The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

tXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF LOVERS—iy_mEsTic TRAGEDY. Perhaps one of the most affecting suicidal tragedies , 114 t h aS happened in the metr,polis for wary years 1 7 417 0 yest relay at a very early hour, at the clvrel ;itit,:i:ijit,ftlitt.'zg:.ilt t 'f-destruction If-:ai"hs9a:r egilse:Wire2:::: 10Vp-'t' 'on and Elizabeth kiKe fr "' thc -ff,ets f prussic acid. As may be ma 1,-it has crea the greatest sensation in the imme ti.iat. neighb,urhood, and during the whole of the morn lung the m * xciteent has b een o f th e mos t i n t ense charge r. Th e cirtnaistances connected with this re;Aly la entale of are of a very painful description. It noun s that f or upwards of nine years the unfortunate 1, 11,1 % Person s , who have fallen a sacrifice by their own ~,,,;4 , Were closely attached to each other, and never known to have quarrelled. On hOIY aftemoon they -had t e a at Mr. Duckett's tt t ti ii •e, and to,,k thei r d eparture at a b ou t h a lf-p ast five, at A Z sltr ae time st a ti ng t h at t h ey were go i ng to church, Th e : l Period they seemed in excellent good spirits. ht,%, t ag wore on, and eleven o'clock having arrived, --1111 time they returned having passed, the family broth er torneehat alarmed. Soon afterwards, two quie e d ers i ; f t he ill-fated girl visited Mr. Duckett, and in heti h is son or their sister had been seen, she rig not made mo or , ind -eue her appearance, and the lateneis of the some _sawed them to think that they had met with accide nt- Unpleasant feelings of alarm were then vicinity all. Messengers were dispatched all round the he t Ai search of then, but of no avail. At last, s elt we h e i li n °lle and two o'clock, whilst Mr. Duckett was let te r : - "g Shout the house in the hope of finding some eoe ti , e whi ch would mention where they had gone, he dis leside • 4 1, t hat his son's bed-room was -fastened in tiy, tle it h ' t r hey being in the door. It being - surm i se d teti rm e "ad returned unknown to family and had hag s t° r est, the door was h";,',, e open, and there, per late .°ll° o f the most scenes that could be tined was , • saddening J 4 tito. presented to a parent. The bodies of the ::.ti o 4 t e°ll Ple were stretched on the bed, life having been round a PParellily for some time, with their arms saeh 't e ach othe rs neck. C ups were foun d on kid, their sides which smelt of prussic as eoet a i, i° two bottles on the mantel piece, which had that deadly poison. Mr. Deere, a surgeon, of noun n l4l " r ead, wa s p rompt l y . sent f or , an d w h o pro t,,eo- ,,eeded th em to h ave exp i re d f rom t h at e ff ect i ve po i son . e bod lay, -aY, it appears that they must have sat on be e k the end ri , ° ' the bed w h en they comm i tte d t h e act, an d f e ll She ft : he Poor girl's features were very prepossessing. gush y ;, /l 'rY respect a bly connected, her father being a 1 - di the Can non - street roa d. A s to th e cause of 447404:h01y affair ' rot the least motive, as yet, can be /t ith gli b e i d • In the apartment ' was found a letter, bordered man . , s ile _, lt t as als o a bl ac k sea l , wr i tten b y t h e young Co ra:nu a ddressed t o a young l a dy i n L ucas - s t ree t, eottt-'ercial-road, in a very c oo l and deliberate style, the Wes l t : 4 2r which may tend to solve this tragic affair. Tower given to understand th a t h e was a clerk in the Ch apel, Court of Requests' house, in White . DU 01-8,;:r1 AND FLANDERS MAILS. e a -rtb isi, Nov. 20.—A private letter from Bata .. _tue 18th of July, says :- 4 1 tr Yer al private vessels have lately again appeared Pli cen e . c oast of Macassar. His Majesty's steamer 'the .h thek:l4„,Ptirsued them, and had an engagement wi h t e nea ten 4 ,he Pirates fired chiefly at the chimney of t t hat, t i ~r , out did little damage. After an obstinate corn asal se ; e e Pirate vessels were captured. The Phcenix Thep ,°r eight wounded." A hich lembe.ng frigate takes to Japan - the presents *Ye been brought by the Broma. % Dee , -edxcellency t h e Mi nister of War, perceiving that, 'efE os l ttl Y in 1845, so many soldiers of the standing army, Pl 4, t 'ole of servi ce w ill expire, are to be provided with teosrrts to return h ome; and that in the latter year s eryi of .those w h ose time was expired, left the roe ths ee' his Excellen c y, desiring to provide for . the I : e ll e rt t - of2 ee Piag up at its prosfll ompliment the pr . mcip a a . l armed force has pposed a plan to te h e i r s s , 14 , 1 ,h0 eft e Y ,',who has been pleased to order that v 1 u ,"ing served six years, are willinsg all receive, h receive, in -40 fengegement for the same time, sf r the infantry, 4A „ 15 florins, a bounty of 30 for.-I? - ° The Minis ' the cavalry, and 35 for the artillery. t o _ a further encouragement, has authorised . the com :er of corps to give men a fortnights furlough, re ing their pay. This measure has alrcady a p roa ro y du u ce il d l be e ffect, effect, so that it is hoped the standing strengthened, and that the number of themilitia who ... l tve to be chosen by ballot every year to remain under "(Ms will be diminished. Plbli sh RAGIfE, N ov . 2 2.—The Governmen t h as l ately ed a detailed statement of the public revenue t oinparing the receipt of the first nine months of 1844 vtith that of the same period of 1843. This proceeding, NI the Hande/sUad, gives immediate satisfaction, as tring the frank and constitutional intentions of the Gov ernment The receipt this year for the first nine tO is is less than the estimates, but there is n o reason h it P p r eliend, says the Handelsbl a d, that th e resu l t of the e Year will b e un f avoura bl e. A , 4 B ,stes, N ov 21 . —Th e commemoration of the this A evolution of 1830 will be celebrated at Brussels of tli ek. the usual manner, in the large Gothic hall ported tiotel de Ville. M. Gendebren will preside, sup- Mr hr Messrs. Lelewel and Jottrand. eetu Plotwell, the Minister of Finance of Pnassia, has t toll: e lle( ' to Berlin from Cologne, where he has beendeo_ ter m . t o all tho necessary information for the speedy . ne w P t tion of the measures to be adopted respecting the ea , ll. ° l l railw ay f rom Cologne to Minder, which is to tII ttate,nded from the latter town to Berlin, Posen, and s e ; *Neel to Warsaw and St. Petersburgh. te i ,...?"titoea t • Nov . 12.—The Diet has just ended the oth-14411%11°a buitters oi the budget, and with respect to the re ko which have bee discussed it t o and more evident that the n Diet will not have becomes led toun;ortant results in any o ne respect, on which it irouldhile °Pillion_boains g roun d among the public that it year L " been better not to convoke the Diet till next th or o' w ,nen all the affairs before it might have been more Ittrugaly repared. tlltie:stor PeoxTzeni, Nov. 14.—(From the German litt sai r n 6ai da Ga zette.)---We have just learnt that the 41144- 'eovernment, in the kingdom of Poland, has er e:tit an Order by which all males without distinction, tilt t6vnehef°rth prohibited froin contracting marriages coMpleted the thirtieth year of their age. L yn Papers, Noy. 22. DUTCH FUN 05.—AarricanAm, N.e. 22. Attn. Mime , Wl's. 6 2 Ditto;!),Lt i, r Cent ....... 62% sii gi t : t t n °, litto, 4.4PCent. ... 75 ..... D ti' git tor ti p per Cent. 99% 1 , 0 ~6,..Vt. .t ... 5;9%1 99% D its., ~!ndit,4 4' percent. _ ,__!' ~ rlita. 3!i i per cent s',._ , n a n ercial rom peny.cunt... Z:4 1. 7. % per cent... *a ' r Ee on London, Onemonth ... ... • -7 Two menths.„, l2 12 ..10 Haniburgh At sight l2 5-10 , One n i . tit n Adel. .Paperi:v72o."rn onths....- — s, Nov PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bsitun Nov. 19. Money t t• Sell 1,4 Pru, i2,4l,ten 1-1 . , 3 14 Per cen t. . r 46 gltsh i 10nd , ,1430, I per cent. IBWII-11. _ I, a nte on London . e-russian Slate Gazette. Nov 2O. ttu* SE LOl AN FUN DS.--BRUSSILS. Nov. 22._ itotis_pe,_.b.t, 2% per Cent.. 1,0*'""."1 Loan Five per Cent ....... .....-••••"•• r 1 of t7Thir Millions, Four per Cent. --__ .............__ " '"" -- --.Thi rtyl l' i t i, n re u e gr to Cen . t .: ............. 174 L.—zz___,------c____„. ....._.-- ae4o) ot.i.. et,of.Cf Lty, 1843, 11..0"1;71,-;.e;;;C."...... 103 •.......• • 10 t ank , ,orntnerce, ~ Four and Half per Ctnt. —..... .. -of 11384,elfitiin, lo v e Cent. a .. sue of --ltrusscial'aPe...;;:"Nov.ii: ** " '''' Frive t r ,-.ITRI[ A N FU N DS. —Vii4NA, Nov . 16. . 10 Thre.our p• r ru. mita11iq......... ........ ..... : .... 100/ .- ent,......... „,. _p er r.._•ii ..... ...... •„..• .......... ••• ........... .. ^auk s, , • ••... .................................. 1 4' 28 ussn iii...ea .... ................. .....••••••""' ...... ........ .- 1)itto....,G76:••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • ••• .... The Northern IiAILWAYS. 15(1% Gloggnit,s br Ferdinand 118 lkfaim ..................... ..4ligonesne zeith....4. .. .. v............ 2.. .............••••• 11°X . a 0 • 21, ... IiAMBURnti 22. --" BOR SENHALLE. Nov . . bill.. Money. AUstrian 5 per C 113 6, l3a n n it k i a. S it h a ti r s e;: ian . L. ..Z .n t4 ... : . ::::::.: ...................... 