide reaching from them into the water; and a man stands on each side with an ice-hook, very much like a boat-hook, but made of steel, with fine sharp points. With these the ice is hooked with a jerk that throws it on the platform on the sides, which are of the same height. On a cold day everything becomes covered with ice, and the blocks are each sent spinning along, although they weigh two cwt., as if they weighed only one pound. The slides are large lattice-work platforms to allow the ice to drain, and three tons can thus be easily run in one of them by one horse. It is then carried to the ice-houses, discharged upon a plat form in front of the doors, and hoisted into the building by a horse. 40 men and 12 horses will cut and stow away 400 tons a-day. If the weather be favour able, 100 men are sometimes employed at once ; and in three weeks the ice crop—about 200,000 tons—is se cured. Some winters it is very difficult to secure it, as rain or thaw may come that will destroy the labour of weeks, and render the ice unfit for market ; and then it may snow and rain upon that before those employed have time to clear it off ' • and if the latter freezes, the result is snow ice, which is of no value, and has to be planed off. The operation of planing proceeds in nearly the same manner as that of cutting. A plane guaged to run in the grooves made by the " marker," and which will shave the ice to a depth of three inches at one cut, is drawn by a horse, until the whole piece is regularly planed over. The chips are then scraped off. If the ice is not then clear, the work is continued until the pure ice is reached, and a few nights of hard frost will make it as thick below—inch for inch—as what has been taken off above. The ice is transported on railways. Each ice-house has a branch railway from the main line, and it is conveyed in properly constructed box-waggons to Bostoe—a distance of (as the locality may be) 10 to 18 miles. The tools, machinery, &c., employed, and the building the houses, and constructing and keeping up the railroads, &c., are very expensive ; yet the facilities are such, through good management, that ice can be fur nished at a very trifling cost per pound ; and a failure of the ice crop in America would be a great calamity. The Lambing season has commenced most favour ably in the Isle of Wight. This fine dry, open weather heA forwarded all the work of the farm. The young wheats never looked better at this seam. firiE SUN, LONDON, FR ID A Y EVEN tNG DECEMBER 6 1344. NAVAL STATIONS. (From the United Service Magazine fur December.) Acheron, st., 2, Lieut.-Com. B. Aplin, Mediterranean. Adder, 1, st., Master-Com. J. Hammond (act.), Pembroke. Advice, 1, at., Lieut.-Commander C. A. Petch, Pembroke. African, st., laster-Commander J. King (act. ), Sheerness. Agincourt, 72, Rear-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, Knight, Captain H. W. Bruce, China Division, East Indies. Aigle, 24, Capt. Lord .E. Paget, Mediterranean. Alban, 1, st. yes., Lieut.-Commander F. Lowe, Plymouth. Albatross, 16, Commander R. Yorke, Coast of Africa. Albert, st., Lieut.-Commander 0. Cumberland, Coast of Africa. Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer. C. 8., Lisbon. Alecto, at., Lieut.-Commander W. Hoseason, Mediterranean. Alert, 6, Commander C. J. Bosanquet, Coast of Africa. Alfred, 50, Commander J. B. Purvis, Rio de Janeiro. Alligator, 26, tr. sh., Master-Commander J. N. King, China Amason, 42, Capt. James J. Stopfurd, Sheerness. America, 50, Capt. lion. John Gordon, South America. Anson, 72, convict-hulk, Corn. F. R. Coghlan, Hobart Town. Apollo, ti, tr., Commander W. Maclean, Mediterranean. Ardent, st., Commander J. Russell, Coast of Africa. Asp, 1, st., Lieut.-Corn. W. W. Oke, Portpatrick. Basilisk, 6, Lieut. H. S. Hunt (act.), Pacific. Beacon, 6, sur. yes., Corn. T. Graves, Mediterranean. Beaver, at., Lieut.-Com. R. Sludge, Dover. Bee, st., tender for the use of students on board the Excellent, and at the Naval College, Portsmouth. Belvidere, 35, Capt. Hon. G. Grey, Mediterranean. Bittern, 16, Commander E. Peel, Cape of Good Hope. Black Eagle, st. ves., Master Corn. S. B. Cook (act.), Woolwich. Blazer, 3, st. yes., Captain J. Washington, Harwich. Bonetta, 3, Corn. T. S. Brock. Mediterranean. Bramble, 10, Lieut.-Com. C. B. Yule, East Indies. Caledonia, 120, Capt. A. Milne, Plymouth. Cambrian, 36, Capt. H. D. Chads, C. 8., Passage home. Carysfort, 26, Capt. Lord George Paulet, Pacific. Castor, 36, Capt. C. Graham, China. Ceylon, 2, Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart., Lieut. R. Curtis, receiving ship, Malta. Champion, 18, Commander J. Clavill (act.), Portsmouth. Charon, steamer, Second Master E. C. Rutter (act.), Dover. Cleopatra, 26, Capt. C. Wyvill, Cape of Good Hope. Cockatrice, 6, Lieut.-Com. J. Oxenham, Brazil,. Collingwood, 80, Rear-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, G.C.H., Capt. R. Smart, K. H., Pacific. Columbia, steamer, Lieut.-Com. J. Harding, N. America. Comet, steamer, Lieut. W. Prettyman, Plymouth. Confiance, 2, steamer, Sec. Mas. J. Jagoe (act.), Devonport. Conway, 26, Capt W. Kelly, (act.), Cape of Good Hope. Cormorant, 6, steamer, Corn. G. T. Gordon, Pacific. Crescent, 42, rec. sh., Lt.-Com. W. G. Hemsworth, Rio Janeiro. Cruizer, 15, Corn. E. G. Fanshawe, Chatham. Cuckoo, at., Lieut.-Corn. A. Parks, Weymouth. Curacoa, 24, Captain Sir T. S. Pasley, Bart., Brazils. Cyclops, 6, at., Captain W. F. Lapidge, Ireland. Cygnet, 10, C om. H. Layton, Coast of Africa. Dsedalus, 16, Captain P. M'Quhae, Woolwich. Daphne, 18, Captain J.. 1. Onslow, Pacific. Daring, 12, Corn. H. J. Matson, Portsmouth. Dasher, st., Master-Com. R. White (act.), Weymouth. Dee, 2, st., Master-Com. T. Driver, particular service. Devastation, 6, st., Corn. W. H. Kitchen, Mediterranean. Dido, 18, Captain Hon. H. Keppel, China, on passage home. Dolphin, 3, Lieut.-Com. W. O'B. Hoare, Rio de Janeiro. Doterel, st., Mas.-Corn. J. Grey (act.), Holyhead. Dover, st., Master E. Lyne (act.), Dover. Driver, 6, at., Corn. C. 0. Hayes, China. Dublin, 50, Rear-Admiral R. Thomas, Capt. J. J. Tucker, Pacific. Dwarf, at., Lieut.-Com. W. C. Chamberlain, Portsmouth. Eagle, 50, Capt. B. Martin, C. 8., Chatham. Eclair, st. yes. Com. W. G. B. Estcourt, Coast of Africs. Electra, 18, C om. A. Darley, West Indies. Emerald, ten. to St. Vincent, Sec. Mast. H. D. Beach, Ports. mouth. Espiegle, 12, Corn. T. P. Thompson, Chatham. Espoir, 10, Lieut.-Cora. C. Hadaway, (act. ), Coast of Africa. Eurydice, 26, Captain G. Elliott, North America. Excellent, Captain Sir T. Hastings, Knt., Portsmouth. Experiment, 1, st. v. Lieut.-Com. J. Harper, Lake Huron. Fanny, ten, to St. Vincent, Sec. Master G. Allen, Portsmouth. Fearless, at., Commander W. L. Sheringliam, Portsmouth. Ferret, 6, Commander J. Oake ' Coast of Africa. Firebrand, at. v ., C a pt. A. L. Corry, Portsmouth. Firefly, 2, steamer, Captain F. W. licechey, surveying Ireland. Fisguard, 42, Captain J. A. Duntze, Pacific. Flamer, Lieut.