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streets fit!' aildhall, wig Ay, and tha ha t ) 11 w hate• ny pretence, ced mirable P. streets qt liet it the CO d to mall*" mo tions of -ey upon ion thus e . ::j issioner t di tional to W in order„, d the neviv o , the force; jo operate o ngst the IrA art of Aldo;ioancing eception its wish t i t] letter 511(1" Commit v o and the' any circa written, n, n the 5 1114 , 0 1 t the Ceu" , minu te :rk subject, tI jected to und. , jib led to uu ceremoof EIS. tm !veers for be o sex; w 0 bo' street, S° the Cha ir. tS y , na me L li o ' i ane lagn re p steps the a broug bt air n i rna ted , r. ?ctive poko ine to (01d, ne g t'u be e° _having of , that ges felt that, owing to the vague and imperfect manner in whi c h the bills of particulars had been made, they containing many items not likely to be required, that Court determined to receive fresh contracts for their works in the Ranelagh and Counters-creek district. Mr. GUNTER seconded the resolution. AND Vubitr 1 4% OM On. An amendment was moved by Mr. BEECH, and se conded, that Messrs. Hazlitt and Bonnin's tender be accepted. A lengthened discussion arose upon the questir . :,7, Mr. Leslie explaining, at consider ' different modes in wbir l e length, the 3 - contracts were made by the vommisions. He adverted to; the facts, that the lowest candidates on that day had reduced their tender to an amount of some 2601. from that which they had put in a fortnight before; that there were only three candidates in all, arising, he had no doubt, from the discouragement of public compe tition by the system pursued in that Court. He had found that, supposing the Bow-street sewer to have been built according to the Holborn and Finsbury con tract, that the saving in digging alone would be about 3501. That was surely enough to make them pause ere they proceeded further in the matter. Perhaps a clause in that Commission's Act of Parliament could satisfactori!y explain the better management of affairs there. It was enacted, under a penalty of 1001., that no person interested in the question at i , sue should Sit in that Court. The Hon. Commissioner then gave the relative depths of works done at the rate of _lBs. 6d. per Toot run in the Holborn and Finsbury division, and argued therefrom that contracts should be taken by "the job," as snore likely %to encourage cum petit ion. The CHAIRMAN said there was no parallel to be drawn between the works done in Bow-street and the line to which Mr. Leslie had alluded. The average depth of the Holborn and Finsbury works was sixteen f eet, while in Bow-street the average depth was twenty-four feet, and that, too, through ground of the ttost difficult character—a running sand. Mr. Ben - tett had been a great loser by the Holborn works, and the fact was apparent, for the second tender was !greatly higher. It would have been impossible for him to continue the works at those prices. But he (the Chairman) maintained that no public body was justified in getting their works done out of the pockets of the contractors. There was another fact in the I-Vstem pursued by the Holborn and Finsbury district Which materially reduced the expenses of the con tractor. If he were to use old bricks, and he was • allowed to do so, they would be charged only 20 s. a thousand,and, i n the great quantity of bricks used, this Made a most essential difference to him— Mr. BEECH—Of course, when new bricks would be charged- 365. The CHAIRMAN—Then, again, he was allowed to Use the pit sand instead of sharp river sand, and this also made an important difference. He (the Chair man) knew an eminent builder, and he had said to hint that he had some few years ago been allowed to use Pit sand in one of his buildings, and the mortar --was at that time actually rotten ; and so dissatisfied l a 's he with the result, that he stated he would rather have lost in the first instance 1,0001. out of his own Pocket, than used it. The Chairman was of opinion that the tender given in that day by Messrs. azlitt and Bonnin was a moderate one, and should be accepted. The amendment and the original motion were then Put, when the former was carried by a majorityof six. Messrs. Hazlitt and Bonnin were then called in, and informed that their tender was accepted ; but these gentlemen begged to withdraw if the whole works in the district could not be guaranteed them. Their resignation was received, when-- Mr. LESLIE again urged that further competition 86 _111.1 be invited. Mr. WOOD moved, and Mr. LOCKE seconded, that the next tender should be accepted. The motion was carried, but Mr. Todd resigned the contract on the same ground that the first parties had. Mr. LESLIE renewed his application, but again un successfully, for it was carried that the third and only candidate should have the offer of the works. He also declined to accept them, and for the same reason. Mr. LESLIE inquired whether, under these un paralleled circumstances, it would not be worth their while to try the plans he had all that day been ad vocating. It was very evident that the bills of par ticulars were either not understood, or looked at with suspicion. The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that the Court was degraded in the eyes of all contractors, by its never ending efforts to cramp them in their operations. After much recrimination, the Court adjourned, it being understood that .the subject of the contracts should be considered again next Friday. " Who runs may read." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING. CHIPPENHAM FIELD—THURSDAY. First Ties for , the Derby—Sherwood beat Reginald ; Full-Sail beat J. Rex ; Marshman beat Deptford ; Flash beat Swing. First Ties for the Cup—Traveller beat Magog ; Cap tain beat Vale ; Thorn beat Oetavia ; Wildrake beat Sovereign. Pint Ties for the Oaks—Egeria beat Cloak ; Top beat Darner; Killena beat Dimple; Rhea, beat Grace Jones. First Ties for the Port Stakes—Mintman beat Fore mast ; Dorothea beat Viator ; Soignie's beat J. R. ; Miracle beat Garter. The Rutland Stakes for Puppies. Mr. Gillett's Crocus beat Captain Daintree's Kentish ?ire ; M r . F yson ' s F armer b eat M r . B a gge's Turk ; Fyson's Filigree beat Mr. Vipan's Venture ; Lord Straribroke's Michael beat Mr. Nash's Chesterford. The Chippenham Stakes. Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen beat Mr. Dobede's David Deans ; Mr. Vipan's Verona beat Mr. Gillett's Gamester. WORCESTER RACES—THURSDAY. The Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each and 15 added, one mile and a quarter, were won by Captain Peel's Nonsuit, -5 yrs (Mr. Wynn); beating Adrian and three others. _ . A match f or 100 sous., f our m il es , was w on by Mr. Timms's Cora, beating Mr. Smith's Lady Harkaway. The Hurdl e St a k es o f 3 so ya. eac h a nd 20 added, one mile and a quarter, were won by Mr. Gill's Sands, 4 yrs (Archer), beating Go-forget-me, and three others. „, HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Albrighton hounds, Monday, Woodcote ; Thurs day,.t„ Whit more , near P en k r id ge ; S a t ur day, The .I°o Shepley-common—Atherstone hounds, Monday, Zisberwick; Wed., Cricket's Inn; Thurs., Kennel; Sat., butterworth ZlO1 —Crawley and Horsham hounds, Mon. , taz, Horsham-common; Thurs., Ifield-court; Sat., the b c 'e e Southwater, 10:I —Montgomeryshire hounds, Tues., •I s etrenant ; Fri., Pantyfrid, 10—Shropshire hounds, 9 rl - , High Ergall; Wed., Petton; Fri., Atcham-bridge Essex and Suffolk hounds, Tues., Bradfield-street; Wed Gol Gree n , 101—B r i g hton h oun d s , Mon., Patcham; -, Race-course ; Fri., Dyke, 101—Brookside harriers, •° ll -, Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Telscombe Tye—Findon t,ounds, Tues., Southwick Mill; Thurs., Parham Park; rh*, Ashington Gate—Captain Cander's hounds, Mon., i ffe3'; Wed C t Elm; Fri., Croome Perry-wood 9 P eu - . 4 •efordshire hounds, Tues., Hope Turnpike, Fri., Stoke 1 -Lacey, 10—Warwickshire hounds, Mon., New bold P ace Y; Tues., Mitford-bridge; Thurs., Ufton-wood; fn., Ufton House • Sat., Red Hill, 10i—Holdernrss Percy_' Mon., Frodingham-bridge ; Tues., Kilnwick -re rcY_; Thurs., Swinstead : Fri Calnwick Mil' • Saturday, &Linton, New Inn, Hi —Lord Yar borough's hounds, Monday, Ravendale ; Wednesday, Somerby House; Fri. , Langmere Furze, 11— Eddie thorpe h ounds, Mon, Birdsall House; Wed., Galley Gap; Sat., Pluchham; 101—Mr. Morgan's hounds,Wed., idham -bridge, 10—Wheatland hounds, Thur., Cressage Park —Mr, Wall's harriers, Mon., Clirow-hill; Thur., Empton; Sat., Talymaur—Ludlow hounds, Tues., Gat ley C oppice ; Fr i, Dinehope, 10 Cambridgeshire, hounds, Mon., King William the Fourth Inn, on the Huntingdon -road; Wed., Southill, 11 ; Fri., White wood wood' .4 Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds, Mon., Monk's „.; Wed., Stanwick Pasture, Thur., Kennel, 10— , M r. S. Hellier's hounds, Mon. , Tothill ; Tues., Tower on the Moor; Thurs., ainton; Sat., Greenfield, 10k— Thanet harriers, Mon., Sheriff's Co urt; Wed., Ozengell, Sellinge L;a es; F r i East Rent hounds, Mon., Swingfield Park; Wed., son's hounds, Mon , King Grove ; - Tues., Armswell; Sweech Gate, 10A--Mr. Farquhar- Thur., Sydling Barn—Taunton harriers, Mon., Handy erc'sa ; Fri., Black Lion Inn, 10—Cheshire hounds, Harley, Sat. Mon., Davenport Hall; Wed., Tatton Park; Thur., , Guide -post—Sir W. M. Stanley's hounds, Mon., 'Fhurlston ; Wed., Bebbington; Fri., Upton, 11— -Sir.W.W. Wy nn ' s h oun d s, Mon., Pentre Byehan; Wed., Rryn-y_p Fri., Holt—E s s ex U n i on h oun d s , W e d., v y v s; Tiptree indmills ; Sat., Danbury Griffin 10}—East Essex hounds, Mon., Kenn e l ; Thur., Topingoe Hall ; Sat. High Garret, lo3—Mr. Mure's hounds, Mon., Rush. ford Village; Thur., Hardin - green—Badsworth hounds, Tues., Hut-green:. Thurs., Owston; Sat., Haver - croft, —Mr. Foljambe's hounds, Mon., Darl ton; Tues., Barnby Moor; Thur., Gateford Toll-bar— Rufford hounds, Mon., Kirklington Hall; Wed., Laxton Village; Sat., North Budley Forest—Lord Yarborough's bounds, Mon., Ravendale ; Wed., Somerby H ouse; F r i., Langmere F urze —L or d Henry Bentinck's bounds, Mon., Langworth Bridge ; Tues., Panton ; Wed., Langford Lodge ; Thur., Norton Place; Sat., Saxilby, i—R. V. H., Tu es ., P o i nt i ngton Ridge; Fri., Bagbere Common, 11i—Mr. Deane's harriers, Tues., Hunter's Lodge; Fri., Two -Ash Hill (Chard), 10—Mr. A. Smith's hounds, Mon., Fosbury House; Tues., Mannin g ford ; Wed., Wher- Well Wood; Thur., Shoddesden Gate; Fri., Everleigh; Ziat, Clarendon Park Duke of Beaufort's hounds, Mon., Draycot; Wed., Dyrham Park ; Fri., Compton Basset; Sat., Yate Rocks, 10—Sherwood harriers, Tues., Robin Do wn ' s Hill ; Fri., Bolsover, 11—Donnington hounds, Mon., Langley Priory ; Wed., Flourish Inn ; Sat., Hathern Turn— fr. M. Ingram's' hounds, Mon., Egginton ; Thur., Snelston ; Sat., Rollestone—Quorn hounds, Mon., Shearsby Inn ; Tues., Quorn House ; Rollestone Hall ; Fri., Ratcliffe, iO4—Sir R. Sutton's hounds, Mon., Tollethorpe Oaks; Tues., Mar ket Overton ; Wed., Irnham Hall ; Fri., Manton ; Sat., Little Delby, 11 —Pytchley Hunt, Mon., Maidwell ; Wed., Swingford; Fri., Brixworth ; Sat, Pytchley, 101. Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P., presides at the next festival for the City of London General Pension Society. ROBBERY AT LAMBETH CHAPEL.—On Wednesday morning early, or late on Tuesday night, some thieves entered Lambeth Chapel, and abstracted all the Commu nion Service plate and other valuable property. KEEL-HAULING.—A gentleman asked Justice Par- Sons the definition of keel-haul. He replied, "It ,j* under 90ilig a great hard-ship." T 1 SUN, L SUMMARY OF NEWS All the ground behind Emanuel Hospital, upwards of extendingac eisno f w ro c m lea t r h e e d s fo t r an th a e r d d n t el h e e d m r ari: msixentetesn, Vauxhall bridge-road, in a line through Mr. Elliot's pleasure grounds, in front of the Artillery beer-house, in a line through that sink of vice, the Almonry, to the Abbey. This will be one of the most splendid improvements in London. Information has been forwarded to the various metro politan police stations of the mysterious disappearance of a gentleman named John Albon, residing at No. 21, Albion-place, Clerkenwell. It appears that on the even ing of Thursday, the 24th of October, he quitted his home for the purpose of transacting some business at Hampstead, t which place he was last seen, at the White Bear Tavern, and left about twenty minutes to twelve o'clock, to return home, since which time he has not been heard of. Mr. Henderson, Recorder of Liverpool, has subscribed Wu guineas towards the establishment of a Sailors' Home in that town. PON.EX6IIV. The Moniteur de I 'Armee announces that by a royal order of the 30th ult., General Rostolan is appointed to the command of the Polytechnic School, and that by another royal order of the 29th, Lieut.-General Count Grouchy is appointed to the command of the 13th mili tary division. On Sunday the full-length portrait of the King, pre sented by his Majesty to the town of Sevres, was put in the town-hall. The Prefect of the Seine et Oise, the Mayor, and the Municipal Council, a deputation of the National Guard, and some officers and hussars quar tered in the town were present. The Mayor having de livered an appropriate address, which was greeted with cries of "Vive le Roi ! Vive la Reine ! Vive la Famille Royale !" a grand dinner took place, at which a number of loyal toasts were drunk. Four of the conspirators arrested at Barcelona were shot at eleven in the morning of the 30th ult., near the Convent of the Trinitarians. Pickets from each of the corps in the garrison formed the escort. All the generals, officers, and soldiers who were not called upon this duty, were confined to their barracks. Mr. Lumley, the director of her Majesty's Theatre, London, passed through Paris a few days ago for Italy. It is statsd in a letter from Perpignan that two soldiers of the 67th regiment of the line were drowned, on their march from that place to Macon, by the overflowing of the Rhone, and that some soldiers of the 16th and a quantity of baggage were lost by a similar calamity, in the march of that regiment to Perpignan. A letter from Constantinople states that the health of the Sultan occupies the attention of every person in that capital. His brother, Abd-ul-Azis, who, though the present Sultan has male children, would be called to the throne according to the laws regulating the male suc cession in Mahometan States, was born in 1828, and is of a robust constitution. As much as the present Sultan is feeble, timid, and deprived of energy, is Abd-ul-Azis petulant, stubborn, and self-willed. The Journal des Debats publishes the following ex tract from a letter dated Mentz, Ist inst.:—" An electro magnetic telegraph, en Mr. Faraday's plan, has been attached to the Taunus Railroad, which lies between our city and Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, the extent of which is about 16 French leagues." Nina Sontag, sister of the Countess Rossi, has just entered a Carmelite convent at Prague. A letter from Berlin, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that in the late combats against the tribes of the Cau casus, the Russian army has lost a great number of officers. The Silesian Gazette states, that in the course of the month of August last a secret association for political purposes was discovered in the kingdom of Poland, and many arrests were made at Warsaw and at other places. The committee appointed to inquire into the facts, after having ordered twenty-two persons to be set at liberty, condemned the following persons to hard labour for life in Siberia:—Gervasius J. Jowski, assessor of the Criminal Tribunal at Legya; Wladislas Wieckowski, Advocate; and Alexander Karpinski, Advocate. Eighteen others were condemned to the same punish ment for ten years. The property of the condemned was ordered to be confiscated. Accounts from Riga, of the 23d ult„ announce the .destruction by fire of the steam-boat Riga, which ar rived there on the preceding afternoon. The flames broke out after she was moored on t he usual ground for steamers, and, in spite of every exertion, continued burning till five o'clock the next morning, when she was reduced down to the water's edge. The disaster is sup posed to have been occasioned by sponta neous combus tion of the coal. A letter from Algiers, of the 30th ult., states that the monks of La Trappe are . proceeding with great rapidity in the construction of their monastery in the plain of Staoueli. A farm on a very extensive scale will form part of their establishment. LAW .11.27 D POLICE. The case of the Baron de Bode again cause before the Court of Queen's Bench, and Mr. M. D. Hill obtained a rule nisi to enter up judgment generally for the Baron, notwithstanding certain of the issues had been found for the Crown. In the Court of Exchequer, a rule nisi for a new trial was granted, in the case of Wood v. Ledbetter, an action brought for turning the plaintiff off Doncaster race course, in which the verdict had been for defendant. Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, in the Court of Bank ruptcy, issued an order for the prosecution of Robert Bannister, a bankrupt, under the provisions of the sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 122, for obtaining credit under false pretences, and improperly making away with and embezzling property. The rule calling on Thomas Younghusband, who 30 years since had been discharged by the Insolvent Court, calling upon him to show cause why he should not now pay those debts, was discharged. At Guildhall, two young journeymen shoemakers, natives of Ireland, named Michael Hogan and Edmund Hogan, were brought before Mr. Alderman Johnson, charged with being found on the premises of Mr. Pen nington, of No. 4, Beech-street, Barbican, under circum stances of suspicion. It appeared that the prisoners had entered the house for the purpose of making love to the two maid servants of the prosecutor. No property was missed ; and as there was no reason to doubt their story, which was confirmed by the servant girls them selves, they were discharged. David Weaver, a policeman of the F division, 28, Ives placed at the bar at Bow-street, before Mr. Twyford, charged with having committed a criminal offence on Constantine. Jones, residing at 38, Exeter-street, Strand. The prosecutrix, however, so prevaricated in her testi mony, and contradicted herself so frequently, that the Magistrate discharged the prisoner, who loudly protested his entire innocence of the offence charged against him. George Coombs, for a violent assault upon Ann Gam mon, an unfortunate girl, was fined 5/., or two months' imprisonment, at Clerkenwell. Mr. Hardwicke committed an old man, named Samuel. Coulthard, for one month, from Marlborough-street, for making use of indecent language to children in Kensing ton-gardens. Thomas Burn, charged with stealing a child's chaise, the property of Mr. Stephen Bland, 8, Percy-passage, Rathbone-place, Oxford-street, was fully committed from Marylebone. At Worship-street, Henry Miller, Wm. Thompson, and his wife and daughter, and Samuel and Charlotte Edge, whose former examinations on almost innumerable charges of fraud and felony, in all parts of the metro polis, before noticed, were brought up . for final exami nation, and the cases against them having all been com pleted, the depositions were ordered to be taken, and the prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial. Several cab-drivers were fined at Union- hall for neglect istg to wear their badges. At Woolwich, James Hawksford, charged with com mitting robberies at the Cadets' Barracks, was remanded. A. Hammersmith, VVm. Young, a carter in the employ of Mr. Wm. Atley, market-gardener, at Hanwell, was charged with having stolen a bunch of turnips, the pro perty of his master. Ile was driving a load of turnips to Covent-garden market, and sold one of the bundles at a public-house on the road. Mr. Clive told the prisoner that it was his duty to send him for trial, and most strongly reprobated the practice of the keepers of road side houses purchasing articles from carters stopping there, declaring that, in his opinion, such purchases were made as an inducement to them to come drinking there. At the Thames Court, John Mills, a man about 45 years of age, who had been in custody three weeks, and was on the last occasion remanded for a fortnight, was brought before Mr. Ballantine for final examination, charged with intermarrying with Charlotte Burney, his first wife being still alive, and fully committed for trial. GOTIXT—PALSECIONABIAS. