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'1 7 1; 6 c of ° o 00 0 111114.1 r e of lb aster a P s 0 0 , t o . 0 1 h ellj e li I li:• Isl, dl' , O rr o ' , o ; r ieo ° ( (Jer i. n ' IP , c ider 10 t he ) fou'd COURT CIRCULAR. W IND p tine SOR, MONDAY. —Their Royal Highnesses Albert, the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, The first annual dinne r of the members of this club anti v ,:lhe Duke E rne st of Wurtemberg, attended by took place at the King's Arms Hotel, Holborn-bridge, 67!.ar10f Hardwicke, Lord Charles Wellesley, Mr. ' yesterday evening. The chair was taken by John Anson, and Baron de Wangenheim, left the Buckmaster, Esq., Chairman of the West London o on horseback this morning, to shoot in the Union. h urhood of Cumberland Lodge. The ro 11 the Chairman, the following ntle- Besides Party returned in 3 early the afternoon. men were present :—Dr. Lynch, James Patteson, The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Esq., M.P., J. Bright, Esq., M.P., R. Taylor , E s q ., e ?od tor .out in a pony phaeton at noon, attended on F.S.A., Michael Saward, Esq. , E. Spicer , Es q ., Keller s i e e bac kby M ajo r-G e neral Sir Edward Bowater. W. Spi ce r, Esq., Joshua T. Bedford, Esq., Deputy heri Majesty Highness the Duchess of Kent visited of the Ward, Dr. Sheridan, W. Wilson, Esq. , Dr. jesty and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Got thi s a f ternoon. Simpson, S. S. Woolatt, Esq., J. M. Barnard, Esq., t i le lleir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and W. Harding, Esq., Richard Williams, Esq., James f or a Princess Royal were taken out on their ponies Ramshaw , Es q ., James Charles, Es q ., Mark Faver n airing this morning. sham, Esq., John Sharpe, Esq., William Cumming, T he . royal dinner party at the Castle this even- Esq., J. P. Bernhard, Esq., Alex. Galloway, Esq.., o_ l . eluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of W. C ar p en t e r, Esq., G. Walter, Esq., and J. Todd, nr, Lady F ann y Howard, the Countess Wratislaw, ir Esq., Honorary Secretary. George Couper, Mr. George Edward and the Mrs. Anson, and Captain Francis Seymour. After the usual loyal toasts had been given and duly te..u l ,h a hand o f th e S co ts Fusilier Guards was in at- responded to by the company , . A la lice during dinner. Her Majesty's private band The CHAIRMAN said he had now the gratification of 77%yards attended, and performed at the Castle the proposing the health of their esteemed and excellent giainder of the evening. representative on his right, Mr. Patteson.—(Cheers.) T. That gentleman had displayed an example of political consistency and public virtue which had never been excelled, and seldom equalled.—(Hear, hear.) There were many persons in that room who could do much greater justice to his deserts than himself, hut he would yield to none in sincere admiration of his past services. He felt confident that on every occasion that might arise, Mr. Patteson would be found pre pared to justify the confidence which they had reposed in him ; and he therefore proposed the toast to the cordial acceptance of all present. The toast having been acknowledged with great enthusiasm, Mr. PATTESON said he felt deeply sensible of the honour which had been conferred upon him, and he trusted that his own deficiency would not prevent them from giving him full credit for the gratitude which he entertained. Ten years had now elapsed since he first offered himself as a candidate for the City of London. He need hardly remind them of the circumstances under which he was first elected. The King had, unconstitutionally, and, as they thought, despotically, dismissed his Ministers; and in the elec tion which ensued they beat their opponents by a majority of fifteen hundred. That was a glorious triumph. The result of the struggle which took place at that period was the ejection of Sir Robert Peel, and the restoration of the Whigs to power. The Tories were then defeated upon what was called the appropriation clause. He could not help regretting that the Whigs had not kept faith with Ireland by standing by that clause.—(Hear, hear.) Nothing injured them more than their desertion of principle in reference to that subject. In the ensuing election, the majority fell from 1,500 to 150; and a petition against this election was only stopped by the discovery of certain papers, which proved that their enemies had them selves been guilty of bribery. There was a general lack of enthusiasm after that period. The Whigs declared themselves in favour of finality, as if there could be any finality in the progress of im provement!—(Hear.) As the result of this state of things, when he presented himself to the electors in 1841 he was rejected. A reaction, however, subse quently took place. The people learnt from a gentle man on his right, and from others who acted with him, that what was wanted was cheap bread, and the free trade. movement produced a reaction in the City. In the election in 1842 their opponents were supported by a vast phalanx of intimidation and bribery ; but notwithstanding all the efforts which were brought to bear against the Liberal side, he (Mr. Patteson) was triumphantly elected by the middle classes of the City.—(Cheers.) The question now was, what would Sir Robert Peel do for the people of this country, or for poor, unfortunate Ire land ? A friend of his had, in conversation, ven tured a conjecture that Sir Robert Peel would carry the repeal of the corn-laws. For his own part, he did not care whether Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell proposed such a measure, if it could only be secured to the country. They had heard a great deal lately of baths and washing-places for the people. Let them begin at the right end, by endeavouring to give food to the people, and leave them to wash them selves.—(Cheers.) He congratulated the company on the existence of this new institution. He Was convinced that it would greatly promote the cause of civil and religious freedom in this land. In all parts of London the conduct of the citizens was watched with intense interest ; and what took place in that great city must always exercise a vast influence over the whole of England. In conclusion, he begged to thank them most cordially for the honour which they had conferred upon him by the manner in which they had responded to the toast. Song by Mr. Turner — gentleman. Dr. LYNCH (Vice-President) said, at the meeting held in the new hall, they gladly seized the oppor tunity of doing homage to the great principle of free trade.—(Loud cheers.) In the history of political movements there was no parallel to the triumphant progress made by the Anti-Corn-law League (Hear, hear.) Little more than six years ago a few gentlemen met in Manchester, in a small room, to endeavour to rescue their townsmen from the &series which they endured through these laws, which fet tered the freedom of industry, and brought desolation and destitution to the productive classes in this country. The movement was at first merely local; it then be came provincial, next metropolitan, and it was now national and universal.—(Cheers.) By its millions of tracts, by its endless public discussions, by its argu ments written and spoken, by the speculations of the closet converted into practical truisms in public, this great body had secured the co-operation, and excited the enthusiasm of the great mass of the people. The League had taught the inhabitants of this country that free trade was calculated to confer inestimable benefits on,mankind. It had released the minds of thousands and tens of thousands from the trammels of party. It had taught them to despise the terms " Whig," " Tory," and " Radical," and had united them all in the one great effort of seeking the repeal of the corn-laws. If this principle were carried out, the people would no longer be insulted by charity, by pseudo philosophy, by mendieity institutions, or by shaving, washing, and other humbugging associations of that nature.—(Cheers and laughter.) Rich in the pro ducts of their own labour, having the world opened to their competition, they would be able to despise the paltry palliatives to which he had referred. He believed, therefore, that the only . remedy for the evils of the country, was the speedy, immediate, and total repeal of the corn-laws. He spoke at that moment in the presence of a great missionary of the cause of free trade ; and it would not become him, under such cir cumstances, to enter more fully into that question. He felt confident that they would all do justice to the talent, the energy, the industry, the enthusiasm, the honesty, and the disinterestedness of his friend Mr. Bright.--(Loud cheers.) The conduct which that gentleman had exhibited in his advocacy of that great cause entitled him to the gratitude and admiration, not merely of his fellow-countrymen, but of mankind at large. 'With Mr. Bright were associated many gentlemen of the highest, the purest, and the most philanthropic character. Most prominent amongst the members was the justly celebrated Mr. Cobden, the indefatigable and eloquent advocate of the great eternal truth, that that which God had given to man, man was entitled to enjoy. If Mr. Cobden only caused that principle to be fully recog nised, he would deserve to rank amongst the greatest benefactors of his species—his name would stand con spicuous when those of factious Ministers and princely monopolists would have passed down the stream of oblivion. Between these two great and good men one entire union of sentiment existed; the only ambition by which they were actuated was to re lieve suffering, and to bind all mankind in one common bond of interest and of brotherly love. Let the principles of free trade be fully carried out, and the prophecy of the poet would be fulfilled— " Low in the dust oppression shall be hurled, Iler name, her nature, wither from the world." (Cheers.) In conclusion, he begged to propose the health of Mr. Bright. The toast having been responded to in the most enthusiastic manner, Mr. BRIGHT said it was a most grateful task to re spond to the sentiments which had been expressed by 1)r. Lynch, and especially that part of them which re ferred to the success that had attended the policy and efforts of the Anti-Corn-law League. He hailed that expression of sentiment as a proof that they felt that their own interests were in no small degree bound up with the operations of that body.