-C omman d er C. J. Postle, Mediterranean. Fly, 18, Captain F. B. Blackwood, East Indies. Flying Fish, 12, Corn. Robert Harris, Portsmouth. Formidable, 84, Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, K.C.8., Capt. G. F. Rich, Mediterranean. Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart, on passage to China. Frolic, 16, Commander C. B. Hamilton, Brazils. Geyser, 6, steamer, Commander Carpenter, Mediterranean. Gleaner, 2, steamer , S ec . M aster H. Hill, Bermuda. Gorgon, 6, steamer, Captain C. Hotham, Monte Video. Griffon, 3, Lieut.-Commander Jenkin, Sheerness. Growler, 6, steamer, Commander Buckle, Coast of Africa. Harlequin, 16, Commander Hon. G. F. Hastings, E. Indies. Hazard, 18, Commander C. Bell, East Indies. Hecate, 4, steamer, Commander J. P. Bower, Ireland. Heck, steam-vessel, Commander J. Du ffi ll, Mediterranean. Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Rickets, Cape of Good Hope. Hermes, 2, steamer, Lieut.-Com. W. arr West Indies. Heroine, 6, Lieut.-Corn. H. H. Foote, Carr, of Africa. Hornet, 6, Lieut.-Corn. R. B. Miller, West Indies. Hyacinth, 18, Commander F. Scott, West Indies. Hydra, 4, Commander H. B. Young, Coast of Africa. Illustrious, 72, Vice-Admiral Sir C. Adam, K.C.8., Captain J. E. Erskine, North America. Imaum, rec. ship, Commodore A. R. Sharpe, C. 8., Jamaica. Inconstant, 36, Capt. C. H. Fremantle, West Indies. Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, China. Isis, 44, Capt. Sir J. Marshall, Knt., K.C.H., Cape. Jasper, at., Master-Commander E. Rose, Pembroke. Lark, 4, sur. v., Lieut.-Com. G. B. Lawrence, West Indies. Larne, 18, Commander J. W. D. Brisbane, Coast of Africa. Lightning, 2, at., Mast. W. Roberts, particular service.. Lucifer, st. surv. v., Corn. Frazer, Ireland. Lynx, 3, Lieut.-Commander J. T. Nott, Ireland. Mastiff, 2, surv. v., Master-Com. Thomas, Woolwich. Medea, 4, steamer, Commander Warden, Mediterranean. Medina, 2, st., Master-Com. Smithett (acting), Liverpool. Medusa, 2, st., Lieut.-Commander J. G. Raymond, Liverpool. Mercury, tender, Second Master J. Scarlett, Portsmouth. Merlin, 2, st., Lieut.-Commander E. Keane, Liverpool. Meteor, 2, st., Lieut.-Com. G. Bottler, Ireland. Minden, 20, hospital ship, Captain M. Quin, China. Modeste, 18, Com. T. Baillie, Pacific. Mohawk, Corn. W. N. Fowell, Lake Ontario, Canada. Monkey, 1, st. v., Second Master W. Bryant (act. ),Woolwich. Montreal, Lieut.-Corn. J. Tyssen, Lake Erie, Canada. Mutine, 12, Com. R. B. Crawford, Chatham. Nautilus, 10, tender to Victoria and Albert, Lieut.• Com. W. Robson, Portsmouth. Nereus, store-ship, Master-Com. F. W. Bateman, Valparaiso. Netley, 8, tender to Caledonia, Second Master F. H. May, Devonport. North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart. , East Indies. Ocean, 80, Captain Richard Arthur, C. 8., V ice-Admiral Sir J. C. White, K. C. 8., Sheerness. Orestes, 18, Corn. E. St. Leger Cannon, Mediterranean. Osprey, 12, Commander F. Patten, Portsmouth. Otter, at. v., Lieutenant-Commander E. Wylde, Holyhead. Pantaloon, 10, Lieut.-Com. Edmund Wilson (act.), Ports- mouth. Pelican, 16, Commander P. Justice, China, on passage home. Penelope, st., 24, Commodore W. Jones, Coast of Africa.' Perseus, receiving ship, Lieut.-Commander Greet, off Tower. Philomel, 6, Corn. B. J. .Sullivan, Brazils. Pickle, 2, Lieut.-Commander J. A. Bainbridge, West Indies. Pigmy, 1, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Com. C. Autridge, Pembroke. Pike, 1, steamer, Lieut.-Com. A. Boyter, Portpatrick. Pilot, 16, Corn. W. H. Jervis, East Indies. Pique, 36, Capt. Hon. M. Stopford, West Indies. Plover, snr.-vessel, Capt. R. Collinson, C.B. China. Pluto, 2, Lieut.-Commander P. Crozier, Ireland. Poictiers, 72, Capt., Sup. W. H. Shirreff, Chatham. Polyphemus, I, st., Lieut.-Com. T. Spark, Mediterranean. Porcupine, st., v., Captain Bullock, Deptford. Princess Alice, Mast. Corn. Salithett (act.), Dover. Prometheus, st. sloop, Commander J. Hay, Coast of Africa. Prospero, I, st., Sec. Alas. P. Ruadle (act.), reserve packet, Pembroke. Queen, 110, Capt. W. F. Martin, Portsmouth. Racer, 16, Corn. A. Reed, Rio de Janeiro. Rapid, 10, Lieut. S. Apthorp, Coast of Africa. Raven, 4, Lieut.-Corn. J. Stephen, Portsmouth. Redwing, steamer, Corn. T. Bevis, Liverpool. Resistance, tr. s., Corn. C. G. C. Patey, particular service. Rhadamanthus, 2, st., Mart.-Corn. Leen, Cork. Ringdove, 16, Com. Sir W. Daniell, Knt., Coast of Africa. Romney, depot, Lieut.-Com., R. Bl'Clure, Havannah. Rose, 18, Corn. H. R. Sturt, West Indies. Royal Sovereign, Capt.-Sup. Sir W. Pell, Pembroke. Ro3alist, Lieut.-Com. G. Ogle, East Indies. St. Vincent, 120, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart.,G. C. 8., G. C. H.; Captain R. F. Rowley, Portsmouth. Salamander, 4, st., Corn. A. Hamond, Pacific. Semarang, 26, Capt. Sir E. Belcher, C. 8., China. San Josef, 110, Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, Capt. Hi M. Dixon, Plymouth. Sapphire, troop ship, Mas.-Com. J. R. Fittock, China. Sappho, 16, Corn. Hon. George Hope, Cape of Good Hope. Satellite, 18, Commander R. H. B. Rowley, Brazils Savage, 10, Lieut.-Coin. J. H. Bowker, Mediterranean. Scout, 18, Corn. Hon. J. R. Drummond, Mediterranean. Scylla, 16, Commander R. Sharpe, North Am erica. Seafiower, 6, cutter, Corn. N. Robilliard, Portsmouth. Sealark, 18, Cora. T. L. Gooch, Coast of Africa. Serpent, 16, Commander W. Nevill, China. Shearwater, 2, steam-vessel, Commander C. Robinson, sur veying Coast of Scotland. Siren, 16, Commander W. Smith, East Indies. Skylark, 4, Lieut.-Commander G. Morris, Sheernessi Snake, 16, Corn. Hon. W. B. Devereux, Mediterranean. Snipe, 2, Lieut.-Coin. G. Raymond, particular service. Sparrow, 6, ketch, Lieut. H. C. Otter, Coast of Scotland. Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot, W. Indi es . Speedy, 2, Lieutenant-Corn. G. Beaufoy, Sheerness. Spider, 6, Lieut.-Com. R. E. Pyrn, Brazils. Spiteful, steamer, 6, Coin. W. Maitland, China. Sprightly, 1, steamer, Master-Com. Moon (act.), Holyhead. Star, 10, Com. R. J. W. Dunlop, Coast of Africa. Stromboli, 6, Coin. the Hon. E. Plunkett, Cork. Styx, 6, steamer, Capt. A. T. Vidal, Azores. Swallow, 1, st., Master-Corn. R. Sherlock (acting), Dover. Sydenham, st., Lieut.-Com. D. R. Mapleton, Mediterranean. Sylph, 2, tender to Caledonia. Sylvia, 6, Lieut. Tumour, tender to Seafiower, Portsmouth. Talbot, 26, Capt. Sir T. Thompson, Pacific. Tartarus, steam vessel, Captain J. Wolfe (act.), Devonport. Thalia, 42, Capt. C. Hope, Pacific. Thunder, 6, surveying vessel, Coin. E. Barnett, Chatham. Thunderbolt, 6, steamer, Com. G. N. Broke, C. of G. Hope. Tortoise, 12, guard-ship, Com. 0 Morreh, Ascension. Tyne, 26, Capt. W. N. Glasscock, Mediterranean. Urgent, 2, steam-vessel, Master-Coro. J. Emerson, Liverpool. Vestal, 26, Capt. C. -Talbot, Cape of Good Hope. Victoria and Albert, yacht, Captain Lord. A. Fitzelarenec. Portsmouth Victory, 104, Rear-Admiral H. Parker, C. 8., C apta i n G. l‘fediterralleitn. , Captain Moubray, Portsmouth. Viper, 6, Lieut.