1 7 ,1105z4,4 :6 0_ 4 5 0 ! iu sil.an 5 Der Cent , 11t . ... .. ; ...... Ce 11: .. ca ... • 10,A Int.criptian lot I ttnaia n y ' erles — tit„ . e. per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th m 4 _ Icetoeo irrli cert.... ... .. ................. ...... ....... ''.: 99% lAitrl4, Per Cen t . 4 j;, 4 ls; .... ". 914 tec Actual Debt, 2% ..... . Cent ........... • 61% 8114 _ .banish . 5 per Cent. _ h__,.. Loan, 3 per Cont. 19 41;1;4 h QV( 4 per Cents. ii. °ride ........... .... tw T ickets ..... : .............. .• ........... .._ ,_ - _-,.......::::::=: i . .................. l'ilev there :•eI.IAR SITUATION.--In the count of . _ is a residence called Hardingwood ouse, in the Pkrisla -------- ------------------------- Chester th e of Lawton, from which the inhabitants, every time 1, 4 3 ' go to church, pass out of the province of Canter 10_7 into that of York - go through two counties, Staf 41tA r°3hire and Cheshire ' ; three parishes, Wolstantonl andi l li e cl i ,q, and Lawton ; three constabularies, Tunstell, % and N antwich, and the two dioceses of Lichfield Chester. thebLoth 1) AtAILwAT.—A porter in the emP2,O3, of ~ Midland Railway Company, but vs ho hP.:i been in on habit of going out as guard to extra nal trains, was ...4 F r of last convicted before J. il. Crompton, Lg., uu Edward Strut!, Esq., M.P., ir. the mitigated penalty Of „ rat "% and 30s. costs, for negly,:ting, during the tempo_ stelTage of his train, 'on Friday, the 2d instant, azeltr Stretton, to returri 50`j yards at least with his red 1:ghl. to warn any coraiug trains, and through whose i g u ll genee a collision book place, a driver being seriously ~,,,,..herd, Wend the safe'.y of the passengers endangered. .. , tuagistrates expt'essed their hope that the railway l'ethorities will not 'ln future allow any person to travel "4 hreaksman withoilt being provided with a timepiece. --,...)-1 "'erb Reporter. S, ulctues.7l:\ eo days ago a young man, a watch- ItbillL4er, and his wife, committed suicide by suffocating ba:lnselves with the fumes of charcoal in their apart -1,,,,r11, No. 2, in 'ale Rue des Files du Calvaire. As they 4111 4 not in distressed circumstances, and appeared to be 4 itattaehed to each other, the motive of their suicide '43'stry en the 14th inst. there was picked up on Broad andre Sands, in SL Bride's Bay, a new boat, having 111 6,1 " 1 1) of Langharne, John Sael," painted thereon, Q 1 4 1 6. I le oar and a piece of chain and rope in her.— now VI t• n the e Ana enera 3ois,y been bays take royal Seine, n free upon d not ,ns it! .-hard yf the iouvre F Sole: half mope" onser- of the engon• lanced e Jura ms for ucillft ct lin• trail* e pre: ante e gft 13, for e Bor of lA. lice 0 0 busto ►er, V a lley r a ples• w l t ieb en for w ring. d with ets of Palace e their en re lewd, to th e htteirif t died: tot 6' , Zur: s such hat is Tread' r With le set' derea• I, WI rs b 5" The 'being arril e Ms!: rata_ A w. if rcl S' AMERICAN NEWS. The days fixed for the several elections were : Nov. Ist, P..-nnsylvania 26 electors, Ohio 23. Nov. 4th, New Hampshire 6, Connecticut 6, Vir ginia 17, North Carolina 11, Georgia 10, Maryland 8, Kentucky 12, Indiana 12, Illinois 9, Missouri 7, i\li'liig i. rliant•As 3, ithode Island 4. Nov. 4 h and sth. Mississippi 6. Nov. sth, New York 36, Louisiana 6, Tennessee 13. Nov. sth and 6th, New Jersey 7. Nov. 11th, Massaehussetts 12, Maine 9, Alabama 9. Nov. 12th, Vermont 6, Delaware 3. Dec. 1, South Carolina 2, by the Legislature. Of these news from the following States has already arrived to an extent sufficient to ascertain the result in each. The figures denote the number of electoral votes to which they are respectfully entitled:— Clay. Polk. Pennsylvania Ohio 23 Connecticut 6 Rhode Island New Hampshire Maryland New York Virginia New Jersey 36 STATES NOT ASCERTAINED, 13(1T CONCEDED. Massachusetts l2 Vermont 6 Kentucky l2 Maine South Carolina . 0 Alabama Illinois Mi• - .3ourt Arkansas 0 78 131 STATES NOT ASCERTAINED, NOR CONCEDED. Delaware North Carolina Georgia Missis,ipi Louisiana Tennessee . Indiana Michigan The total number of electoral votes is 275 ; and th 9 number necessary to elect 138. If, therefore, the figures of the above tab'e are correct (and we take it from the Whig New York journals), Polk but re quires to carry one state of not less than seven votes, and there are four such, and he is elected. The Whig organs, generally, freely acknowledge the defeat of their party, and seek for its causes in what is desig nated " the naturalization of foreigners for the oc casion." LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 25.—Wind N. to N.W., fresh breeze and hazy. DEAL, Nov. 23.—Wind S.S.E. to E-24. E.N.E. to N.—P.m. N.N. W.—A rrd. Caledonia, Stephenson, Born - bay ; Apemander, packet, Harriett, Rio, for Stockholm. RAMSGATE, Nov. 23.—The Gem, Proctor, from St. David's to Lisbon, which put in here 19th inst., with da mage, is discharging her cargo. 24. The Ilzaide, Uffmgton was floated off the East Bank this morning, and will proceed to London to-morrow. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24. Wind S.S.E., light.—Arrd. Margaret, Northwood, and Margaret, Leech, Ichaboe ; Ann Jane, Smith, Demerara ; Mary Marsden, Cotter, St. Domingo ; Janet, Buck, and Grace Brown, Baltimore ; Helen Elizabeth, King. Pugwash ; Why•not, Dart, Montreal ;' Wallace, Martin, Callao ; Howard. Savan nah. Off, Fisher and Thomas Battersby.-23. Arrd. Greai Western, New York, sailed 9th inst.-22. Sld. Chatham, Now Orleans ; Patrick, Henry, New York ; Ennerdttle, Calcutta ; Philopontas, Lady Huntley, and Lucy Wright, Ichaboe. The wreck of the Firefly that was in contact with the Britannia steamer 14th inst , was brought in here last night by the steam-tugs and'beached at Seacombe. The Urgent, from China, ashore near Carnarvon, has been got off, and is in tow of a steamer off Preffin Island, inward bound. ABERDEEN. Nov. 20.—Arrd. Sarah and Albion, St. John's, New Brunswick ; St. Lawrence, Robert M'Wil- Ham, and Susan, Quebec ; St. Andrew, Penny, Davis's Straits, with sf fish, about 100 tuns. CORK, Nov. 21.—The Star, Davidson, of London, which went ashore Sept. 9, eleven miles S. of Angra Pe quina, took fire, and was totally burnt shortly afterwards. LEITH, Nov.23.—Arrd. Georgians, Watson, Grenada. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 23.—S1d. Medora. Halifax ; Ma tilda, Cadiz and Monte Video. OFF TORBAY, Nov. 22.—Hannibal, Winter, Ichaboe. OFF SALCOMBE, Nov. 22.—Georgians, Rio Janeiro. F AL MOUTH, Nov. 24. —Wind E., fresh breezes.--Arrd. Swift packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed lath ult.; on freight about 10,0001 in gold and diamonds. LOWESTOFFE, Nov. 24.—Part of the broadside of a vessel, with stanchions painted lead colour, also large ship masts, painted white, have washed ashore near here. CAUTION TO MARINERS. Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent at Workington. " Liverpool, Nov. 22, 1844. " Captain Trunion, of the brig Middleton, of Mary port, requests me to report that , on the 7th of March last, when on his passage from Buenos Ayres to Valpa raiso, in lat. 40 deg. 22 sec. S., lon. 55 deg. 13 sec. W., out five days (the latitude and longitude given as per chronometer), he discovered rocks, on which broken water was seen for a quarter of a mile north and south—they were about that distance from them when seen. Captain Trunion, on his discovering them, was then taking an observation of the sun. He supposes they must be the Ariel Rocks, although there is a considerable difference in their latitudes and longitudes; that had his attention not been particularly . drawn to that quarter whilst taking his altitudes, they might have been passed unseen ; and he can vouch for the accuracy of latitude and longitude of ship when these rocks were discovered." THE INFANTICIDE AT WOLVER- HAMPTON. The prisoners, Miss Railton, Mr. Sheriff, and Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth, were again brought before the coroner's inquest on Thursday, but no further evidence of any im portance was adduced, and the inquest was again ad journed until Tuesday next. On Friday the prisoners were placed at the bar of the public office before Mr. Hill, Mr. Barker, Mr. Dehane, and Mr. Briscoe, magistrates of the county. The only additional witness called was John Titley, a cowman, who deposed that he found the body of a female infant it the nightsoil in Mr. Quinton's outhouse. The prisoners declining to say anything in their de fence were each committed to Stafford. Miss Railton for concealing the birth of her child, and the other pri soners as accessories. The magistrates intimated that they would take bail; themselves in 801., and two securities for each prisoner in 401. Mr. Hill said he would wish to ask Miss Railton one or two questions upon oath, but she need not say any thing which would criminate herself. Miss Railton was then sworn, and stated that she had recently been in the family way. Mr. Sheriff attended her with instruments last Sunday month. He had at tended her with instruments within the previous week; that she had no labour pains previously to his performing an operation on Sunday month, and that some hours afterwards she was delivered of a child. The evidence affecting Sheriff given on the previous days, and deemed necessary to fix the offence of attempt ing to procure abortion against that individual, was then repeated by Colonel Hogg, Mr. Quinton. Mr. Ombler, and Inspector Casey, and the prisoner (Sheriff) was then committed to take his trial for felony at the ensuing assizes. ------ - SUICIDE AT TAB RESIDENCE Ole LADY GEORGIANA FAso.