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Geneked had had to encounter, and tpoL4i in a touching manner of the conduct of his heroic wife, a captive to a barbarian. The crowning glory Of his fame was too great to require eulogy. Ile concluded by proposing " The health of Sir Robert Sale." —Drunk with three times three. Sir ROUERT SATAI replied in a very concise manner, but in his usually blunt and effective Iv ay ; and after many remarks illustrative of the gratitude he felt for his kind reception, concluded by Proposing the health of his Worship the Mayor. The health of the Bishop of the diocese followed, and was responded to by Dr. Tattershall: The evening now being advanced, the company , brok 4 up, evidently highly gratified with the delight ful entertainment provided, and the general cordiality and kind feeling that prevailed. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Putiftt ptitton. " Who runs may read." POWLEXG27. „On Monday the King, the Queen of the French, and Ville. Adelaide, accompanied by General Friant, Col. Dumas, Baron Fain, and two orderly officers, came to the Tuileries, but returned to Neuilly to dinner. In the evening, their Majesties received the Ministers of Prussia, Denmark, Baden, and Tuscany, Gen. Cubieres, Baron Pasquier, Count d'Argout, Baron Deffaudis, and M. v atout. Lis Majesty is to leave for Eu on Wednesday, on his way t o Englati-d. Tho Presse mentions a report that Count de Fiahaut, the French Ambassador at Vienna, is to accompany the Ring to Windsor. The Sentinelle of w 2 ulon mentions a report that the hare steamer has beFil ordered to carry Gen. Viscount de Sebastiani to Corsia, and to proceed from thence to thilippeville, to bring the Duke d'Aumale to France, to be married to the Princess Caroline of Naples. The Emperor and Empress of Austria arrived at Trieste, from Cape d'lstria, on the 13th instant, and on the 16th were to set out again on their return to Vienna. The G ran d D u k e a nd Duchess of Tuscany left on the 1 2th, on their way back to Florence. General Bustamente, formerly President of the Mexi can Republic, has arrived in Paris. At the second meeting of the Scientific Congress sit ting at Milan, there was a warm debate on the choice of the place of meeting for 1846. That for the next Year is fixed to be at Naples, and the Prince de Canino Proposed Genoa for 1846 ; but the Count de Vigodar zero, of Padua, named Venice. At the voting, however, Genoa gained the day. This resolution has been ac ceded to by the King of Sardinia. The following letter has been addressed to the Journal (les Debuts of Wednesday, by Viscount de St. George, the Captain of the Adonis, confirming the statement of Captai n T. Nicolas, of the Vindictive, that there never w as any trial of speed between their two ships : `` This morning I read in your paper a letter from Captain T. Nicolas, who commanded the English frigate the Vindictive, in the Pacific, when I commanded his Majesty's brig the Adonis. The letter contradicts an betwe en in se rt e d in the Globe, relative to a trial of speed Betwee n these two ships. I wish, like the captain, to de clare that the fact is untrue, which I should have done sooner had I attached the slightest importance to the re- Pcrt.—Dr ST. GEORGE, Capt. R.N.” • MAW AND POLICE. In the Bankruptcy Court William Law, a linen-draper, of Reading, came up for his last examination, but his a ccounts not being satisfactory, his case was adjourned, 1 „, _ l l order to enable hint to produce more detailed accounts. -eklward Edwards, a linen-draper in the City-road, who stated that during part of the time he was in business he I °l4 no cash-book, likewise had his case adjourned for Clore detailed accounts, and his allowance, it was arranged, B bould depend upon his assiduity in giving information to his creditors. The Insolvent Court resumed its sittings yesterday, lifter the long vacation. Mr. Commissioner Pollock presided. Catherine Stewart, for ill-using Clara .Tyrrell, a child thirteen years of age, was sentenced to three months' ion- Prisonment at the Middlesex Sessions. ~ At Guildhall William Mills, the journeyman hl der who discontinued an allowance of half-a-crown a Week to his wife, who is 73 years of age, because he In sPected she bad committed adultery with a young man „c 23 , again appeared before Sir Peter Laurie , to answer 41' . 4 e compl a i n t o f Mr. Postan, the vestry - clerk of Al aersgate for refusing to maintain his wife. The y o ung man who is the object of Mills's suspicion w as present, and positively denied the charge. Mrs. Mills,"t he said, was his aunt. Sir Peter Laurie consi dered the accusation so improbable that he ordered Mills to allow his wife 2s. per week. Richard Beachcrott, a young man holding a situati on lo the G en eral Post-office, was bound over to the sessions from Bow-street, charged with committing an unpro voked assault upon Mr. Randall Chatterton, a cutler, residing at No. 2, Peter'S-court, Upper St. Martin's lane, The defendant had, in a drunken fit, knocked at th e complainant's door, and, on his appearing, had at tacked him ferociously. George Arnold who was charged with having stolen a s.uantity, of carpenters' tools, and also with attempting .terminate his existence, upon the discovery of his rt, by cu t t i ng hi s t h roat, was f u ll y comm i tte d f rom r Ylebone. At Union-hall, George Grant, a seaman recently dis chcarged from the Dreadnought hospital - ship, on board ,„ Which he had been a patient , was brought before Mr. ; ,, e ttingham charged with stealing a linen sheet from the t 4 l 4lb°i Borough. As it app eare d th a t e pris oner , an old man-of - war's man, had been driven t° ' commit the crime by distress and starvation, the corn- Platinum refused to prosecute, and he was discharged. Henry Jones, William Benson, Thomas Hill, J o h n e 7, and S am uel Foreman, the five men wh o s t an d e larged with h av i ng caused the death of a man named George Benson, the brother of one of the prisoners, in a "gilt which took place on Sunday last at Kensington, W ere fully committed from Hammersmith to take their t rial for murder. William Waller, a carman, was charged at Clerken /i,ell with an assault upon James Latchford , aged 13 ' e ars. It appeared that on the previous evening the p r isoner, in sport, seixed the boy by the heels and swung 'al round repeatedly'. The boy cried out, but the pri !Poor did not leave off, and the boy became dangerously "i, and has since been confined to bed in a dangerous l a i nte, an effusion of blood on the brain having been pro mueed. He was remanded. An old man named Ilugh Quin, who had been a !eldier, and had been allowed a pension , but had lost it 14 Consequence of having been prevented by illness from attending,,„ a call of pensioners in 1839, and who had Znle to London from Scotland to endeavour to get his r"flijon renewed, appeared at Marlborough-street, to be passed home. On inquiry, however, it proved that he t . ad be en horn in Ireland, in which country he had no t r ,ierlds and that if passed anywhere at the expense of le parish, he wrist be passed to Ireland. Under the Peculia r circumstances of the case, Mr. Maltby gave the man 1/. 10s. from the poor-box to pay his expenses to `Scotland. Mr. Henry Charles Maclean, of No. 11, Albion . s treet, Wandsworth-road, surrendered to his bail at f \Yandswa r th, to answer the charge, as it appeared on h ad polic e -sheet, of poaching in Wimbledon Park. lie ..ad been detected in the act of shooting a pheasant, and haid been taken into custody by a policeman. Mr. aynter, after perusing the game-laws for some minutes, ii nd consulting with the chief clerk, turned to the con• st4 ble, and said—" You had no right t o treat the defen da nt in this way ; this is either a fiscal or a felonious °lf "ee. I think it is clearly of the former nature, and therefore the offence should have been taken cognisance Of by information. The defendant was consequently dis charged, in order that he may m e roceeded against in !be regular manner; and Mr. Pay made tho follow ing remark upon the charge-sheet :—"I consider this a rrest has been made illegally, and I should not, there ri 're, feel justified in convicting, unless the party had been Previously summoned." C Ott -PASZUONALZIMIL It i s said the visit of her Majesty the Quecn Dowager t ° P-atirl and Countess Brownlow, at Belton House, near `/santha ni , has been pt - stEoned from the 2d until the 10th October, in consequence, it is understood, of her Ma tsty being invited to meet his Majesty the King of the ranch at Windsor Castle. The Duke of Rutland, who has been among the guests °I the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, took his de- Nt-ture from that princely mansion on Wednesday h k erning, and has returned to Longshawe, his Grace's 410 0 ting l o d ge , i n the same county. The Earl and da°untess of Hardwick also left Chatsworth on the same ,Lay. The Earl and Countess of Ashburnham, who have be en, passing the season at Ashburnham, in Sussex, will shortly proceed to the north, on a visit to her Ladyship's tister, the Marchioness of Breadalbaae. The Earl and Coutttess will subsequently visit Lady Haddo, who is at 4 t present staying at Haddo House, the seat of the Earl of Abe r d een The Earl of Denbigh, Lady Mary Fielding, Lady C:ngusta Fielding, Lady Jane and Adelaide Fielding, William C. Ross, Major Makepiece, and Count Vi harfsky, embarked on Thursday at Blackwell Pier, on board th e G eneral S team Navigation Company's steam bhtp Soho, for Antwerp. leord and Lady Jemiina Eliot have been staying at nQI Castle, near Bath, since Tuesday last. I, C ount Alexander Tolstoy arrived at Brown's Hotel, --Joy er - street, on Tuesday last, from St.. Petersburgh. Count D. Nareschin is also among the distinguished it „ tt ' s sian Nubh men who have reached England during last few days. l The Ru ss i an P r i nce , S o l ty k o ff, w h o , it w ill b e recol reeted, fortuttl coo of the suite accompanying the Empe ttott of Ru ss i a on hi s recent v i s i t to t hi s countr y, arr i ve d f th StC.Plare erndbon hotel late on Wednesday evening, l'oul etsurgb. trtZt.C."ELMANZOMII. alt i s said that clothing, arms, and accoutrements have en prep are d for the pensioners of the army f i t for duty, pi that t h ey are to be called out for training seven " v a.Y . B in th e year, and receive 2s. 6d. per day exclusive of !