-Com. J. Carter, Brazils. yx Virago, en6 6 , 6, s s t e t . a - m y e . G. Weymouth. William a vess?l, ln Co . Com. GVa a r Y cl, China. Vo s la ir ge w , 26 . D,icßkesoarn-,Avdmaritr.al, Ireland. Volcano, Pigot, K.C.H. Volcano, 2, steamer, Lieut.-Coin. E. C. Miller, Portsmouth. Warspito, 50, Capt. W. P. Wallis, Mediterranean. NWVaastepr,wl6itChC°, Com. S. Widgeon, 1, steamer, Lieut.-Com. T. S. Striven, Dm, S T . . ll F. Ti ll s i h r e ch, C° Po a r s t t sm of ou A th fr . ica. NNW7iilildifiamre,aln,dstiveiaamryer,, yacht, Commodore A od . o D re ar s b i y r , F. Knt. C. 8., K. C. H., IYoolwieh. Winchester, 52, Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, captain C. Eden, Cape of Good Hope. Wolf, 18, Commander A. Vyner (act. ), Chi na . Wolverine, 16, Corr. W. J. Clifford, China. Young Hebe, Lieut.-Corn. W. T. Bate, China. Zephyr, 1, at., Lieut.-Com. Jas. Smail, Holyhead. Do OBLIGE us roil ONCE.—Parliatnent is an nounced to open on the 4th ifof February. R ea ll y, it would be a favour, Sir Robert, you would pat it off to the 29th.—Punch. MILITARY STATIONS. (From the United Service Magazine for December.) Troops or Service Companies. Regent's Park Hyde Park Windsor Canterbury Longford Ballincollig Cahir Manchester York Cape of Good Hope Dublin ..• Edinburgh Bengal Ipswich Brighton Birmingham ...... ..• Dublin Bengal Newbridge.... ..... Dundalk Nottingham Exeter Bombay Madras Bengal Hounslow Portman Barracks Winchester Wellington Barracks Tower St. George's Bar.. Wind50r............ St. John's Wood.. Gibraltar Barbadoes Bombay ...... Bengal Madras Belfast Dublin Gibraltar ...... Bolton . Bengal Bengal Chatham Mauritius Mauritius Bengal Canada .. Limerick Dublin Aden ... . China Cephalonia ...... Bermuda Bermuda , Bengal . ...... 00.04 , Bombay Barbadoes Canada . Kilkenny . Madras Newcastle-on-Tyne Cape of Good Hope Bombay Bengal Limerick . Bengal. Dublin New Brunswick...., Athlone Mauritius ... Newry ... Gosport ... Gibraltar .... Bengal 8enga1....... Brecon Malta Malta Montreal. Plymouth ...... 0 Cape of Good Hope Gibraltar St. Vincent Weedon Jamaica Winchester Bengal . Van Diemen's Land Quebec Bengal Mullingar Chichester Dublin ... Madras New South Wales Portsmouth Fermoy Canada Buttevant Bengal Madras ••• Northampton...... Castlebar Dublin ....... Manchester Walmer Templemore Manchester. Granada . Canada Cork Dublin Halifax, N.S Newport, S. W. Portsmouth Jamaica Bombay Gibraltar ----- Canada ----- Leeds .... Madras Barbadoes Bombay Edinburgh Malta Canada ............... Ceylon . Cape of Good Hope Cape of Good Hope Glasgow Canada Madras. ........... Ceylon ...... New South Wales.. Corfu Corfu Ihfaidstons Maidstone Alaidst one Maidstone Maidstone Maidstone Clare Castle Enniskillen Chatham Sheerness Chatham Plymouth 'Chatham Chatham For New South W. Isle of Wight Chatham Belturbet Chatham Chatham Jersey Isle of Wight Chatham Chatham Isle of Wight Chatham Guernsey Chatham Chatham Chatham 1 Cork Nenagh Boyle Chatham Chatham :slit of Wight Carlisle Isle of Wight Dublin Hull Chatham Chatham Dover Chatham Chatham Chatham Dundee Chatham Chatham Isle of Wight FREE TRADE MEETING. Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of the free traders, and others opposed to monopoly, was held in the Theatre, Kensington. The chair was announced to be taken at half-p as t seven o'clock, but the proceedings did not commence for some time after. Several respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood occupied seats on the platform, awl the building was in every part crowded. On Mr. Thompson, Mr. Moore, and other gentlemen connected with the Anti-Corn-law League ascending the platform, they were most loudly cheered. The chair was taken by Samuel Lucas, Esq. It may be added that several of the agents of the monopolist party showed their great alarm and consternation by distributing large quantities of anti-League tracts. The CHAIRMAN, having expressed his satisfaction at being. called to preside, stated that he was of opinion the present movement of the League was likely to strike more terror into the enemy than any other of that body. Meetings were being held in Lancashire, Cheshire, and other counties, !for the purpose of augmenting the free-trade registration. Such also was! the case with Middlesex. He therefore trusted that the people of Kensington district would come forward and exert them selves in the cause. After some further remarks the Chairman concluded by introducing Mr. R. R. MOORE, who commenced by saying that, on entering the meeting, he had a tract placed in his hand, which set out by stating that while there was great ad vocacy of free trade throughout the country, there was no consideration of the effects which would be produced by the carrying out of those doctrines.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Moore) wondered how such an assertion could be made at the present time, as no subjeet had ever more engrossed the attention of the League, than the condition of the working and labouring classes. Since they had list met in the neighbourhood. the state of things had altered considerably ; there had been agitation for free trade when food was high, and wages low. Since then wages had become higher, and the price of food had lowered.—(Cheers.) Wheat was reduced nearly fifteen shillings per quarter ; still the advocates of monopoly, and the members of protection societies, asserted that free trade would be injurious to the labouring classes. The Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, and other ad vocates of monopoly, professed, while they were merely serving their own purposes, to be the friends of the labourers. Now, he (Mr. Moore) considered that they would be more benefiting their country, by stating how a man with a large family was to live on little more than 19/. per annum.—(Hear, hear.) In the agricultu ral districts, able-bodied men, as he stated on a former occasion, did not receive more than eight shillings per week.—(Hear.) The monopolists had also asserted that those employed in the manufacturing districts were most cruelly treated. Mr. Moore very ably refuted this state ment, by extracts from several documents, and showed that those who left the agricultural for the manufacturing districts, were much better remunerated for their labour in the latter.—(Cheers.) The League, however, had at length forced the aristocracy of the country to admit even at their agricultural dinners—(Laughter) —that the labourers were in a most deplorable condition, still not a single measure as a remedy had been proposed.— [A voice—Cricketn—(Laughter.) Yes, continued Mr. Moore, Lord John Manners had proposed cricket, but for what purpose he knew not. Perhaps while playing at cricket the hunger might be diverted from them.