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, and Lady Olivia Montague, intend to pass the winter in Spain, for the improvement of her Grace's health, which has been for some time in a delicate state. The Duke and Duchess have arrived at Brampton-park, on a visit to Lady Olivia Sparrow, previous to embarking for Cadiz. The Duchess of Grafton and Lady Louisa Fitzroy have arrived in town from Euston Hall, near Thetford, where the Duke and the Earl of Euston remain for a few days, and then will go to Wakefield Lodge, Northamp tonshire. The Duchess leaves town early in the ensuing week for the latter seat. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe has arrived at Bath, from Broxmouth, N. 8., to take the waters. The Dowager Duchess is likely to stay some weeks in that city, and then remove to Brighton for the winter. The Marquis of Winchester has left town for his seat in Wiltshire, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, near Salisbury. The Earl and Countess of Warwick and Lady Caro line Neeld are prolonging their sojourn at Ramsgate. Lord Brooke will leave shortly for Burghley House, near Staford, where her Majesty and Prince Albert are expected to a rrive on Tuesday next, from Windsor Castle. Earl Fitzhardinge has left town for Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. The Noble Earl repairs next week to his villa at Cheltenham, and remains there while his hounds hunt in that neighbourhood. Lady De Dunstanville has left Dover, and gone to Brighton. Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.B. and G.C.H., accompanied by Lady Blakeney and family, arrived at Cheltenham on Monday last from Dublin. The Earl of Pembroke was detained by the boisterous state of the weather at Folkstone, until Wednesday, when the Noble Earl embarked fur Boulogne, on his way to Paris. The Count de Jarnac, first Secretary to his Excel lency. the French Ambassador is gone on a tour for a few days. The marriage of the Count with the Hon. Miss Foley is expected to be solemnised during the first week in December. The Limerick Chronicle gives the following ececunt of another aggrarian murder :—" Mr. Arthur Gloster, a wealthy landholder, returning from his farm, near Kit keshen, county Clare, to his house, within a mile of this city, was murdered yesterday evening at the early hour of five o'clock, by two ruffians armed, who lodged slugs in the body of the unfortunate gentleman." The Nenagh Vindicator states that the floods caused by the late rains have inflicted considerable damage in that neighbourhood —bridges swept away, houses flooded, and roads rendered impassable. The sufferings of the poorer classes are represented to be in consequence very great. A great deal of rain has fallen in Dublin. Information has been received by the police that a gang of provincial sovereign-makers have arrived in London, and that the money they have with them are not of the value of more than fourteen shillings each. The sovereigns are well made, and mostly of the date of 1842. - LITERATURE. • NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. 11. Hayward and Adam, London, 1844. Thefe are several interesting articles in this Num ber, and among them may be mentioned the " Auto biography of a Living Writer," in which the auto biographer gives some affecting reminiscences of a Dissenting minister, named Whitehead—a gentleman who had passed through the greater portion of his life beloved and respected by all who knew him, until in an evil hour, in the autumn of his da y s, the devil— who, as we are told, is always prowling about seeking whom he may devour—placed temptation before Mtn in the shape of • seductive young girl whom he had been selected to instruct in the great truths of religion and morality. Unfortunately, Mr. Whitehead could not resist this temptation, so he sinned and fell, and the co:s^qm nee was that he was ever after shunned by his neighbours, and died a victim to remorse and a keen sense of humiliation. The autobiographer ca'ls him a " fallen angel," but Dissenting ministers —so far as we have been able to perceive—have little of the cherubic essence about them. In the brief sketch of " Louis Philippe," the writer states that " he belongs to the class of Earl Grey and Lord Lansdowne." Surely this is a very hasty and inac curate statement ! The French King is notorious for his political tergiversations, whereas Earl Grey is celebrated for nothing so much as his undeviating po litical consistency, which resisted for full forty years all the temptations of office, and maintained an almost Spartan inflexibility of principle. " Social Doctors" compares the views of the Political Economists with those advocated by the party styled " Young Eng land." The article is tolerably impartial in its esti mate of the comparative merits and influence of these two sects, and thus expresses on the subject of the latter's deserts : " For the spirit of Young England we have a lively sympathy ; it is genial, youthful, joyous ; it is our own spirit, but more romantic and historical. Mr. Disraeli, who appears to be the head of the new college is a clever—perhaps' maturing into a n able man ; ambitious —we take it—and upward-looking ; humbling himself to be exalted ; of too large dimensions—though the fail ing is too common to be noticeable—in his own esti mate ; and who will finally settle down somewhat be neath the highest peak. The same miniature represen tation may pass for the Hon. G. S. Smythe and Lord John Manners ; abating a little of the strength of the deeper tints, and infusing more sweetness, fancy, and genuineness into the colouring. However we like the trio well—feel grateful to them ; they are doing a work long needed by rousing the torpid benevolence, social fellowships, and generous sympathies of England. They have got hearts, which can never be safely predicated of a thorough Benthamite or political economist, and thus supply an essential element in the national elixir. Next we welcome them most cordially for repudiating old political parties, exclaiming with Dr. Hook, the vicar, Away with party to the winds—away with any go vernment that shall be so debased, so lost to the princi ples of humanity and religion, as to say that they will oppress the million that the few may grow rich on their oppression Not that parties may not be sometimes needful ; Young England itself is a party; nothing great was ever done without leagues, unions, or associations ; but that which is disclaimed are the worn-out confede rations that have ceased to be banded upon any intelligi ble principle, or for any national object. Holland House is doomed, and with it rest the thrice-told tales of the ' great Lord Chatham,' Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Sheridan — able men, good men, perhaps, some of them ; but their faded glories and aristocratic feuds are inapplicable to our time, which cannot be served by rhetoric only, the glitter of eloquence, gorgeous abstractions, philanthropic maxims never meant to be practical, or aught, save po pular traps, for oligarchic supremacy. The difficulties that beset us are home questions, neither constitutional, forensic, nor collegiate, but the sudden efflux and conflict of material interests ; and the first step to the reconcile ment of these perplexities is to apply a little galvanism-, as Young England is doing, to the sectarian and icy cal culus which has frozen the genial springs of social life, and benumbed, with its opiate influence, the soul of the community." THE ATTACHE. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1844 " Ecce iterurn Crispinus !" We have here our old friend Sam Slick, the Yankee Clockmaker, again, throwing out his drolleries, conceits, witticisms, and shrewd, sententious aphorisms, with a careless profu sion that would almost induce one to believe that his resources were inexhaustible. He is now arrived in England, in the quality of Attache to the American Embassy, and being a keen and caustic observer of men and things, gives his impressions of English society, prejudices, tastes, habits, &c., in a spirit that is more to be commended for its homely, truthful plain-speaking, than for its complimentary character. The present volumes, which, it seems, are the last of the series, though hardly equal in freshness and ori ginality to their predecessors, are yet well worth the reader's perusal—more especially if he happen to be of a worldly, satirical, practical turn of mind, for their views of human life are marked by uncommon sagacity, and here and there we meet with a philo sophical reflection, referring to the bustling every day world about us—for Sam Slick seldom or never deals in metaphysical abstractions—worthy of old Johnson, when in one of his happiest conversational moods. But the Clockmaker is not only a sayer of smart things, but he possesses, in addition, descriptive faculties of no ordinary character, and has given us sketches of humble, provincial life in the Canadas, that in their truth and force of detail remind us of" those masterly ones which abound in the late Mr. John Galt's novel of " Laurie Todd." We quote some pertinent reflections which Mr. Halliburton has put into the mouth of his hero, the Clockmaker, while attending the funeral of Thomas Campbell in West minster Abbey : " Ah, poor Campbell ! he was a p oet, a good poet, a beautiful poet ! He knowed all about the world of ima gination, and the realms of fancy ; but be didn't know nothin' at all about this world of our'n, or of the realm of England, or he never would have talked of the Pleasures of Hope' for an author. Lord bless yell I let a dancin' gal come to the opera, jump six foot high, 'light on one toe, hold up the other so high you can see her stays a'most, and then spin round like a daddy-long legs that's got one foot caught in a taller candle, and go spinnin' round arter that fashion for ten minits, it will touch Peel's heart in a giffy. This spinnin' jinny will be honoured by the highest folks in the land, have diamond rings, goold snuff-boxes, and pusses of money given her, and gracious knows what. " Let Gineral Tom Thumb come to London that's two foot nothin', and the Kentucky boy that's eight foot somethin', and see how they will be patro nised, and what a sight of honor they will have. Let Van Amburgh come with his lion, make him open his jaws, and then put his head down his throat and pull it out, and say, What a brave boy am I !' and kings and queens, and princes and nobles will come and see him, and see his lion feed too. Did any on 'em ever come to see Campbell feed ? he was a great lion this many a long day. Oh, dear ! he didn't know nothin', that's a fact ; he thought himself a cut above them folks : it jist showed how much he know'd. Fine sentiments ! Lord, who cares for them ! "Do you go to Nova Scotia now, and begin at Cape Sable, and travel all down to Cape Canso—the whole length of the province, pick out the two best lines from his Hope,' and ask every feller you meet, Did you ever hear these ?' and how many will you find that has seen 'em, or heerd tell of 'em ? Why a few gals that's sentimental, and a few boys that's a•courtin', spooney like, that's all. a n u c sl bushel of ttoof they corn. (I 9 m you.nd Everyg ive i tu r p? " But ax 'em this, Master, if that house cost five they :fa en h un dred dollars, and a barrel of nails five dollars, what wouldsWell,ay h t a ha et d good to c osizeablem thecircus, eto ap b d h pig come woman, and child, would tell you they heerd the clown d ready to kill themselves. Gri •nnin ' pays better nor rhymin', and ticklin' the ribs with fingers pleases folks more, and makes 'em larf more, than tickliu' their ears with varses—that's a fact." THE Moron,LOoFndoAnTITB4E4.GHEI. The preface to this little volume of poems informs us that it is the production of a young Irish lady, named Brown, who composed it under circumstances of great discouragement, having been blind almost from her youth, and consequently having acquired knowledge with infinite difficulty, and only -by the kind agency of others, who read to her works of history and poetry, and prose fiction, which seem to have made an indelible impression on -her mind. From her own brief, modest account of her early struggles and aspirings, we should judge Miss Brown to be endowed with superior energy of character, and to be stimulated to renewed exertions by obstacles, rather than to be depressed by them. Alluding to this subject, the Editor of the present volume, who has introduced the Authoress's memoir into his pre face, justly remarks—" The energy displayed from her childhood by this almost friendless girl, raises at once the interest and the character of her muse. There is something touching—and teaching, too—in the picture of that perseverance which has conquered for itself an inner world of thought in lieu of that outer world so early withdrawn from the sense. The bard gathers dignity from the darkness amid which she sings. as the darkness itself is lightened by the song. There are lessons to be dravvn from both, and the Editor believes that this little volume has a variety of titles which should promise it a sure and extended popu , larity." The volume has incited claims on the favour- T LIE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. able notice of the public, for the poems contained in ! (From the Morning Chronicle.) it—the shorter ones especially—are distinguished by ;It is announced, we see, that the Anti-Corn-law uncommon ease and sweetness of versification, and League has taken Covent-garden Theatre for the next though they are for the most part of a melancholy season, at a rent of 3,0001. And yet the Government character, yet there is nothing maudlin in the tone of organs will have us believe that the League is dead sentiment that ervades them. The imagery through fact," and was pretty well scolded for the truism by the out is chaste and apposite to the subject, anti occa- Tory journals. One thing, however, is clear, that the sionally, though not often, we meet with thoughts spil it of free-trade burns as energetically as ever; that that strike us by their depth and subtlety. Miss i t alarms Protectionists in counties as well as boroughs Brown has not the earnest and weighty power of re- —that the Duke of Richmond fears it in Sussex, the flection that Miss Barrett possesses, nor has she the Duke of Buckingham at Aylesbury—that her Majesty' s same intense passionate sensibility, but she is far su- Cal.inet are. piloting their course by farthing rushlights perior to the ordinary run of Parnassian singing - stolen from it—that Mr. Gladstone feels its strength in birds, and by a diligent training and husbanding of every hole and corner of his -department—that Sir R. her powers—which are yet but immature — she may Psel is a disciple in rus, ready to attorn and conform ere longproduce something which the "world will himself to not willinglyits practices as well as axioms, as soon as his extrication from the lease-at-will on which he stands puts let die." We subjoin her poem entitl ed "I have Missed my Destiny!" which are the words p ower—that England, it in his Young aye, and the Post not what itself, is life. If annihilation mean success, many things compelled to raise the siege of Acre : besides the League have been annihilated. By a similar Ah ! why were such words in thy weariness spoken, course, Sir R. Peel destroyed the agitation for the Test Thou sleeper, whoSe memory fades not away ? Act, and the agitation for a Catholic Relief Bill. The Were they thing from thy heart, like an early-sent token cry for Parliamentary Reform was suppressed by like Of clouds that should darken the close of thy day ? means; yet nobody at that time of day said that Mr. And oh ! was it thus, when the flood of thy glory Attwood had given up the ghost, because Birmingham The walls of old Acre alone might resist, and its union carried the Reform Bill. We see in the Thou saw'st thine own niche in the temple of story, two schedules abundant proof of his vitality. We see Still bright—with tife promise thy fortunes have missed? proofs scarcely less of that of Mr. Cobden, in the bit by We know not :—but who, that hath leaked on the pages hit reductions of Sir R. Peel, and in the universal turn Of wisdom which brighten the volume of time,— towards agricultural emulation which has been called And traced, through the far-fading twilight of ages, into life by the proceedings of Mr. Cobden. It is quite The feeble who sink, or the mighty who climb— tr ue that Lord Tweeddale invented tiles, and it is quite Hath heard not thy words, in the power of their sadness, true that Mr. Smith, of Deanston, has given excellent Arise from the depths of the heart or the grave, — opinions upon drainiug ; but, as it was said in former Re-echoed from fields trampled down by the madness , times that many brave men lived before Agamemnon, "" Of battle, or borne from the wrecks of the wave ? but were doomed to oblivion carent quiet rate sacro, so For weary and wide were the wastes they have wandered, agriculture has not been a theme unstudied and unsung Whose names have been highest in glory's proud list,— before the Hegira of a Deanston and a Tweeddale. And bright were the treasures of hope that they squandered Scholars will be reminded of the Georgics—economists Who perished—and saw but their destiny missed ! of one Arthur Young. The rides of Cobbett are not without valuable matters , although be lived in t imes They sought for the stream—when the fountain wa s when Professor Leibeg and guano were unknown. Mr. near them, Cobden, however, is their Homer. He has breathed the T vitalhey pined for the'shade when the forest was green ;into the terrestrial spirit of emulation crania of the And sunshine, that rose on the desert to cheer them, squires. He has taught them the great, the only lesson, But brightened the aloud that came darkly between. that competition is the breath of the nostrils of agricul- Alas I for the brightness that beckons to danger, ture as well as trade. He is fertilising, with appliances Where love cannot lighten or friendship assi s t ,— more remunerating than ammonia or guano, the neg- For they went, as they came, with the heart of the lected grain fields of broad England. He is raising stranger, men's hopes by an original operation on their fears. And left us to gather the gems they had missed. There are symptoms of this better sort of feeling every- The prodigal knows not the wealth he has wasted, where. lil the place of languid and sentimental cora- Till only the husks and his hunger remain monplace about their hardships, patriotism, loyalty, and The mariner mourns not the fountain untasted burdens, 'the manly minds of Englishmen aro bracing Till nothing is left but the brine of the main : themselves to nobler conflicts. In the