`"! pensi ons . T he dress cons i sts of a f roc k coat, B otlar to those worn by the police, dark-coloured trou 4rst like the Oxford mixture, with red cord along the c'itter 'watt's, and a bl ue c l o th b onne t w ith p ea k. An I°Vvance is to be made for two shirts, two pairs of t j -)eki ng', and laced- u p b oo t s , an d a h aversac k i ns t ea d o f W ,ila Psaek. The arms and stores for the London and oolwich districts are deposited in the Tower, ready to be,suPplied when the men are ordered to assemble. 1, , LI , has been fur some time generally known that . con ?Aterable improvements have been under the considera- Lo u „ of Government to be effected in the neighbourhood vl Westminster, especially in those parts whore scenes ■wwi THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27. of the grossest description daily and nightly t:tiLe pLec, which, it is reported, are leased by the Dean and Chap ter of Westminster to other persons, and then sub let to the most infamous characters. The district which this comprises consists of Orchard-street, New I'ye-street, Duck-lane, New Tothill-street, and the vast number of courts which diverge from them. The whole of these buildings are to be taken down, and a most excellent improvement, not only morally, but sanatorily, will be effected.' On Friday last, as Henry Studdy, Esq., was out shooting, in company with Mr. Poole and another gentleman, Mr. Poole shot at a partridge in the direction where Mr. Studdy was standing, when the contents of the gun struck that gentleman in the forehead. At, first it was supposed that extensive injury had been done to the un fortunate sufferer, but from the circumstance of Mr. Poole being at a distance of 60 yards when he fired, the shot had not so great an effect ; still, as it is, the sur geons on Saturday morning gave it as their opinion that Mr. Studdy will lose ono of his eyes. It is reported that the splendid mansion in Stephen's green, Dublin, rented by the Earl of Cardigan during his residence here has been taken by the Marquis of Waterford, who intends to reside for some time in the Irish metropolis. John Cartwright, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at Constan tinople, has received a highly flattering dispatch from his Government, in reply to his request to be permitted to withdraw from the cares of public life. After enume rating his various and valuable services, be is requested to withheld his application for three months longer, when be will be entitled to the full retiring pay: THE MERCHANTS OF OLD EN GLAND. The following beautiful verses, so truly descriptive of the wealth which England .has acquired by ships and colonies, and of the power of her merchant princes, are taken from "Historic Fancies," the pro duction, as many of our readers are aware, of the Hon. George Sydney Smythe, son of Lord Strang ford. We have already noticed the work with approbation ; but it improves on acquaintance, and we therefore recur to it with pleasure. Most of the pieces, in verse as well as prose, are written with great spirit, showing at the same time a generous and impartial disposition, and an anxious wish, a rare (circumstance in a political partizan) to view the principles of men to whom he is opposed in the most favourable light. The touching lines on the death of Armand Carrel afford a fair specimen of this amiable feeling. Several other pieces equally deserve praise, among which we may mention " The Aristocracy of France" and " The Catholic Cavalier." The collec-- tion altogether is highly creditable to " Young Eng land," and, if we may judge from what has fallen within our own experience, has made a very favourable impression upon the rising generation. Some of our young friends can recite the whole of the poems ap parently without having taken the trouble of commit ting them to memory, and seem to regret that they are so few—a sure test of merit : The Land, it boasts its titled hosts,--they could not vie with these, The Merchants of Old England, the Seigneurs of the Seas ; In the days of Great Elizabeth, when they sought the Western Main, Maugre and spite the Caesars' might, and the menaces of Spain ; And the richly freighted argosy, and the good galleon went forth, With the bales of Leeds or Lincoln, and the broad clothe of the North ; And many a veteran mariner would speak 'midst glistening eyes, Of the gain of some past voyage, and the hazards of emprize ; Or in the long night-watches the wondrous tale was told Of isles of fruit and spices, and fields of waving gold. And the young and buoyant-hearted, would oft that tale renew, And dream their dearest dream should be, their wildest hope come true. So with brave hearts and dauntless, they sailed for the Ua known ; For each he sought his inmost thought, and a secret of his own. And reason fair, how wild soe'er had been each young belief,- 0 reason fair ! had they to dare with Raleigh for a chief I Then, when long years had glided by, in those colonies they made, The same free spirit, which was theirs, in those Plantations staved. As refuge here and shelter full many an exile found, When the Old World grew in dotage, and by Priests and Kings was bound. _ _ . And in some far savannah, where man had never been, They came with thought as simple as was that savage scene; Or in the lonely prairie they kept their solemn tryst, When Sacred Word and Hymn were heard, and the equal laws of Christ. And the young and strong Republic was by these in virtue bred, She was cradled in Adventure, she was nursed in good men's dread, The young and strong Republic that has filled the world with fame, And with great praise and marvel of the Anglo-Saxon name. And well she shows her origin in the deeds that she has done, With her Franklin, and her Whitney, and her hero Wash ington. Then glory to the Fathers who had such sons as these, The Merchants of Old England, the Seigneurs of the Seas ! The land, it boasts its titled hosts,—they could not vie with these, The Merchants of Old England, the Seigneurs of the Seas. In the days of the Guelphic Georges, when the dream had come again, Of a Treasure land, where a daring hand had only to glean and gain. And all that in past times our forefathers had told, — Of the gorgeous Mississippe, and the Southern seas of gold,— Was now outdone, where the Eastern sun poured its fire in lava streams, Through bold Dupleix's, and Labourdonnaya's, and Lally's conquest schemes ; But little they knew what he could do, when on fair Plassy's vale The bright-eyed young Adventurer flung his sword into the scale ; And like the Roman Legend the fate of nations swayed, With the glory of the impulse, and the greatness of the blade. For the Fiat had gone forth, and the Orient was to be The slave of a Northern mistress,—the Island of the Free. And of the three Great Races that met in conflict there, The fierce Mahratta swordsman, and the Mussulnian Ameer, Was high above all standards, the Company's displayed, Was high above all war-cries, the war-cry of the Trade. And from that hour there grew the power, was made by no human hand, But as erst was given in grace from Heaven to a free and chosen land. For, lo! by a sign that was divine, there were revealed once more, The greatness, and the courage, and the soul that were of yore— And onevast mind, itself combined, the Ancient and the New, The ardour of the Christian, and the calm of the llindoo. And after Hastings, still there came a great and glorious line , Of Proconsul on Proconsul to tend his high design ; Of councillors and heroes, whose names shall live fur aye, With the Wellesley of Mysure, and the Wellesley of Assays. Then glory to the merchants, who had such chiefs as these, The Merchants of old England, the Seigneurs of the Seas. The land it boasts its titled hosts—they cannot vie with these, The Merchants of old England—the Seigneurs of the Seas, In the days of Queen Victoria, for they have bore her sway From the far Atlantic islands, to the islands of Cathay, And, o'er one-sixth of all the earth, and over all the main, Like some good Fairy, Freedommarks and blesses her domain. And of the mighty empires, that arose, and ruled, and died, Since on the sea, his heritage, the Tyrian looked in pride, Not Carthage, with her Hannibal, not Athens when she bore Her bravest and her boldest to the Syracusan shore, LITERATURE. HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF ,COMMONS. Colburn, London, 1844. This is the second volume of the Memoirs of the House of Commons from the period of the Convention Parliament of 1688, down to the passing of the IVhig Reform