— (Laughter.) Another had proposed agricultural dinners. —(Laughter.) Still an agricultural dinner might not be a bad thing, for at it a labourer might be able to obtain a dinner for once in the year.--(Continued laughter.) Others had proposed allotments of land; but the people did not want allotments in charity—they wanted and were entitled to the use of the land throughout the world. This right the corn-laws denied to the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Moore, at some further length, and with his usual eloquence, showed the ridicu lousness of the long arguments advanced against free trade, and more fully alluded to the pamphlet before spoken of. He next said that there had been long state ments made to the effect that the League was dead. The present state of the registries was, however, an answer to such assertions. At the last election for Lancashire the free-trade candidate was beaten by more than five hundred votes; notwithstanding, by great exertion the League had changed the state of affairs, and now there was a free-trade majority on the registry of nearly 1,300 votes. At the next election there would be a re turn of two free-traders.—(Cheers.) They were also exerting themselves in Cheshire, Yorkshire, and other places. To the boroughs much attention had also been paid. He could at once come to the great metropolitan county of Middlesex and impress on those connected with it to register as soon as possible. In Middlesex there were not more than 13,000 voters, while in a divi sion of Lancashire there were at present 20,000.—(Hear, hear.) A freehold, he might add, could be obtained very would not cost more than 50/., and a more eligible investmentcould not possibly be made.—(Cheers.) Mr. Moore next alluded to the forthcoming Bazaar, and expressed a hope that the contributions from the inhabi tants of London, and the ladies in particular, would be such as to reflect credit on the metropolis. After im mmr.eemtinogoretherenteicreedssitaymoifthatttecnodntininguetd cheering. to t p h r e e g n u g on dn the, Mr. GEO. THOMPSON next came forward and a dd resse d t r o the meeting at great length, and was heard most at tentively throughout. The Learned Gentleman did not conclude until a late hour. • The following resolution was then unanimously car ried:—" That this meeting has heard with pleasure the progress made by the League in the registration courts during this year, and is deeply interested in the present movement to increase the number of free trade county freeholders, and pledges itself to the most strenuous ex ertions to increase the number of freeholders in the county of Middlesex. And this meeting further pro mises its most cordial support to the great League Bazaar, to be held in Covent-garden Theatre in May next." After a vote of thanks to the Chairman and the other gentlemen who took part in the meeting, the proceedings terminated. THE FACTORY QUESTION. Lord Ashley, it islto be presumed, has laid in a new stock of courage and resolution since he handed over to the Home Secretary the cause of his helpless manufac turing clients. The smart of a failure is the best of all stimulants to some minds, and that stimulant certainly has been applied to the Noble Lord. It will be warning strangely thrown away if, with his present experience, of the warfare, he repeats the capitulation of last, Easter. There are some whom the :ensuing session will not see at their post ; and, on the other hand, there are causes which will be pressed with growing urgency and power. The claims of humanity will not, on the whole, be ne glected. Amongst other subjects, there is reason to ex pect that the case of the agricultural labourer will be handled more thoroughly than ever since it first eame to the light of political day. Lord Ashley, of course, will take care that he is not the chief defaulter, and that other grievances besides those; of the smock-frock shall be attended to. At present his Lordship has committed himself with all that generosity and fulness we expect to find in the first promises of an aristocratical agitator. In reply to a question from the Manchester Short-time Committee, he announces, in a letter which we published yesterday, that he sees no reason why the question of the Ten Hours' Bill should not be renewed at the earliest pos sible period; and will endeavour, on the first night of Ow session, to fix a day for bringing the subject again under he consideration of the House. So there can be no doubt but that we shall have two or three good speeches on the subject, containing the fruits of much reading and many interviews, and giving to the contents of bulky reports that publicity which, but for the cognate inven tion of opening addresses, they would seldom attain. But something besides proclamation of war and impetu ous attack is necessary. Rome was not built, Troy was not taken, or the Peninsula cleared of its Imperial in vaders, in a day. Staunch leaders and disciplined armies are mutual necessities, without which neither can escape discomfiture. Shakespeare has drawn the charac ter of an agitator a little above his work, who, having given his hand to articles of peace rather too easily, while expecting to see a triumphant parade of his army previous to their formal disbanding, was told— " My Lord, our army is dispersed already ; Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up, Each hurries towards his home and sporting place ;" and while the intelligence still rung in his ears, found himself a helpless captive in the hands of a crafty and uncompromised foe. Should his Lordship i benefit by his experience, and that so far as to carry the object which the future historian will associate with his name, it would be some consolation if the delay had brought to pass that it was not carried just in the shape and guise it wore last year. It cannot be denied, that on the whole, spite of a few inconsiderable salvos, it had the very ill look of a hostile inroad on the manufacturing interest, considered as a faction of the political world. As far as it had this look, we do not hesitate to say that it deserved a' present defeat. To consider the manu facturers by position an injury to society is an absurdity too gross to admit of illustration or comment. To con sider them generally less humane than the average of other capitalists and employers, is a calumny too shame ful to be seriously refuted. In position, of course they are benefactors—more than benefactors—absolutely necessary. In character, they are much like other men. A hearty recognition of these two facts we believe to be requisite to the ultimate success of Lord Ashley's cause. Something more than words, too, is, or will he, wanted to show the sincerity of this recognition. Humanity as well as justice must be even-handed. Burning indignation at the twelve hours' slavery of the female operative must not go together with an eco nomical endurance of the workhouse test, and rural