course of their And thus it is, still, with the world's brightest dreamers improvements, they forget their fear ; it was the begin- Who rise in its tumults, or fall in its strife, ning of their wisdom, but it dissipates itself in the efforts Too late comes the light that reveals the false - see mers, it has produced. Who could have believed that a con - Too lste, in its wisdom, the lesson of life 1 troversy would have arisen on the power of Great But green grows the grave, in its silence, before them— Britain to export grain ? The hands are no longer It leads to the land' where no deserts exist ; wrung, • the breasts of dejected agriculturists are no And only eternity's spring can restore them longer beaten. Squires do not tear their hair at county The glory and hope of their desiiny missed ! meetings. It is no longer in good taste to be lugubrious. The knights of a sorrowful countenance are comforted by orators whose elegiacs are no longer the staple elo quence of half a county. But when these things are notorious, it is a little too much to say it comes from Lord Tweeddale and not from Mr. Cobden. The tiles might have restedin their argillaceous bed for ever—the patent might have slept with unremunerating results on the long files of the Attorney-General—Lord Tweed dale might have been known as a sensible gentleman, a great captain, or an accomplished letter-writer ; but his claim to immortality, in the cause of agriculture, is due to the great exertions of the best friends of agriculture —we mean the free-trade party ; it is due to those who are impressing the minds of a large class of agriculturists with a just and becoming sense of their true position— ' who are lifting them up from mean and narrow and sel fish views, to a more comprehensive range of thought and a wider sense of their responsibilities and rights ; it is due to the free-trade confederation which, amidst' s6me mistakes and occasional errors of class interest, has preached, upon the whole, the large and Catholic doctrines of universal amity and inter course *; it is due to commerce, which burns to take its sister science by the hand, and to teach that sister the arts by which such vast acquisitions have been gained for itself and'for the world. For ourselves, we have given the League, in its main objects, from its com mencement to the present day, a consistent and disin terested aid ; our addictions to free trade rendered any other course impossible. We have not, however, scrupled to point out errors, nor was it to be expected that so vast an association, under the influence of leaders who were making their first campaigns in public life, could be exempt from imperfections. It was in this spirit that we discussed, in no unfriendly terms, the course taken by Mr. Cobden on the sugar question. In a like spirit we remonstrated against • a policy which would have handed over every small borough, represented by gen tlemen who take Lord John Russell's views on corn, into the hands of the partisans of a sliding-scale. We saw no use in quarrelling with free-traders for the sake of a chimera, when the quarrel was sure to end in getting no free-trade at aIL As it is impossible in free states to act without party, we could not see the wisdom of driving Liberal gentlemen who have scruples about corn into the Tory ranks. Without undervaluing the corn-law ques tion, we always felt that there was such a place as Ire land, and that there were questions of foreign policy, the advocacy of which was quite compatible with the most devoted attachment to free-trade. We objected, therefore, to give up such men as Lord Worsley, when a rupture with him would have no other consequence than the introduction of another Tory into the House of Com mons at his expense. We did not choose to break with such men as Mr., Byng, because they continued to exercise an independent judgment somewhat different from our own on a single question. So also on allot ments. We do not plead insensibility to the obvious arguments against them; we are as fully impressed us Lord Radnor himself of the impossibility of adopting them as a system • but we can assure the League that our allusion to them is not tainted with a shade of • Toryism. THE IRISH Q U&STIO N. London, Longman, 1844. The author of this somewhat bulky and verbose production is Viscount Wellesley, and his chief object in writing it, is to show the injurious consequences that are likely to result from the recent deci sion of the House of Lords in the, question of the Irish State prosecutions. "On the Continent," observes the author in his preface, " the effect of their Lordships' decision will be a belief that the Crown has no authority beyond mere pageantry ; that the exercise of its highest prerogative is only show under the guidance of lawyers ; and that the noblest order in the State is but a splendid form after all, waiting upon the rules, and bowing to the decisions of a few Law Lords, who came there by political, and not by here ditary right." From this specimen, the reader will get a very fair idea of the animus in which the volume is written. rr.-7 THE GAMBLER'S WIFE. 3 Vols. Newby, London, 1844. This story—as may be surmised from its title—is of a deeply tragic character, and regards the sufferings and vicissitudes , and ultimate death by a broken heart, of Maud Sutherland—a beautiful, high-spirited young girl, who, at the opening of the narrative, is, represented as being on the eve of marriage with her cousin, Arthur Balfour, but is soon afterwards in duced to break off the match, and accept the hand of a fascinating young gambler and roue, Harry Percy. Of course, her life with him is one protracted scene of agony and humiliating reverse s, a nd she dies of grief, while her too late repentant husband takes a strong religious turn, and at the close of the narra tive is described as being on the eve of departure as a missionary to some off' the more unfrequented tracts of Australia. The tale . is written with feeling, and in places with vigour, but the subject is a ha ckne y ed one, nor is there anything in the incidents to redeem tnem from the charge of common-place. TYPE-FOUNDING IN THE NORTIL-4W understand I that a respectable firm of type-founders in Edinburgh, employing upwards of a hundred workmen, have applied for ground in the borough of Dornoch, Southerlandshire, for a stance whereupon to build a type-founding esta blishment. The reason assigned for this strange step is said to be the annoyance and loss the house has been subjected to by the union men, and the consta nt "striking ,, among the workmen. We would rather be inclined to think that cheapness of labour may tempt them thither. Trades' unions may follow them across the Meikle Ferry.—John o'Groat's Journal. AN ImmEmn Loss.—The editor of the Concordia ( in La the the Concordia district . in Lew...L. mut, 17 , the great oye a ri .1 ,: lowlandsOence o r tesAr the loss of cotton this year sas, . Mississippi, Et i ; s i , d vi t i h u o e s d e of o flow of the Mississippi river, at 139,tte.-_° ' ury c 4,173,150 dollars. Other actual losses, sue,. .as 1n., 1 t buildings, fences, levees, destruction of corn, stock - , )" ~ are put down at 0 ,503.890 dollars, making , l total loss of 6,670,000 dollars. "This immense sum, remarks the writer, " is lost, gone, sunk, absolutely destroyed—with drawn from the active capital of the country—and falls, too, upon one particular and not very extensive region." These statements are based upon personal examination, as far as practicable from data furnished by individuals residing in the inundated district. Fifteen per cent. upon the amount lost devoted to improvement of the Mis sissippi would, it is stated, have protected the region.— Neu, York Journal. INCENDIARISM IN BEDFORDSIIIRE.--011 Sunday night, in the neighbourhood of Crowland, flames were discovered in a barn on the farm of Mr. John Hall, of Whasley-end. The building was detached from the stack-yard, or the entire homestead must have the flames having p been bou med rer c s o w ns e u re , as there was a sm art wind, and no water could b e h a d. A large body o f the la which, together w ith i ts con t e nts, the produce of eleven acres re s e n c t, c m b p u l t e t t e h l e y y e e l c u l i d r cl r e e d n der the no h u s i e l r d v i Il i c g e : of wheat, beside a quantity of beans, was de stroyed. From the isolated position of the barn, and the fire having broken out full twenty-four hours after any person having entered it, it appears to have been the act of an incendiary, though at present no suspicion is attached to any person in particular. The owner of the property, in common with the majority of the princi pal farmers in the parish, pays the average rule of wages, Bs. a week, and in many instances the practice of yearly hiring obtains, but since the close of the harvest a large number of supernumerary hands have been discharged, and these men are wandering about the district without visible means of subsistence. Poaching and petty rob bery are becoming very prevalent in this district.— Cambridge Chronicle. A sad accident happened at Wells on Saturday last, the weather was very stormy, with rain and a high sea on the bar, when James Smith, an old fisherman be longing to this place, with his son Daniel Smith, and a lad named Creed, went out into our bay in a small boat after fish, when a sea struck the boat and filled her. and w hKf a cto 3 r - nocm g n raeicisrxenhdaeondArwdetehaaiire,ltesa Wells.