—(Hear, hear.) The League was the embodiment of the interests and rights of the middle classes, and, as such, it deserved their hearty and cordial support. There were two especial points of view in which the League ought to be viewed by all who weighed its merits. Six years ago, as they had already heard, that asso ciation commenced its labours, and from that time to the present there had been no change in the principle upon which it was first established.— (Hear, hear.) They commenced by promulgating the doctrine that the people had a right to the total and immediate abolition of the corn-laws ; and, as a consequence, to the abolition of every commer cial monopoly. Up to that moment they had never swerved, in the slightest degree, from this great prin ciple, although they had been visited with as much obloquy as it was possible to heap on public men; although attempts had been made by some to coax, to wheedle, and to ensnare them into a desertion of the principle with which they had started, he believed he could say with the utmost sincerity and truth, that, in the council of the League, the ques tion of giving up any portion of that principle had never once been seriously dis. THE FARRINGDON CLUB. Lhe Chancellor of the Exchequer had an interview 4 1 ,..ith the L or d P res id en t o f th e C ounc il yesterday, at the council-office. b h tlis Excell enc y the American Minister transacted ',Nsiness yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. "ispatche s were sent off last evening from the f or f or t h e G overnor o f Jamaica, and also lor the Governors of the other West India Colonies. t , Dispatches were received yesterday at the C0101a,,,'-offite l a,,,' - offite from the Governor of Gibraltar. the'he Lords' Committee of the Privy Council for affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat yesterday in th Council Chamber, to consider two petitions from of e Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the conduct Beene Lieutenant-Governor of the island. There „O r, t present the Lord President, the Lord Chan lhe Secretary of State for the Home Depart or,,ntl Mr. B aron P a rke, the Chancellor of the Duchy -4 4 a wall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. t b "r• Roebuck, Q.O , and Mr. Waddington were ' l.l . Their Lordships then adjourned the case. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. pfTbe Derby betting was marked by some movements w e e °iisider a bl e i n t eres t ; as the most worthy of mention, 64t ke.y refer to a decided improvement in Idas, the colt N eil ° Calypso's dam, and Old England, the change in ease being the result of a considerable outl ay.ooc, oto 100 was laid against Kedger; 1,500 to 60 and 22 i n 1 in fifties against Pam, the backers of each willing to 1 ; 300 to 10 twice against Young Eclipse, and 25 1 witterwards offered ; 1,000 to 40, two or three times, tie believe, against Anti-Repealer ; 1,000 to 25 and 35 ) int i in div ers quarters against the colt out of Rebecca s everal bets against outsiders. 45 to 1 was laid ttitinst Ir o n master , qualified or not. With regard to th: n omination of this hors; we are enabled to state ib a ~t , t 4 e r . A. Hill has taken the necessary steps for b r i n g - 1 case before the Stewards of the races, with whom to ' , lewrds of the Jokey Club are now associated, t h "that it will be taken ` into consideration as soon after I lstizas as possible. Closing prices : 20 00 CUESTF.R CUP. tO 40 ags t A r i s tid es —t. 400 to 10 agst Rowena—t. 400 t I N , 010 a gs t M or p e th—t. 506 to 10 apt Foig-a-bal -4to 15 agst Orlando—t. lagh—taken. Dinnr. 1 1 to 1 .agst Mr. Greyille's Alarm—taken 17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas-18 to 1 t. fr. 18 to 1 agst Col. Peers Cobweb soh 18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's hedger—t. 20 to 1 22 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam 25 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—taken 2 5 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger—take 30 to 1 3 3 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's c out of Calypso's dam—t. 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rebecca colt—taken 35 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o'Cockpen w oo t 25 —take 40 to 1. 0 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken 400 to 15 agst M r. Li ntott ' s C a bi n -b o y—t a k en ,0 to 60 a gs t M r . F erg uson's Clear-the-way—taken 40 0 to 20 agst M r. F or d' s F uz b os — ta k en , 1 1: ° ,_ . ° to 50 ags t Id as an d Anti-Repealer—taken 4 . to SO each agst the colt out of Calypso's dam and Ironmaster in one bet, the bet to loo n be void unless the latter be qualified even between c out of Calypso's d and Rebecca c - 0 0 even between Idas and Kedger 50° even between Rebecca colt and Laircl-o'-Cockpen. OAKS. 111 to 1 ag s t M r . W or thi ng t on ' s Lancashire Witch—t. L E LATE MR. CROCKFORD'S ACCOUNT. Pur suance of the appointment appended to the stv,r4:itee of whi c h we published a copy last week, sera gentl emen i n t eres t e d were in attendance, and who i l - t r a gt accounts paid and received in full by the party en leut settl t akenupon himself the responsibility of the Mr. Tat ar '" 'S brood mares, young stock , and horses in .1 were put up for sale yesterday by Messrs , pr 4 i ees r s llll 's, ad - a few of the inferior lots sold at low • Th e others were bought in. •" The fine Old English y in , 485 CLARA SEYTON.—It would appear that this - . l g, lady is as great a favourite in the provinces as 1 .• is in the metropolis. She gave her lecture on Eng .;,lll Comedy at the Athenmum, at Manchester, last :eel( and the Manchester papers all speak in the most 4 11 lhu%iastic terms of her. In fact, her debut in Man ''ester as a lecturer was a perfect triumph. She re t; r eed to London on Saturday, to fulfil her engagements - the different literary institutions. DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS.—The next malls the West Indies and Mexico will be made up at I tirtin's-le-Grand . this morning (Tuesday), the "n stant. The mails for Hamburgh, owing to the tee in the Elbe, are now sent by a special messenger, ; 4 1 4 . holl an d . T he next ma il s to I n di a , E g ypt, M a lt a , th e ee, &e., are to be dispatched from Southampton e moring of the 3d of Januar ; and the next mail to ol n a Marseilles, on the evening of the 7th of Ja. 7Z7. The mail s f o r America will be made up on the 1 2 -Il ing of th e 3d o f J anua ry, and dispatched on the 4th ° ,,ln Liverpo o l, by th e s t eame r Cambria. he new President of the United States is of , or“,ish lin eage ; an d hi s curious looking name an ''''gment of a good old Scotch one. Mr. Polk's father of gra ndfather is said to have been a Lanarkshire man, 4 the name of Pollock. In the somewhat peculiar dia oof the upper ward of this county, that name is pro • vte Poke, an d h e nce, probably, the orthography (g i d by the transatlantic branch of the family.— ' 49 °lv Pos t. e t „„ 1 E PARRICIDE MART GALLOP.—FULL CONTES.• 4,145';7-ThiS female, for the murder of her father at Coppenhall, is left for execution ; and Baron It ''' e Y has fixed the day for Saturday, the 28th instant. i• ll take place in the front of the city gaol, at eight Ta r s ; in the morning. The trial took place in a court Tar n ; densely crowded, and the means of defence were b:i ~s u ed by one of the Society of Friends resident in the it"bourhood, and in whose employ the deceased had s or ,, e n for several years. The chain of evidence was so sq Plato as to leave not a doubt of the guilt of the pri- Atc` r ,' Immediately after her return to the gaol, the Bev. her Eaton, the Chaplain of the Castle, impressed upon ayw ln ind the awful consequences of the change that her, if she continued obdurate, and died as she lkl;Vnipenitent. On Sunday last she acknowledged to s n - ,''atun the fairness of her trial, and the justice of her -en : ee, and made a full revelation and confession of es, b er 'ale, which it is at present sufficient to say, con- C4 -3 every tittle of the evidence given on the trial.— I ter Chronicle. rt ri A I4 . 6 .OIIDINART DEATEL—On Friday last Mann, aged 16, died suddenly at Kidderminster in f ro m (l a rT ,t called the Sarah and Jane, which was on its way li Pton to Gloucester by the Worcestershire and el: / ; ; ` ) rdshire Canal, before medical assistance could be ana t t l i 'd. At tke inquest held on the body at the Phea -4 -4 n, fin Saturday, before Mr. W. S. P. Hughes, core 4ttri;:t APpeared from the evidence of Mr. Cornelius th, 1 , 6 lhilbrick, surgeon, that he was called to attend berg on Friday, about a quarter before 1 P.M. and that made:i he could arrive, the lad had expired. Mr. Philbrick th e 4 Post mortem examination of the body, and found Ir a abdomen filled with fluid that had escaped th e T a hole in the stomach, about two inches from " k gullet, on t h e l e ft-h an d s ide. He found in the sto itelsh %large round worm, about a foot long. The sto at " t hroughout its entire surface presented appearances hs t r' n ammation. He gave it as his opinion that death i nn re sulted from the perforation, which was the effect of w r ikal rnation, probably produced by the presence of the l - „T t . The father of the boy stated that he was taken ttaa - I t a violent vomiting on the Sunday night previous, a at on Mond a y he applied to a druggist at Wol li▪ e , r i h arnPton, who furnished medicine, which gave no re ah.id The boat was on its journey from Sunday till tia d - ,Y , 5 0 that there was no opportunity of obtaining f t 6 7cal advice till it reached Kidderminster, when the k . i t , n ` event took place. The jury returned a verdict of i l k " by the visitation of God."