families existing on Ss. a-week. The factory and the cottage must be regarded with equal eye. Charity begins at home. The most studied protestations will not save an agricultural Lord from the reproach of a factious philanthropy, if he husbands the yearnings of his bowels for a brief spring campaign in Parliament, and still briefer autumnal tour in the manufacturing dis tricts. He must not see only what he annually looks for, and be wilfully blind to what is daily obtruded on his eyes. A sentence or two, a demonstration or two, a feeble proposition about better cottages whispered before a select London auditory, and a chimerical prospectus charily circulated by post, will seem but tame expe dients, hardly befitting the boldness of a man who, for one peculiar and adopted class of clients, can shake a Ministry to its basis, face assembled populations of ope -1 ratives, and, what is more than all, hold private corre spondence and intercourse with public-house committees and fustian delegates. These are the things which show a man sincere—sincere, at least, in his impulses and first endeavours. If Lord Ashley, too, wishes fairly to grasp the subject, and meet its real difficulties, he must not shirk the commercial view of the question. The profitable employment of increasing millions within this narrow isle is as much a matter of figures as the affairs [jof a domestic household. It is child's play, and worse, to spend without income, to sit idle when the shelf is advocateo morning Dg and on s different view oa Saturday urday night. economical h. A t . ques tionsemPtYo'n a n M d onda m we often ventured to remind Lord Ashley last session, so we remind him now, in time for a fe v calculations. He asks the nation to be benevolent. It is the nation which must be benevolent, if it admits of reasonable proof, as is alleged, that the manufacturer, with his existing burdens, cannot.—Times. CORONERS' INQUESTS. DEATH OF MR. RIDLEY, OF THE " NEW BELL'S MESSENGER."—Last night an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the George the Fourth, Clare-market, as to the death of Mr. J. Ridley, aged 33, for many years connected with the New Bell's Messenger. Mr. James Duncombe, the surgeon of King's College Hospital, said he had been attending the deceased's wife, and was called in to see him on Monday. He was almost insensible, and did not appear to know what was said to him. He was instantly removed to the hospital, but died about two o'clock on Wednesday. There was a bruise on the head, and two large fractures on the base of the skull, and these injuries caused his death, probably from the effects of a fall. Ann Andrews, of No. 9, Grove-place, Kennington, stated that the deceased was her son-in-law, and in con sequence of his wife's confinement, she had been stay ing at their house in Wych-street. On Sunday he left home at two o'clock, and at one on Monday morning she heard him fall at the foot of the stairs. Blood was then flowing from his head, and he was quite senseless. She requested a policeman to take him to the hospital, but he said he must first go to the station, to which he was taken on a stretcher. The surgeon there imme diately attended to him, and applied plaster to the wounds. He had not been in bed when she saw him at the station-house, nor was there any fire in the cell. On Monday afternoon she and a policeman took him home. On the Saturday night he had been brought home very drunk. John Wood, 131 F, said that when he was called into the house, No. 6, Wych-street, he was lying down in the passage, and as it was thought he was wounded he was taken to the station •house. The magistrate dis charged him, as no complaint was made against him. He was able to walk home and up stairs by himself. Inspector: Black stated the cell was heated with hot air, and he was taken in more out of kindness, and he was attended by a man the whole night. Mr. Baker, the beadle, said the potman at the Printer's Arms, New Church-court, Strand, told him the de • ceased had been pitched into on the Saturday night, at the Cock and Magpie, Drury-lane. The potman was called, and then stated some one had told him. After a great deal of evidence, the jury had the room cleared, and returned a verdict, that the deceased died from the effects of a fall, or otherwise, but the imme diate cause the jury cannot ascertain. One of the jury, after the Coroner had written it, said that the verdict must be altered "to a blow or other violence," and that was accordingly inserted amid much laughter. SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.-Mr. Higgs held an inquest yesterday at the Rose and Crown, Knights bridge, on the body of a girl of genteel appearance, name unknown, who drowned herself in the Serpentine. Robert Harvey, police-constable 48 A, said that on Wednesday morning last, while on duty in Hyde-park, his attention was drawn to a bonnet which had been washed on the banks of the river. He shortly after wards saw the deceased's body not many yards distant, and having called Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the Royal Humane Society, it was dragged ashore. From the marks on the gravel he thought that she had rushed in head foremost. Her person might be de scribed thus :—About twenty years of age, dark brown hair, blue eyes, five feet four or five in height, well pro portioned, with round limbs and features, and a large scar on the right arm. The following was the dress she wore :—Straw bonnet with blue ribbons, black shawl with red border, gown of mouselline-de-laine, striped l i with blue, jean boots, cotton stockings, and under gar ments of the usual description. In her ears were a pair of solid gold and rather valuable earrings, and her dress altogether was extremely good. Mr. Herbert Williams said that no one saw her go into the water, indeed he had often noticed that persons who went there to drown themselves took great care not to let any one see them. The Coroner said it was rather a strange thing that females nearly always took off their bonnet and care fully folded up their shawl before they leaped in, whether from the bridge or bank. Verdict, " FOund drowned." COWES, DEC. s.—This morning arrived here the Swedish barque William of Gothenburg, from Torre vechia, Alicant, laden with salt, having been run into by an unknown vessel, during Tuesday night. She was fallen in with the next morning by her Majesty's Revenue cutter Stag, Lieutenant Clark, about four leagues to the southward of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, from whence the Stag towed her into this port. The barque has lost her main and mizen-masts, also her headyards, and is otherwise in a very crippled state. She has on board part of the figure-head of the vessel which run into her. The monster steam-ship dock, constructing at this port by Messrs. Thomas and John White, is ex pected to be completed in about three weeks, when one of the large steam-ships will be taken into it.