—On Saturday night Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Malpe.s Arms, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of Joseph Keinch, aged forty, a servant oat of place. John Wigmore, helper to Lady G. Fane's coachman, said that on Saturday morning, at seven o'clock, he opened the door of the stable at the back of her Ladyship's mansion in Upper Grosvenor-Fituare, when, though it was hardly light, he saw something black in the water tub. Upon approaching it he found the deceased with his head and shoulders in the water, and his legs hanging over the side of the tub. Deceased was then quite dead, and had evidently been so for some time. The door leading to the back yard where the de ceased was found was sometimes left open all night, and it was without doubt by that means that he got to the tub. The tub was only about two feet in height, and had deceased fallen in by accident, ho could with case have got out again. James Field said the deceased lived at No. 8, Shepherd's-court, and had been out of a situation for the last four months, with the exception of three weeks. On Wednesday last deceased had a severe ; it, from which he was with difficulty restored. rue next day, though better, he was by turns ratio:Aal and deli rious ; and as witness feared from his manner that he would lay violent hands upon hinaself, son, a youth, to watch him close; - he advised his On Friday deceased went out, followed by hi:, k, son, and went to Oxford street, where he wale- so fast, and, as the boy said, dodged about so." ttat he lost him. Nothing mo re was heard of hit' until his body was found at the rear of Lad y F a n "... ) a house. Undoubtedly, for the last two or three d" - .ys of his life, he was of unsound mind. Ver diß:{:" Temporary insanity." SUICIDE Or A DESPERATE CHARACTER IN A STA- TioN•HoirsE.—On Sunday morning a most determined act of suicide was committed in one of the cells of the station-house of the B division of police in the New-way, Westminster, by one of the most degraded characters, Sarah Colley, living in the purlieus of the Almonry, a locality most notorious. It appears that, at half•past eleven o'clock on Saturday night, she and another woman were creating a great disturbance near the Nag's Head, in Tothill-street, and Colley was at last given into charge, and taken to the station-house, where she was placed in a separate cell. She was visited every quarter of an hour by the man on duty, up to twelve o'clock. A very few minutes after an odd " bumping noise" was heard against the cell, and on the policeman going in he found her suspended by her apron to the door. She was immediately released, and it seemed that having tied tightly one er.d round her neck, she had then got upon a bench and listened the other to a small bar across a sort of ventilator ; she had then leaped from the form, and being a heavy woman this was no doubt the cause of the noise. Alth oug h she could have been h an g in g but a very short time, scarcely a minute or two , and was in stantly conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, it was found she was quite dead on her arrival there. This woman h as, in her time, been one of the most notorious in the la.3ality in which she resided, it is said, for the last quweter of a century—desperate in her encounters with VI who opposed her, and a pest wherever She went. COURT CIRCULAR. WiNnson, MONDAT.-2fhe Queen will hold a Privy Council at the Castle on Thursday next, at half-past two o'clock. Her Mnjesty, Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe C,,bourg and Gotha, and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, took an early promenade in the plea sure grounds. After the return of the royal party to the Castle, the Prince, accompanied by the Dukes of Saxe Oobourg and Wurtemburg, and the Earl of Liverpool, and attended by le Baron de Alrensleben and Colonel Arbuthnot, left the Castle in the mail phaeton, to shoot in the royal preserves. Mr. J. E.' Anson and Colonel Wylie attending on horseback. His Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales was taken for pony and walking exercise. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out in the afternoon. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen. The Marquis of Granby, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby took their departure from the Castle to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and Ernest of Wurtemberg, attended by Baron de Alvensleben and Captain Vyner rode out, on horseback in the Great Park this afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined the royal circle at dinner. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended at the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at tended by Baron Knesebeck, arrived at 'his residence at Kew last evening, from a visit to Colonel Wynd ham, at Petvvorth House, Sussex. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Granville Somerset, and Sir Ed ward Knatchbull. The Council sat three hours and a half. A deputation from the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, consisting of George Stacey, Robert Forster, J. Hinton. Joseph Cooper, Samuel Gurney, Josiah Forster, and J. Scoble, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Portuguese Minister and the Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and - faxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing.. street. Sir Robert Peel had a dinner party yesterday at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo• nial- office from the Governor of Gibraltar. General Sir R. Burke arrived at Farranee's Hotel, Belgrave-street, on Saturday, from Ireland. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm 18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—taken 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Cobweb colt 22 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England 40 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Collier 50 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Jinglepot 50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Mostyn's Black Prince--taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Worley's John Davis. The above are the prices as made up at the betting. That it was neither heavy, nor, in its influence on the market, of much importance, will be seen from the fol lowing list of the principal transactions :-600 to 50 agst Alarm-17 and 18 to 1 two or three times in ponies agst Kedger-20 to 1 to about 601. agst the Cobweb colt—several bets at 24 and 25 to I'agst Pam, who was in great force-1,000 to 40 agst Idas-1,000 to 30 and 725 to 50 agst Young Eclipse (plenty of backers)-1,000 to 30 and 1,200 to 40 agst Anti-Repealer-1,000 to 30 agst Weatlicrbit-1,000 to 25 agst Fitzallen-400 to 10 agst Collier-1,000 to 25 agst Lycurgus and Jingle. pot-1,000 to 15 agst Black Prince-2,000 to 20 and 1,000 to 15 agst John Davis, &c., &c. Old England re ceded to 33 to 1, layers. CUESTER CUP-ENTER OR NOT. 500 to 10 each agst Alice Hawthorn, Foig-a-ballagh, Winesour, Ratan and Morpeth—taken. RACES TO COME IN 1845. The following dates of rai appointed, or arc so establishe probable that they will be alt, March 12. Coventry. 19. Warwick. :es in 1845 are either specially d by custom as to make it im• red July 8. Newmarket July Meeting. 16. Liverpool ditto. 23. Newton. 30. Goodwood. August 6. Horwich. 6. Brighton. 11. Wolverhampton. 28. Tiverton. Sept. 2. Warwick. • 10. Leicester. 16. Doncaster. 30. Newmarket First October Meeting. Oct. 13. Newmarket Second October Meeting. 27. Newmarket Hough ton Meeting. 25. Northampton. 26. Catterick Bridge. April 14. Newmarket Craven. 22. Bath. 28. Newmarket First Spring Meeting. May 6. Chester. 13. Newmarket Second Spring Meeting. 13. Manchester. 20. Gorhambury. 27. Epsom. June 10. Ascot. 18. Hampton. 23. Newcastle-on-Tyne. 25. Bibury Club. 26. Stourbridge. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Limerick Chronicle, Nov. 20.) The Earl of Cardigan has resumed the c ommand of the 11th Hussars, at Dundalk, from Deane Park, Northamptonshire. The officers of the 23d and 85th have opened an ele gant garrison amateur theatre at Barbadoes. The right wing of the Ist Royal Regiment has sailed from Halifax to join the left w in g at Barbadoes. The 6th Regiment at Chester has received the order of readiness for service in Ireland, and will embark at Liverpool fur Dublin, to replace the 16th, in orders for Cork. Head quarters of the 77th depot, under Major Nelley, will march from Carlow for Waterford on Friday next, to replace Major Doyle's division of the 24th. The 16th Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Camp bell, in Dublin, has received the order of readiness to embark per steam-vessel for Cork, to replace the 72d, on sailing thence for Gibraltar this month, by tha Resistance troop ship. The order of readiness for the Ist Rifle Brigade depot to proceed from Athlone to Belturbet and Cavan is coun termanded. The.. tw•o companies of the 77th, from Athy and Mary borough, under Captains Straton and Brevet-Major Clarke, will arrive at Waterford this day and to-morrow, to be stationed. The draft of the depot 2d bat. Ist Royal, from Ennis killen, will arrive in Dublin on Friday next, to embark in the Princess Royal transport for the service companies at Barbadocs. 