Bill in the memorable year 1832. The author is Mr. Townsend, Recorder of Macclesfield, who has executed a difficult and somewhat com plicated task with uniform diligence—not to say, im partiality—and enlivened his historical account with several cursory sketches of the most eminent indi viduals who have figured in St. Stephen's within the period of which he treats. Among the various curious matters referred to in his Memoirs, is that ceremony of kneeling, which offenders against the majesty of the House of Commons were compelled to practise in the presence of the Imperial Senate. This degrading ceremony was insisted on with the utmost rigidness by Parliament, and continued to be acquiesced in for a long term of years without the slightest re monstrance on the part of the public. At length the peremptory refusal of Mr. A. Murray, brother of Lord Elibank, to kneel humbly and submissively at the bar while his sentence was pronounced on him, had the effect of putting an end to the ignominious practice, as we find by the following entertaining extract : " After the interval of a century, during which all offenders, real or supposed, against the majesty of Par liament, had continued to kneel without open resistance, a similar scene of rage was re-enacted in February, 1751, on the peremptory refusal of Mr. Alexander Murray, brother of Lord Elibank, to kneel at the bar to receive his sentence. He was charged with having, during the late Westminster election, incited the High Bailiff, say ing, Will nobody knock the dog down?' but the words were not satisfactorily proved, and Mr. Murray per- sisted in denying that he had ever uttered them. The House, however, - acted on the complaint of the returning officer, and resolved that he should be committed to Newgate, and receive his sentence on his knees—an in dignity to which he peremptorily declared nothing on earth should ever induce him to submit. In vain did Mr. Pelham explain that kneeling was no acknowledgment of guilt, but only a testimony of respect : in vain did the Speaker, horrified at his insubordination, exclaim in his deepest tones of displeasure, On your knees, Sir! you must kneel down.' Mr. Murray persisted in standing, and the sentence could not be spoken. The House, in a tumult of indignation at such contumacy, resolved, ' That Mr. Murray, having in a most insolent and audacious manner, at the bar, absolutely refused to be upon his knees, is guilty of a high and most dangerous contempt of the authority and privilege of this House.' "If bitter words and strong epithets could have availed to whip the rebellious Adam out of him,' these resolutions might perhaps have sufficed. The Speaker strongly urged ulterior measures, insisting that, if insub ordination of this alarming character were to pass with out exemplary chastisement, all respect to his authority was at an end. It was therefore ordered that Mr. blur • ray should he committed close prisoner to Newgate, and that no one'should have access to him without leave— that he should not have the use of pen, ink, or paper, and that a Committee should consider and report what further methods might be taken. As the rack and thumb-screws were abolished, and the power of inquisi tors before torture, between torture, in torture, and after torture,' had passed away for ever; as the House could no longer impoverish by fine, or add hard labour to imprisonment, no further or more effectual remedy than duress could be devised. The prisoner lingered in Newgate four months, till the prorogation in June, with spirit unbroken. " As soon as the gates of his prison were thrown open by the rising of Parliament, he made a triumphant caval cade along the streets of the metropolis, amid the cheers and huszas of the populace. As the natural effect of persecution, a lately despised Jacobite became the idol of the hour. This-popularity was remembered to his pre judice by a vindictive House of Commons, who, as soon as they met in November, on the motion of Lord Coke, voted that he should be recommitted to Newgate, and receive the sentence of re-committal on his knees. But the bird was flown. Mr. Murray had prudently with. drawn to the Continent. A reward of 500/. was pro claimed by the Privy Council, at the instigation of the House, for his apprehension. Public feeling revolted at the violence of this persecution; his enemies became in time ashamed of their intolerance, and Mr. Murray had the consolation of learning that, by his firmness and suf ferings, an end was silently put to a practice which, with reptile tenacity of life, had lingered for centuries. The name of the wag ought to be known, who had previously expressed his indignation by rubbing his knees, after ristng from the bar, and exclaiming with an excusable double-entendre, 'This is the dirtiest house I was ever in during the whole course of my life." PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the PRE VENTION, CAUSES, and TREATMENT of CURVATURE of the SPINE. By Samuel Hare, .r many years past rs L t o h n a d t o u h ic a h r e i 4 has l 8 4 f , t o S lt ui Zp e ;e n devoted considerable attention to the subject of dis eases of the spine, and the results of his experience are contained in the work now under review, which is certainly one of the most understandable books on the subject we have ever read. His treatment seems to have been most successful. The apparatus which he uses is thus described : " It consists of an inclined plane two feet in breadth and six and a half in length, furnished with feet or made to rest securely on a proper framework. At the upper end are three pulleys, of which the two outer are about four inches, and the middle one six inches in height above the plane, the former ones being about eight inches asunder. Two pulleys are also attached to the lower end of the plane, and about one-third from its upper end, and six or eight inches from the sides, two openings are made, into which also pulleys are intro duced. A very thin and firm mattress may be placed upon the apparatus, and on this the patient reclines. It is also furnished with weights for extension and with springs, and compresses, according to the circumstances of the case ; a support for the head, made of soft leather, stuffed with curled hair or cotton wool and in tended to pass under the chin and occiput, is attached to a cor d, which passes over the centre pulley, to which a weight is suspended ; shoulder-straps composed of the same materials , and a tt ac h e d in a similar manner, p ass under the axillfe of each arm and over the outer pulleys, having weights also adjusted to them ; similar means of extension are also applied round the ankles, and occa sionally in the male sex above the pelvis ; these are passed over the pull e y s a t the lower end of the plane. The openings in the upper part of the plane are for the purpose of admitting a cord, to one . end of which is attached a shoulder -strap, and to the other a weight ; this is very useful when th e shoulder projects, as else in cas es of excurvation. In instances of projection of the sternum, when the patient is said to be pigeon-breasted, a piece of padded leather or other similarly firm sub stance, is used with great advantage, being made for the purpose of passing o ver the projecting part, and th e pressure is gradually increased or diminished as may be found necessary." Patients are placed on this inclined plane in a re clining and position, and the weights are properly ad justed, observing this reclining posture, and a tt e nding to other rem e di a l measures some month s , by the distorted spine is gradually restored to its natural shape and form. The progress of the cure i s de noted by the increased quantity of air the patient i s able to expire after taking a full inspiration, which, of course, shows the increased capacity of the chest, which, in cases of distorted spine, is invariably con tracted. The quantity of air thus expired is ascer tained by a very ingenious contrivance, which may be " called a pulmometer—that i 3 a glass vessel, marked with cubic inches, from ten to two hundred; this is filled with water and inverted in a pneumatic trough ; the patient then fills his or her chest, and breathes through a glass tube into the meter—the additional quantity of water displaced, showing, of course, the increased capacity of the lungs." In a very elaborate introduction, the author treats of the causes which tend to produce distortion of the spine-=among these tight-lacing, of course, holds a prominent place. From this portion of the work we extract the following passage, to which we would particularly draw the attention of parents, denouncing as it does a practice which has grown into fashion of late years, but of the injurious tendency of which we presume few are aware A custom at present prevails to a very considerable extent, of using a leather belt buckled round the waist of boys, when they commence wearing their clothes of woollen cloth ; this pract ice, unless adopted with great care, has a direct tendency to produce a contracted state of the chest and upper part of the abdomen, similar in effect, though not in degree, to th at pro d uce d by corse t s . in growing girls . is hoped, that it is only necessary to point out the evil, and that parent s will at once see the necessity of avoiding it." The book is copiously illustrated by plates, and the cases recorded, in which Mr. H are h as s ucceeded in restoring to comparative health those who had been suffering for years from the most severe forms of spinal distortion, are very numerous, and exceed ingly interesting. 