— Worcester _Herald. Th Ix ARRIVAL OF THE LONDON MAIL.—On ur s a, a the London mail did not arrive until fifteen aid after twelve o'clock, owing to a heavy fall of 4., w bet ween Chudleigh and Ashburton ; and on Fri i443' the m a il was two hours and a half behind its time, ra a c i °ll aeluenc e o f an acc ident having happened to the of j . : l , Ting of the engine when about ten miles this side )ri u° ll Deoonport Independent. n • LA.NCROLY ACCIDIINT. — FIVE LIVES LOST.— in h ave this wee k to rec ord another fearful accident Th er Psing that dangerous reef of rocks called the wi t l; . '" a ge, by which five unfortunate beings have met and n untimely end. Betwe the hou of elevn twelve o' lo k ye•terday en (Friday) rs morning, e a W kter f ro man a boat, containing five persons, was proceeding Ilanaoaze to the Dmdalus frigate, lying in the and when crossing the bridge, under sail, the nd blowing strongly, by same means she upset, and theao.lvhole party were precipitated into the water. The ii.e_Tent was noticed by W. Walker, Esq., Queen's with andh immediately proceeded to the spot the urines, his boat, succeeded in picking up a sergeant of ut t 4 l arinea, named Skinner, whom he conveyed with the yi St Promptitude on board the Firebrand steamer, } m i l in Barnpool, but the poor fellow survived only an i n tnd a half. Th e o th er bodies have not yet b een ia t i„". up. They are supposed to be two watermen h , agin g to thi s town, and two seamen of the Daedalus.la is th e third accident which has occurred within the LeSet f ew raentha in this dangerous locality, and all have l a efitteaded with a f r i g htful loss of life.—Devonpe r t 'lzntitttt. cassed.—(Hear.) In one respect, however, the League had undergone a remarkable change ; he referred to the influence which it now exercised as compared with that which it possessed five or six years ago. Year after year they had witnessed its growth, and he believed that at that moment there • was no one political question which obtained a tithe of the attention which was excited by the subject of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) For many years they had gone from town to town during the winter season, and on every fresh visit they found that the cause had made great progress. He believed no despotism ever existed in this country which produced such terrible effects as the operation of the corn-laws. In 1822 there were no less than 120 advertisements of sales of farming stock in one single Norfolk newspaper, and the condition of the agricultural labourer was too well known to need description. In Wiltshire, Berk shire, and Hampshire, ani many other counties, the labouring classes were in such a condition that the most indifferent, besotted landlords, were beginning to admit the necessity of doing something for their re lief. —(Hear, hear.) Hitherto they had trusted too much to parties. The constituencies of the empire could alone wrest the Government from the hands of the factious ; and what constituency might so reasonably be expected to take the lead as that of the City of London ? He had not tile slightest appre hension that the oligarchy of this country would drive the people to violence ; they would do so were it not for the middle classes ; but with these latter it rested to save the country from ruin. In order to use their influence effectually, they must combine together. Men who lived in the same ward must not be estranged from each other; one ward must not be estranged from its neighbour ward.—(Hear, hear.) If they acted separately in municipal contests, they must act together in Parliamentary contests.—(Hear, hear.) He wished the City of London to take its proper place ; if it did so, four free traders ould, beyond all question, be returned at the next election. Let there go forth a great and powerful voice from this metropolis to the electoral districts of the country; let the great manufacturing towns of Lan cashire and Yorkshire, the representatives of the na tional industry, be combined upon this great ques tion; let them know their true position, and act up to it, and no squirearchy, no dukes, no oligarchy, would be able to prevent that final triumph of their cause, which would, at the same time, insure freedom to in dustry, and the general welfare of their fellow-coun trymen.—(Loud cheers.) Song—" The Oak and the Ivy," by Mr. Ransford. Mr. Woon proposed " The Liberty of the Press," which, he said, was the best security for that of the public. He referred, at some length, to the manner in which the press had been crippled within his own memory, fifty years ago; and, congratulating the company on the changes which had since taken place, called upon them to respond warmly to the toast. The toast having been enthusiastically responded to, Dr. SHERIDAN acknowledged it on behalf of the press ; and, on resuming his seat, proposed " The in crease of the Parliamentary franchise.' Glee—" King Canute." Mr. CARPENTER proposed, in the absence of Mr. Wakley (who had been expected but was not pre sent), " The improvement of the social condition of the industrial classes of society." He said they lived in times when all the ordinary channels of wealth were said to be full, and those who possessed money were not able to find employment for it.—(Hear, hear.) Yet a very large portion of the people were steeped in poverty, dying for want of that very employment which money was not able to procure.—(Hear.) If they wished to see the people studious of cleanliness, they must first enable them to obtain bre sd, otherwise they could not be expected to take any interest in washing-houses, and places of a similar description. He was quite sure that in that company there would be no diversity of opinion as to the sentiment, however there might be as to the means of carrying it into practical effect; and he, therefore, felt great pleasure in proposing this toast. The toast was duly acknowledged by the company. Several other toasts were subsequently proposed, and the hilarities of the evening were extended to a late hour. Messrs. Ransford, Jones, and Turner, contributed most effectually to the pleasures of the evening by vocal performances, which elicited the warmest applause. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTI TUTION. The ninth annual meeting of the Directors, mem bers, and friends of this Institution, was held at one o'clock yesterday, at the office in Gracechurch-street, the principal business being to receive the report of the Directors for the current year. The chair was taken by Samuel D. Lucas, Esq. The SECRETARY (Mr. Marsh) read the notice call ing the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then said that the meet ing was called to render an account of the progress of the Institution during the past year. lie would have been glad to have seen a larger assemblage than that present, but the fact seemed to be that, notwithstanding that year by year hundreds upon hundreds more members were added, these gatherings were not larger than that which had distinguished their first anniversary. He did not think that this ought to be looked on as discouraging, for he at least drew the gratifying inference from it that the depositors reposed a continued confidence in the Directors of the Institution. He would add, in behalf of himself and his brother Directors, that as long as their confidence was continued they would endeavour to merit it by their attention to the interests of all. The report would be read by the Secretary, and they would see what was the progress and what the funds of the In stitution. Any member asking further information would be answered to the best of his (the Chairman's) ability. Tlie report was then read. It congratulated the meeting on the increasing prosperity of the Institu tion, which was mainly to be attributed to the con fidence the public had in the principle on which it Was based. The report of the preceding year had alluded to the great increase of business in that over former years, the result it stated of the gratifying division of the profits in November, 1842. The statement to be laid before them would exhibit a still larger accession of members in the past year than in any of the previous ones. The Directors could only attribute this success to the causes already referred to. The number of poli cies issued during the past year had been 722, and they (with scarcely an exception) were of that class which secured sums of money at the decease of the members, the annual premiums on which amounted to 11,476/. 12s. id. The num ber declined was eighty. The annual income in the previous year was 44,219/. 175., but it now had amounted to 55,0371. 9s. 2d., and this large increase, nearly double that of any preceding year, had been realised, notwithstanding the reduced rates in 1842. The capital of the Institution was audited at 202,1621. is. 9d, the increase in last year 35,0821. 