85th Depot, Light Infantry, Londonderry—Officers present, Major Manley Power, under orders to embark for the West Indies, to join the service compicies ; Brevet Major St. Quintin ; Captains Grant, Darell, and Todd ; Lieutenants Paterson, depot adjutant, Maunsell, Parratt ; Ensigns Warburton, Walters, liilder, Hon. W. Stuart Knox, and Assistant Surgeon D'Arcey, M.D. Effective strength, 11 sergeants, 4 buglers, and 251 rank and file. A draft of 1 major, 3 subalterns, and 90 rank and file, aro under orders to embark in the Princess Royal for conveyance to Barbadoes to join their service companies. Officers on leave—Ensign Aldo is on leave to Dec. 31 ; Ensign Floyd, on appointment. Recruiting, 5 sergeants, 17 rank and file. 93D DEPOT, Bina.—Quartermaster Sinclair has em barked to join the service companies in Canada. Major Smyth is on leave till embarkation fur Canada. Ensign Womyss is on leave. Detachments of the 51st, 58th, 96th, and 99th are ordered to embark at Chatham, to reinforce their head quarters in New South Wales. Lieut. Hall, half-pay, 50th, staff-officer of pensioners, is transferred from Brighton to Kingston; and Captain Teale, late 4th Regiment, is appointed to Brighton. Lieut.-Colonel Siinmonds shortly departs from London for his Regiment, and to take command of the island of St. Helena, in room of Colonel Trelawney of the Royal The officers and men of the 54th Regiment were pre sented an address from the inhabitants of Birr and neigh bourhood, on marching for Mullingar. Major Edward Last, 99th Regiment, is appointed assistant engineer at Newcastle, New South Wales. The Duke of Wellington inspected the 68th Light In fantry, under Lieut.-Colonel Lord W. Paulet, at Walmer, Kent, on Monday, and alto visited the barracks. Lieutenant Boggis, 2d West India Regiment, succeeds to a company by the death of Captain Jenkins, and will vacate the garrison adjutantcy of Sierra Leone. Captain 1)u Vernet, Paymaster 87th Regiment, is ap pointed staff officer of pensioners at Southampton, and, of course, vacates the regimental paymastership. Major Wood, late Captain of the 10th Hussars, but which he never joined, was fired at near Calcutta, and wounded in the leg, by a Company's artilleryman. The Major is Aide-de-camp to Sir Henry Hardinge, Go vernor-General of India. The Austrian army has been furnished with 200,000 percussion muskets. THE SANATORIUM, OR HOME IN SICKNESS.—Miss Burdett Coutts has male the munificent donation of 501. to this excellent institution. The Cornwallis, 72, Captain Peter Richards, was paid off at this port to-day (Friday). The brutal and ungentlemanly conduct of the Commander (Wise), to the tradesmen who had occasion to visit the ship, is a subject of ♦ery general remark—such behaviour is, we are glad to say, an exception to the general character of the officers in the service, or the term British naval officer and gentleman would eease to De synonymous.—PeVon pord Telegraph., GREAT ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND TOWGOOD'S BANKING HOUSt. • A robbery to an awful extent was committed be tween Saturday night and Monday morning, in the banking-house of Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and Co., bankers, of Clement'.-lane. It was stated that bank notes to the amount of from 35,0001. to 40,0001. or 41,0001. were stolen out of the iron safe which is de posited in the hall of the inner office, and that securi ties to a very large amount have been taken by the thieves. It is a remarkable circumstance connected with this robbery, that on the morning of yesterday, when it was first discovered, there was no internal appearances from which suspicion could be entertained upon en tering the office that any robbery had been perpe trated, or attempt at robbery had been made. Every thing was in its accustomed order; the iron safe, in which the cash and securities were regularly depo sited, was locked, and th e i ron c h est, i n w hi c h it was usual to deposit the master-key of the safe, to which there were two locks, was also secure. It was, we understand, the practice of the partners of the firm, of which there are said to be four, to re lieve each other in the heavy cash business of the house at stated periods, and each of them keep keys of the safe and iron chest ; and it is supposed that one of these gentlemen left behind him his keys upon some occasion of hurry or forgetfulness, and that with these keys the places of former security were violated. Some force had been used on a tin box in which several valuable securities were kept; but it appeared that the thieves had made some mistake with regard to the exact position of these documents, for they worked on the wrong side, and are so far disappointed. They laid hands upon enough, how ever, to console them for their blunder, as appears from the enormous list of bank-notes announced in a large handbill issued last night. In that handbill are the particulars of the stolen Bank of England notes, which amount altogether to 40,710/. Of those bank -notes there are 168 for 51., 40 far 101., 37 for 201., 10 for 301., 12 for 40/., 9 for 501., 10 for 1001., 5 for 2001., 1 for 5001., and 35 for 1,0001. The handbill states that further parti culars of the 'bills of exchange will be published, and that whoever will give such information as will lead to the apprehension of the guilty party or parties, or either of them, and -recovery of the property, or any part thereof, shall receive 3,0001. reward, or a part thereof proportionate to the - sum - which shall be re covered. Mr. nobler has been employed by the banking house to investigate the case, and has secured the able assistance of Daniel Forrester, the officer. As the firm do not belong to the Committee of Bankers against frauds and forgeries, Messrs. Bush and Mul lins have of course nothing to do with the prosecution. It appears that the money was deposited in the iron safe ; and, as usual, a clerk was appointed to watch over its safety during the day, and another clerk to perform the like duty during the night. One of the partners remaining at home yesterday, the day clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours, which was granted. At the accustomed hour in the evening the other clerk came, and remained during the night; but when business was resumed yesterday morning, and the iron safe opened with the ordinary key, it was found entirely . . empty ; and yet no force whatever had been used in the employment of the means adopted to rid the chest of its valuable con tents. Of course, all is conjecture upon the subject. Notes to the amount of 35,0001. have been stopped at the Bank ; and Forester, the active and intelligent City police-officer, is engaged in endeavouring to trace the party guilty of this daring and flagrant crime. ARREST OF BURGESS, THE ESCAPED FORGER. the Great Western, e iv iv e ed to b t y he event referred to in gives T The e the B following, ing P ost , r relative the above heading : William Burgess - alias Ellis, whose escape from Eng land and arrest here have already been fully stated in the Post, was brought before Mr. G. T. Curtis, commissioner, for examination. The COMMISSIONER, after the usual preliminaries had been gone through, said to Burgess—Have you any counsel ? Prisoner—No, Sir. COMMISSIONER—Do you wish for any counsel ? Pri soner—No, Sir. I'm willing the truth Should come out. The 10th article of the treaty of 1842, commonly called the " Ashburton Treaty," was now read, by which it appeared that fugitives charged with forgery are to be given up by the respective Governments upon the exhibition of competent warrants, and evidence raising a reasonable probability that the offence has been com mitted, and by the party charged. Mr. Richard Bord was then examined, and identified Burgess as a late clerk in the Bank, and as the person' who vouched for Elder as being " William Oxenford,' owner of the stock transferred by means of.the forgery: After partially hearing the evidence, the Comas elONEß thought it was not necessary to go any further into it, unless the prisoner desired it; and in reply to a goes-' tion as to his wishes, the prisoner replied—l do not ques tion what is stated. I am perfectly satisfied to go home. CommrsstoN ER—Have you anything to say why a cer tificate should not be granted that you are a fugitive from justice, as is charged against you ? Prisoner—No. COMMISSIONER—The evidence proves beyond all reasonable doubt that the offence has been com mitted, and also that Burgess aided in its commission. There is then no question but that it is my duty to issue a certificate to that effect. I therefore order Burgess to be committed to the gaol, to await the order of the United States Government. The Commissioner then signed the certificate, upon which the Secretary of State will issue an , order for the delivery of Burgess into the custody of th 6 English officer. As described by himself, Burgess had a hard job in gettiag o ff from Nahan on Thursday night. It took him three hours, and frequently