174 4 • 1 : 17 ME KNIGHT'S WEEKLY ond : We have here lying,night's W ee kl y V o l u me"—a op our t a bl e th e e i g hth and ninth Numbers of "K miscellany which is incomparably the cheapest of the day, containing as much matter for one shilling as " Murray's Family Library" used to contain for the more aristocratic sum of half-a-crown. The Num bers in question comprise republications—each in one small neat duodecimo — of Miss Martineau's tale, entitled " Feats on the Fiord ;" and Mr. Davis's " History of China." The last work is, we under stand, considered by those who are conversant with the subject, as the best history of the Celestial Empire that has yet appeared in print, being singu larly minute and circumstantial in its details, and not less scrupulously impartial in it s s t a tement of facts, or.sagacious in the inference s which it deduces from them. One of its most curious chapters is devoted to a consideration . of the p reva ili ng Chi n ese religion of Budhism—an interesting theme on which the author descants at great length, and with an eager wish to throw as much light on a mysterious question as possible. The volume is embellished with several passably executed wood-cuts. As regards Miss Mar tineau's tale of " Feasts on the Fiord"—as we noticed it in The Sun on its first appearance, a short while since —we shall here content ourselves with observing that is written in the author's most, careful a.al spirited manner; is remarkable for its familiar acquaintance and exact sketches of Norwegian manners and cus toms; and more especially for the beauty and rich ness of its description of Norwegian scenery. Miss Martineau excels most novelists of the day in descrip tive power, as she showed in her story of the " Hour and the Man," in which she placed before her readers most vivid and gorgeous pictures of the landscape scenery of St. Domingo. We quote her opening sketch of a Norwegian Fiord : "Every one who has looked at the map of Norway must have been struck with the singular character of its coast. On the map it looks so jagged, such a mixture of laud and sea, that it appears as if there must be a per petual struggle between the two—the sea striving to inundate the land, and the land pushing itself out Into I the sea, till it ends in their dividing the region between them. On the spot, however, this coast is very sublime. The long straggling promontories are mountainous, towering ridges of rock, springing up in precipices from the water ; while the bays between them, instead of being rounded lc ith shelving sandy shores, on which the sea tumbles its waves, as in bays of our coast, are, in fact, long narrow valleys, filled with sea, instead of being laid out in fields and meadows. The high rocky banks shelter these deep bays (called fiords) from almost every wind ; so that their waters are usually as still as those of a lake. For days and weeks together, they reflect each separate tree-top of the pine-forests which clothe the mountain sides, the mirror being broken only by the leap of some sportive fish, or the oars of the boat man as he goes to inspect the sea-fowl from islet to islet of the fiord, or carries out his nets or his rod to catch the sea-trout or char, or cod, or herrings, which abound, in their seasons, on the coast of Norway. It is difficult to say whether these fiords are the most beautiful in summer or in winter. In summer they glitter with golden sunshine ; and purple and green shadows from the mountain and forest lie on them ; and these may be more lovely than the faint light of the winter noons of those latitudes, and the snowy pictures of frozen peaks which then show themselves on the surface ; but before the day is half over, out come the stars—the glorious stars which shine like nothing that we have ever seen. There the planets cast a faint shadow, as the young moon does with us ; and these planets and the constellations of the sky, as they silently glide over from peak to peak of those rocky passes, are imaged on the waters so clearly that the fisherman, as he unmoors his boat for his even ing task, feels as if he were about to shoot forth his vessel into another heaven, and to cleave his way among the stars. Still as everything is to the eye, sometimes for a hundred miles together along these deep sea-val leys, there is rarely silence. The ear is kept awake by a thousand voices. In the summer, there are cata racts leaping from ledge to ledge of the rocks ; and there is the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings, as it dashes abroad from its eyrie, and the cries of the whole clouds of sea birds which inhabit the islets ; and all these sounds are mingled and multiplied by the strong echoes, till they become a din as loud as that of a city. Even at night, when the flocks are in the fold, and the birds at roost, and the echoes themselves seem to be asleep, there is occasionally a sweet music heard, too soft for even the listening ear to catch by day. Every breath of summer wind that steals through the pine-forests wakes this music as it goes. The stiff spiny leaves of the fir and pine vibrate with the breeze, like the strings of a musical instrument, so that every breath of the night-wind, in a Norwegian forest, wakens a myriad of tiny harps ; and this gentle and mournful music may be heard in gushes the whole night through. This music, of course, ceases when each tree becomes laden with snow ; but yet there is sound, in the midst of the longest winter night. There is the rumble of some avalanche, as, after a drifting storm, a mass of snow too heavy to keep its place slides and tumbles from the mountain peak. There is also, now and then, a loud crack of the ice in the nearest glacier ; and, as many declare, there is a crackling to be heard by those who listen when the northern lights are shooting and blazing across the sky. Nor is this all. Whereever there is a nook between the rocks of the shore, where a man may build a house, and clear a field or two ; wherever there is a platform beside the cataract where the sawyer may plant his mill, and make a path from it to join some great road, there is a human habitation, and the sounds that belong to it. Thence, in winter nights, come music and laughter, and the tread of dancers, and the hum of many voices. The Norwegians are a social and hospitable people ; and they hold their gay meetings, in defiance of their arctic climate, through every season of the year." GREAT WRESTLING MATCH. The long talked-of wrestling match between the men of Devon and Cornwall, for sixty sovereigns, commenced on the 11th instant, at Tavistock, and continued with unabated vigour and interest until the 17th, when it terminated. On the first day 12 standards (9 Devonshire and 3 Cornish men) were made; and on Thursday 20 more (10 from each county); on Friday three more were added to the number. On Friday evening the double play com menced, and continued until Saturday evening, when the celebrated Thomas Gundry, the Cornish cham pion, was called on to play with William Chapple, from the North of Devon ; the former of whom, with his friends, no doubt contemplated the carrying off the first prize. The two men being about equal weight (Chapple 9st 101 b, and Gundry 9st) entered the ring. The interest excited at their appearance was intense, and profound silence prevailed. The men closed, and ere seven minutes had elapsed the die was cast— Gundry was thrown. The plaudits of the assembled multitude at the result of this struggle were un bounded, and after a few turns from some other "good men," the amusements of the week terminated. On Monday morning the play was resumed. Snell (from London) a Devonshire man, and Hodge, the younger, a Cornishman (who held out their time on the previous Saturday), were invited to combat. Having played an hour and ten minutes, and it being doubtful when the struggle would terminate, both being " good ones" it was suggested to them to toss for the back. The recommendation was accepted and Snell won. The Devonshire men were then matched and played, and in the play some very striking mus cular power and science was displayed. Chapple had then to encounter Bartley. The latter, it seems, had a wish to meet Chapple, but he soon found he had mistaken his man—for Chapple compelled him to give up the contest. After several other matches of con siderable interest were finished, Snell was then matched with Verco ; both played out their time. On Tuesday morning they again played an hour, when a toss was proposed, accepted, and won by Snell. Bickell and Bray were matched, and a splendid set to it was. Bickell was thrown. Many other players en tered the ring, and, in reference to many of them, it was a difficult task to determine to whom the meed of praise should be awarded. The last men who con tested with each other were Chapple and W. Hodge, and this struggle was to determine the awarding of the first prise. The conflict was of short duration. Three minutes put an end to the affair, Hodge being thrown most cleverly. The prizes were awarded as follows : W. Chapple (Devonshire), ht prize..... £l2 W. Snell (Devonshire), 2d prize .. 9 W. Hodge (Cornwall), 3d prize ....... 6 J. Hooper (Devonshire), 4th prize 4 R. Bray (Cornwall), sth prize. .. 