10s. 7d., and the claims arising from deaths of members, 8,2501. Mr. HARDWICLE said that it would be quite unne cessary to prefer any question, as the report con tained all the information that could by any possi bility be given—(Bear, hear)—for, indeed, it con tained everything. There could be no doubt that they were going on very prosperously, and he believed that that prosperity might be assigned, first, to the excellent principle on which the Institution was based, namely, that of a perfe:Aly mutual as‘urance. The Institution had only to pay its really necessary expenses, and then to divide the profits arising from the various class of insurances. The public were convinced that they had got a most intelligent direction, and he could fully add to that his own humble assurances that it was so; there was none more so in London. The members of it I were not to be found now here, now there. No! they were also at their work.—(Hear, hear.) H e begged leave, then, to move th a t the report and statement just read be approved of, adopted, and entered on the minutes for the use of the members, and for general circulation. Mr. Wm. `ALLEN seconded the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. SOW TER proposed that the thanks and con gratulations of the meeting be given to the Chairman and Directors on the successful labours of the past year. Mr. MASON seconded the resolution, which was also carried. Mr. CROFTS rose, on the part of himself and his brother Directors, to return their best thanks for the resolution which had just been passed. It would be their best rewa r d f or past exertions and powerful incentive for the future. The main success of the Institution, as had been well observed, was chiefly owing to the sound principle on which it had been based, and to the unanimity that reigned universally in the Court. That was their ninth anniversary, and, in that time they had only lost two of their original Directors, so that, in fact, the same hands, the same b ea d s , and the same hearts, if he might say so, were at work for the success of the Institution now as at its original opening. They hoped to meet them on many future such occasions, and he trusted that the Institution would go on increasing in giant strength until it took its place with the first in the City of London.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. SCRUTTON proposed a rote of thanks to the medical directors for their efficient assistance. It was seconded by Mr. Smyth, and Drs. Conquest and Bevan returned thanks. Thanks were also accorded to the other officers of the Institution, and to the chairman, and the meeting then broke up. LYCEUM THEATRE. i‘f a P t O s Z I T , S l e f 0 U t h T t ff : D a r n C g . t s o . White,l tte o Mr. r t he f Commander shipbuilder. of Cowes, published in The Sun, by which a clear and comprehensive statement is exhibited of the circum stances under which the sailings took place, from the 26th of November to the return of the squadron to port, throws more light upon the trial sailings of the experi mental squadron of brigs than any other document hitherto placed before the public. The striking supe• riority of the Daring over the other vessels of the squadron in almost every point of sailing is thus clearly manifest, she having gained, in the words of the letter, after a trial of six hours and a quarter, on the 28th of November, "on the Waterwitch, 1,500 yards ; on the Espiegle, 4,800 yards ; on the Flying Fi s h, 7,500 y ar d s; and on the Pantaloon, five miles!" Thus the Surveyor's vessels in both squadrons have been dead beat at all points. We are glad this important discovery has been made in time (although late) to remedy in some measure the shameful evil which has so long existed, through the blind confidenc e re p ose d i n a man whose qualifications for the important and responsible office of Surveyor of the Royal Navy of Great Britain have proved of so very indifferent a character. It i s w i t h regret we contem plate the expense the country has been put to in experiments upon naval construction to further the crotchets of the present Surveyor of the Navy, and the irremediable evil which will accrue to the service if such experiments are proceeded with. By expe ments we mean the aumber of vessels which have been laid down upon the plans of Sir William Symonds, and which have been suffered to proceed, almost to the exclusion of the construction of vessels from any other models, before one tithe of those by that officer already afloat have been tried or even commissioned. We sincerely hope the report is true that an order has been dispatched to each of the dockyards to suspend all labour upon Sir William Sym on d s ' s vesse l s . The Fly ing Fish was to have distanced, by long odd s , r. " swimming " competitors—she has been fairly tried in the scale, and found disgracefully wanting. Of the Pantaloon the less said the better. The Queen, we hear, is to be lengthened, a la Fox ; it were better, we think, to make a guard-ship of her a t one o f the home ports than go to the expense of endeavouring to make her an efficient sailing ship. The fact of the Queen and Albion being ordered out of commission now that the experimental cruise has proved them so little deserving the crack names with which they are honoured, fur nishes grounds for severe comment upon the shameful waste of the public money, so wantonly lavished in the construction of ships which, when tried, prove so un worthy the service for which they were destined. The question now is—who is to be responsible to the coun try tor this reckless waste—the Admiralty or their em ploye ? All men who know anything of naval construc tion have held up their hands against the palpable wan tonness exhibited by the Board of Admiralty in burdening the country to such an unprecedented extent as it has by the patronage of the Symondian principle to the almost utter exclusion of any other for so many years. What will now be done with the ships built by the present surveyor ? And are the demerits of that officer to pass without any other notice of them than that taken by an indignant public ? The Mercury tender sailed on Thursday, with seamen gunners, draughted from the Excellent, for the Superb, 80, just commissioned at Devonport. On her return she will be dispatched with provisions to the relief of the windbound merchantmen in the Channel. The Hastings, 72, was towed out of the basin, and the Magicienne, 44, and Locust steam-sloop towed in, on Thursday. The Magicienae is to be brought forward for commission. On Tuesday morning, about six o'clock, two old con victs, named respectively Benjamin Shaw and John Hol den, quarrelled at breakfast, and Shaw having taken Holden by the collar, the latter, who had a small knife in his hand with which he had just cat some bread, thrust it out to keep Shaw off, when the blade entered his (Shaw's) thigh, piercing the femeral artery, which speedily produced death from loss of blood, notwith standing the best surgical assistance was promptly at hand. An inquest was held by the Admiralty Coroner, Mr. G. Greetham, on Wednesday, and continued on Thursday, when, after a most searching investigation, the jury. were of opinion there was no intention to wil fully murder, and returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Holden, who, since the sad catastrophe, has been in a most pitiable and lamentable state of mind, the circumstance having made such an impression on him that his life is despaired of. The Savage, 10, Lieutenant-Commander Bowker, ar rived at Devonport on Thursday. She left Gibraltar on the 25th ult. In Harbour—The Victprieuse flag-hulk, the Victory, the Excellent, the Siren, the Nautilus, the Sparrow, the Diligence transport, and Dwarf, Fearless, and Echo steam-vessels. la Dock—The St. Vincent, the Prince Regent, the Victoria and Albert, the Vengeance, and Athol, late troop-ship, fitting for surveying service. In the Basin—The Neptune, 120 ; Magicienne, 44 ; and Locust, steam-sloop. At Spithead—No man-of-war. The Siren, 16, Commander Smith, which arrived on Thursday from the East Indies, brought home the sea men who navigated the Anson, 74 (convict depot), to Hobart Town, and invalids from the Cambrian, 36, Commodore Clads, one of whom, named Paddy, got leave to go ashore, after being transferred to the flag ship on Thursday, and having borrowed some money from an acquaintance, got intoxicated and into bad com pany, and is supposed, while insensible, to have laid down on the beach, where he was frozen to death, or drowned, as his body was found on Friday morning, between high and low water-mark, on the Gosport shore. The Siren INTERESTING DISCOVERIES AT NINEVEII.