The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-03 00:00:00

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Dir a of able pro' )een said: delighdis contr!O .ntertailr where th pr° ° ` e charge , churl* canticlel deferenc e ssings , characte r , ;hly, and good nes9 nce wile° vhich ised d of th e feeling , and wit h )enefit of trumpet Harker , ,entor for CHAT it for th e 1 the eiv pose th e ie minor' haracteri sprang' 'dual re' was or I prover' th a deep, , onag e th of the ,husiaself save the ad in es' takia and 0 4' able, 1 10 , pervade erse rose, burst 0 th of th° his toast , stly wh°' bone! all. 0 , 6 1 t with O P at Q u ell hree, and amrocl [is itoP i Id of the hies of • and in ified body 0 written, a der, o,} Y g l re ,g Tn 9.-.' all bail! , all 1001 as tbel Erieod , cordite! iendshlP odied )ect snd term 0 rkable., chess 0 ad." that be m !Ay Of ose ab mpul6v 110 " le spil l be sea i w hicbt ligraa.o Bich, t 4 this to' liar fer ,n to the .icesoel shoolo 't to tb ° ,titutio ll , libel', ore the w hich haritfo ince 1° ciatio o e, thes I, aid, ,•••..jl‘j,k truly conveyed the feelings of the parties concerned as did the addresses delivercd by the scions of the charity. At the conclusion of the boys' address, which was re ceived with the utmost warmth of feeling, the Chairman intimated, through the toast-master, that the girls were to be heard. No precedent was alleged for thus break ing thro ug h th e ret i r i ng d e li cacy of the female charac ter ; nor was any necessary, fur the appearance of the children sufficiently evinced the care with which their bringing up had been attended to. At !ength a pause in the general conversation was obtained, and with a pathos and feeling which we shall never forget, the following hymn was sung ; HYMN SUNG BY THE CHILDREN. Great God ! to Thee, in songs of praise. We now our infant voices raise ; Peculiar blessings fri 111 thy hand, Our warmest gratitude demand. In love to us thou didst impart To these kind friends the feeling heart, They called us to the means of grace, And bade us learn to seek thy face. Thus clothed, and with knowledge fed, Thus to thy sacred temple led, O may thy spirit, gracious Lord, Teach us to know and love thy word. Let all our patrons also share, On earth thy providential care • With choicest blessings fro m above, Receive and crown their work of lov-. Hallelujah ! Amen. As its notes swelled upon the tumultuous assemblage every voice died into silence, but at the close the clear shrill voices of the children swelled upon the meeting until the full purport of hymn was felt, and all hearts re sponded to the sentiment it contained. The children were brought across the tables, and no man who had any feeling could fail to admire their ad mirable deportment. Never have we seen the young spring of maidenly modesty truly evinced, or the boyish diffidence of a lad's first introduction more faithfully ex hibited. Both showed the admirable care which had been taken of the objects of this admirable charity. The SECRETARY then read the report of the last year's proceedings, when it appeared that the Chairman had repeated his donation of 100 guineas, that Mr. Dela field had contributed 50 guineas in addition to his usual donation, and bAyond this several gentlemen connected with the estatlishment of Cumbe, Delafield, and Co., had contributed ten guineas each, waking a multiple of 320 guineas from thst house alone, and the whole sub seription, he was happy to say, amounted to the sum of 1 ,624/. 16s. 6d.--(Loud cheers accompanied this an nouncement.) After this Mr. DELAFIELD, in a neat speech, proposed "Success to the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, and, in connexion with it, the health of Dr. Sheridan, the editor of the Morning Adverkser." Dr. SUERIDAN, who rose amidst much excitement in the meeting, responded to the toast. From the great noise at the moment pervading the meeting, it was next to impossible to give the Learned Doctor's speech cor rectly. But we may say that he spoke with all the elo quence by which his country is distinguished, and with that peculiar aptitude of phraseology which has marked all his writings in the Morning Advertiser, of which he is the editor. He said that he was happy in replying to the toast which had been proposed by the Chairman. In no other instance had it happened that any trade had been able to establish an incl. pendent organ for its opi nions, but theirs had been most influential on the whole community. Throughout the whole of its career it had been the uncompromising advocate of popular rights and of public liberty. Its object had been the general bene fit; and, though he was connected with that journal, he trusted he was not transgressing the bounds of his office in stating that to none did it succumb in the comprehensive view for the public interests which it took, or the energy of its endeavours to promote the welfare of the body with which it was more immediately connected. The Learned Doctor regretted that at that late hour his voice might not be heard in distant parts of the meeting, but his heart was right, with the honest, and honourable, and energetic men with whom he was connected, and it would be his happiness for the future, as it had been his honour during past times, to promote, by every possible means in his power, the interests of that great body who had shown by their presence there that day that they were as earnest now in upholding the cause of charity as they had been .n former times in supporting the public good. The Learned Doctor sat down amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the whole meeting, and though he regretted that from the hour and the place, he could not be suffi ciently heard, yet sufficient was gathered from the ap plause of those assembled to assure him that all united in testifying their respect for the man who was the lead log organ of their opinions and feelings. The " Health of' the Stewards "for the day was pro- Posed by the Chairman, and most cordially- received, being followed by the well-known glee of " Life's a bumper," in giving which, Mr. Ashton displayed the frill Po wers of his voice. It was rece i ve d , as i t d eserve d, with the utmost good will ; and, after other toasts were given,iv accordi ng to the programme of the proceedings, meeting dispersed. It would be impossible to close our* )tics of this meet ing without stating our impression of the high feeling and the enlarged philanthropy of its promoters, Both were admirable Everything was in perfect harmony with the object of ; nor were the arrangements object . the Society and it gives us sincere pleasure t? promote that object in thus noticing the able way in which it was b rought bef ore the public!' • .EETING OF 'MEXICAN BOND iiOLDERS AT THE LONDON TAVERN. A large meeting of the holders of Mexican bonds was held, yesterday, at the London Tavern. Bishopsgate-street, Mr. C. R. Robinson in the chair, for the purpose of considering the correspondence which has recently passed between the Com mittee nominated by the bondholders, Messrs. John Schneider and Co., and Messrs. F. de Lizardi and Co., the agents of the Mexican Government, respecting the dividends. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN said they had been called together by rather peculiar circumstances as respected the holders of Mexi can bonds, and the reason why the meeting had not been called earlier was because it had been delayed from time to time in the hope that Messrs. Lizardi and Co. would have paid the sums of money lying in their hands to the Mexican bond holders, whose property it was, and not that of the Mexican Government, as they had stated in the correspondence which had ensued on th e su b jec t. Th e mee ti n g had at length been called, a n d th e y had now to consider what course they ought to pursue to obtain that justice which they had hitherto failed to obtain either from the Mexican Government or from Messrs. de Lizardi and Co. He would Make a few remarks with respect to the position in which they °too& The Mexican Government had appointed Messrs. John Schneider and Co. as their agents. Being so appointed, they call e d upon Messrs. Lizardi and Co. to band them over the sums which th ey h a d i n t h e i r h an d s f or the purpose of paying the Mexican dividends, which they but refused to do, at the same time stating they would feel obliged if Messrs. Schneider and Co. would pay them the balance of the account with the Mexican Government.