—Norwich vos unfortunately tu o ehifl r ieci e Tsr.b. ta--cot boat \ H Tta 7 t o ohher l eal k wyv h ie Daniel Smith being a strong fellow, after swimming a ewbnecuretc pickeddu r the y t. h p e o u op bodyr aold d long man c a d hh m r e o m •' ob r fr e oPt : h e uge . h to the Greenwich Guardians, sb humble oweth —T h petition a t y 0 u o r f petitioner last week read a report of a meeting held by your board, in which your vice-chairman proposed a motion for the establishment of a lending library in the union-house. The motion was carried. Fears were ex pressed by one very sapient member of your board that Punch might find his way into the ,pauper's library, if this sort of, philanthropic humbug, as he thought it, were countenanced : Your petitioner accordingly fears that he might be taken in, and considers he shoule: certainly be taken in if " an order to gointo the house" were left at the office of your petitioner. Your petitioner is attached to his wife Judy and his child, notwithstanding his ap parent harShness to the latter. and would by no means consent to a separation from them in his old age. Your petitioner lives by his jokes ; but he would not have the heart to joke in a workhouse, and doubts if, after a week's residence therein, he would ever joke again. Your petitioner is in the habit of speaking the truth, and calling a spade a spade ; he is, therefore, clearly unfitted for residence in a union workhouse. Your pe titioner would be apt to use his baton on the heads of an oppressive governor or pursy beadle, and has no reason ' able doubt of being urged thereunto in case of misbeha viour of said governor or beadle, .tcr the subversion of discipline in said workhouse. Your petitioner is used to the open streets, and cannot bear confinement. For all which reasons, your petitioner hopes that he may not be taken in by your hon. board. And your petitioner will ever pray Punch. . The King of Prussia has purchased the two cele brated race horses Our Nell and Crucifix, both winners of the Oaks, and the latter also of a 2,000 guinea stake at Newmarket. Both were shipped at Hull on Monday last, in the Leeds, steamer, for Hamburgh. ISLAND OF ISLAY.—LOSS OF LIFE.—OD Thursday the 24th ult., being the " fast day" in the parish of Kil choman, Mr. R. M'Laurin, teacher, near Port-Charlotte, at the request of Mr. M'Nabb, minister, left the latter place early on that day, for the purpose of leading the music in the parish church in Kilchoman. He arrived at Kilchoman in clue" time, and precented at both the English and Gaelic services, and left there for home a little before dark. He had to cross a muir of four or five came very has left a w id ow an d an on ly miles, whi c h li es b e t ween th e a b ove places, but before he got more than .half way on, he was either seized by sudden lonely, he p e ri s hed before any assistance illnes s , or f a i nte d f rom f a ti gue , a nd the place being child to lament his loss. M r . M rin ‘Lau . Church, was for several years pre centor in the Gaelic hurch, Dukg-street, Glasgow.— Glasgow Chronicle. . FOOT-RACE FOR TEN POUNDS ASlDE.—Thursday tu - j running match between Ned Wild (of London), and ( 0 : t 4 reezich), came off at the Rosemary Branch Cook ! . ..erwell, in the presence of a large con- G rounds at Cam The contesting distance was one course of spectators. *mile, Wild giving his oppon-,?.'it forty seconds, at the start; and preliminaries being arrang:'d. the men started, Cook maintaining the lead throughout, :ad winning easily by 200 yards. The London fancy were Cc,a?ider able losers, Cook having proved himself no novia , in pedestrianism. - PUGILISTIC CoxrucT FOR 1001.—On Wednesdy the great fight between Ben Terry and Tom Davis, two well known pugilists, came off in the presence of a strong jouster of the " milling fancy." The weight of the men was limited to ten stone and a half. In betting, five to four was laic' on Terry. Preparations having been made. and a ring formed, the combatants entered, and after shaking hands together in the accustomed manner, they put themselves into fighting attitude, and commenced hostility with great severity, and displaying fine science and courage. It soon became manifest that Terry was the best " general," but ambition fur pugilis tic honours led Davis to prolong the contest, vvhich, having occupied one hour and twenty-five minutes (half minute time), all hopes of victory for Davis were lost, and he was withdrawn from the ring and Terry pro nounced the winner. The fight was determined and well contested, and the Birmingham school lost large sums Vf THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDV AT DERBY. INQUEST ON THE BODIES. On Wednesday morning an inquest was held at the Town-hall, befure Mr. B. T. Balgay, coroner, on the bodies of the six unfortunate labourers aho were killed by the falling of an arch at the Slitting Mill Brook. After the jury had been sworn, and viewed the bodies, the COIZONNA addressed a few observations to them upon the duty they would have to discharge. The question they would have to inquire into was, by what means the unfortunate men came by their death, and whether any blame attached to any party—whether, in fact, it was a case of accidental death, or of manslaughter ; and he (the C. over) was quite sure they would give the case a calm consideration, and arrive at such a verdict as would satisfy their own consciences. Mr. Alderman Johnson here stepped forward, and stated that he, as chairman of the Committee appointed to see the works satisfactorily carried out, together with 1)r. Baker and Mr. Jessopp, were deputed at a meeting of the Committee, held the previous evening, to attend the inquest, and give every information in their power. They were prepared to lay the whole ease before the jury. The Foreman of the jury objected to Mr. Johnson being heard; and the Coroner proceeded to call the first witness. Mr. Flewker took his seat at the table, stating that he appeared on behalf of the relatives of the deceased, and commenced taking down the evidence. Samuel Dawson sworn—l am a labourer, and reside in Queen-street. On Wednesday last I was employed by Mr. Harpur, the town surveyor, to superintend the works going on at the Mill Fleam is the Morledge, and to see that the materials to be used were composed and properly mixed up. I was at the works yesterday morn ing : I went at six o'clock, left for my breakfast at eight, and returned to the works at half-past eight. I had been at the works after breakfast perhaps about twenty minutes, and was standing at the new arch on the side near to Sutton's wharf when the accident hap pened. I had control over the mixing of the materials fur mortar, and was directed by Mr. Harpur to see that they were properly beat—the proportions were three of lime and one of sand. I have been used to mixing mortar before; that has been my principal employ ment. I was with Mr. Thompson four years. I had no reason to compain that proper quantities of sand and lime were not mixed. Yesterday morning was fixed for striking the centres of the arch, which has been com pleted since my superintendence. The persons employed on the occasion were the deceased Thomas Brown and others of Mr. Sim's workmen—namely, Thos. Walker, George Walker, George Bancroft, Joseph Wardle, and Charles Bagguley. My attention was drawn to the works, and I observed a settling just over the springers at the backing up of the arch : the settling was, how ever, not more than a quarter of an inch : r was watch ing to see if it got any wider, and my attention was taken off by hearing a crash. [cast my eye along the top of the arch, and saw the arch fall in. I was too near the arch to observe who were under it when it fell in. I saw Samuel Henchley and John Harlow come from underneath the arch not more than five minutes before the accident ; and also saw deceased, Charles Baggily, and Joseph Wardle, go under. I also saw Mr. Sims, the contractor, come from under the arch, probably two or three minutes after Henchley and Harlow. It could not be more than two minutes after Sims had left the arch that I heard the crash. Mr. Sims came and stood by me, and then re turned to the bed of the river to watch the men at work. Besides Bagguley and Wardle, I knew that others were under the arch at work, but who they were, or of what number they consisted, I did not know at the time. I had not been under the arch myself ; that was no part of my duty, which simply was to see if the materials were properly mixed. Ino sooner turned my eye to the spot where I heard the crash I have spoken of, than the arch fell in. Before it fell I saw the arch sway a little on the opposite side to where I was standing—that is, on the side near Mr. Evans's warehouse. All who were under at the time of the accident were buried in the ruins. At the time it fell there were two persons upon the arch, on the opposite side to where I stood ; their names were Berresford and - Whittingham. I assisted in extricating the bodies from the'ruins, and saw the de ceased Brown, the two Walkers, Bancroft, Bagguley, and Wardle got out ; they were all dead. Ido not con sider any person to blame. Jacob Berresford—l am a labourer, and for the last two months have worked for Mr. Sims. I was working with him yesterday morning. I went at six o'clock, anc remained on until eight, at which time I went to my breakfast, and returned at half-past eight, when I recom menced work. I had been employed stacking bricks, and having finished, went to look at the men who were working under the arch. Thomas Walker, George Bancroft, Charles Bagguley, George Walker, Thomas Brown, and Joseph Wardle were the persons. I went under the arch about a yard. I saw Thomas Brown with a hammer in his hand, in the act of striking a prop underneath. I also saw Thomas Walker doing the same in another part of the arch. The other four were stand ing up looking on, as if to give their opinion. I did not exchange words with any of them, but in about two or three minutes withdrew, and returned to the top of the arch, on one side of which, near Sutton's, and the end near to the cast-metals, I began levelling; and there was a man (I believe of the name of Whittington) ramming. Whilst so employed I felt something