—The was only eighty days in making the Scilly Islands from news of the progress of M. Botta's excavations at Khor- Trincomalee. Captain RoWley went out in the Fanny sabad, near Mosul, Palestine, are always interesting. yacht yesterday, and mustered the crew, who were exer- There are at present 100 workmen engaged thereon, and cised at general quarters, and underwent the usual in besides the walls, which are covered with sculptures and spection; after which the vessel came into harbour to be inscriptions many antiquities of a peculiar and at pre- paid o ff , instead of at Pl y mouth, as antici p ated. sent inexplicable nature are met with. For example, The Emerald tender sailed on Friday morning with under the large bricks, of w hi c h th e floor consists, are stone provisions to the relief of the windbound merchantmen repositories, which are fill e d w i t h sma ll clay enamelled in the chops of the Channel. figures of men and b eas t s , w i t h out an ythi ng on the surface The North Star, 26, Captain Sir E. Home, is ordered indicating the existence of such repositories, or there The Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, flag of from Sydney to Hong-Kong. being anything withi n th em to ex pl a i n their contents. Vice - In another place they di scovere d g reat rows of earthen Admiral Sir Charles Adam, was at Bermuda on the 23 d vases of a remarkable si ze , pl a ced on a brick floor, and of November. Sir Charles had orders sent out to him to dispatch a man-of-war to Cay Sol, to remove any filled with human bone s , and similar to those which to form a settle and others are have been found at Babylon, Ah was, and other places Spaniards who may have attemp ted in South Persia. The palace seems to have been totally ment there, as it appears Span iards plundered before its destruction, for neither jewels, nor again instruments, nor even the small cylinders so numerous lndies i . ntruding on our colonial possessions in the West in the neighbourhood, are anywhere found; merely some The Royalist, 10, Lieuten an t-Commander bronze images of beasts (for instance, a very fine lion) , ordered from Port Essing t oa g g , _ o Hong-Kong . G. Ogle, is have been discovered, as also a part of the bronze wheel The S p artan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. Elliott, was at of a war chariot. But the most incomprehensible cir - Vera Cruz on the 2d ult.—all well. cumstance is, that the alabaster slabs with which the The Hyacinth, Is, Commander Scott, was at Bermuda walls are cased, and which are covered with inscriptions on the 25th of November. The Inconstant, 36, Captain Freemantle, was at Port Royal on the sth of November, expecting orders to sail in and arrow-headedsculptures, characters,e a bear o n the b andac back, , certainly likewise, inscriptions not in the Assyrian, but in the Babylonian language. As it is for the Mediterranean in a day or two. 7th Th of e N R o o v s e e t , n l b 6 e , r. Captain Sturt, was at Tampico on the na t u rally not to be presumed that the architects would The Driver steam-sloop, Commander Hayes, arrived down the wall, it must be presumed that the slabs have htiaovnes wherebeen no so on e foo l e i o s u h ld a as a t r o e haven se a e v n e t g h r em w t t h h e o s u e t i p n u s i c l n i ' n p g - at Trincomalee, from Bombay, on the 16th of September, served twice, first belonging to a Babylonian palace , and which she left on the 19th, for Singapore. a ft e rwards have been transported by the Assyrians and A court-martial is ordered to be held on Tuesday on board the Victory, 110, Cap tain Moubray, to try Mr. George Bell's, mate of the Excellent , for disobedience of foundfre freshly y o n g t r h a e v graven. back, A w t h i present would, sent no indeed b e of the have greatest interest, no Babylonian sculptures having ever yet orders and neglect of duty, by leaving the deck during b ee n discovered. Somo of the lately-found bas-reliefs his watch. are especially remarkable ; for instance, one repre- A report is current here th at Vice -Admiral Sir Francis seating the siege of a town situated on an island ; Austen will shortly hoist his flag in the Hastings, 72, to the sea is covered with ships, the fore part of which relieve Sir Charles Adam in the command on the West form a horse's head, and which are occupied in bringing India and North American station. Rear - Admiral the the trunks of trees for the purpose of erecting a dam. Right Hon. George, Earl of Cadogan, is named as the The water is covered with all kinds of marine animals— successor to the Hon. Jocelyn Percy in the command of fishes, crabs, and winged sea-horses. The richness of the Cape of Good Hope station, and is reported as the details, and the mass of sculpture which the palace shortly to hoist his flag (blue at the wizen) on board the contains, are amazing, and it is incomprehensible how Vindictive, 50, now ready for the pendant. so magnificent a building should have been so strangely The Bittern, 16, Commander Edmond Peel, was in buried in the earth. The French Ambassador at Con- Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 20th October. stantinople has not yet obtained permission from the The Fox, 42, Capt. Sir H. Blackwood, left the Cape for Porte to send to Paris those articles of antiquity which Ceylon on the 4th October. will bear transport, which says little for their interest The Hermes steam sloop, Lieut.-Commander W. Carr, there, at a time when the' 4 English are removing whole left Bermuda on the Ist ult. for Barbadoes. cargoes of antiquities from Lesser Asia to London.— The Harlequin, 16, Commander the Hon. G. F. Hast- Augsburg Gatette. ings, and the Pelican, 16, Commander Justice, are hourly A GUIDE TO SINGLH LADIES.—I. Beware how you expected at Spithead from Liverpool, the former with accept an invitation from an industrious widow or an 7&0,000 dollars, and the latter with 1,000,000 dollars on indefatigable old maid "to spend the day," especially board. if she should add, "Come early, love, and bring your The following were the positions of the ships of war on the East India station on the Ist of September : — The work." Be assured that very soon after 'you arrive, a heap of linen-drapery will be piled on the table, and Agincourt, 72, Capt. Bruce, flag . of Rear -Admiral Sir you will be asked " just to run up a seam or two," and T then to ' fit on the b o ddice, lik e a d ear ." Wh en that is Capt . hom Thomas Cochrane, n; th C e M i nd e n, mmde an 20,r C Maser-Commander hef ;the Iris, 2 1 6 ): done, she will apologise for not having anything to Wellington ;the Alligator troop ship , Master-Com amuse you. If you are obliged to accept such an invita- mender J. N. King ; and the Sapphire troop ship, Mas tion, be sure to ask your mama if you may ask Charles to ter-Commander Fittock. fetch you home at night—" about nine. Write to him At C husan—The Castor, 36, Ca p t. Charles Graham ; immediately, telling him not to be a minute later than and the Wolf, 18, Commander Vyner. six. 11. Should a similar invitation come from a young At Amoy—The Plover surveying vessel, Capt. Collin lady who is in your confidence, by all means take son, C. 8., and the Young Hcbe tender, Lieut. J. Bates. every one of Charles's love-letters ; you will find them PROMOTIONS. very pleasant reading after your friend has shown you Mates—B. Patey (1838) and C. Pechell (1840), both all her lover's presents, and told you all his secrets, 111. of the Excellent ; W. A. Manton, of the Caledonia ; G. When you are invited to a diner de pretention, be sure to Ommaney Willes, late of the Cornwallis ; W. J. A. dine very heartily before you start. As, however, Heath, of the Pique ; and R. W. Courtenay, of the As merely looking on is dull work, take a huge bouquet. prey, to the rank of Lieutenant. This should emit an odour strong enough to spoil the Retired Commanders of 1816—J. M'Dougall, F. J. appetites of the men who sit next to you, so that Lenori, and R. Jones (a). they may have the more time to flirt and talk. Be APPOINTMENTS. perfectly ignorant of the name of every dish ; for to be Captains—A. L. Corry (1821), to the Superb ; James suspected of the smallest cognisance of cookery is dis- Hop e (1838), to the Firebrand. gustingly vulgar. Should any old-fashioned man ask o mmanders—H. Smith (b), to the Rattler ; R. W. you to take wine, give him a glance of unconsciousness, Pelly, to the Rose, vice Sturt, promoted. and turn to one of your neighbours to ask what is Masters—A. M. P. Mackay, to the Superb ;J. W. meant ? That explained, you may take up an empty Armstrong, to be registrar of seamen. glass, and set it down again, bowing at the same time Surgeon—G. Caldwell, to the Ceylon, for service at to the t pergne. IV. When you are going out to a Malta, vice Henning. grand quadrille party, yon will, of course, be obliged Mate—W. H. Phipps, to the St. Vincent. to wear a very expensive and very extensive dress ; Midshipman—ll. Clavery, to the St. Vincent. stipulate, therefore, for the whole of one side of the Lieutenants—W. A. Fellowes, to the Superb ;W. P. coach, that the skirt may be spread over it and not Johnson, to the Eagle ; J. P. Palmes and E. H. Alston, be tumbled. Never mind getting your poor and un- to the Hydra ;G. B. Williams, to the Waterwitch ;J. R. attractive cousin squeezed up on the other seat between Thompson, R. W. IL Alcock, R. Patey, C. T. Dench, your two fat uncles. If, when you arrive, Charles should C. D. O'Brien, A. Barrow, 11. Lloyd, C. Pechell, H. W. bore you, tell him you have made u p y our mind not to Courtenay, R. H. Risk, W. A. Munton, all additional, to dance that night; but the moment he has engaged an- the Caledonia, for foreign service. other partner, waltz away with the handsomest man you Paymaster and Purser—W. H. Dutton, the Hecate. can get. Be handed down to supper, if possible, by a Assistant-Surgeon—J. D. L Donnett, to Greenwich title, if it is only a captain. The next morning, when Hospital. Charles calls, ask him how he dares show his face, " after DEVONPORT, DEC. 14.—0 n Friday afternoon, as a his cruel neglect of you last evening."—Punele boat was proceeding to the Daedalus, 20, Captain FATAL ACCIDENT.—A waterman, called Miller, M'Quhae, in the Sound, it capsized in the surf on the on Monday afternoon last, whilst plying in the harbour, bridge, and all who were in the boat (five persons) met accidentally slipped one of his paddles overboard, and in a watery grave. endeavouring to regain it, the weight of his body heeled The Adventure transport, Master-Commander W. the boat on her side, and precipitated the poor fellow into Roskilly, arrived on Thursday, from Cork, with victual the water. The accident was observed by the seamen on ling stores. board one o f the ships in ordinary, but assistance was The Snipe cutter, Lieutenant-Commander Raymond, unavailing, a s th e body never rose after its immersion. It sailed yesterday with provisions to the relief of the dis was picked up in a short time by the exertions of an tressed windbound vessels in the Channel ; also the of f icer of her Majesty's ship Stag.