— ( A laugh.) On this being communicated to the Commit tee, th ey called upon them to pay the money to Messrs. Schneider and Co., or in the event of their declining todo so, to divide it among the bondholders, but they had refused to do either one or the other, alleging, that so far as the moneys in question were concerned, that they had acted in the capacity of agents of the Mexican Go- Sernment, and not as the agents of the bondholders, sad that they had a right, if they thought proper, to apply the money to the liquidation of a debt which the Mexican Government had contracted with them. Now, was this objection a tenable one? When a certain por tion of the Custom s d ut i es rece i ved at Vera Crus and Tampico were set apart for the payment of the dividends, and when two Commlsiions—one on the part of the Mexican Government, and the other by the committee of bondholders—to see that agreement car r i e d ou t i n f u ll f orce, and that the money so obt a i ne d was properly applied—(Hear)—Messrs. Lizardi and Co. were entrusted with its payment, and had continued to do so until, for the first time, they set up the pretensions he had stated. It was true they were the agents of the Mexican Government, but it was equally true that they were the agents of the bondholders—the joint agents of both. By documents which he held in his hand, signed by Messrs. Lizardi, and Co., on the one part, and by himself, as chairman of the co mmittee on the other, they held themselves responsible to Pity this money to the bondholders. If they denied that this w t as 50, he could not but characterise their conduct as most ex traordinary.._( Hear, hear. ) ( The chairman then read docu ments bearing out the statements he had made. ) That agree ssiy t .Was drawn up to avoid any mistake as to the that litn which the money should be applied, and Whichthmight be kept distinct from other transactions What of might have with the Government of Mexico. ti.thisat o bject Tli could the agreement have than this ?If w as not sent over Its specific object, why did they enter into e a bondholders tean e supposed rnm ea t that wa the i money g date t h ei r claims , , and those who had learnt with PY Measure that the remittances were large, were doomed to dis• ei lnt ment, for whether they were large or small made no "Ice, as none of it came into their hands.—( Hear, hear.) 4 ,_"ey merely had it on the statement of Messrs. Lizardi that ;no Mexican Government were in their debt. But what na d the bondholders to do with that ? If they had paid money s on account of that Government they had given them credit, and the landholders were not to be told, that if the Government did not pay them their account, that they thust—(Hear)—that they should lay their hand on their money. It was, therefore, for them to consider what means they should take to compel them to act honestly and justly towards the bondh o lders. Th e y had had just reason to complain of the last Mexican Government; but they might expect better things from their successors. Were they to . be told that the money which was sen t ever to Messrs. Lizardi and Co. was no more safe than if it were in the hands of Santa Anna,lie m wehnoepy ei ur loined 300,000 dots. to 400,000 dull. of the eh Mexico ? Th e C omm i ttee h a d considered these the most desir a bl e steps to adopt, An d w i t h th a t object in view they had framed several resol4ions, which he would sub mit to the mee ti ng . I t was cons id er ed that there were no means which they could exercise to compel them to pay Messrs. Schn e id er and Co. the money, yet he could hardly believe that this was so. Wh en t h e agreemen t and other statements which they had in their possession were considered, he thought a court object of equity w ou ld b e o f opinion that they could effect this - ::4 following resolutions were submitted to the meeting, And were :anied without a dissentient voice : " 1. That ti meetin g ;'` has sea n with great satisfaction the ch ange which th e A t ;' , jean Governm ent has made in its finan cial agency. - " 2. . That the ref usa l o f A le s _ rs. Lizardi and Co„ the lat e agent s of the Mexican Government, to _ • - . - hand over the moneys dividends on l'e.wiaining in their hands for the payment of tn. - , mly 11 thecan Bonds, to Messrs. Schneider and Co., or to 0.,, a nd justice. ' to pay the dividends, is in variance to law, equity, sent 3 - That it i s the opinion of this meeting that the moneys to Messrs. Lizardi and Co. were for the express purpose paying th e dividends and that they have stated in various Wa ys that *is wa s so. ' tn , 4 . That a Special Committee of Bondholders be appointed C E ` a alte such measures as may be expedienr to compel Messrs. p rdi a nd CO. to apply the funds in their hands for the pinent of the dividends, and that it consist of three members ' the .. rn eetin s-xi v el , rnittee and three gentlemen to be nominated by the /tialehr_. Thomas Thornton, Mr. Samuel Samuel, and Mr. of i te rd ite G etai rndge, barrister-at-law, were appointed on the part CHAIAXAN said they mast be perfectly aware that if legal proceedings were taken that they could not do so without expense, and he should, therefore,' propose—" That in order to provide the necessary funds to give effect to the resolutions which had been passed, that Messrs. Schneider and Co. be re quosted to deduct from the first dividend a rate in exact pro portion to defray the expenses."—( . Hear, hear ) Th e expense on each bondholder, considering their large number, would be very trifling. This proposition. like the others, was carried unanimously. A BONDHOLDER inquired what was the amount in the hands of Messrs. Liaardi ? COURT OF CHANCERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N. Sirt,—lt must be gratifying to all true lovers of reform to watch the growing determination in the public to discountenance the prac. tice of offices of trust and confidence being performed by deputy. I regret, however, to perceive that in the law the same jealous watchfulness does not prevail. In the office of the Masters in Chan cery there is at this present time an officer in the receipt of a salary of 1,000/. a-year, who has never attempted to perform the important duties attached to the office, to which the Lord Chancellor ap. pointed him two years ago. As this person has neither the plea of ill health nor old age to urge for this default, I should like to be informed what pretext can be alleged in justification of a practice which the Court professes to hold in such abhorrence P—l ant, Sec Chancery-lane. A SOLICITOR. The CHAIRMAN could not be positive, but he believed 60,0001. or 70,0001. sterling. The dividends due in April ant. October were unpaid. It this state of things continued the arrears would be greatly augmented, and all the advantages which the bondholders expected to derive by surrendering two years' interest, would not be realised. Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, had applied to Messrs. Lizardi with no better effect than the bondholders. He understood that 70,0(0 dollars came over by the last packet. Mr. LINDO considered that the exact amount which Messrs. Lizardi had in their possession belonging to the bondholders might be easily ascertained by reference to documents and to the names of packets which had arrived since the last dividend was paid. The CHAIRMAN said their present object was not so much to ascertain the exact amount of money in their hands as to enforce its payment. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was proposed and car ried unanimously. In returning thanks, the CHAIRMAN said both himself and the Committee, wh 3 had acted gratuitously, and should continue to do so, would use every exertion in their power to promote the interests of the bondholders. The meeting then separated. CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. beg respectfully to call your attention to the very In accurate report in this evening's Sun of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway proceedings before the Committee in the House of Commons. Your reporter represents Mr. Hildyard, the counsel, as saying, that trains by the Cambridge and Lincoln line, would perform the distance between London and York Hones (in one place it is many hours, and in another some hours) quicker than trains by the London and York line could perform it. Now, you are hereby informed that Mr. Hildyard, whose speech 1 heard from beginning to end, never said anything of the kind, nor could an attentive reporter suppose him to have said so. The statement is totally unfounded, and 1 am sure your interest in the character of 7'he Sun, as a faithful and impartial reporter of railway proceedings, will inauce you to make some inquiry as to the cause of so extra ordinary and mischievous a mis-statement. Allow me, most strongly to urge that no speculator in shares should be intrusted with the duty of reporting railway proceedings —a duty peremp. torily requiring faithfulness and impartiality in him who dis chatges it.