—From our Correspondent. __ ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 22.—Great preparations are being made for the opening of the dry dock, which is to take place in a few days. The town is to be illuminated on the occasion, and Mehemet Ali is expected from Cairo to be present at the ceremony. Mr. Bourne left for Cairo, where Artin Bey, the Prime Minister, is at pre. sent, immediately after the receipt of his letter by the English steamer. The Pacha has contracted with a Greek firm of this place fur the whole crop of senna for the next five years, at eleven dollars per castar, and with another Greek house for the whole quantity of saltpetre which Egypt may produce for the next two years, at 85 piastres per canter, payable in assignments, now at a discount of 12 per cent. So much for free trade The Great Liverpool steamer arrived on the 20th from Malta and Southampton with 90 passengers, half of whom were ladies. The facility with which the overland jour ney from England to India is now performed is proved by the great number of ladies who undertake it alone, and without any mishap ever occurring. On board the Great Liverpool there was a very young lady, daughter of a General in India, who was quite unattended. She herself had to settle for her transit through Egypt, and started from Alexandria for Suez with the rest of the passengers with the fullest confidence of joining her pa rents in safety. The Great Liverpool will sail on her return voyage to-morrow morning, although the mails reached Alexandria yesterday evening. This delay has been caused by the non-arrival of the Bombay passen gers, who cannot reach hero before to-night, having been detained at Cairo by the want of a steamer there, all the Nile boats being at Atfeh. Had the Pacha granted per mission to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's new iron steamer Delta to enter the Nile, this detention would not have taken place. A FIGHT IN A MENAGERIE.—We find the follow ing in the Verdad of Barcelona of the 25th ult :—" A sanguinary combat took place yesterday between the wild beasts of the menagerie of M. Borelli. A jackal threw himself suddenly upon a wolf. The wolf having recoiled from the attack, the jackal became elated with his easy victory, and flew at a female hyena. This ani mal, in her fury, revenged herself upon the wolf, and the male hyena, irritated at the insult to the female, joined in the attack upon the innocent wolf, and tore him dreadfully. M. Borelli was absent, but his daughter, with heroic intrepidity, entered the cage, to the great horror of the spectators, who expected that she would be devoured. She seize d the jackal, and forced him into another den, and, striking the female hyena, drove her from the wolf, and so confined her apart. The combat between the male hyena and the wolf, however, continued until the arrival of M. Borelli, who had great difficulty in separating them, and not before the poor wolf had his legs broken and his belly ripped up." The Gazette of Tuesday last contains an Order in Council regarding the admission of sugar from Vene zuela into this country. The order recites that portion of the last Sugar Duty Bill which alludes to the admis sion of this produce from China, Java, Manilla, &c., at a duty of 345. per cwt., and five per cent., a certificate being given that this sugar is not the produce of slave labour, and of course that it is not refined. The present order extends the benefit of this Act to Venezuela, the order having force from the 28th ult. A considerable stir has been made as to the existence of slavery in this State, though we think the fact, if it is so, ought to be first ascertained. RUNNING MATCH FOR TEN POUNDS A.SIDE.—On Wednesday morning a foot race came off near the Earl of Moira public-house, at Shooter's-hill, between Crisp, the Eltham pet, and Davis, of London. The distance to be contested was two miles, which having been measured, the pedestrians came to the starting mark, and a good deal of betting took place, the men being backed at even. At the signal they wont away well together, and Davis, at a lead of fifteen yards, performed the first mile in five minutes and three seconds. They strenuously contended till within 400 yards of the goal, when it became quite manifest that the pace was too swift for Davis, and Crisp ran in the winner, accomplishing the two miles in eleven minutes mid thirty seconds. LAUDABLE PATRONAGE.—We are gratified to bear that, on its being recently represented to Sir Robert Peel that Mr. Peach, a very meritorious officer in the coast guard night service, in Cornwall, with a very large family and small pay, has for some years past, during the in tervals of his duty, made valuable researches in marine geology, which he has communicated to the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; and that he had also made collections in fossil conchology, which have been of much service to the ordnance geo logical survey of Cornwall ; Lady Peel has been pleased to confer on Mrs. Peach a pension for her life, from a small and limited fund which long usage has placed under the control of the lady of the Prime Minister, in con sideration of the scientific merits of her husband, and testimony borne to his good character.— Literary Gazette. ST. IMAILT-LE..STRAND.—Two charity sermons will be preached on the ensuing Sunday in the church of St. Mary-le-Strand, in aid of the charity schools of th.. parish, and the precincts of the Savoy. So excellent an object, in our own immediate neighbourhood, has our best wishes, and we trust that the appeal will not be made in vain. We may add that the boy's school has been in existence 136 years, the time it has lasted, sup ported by the benevolence of the public, being a proof of its utility. liciusE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE-ROOMS.—In con sequence of several of the old committee-rooms being re quired, in order to proceed with the building of the new Houses of Parliament, workmen are now busily em ployed in -recting temporary rooms in Palace-yard, facing the entrance to Westminster Hall ; which will be completed before the opening of the session in February next. THE PILCHARD PISUERY.—Several shoals of pil chards passed through St. Ives Bay on Sunday, but none have been seen since. 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Mr. POWELL, the secretary, read the Directors' report for the half-year, which stated that the receipts had amounted to 8,4384 2s. 3d. , being 92 41 . 9s. more than in the correspondi ng period of last year, which had enabled the Committee to pay the interest of 5/ per cent. on the Company's bonds, and to pay a dividend of 12s. Bd. on the annuities, and leave a balance of 1,6511. 