2 The triers were Mr. Chapman, Redruth ; Mr. Dawe, Meavy ; and Mr. Ryall, Milton Abbott. The attendance at the booth which was erected in a field near the canal storehouses, was very consider able every day during the amusements; it has been computed that at several periods of the time from 2,000 to 3,000 persons had assembled, though an admission fee was paid. A committee f five gen tlemen was appointed to conduct the affair.—Exeter paper. THEATRICAL CRIMPING. Nearly a century after this period (1663) David Garrick purchased a share of the property (Drury lane Theatre). He discovered that the company re quired considerable recruiting in the very lowest rank of actors ; and in the choice of these, he employed a whimsical fellow about the theatre—his name was Stone. lie was a sort of theatrical crimp ;he had much humour, but never could be prevailed upon to open his mouth on the stage. Whenever this caterer brought a person who was permitted to make an essay, whether successful or not, he had a cer tain sum given for his trouble, and, for some years this man (who had acquired the name of Gar rick's crimp sergeant) made, in this kind of ser vice, a tolerable subsistence. A variety of letters passed between Garrick and Stone during the course of their professional negotiations some of which let ters are extant, and in the hands of the curious col lectors of such literature. Amongst them are the following, which we have seen, written in 1748 : " Thursday, noon—Sir, Mr. Lacy turned me out of the lobby, and behaved very ill to me. I only axed for my two guineas for the last bishop, and he swore I shouldn't have a farthing. I can't live upon the air. I have a few cupids you may have cheap, as they be long to a poor journeyman shoemaker, whom I drink with now and then.—l am, your humble servant, W. Stone." The following is the answer in Garrick's well-known hand :—" Friday, noon— Stone, you are the best fellow in the world. Bring the cupids to the theatre to-morrow. If they are under six and not bandy-legged, you shall have a guinea a piece for them. Mr. Lacy will pay you himself for the bishop. He is very penitent for what he has done. If you can get me two mur derers, I will pay you handsomely, particularly the spouting fellow who keeps the apple-stall on Tower hill—the cut across the face is quite the thing we want. Pick up an alderman or two for Richard the Third if you can, and I have no objection to treat with you about a Lord Mayor, in case Dunstall should be absent without leave. The barber will not do for dumb Brutus, although I shall make use of him as Crooked fingered Jack.' — David Garrick." There is another of Mr. Crimp- Sergeant Stone's letters, to the following effect : " Sir, the Bishop of Winchester is getting drunk at the Bear, and swear's he'll not dis grace his family by going on the stage with you to night. I'm yours, W. Stone." To which Garrick sent the following very laconic reply :—" Stone, the bishop may go to the devil ; I don't know a greater rascal—except yourself." The person alluded to as the bishop was procured by Stone, and had rehearsed the part of the Bishop of Winchester, in the play of Henry the Eighth, to the satisfaction of the fastidious Gar rick ; the fellow, however, never played the part, for the reason assigned in the laconic epistle.—Anecdotes of Actresses. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. —This morning, at an early hour, a most murderous as sault was committed in the workhouse by a pauper named James Winters, upon another pauper named Thomas Leeds, whose life has thereby been placed in imminent danger. It appears, that at dinner time yes terday, during the temporary absence of the ward-in spector, there was a fight in the day-room between Winters and another man, and that Leeds interfered to preserve peace. This interposition seems to have ex cited considerable animosity in Winters, for this morn. ing, whilst Leeds was sitting quietly at breakfast, un conscious of danger, Winters silently approached from behind, and struck him three tremendous blows with a maule, one upon the ribs, another upon the right temple, and a third upon the back part of the head. A maule is a wooden instrument, three-fourths of a yard in length, and three inches in circumference, supplied to the paupers for the purpose of breaking and crushing 'sand. The blows immediately rendered Leeds insensible, in which state he was removed to the surgery by two other inmates of the house, both of whom witnessed the assault. The unfortunate man by the aid of powerful restoratives re covered his faculties in the course of two or three hours; and he became so well as to be able to appear against his assailant at the police-court, where he was conveyed in a coach. The circumstances were deposed to before the stipendary magistrate, who, in the first instance, ordered the prisoner to be committed for trial at the assizes, but Mr. Graham, the surgeon, stating that the temporal bone was fractured, and the patient's life in considerable danger, he was remanded until the issue is known. THE HARVEST IN TUB MANSION-HOUSE.—It is re ported there is a capital crop of grass this year in the Lord Mayor's kitchen. His Lordship, however, will not commence cutting before the 9th of November.—Punch. The Swiss Council of education has demanded that smoking shall be forbidden to youth; they consider the practice to be useless, in bad taste, injurious to health, expensive, and hazardous to the public edifices, which are in constant danger from the sparks thrown about by smokers. The Lancaster archers had their gala day on Thursday. The cup and Sir H. Fleetwood's gold arrow were won by M. J. Bond ; the bow, won by Mr. K D. Salisbury ; the large arrow, won by Mr. liirkes ; the small arrow, won by Mr. Hewitt ; the gold medal, won by Mr. Dodson. While the words of Alcibiades yet echoed wide and far, 'Where are corn fields, and are olive grounds, the Athenian's limits are." And in each trireme was many a dream of the West, and its unknown bliss Of the maidens of Iberia, and the feasts of Sybaris— Not in those younger ages, when St. Mark's fair city ran Her race of fame and frailty,—each monarch's courtezan, Not Lusia in her palmier hour, in those commercial days, When Vasco sailed for Calicut, and Camiiens sang Isis praise, Not Spain with all her Indies, the while she seemed to fling, Her fetters on the waters, like the oriental king. Not one among the conquerors that are or ever were, In wealth, or fame, or grandeur with England may compare. But nut of this our Sovereign thought, when from her solemn throne, She spoke of the Poor, and what they endure, in her low and thrilling tone, And offered a prayer that Trade might bear relief through the starving land, To the strong man's weakened arm, and his wan and work less hand. And by the power, that was her dower, might Commerce once more be The Helper of the Helpless, and the Saviour of the Free. Then Glory to the Merchants, who shall do such deeds as these, The Merchants of Old England, the Seigneurs of the Seas. WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING The preparations for the reception of the King of the French at the Castle are proceeding with the greatest rapidity under the superintendence of Mr. Saunders, the Inspector of Palaces. Independently of the suite of rooms (consisting of the King's and Queen's closets, the King's drawing-room, the ante throne-room, and the council chamber, forming a portion of the State apartments) which will be de voted exclusively to the use of his Majesty, the whole of the State rooms will be in requisition during the sojourn of her Majesty's royal and illustrious guest at the Castle. The orders at present are, that all the arrangements connected with the apartments to be occupied by his Majesty shall be completed by Satur day, the sth proximo; but the King is not expected to arrive at the Castle until a few days after. The private apartments will be ready for the re ception of the Court on Wednesday next, on which day it is stated her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Royal, may return to the Castle. It is not expected, however, as the Queen will not leave Blair Athol until the morning of Tuesday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of 'Wales, the Princess Alice, and the Prince Alfred are expected to leave the Pavilion, at Brighton, for the Castle, on Tuesday next. There is now not the least doubt of her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and a portion of the infant royal family, paying a visit to the Isle of Wight during the autumn. Os borne House is now in course of preparation for the reception of the Court, which is expected to arrive there immediately after the departure of the king of the French from Windsor. The advowson to the valuable living of St. Neots, in Suffolk, a few miles only from Bury St. Edmunds, of the value of One Thousand Pounds a-year, is to be submitted to public competition, by Mr. George Robins, on the 17th of October. T'ae Incumbent is 75. The will of the late William Ileathcote, Esq , was proved in tho Prerogative Court, Doctors' Commons, on the 12th instant, by John Gregson, Esq., of Bedford row, the sole surviving executor, and the personal estate is sworn to be under 200,0004—Britannia. THE NEW POOR-LAW. The case of John Shaw, and the conduct of the officers of the union at Slough, have come before a jury, and the. jury have decided that the rule of treat ment in that workhouse is inhuman and scandalous. " They are unanimously of opinion that the refusal of the matron and governor of the Eton Union work house to allow any