—Your obedient servant, J. L. 3, Valbrook, July 1, 1845. SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT. Gloria Romance Quintiliam togas. Brilliant and brief, thy mortal course is run ; And all that earth could yield wee, nobly won ; Maturest honours deck'd thy vernal day, And human sceptres could no more repay ; Grace still be thine, at Hc-aven's behest, to share Diviner glories which await thee there ; Beam still thy bright example, from the skies, On young ambition, that would nobly rise ; That hearts which now are bursting o'er thy tomb, And vainly question thine untimely doom, May pay thee worthier honour than the tear, And strive to emulate thy life's career. In vain invoke we the forensic gown, To walk with spirits mightier in renown ; Whether undaunted Somers we retrace, Whether recal accomplish'd Murray's grace. Whether on Scott, the erudite, we gaze, Or radiant Copley, of our peaceful days, Wide of all limit was thy proud report, The antique senate, or the court. Nor to thy native land alone confined Was the rich yielding of thy fruitful mind, But, like a bird, which on its wings sustains Th' Arabian perfume to the Arctic plains, Though not in sight, success will yet await The minds that labour—hearts that emulate. Nature instructs us ; for the new-born day Is faint and feeble in his orient way ; But constant to his path, his course fulfils, And sheds his glory o'er exulting hills, As, one by one, the lesser bodies, pour i heir crescent light, when once the day is o'er ; So, Follett, now shall rise thine humbler train,- Start into being, and divide thy reign. What though unseen, to thine, example, still, The young shall sacrifice and shape the will, As to the breeze bow down the waving fields, Or to the viewless wind the cedar yields, So man be cautioned, 'tis the part of lore To make us better—happier—than before ; Not stored alone, but wise as we discern ; Not wise alone, but holier as we learn. Then let not youth be careless of to-day, As soulless insects in the sunbeams play ; Let him be wary how he would misuse Time, as allotted only to amuse ; Wary its loss—the treachery, the power, The thankless dalliance of one single hour. [lt is our desire and our endeavour to give not only the reports of the proceedings before Railway Committees, but all reports which appear in The Sun, with the greatest possible accuracy. We readily insert this letter. The gentleman who furnished us the report is not a speculator in shares, nor is be interested directly or indirectly, to our knowledge, in the success of any railway project.— ED. Sun.) THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUV SlR,—Your article upon the Great Britain and steam has had my attention, and I hasten to inform you that you werequite correct in your opinion that the figures setting forth her tonnage are reversed. I gave the Custom-house officer, who called at the office in ac cordance with his instruction from the higher powers, 3,481 tons as her displacement when loaded. A large allowance is always made for the space occupied by the motive power of steamers, which really ought to include the coal stowage also, although it does not, when they are registered, further than that which is stowed on each side of the engine-room, known by the name of the bunkers. I send you some rough extracts of the ship's passage to Dublin, seeing that you appreciate in a national point of view the vast strides made by ourselves and others in steam navigation. —Your obedient servant, N.B. The small amount of tonnage which appears in the returns when compared with the power of steamers, is to be accounted for by the omission of the whole space in the body of the ship occupied by the machinery. Thus the Star, for instance, is nearer three than one hundred tons. In some cases the engine-room occupies half the ship ; in none, I should think, less 'ban one-third. Even with this allowance, the Bristol steamers, generally speaking, are nearer two tons to one horse power than those of many other places. Our Irish steamers, for instance, are from 180 to 190 horse-power to a tonnage averaging 400 or thereabouts. The smaller the vessel, the less should be the proportions of tonnage to power, and vice versa. Bristol, July 1, 1845. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sze,--I find in yesterday evening's Sun, " In answer to S:r E. Hayes, Sir J. Graham said the Government did not require any additional powers to put down the disturbances in Wicklow, Cavan, and Fermanagh." As in neither the question or reply was Wicklow mentioned, I request you will relieve it from the charge which appears in your paper to apply to that county, which affords at all times a perfect example of ttanquillity and obedience to the law.—l have the honour tube, gir, your o b edient servant, WILLIAM ACTON, M.P., Wicklow county. Carlton Club, 2d July, 1845. ' MAGAZINES—CONTINUED. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The memoir of " Thomas Campbell" contains some particulars of his life and writings not without interest, but we regret to say not a few of which ought never to have seen the light. his downright sacri'ege to distui b the ashes of a pot-t whose fame will endure while the flag c.f England " braves the battle And the breeze," and recount the frailties of his nature, which should have been buried with him in his tomb. The writer styles this memoir " A Literary Retrospect, by a Middle aged Man." We can, however, find little in it that en titles it to a literary character, but a great deal of gossip about Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble, and Madame Pasta, and it is singular th a t the " Middle aged Man" has shown the same disposition towards these cele brated performers, and selected anecdotes which really do them no harm, while they prove the bad taste of the author in relating them. Why , for in stance, say of J o h n K em bl e, " I am glad that I lived not sufficiently in his day to hear the little gossiping stories which were, I doubt not, spread about of his cold ness and his avarice, but which are interred with his bones ?" If they were interred, why touch the grave— why lay it open to the gaze "I the profane vulgar ? And why find fault with Mrs. Siddons for eating boiled beef at Sir Walter Scott's, or with Madame Biqa, for de vouring oysters after the opera, or with " the expiring Malibran calling eagerly for porter" ? The middle aged gent'eman does not say precisely that he found fault, the blame is laid upon a gentleman of " nice ideas," hut he father's the imputation, for he adds, " these things must be endured and forgotten, if possible." Now, it requires no endurance whatever to see an actress eat boiled beef or oysters, or drink porter when thirsty. The middle-aged man ought to study carefully the School for Scandal. The rest of the Number is not liable to such charges, for on the whole it is interesting, and in wood taste. Mrs. Mathews furnishes a second character in the series of "Ennobled Actresses," and gives a very faithful account of the Countess of Derby (Miss Ferree). Iler intimate acquaintance with this celebrate'l actress enabled her to state the truth, and she does that with the best possible feelings. Her account of the attachment of the Earl of Derby to Miss Farren, and the intimacy which prevailed between them till they were married, is highly honourable to both. The intimacy she sae s " never in any mind gave rise to the slightest suspicion of other than Platonic regard." The following lines which we have not seen be• fore, and the tone in which the sentiment is ex pres ied, fully bear out Mrs. Mathews' remarks. They were addressed by Lord Derby to Miss Farren, on her being one day absent from church : " While wond'ring angels, as they look'd from high, Observed thine absence with an holy sigh, To them a bright exalted seraph said,— ' Blame not the conduct of th' exalted maid ; Where'er she goes, her steps can never stray ; Religion walks, companion of her way. She goes with every virtuous thought impress'd; Heaven on her face, and heaven within her breast.'" We have room for only another extract from the Miscellany, but it relates to a very different subject, the retreat from Corunna, and is taken from the " Recollec tions of Rifleman Harris" : " Many trivial things which happened during the retreat to Corunna, and which on any other occasion might have entirely passed from my memory, have been as it were branded into my remembrance, and I recollect the most trifling incidents which occurred from day to day during that march. I recollect, amongst other matters, that we were joined, if I may so term it, by a young recruit, when such an addition was anything but wished for during the disasters of the hour. One of the men's wives (who was struggling forward in the ranks with us, presenting a ghastly picture of illness, misery, and fatigue), being very large in the family way, towards evening stepped from amongst the crowd, and laid herself down amidst the snow, a little out of the main road. Her husband remained behind with tier ; and I heard one or two hasty observations amongst our men, that they had taken possession of their last resting-place. The enemy were, indeed, not far behind at this time, the night was coming on, and their chance seemed in truth but a bad one. To remain behind the column of march in such weather was to perish, and we accordingly soon forgot all about them. To my surprise, however, I, some little time afterwards (being then myself in the rear of our party), again saw her. She was hurrying with her husband after us, and in her arms she carried the new-born babe she had just given birth to. Her husband and herself, between them, managed to carry that infant to the end of the retreat, where we embarked. God tempers the wind, it is said, to the shorn lamb ; and many years afterwards I saw that boy a strong and healthy lad. The woman's name was M'Guire, a sturdy and hardy Irishwoman ; and lucky was it for herself and babe that she was so, as that night of cold and sleet was in itself suffi cient to try the constitution of most females. I lost sight of her, I recollect, on this night, when the darkness came upon us ; but with the dawn, to my surprise, she was still amongst us." G. R. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, Lords of the Admiralty ; and Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, one of the Secretaries to the Admiralty, left town yesterday for Portsmouth, to attend on the Queen and Prince 'Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel gians, on their visit to Osborne and the experimental squadron. 'lle Chevalier Bunsen and other foreigners of distinction ac• companied them to Portsmouth. The Black Eagle yacht, Master Commander B. Cook, waits the pleasure of their Lordships. The Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Secretary to the Admiralty, and Rear Admiral Bowles, one of the lords, paid an official visit to Woolwich Dockyard yesterday, and inspected the school for the apprentices there. PROMOTION ON THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE FLEET.—We are enabled to announce that the three officers whose names we mentioned as likely to be promoted on the occasion of the visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to their respective ships at Spithead, were elevated to the rank of commander, on Monday last, by the Admiralty. They are Hector Tense, First Lieutenant of the Albion, 90 i Captain Lockyer, C. 8., appointed to that ship in November, 1843, an old officer of nearly twenty-one years' standing as a lieutenant, having been made in August, 1824 ; John Cheere, of the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, appointed to that ship in December. 1841, made a lieutenant in 1836, passed mate in 1826 ; and William Frederick Fead, second lieutenant of the Trafalgar. 120, Captain T. F. Martin, appointed to that ship from the Queen, in July, 1814, made a lieutenant in 1838, passed mate in 1830. It was hoped that the first lieutenant of the Trafalgar, Hector Loring, notwithstanding his absence, which was imperatively unavoidable, would have obtained his promotion. Mr. Loring was first lieutenant of the Thunierer, 84, in the Mediterranean ; afterwards of the Camperdown, 104 ; then of the Queen, 110 ; and now of the Tratalgar. The experimental squadron of Spithead were exercising sails on Monday, and the Trafalgar, 120, Captain T. F. Mar tin, was exercising her crew at quarters, firing her lower deck guns with blank cartridge. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Commander Robson, arrived on Monday at Portsmouth from Bristol. THE PACIFIC STATION-TAHITI. The Modeste, 18, corvette, Commander Thomas Baillie, was lying at Otaheite on the 6th of January, with the Salamander steam-sloop. Commander Andrew Snape Hammond. On the morning of that day the Modeste ran down along the reef, and saluted the French Admiral with thirteen guns, which was re turned in due form by the French ship, after which ghe went into port. She has called there from the Sandwich Islands for dispatches. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir G. Seymour, had not arrived. The French ships lying in the harboar at that time were the Admiral's ship ; a frigate of 52 guns ; Urane, 64 guns ; Arinna, 28 guns ; Phaeton, steamer, 4 guns ; and schooner Sultana, tender to the French ship. The Phaeton (French steamer) gut on the reef in the en trance of the harbour on the 2nd of January when returning from Riatea, but was got off without further injury than a good shaking. HAYMARKET THEATRE. - Morton's admirable comedy of A Cure for the Rant Ache was performed here on Tuesday night to the great delight of a crowded house. There is no theatre in London at which it would be possible to cast this comedy, except at the Haymarket. Farren's Old Rapid is a personation so ad mirable, it defies ary approach to imitation ; and the young Rapid of Chlrles Mathews is as spirited and effervescing as a glass of champagne. Buckstone's Frank Oatland, although not equal to Webster's, is a very worthy piece of acting ; and pretty Julia Bennett is the most interesting Jessy Oatland that has appeared on the stage in our remembrance. The comedy is to be repeated to-night, and will no doubt attract a crowded house. There were present at her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ac companied by their Majesties the Kingand Queen of the Belgians, and attended by Lady Jocelyn, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Bou. verie, the Baroness de Hooghvorst, and Major de Moerkerke ; her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and the two Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Marchioness of Ormobde, the Hon. Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Hudson; their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadcgan, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay ; the Dukes of St. Alban's, Cleveland, and Beaufort; the Duchesses of St. Alban's and Beaufort; the Marquises of Douro, Ailesbury, Abercorn, Granby ; the Marchionesses of Douro, Allesbury, Aber corn, and Conyngham ; the Earls of Harrington, Wilton, Dal housie, Jersey, Lonsdale, and Liverpool; the Countesses of Her. rington, Wilton, and Dalhousie; Count Kielmansegge ; Lords Gifford, Sandya, Templetown, W. Beresford, Suffield, Ernest Brace, Torraigton, A. Paget, and Alford; Ladies Fitzroy Somerset, Ernest Bruce, Lyndhurst, Ashburton, Quentin, M. Corbet, Rendlesham, Alford, Jodrell, Meux, Easthope, E. Fielding, W. Martins, B. Graham, Voulis, Dillon, and Wynchester; Honourable' General Upton, Colonel A. Upton, Colonel G. Fitzroy, Captain Duneombe, Colonel Wrottesley, Booth Grey, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mrs. Duncombe, Mrs. St. John, Mrs. Fitzgibbon; Sirs H. Willoughby, H. Webb, H. Meux, W. W. Wynn, R. Wilmot, Colonel Wigrain, &e. COWARDLY AND HEARTLESS H0.4%.—1t has seldom or ever fallen to our lot to notice a more disgraceful trick than was played upon two respectable young females of Colchester, by a swain who has been notorious in several instances during his residence there for having " two strings to his bow." He had, however,contrived to get clear of all these advances under the pre. tence that he was a minor, and that his friends would not allow him to change his condition in life. Since then he has attained his majority, and made overtures o f love to the two young ladies in question, and an inti macy was formed between him and them (of course without their joint knowledge), which continued up to his leaving the town for London, about three months ago; and a correspondence has been kept up with both of them during his absence, which led them to believe that he fully intended to lead ceived letters from 11,Ystarnetiing them comfortable ant:lh eparations them to the altar of reuwureihthA few weeks since they both re. celebrated at his parish ' that he was in a position to render previous s ed t church and fixed a day for the nuptials to be the necessary pr ah t ri ed : on t wishingto dresses, proceed tbot du t e o n in m ad a iod k n. e : &c., with whom h y e in re l ; per railway, the da the taking care to name the Barnettr°ain that fixed for the wedding promised to be in readiness to receiv etheor both parties), wh en b e tion, and convey them to his emn at the Shoreditch sta street, where he arranged to have resida select in King William. meet them, and accompany him and them toPartY of friends to morning. The bait unfortunately took In both h hu i rch the next his request was complied with to the very letter ; andntsthanees, and ties, with their intended bridemaids, arrived in Lond o n two par same train, but not in the same carriage. On alighting at b s T , () t it !) e ditch station both parties met, but neither suspecting the bush: - of the other, nothing particular transpired to create any suspicion o f the the object of either one er the other's visit to the metropolis. But no Mr. R. appearing to receive them, both parties felt not only surprise, but greatly disappointed ; but still their object was kept a profound secret, until they resolved to take cabs, and immediately proceed to King William-street, the pretended residence of Mr. R. • • hoth parties arrived within a few minutes of each other, wh en at -- nt. no such person as Mr. R. resided at the house to their astonishou... , .o believe was his residence, from his which they bad been induceu not even was known in the _._ letters to them. On the co ntrar y , he . ne i g hbourhood. The parties felt tirgt they had been most crue ll y hoaxed, which led to a disclosure b e t we en theist, T h en the infamy of the scoundrel was fully developed. But after poi .