the officers were near to him. At one time he was lying on one side of a large rock, while the officers were passing by on the other side. He stumbled into a pig pen, repeatedly fell into the water, and occasionally sank deep into the sand on the beach. After he found a boat he was six hours in reaching the Light-house Island, on which he was taken on Saturday evening. If convicted in England, of which there cau be no doubt, he will be transported for life. In conversation yesterday, he spoke feelingly of his late ac complice Elder, and expressed a wish to see where he is buried. Elder had been on a visit to the house of tbe prisoner's father in the country several months before the forgery. He was only forty-seven years of age, the prisoner thought, and was occasionally engaged in the horse business, His father was an extensive dealer in lumber. FURTHER PARTICULARS, Burgess, who was apprehended soon after Elder strangled himself in the gaol of Boston, in a most miserable condition, in a small island fifteen miles from Boston, is now on his return in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, to this country. Several private letters have been, we are given to understand, received in town relative to the whole of the trans actions of the two fugitives and those who pursued them. It appears from the statements made at the Man sion-house and about 'Change, that when Burgess escaped from the hotel at Nahant, a small peninsula joined to the mainland by a neck of land about four miles in length, he rowed in the dark for a consider able time, and at length, after having been tossed about, he landed and made the best of his way to a small cottage, in which a poor Jonathan and his wife and three children resided. From thence he sent to the waiter of the hotel at Nahant his keys, with direc tions to take possession of the money contained in his bags, and convey it to him. John Forrester, who managed the whole business, with the ready assist ance of the officers granted by the authorities, with consummate skill, took care to cut off the means of retreat or escape by land, and met the bearer of the money on his way to a place of appointment. The bag, which contained 1261. in gold, and in dollars and notes 4681., was directly sent back to the hotel, while the pursuit was continued. In the most wretched condition, with no more than a half-crown or a couple of shillings in his pocket, and half naked, the unhappy Burgess, after great ex ertion, reached another cottage, at the distance of about eight miles across the water, and there re mained under shelter for nearly a night and day. He then sent the owner of the cottage with a note to a Mr. Grant, who had had some transactions with him in the pecuniary way, requesting money. Mr. Grant, who had been duly informed of the forgery and robbery of the Bank of England, immediately gave the information where it could be made most available, and the person who knew the place of con cealment of the fugitive was prevailed upon, but not without a great deal of persuasion, and a reward of 300 dollars, to give him up to the police. It was evident, from the whole of the proceedings of Burgess and Elder, after their arrival in America, that they looked with the utmost confidence to per manent security from arrest. Burgess had been lodging about a fortnight at the hotel at Nahant, and had purchased a piece of ground of Mr. Drew, the landlord, on which he was about to build a house, and it was odd enough that before the foundation was laid he purchased carpeting, bed-linen, glasses, and other articles of furniture. The most complete measures had, we have been told, been adopted by the Bank to render this first expe riment upon the convention between England and America successful. A gentleman of considerable experience belonging to the establishment was bent over to manage one portion of the business, while John Forrester contrived and carried into exe cution the other. Upon their arrival at Boston, they learned, almost in an instant , from a sharehroker, that the great hulk of the money which the fugitives had brought with them had been deposited in a mer chant's bank, of which he happened to be a director, but that as it was only a safety deposit, in all proba bility it was withdrawn. Upon further investigation it appeared that the fugitives had, about the Ist of October, called at the bank, and taken all the gold out, and placed it to the account of Messrs. Reynolds and Grant. The money was soon after found to be invested in the joint names of Burgess and Elder, with Mr. Grant as trustee, and the address of Elder proved to be No. 51, Federal-street, Boston, and that of l3urgess to be about fifteen miles distant from that city. About 34,000 dollars, another amount, as we were given to understand, invested in the Stocks, in the names of Burgess and Elder, by Messrs. Reynold and Grant, and about 3,000 more were in the hands of the Marshal of the district of Massachusetts, and the whole of this money will be brought over by John Forrester in the next steamer, if, as is expected, the legal proceedings considered necessary under the novel circumstances of the case, be completed in time. The regular transfers have been regularly made, every facility having been rendered by the gentlemen who had bean employed by the fugitive, to give effect to the new law under which the messengers from the Bank of England were sent to act. In fact, all the parties in whom any power was "vested in America, expressed the strongest desire to aid the exertions of our officers, being determined to show that they were very far from wishing to see their country the refugiumpeccato sum of England, or any other nation. One of the communications speaks thus of John Forrester :—" The utmost credit is due to Forrester for his untiring perseverance, his devotedness, and his efficiency. Sleepless in his efforts, and straight forward in his demeanour, he secured friends wher ever he went who were ready and anxious to stand by him, and also at once enlisted their good-will in his behalf. No one could have discharged the re sponsible duties committed to him with more inte grity, zeal, or success." It was supposed that the death of Elder, who strangled himself in the gaol of Boston, would have been the cause of some delay and other inconvenience, but so willing were the authorities to give every op portunity to the Bank of England messengers to ob tain restitution of the stolen property, that there ap peared to be no chance of the slightest procrasti nation. The purchase made in the names of the fugitives was, we believe, all good stock, and no doubt is en tertained that it will realise the prices given for it. An inquest was held upon the body of Elder before Mr. Pratt, at Boston, and it was stated before the jury that the deceased was found dead in the gaol by strangling himself with his silk handkerchief, the same handkerchief being fastened to the grate of the room of the prison. MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF BELANEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL GAZETTE. Sir,—Will you do me the favour of inserting this letter in as early a number of your journal as may be convenient; it is an answer to one I have just seen, and which appeared in the Herald of the 17th inst., purporting to be a review of the medical evidence given by myself and Dr. Thomson at the late trial of Belaney, and accusing us of having allowed ourselves to be directed by general evidence, of having assumed wrong premises, an drawn conclusious from them which were not warranted : three charges sufficiently grave and serious to call for a reply, especially as they . are put forth by a medical professor under the form of a scientific dissertation: I can, and do, sympathise with the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and hope that no word or act of mine will give a tone to the general impressions which are everywhere formed respecting the unfortu nate death of his brother's wife • and I assure him that I was actuated by the same feelings when I entered the Court to give evidence at the trial, being con vinced that general reports neither did, nor could, come within the scope of my inquiries, which had reference merely to the medical facts; and for the purpose of arriving at these, and removing every tittle of doubt or objection which ingenuity might raise against them, I had instituted experiments under every variety of form and circumstance, the results of which, and not of any readings or hearsay, I detailed honestly and as clearly as I could to the jury, never allowing myself for one moment to be swayed by a double-meaning question, or by any party feeling; and it must also be remembered that t was not unac customed to such investigations, but that the circum stances of my position had for many years demanded an almost daily examination into them. Among the wrong conclusions with which Dr. Glover charges us, are the following :—He says, I had no right to assume that the cry of Mrs. Belaney was a shriek, or that it was the effect of the poison. Now I do not know that I have anywhere made such an assumption. It is merely asked of me, whether animals, under the influence of prussic acid, do not cry out? To which I answer—yes, that it is a con stant