soft under my feet as if I was going down, and on looking saw that the arch was going. I immediately gave the alarm and jumped off. As far as I can judge the crown of the arch fell first. When the arch had fallen, I heard the deceased Thomas Walker, who was underneath the ruins, cry out three times, " I'm dying fast—l am nearly done for." I assisted is removing the ruins, and extricating the bodies of the parties who were underneath, and whom I had just previously to the falling in seen alive. James Sims—l am a builder, residing in Traffic-street, and engaged to build an arch over the Mill Fleam in the Morledge, and hail got one length of arching in, which was completed on Friday night. It remained for the purpose of settling with the centres under, until yester day morning. I considered :the centres might be then safely struck. On Monday night I received orders from Mr. Harpur to strike the centres ; and yesterday morn ing, my son-in-law, Thomas Walker, and Charles Bag guley were employed for that purpose. I superintended the work, and both Mr. Harpur and myself bad been present from the first blow being struck. Mr. Harpur, who is the town surveyor, was appointed to superintend the work, and see that my work was done according to contract. From the commencement of the work he at tended daily, sometimes four or five times a day, and at times half a day together. I considered I worked under his direction. We worked by plans and specifications, to which we strictly adhered, unless requested by Mr. Mk . rpur to deviate from them. I meant trying one length of cinires first to see what I could do with it, and to ascertain whether I should require any more. I was under the arch il'ot more than half a minute before it fell in, and I did not obsrre any indication of danger ' • the first notice of this accident j had was the crash and fall ing in of the arch.—(Mr. Siiias..cried bitte,rly during his examination, and was an object of general sympathy.) After the examination of Mr. Samuel Harpur, surveyor to the Commissioners under the Derby Improvement Act, the jury retired to consider their verdict. In about five minutes they returned, and delivered in a verdict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of Is. upon the centre of the arch, the expresiion of a regret that two centres were not employed instead of one, in order that the work might have had more time to set, and a recom mendation that in future all such works should be car ried on with not less than, two centres.—Abridged from the Derby Reporter. money. CAUTION TO MOTHERS.—On Thursday Mr. Carter held an inquest on the body of an unbaptised female child, aged three weeks, whose nurse stated that the mother said she had given it some syrup of poppies, which witness had fetched for her on the Sunday. De ceased was quite insensible, and she went to Mr. Jeffry, the surgeon from whom she had bought the stuff, and who, on seeing the child, said too much ha d been g iven it. The child died on Wednesday. Mr. Jeffry found the child insensible, and the mother had said that she had given it five or six drops of the syrup of poppies ; but he believed she had given it more, from the appear ance of the child. He used every remedy to cause a re action of the system, but from the outset he had no hope of preserving its life ; and the cause of death was the over-dose. Be added, " When the nurse came to me for the opiate, I asked her the age of the child, and told her to be exceedingly careful ; but on hearing it was fur the infant, I told her she ought to be ashamed to give it to so young a child, when she replied, that it had some on Sunday, as its bowels were bad." After some further discussion, the nurse was recalled, and admitted that she saw her mistress give deceased half a tea-spoon ful of the syrup, although she told her that Mr. Jeffry said she must not give it more than a third of a tea spoonful. The Coroner in strong language adverted to the impropriety of persons administering drugs of this description to infant children, and the danger in which they placed themselves in a criminal point of view in consequence. After admonishing the nurse never to do so in future, the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of an over-dose of syrup of poppies, inadvertently administered to her by her mother." E X TENSIVE ROBBERY OF CHEQUES,&C.—Thurs. day information was received by the police of a cash box, containing cheques to a very large amount, having been stolen, under mysterious circumstances, from the cashier's office on the premises of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, the extensive builders. From circumstances which have transpired, it is supposed the robbery was com mitted between the hours of half-past eleven A.m. and half-past eight P.M., on Thursday, the 31st ult. The cash-box contained amongst other cheques, one for 60/., one for 261., two for 100/. each, one for 71., one for 10/., two for 1,2501. each, two for 501. each, one for 111.55., one for 91. 12s. 2d., a dock warrant for a pipe of wine, and 101. in gold. The police are actively engaged in en deavouring to trace the thieves. FOREIGN CABLES.—The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, having referred to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a memorial from an eminent house, relative to the lengths into which old rope has hitherto been cut, which they have been in the habit of receiving from foreign vessels in part payment for chain cables, supplied by them to these vessels, their Lordships have authorised the Commissioners of the Customs, in conformity with the suggestions contained in their report on the subject, to charge the duty at the rate of 101. per cent. upon old cables taken from foreign ships, under the conditions prescribed in the Board's order of 13th May, 1840; viz., that the same be rendered wholly unserviceable by being reduced into lengths not exceeding three fathoms. The previous order alluded to directed the delivery of these old foreign cables, on the conditions mentioned, on payment of the ad valorem duty of twenty per cent. Copies of this order have been fur nished to the several departments in London, and trs mitted to the collect ors and comptrollers at the various Kingdom, their information am' gorepment. VIE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT OLDHAM ADJOURNED INQUEST. OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The inquest was resumed, pursuant to adjournment, at two o'clock this afternoon ; and, taking into considera tion the respectability of the jury, and their peculiar capacity to judge accurately of all the varied features of the case, together with the well-known practical ex perience of Messrs. Fairburn and Bellhouse, whose pro mised joint opinion wag looked fur with the utmost anxiety, involving, as it wait expected to do, questions of vital importance to the public it large, as well as the great millowners in the world—taking all this into due consideration, there have, perhaps, been few investiga tions of the kind that have possessed so large a portion of general interest. The preliminary business having been gone through, Mr. Fairburn said, that the object both he and his coad jutor, Mr. Bellhouse, had in view was twofold—in the first place they had to satisfy the minds of the jury as to the true causes of the accident which had been un happily attended by such extensively fatal results, and secondly, it was their anxious_ desire to place such a statement on record as might be calculated to prevent a recurrence of such accidents in future, though in so doing they should be under the necessity of going more minutely and at greater length into the subject than was customary on such occasions. • Mr. Fairburn then pro ceeded to read a lengthened report, and commented on the different parts of it as he proceeded. It was then arranged that the jury should retire to consult on the mode in which their reception and ap proval of the report should be embodied in their verdict, and they withdrew accordingly. After a consultation of upwards of an hour in dura tion, the jury again took their seats in the Court, when, after a short discussion on a few points of technicality, the following verdict was returned : "Accidental Death, caused by the falling of the build ing ; and the jury are unanimously of opinion that the causes of the accident are fully pointed out by the able report of Messrs. Fairburn and Bellhouse." MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN THE RIVER LEA. — On Thursday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Crown, Orchard House, Blackwell, on view of the body of Char lotte Garwood, aged twenty-six years. It appeared by the evidence, that deceased resided with her mother and sister, at No. 9, Leamouth-place, Blackwell. She ob tained her living as a sempstress. She bad latterly, with out any apparent cause, become very reserved. On Tuesday evening she took her supper, as usual, with her family, of which she partook very heartily, and afterwards seated herself by, th© fire, and began to converse. She shortly afterwards rose abruptly from ' her seat, and went out of the back door. Not return ing, search was made for her in vain, until the following morning, when her body was found embedded in the mud of the river Lea, where it, had been left on the re ceding of the tide, within a few yards of her mother's door. A sister of deceased said, she could not account for her committing such an act. The Coroner remarked I upOn the mysterious nature of the occurrence , and said, that as there was no positive evidence, although there be h bettera t to return as couldthrew be he herself 1 i but little the doubt water, of t i h t e w f o a u c l t d , deceased t as open verdict of " Found drowned," • which was accord , inly recorded. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL; FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Our restrictions on the import of sug have long afforded to every humane and liberal a subject of thought of high and varied interest. 3 intimate connexion with the state of shivery and slave trade throughout the world, alone gives it a lar claim to the attention of the philanthropist ; while, he looks at home, he sees the greater part of our por lation limited in the use of a most valuable article food to a rate of consumption considerably less th what is deemed fit for the inmates of our weTkhous To the political economist it offers the most eomph example on record of the last and worst results of I principle of monopoly. And to the moralist it affoi the anomalous spectacle of high-minded, cc scientious, and intelligent men, who have earned lasting gratitude. of their race by their untiri efforts to suppress slavery, yet deliberately and p severingly acting upon the opinion that the ache of Providence is such As to offer to the nati , of the earth a high and permanent premium the commission of one of the blackest of trim The apparently irreconcileable differences of opin: existing upon the most important points of subject, would appear to prove the existence of gr errors somewhere. Where, exactly, these errors time alone can show. Meanwhile, every fresh f brought to bear upon the question has its spec value. It is to such a fact that we would direct attention of our readers. But as its bearing and va have particular reference to past events and da. which few may bear in mind, it may be Useful to g a sh art general resume of the subject as it n stands. The old policy of England was to monopolise trade of her colonies. -,Hence the origin of the W India monopoly. When we led the way in s , pressing the slave trade, the West Indians c( plained that, in restricting their supply - of labo we enhanced their cost of production, arid gave th a special claim to protection against competition other producers not so restricted. The claito very generally, though not universally allowed, has been made the basis of a monopoly, more less stringent, down to the present hour. 1834 we went a step further, and abolis slavery altogether. Soon after the supply sugar from the West Indies fell far short of the he demand, checked as that was by unnaturally b prices, and the operation of the monopoly was felt 1 with unusual severity. In 1836 we opened our mar to free labour sugar from the East Indies on the a. footing as that from the West Indies. The immed result was a considerable increase of the imports f , that quarter ; but since that period they . have I nearly stationary or declining. In 1838 the meal of West Indian emancipation was completed, by Ming an end to the term of apprenticeship ; and at one-third of the negro labourers, chiefly women, persons, and children, ceased to work, or cease work continuously, in the cultivation of sur Partly from this cause, and partly from others c nected with the change, the produce fell off c siderably in quantity. In 1838 we received 4,126, cwts., and in 1840 only 2,747,842 cwts. For m years previously, indeed from the very commencer of the system of monopoly, the planters had been complaining state, and each of these changes been preceded by prophecies of utter ruin, and lowed by increased complaints. The outcry f the West Indies now became louder I ever. Various schemes of relief were suggested, none found that general support 'which was neces: to carry them into elTecution. But now the plan were not the only complainers. The short supply followed by an enormous inaease.,of prices in country. Having hitherta.paid about twice as It for our sugar as the people of the continent, we A now called upon to pay three mud four times as m In 1841 the late Government proposed to rec • the duty on unrefined foreign sugar from 635. to per cwt. This, leaving the duty.on colonial a' at 245., would still have afforded it' .a protectio 12s. per cwt., or 50 per cent. The contest that sued is well remembered. The proposition was jected in the Commons by a majority of 36. 1842 a Select Committee was appointed to inc, into the state of the West India colonies ; anc witnesses were unanimous in stating that sugar c not be produced there for less than from 20s. to per cwt. on the spot. The recent measure of present Government has the effect of admi; unrefined foreign sugar, ascertained to be produce of free labour, at a differential dut 10s. 6d. over that charged upon the.produce of own colonies. It is now to be remembered, from the date of the Emancipation Act the party leagued against slavery, and throUgh whos fluence this measure • had been promoted and fi' carried, had manifested a . strong and even pr worthy desire, as we are willing to admit, to n taro the existing protection - upon our West It • sugar as the produce of free labour, in al secure the final triumph, as they hoped, of great work they had achieved. They cone that the operation of the Act of Emancipation subject the West India proprietors to an injurious petition.with the producers of sugar by slave la But upon the proposal of the Whig measure in a difference of opinion developed itself in the . Slavery body. Some of its' most influential mer avowed themselves favourable to a reduction t differential duties in favour of our own coloni' order to bring our new free-labour system of cu tion fairly into competition with the slave-labour tem of the foreign colonies. And in this they actuated by the conviction (founded upon a vie the question most ably stated and supported pamphlet by Mr. Beldam) that free labour is c tially superior to slave labour, not only moi but economically ; and that it could not fa alliance with British capital and skill, to prove so. Why, then, it may be asked, if this opini , - correct, have not our colonies felt and exhibited superiority of free labour ? The answer is, bee though slavery is now abolished, many of its c quences remain ; and still more, because no labs any kind ever has been, or ever can be, fully eff under a system of monopoly. In reference to al has yet been done, it is to be considered that we not expect, by simply changing an erroneous p to get rid, all at once, of its ill effects. It is very nature of error to carry its fruits into the fl Slavery and monopoly are. two great evils ; but are not now' to be looked at in the abstract. wound is not cured by withdrawing the weapon made it. The whole system of production i West India colonies has been affected—poisonec these vicious influencies. It has been, and as almost entirely continues to be, of such a nati could only have come into being under the narro short-sighted policy which we have pursued to these colonies ever since we have had them. influences are now at work=and what wonder artificial system totters to its fall when its ar supports are removed! STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle 1 makes the following announcement, to which it festly attaches great importance : " It is announced, we see s that the Anti-Co League has taken Covent-garden Thel;tre for th( season,ut a rent of 3,0001. And yet the Government will have us believe that the League is dead ! Abe time last year, the Times called it a great fact,' a) pretty well scolded for the truism by the Tory jo, One thing, however, is clear that the spirit of f irro burns as energetically as ever ; that at alarms I tionists in counties as well, as boroughs—that the of Richmond fears it in Sussex—the Duke of Bu liam at Aylesbury—that her Majesty's Cabin( piloting their course by farthing rushlights stole it—that Mr. Gladstone feels its strength in eve and corner of his department—that Sir R. Pe disciple in rus, ready to attorn and conform hir its practices as well as axioms, as soon as his e tion from the lease-at-will on which ho stands _pa his power—that Young Eng la n d, aye and the Poe, are on the same highway. If this be death, we not what is life" " One thing is &tar," says our Contemporar: then proceeds to detail the fractional parts one thing, which must be the most complex on, in the world, except, pe'r4ps, a cotton mill, that it comprises the fir, of free-trade alarms of protectionists in boroughs, the of protectionists in counties , t he -.fears ( Duke of Richmond in Sussex, the re: the Duke of Buckingham in Aylesbury farthing candles pilfered by her Majesty's Ni from Messrs. Bright and Cobden, the perill of poor, hard-hunted Mr. Gladstone, Sir I Peel's future in rus, the Right Honourable Ba extrication, and the exploits of Y oun g Englane the highway (in imitation of the League), the qualification in parenthesis, because, " tal the highway" is at best an equivocal phrase, would not understand the Young Englande the Post as charged will' tha bolder and formidable highway, practice which the phra• ports. Whining, _lying, bullying, canting , beg in a word, vagrancy---is all with which the 3 has yet been charged, though the conspirator inclined to g o a ste p further—and p such whining, begging. &c., &c., is all intended to be imputed to Young Engla the Post. This one thing, however, which t a ken - us so many words to describe with siblc brevity is clear, says the Morning Cl< From what is it clear--is it from the fact, small, that the League has taken Covent Theatre for a year, promising to pay for the pied theatre 3,0001.? Now, the only clear ini that we can deduce from these facts are, that ( garden Theatre was to let, which everyone, lieve, has known for a long time, and tl Leaguers, who said they would collect 1 , this year (1844) expect to have, (perhaps foolish) people who trust their and their honesty, and expect that tr Lave three thousand pounds at the end of This is the only " one thing" clear to us f arrangement which so unworthily substitutes Bright and Cobden for Mr, Liston and p Grimaldi. If memory does not cheat us, the c;