„ selves that they had far better be booed than united to one VIIPSe wrec kless disposition must have rendered toothtooth re i sera ble through life, they repaired to an inn, where the y sejourned for the Fii;bt ~ S3Y the and returned to Colchester the nex t da y , I t is needless t o heartless fellow has not since been heard of ; but it is to be hoped that, ere long, he will have cause to repent his dastardly conduct in rifling to such a degree with the of respectable females. — Ipswich Express, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. .No. CLI. July, 1845. This Number is of more than average merit. " M‘Culloch on Taxation" is a candid and intelligent review of that economist's " Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation, and the Funding System," tile of the principal purposes of which is to im peach four of the most celebrated maxims propounded by Adam Smith, on the theory of taxation. The re viewer partially agrees with the commentator ; but we concur with him in his general adhesion to the principles of Adam Smith. " Lethe, and other Poems." This paper impresses us with a very favourable notion of the powers of its fair authoress, Miss \Voodroofe. The extracts from " Irene" are very fine. The, following specimen will verify this praise : " 0 gracious Empress, spare him!! Yea, spare him yet awhile, a little while! Mercy ! oh, mercy ! Do not cut him off In the fair springtime of his blooming youth, When all his path is strewed around with roses! His blood not yet is frozen in the veins— Not yet the buoyant spirit of his youth Is to the sternness of old age congealed. Spare him ! and heaven shall shower its blessings down Upon your head profuse. Slav him ! and sure All heaven's fierce curses shall be poured upon you. Save—save his life—and God requite the deed ! By the soft ties of filial love, and by The silver link of motherhood; by that love Which blessed imperial Leo while alive; And by those hallowed tears which mourned him dead ; Pronounce the pardoning word to Constantine !" The " Narrative of a Trial for Witchcraft," " from some family papers," is a very clever and effective sketch; too good to be abridged, and, though short, too long for quotation in our limited space. The date of the story is 1679, and the scene is laid in one of those rural districts of England, which even at so late a period as this, was polluted by the sanguinary excesses of judicial bigotry and popular superstition, that have attached perpetual infamy to the associations of our law courts with the prosecutions of those wretched victims vvlioni they gravely called " witches," even on the record as well as in the staute-book. " Anthologia Germanica, No. XX."—a happy selection from the poems of Karl Sirrireck, being " The Knight of the Swan," a romance—" The Fisherman," " Lave, and Blindness," &c. " The Life of Lord Hill" is an agreeable precis of the Rev. Mr. Sidney's work lately published by Murray ; a work which will, if possible, increase the respect, the affection, tle:t every Englishman who will make himself acquainted with the career of the late Commander-in -Chief must feel for the honest, manly, and unaffected character of that brave and generous Englishman. In " Ireland, her Evils and (their) Reme dies," we have a sort of running review of various tracts recently published on the repeal agitation, the payment of the Roman Catholic clergy, &c. No. 111. of the " Ita lian poets" presents us with a second paper on the life and genius of the illustrious and ardent author of the Gierusalemme Liberata." It is a beautiful memoir, written in a spirit of kindred poetry, anti an offering* meet for the altar of the Torquato, whose death with. drew him, as it °ere, nn the very eve of the ceremo nial of his laurelled coronation. The Conquest of Sinde" is a spirited account of the stirring events which led to that signal result, in the shape o f a critical notice of Major-General W. Napier's memoir of the campaign so signalised by the victories of his gallant and illustrious relative. The concluding ar ticle, " How should I r i sh Protestants meet their present dangers ?" is, of course, a controversial one. It con cludes by an earnest recomm, udatien of " a union of the Protestant democracy." The " Parting," and the e Lament," by Flo rence. are but so-so affairs ; and " a Stranger Minstrel" has not added one poor sprig of bays (as Churchill calls it) to the chaplet that already encir clernes th p e fame of o ne of the most vigorous of our mo doets. standing the ong MAGAZINE. .701.1?(.1 _.D S SHILLING tnber is the commencement of the Tire DOUGLAS present rau second volume of the Magsz'ne, and we are rejoiced to the oceans of " Balaant" with which the us a good sound taste, which can appre find the editor acknowledging "the success that has firmly a a t,,d p . u t b ,h lic e - re o. is e•i s in ti . l ' l : We eijoico at this, because it shows that noiwith• aenziiiileu as : d 'or t ld he h::s hil o li f 'g lat i e la b Y e ciate and reward vigorous, nervo _list and manly writing such as constitutes the staple of I,ouy/s Jeri hi's Shilling establish We have two new Maga2ine. chapters of .6 St. Giles and St. James." Poor tst. Giles is aroused from his sleep in the bairn of the Lamb an d Star, and arrested on a charge of having mur dered and r o bb e d St. James. Some smugglers have had their attention attracted by seeing a saddled ho rse grazing by the road-side, and on proce -ding a short distance th,-, fi y n St. James lying in the road, sensele ss, and bleeding fro d m a terrific wound in the skull. On examining hi m they find that he still breathes, and, as one of them phrases it, that he has been altogether robbed and well-nigh murdered. They carry hi m to Dovesnest, the residence of Mr. Eben ezer Snipeton, the lovely Clarissa, and in spite of the opposition of _ Dorot hy Val e , th e servant, leave him there. Snip 'ton , ton is from home, Clarissa enters the room, sees St. James, who has j ust recovered his consciousness, and the lovers (for they are lovers) recog nise each other. Snipeton is an old usurer to whom poor Clarissa has been sacrificed : " It was here, at Dovesnest, that the thrifty money-seller kept his young wife close—f araway, and safe, as he thought, from the bold compliments, the reckless gallantry of the rich young men who, in their h frequent time of need, paid visits to the friend who, t e security certain as the hour, never failed to assist them. A 1 . ,, , :iPeton was not, in the ordinary matters of life, a man South underrated his own ad vantages, moral and phYsic'!l , r '''', ) 9th to say , h e was, at times, not unapt to set what detraction might have thought an interested value on them. A d yet, what a touchstone for true humility in man, is woman ! Ebeneze r S n i peton , in all worldly dealings, held i mse lf a match for any of the . r Adam. He could f with • money-coining sons o. is _ fence a guulea —and sure we are guinea -fencing a far more delicate art is an exercise demanding a finer touch, a read i er sleight, than the mere twisting of steel foils :--h e could fence, nay, with even the smallest current coin of the realm, and.—no matter who stnea against old man sword.' . him —.come off conqueror. ' Gold,' 'b says Shelley, ' is the And most wickedly at times, will hoary-bearded men, with blood as cold and thin as water in their veins, hack and slash with it ! They know —the grim, palsied warriors 1 how the weapon will cut heart-strings i they know what wounds it will inflict ; but tben, - the Wounds bleed inwardll ; there is no outward and STIN,_LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1845. visible hurt to call for the - coroner ; and so the victim may die, and show, as gossips have it, a very handsome corpse, whilst homicidal avarice with no drop of outward gore upon his hands—no damning spots seen by the world's naked eye —mixes in the world, a very respectable old gentleman ; a man who has a file of receipts to show for everything ; a man who never did owe a shilling • and above all, a man who takes all the good h e ge t s as nothing more than a proper payment for his exceeding respectability. He is a pattern man ; and for such men heaven rains manna ; only in these days the shower comes down in gold. Ebenezer Snipeton, we say, had a high and therefore marketable opinion of him • self. And yet, did Ebenezer's wife—his ripe. re&lipped spouse of two-and-twenty—somehow touch her husband with a strange, a painful humility. He had sixty iron winters— and every one of them plain as an iron bar—in his face. Time had used his visage as Robinson Crusoe used his wooden calendar, notching every day in it. And what was worse, though Time had kept an honest account—and what, indeed, so honest, so terribly honest as Time?