effect: and then it is inquired of me whether, after this cry, there would be a possibility of walking to bed and 'telling the cause of the disaster ? To which I reply, " Certainly not ! for after the shriek all sensibility and volition cease." And Dr. Thomson confirms my statement. This was no answer given hastily and inconsiderately, but sought for amidst multitudes of experiments and observations ; nor is it in any way invalidated by the case quoted from Christison, or, indeed, by any case within my knows ledge that has ever been upon record. There can be no doubt, as this and other cases show, of a capability of speaking after the exhibition of the poison; but this is not the argument ; it is, whether there can be conversation after the shriek—which .1 maintain is impossible. With respect to the other question, whether Mrs. Belaney's cry was a mere call to her husband, or a scream resulting from the poison, I have never offered an opinion, although Mr. Garrett stated in his evidence that Belaney told him it was a scream. Again, according to the husband's statement, Mrs. Blaney called the drink hot; and I am asked, if prussic acid has a hot taste ? and reply, " No; that its taste is bitter." I have tasted it again and again, and on two occasions in quantities sufficiently large to produce faintness; yet Dr. Glover maintains, by an unnecessary, an inapplicable, and a most unlearned dissertation upon the chlorides, bromides, and iodides of cyanogen, that it must be hot,—though I cannot see how this affects the master of fact arrived at by myself and another, who is nearly the only individual who has lived to record that its taste is inexpressibly bitter. In next part of the review Dr. Glover pronounces our ens% ers to be an outrageous piece of cruelty. It was known that Belaney, although he called himself a medical man, used no efforts to recover his wife, and we are asked whether the remedies for prussic acid ate generally known in the profession ? To which we reply, that they shOuld be, inasmuch as .they are everywhere taught ; and I think that we were warranted in making such a reply, when it is re membered that for sixteen years or upwards they have been publicly and emphatically taught in our schools, and are constantly being brought before the profession in one form or another ; that we have professed works and journals, and charts, to teach them to us; and if Dr. Glover's "old and young acquaintances, who are in active practice," do not happen to know them, it can surely never palliate, or in any way remove the culpability of the charge of gross neglect and ig norance; nor can it be admitted as an argument of the universality of su'h ignorance : if it did, Heaven knows, there is necessity enough for reform in our profession ; but most singularly, when Dr. Glover finds it convenient to make Belaney a judicious looker on, he argues for the propriety of his conduct, and says, that when he stood by ready with his lancet, he was acting in accordance with the views of Orfila, Christison, Magendie, and others. And why, may I ask, did he not further act in accordance with common affection and common honesty, and try to save her ? To crown the whole of this part of Dr. Glover's review, he tells us that we do not know the remedies ourselves; notwithstanding the whole tenor of our evidence, that she might have been saved. Lastly, as regards our opinion, that a smell would exist for some time in the room where prussic acid had been spilt, Dr. Glover expresses his dissent in toto, although it has been stated that my conclusions were drawn from experiments made under circumstances as nearly as possible like those of the case in question ; and in conclusion, without staying to comment on the pseudo-scientific character of the review, meant evi dentl3, to catch the popular ear. I will merely ex press a wish that it had been written with a more "conscientious spirit." I am, sir, your obedient servant, 1 - INRY LETHEBY, M. 8., Lecturer on Chemistry at the London Hospital. 12, Tredegar-square, Oct. 31, 1844. SIR W. FOLLETT.—The Attorney-General,: Sir W. W. Follett, is expected in England shortly from the Mediterranean. A Government steamer will be placed at the disposal of the learned gentleman to convey him to England or Marseilles. Sir William is decidedly better. FUNERAL OF DR. ARERCEOMBY.—The funeral of this eminent physician took place at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, and was attended by the members of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, amounting to about one hundred and fifty, and a great number of other gentlemen, friends of the deceased. His remains were interred in the West Church-yard. TILE ECLIPSE.—The commencement of the eclipse on Sunday night was not seen in the metropolis, owing to the hazy weather. About midnight the darkness was in tense. A little before one o'clock, however, the moon appeared tolerably clear, and for nearly half an hour before the last contact with the shadow was distinctly risible. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTII.—A poor woman of the name of Mutnford, residing in Angel-alley, Bishopsgate street, and whose husband earns about 9s. a week, was yesterday morning delivered of two boys and a girl, living and likely to live. They had four before this event made them the parents of seven, all in one room, and in very deplorable circumstances. This case is a very lamentable one, and is represented to us as one well deserving the charity of the public. On Wednesday a large brass mortar, weighing about nine tons, was landed at the Dockyard, from the Cornwallis, and is to be sent round to the eastward. It was brought from Trincomalee, said to have been taken by the Tartars ; it was found buried in the mud, and is supposed to have been there about 200 years. The orifice of the piece is about 21t. 31 in., and it appears to be of good worktuanship.—Devonport Independent. THE "LEAGUE" and .the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX. A very important meeting was held yesterday, in the League Rooms, the object of which was to take the necessary steps in reference to the county of Mid dlesex, so as to make the return of free-trade Mem bers in any coming election certain. The meeting, which was a very crowded one, was composed of highly influential gentlemen, well known as ardent supporters of the Free trade movement. Amongst others, were the lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P.; J. L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P. ; Messrs. W. A. Wilkinson, Camberwell ; Thomas F. Gibson ; W. Leavers, James Harker; W. Cumming, &c., &c. G. WILSON, Esq., the Chairman of the Council of the League, who presided, opened the proceedings by detailing the plan already adopted with so much success in Lancashire, and now in progress in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with every prospect of the same result, viz., of creating a majority of free trade voters by the increase of 40s. freeholders. Several gentlemen delivered their sentiments, warmly approving of the project, and promising their co-ope ration to achieve the desired end. The object proposed was very warmly received, and a most enthusiastic spirit pervaded the meeting. A numerous and influential Committee was ap pointed, and after the necessary preliminary arrange ments were made the meeting was adjourned till to morrow, when active operations will commence. Thanks were voted to the chairman and the meet ing separated. LITERATURE. DRAMATIC LIBRARY. Sherwood and Bowyer, London, 1844. We have here a republication of several of the best comedies and tragedies in the language, which are brought out in weekly Parts, each Part containing one entire play, and at the trifling cost of threepence ! Verily, if this be not cheap literature, we know not what is. Seven Numbers of the series have already made their appearance, including, among other dramas, Shakspeare's King John, Sheridan's Rivals and School for Scandal, and Massinger's New Way to Pay Old Debts; and each of these plays is printed on excellent paper, and in the neatest possible type. When completed, the Dramatic Library will form a series of very convenient pocket volumes. THE BETROTHED. 