—Deeonport Jade- 1 Netley tender on the same generous errand. pendent. The Daedalus, 20, Captain P. M'Quhae, was paid the NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Signor Camillo Sivori commenced a short engage ment of two nights only at this theatre last evening. To praise Sivori now-a-days is a work of superero gation. He is confessedly the first violinist in the world—perhaps the first the world has ever produced. Save and except his instructor, Paganini, there has never been a violinist w h o cou ld f o r one moment stand a comparison with him ; and, as we said some two years since, we prefer Camillo Sivori to Paganini, inasmuch as he possesses all Paganini's; wonderful powers of execution, with a finer perception of the beautiful. As a mere violinist he is Paganini's equal — as a musical poet he is his superior. He last night gave us the first part of his Concerto No. 2, and Paganini's burlesque variations in the Carnaval de Venise. The concerto deserved that name better than the generality of pieces so called, for Sivori played clearly and distinctly a duet, at times a trio, and, if we are not greatly mistaken, even a quartetto, on one violin. The concerto was given with exqui site taste and expression ; and then, in the Carnaval de Venise, how he revelled in developing the buffo powers of his instrument. The very fiddle itself seemed to laugh and enjoy the fun. One would have declared that it was a " thing of life." " Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona"—there have been great actors before Sivori, but never until his time has there appeared a man who has made a musical instrument act ; and in his hands the violin becomes a very Garrick. THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE CHURCH. We are, perhaps, anticipating our Contemporary of to-morrow, when we venture to make a suggestion to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. The Bishop of Exeter, after long coquetting with it, has, at last, openly avowed his Puseyism, and proceeded to enforce upon the clergy of his diocese the adoption of certain out ward signs and symbols by which it may be known. The consequence is, that he has lighted a flame which will very soon be felt from one extremity of the country to the other. Some of the clergy arc obey ing the fiat of this spiritual potentate, some are not. Now, from what is known of the temper of this haughty prelate, it is certain that he will employ every engine of annoyance and persecution against the recusants. It is time, therefore, for every true friend of the Church and Protestantism to be making a forward movement to support and encourage them. We call upon Mr. M'Neile instantly to put himself at the head of such a movement in this diocese. Let a meeting be called, and a loud and strong protest be made against the proceedings of the Bishop of Exeter. Nay, let something more be done. Let a subscrip tion be entered into to defray the expenses of the litigation to which he is sure to put all who shall dare to refuse obedience to his commands. There is not a day to be lost. The danger is becoming too imminent to be any longer trifled with. A strong demonstration of public opinion may yet overcome the madness which is at work ; but, to be effectual, it must be made at once. Mr. M'Neile, we have often opposed you. We now call upon you to act and to lead. You have the energy and talent requisite for the crisis, and we cannot doubt that you have the will. —Liverpool Albion of Monday. THE FULFILMENT OF SINDIAN PROPHECIES. " Sinde can never pay." " Sinde will be a per petual drain on the Company's treasury." So said those who were supposed to be best acquainted with the country. Sir C. Napier, after paying the whole expense of the civil government of Sinde, including an efficient police force of 2,000 well-armed men, the half being cavalry, has, up to the 31st of July last, deposited in the public treasury 500,000 rupees, or 50,0001. This, too, with a reduction of taxes ! Moreover, an English officer may now ride alone in perfect security from one end of the land to the other. The Governor of Sinde is a most extraordinary man —the business he gets through is almost incredible. He not only has to read, but does read, the pro ceedings of all trials, civil and military. He causes his military magistrates, who are pushed in all direc tions, to keep diaries, with abstracts of all letters written and received by them. These are sent to the Governor weekly, and he carefully reads them. The labour is great, but he thus knows the exact state of every part of the country. He has the duties which are involved in the command of 17,000 men. When we consider all this, and that he has to carry on a correspondence with the Governments of Calcutta and Bombay, we may form some idea of the extraordinary mental exertions of the Governor of Sinde. Further, when we recollect that Napier has had his leg broken by a musket-ball—his side grazed by a cannon-ball—bayonetted in the back—cut down on the head—his face perforated with a ball which car ried away part of his jaw—the calf of his leg torn by a rocket—that he , out of thirty-four of his people struck with coup de soled, was the only survivor— that he has had a paralytic stroke—and is sixty-three years of age, and is actively governing the country he has conquered, we are perfectly astonished at the man.—Naral and Military Gazette. usual advance wages on Thursday, and is appointed to sail to-morrow (Sunday) for New Zealand. The Mercury tender arrived yesterday with the super numeraries for the vessels fitting here from Portsmouth. The Pandora, 6, was taken into No. I dock on Thurs day, to fit for surveying service ; and the Daring, 12, into No. 5 yesterday, to fit for foreign service. The Canopus, 80, ordered to be expedited for com mission, will not be ready for the pendant these three months at least. The report of Captain Armar Lowry Corry, of the Firebrand steam-frigate, being appointed to the Canopus, is erroneous ; that efficient officer is ap pointed to the Superb, SO, and not Sir C. Sullivan, as first reported. In Harbour—The Caledonia, San Josef, Superb, Cruiser, Eapiegle, Mutine, Osprey, Flying Fish, Water witch, Pantaloon, Sylph and Mercury tenders, Tartarus and Confiance steam-vessels, the Adventure transport, and Goodwill, Delon, and Hamoaze naval lighters. In Dock—The Daring, Pandora, &c. In Barnpool—The Firebrand. In the Sound—The Daedalus and Savage. THE UNION HALL CASE. ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO COMMIT A FELONY. "At Union-hall, a ruffian, described as mate of a mer chantman, was brought up charged with an act of fiendish brutality, under the following circumstances :—He called with a messmate on a poor woman, the wife of an acquaint ance of his, then away at sea ; and after being hospitably entertained, in consideration of his intimacy with her hus band, the fellow repaid the kindness of his hostess by the rudest and most scandalous conduct towards her; and in the struggle she offered to them, the poor woman's right arm was broken. For this assault and injury, the sitting Magistrate sentenced the mate (his confederate being on a voyage and not forthcoming) to a fine of 51., or two months' imprison ment. We hare not the Act before us under which Mr. Cot tingham pronounced this remarkable sentence ; but we suppose, as a matter of course, that it was the maximum penalty in flicted by the statute under the circumstances. Our complaint, therefore, must be, not of Mr. Cottingham, who must ad minister the law as he finds it, but of the legislation which has left him such a law to administer. Five pounds for the serious and alarming and disabling injury inflicted by two brutal cowards on a defenceless woman l"—Extract from an article in The Sun, Friday, 6th inst. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. (From the Times.) The address of the Sussex labourer which we insert in another column is one of those genuine utterances of fact and feeling which are sure to make themselves heard in the greatest din of human voices. It is far too touch ing not to move the kind, far too substantially true not to inform the candid. True, the feeling may be mixed, or rather that mixture of feeling which all mortal griev ances give rise to, is here very little disguised. Or, again, the philosophy may not always be sound. The Sussex labourer may not have a very exact and definite view of our social system, or of political economy. He takes things in the lump. The landlord, the farmer, and the clergyman are, in his ken, the gentlemen who make the laws. He does not appreciate what are called the great prizes of industry, whether parks or parsonages. He is for putting his spade into every bit of waste land in the country, and in the very face of unlimited foreign competition would trench up the whole island from 1 Land's-end to John o'Groat's House. He does not make due allowance for the lax economy and irregular hospi talities of gentlemen's households. To such objections his address is doubtless open. But its main purport is undoubtedly true, and confirmed by the experience of everybody who has the means and the heart to inqaire, or even to notice what he sees. The poor man admits, that in the present state of the market, his labour is not worth more than five shillings a week. More than this, therefore, he certainly will not get, as farmers do not give for labour more than its worth; or rather they do not give seven shillings for work which they can get done