—nevertheless, he had so marked the countenance—it is a shabby, shameless trick Time has with some faces,—and every mark to the thought less eye counted well• nigh double. And Snipeton knew this. He knew, too, that upon hi s nose —h a lf- way, l i k e sent i ne l on the middle of a bridge—there was a wart very much bigger than a pea, with bristles, sticking like black pins in it. Now, this wart Ebenezer in his bachelor days had thought of like a philosopher; that is, he had never thought about it. Nay, his honeymoon had almost waned into the cold, real moon that was ever after to blink upon his marriage life, ere Ebenezer thought of his wrinkled, pouch-like cheeks; of his more terrible wart. And then did every bristle burn in it, as though it was turned into red hot wire; then was he plagued, tormented by the thought of the wart, as by some avenging imp. He seemed to have become all wart: to be one unsightly excrescence. The pauper world envied the happiness of Ebenezer Snipeton—with such wealth, with such a wife, oh, what a blessed man ! But the world knew not the torments of the wart ! And wherefore was Ebenezer thus suddenly mortified ? We have said that he had a wife as young and fresh, and beautiful as spring. And therefore, after a short season, was Ebenezer in misery. He looked at his•wife's beauty, and then he thought of his withered face— that felon wart . ! In her loveliness—like a satyr drinking at a crystal fount—lie saw his deformity. Was it possible she could love him? The self-put question—and he could not but ask it,—with her, ah:ne, in bed, at board—that torment ing question still would whisper, snake voiced in his ear,— could she love him? A n d his heart—his heart that here tofore had been cold and blooded like a fish—would shrink and tremble, and dare not answer. True it was, she was obedient—too obedient. She did his bidding promptly, hum bly, as though he had bought her for his slave. And so, in truth, he had : and there had been a grave man of the church, grave witnesses, too, to bind the bargain. Verily, he had bought her; and on her small white finger—it wasp lain to all who saw her—she wore the manacle of her purchaser." Snipeton returns and finds St. James at his house. His jealousy is aroused, and devoutly (I , : , es he hope the wound may prove mortal. St. James, however, recovers his strength in the course of a few hours. St. Giles is brought to Dovesnest to be identified, but on entering the room of St. James it is found that he is gone. These chapters are succeeded by an admirable apology for those whom the world is pleased to misname misan thropes, after which we have an excellent paper on the state of the town poor in Scotland. " Unfashion able Movements" is the title of a series of stories illustrative of the trials of the poor, and the " Corn Lords Tragedy" is a fine Coleridge-like ballad from the pen of the author of Orion—a poem not unworthy to stand by the side of the Ancient Mariner. Juniper Hedgehog continues his quaint and caustic comments on the events of the month, and the historian for Young England gives us the reign of Henry the First. This History for Young England promises to be a very valuable work. LITERATURE, A PENTAGLOT DICTIONARY of the Terms employed in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Prat tical Medicine, Surges y, Olitetrics, Medical Jut ispt udence, Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Medical Zoology, Botany, and Chemistry. In Two Pads. By SHIRLEY PALMER, M.D. Verily, Tamworth is a place which produces hard workers. Sir Robert Peel, the hardest-worked and the hardest-working Minister who has swayed the destiries of these kingdoms for the last century, is "of Tam worth ;" and he is, moreover, a lover of hard work ; but hard-worked, and hard-working, and loving of 'hard work as he is, even the Premier himself must yield the palm of all those qualities to his townsman, Dr. Shirley Palmer. To quote the words of a Medico-Chirurgical Reviewer, in noticing the publication of the first part of his dictionary— " In this stupendous work, we scarcely know which to ad mire most—the extensive erudition, or the unwearied, we might say, super-human, labour of its author. Dr. Palmer may well well exclaim, with the Roman bard, ' Monumentum exegi are perennius.' Johnson's great Dictionary, in four volumes, cost not one tenth the pains and research that Dr. Palmer's Pentaglot must have done." Had Dr. Palmer been a resident in a metropolis, with ready access to the stores of learning collected in the libraries of the British Museum, of the medical col leges, and of th e e th er pu bli c i nstitutions—had he de voted a life of leisure to the compilation of this work, it would still have been a wonderful monument of un wearied industry and perseveramce, guided by a most discriminating judgment ; but when we consider the circumstances under which this work has been compiled, its production is little short of the miraculous. - - ---- " Many have been the disadvantages, and many and for midable the obstacles, which I have had to struggle with and overcome in its execution. It was not composed in the genial atmosphere and repose of philosophic retirement, but amidst the duties and distractions of an active and anxious professional life; for the most part, during hours which might otherwise have been given to recreation, or passed in sleep ; and, not unfrequently, under circumstances of depression and discouragement known only to myself. I had no literary friend to consult tin- the solution of doubts, or the removal of difficulties, which were continually arising in my path; —no library to refer to, save my own limited but valuable c o llecti on of scientific works. I began my labour, and finished it, without availing myself of the counsel or co operation of any human being;—with no assistance but that of the members of my family in the occasional revision of the proof-sheets, and the collection and ar rangement o f t h e ma terials which constitute the German Index." He formally dedicates his work to the medical stu dents of his country, and never has a more worthy offer ing been made to them; to quote the words of Dr. Reid Clanny, of Sunderland, it is "a national work." The author says— " That I may be induced to compile a Supplement, or Appendix, to this Dictionary, accompanied by Latin, Italian, and English indexes, is not improbable." That 1)r. Palmer will do this, we sincerely hope. The addition of the Italian synonymes will greatly add to the usefulness of his work, the language in which Scarpa and Tommassini have written is, medically speaking, classical. We would also suggest the addition of the Spanish synonymes. There are many valuable medical and surgical works in the Spanish language, written by both European and American practitioners, which are well worthy an attentive study to the surgical student, more especially a dictionary of synonymes in the language of Don Antonio Girnbernat, one of the most accomplished surgeons of the commencement of the pre sent century, would be invaluable. Gimbernat's work on hernia is the foundation of everything of value which has since been written on the subject. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK. George Cruikshank has again laid the scientific world undtr the deepest obligation to him. Who can ever sufficiently appreciate the merit of his illustrations of phrenology P—that which he hath heretofore done for phrenology he is now about to do for social zoology. The present number presents us with two illustrations of the science—the first is, " a horrible bore in the com pany," and the second " the lion of the party." The letter press description of the animals is admirable. The following is the concluding passage of the zoology of the bore:—" Literary bores, who are for the most part females, are usually called blue, and it is believed that an intellectual ladies' society used formerly to as semble at the Blue Boar, in Holborn." This theory of the Blue Boar, in Holborn, is capital—quite as probable as, and infinitely mare entertaining than, those of General Valencay and Sir W. Bce!ham. The "Legend of the Rhine," with its glorious illustrations, is continued, and we have a capital tale of the Court Ball, entitled the " Lover's Sacrifice•," that sacrifice being his whiskers. The tailpiece. " cut and come again," is a rich sketch. " Dissolving Views" is an admirable article, admirably illustrated, and is followed by the Stage Prince," one of those quiet pieces of burlesque which no man can work up like A'Beckett. Edward Kenealy furnishes a poetic garland of exquisite beauty. The concluding article is from the pen of George Cruikshank himself, and is "On the Preservation of Life." The article, which is prl)fusely illustrated by diagrams, is a pro pthal of various plans for the preservation of human life in cases of fire and of shipwreck. In the following sentiment we fully agree:—" The Legislature, that com pels the formation of party-walls and sewers, ought to make the erection of some simple and effective fire escape compulsory upon the landlord of every house in the metropolis." This article, which is well worthy attentive consideration, concludes in the following manner:—• "We trust that none of our readers will consider the small space which we have devoted to this subject as mis applied—imperfectly as we feel we have executed the task thus voluntarily undertaken : but having the advantages of illustration at command, we have preferred the risk of dis. appointing a few of our good friends, who look to our pages for mirthful sentences alone, to incurring the self-reproach of having maintained silence upon a subject which we feel to be important, as affecting the good of many of our fellow creatures, and which could not have been so clearly put for ward without the elucidation of our pencil." Nut only has the space not been misapplied, but George Cruikshank has laid all his fellow-creatures under great obligations to him for the timely publication of this paper, which we trust will have the effect of directing the attention of the Legislature and of the Executive Government to this very important subject. PARISIAN ARCIIITECTURE.