2 Vols. Burns, London, 1844. This is a translation, fuller and more faithful than any that has yet appeared, of I Promessi Sposi, or the Betrothed—an Italian work of fiction,- by Alessandro Manzoni, a writer well known on the Continent, and whose present novel, which is justly considered as his mast2r-piece, has long enjoyed an atmost unrivalled popularity among his countrymen. The high moral maintained throughout the Betrothed does the author great credit, and forms a striking contrast to the majority of modern French novels, which are written with an utter disregard to every sense of re ligion and morality, and seem penned for no other purpose than to astonish the realer by their licentious extravagances. The great charm of Manzoni is the simplicity of his incidents, all of which possess the rare merit of probability ; and there is not a single character, male or female, in the Betrothed, of which it can he said that it is in the slightest degree exag• gerated in its lineaments. BATTUE SHOOTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—Although a game preserver myself, and that over some thousands of acres, I have seen with the greatest pleasure the powerful attacks made by the respectable portion of the press, and that, too, with out distinction of party, against the present extensive system of game preserving; which, had it been pur posely devised with the intention of demoralising the peasantry, could not possibly have been more success ful ; and this for the mere purpose of keeping up the unsportsmanlike practice of battue shooting, enabling a few cockneys to slaughter their game without the healthy excitement and exercise which ought to be the accompaniment of a day's sport; and I should feel much obliged to any party, who professes "to do unto others that which he would they should do unto him," to explain what difference there is in the conduct of a man who exposes to the public gaze and touch valuable jewellery, and then prosecutes the un fortunate who cannot withstand the temptation, and the game preserver who keeps in a field adjoining the miserable huts of half-fed peasants scores of hares and pheasants, and then prosecutes them if they snare one on entering their gardens to devour, perhaps, their morning meal. All I know is, that both judges and jurymen agree in denouncing the conduct of the former. Game preservers prevent this by having made laws constituting themselves both judges, and jurymen, and executioners. First, I will tell you my mode of game preserving. Over a large tract of country I have only one keeper (no watcher), who could never perform his duty ex cept with the good-will of the farmers. his instruc tions are, whenever a tenant complains that the game is getting too plentiful, to go and shoot them down as he would vermin, especially hares, which are doing some mischief, be it much or little, every day in the year; and whenever any tenant wishes to have a hare, he gets it as a right which he has acquired by having fed the beast. In this way my tenants are the best game pre servers, to an extent quite sufficient for a day's sport with a day's exercise. The game is not so abun dant as to tempt a trespasser, who would, in all pro bability, be immediately detected ; for unless it is very plentiful, a farmer detests a poacher, who breaks fences, leaves open gates, disturbs stock, and if hard pushed, makes no scruple of stealing poultry, or even sheep, should an opportunity occur ; but when game swarms, the tenant is forced to tolerate the poacher to get rid of a worse nuisance. I will now state a mode, which I trust will be as successful with hares and pheasants as I have found it to be with black cocks and grouse, and if so, its practice would put a greater check to the present in tolerable extent of game preserving than any law which can be expected from our present Legislators ; for, however extensive arc a man's domains, or how ever numerous his keepers, he must have a boun dary ; and this plan has also the good effect of punish ing in the most severe manner such a neighbour as I am unfortunately troubled with. The keeper builds about thirty yards asunder, and in the form of a triangle, three riAs of straw—one of them hollow, in which to conceal himself; the others with a sheaf or two of corn placed on the top. These are placed in a corn field, near the boundary, and they very soon collect an immense quantity of both black game and grouse. After the birds are accustomed to the haunt, the keeper hides himself in the one that is hollow, and with two or three double barrelled guns, gets several shots, at perhaps twenty birds sitting at thirty yards distance ; the result you may guess. Strange to say, as long as the keeper remains unseen, the birds do not appear alarmed, al though their companions are dropping by their side, and he generally fires all the guns before he emerges to collect the spoil; he then conceals himself again, when the same process is gone through, and this three or four times of an evening, when an assistant is ne cessary to carry away the game. By having similar stacks, a mile or two apart, and visiting each only twice a week., game-preserving is out of the question, especially when the land is rather lower than the hills which the birds frequent in fine weather, and for breeding, for the plan is most effica cious in misty weather; and even during rain, when the birds descend in great flocks, for shelter as well as food. Of course it will be said that this is unsportsman like ; so it is, and so is battue shooting; but this is all that can be said against the former, while nothing can be said in favour of the latter ; and if parties will preserve game to the extent which it is the fashion to to do, I know of no mode of administeringsuch severe punishment without getting into the trammels of the law.—l am, Sir, your very obedient servant, A SPORTSMAN. `i r e rejoice to hear that one of the first subjects to be I rought before the House in the approaching session, will be the present state of the navy, especially as re gards the sue, number, and capabilities of our men-of war steamers. This will be done by a distinguished officer and Member of the House, who is well qualified to undertake the task, and who for some time has been collecting a mass of information upon this important subject, which cannot fail to interest, if not to astound, the country.—Hampshire Independent. QUALIFYING Yon. THE COUNTY.—The friends of the League are exerting themselves with great success in inducing the free-traders to qualify for the counties, es pecially for South Lancashire, North Cheshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lancashire. A meeting was held at Mr. Caton's Commercial Hotel, on Thursday evening, attended by a deputation from Manchester, for this purpose ; at which resolutions were passed in favour of this object, when many agreed to get freeholds, and persuade their friends to do th same.—Preston Guardian. THE ECLIPSE OF TILE Moox,--Puring the early hours of last night the firmament was extensively ob scured with " lazy-pacing," thin, flocculent clouds, through which the moon was but faintly visible. This must have prevented those who wished to make scientific observations from using their instruments, at the com mencement of the eclipse, with all the effect that was de sirable. Shortly after ten o'clock the clouds cleared away, and from that time the moon was unobscured save by the earth's shadow which passed across its surface. The appearance of the moon when about three parts ob scured was beautiful. The progress of the eclipse agreed closely with the calculations. It commenced about thirty-eight minutes past nine o'cleck, and terminated about twenty-eight-and-a-halt' minutes past one this morning.— Liverpool Albion of Monday. INSTINCT OF RATS.—An old man named Turne r, in living on Cotton's-common , h w hile gripping last ua weekrd e h 1 a piece of land belonging t o Mr. Reeve,.. of two pecks accl s half of beans carefully packed up. They had been carried, no doubt, one by one, and hoarded up for the winter. Ho took home his prize for his pig.— Stamford Mercury. MURDER IN FRANCE. The Court of Assizes of the Loir-et-Cher was oc cupied on the 15th, 16th, and 17th inst. with the trial of a man named Rougier, aged 29, a shoemaker, at Vendome, and a woman named Hogu, aged 38, wife of a person who kept a public-house in the same place, for the murder of the wife of the former pri soner and the husband of the latter. The act of ac cusation declared that a criminal intercourse had com menced between the prisoners about a year back. Rougier's wife was a pretty woman, and of a cheer ful pleasant disposition, and he had been exceedingly attached to her before he had got acquainted with the female prisoner. This woman was of a decided cha racter, and exercised a remarkable fascination over the men who became intimate with her. She had spent a dissipated youth, and had been spoken of in the town more than once for the criminal irregularity of her conduct. Rougier's wire, it appeared, was completely ignor ant of the intercourse between the prisoners, and the husband of the female prisoner had never, as far as was known, reproached his wife with her conduct. On April 7, Ilogu suddenly died, in the midst of dreadful convulsions and vomitings, and on May 21 similar symptoms attended the death of Rougier's wife. This second death excited suspicion, and on an application to the authorities, the body being sub jected to chemical analysis, a large quantity of arsenic was found in the stomach and intestines. In consequence of this discovery, Hogu's body was taken up, and a similar inquiry into the matter, that Rougier, after having invited some persons to coma to Hogu's house to eat brioches, had gone to a baker's and procured some dough, of which he made a cake himself, marking it with a cross, to distinguish it from some others, which he purchased ready made. He gave the marked cake to Hogu, and distributed the rest to the guests. It was after this repast that Hogu was seized with the illness which put an end to his life. On the trial, after the medical men had proved that a great quantity of arsenic had been found in both the bodies, Rougier's counsel stated that his client wished to make a statement to the Court, and that he had to request the temporary