17s. 6d. The tolls were progressively improving, and the Committee anticipated a further increase in their revenue on the opening of the new street from Long-acre to Great Rus sell-street, Bloomsbury, which will form a direct line of communication with the Birmingham, Dover, Brighton, and other railways. The report further stated that the Committee had received notice of an intended renewed application to Parliament from the Anti-Toll-bridge Association, and that the Committee had been in com munication with the engineer and other parties con vected with the proposed Thames embankment, and they had every reason to believe that the interests of the Compan would receive every consideration from her Majesty s Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The report also alluded to the several projected railways on the Surrey side of the river having termini in the vicinity of the bridge as a matter likely to be beneficial to the concern. The report was unanimously received and adopted. Mr. COPE informed the meeting that the approach to the bridge from the Waterloo-road would soon be paved all the way from the obelisk to the bridge. Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., Mr. Fielder Jenkins, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Woodyer, the retiring Directors, were then unanimously re-elected, as was Mr. Lyon as an auditor. A PROPRIETOR adverted to the floating pier which was a few years ago erected at Southwark-bridge, and which had proved to that concern a most profitable un dertaking, and inquired if the Directors of the Waterloo bridge had any intention of erecting a similar pier ? Mr. PowELL read extracts from recent minutes of the Committee, from which it appeared that the subject had been under consideration, and that it was referred to Mr. Plews and the Chief Clerk, is order that the necessary information should be obtained. These gentlemen, after examining the different piers on the river, and conferring with Mr. Saunders, the Water Bailiff, reported that it would be inexpedient to construct a pier at present, as it would probably be superseded by the projected Thames embankment. It was then resolved that the annual allowance of 561. to the Directors and 61. to the auditors should be respec tively increased to 2001. and 101. ; and after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. STABBING IN LEICESTER.—On Monday night, at eleven o'clock, a young man, named John Kasen, and a young woman, named Gilham, with whom he kept com pany, were in the Gallowhee-gate, Leicester, near the Castle Tavern, when he stabbed her in the neck, and in the back between the shoulders. She screamed out, and succeeded in getting into the tavern, where she was placed in a chair. The flesh protruded from the wound in the neck, and the blood flowed out with increased force from the wound in the back every time she breathed. Mr. Macauley, surgeon, was sent for, and subsequently the girl was removed to her residence, the Albert Inn, where she lies in a most dangerous state. The man was apprehended upon the spot, but made considerable re sistance. Ile had purchased the knife last Saturday fort night. It was a large one, called a lock-knife, opening and shutting, with a spring to keep it open, the blade being more than six inches in length, and sharp pointed, though not two-edged. The man was in liquor, though not what is called drunk. The act is attributed to jea lousy. The knife, aftsr the deed, had two notches upon it near the point., as though it had struck a bone. .e./...e,f -./;_l`'-' J !'G--! THE RAILWAY MONITOR.. TO TRAVELLERS. (From Punch.) The existing railway arrangements render it im perative that you should provide yourselves with a large stock of philosophy, to enable you to put up with certain inconveniences, which you will be sure, to a greater or less extent, to encounter on most lines, and whereof a classification is hereby appended for your benefit. First Class.—The chief inconvenience peculiar to this class is, that your fare will be about twice as much as you ought in fairness to pay. You run, perhaps, rather less risk in this class than in the others of having your neck broken ; but you must not be unprepared for such a contingency. Second Class.—ln travelling by the second class you will do well to wear a respirator, unless you wish to be choked with dust and ashes from the engine close in front of you. Also, if you are going far, you are recommended to put on a diving-dress, like that used at the Polytechnic ; be cause, if it should rain much during your journey, the sides of the carriage being open, you will have to ride in a pool of water. Your dignity must not be hurt, should you have for next neighbour a raga muffin in ;handcuffs, with a policeman next him. The hardness of your seat is a mere trifle ; that is the least of the annoyances to which you are judi ciously subjected, with the view of driving you into the first-class train. Third Class.—Make up your mind for urmitigated hail, rain, sle e t, snow , th un d er , an d li g ht n i ng . Look out for a double allowance of smoke, dust, dirt, and everything that is disagreeable. Be content to run a twofold risk of loss of life and limb. Do not expect the luxury of a seat. As an individual and a tra veller, you are one of the lower classes—a poor, beg garly, contemptible person—and your comfort and convenience are not to be attended to: All Three Classes.—Punctuality may be the soul of business, but suppose not that it is the spirit of railways. If you do not care whether you keep an appointment or not, make it on the faith of the com pany, by all means; but otherwise by none. Regard starting, or arriving at your destination, only half an-hour too late, as luck. You pay nothing extra to attendants for civility, so you must not hope for it. Remember that you are at the mercy of the company, as to where you may stop for refreshments; for which, ac cordingly, be not surprised if you have to pay through the nose. Beware, if you quit the train for an in stant, lest it move on • you have paid your money, the rest is your own look-out, and, you may depend, will be no one else's. For loss and damage of lug gage, and the like little mishaps, prepare yourself as a matter of course; and if at the end of your jour ney you find yourself in a whole skin—thank 3 - our stars. LOSS OF THE PRESIDENT. INGENIOUS MODE OF " RAISING THE WIND." On Monday morning, Mr. James Reay, the Se cretary of the Liverpool Guardian Society, received a letter from Edinburgh, informing him that a prin ter, or pretended printer, of the name of John Neale, had been apprehended in that city, or a charge of having obtained money from the public by means of the representations contained in a printed paper. A copy of the document was enc l ose d t o M r . R eay , w ith the view of his ascertaining whether it was genuine cr fictitious. It set forth that a meeting of the Ladies' Association had been held in the Rotunda Rooms, Liverpool, in January, 1843, for the purpose of raising funds to relieve the orphans and wido ws of those