-1 he Hotel de Ville, at Paris, a work of the 16th century, has for many years been in a course of enlargement and completion. The exte rior is now entire, and the interior is in progress with all the richness of embellishment of which the " Re naissance" affords such splendid examples, and to the production of which the genius of its architect, M. Serrure, is fully equal. This edifice is now the worthy municipal palace of the French capital, little, if at all, inferior in grandeur of arrangement and decoration to that of the sove reign. The Prefect of the Department of the Seine, in carry ing out this fine conception, has felt and acted as the chief of not merely a locality, but of a powerful, an enlightened, and an art-loving community.— The Builder. CURE FOR DIFFERENCES.—The Builder remarks, relative to the squabbling in the Archaological Society It is sa t d to be common in one part of India, when there is any dissension be ween Church and State, for a man to go to the top of a certain pagoda, and vow that if the quarrel be not termi nated in twenty-four hours that he will return and throw him self off; and they further relate that, sooner than have the blood of the man upon their heads, both sides usually yield a little, and so the difference is adjusted. Can we not find some one devoted to peace and quiet to try this move on Westminster Abbey, and thus lite rally precipitate an amicable result ? If it succeeded, we should claim a daily allowance of milk and honey for the rest of the year." CONSTITUTION OF JERSEY• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. LETTER IV. Sia,—A friend once remarked to me th it he thought he should like to purchase a pretty cottage in Jersey for his summer residence, but I doubt much whether he or any other person would do so, after perusing the following exposure of the laws here : Although you are now aware that you would be coming to an island where the law allows a man to run extensively in debt, and having plenty of means to pay his liabilities, yet can swindle his creditors out of every farthing of their claims, by passing his effects over to his wife; and moreover are cognisant of as much as I have mentioned relating to the law of decret. Yet, you may possibly imagine, that if you see a nice little cottage, &c., for sale, which w ill suit you in every p ar ticular, and pay the whole of the purchase-money for it, that you, at least, are therefore beyond the reach of being swindled out of your property ; but foolish indeed must you be if you can imagine that any one is safe when such gross acts of fraud as I have stated in former letters are rendered legal. It N ill perhaps seem to you to savour of ro mance upon being toll—but nevertheless it is fict— that you could be turned out by the operation of the law, although you may have been in possession for many years, and purchased it of the legal owner, without committing fraud or wronging any one; aye, and under certain circumstances, no time, however long it may have been your pro perty, would avail you. I described in my second IL tter the method of drawing up the list of a bank rupt's liabilities —th ese extend not only to all the real and personal property he owned at the time, but to all which he possessed for the fifteen years previous, and, in some cases, to that which had ever been in his possession. The more you examine the law of decret the more you will be at a loss to discover the purpose for which it was framed, unless it was to give the colour and protection of law to the grossest acts of fraud; in its 22d Article it is stated, that con tracts passed with the insolvent for fifteen years at least before the renunciation of the property in de cret, shall be exempt from insertion, excepting in the case provided for in Art. 44. This exemption is, that should a decret be void in consequence of no one declaring himself tenant, those who possessed con tracts with him for fifteen to thirty years previous, shall be summoned, in order that one may be found therefrom—and if that be not sufficient, all those with whom he he has ever passed any contract. Is it not a monstrous state of the law, that should a person sell his estate, and become insolvent after the lapse of twenty years, the purchaser of it can be legally de-• prived of it ? I will now show how you can be dispossessed of a house, taken upon a lease, as I mentioned in my first letter, but must premise, that no lease is valid againt a tenant under a decret, and should a tenant die without lineal heirs, the Lord of the Manor re ceives the rent of the estates for a year and a day, or takes possession of it for that time. Let us now as sume I have taken my house upon lease for three years, have paid the money in advance for the whole of the time (for which I have a receipt), and that my landlord at the end of the first year dies, leaving no direct issue, in such a case the Lord of the Manor can claim possession for the second year of my tenancy ; suppose I pay him for it sooner than be turned out, well, at the expiration of the time I may be surprised by a visit of the Deputy Viscount, who conies to take bond fide possession for the tenant under a decret, as my landlord died insolvent, and ' his property had been adjudicated subsequent to his decease ; if lam allowed to remain upon payment for the remainder of my term, I shall have paid five years rent for three years possession, and, if not, shall be turned out at the expiration of two years ! having taken my house for three ! ! and paid rent for four ! ! ! Were I to tell you all the various methods whereby swindling can be legally perpetrated by the aid of even the few laws I have mentioned, my task would be almost endless,—and as it is necessary, for the perfect understanding of our anomalous position, that you should be acquainted with our constitution, I purpose in my next to begin a s h or t s k e t c h of it, leaving any further account of our laws till you will thus be better qualified to understand the causes of their present state ; and when you find how the Royal prerogative is not only usurped, but Orders in Council, and Acts of Parliament, &c., set at defiance, you will be able to form some idea of the importance of Wilson's case, wl - ich is but little understood in England, owing to the want of information in the public press—aye, but little understood, notwith• standing their fierce denunciations. B. L. EXTRAORDINARY EXHUMATION A discovery of an extraordinary nature was made a few days ago in Moor-street, Birmingham, by some men in the employ of Mr. William Smith, surveyor, who were at the time engaged on the premises at the back of the public office. The occurrence has supplied food for much curious speculation. The workmen were excavat ing the ground in the yard for the purpose of making a well ; and when some four or five feet below the surface of the earth, one of them came in contact with something which he thought to be a stone, but which, on being lifted tip with the shovel, proved to be a human head. This naturally made them more careful in their work. On further examination, they found the skeleton of a large dog, whose skin and hair were as perfect as though they had only been buried a week, though the body was completely gone. A foot below this were the remains of a coffin in which the bones of a human being were discovered, to which the head first thrown up had belonged. The bones were at once taken out, and most of them washed, and Dr. Skerritt, who was passing by at the time, having his attention called thereto, conceived that they were either the bones of' a female, or of a youth not more than twenty-five years of age. The skull was in tolerably good preserva tion. The teeth on one side were sound, though decayed on the other side. On the forehead above the left eye there was a round indentation, as if made by a blew from a hammer or other blunt instrument, giving evi dence all but conclusive of a deed of murder. The length of the skeleton was five feet nine or ten inches. The coffin, as the remains testified, was an open one; but decay had worn it down to the thickness of cambric paper. It was fastened together with oak pins instead of nails, which had evidently been dipped in grease or paint (the ancients not using Ryan's patent), as they were not decayed. This would appear to fix the burial as taking place not less than 250 years ago, as about that time we understand coffin nails came into use. On the lid of the coffin was found a porcelain tobacco pipe of peculiar construction. It had a heart engraved upon it, with the initials in old English, W. S. The bowl of the pipe was not more than three-eighths of an inch wide. The core of tobacco therein was as fresh as when discovered, as though it had been laid down by some living being who had just been smoking. The discovery of the pipe and tobacco certainly fixes the