conversation to pass between the afflicted man and his wife, sister, and mother-in-law, except in the presence of a listener and spy upon their conduct, is a part only of a moral treatment adopted towards the poor man which is a disgrace and scandal to a Christian country." Details more shocking, more revolting, more sickening than those which accom panied the dying bed of this poor man, and which this coroner's inquest has brought out, we cannot imagine. The scene and the animus which it deve lopes are equally horrible ; and we seem transported into a lower and viler atmosphere than the daylight could tolerate. A poor man is on his death-bed—a death-bed more wretched and loathsome than we can describe : the details are unrepeatable. His wife, sister, and mother come at twelve o'clock at night to see him. They want to see him before he dies: they have been brought for that purpose by a servant of the workhouse out of pure compassion. At twelve o'clock at night they are refused admission within the walls, and have to find a lodging for the night elsewhere, while their relation is hour by hour approaching his ead. In " a strange place ' (as the verdict of the jury states), "many miles from their homes," the walls which contain the dying hus band are closed upon the wife. "Are they come down at this time ?" is the truly humane speech of the governor of the union, which expresses the sole view which he takes of the matter. And pray, if they were not to come down at that time when were they to come ? Are people only to see one another when they are alive and well, when nature is vigorous and can support herself; has resources of her own, and is independent? Is not the comfort of a familiar face, a kind look, a sympathising eye, and the accent of tenderness required a thousand-fold in the despondency of a fatal illness? "Are they come down at this time ?" indeed. This is the New Poor law humanity, this is straight from the moral code of Somerset-house. The governor of the Slough poor house is a worthy, faithful servant of the department. He represents it well. It does not appear to disadvan tage in his hands. Dead indifference, coldness and thickheartedness, which lowers the objects of charity to an incubus and identifies the poor man with the animal, are the attributes of the system. The go vernor of Slough Union ought to have promotion. He has obviously imbibed the principles of his pro fession. But let us suppose the relations at last ad mitted. The night is over, and the next morning come. The wife goes to the bedside of the husband. She cannot speak to him, except in the presence of some servant of the establishment. " Mr. Wakley—l want to know by whom the order has been issued that a person is to be present to listen at the interviews between inmates and their relations? " Witness (opening a small book he had in his hand) — I will show you the rule. He then opened the book, and having examined it a minute or two, closed it, and, hold ing it with his hand behind him, said—' It is a rule that an officer of the establishment shall be present at all the visits of persons to inmates, be:they sick or well.' " Mr. Wakley—That is a rule of the Poor-law Com missioners ? " Witness—lt is." This, then, is a rule of the Poor-law Commission ers ; and a more cruel and shameless interference with the right of human privacy—the right that every one in society who has not forfeited it by crime, has of talking about his own affairs and of talking to those whom he wants to hear about them, and those only—we cannot conceive. We should really call it gross impertinence, were not the impertinence ab sorbed in the cruelty of the thing. The idea of espionage comes in to complete the prison tactics of the poor-law system. It is most remarkable how, every way it turns, this system derelopes in the iden tification of poverty with crime. There is a fate about it. That stamp is seen everywhere, and shows like a plague-spot. The jury in the present instance then have done boldly and honourably. They have confronted the Poor-law Commissioners manfully, and have told them to their faces, that their system is a scandal and disgrace to the country. That a jury h ave d one thi s is an important thing to notice. " This ( re f err i ng t o the espionage) is pert, of a moral treatm en t t owar d s the poor man, which is a scandal and a disgrace to a Christian . country." We repeat th e wor d s , f or t h ey deserve repeating.. That a jury tell th e P oor -l aw Commissioners this, is a strong evidence of that power coming at last into collision with the national character and nature. A jury re p resen t s th e popu l ar mind ; it is one form of representation by which the national feeling is expressed. Juries are as old as parliaments ; they speak on such a subject as the pm sent, in which ordinary human feeling is alone con cerned, with a voice of authority. And we seem now to have a regular formal constitutional representation of public feeling against a cruel and unnatural sys tem. Juries have power, Their influence catches. Their example is followed. This is a legal judicial manifestation against the New Poor-law, and it will have its effect as such.—Times ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH.—The number of men required for the carriage and other departments of the Royal Arsenal have now been obtained, and consi derable progress has been made with the ship-gun car riagss ordered to be supplied to the advance ships at the out ports, to keep them always ready in the event of their services being required at short notice. There are always a sufficient number of large guns ready for use in the Royal Arsenal, and at all the out-ports, which, within twenty-four hours' notice, could be mounted and ready for service, and the facilities afforded by steam conveyance places it in the power of the authorities to concentrate them at any particular station, on very short notice being given that they would be required. IRELAND. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE DUBLIN CORPORATION. DUBLIN, SEPT. 25.—The City Assembly-house and the several approaches to it were crowded from an early hour this morning with persons anxious to obtain admission for the purpose of hearing the de bate, which it was very generally expected would issue upon the following notice of motion given by Coun cillor Maunsell, a Conservative Corporator, on the last day of meeting :—" That an humble address be presented to the Queen, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to hold her Court, and to summon an Imperial Parliament, to meet at least once in every three years, in her loyal city of Dub lin. Also, that she will recommend to the considera tion of Parliament the propriety of making such provision as shall secure that the same shall be done in future times." From the moment the notice was given, and that it became generally known that the learned proposer was a staunch Conservative, the greatest interest was manifested as to what the result of the discussion would be. Whatever might be the fate of the motion itself—whether it was supported by the Liberal or the Conservative portion of the Corporation—it was felt to be at least a step in the right direction, and that, too, by an influential member of a party which had been on every occasion the decided opponents of every plan which tended to improve the condition of the country. The population of the country—the nobility, gentry, and clergy, Catholic, Protestant, and Presbyterian— are divided into three classes, consisting of repeaters, or advocates of an independent Parliament, such as that which existed in 1782 ; federalists, or those who think a Parliament on the principle of that in Canada would answer every purpose ; and a third party, at the head of which is Doctor Maunsell, who are con vinced a visit of her Majesty and her Parliament every three years to her "loyal city of Dublin" would cure the unhappy evils which now distract and disturb this country. The Lord Mayor entered the assembly at one o'clock. Dr. MI.UIISELL said he should not waste any un neeessary time in preliminary observations, but_sorae at once to explain why it was that he felt it lu.'Muty to bring forward the present motion. He might, in the outset, state that there never was a time more favourable for some change that would bring about an amalgamation of parties, and unite the heretofore discordant elements that existed in the country; for there never was a time when there was less animosity or party spirit amongst Irishmen of all classes.