for five. Here, then, is a simple fact. A man, his wife, and three children, five persons, are to be maintained on five shillings a week. There is nothing to modify this fact, no indistinct out line, no elastic feature of the case ; excepting only the pickings to be got out of the wages of the two boys, who have each to find everything on half a-crown a week. Out of that half-crown of course they pay for their lodging and washing, and an occa sional sight of the cottage fire. But you cannot make a park in a flower-pot, or a coal-pit in a coal-scuttle; so, after a working boy has been half-fed, and half-clothed, there wont be much over out of half-a-crown a-week. When, therefore, a shilling a-week has gone for rent, and another shilling for about as much fuel as is burnt in an ordinary drawing-room fire, at this sea son of the year, by luncheon time, there remain three shillings, thirty-six pence, for five persons. This is a penny a-day for each of them. It wont stretch a bit. If the father, to sustain the severity of the weather, the weakness of his constitution, and the long pull of a day's work, takes twopence a-day :out of the store, the little ones must pay by a further halving of their half plates of potatoes. The mother is in the like evil case. Then there is the clothing of the whole five, a doctor's bill now and then, and twenty other inevitable expenses. All this is to come out of the extra wages of harvest, we suppose ;—harvest I which perhaps, after weeks of exhausting toil, leaves just thirty shillings towards the discharge of long arrears But this simple fact does not depend on the Sussex labourer's testimony. It is an inevitable fact, a law of the labourer's present state. If the farmer cannot or does not choose to give him more than five shillings a week, he must be content with it, or go to the work house, where he still will not see his wife and children, except occasionally in the presence of the governor or his deputy. Wisely or not, the old system provided for such a case. Besides its general effect in raising the wages to a living standard, it provided specially for ex treme degrees of poverty. It helped a man in so dire a strait as having to house, feed, and clothe five wretched beings on a crown a week. Now, on the contrary, there are tens of thousands in this strait, unhelped, uncared for, unseen, unknown. There they must remain. What ever the commercial or political rights of the question, such is the shocking, undeniable, unalterable fact ; and the nation which has brought things to this pass, and made the fact, is answerable for it. Often and often have we heard at the lips of the rustic housewife the very counterpart, the very words of the " English cotter's Saturday night," as related by the Sussex labourer. Some half-dozen scales of weekly ex penditure are before us, ascertained by careful inquiry a dozen years back, on the disastrous eve of the new law. We thought them scarcely credible at the time, but they contain not a few articles of comfort or customary neces sity, which have no place in this newer Sussex budget. One by one, we suppose, they have dropped out of use,and ceased to be necessary. We shall be told that the Sussex labourer has the same chance as thousands who are burdened above their strength. Perhaps we shall be told of the Irish cottier or the Hungarian peasant ; perhaps reminded that a fellow with so ready a pen can get more than five shil lings a week in London or Manchester ; that many a better man hawks about oranges, or waters a cab-stand, or does night work, without disturbing the public peace, and ruining his own prospects, by writing let ters to newspapers. But, whatever may be the his tory of this individual labourer, we know there are tens of thousands in his very case, and hundreds of thousands only a shade better off, to whom it is simply absurd and indecent to propose those transmigrations. It is all very easy to say . by rote that any man can go anywhere ; but take particular cases—go to this man and that man, consider his habits and capacities, and hear what he has to say, and you will see at once that it is a mere impossibility. The English agricultural labourer, once in for it, is that, and nothing more. There is not a more fixed. unchangeable being in the world. This is his most remarkable characteristic—his virtual serfdom. Excellent, beyond all comparison, in his line, he is nothing out of it—a fish out of water, a plough in the Royal Ex change. He is narrow-minded, bigotted, ignorant, in all beyond his daily round of labour. The Russian serf, who may become, and often is, a tradesman, a profes sional man, an artist, or a poet, is far more versatile and helpful. The English labourer has utterly staked himself and all his prospects in the narrow field of agricul tural employment. We hear much talk of vested inte rests, and nowhere are they more respected than in this land of privilege and prescription. We should think it indecent to remove a Cabinet Minister without a pension, to unsalary an old employe of the Foreign-office with a recommendation to the counting-houses of Liverpool, to tell a bishop of thirty years' standing to get his bread again by hearing little boys construe Esychylus, or to draught our generals into the rural police. Yet scarce is the Queen on her throne more rivetted to that one only place in the State, than a labourer to his fields and his tools. There he is, and there he must remain. The labour market is no more open to him than " the empty, vast, and wandering air." Whatever the mercy or the justice of the Legislature may design for him, let it not mock his humble views and powers with the suggestion of impracticable, almost unintelligible alternatives. And can we wonder if there is something rude and gloomy in the tone these hard necessities have inspired ? Is it strange if there is even a touch of that " stupid malignity " which this poor creature scarce ventures to repudiate, and is content to ex cuse ? The labourer seldom speaks. His intellectual nature, as also his sense of suffering, has scarcely orga nisation. His expression is scarcely articulate. lie is as the brute earth with which is his daily conversation. I It moves but once a thousand years, and then to shake and bury cities. Once in a century we hear its ominous murmurs. When the rural spokesman does comes forth he cannot fail to be something portentous, at once dwarfish and prodigious. His looks are wild and strange. He summarily moves the cause of labour against the whole superincumbent world besides, against every human power and ordinance, political, religious, social, and domestic. He feels the reality and heavings of a soul which claims a place in the universe which man refuses. He only stops short of rebellion against Heaven but at its very portals, and of treason against mortal sovereignty but at the very footstool. It is in his mind all against all—an earnest, small, and feeble perhaps, but still a veritable earnest of a conflict which shall one day, once for ages, be waged between the great divisions and powers of humanity, when this or that law, this or that ,articular grievance, this or that political faction, shall Lave been lost in distant antiquity. THE HAGUE, DEC. 13.—The accounts received to• day of the state of the rivers, announce that they are for the most part entirely frozen over, and passable on foot. The navigation in all is interrupted. A 13row Ur.—ln our obituary will be found the death of Mr. G. Durant, of Tong Castle ; and here we may mention a rather singular circumstance that took place on the occasion. In the year 1820 Mr. Durant took legal proceedings against the first wife, and in con sequence of the jury having decided in his favour, he erected a monument on an eminence on his estate at Tong Knowle, to commemorate the event. The monu ment was a conspicuous object from the road from Shiffnal to Wolverhampton, and resembled a church tower. Immediately on his death being known to his family, two of his sons, accompanied by twenty-nine labourers, went to the place, and commenced excavating round it to the depth of six feet t • after which they made a hole in it, and placed 5 0 1 b. of gunpowder in a cask, and 201 b. in another package, under the monument, and at three o'clock in the morning of the 30th a fuse was fixed to it, and set fire to, and in a few minutes the monument was laid flat on the ground without any acci dent. The eldest son and heir to the estate died some years ago, and on his death-bed he requested the younger branches of the family, that as soon as their father was dead, they would cause the monument to be blown up, that it might cease to exist with the founder, and that the memory of the scandalous cause for which it was erected and he might perish together. The ruins were visited on Sunday last by large numbers of persons, many of whom came from a great distance. The Tong Castle estate goes into the hands of the executors of th late Mr. Durant, jim., who reside in Ireland, and will have the management of the property until the heir, who is now sixteen, attains his majority. —Shrewsbury Journal. ON DIT.—It is stated that Sir George Cockburn is likely to succeed Sir David Milne, as Pc rt Ad airal.— I Plymouth Journal. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lf you had had me at hand when you penned your article relative to " the assault with intent to com mit a felony," you would never have cast any reflection on my legislative parents, but yon would have allowed the whole weight of your censure to have fallen on Mr. Cot tingham, who did not administer the law as he found it, as you suppose. If a common assault charge be brought before justices, and it appears on oath that the offence was committed under circumstances with intent to com mit a felony, the justices have no power or authority to proceed under my summary convicting section, 27 under my 29th section they are positively restrained from doing so. Was it not proved before Mr. Cotting ham that the poor woman's arm was broken in resisting the attempt to commit felony? Your report of the case at the time says, Yes. It then became the imperative duty of Mr. Cottingham to have committed this brutal mate for trial, who, on conviction, would, under my 25th section, have been liable to have been sentenced thus:— " Where any person shall be charged with and convicted of any assault with intent to commit felony, the court may sentence the offender to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for not exceeding two years, and may also (if it shall think fit) fine the offender, and re quire him to find sureties for keeping the peace." The justices have no authority, in a case where the intent to commit felony is proved, to have any " opinion" on it, as to whether they will proceed to a summary con viction, or commit for trial : the cases in which they may exercise their " opinion" are assaults committed under circumstances OTHER than "with intent to com mit felony" only. lam about to quote my 29th section; be careful in marking the word " or"—do not construe it as if it were the word and. You will see that the power of restraint is positive with regard to assaults accom panied by attempts to commit felony, and discretionary only in cases "other" than accompanied with such intent. There is no power even given to the complainant to con sent to a summary conviction if the evidence discloses an intent to commit felony;—neither the consent by the party charged to submit to a summary conviction, nor the consent of the complainant, nor the " opinion" of the presiding justices, can legally warrant a summary con viction. My 29th section enacts—" In case the justices shall find the assault or battery complained of (as a common assault) to have been accompanied by any attempt to commit felony (on shall be of opinion that the same, from any OTHER circumstances, a fit subject for a prosecution by indictment), they shall abstain from ad judication thereupon, and shall deal with the case in all respects in the same manner as before the passing of this Act." Now, Sir, let me ask you, was the fault in the Legis lature by which I was made a law, or in Mr. Cottingham presuming to make a law of his own—illegally? Instead of the rascal being in prison, under a summary convic tion, from want of ability to pay the paltry fine of 51, illegally imposed, he ought to be there for want of bail to await a trial by a jury of his country. Is there no person spirited enough to more the Court of Queen's Bench to quash this notable conviction of Mr. Cottingham's, and for a production of the evidence in Court, and also for a mandamus to Mr. Cottingham, to either bail or commit (for want of it) this brutal mate for trial, for an assault with intent to commit felony, on the evidence already given before him? By the bye, there is another question. Was. this scoundrel brought before Mr. Cottingham in charge of a constable—taken into custody on the instant of the com mission of the offence, before a summons or warrant for apprehension had been issued? This is a very material point, on which my authority has been very grossly abused of late, for justices have no power to summarily convict for any assault, however simple, if the party charged be brought before them in custody, neither a summons nor a warrant having been first issued—(see the enactment in my 33d section)—which states that every offence punishable by summary conviction shall be preceded either by summons or warrant; if by summons, the service must be by delivering the same, not at the dwelling of, but on the person of the party charged with offence—so the justices cannot proceed under my authority of summary conviction in any case where the party is in custody without warrant. It is an old saying, "Man, know thyself!"—so ought the law to be so clear as to be able to explain itself. If.then, Sir, I, as the law, know myself, and have plainly demon strated that your insinuations against my legislative parents were unjust, how grossly have I been abused in using the use of my summary convicting power in punishing a scoundrel, guilty of an assault with intent to commit felony, by the imposition, illegally, of a poor paltry fine of 51. !—I am, Sir, your humble servant, 9 GEO. IV., CAP. 31. Ilfracombe, Dec. 7, 1844. VACCINATION IN ITALY. (From a paper by Mr. E. Lee in the Medical Gazette.) In no part of the werld perhaps, was the discovery of Jenner received with a greater degree of faith and enthusiasm than in Italy, and the Government sought by every means to prevent the ravages of the small pox, and favour the progress of vaccination. In Milan for instance, if parents refused to have their children vaccinated, a proves verbal is signed by the vaccina tor, the curate of the parish, and the syndic of the district, stating the opposition that has been made, and this is sent to the provincial delegation. Charit able institutions do not grant assistance to those who cannot show a certificate of having been vaccinated. The curates are obliged to send every three months to the vaccinator of the district a list of the children born and baptised in their parishes ; to read from the pulpit every three months the names of those who have died from the small-pox, and at the same time to remind parents of their duty towards God and the Prince, which command them not to omit to avail themselves of so great a benefit as vaccination. When an individual is attacked by the small-pox, the head of the family, and the physician or surgeon in attendance, were bound to make an immediate de claration thereof to the municipal authority, under a penalty of 100 francs, or a fortnight's imprisonment. The Administration causes to be placed over the door of the house, the following inscription, in large let ter :—" The small-pox is in the family of siding in this house." All those who have had com munication with the patient are shut up in the same house until a cure or death ensues ; the body is car ried to the burial-ground without being accompanied by a priest, and is buried without funeral ceremonies in a spot apart. According to the new regulations issued by com mand of the King of Naples, all those who have omitted to avail themselves of vaccination are incapa citated fromenjoying the sovereign munificence : peti tions are not received by the Ministers, nor in any charitable institution, unless accompanied by certifi cate that the individual has been vaccinated. . The ad- ministrators of hospitals are bound to cause children to be vaccinated in the month following their admission. Directors of colleges, ecclesiastical, civil, or mili tary, are prohibited from receiving any pupils who have not been vaccinated. A central Royal Vaccine Institution is established in the capital, composed of ten ordinary members, and two superadded, who have under their orders twelve ordinary vaccinators, and as many extraordinary, as also six employes for the correspondence. Each vac cinates gratuitously at his residence daily. Every three months vaccine virus is sent to the provinces, from the Minister of the Interior, and its receipt, in a good state, is acknowledged by the provincial vacci nators. The children vaccinated must be brought se veral times to the vaccinators, in order to ascertain that the effect is produced. Vaccine Commissions excite in the chief town of every province and district ; which are bound to act according to the instructions transmitted to them, and to endeavour to diffuse the propagation of vaccination in their respective localities. All employes, and those who live at the expense of Government, must have their children vaccinated. The clergy are charged to preach to the people, respecting the usefulness of vaccination, and the duty which is imposed by God and the King upon each father of a family to preserve by its means from sickness the lives of their children. The vaccine junta of each district causes midwives to be instructed and convinced of the utility of vacci nation, and obliges them to promote its practice as much as possible. The junta meets every month t. ascertain that its regulations are obeyed, and in what ' degree vaccination has prospered or declined. THE COUNTIAS OF &ESSINGTON'S NEW NOTEN " STRATHEILN. "— We are requested to state that Mr.. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published " Strathern; or, Life at Home and Abroad," a Story of the Present Day, by the Countess .of Bles sington, which can now be had at all the Libraries. Me. Colburn has also just published the following new novels:-2. Hillingdon Hall, a Tale of Country Life, by the author of " Handley Cross," 3 vols.-3. The Palms Royal, an Historical Romance, by the author of " Henri Quatre ; or, The Days of the League," 3 vols.-4. Young Love, by Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols.-5. Arthur Arundel, a Tale of the English Revolution, by the author of ,‘ Brambletye House," &c., 3 vols.-6. Parsons liind Widows, by the author of " Peter Priggins," &c., 3 volt. Ma. WILSON TUE VOCALIST.—This excellent "to. calist is now giving a series of entertainments at lieu' castle-on-Tyne, Sunderland, and Durham, with greet ' success. On Friday evening, at Durham, every seat in the boxes was engaged, and a portion of the pit was railed off for the accommodation of those who were dis appointed of places in the boxes, and the additional seats thus provided were fully occupied. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1344.