who had perished in the President, and that a Rev. Mr. Field presided on the occasion, and delivered an opening speech. Then followed the speech, drawn up with considerable tact and skill, in which the Rev. Chairman was made to enlarge upon the lamentable catastrophe which had occurred, to speak of the sufferings of the bereaved survivors in language of the most humane and Christianlike sym pathy, and to conclude by attributing the sad event to one of the inscrutable providences of an all-wise, merciful, and immaculate God. A resolution was next given, to the effect that the widows and orphans of the deceased were deserving objects of comp s sion ; a Mrs. Ferguson and Mr. Sterling were said to have been appointed as collectors of subscriptions ; and a statement was made that 3001. were collected at the close of the meeting. Then followed a list of donations, with the names of the donors. Her Ma jesty was down for 100/, ; Prince Albert for 50/. ; the Duke of Devonshire for 1001.; the Earl of Sutton for 100/. ; Bishop of Chester for 20/. ; Potter, Brothers, for 20/. ; the Messrs. Hornby for 20/. ; the Misses —, who had lost their father on board, 20/. ; and so on, all in a printed form, and executed in excellent typo graphy, on a sheet of letter paper of superior qua lity. So far as Mr. Reay's inquiries have gone, it would appear that the whole was a most ingeniously contrived scheme. No such meeting of the Ladies' Association was, it seems, held at the Rotunda Rooms ; there is not any reverend gentleman, of any denomination, of the name of Field in Liverpool ; Mr. Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson are unknown ; and some of the parties who are represented as having contri buted 20/., deny that they ever gave a shilling. Fur ther inquiries will, however, be made, and the result will be communicated to Edinburgh. We under stand that a copy of a similar document has been taken round in some of the towns in England and Ire land.—Liverpool Courier. LOVE'S DISGUISES. An affair of rather an extraordinary nature is at present being investigated by the Bombay Magistrates, in which a Parsee youth of a pleasing exterior is defendant. The young man is charged with having induced the fair wife of a friend to elope with him from the house of her husband at Poonah, and bring away with her several articles of jewellery. It appears that the injured hus band was for some time previous to the elopement laid up with sore eyes ; the defendant introduced him self as a physician, and was engaged by the plaintiff as his medical attendant, during which time he ma naged to seduce the affections of his patron's wife, and planned the elopement, which was ultimately carried into effect, under the guise of the profession which he had assumed ; he made the credulous hus band .believe that he would insure him a complete cure in one night, if he would submit to his eyes being bandaged for that time. The bandage was ac cordingly put on, and kept on till the next morning, when he himself removed it, and found too late that he had been hoaxed. He called for the doctor, who was not, of course, to be found ; he then called for his wife, but she likewise not being in the house, he inquired of the neighbonrs if they had seen her, when his astonishment may be conceived at being told that she had, the night before, been seen in company with the doctor on the road to Bombay. He imme diately set out in search of the runaways, and succeeded in reaching Bombay a day after them, but did not meet theth. On Saturday last he met the defendant in the streets, and immediately gave himi into the custody of a policeman ; search-warrants. were shortly issued, but his wife has not as yet been. found, and the prisoner denies all knowledge of her after his leaving the house of the complainant. There is no doubt but that the lady is well satisfied with hiur situation, and is in concealment.—Agra Ahbar. MISDIRECTED INGENIIITY.—MT. Warner, an inge nious watchmaker and jeweller, who occupies a stand:. at the Polytechnic Institution, has completed the' model of a high-pressure steam-engine, so small that, it stands upon a four-penny piece with ground to. spare ! It is the most curious specimen of minute• workmanship ever seen, each part being made according to scale, and the whole occupying so small a space that, with the exception of the flywheel, it might be covered, with a thimble. It is not simply a model out wardly, it works with the greatest activity by means of atmospheric pressure (in lieu of steam), and th‘st motion of the little thing as its parts are seem labouring and heaving under the first influence is indescribably curious and beautiful. some months have been expended upon the structure of this UM putian engine by Mr. Warner; and the difficulty of the undertaking may be easily conceived when it is remembered how minute the valves, piston, sockets,, screws and hidden apparatus must be, and how accurately they must be moulded and fitted, to in sure unbroken functional motion. It is altogether a pretty toy, and an extraordinary instance of what patience, persevereance, and expert artisanship, eau accomplish. But Mr. Warner is a practised hand at such curiosities. his cases abound with arti cles manufactured for elfin use. He has scissors so minute that some hundreds of them go to the ounce ; and there are knives belonging to the same family, which, small as they are, open and shut with a smart click. Quantities of other things are there of a like kind, made with the greatest xeatness, requiring eyes of microscopic clearness to ascertain their full per fections. Mr. Warner, we should imagine, works ex clusively for the fairies—no doubt he is entitled, by let ters patent, to wear Oberon's arms over his door,— Meehan ic' s Magazine. SouTHEND.—A singular accident occurred }sere a few nights since. The commander of a brig bound from Colchester to London, mistaking the lights at the new pier works for that at " Mount Misery" point, ran upon the piling, and was completely transfixed by one of the piles penetrating the bottom of the vessel, and which the next morning appeared about four feet above her deck. The crew were landed in safety.—Essex Herald. MB BISHOP or EXETER.—The Rev. C. V. Le Grice, the venerable and deservedly beloved clergyman whom Harry of Exeter prays for so spitefully in his " Judgment," has addressed a letter " To the Members of the Protestant Reformed Church of England," vin dicating himself (it was scarcely necessary) from the Bishop's aspersions, and conveying at the same time s lesson to the proud Prelate, which he will not act wisely in despising.—Patriot. A WINDY DEATII.—A few days ago, Mr. J. Tickell, accompanied by the organist of Cockermouth church, proceeded to examine one of the pipes of that instrument which did not " speak," when they discovered in it the body of a dead bird, with iti head out of the mouth of the pipe.—Tyne Mercury. J