— (Cheers, and cries of " Hear," from Mr. O'Connell). He thought, therefore, that the present time was fa vourable for bringing forward his motion. He did so without consulting the party with whom he had the honour of acting, and generally coinciding in opi nion. He would not interfere with other men's opinions, at the same time he should say one word about a repeal of the union, and that was a mere re petition of what he said in that house when the sub ject was discussed there upwards of a year ago. He was then, as well as on the present occasion, of opi nion that total repeal would damage the Protestant interest and lead to the domination of the Romish clergy—(" No, no ")—and was therefore opposed to it. Perhaps he might be wrong, but such being his opinion he candidly and fearlessly expressed it. But at the same time it did not follow that something ought not to be done for Ireland that would preserve the Protestant interest, and give equal rights and liberties to all parties. He would discuss the matter under three heads—first, as it effected the Protestant interest ; secondly, with regard to the interests of England ; and thirdly, to examine it as it might affect the legitimate objects of the repealers and the people of Ireland. Then, first, as regarded the Protestant interests, he would ask were they safe under the pre sent system ? He was sure that there was not a Pro testant on his side of the house who could answer in the affirmative. There might, he said, be two Pro testant institutions in the country—the Church and the University —and he would ask, after what had taken place during last session, if any man could say that either of them were safe--(Hear, hear) —and whether they would not be in less danger with the Imperial Parliament sitting amongst themselves, seeing with their own eyes what the country wanted, and legislating for them accordingly ? People might tell him that the present Government would support Protestant institutions and Protestant interests ; but let them not deceive themselves after the declaration of the Premier during the last session —let them not fancy for a moment that the University —a7, and the Church too—would not be gladly given up in a hop to the monster of agitation.—(Cheers and laughter.) That Ireland wanted some change was beyond all doubt, and he would be glad to know what interest it could injure to have a Parliament sitting in College-green ?—(Loud and long-contiuued cheers, and cries of "Hear, hear," from Mr. O'Connell.) Would not the poor artisan and mechanic have their condition bettered by having the nobility of England and Ireland resident in Dublin for one year in three ? IVould it not be an advantage to keep those in the country who had money to spend. To keep the land lord at home, at the door of the peasant, where at pre sent he was hardly ever seen but as a rent collector ? (Loud cheers.) Dr. Maunsell next alluded to the second head of his subject, namely, what effect it would have upon the interests of England? and went to show that the principle of centralisation, which was drawing everything towards London, ought, for the sake of the country in general, to be counteracted. He had no doubt that, so far from the measures he proposed being injurious to England, it would have quite a different effect, even if the principle were carried out of making a similar concession to Scot- land. Then, as to the benefits to Ireland by having men of capital coming to reside amongst them, and learning the true nature of the country and its re sources, no man could deny it. It was want of capital that left Ireland in the wretched condition she was at the present moment.—(Hear, hear.) Dr. Maunsell next contended that the objects of the re pealers would be advanced, not retarded, by this plan. Ws plan was a simple plan, which involved no ques tion of a religious character, and he called on his Lordship and the members of that house, to assist him in breaking the political spell which bound them so long to the heels of English Whigs and Tories ; and, if only for the novelty of the thing, to give one unanimous vote for the prosperity of old Ireland.— (Loud cheers.) The Learned Gentleman then read his motion, and stated that, as the gentleman who supported him, and intended to second his motion, had changed his views, on the ground that the time had not arrived for brniging it forward, the motion, of course, dropped; but he could only say that he had done his duty.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then declared the motion lost, and was about to put the question of adjournment, when Mr. O'CONNELL said that before the house ad- journed, he wished to say a few words. Had the discussion proceeded he would not have availed him self of it to make a repeal speech. He thought it would be unbecoming, and he was glad to perceive that the Learned Gentleman who had just concluded had been heard with that respect which he merited, from his tone and temper, and moreover, his firm ness in, and the assertion of, his own religious prin ciples—for in (politics they very nearly agreed.)— (Lond laughter.) He :had not said one word which could be construed :offensively to any party, and it was delightful to have such topics discussed in such a spirit as he had evinced. He (Mr. O'Connell) heard the entire of his speech with great unmixed pleasure ; he concurred in a great portion ; he thought the ar guments all but conclusive, for they only wanted a proper conclusion—(Laughter) —but he was, above all, delighted to see the philanthropy displayed—to perceive that the elements of society in this country were shaken from their ancient state, and a new corn bination forming which admitted that something was essentially necessary to be done for Ireland.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) As to the University of Dublin, he should be exceedingly sorry to see it lessened, or its property in danger, for he had the honour of be ing a tenant under it to very good landlords—(A laugh)—but he thought no injury would be done if the number of persons who attended lectures in that University were augmented—if the number of fellows , were increased with the increasing demands of education ; and while the Protestant theological department should be kept perfectly independent and untouched for Protestants, yet that the doors should be thrown open to all, and that its honours and educational advantages should be equally shared by Irishmen of all sects and persuasions.—(heers.) As to the Church—if he (Mr. O'Connell) were to consult his own sentiments, he certainly desired that no Church should have any connection whatever with the State ; but he would rather perish on the scaffold, than wish one man should be deprived of the vested interest which he then enjoyed.—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") He thought no Protestant ought to be apprehensive of his religion for not having a State Church—and he called on them to look at the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, which existed notwith standing the emaciating cruelty of the barbarous penal code for centuries, without the aid of the State, and with its hierarchy in full vigour to the present time. It was a consolation to know that in political matters they came to the conclusion that things could not remain as they were, and that a change should be effected with the assent of all parties, and of all religions.—(Loud cheer s .) F or his own part he would consider it, not a blessing, but a curse, if it were accomplished by only one portion of the Irish people; but he rejoiced to say that every hour was bringing such an union more inevitable, and that the time was at hand when it should be accomplished. They should mee t f rom hi m more than half way every assista nce h e cou ld give, towards restori ng those advantages which the Learned Doctor only wished once every three years, but which he should wish to see every summer season.—(Cheers.) The meeting then separated. „.._.S II N T 1 ____ -,./.4..,-; ,:',4!:. LIBERATION OF O' .Y i ir)o.= Yesterday the friends of free discussion, ass the Belvedere Tavern, Pentonville, had a dinne It 4 t4t. tiriSAIRAT house in commemoration of the liberation. of Mr. O'Con nell and his late fellow-prisoners from the Richmond Penitentiary. William Hewett, Esq., presided on tho occasion, and was supported by T. S. l)uncombe, Esq.. M.P., on his right ; Major Revell and Mr. Parry, &e., on his left. Among the company we al so o b serve d Henry Patten, Esq., Common Councilman ; Dr. Eirl:- wood, Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Shillibeer, Dr. Simpson, Mr, Doyle, Mr. G. Robinson, Mr. Yates, Captain Keogh, Mr. M'Phail, &c. Upwards of sixty gentlemen sat 'down, and (lid ample justice to a n excellent, substantial, and varied dinner, served in admirable style by the worthy host, and accompanied by wines that were fitting asso ciates for such a dinner. The cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of " The people, the only true source of legitimate power." lie was con vinced that the voice of the people must, in a righteous cause, be ever omnipotent. They had always been the real producers of wealth, and none were so entitled as. they to have their ♦oice heard and attended to. The toast having been received enthusiastically," The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said they had met that day to celebrate the liberation of Daniel O'Connell and his colleagues. He need scarcely say that they had not assembled either to support or oppose repeal. They wore there merely to rejoice over the triumph of truth and justice over falsehood and error—the triumph of law over the illegal course of policy that had been carried on by Government against Mr. O'Connell and his late fellow prisoners. Ho had great pleasure in proposing the toast —" Daniel O'Connell and his Colleagues, who have been liberated from an illegal imprisonment ; and may they continue to publish their nation's wrongs until they ob tain full justice." Mr. W. O'KEEFE DENNEITEY acknowledged the toast, and condemned the gross injustice and oppression of which the Liberator and his companions had been the victims. The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Principles of Free Discussion, and thanks to Lords Denman, Cottenham, and Campbell, for their conduct in the late proceedings in the House of Lords." Mr. PARRY, in an eloquent speech, eulogised those Noble Lords, and conteided that the late triumph was one that involved the very essence of the principles of free discussion. Hence was its value, and therefore should Englishmen, as well as Irishmen, rejoice over the victory that had been achieved.