removal of the female prisoner. This being effected, Rougier, amidst marks of the greatest interest, declared that his con science tormented him so cruelly, that he had come to the determination to avow the whole truth. " I com mitted the crime alleged against me," pursued he, " in conjunction with the woman Hogu. She has been my destruction, but I was unable to resist her energetic language. She at first made me give her husband verdigris mixed in a dish of potatoes, but when it only made him sick, she persuaded me to purchase arsenic. We divided it, and it was agreed between us that I should put my share into a brioche, and she her's into some soup. It was in that way that Ilogu was poisoned. My ac complice also insisted on my poisoning my poor wife. I refused at first, but she threatened to turn king's evidence, and inform against me, if I did not conform to her directions. I still refused, and she then con trived to drop the poison one day into a cup of coffee which my wife was on the point of taking. My conscience is now easier; do with me what you please !" This avowal produced a great agitation in the Court, and the sitting was suspended for some time. When the woman Hogu was brought back, Rougier's confession was communicated to her, but she denied with great vehemence the truth of the whole allegation. "He has spoken no thing but a tissue of lies," cried she. "Rougier never communicated his designs to me. I never • had any arsenic in my possession, and most certainly I should never ha ve th oug ht o f us i ng it t o get rid of my husband, who was so kind to me. Had I known Rougier's plans, I would have done all I could to prevent them. Rougier was con stantly following me about, and persecuting me with his attentions. I never wanted him, and frequently prayed him to return to his work, as M. Joubert can testify." This Joubert was Rougier's most intimate friend, and his examination was expected with great impatience, from the fact of Rougier's having been in the habit of keeping nothing concealed from him. His testimony told against both the prisoners. He stated that, previously to Rougier's becoming acquaint ed with the woman Hogu, he had been a laborious steady workman, but he afterwards was like a madman. Rougier had confessed to him his improper intercourse with the other prisoner, and on witness remonstrating with him on his conduct, he replied, "Ah here's something that will put an end to all !" showing a paper marked " arsenic." Witness had been present at the party given to eat the brioches, and had seen Rougier give Hogu one marked with a cross, those distributed to the rest being plain. The witness concluded by declaring, that nothing would induce him to believe that Rougier had ever poisoned his wife, to whom he had always behaved most kindly, and to whom he was much attached before his acquaintance with the woman Hogu. The purchase of the arsenic by Rougier was clearly proved, he having procured an authorisation to obtain some, on the ground that the rats were destroying his leather. A number of witnesses testified as to significant and suspicious words which fell from both prisoners rela tive to the deaths of the two persons who had been poisoned. On the third day, when the jury retired to consider their verdict, the excitement of the crowd out side the sJurt was so great, that fears were enter tained of the doors being burst in, and 200 soldiers were obliged to be sent for to keep them back from the building. After an hour's delay, the jury re turned into court with a verdict of "Guilty against both prisoners—against the woman Hogu, for the murder of her husband and of Rougier's wife, and against Rougier, for the murder of Hogu only. The Court passed sentence of death on both, and ordered the execution to take place at Vendome. Rougier appeared thunderstruck at the sentence, but the woman did not evince the slightest emotion. DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.—OH Friday this neighbourhood was shocked by a report that Miss Jane Gulliver, daughter of Thomas Gulliver, Esq., of Bloxham, and sister to Mrs. Fisher, of Grims bury House, with whom she bad been staying some time, had drowned herself. She was about twenty-six years of age, and had for a very long period been in indifferent health, and latterly her spirits had been greatly affected, so much so that her medical attendant had suggested the propriety of her not being left alone. On the Friday morning, she had, with one of her sisters, walked into I3anbury. On their return, she went into the kitchen, and then, as the family supposed, up stairs to change her dress. This was about one o'clock. At half-past two Mr. Robert Field, of Grimsbury Mill, saw a shawl floating at the mill-head, against the bars which are placed to prevent substances passing to the wheeL He remarked that a shawl had blown away from somewhere, and told his boy he had better get it out. The boy got hold of the shawl, and then found that there was a body under it. He gave an alarm, and Mr. Field and some of his men came and raised the body, which they found to be that of Miss Jane Gulliver, and took it out into the house. It appears she must have left Mrs. Fisher's, instead of going up stairs, immediately after her sister's back was turned. She then went to the back of Mr. Field's garden, a few hundred yards from Mrs. Fisher's house, and there, having taken off her pattens, and pinned her clothes tightly round her, she threw herself into the stream, which was very rapid and swollen by the profuse rains that had fallen for a few preceding days. It is supposed that she must have been very quickly carried to the spot where she was found, which is about forty or fifty yards from where she threw herself in. Her pattens were found on the bank by a man who was wandering by the river some time before the body was discovered. An inquest was held upon the body of the young lady the following day. It came out ii the course of the evidence that a report had prevailed that deceased was enciente, but it was proved, on medical testimony, that there was not the slightest foundation for this aspersion upon the character of the unhappy young lady. But to what cause the depression of spirits from which she had been suffering was attributable there was no evidence to show, and the jury returned a verdict to the effect That the deceased drowned herself whilst in a state of temporary insanity," at the same time all expressing themselves satisfied that there was no founda • tion for the report alluded to, but which, for the satis faction of her friends, the Coroner had thought proper to investigate.—Abridged from the Banbury Guardian. Cow, IMPUDENCE.—Rather more than seven years ago, a light-fingered Irishman, named Sweeney, was convicted of stealing a box of tinned plates from a ship in one of the Liverpool docks. On his conviction he was sentenced to seven years' transportation, which punish ment was duly inflicted. A few days ago he again made his appearance in this town, and one of the first places he visited was the office of the firm to whom the tinned plates had belonged. Neither of the principals were within, but he at once proceeded in the coolest manner to introduce himself as Mr. Sweeney, the gentleman who had suffered for appropriating the tinned plates. Ile said that his visit to Australia had not been either dis agreeable or unprofitable ; that he had soon obtained a good-conduct ticket, and a good place as a gardener, in which he had saved money. Baying now fulfilled all his obligations to the law, lie had returned home, and determined to claim his rights, among which was the box of tinned plates for which he had been sent to Botany Bay ! This he considered clearly his 9_w r -n, and s li c e a g re ge e ( l l y t s l a nl y t v threw the whole office into a roar. The c.er ts not ttel it migh t that Mr. Sb%evegeni:eyn's ' gory ° a h n i i m d . i his " r e eq n l:C et s i t in , r themselves competent to decide on so curious a claim in t hea % b , s o e u n l t d e c o oll t a h g e a l n whichrn l o y e h r e s , promisedbegged f to a d t o t , he gen tleman though he has not yet fulfilled his promise.—Liverpool Chronicle. CHARITABLE FUND AND DISPENSARY, FORE ' STREET, CITY.—On Sunday two sermons, on behalf of this Institution, were preached at the church of St. Law • rence and Mary Magdalene, morning and evening respectively ; that in the morning, by the Rev. Charles Marshall, M.A. ; and that in the evening, by the Rev. A. M'Caull, D.D. In the course of an eloquent appeal, it was stated that within the past year no less than 1,000 patients had been relieved and cured. The sum collected amounted altogether to 20!. 13s. 4d. The majority of the residents in the Tower of London, belonging to the civil departments there, bar e received notice from the Secretary to the Board of Ord nance to quit their respective dwellings by the end of March next. It is understood that the tenements which they occupy are to be pulled down, and that barracks and store houses are to be erected on the site.—United Set vice Gazette, ~wr• a 130 9 . ° e , Sir r -Dr* ot, rd ° e d bf wire ksinr e ming sea, lquor e ' itn" from -nslit ) •- )101)1' 0 10 : bl° • rede" [Asai o the nt e i s ,bed re'o l ' 00 1 ; blur ed. SUN, LO 26, 1844