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., and the other real Representa tives of the People, who have honestly advocated and supported the rights of the people on all occasions." Mr.T.DITNCOMBE, who rose amidst enthusiastic cheer ing, said he was convinced all must feel deep congratu lation at the triumph of constitutional law and justice over the chicanery of the Conservative Government as lately directed towards the Irish people. The more he considered Lord Denman's admirable judgment, the more he agreed in what he himself had expressed at the time in the House of Commons, that that judgment ought not only to be printed for general perusal, but printed in letters of gold—(Loud cheers)—as a manual of every man's right.—(Renewed cheers.) They should all remember, too, that the measure of injustice and op pression that was attempted to be meted out to Ire land yesterday, would, if it had proved successful, have been, in all probability, meted out to England the day after. He did not believe the question could re main where it was. He thought that when Parliament assembled some strong motion must be submitted on the subject ; and even if an impeachment of the Ministers were proposed, he should feel it his duty to support it, as he was convinced that if any Ministry ever deserved impeachment the present did.—(Cheers.) All should make every possible exertion to maintain the full right of free discussion ; and it was the right of the people of England to use it, in a constitutional manner and peacefully, and it did not affect the legality at all, whether it was before 5,000 or 560,000 collected toge ther. The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst general cheering. Major REVELL said he rejoiced in finding so many sympathisers with O'Connell and his colleagues. p The proceedings of the evening had called to his mind an anecdote he had heard of Mr. O'Connell. That Hon. and Learned Gentleman had observed upon the remark able fact that he had only been charged in five counts, whereas he had been found guilty on fifteen ; and, on a friend having asked him whether he had, among other matters, been found guilty of the murder of the Italian boy, he answered that he had not—because the jury had not been asked.—(Cheers and laughter.) He (Major Revell) concluded by proposing the health of the Chair man and Stewards, to whom they had all been so much indebted. Some other toasts succeeded, after which the com pany separated, not far from midnight, after a must agreeable evening—the enjoyment of which had been in no slight degree enhanced by the vocal efforts of Mr. George Robinson, Mr. Sharpe, and others of the com pany present. IMPORTANT INQUIRY.—SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE MASTER AND MATRON OF THE ETON UNION WORK HOUSE.—HEAVY CENSURE OF THE JURY.—On Wednes day Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., coroner, and a jury impan nelled on the 14th instant, at the One Tun public-house, Old Brentford, resumed for the third time an inquiry into the circumstances attendant upon the death of John Shaw, aged 22 years, whose thigh was severely frac tured by a fall of earth on the sth of August last, at Slough, and was removed to the Eton Union Workhouse at that place, where he died on the 12th instant. The inquiry having excited a most intense interest throughout the town and neighbourhood of Brentford, the inquest room was on each occasion crowded to excess. The following verdict was returned :—" The deceased, John Shaw, died from the mortal effects of a fracture of the left thigh-bone, produced by accidental causes. In re turning a verdict of accidental death, the jury consider it to be their duty to state that they are decidedly of opi nion that the refusal of the governor and matron of the Eton Union Workhouse to allow any conversation to pass between the afflicted man and his wife, sister, and mother-in-law, except in the presence of a listener and a spy upon their conduct, is a part only of a system of moral treatment adopted towards the poor man which is a disgrace and a scandal to a Christian country ; and that the refusal to receive and give shelter to the wife and other poor relations when they arrived at the Union Workhouse at midnight, in a strange place, many miles from home, to pay, as they thought, a last visit to a husband, brother, and son, was, in the opinion of the jury, an act of so cruel and inhuman a character, that any person by whom such conduct could be perpetrated, is altogether unfit to be intrusted with the care of the poor." A NOCTURNAL DISTURBER.An incident, laugh able enough (except to the party who was damaged in purse by it), occurred on Sunday night in Harmer-street, Gravesend. At about half-past twelve o'clock on that night, as Penman, the policeman, who was then on duty in Harmer-street, was pass ing the shop of Mr. Brown, upholsterer, in that street, he heard a heavy tramping in the house, and drawing close to the shop window a strange noise which he, much ter rified, believed to be supernatural, issued from within. Suddenly a mighty crash, as of shivered glass, caused him in great alarm to withdraw from his listening position close to the window shutters, and before he could well clear the kerb of the footway in his retreat, another crash and a dash through the window of what ap peared to his appalled sight a monster of unearthly shape compelled him to cry aloud for aid. The in mates of Mr. Brown's house, as well as those of the adjacent houses, being by this time alarmed, rushed into the street, and there they found the terrified " guardian of the night" gazing with horror at an animal not far from him, which, upon Mr. Brown's approach, he discovered to be his own horse. It soon appeared that the poor animal had done his master con siderable damage, without any intention of burglariously breaking into his house, having, in fact, broken out of it. The horse had been put into an apartment in the rear of the house, as a temporary stable, from which there was a passage leading to another passage, which opened into the shop. The door of the stable havi ng been, through inad vertence, left open, the animal wandered into the passage, and thence entered the shop, when coming in contact with a pier glass of considerable size and value, he with r a kick (it is assumed) d emolished it, and b y the crash was so terrified, that afte r p lun g in g and kickin g amid the articles of furniture in the sho p , he bolted throu g h the shop window, the pol iceman havin g narrowl y esca p ed Mr. t . he Brown animal by y i n this i s violent nocturnal e g frea es k donecTohmeindgaminagceont contact withof the horse is estimate d at 504 or 60/. M TREATIES FOR THE APPREHENSION OF OFFENDERS —ln The Sun of Tuesday appeared the first ease of an alleged French fraudulent bankrupt being committed in order to be conveyed to France for trial. The commit ment took place under the Act 6th and 7th Victoria, c. 75, which came into operation on the 22d of August, 1843, on which day another Act was passed in respect to persons charged with offences committed in America, ' or who had absconded into that country. These acts were framed to carry out two conventions between the high contracting parties " for the apprehension of certain offenders." There is a difference in the offences mentioned, and the point which arose in the case reported was on the designation of a " fraudulent bankrupt," which the Lord Mayor held in effect to mean a felonious bankrupt under the English law. With re gard to the treaty between England and France the crimes specified for which fugitives can be apprehended consist of murder, attempt to murder, forgery, or frau dulent bankruptcy. After a commitment of two months, if the offender is not conveyed to the place where the alleged offence was committed to be tried, he is to be discharged. In the treaty between England and America the crimes mentioned are murder, assault with intent to murder, piracy, arson, robb er y, for gery, or the utte rance of forged parer, committed within the jurisdiction of either of the high contracting par ties. After two months' confinement., if the party is not rem oved, he is to be discharged. Only two cases have occurred during these treaties, one in which the Ameri can Government claimed an alleged offender in a British colony, where he was refused because the parties had no evidence of the alleged offence, and the case which was brought before the Lord Mayor on Monday last. By the preamble in the two acts it is declared that parties are to be given up " only when the commission of the crime should be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or person so accused should be found would justify his apprehension and commit ment for trial, if the crime had been there committed." Copies of depositions may, however, be given in evidence of the criminality of the person apprehended. INCENDIARY FIRE.—A few nights ago a destruc tive fire (which is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary) broke out upon the premises of Mr. Parsons, L a farmer, at Bromley, near Basingstoke. In the k ou rs(' of less t han an hour a barn, filled with barley, a stack of wheat, and a ban-rick, were totally consumed. - 7<. It ~~. ~~ ',.- ~ i