date of the murder less than three centuries ago. A thick stake had evidently been driven through the dog, if not through the coffin, as the marks thereof were clear, though the stake on coming in contact with the air fell to powder. This fact suggests a scene of no common occurrence. In all probability, the poor dog, for faithfulness to his mur dered master, was doomed to die and be buried with him there. A month or six weeks ago, the same indi viduals, when working also for the same surveyor, found some human remains in Oxford-street, at the back of Mr. Allday's, the butcher. In that instance every bone was broken, the skull was cracked, and the legs were turned upwards on the breast, as though the body had been doubled up. An old-fashioned stone bottle was found oetween the abdomen and the legs, filled with black li quor. This relic might have been preserved, but the son of Hibernia, who was engaged in the work, ex claimed the moment he saw it, " Och, there's some of the ra'al crature—here goes for a drop 1" and striking it with a shovel to break the neck off, dashed it into innumerable pieces. A Mr. Salmons, who remem bers the neighbourhood fur eighty years, says he re collects that part of the town being a park or plea sure ground of " Lord de Burlington," which ex tended from Moor-street to the river Rea. Tim ber trees of immense size were growing there within his recollection. There is, too, an individual now living, whose grandfather superintended the building of Aston Park-wall, who related the following facts to his son, the father of the present relator. They are, therefore, the traditions of two generations:—" Oa the left hand of Digbeth was the Duck Pool, or Duck' Bath, be longing to Lord de Burlington, where a beautiful spring arose, that since supplied a great part of the town with water. From its name arose Duckbath,' since corrupted into Digbath or Digbeth.'" He says, too, " that at the top of Bordesley was formerly the park keeper's house, for the protection of the deer, where the grazing pasture ended; and thence (not from a corrup tion of Dirty-end') arose the name Deer-end," Deer endton," Derington,' an I Deritend.' " If this tradi tion be true, the two bodies are connected with some deed of darkness in the baronial ages; but we have heard of another means of %accounting for the marvel, which we will lay before our readers as we received it. It is as follows :—" The place where the body and dog were found is supposed to be the part called Loft Croft, ad joining the former park of Lord de Burlington' would seem to record the garden belonging to the house (now the Court of Requests) in which the rich Humphrey Jennings lived, who bequeathed an immense property, long subject to litigation. It is supposed that the body found is that of Robert, one of the four sons of the said Humphrey, to whom a large portion of the property was bequeathed, and of whose death no account has been given; but it was supposed at the time (about the year 1700, when he was missing) that he had been made away with. The descendants of the family wh o now claim the property have found t he register of his birth, and his name in the will, but have , never be en a bl e to obtain any tidings of his . death. H the body f oun d i n the public-office yard was that of Robert Jennings, the pipe ev idently did not bear Ills initials.—Birmingham Advertiser. We have heard with regret that the child of Mr. Booth Bell, who had his arm fractured by a fall from the gig when his father was shot, has since died.—Northern Standard. A letter from Munich states, that there is now being cast in bronze, at the Royal Foundry of that city, the statue of the English statesman, William Huskisson, which is to be erected at Liverpool. The model is from the hand of a young English sculptor, Mr. Gypson, now at Rome. SEAMEN. A Return "of the Number of Seamen who, in the autumn of 1840, received a proportion of the wages due to them, with fourteen days' leave of absence, and directions to re turn on board their respective ships at the end of that time ; together with the number of those who, after receiving such proportion of their wages, neglected to return." Total Number Total Number who who SIIIPS, received a proportion neglected to return after receiving of their wages. such proportion. Donegal North Star 9B 1 Fair Rosamond lO Snake 5l 5 Serpent Hermes spitfire Sparrowhawk Rhadamanthus Boxer 444 •• •• 9 Total J. T. BRIGGS, Accountant• General Navy. Admiralty-office, June 21, 1845. Tuesday the Duchess of Northumberland gave an elegant fete champetre at Sion House, the ducal residence at lsleworth, where a limited but brilliant circle of the aristocracy as. semblcd. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck and Lady Augusta Cadogan, arrived at a quarter past four o'clock, and left shortly after six. AMERICAN 10E.—For some time past this novel importation has been in pretty general use in Glasgow. It is per. fectly clear and transparent, being carefully cut from large ponds ;impaled for the purpose, and kept free from all impurities. It is certainly a very striking instance of the spirit of enterprise, that a regularly organised company should be established for the pur. pose of dealing in such a commodity ; and it is rather singular to think that an epicure in Great Britain may have his wine in the shape of " sherry cobblers" with ice produced upon the lakes of the American continent, and which has been brought through the heat of summer across the Atlantic, for his express use and grati fication.—Edinburgh Witness. AIYBoRE COFFEE.---A parcel of coffee, imported from Madras, the produce of the Mysore district, has within these few days been admitted at the low duty of fourpence per lb. The Lords of the Treasury, by an order dated 13th June, 1844, on an application from the East India and China Association, respecting the admission of sugar and other articles from Mysore, directed that Mysore produce, being legally admissible as such, should be admitted as the produce of Madras ; and since that period goods imported direct from Madras, and certified by a number of re spectable merchants or brokers, judges of the articles, as being the produce of the Mysore district, have been delivered as theproduce of the former place. The trial of William Harper and Edward Wil liams, who were arrested on the charge of passing off several bank notes stolen from the bank at Manchester, which charge, as the robbery was committed in England, and the prisoners were Eng lishmen, the criminal tribunals of France could not entertain, but who were detained as guilty of the offence of obtaining and using in France a passport taken at Boulogne in a false name, was brought on before the Correctional Tribunal on Saturday. Harper, on being interrogated, stated that he was a butcher in Newgate market, at London ; that he came to France on the invitation of Williams, I. ho said he had business in which he Harper, might be useful to him, and promised to pay all axpenses. Williams, he said, had a passport from England, but he, Harper, was with out one. The passport in the name of John Parker, with which he came to Paris, was obtained at Boulogne, by Wil liams, without Parker's appearance or interference. He stated that he had beets acquainted with Williams between two and three years. He admitted changing English bank notes to the amount of 4601. ; but declared that they were given to him by Williams, and that he did not know how he came by them. Williams, on being examined, contradicted Harper in most points, and insisted that he had never seen him more than twice in his life, having met him for the first time in the packet which brought him over to Boulogne. On being asked what business he had in Paris, be declined giving any answer until he had consulted his counsel. Upon this M. Forcade, the advocate, came forward, and stated to the court that he had been chosen to plead for Williams, but had hasl no communication with him, because he had at first engaged M. Charles Ledru, who was prevented from attending the court, and therefore he requested time to receive due information and in structions from his client. Upon this the court put off the further hearing until Thursday next. The following painful occurrence happened three days ago in the Rue Folie Mericourt. A young wife, itt the last stage of pregnancy, having occasion to warm some water, lighted a brazier of charcoal in a room which had no fireplace. In a few minutes afterwards, she was taken in labour; being unable to move from the room, and no person being within hearing of her cries, she could have no one to assist her. She succeeded, how ever, in delivering herself, and she and her baby might have done well, had not the vapour of the charcoal overcome her and corn. pelted her to lie down on her bed, where she remained senseless for several hours. At the end of this time some of her family went in; by throwing open the door and window, and using the proper means of resuscitation, the poor mother was recovered, but her child had been long dead.—Galignani. BARBAROUS MURDER OF AN INFANT.—On Mon day last a countryman, who was going to the fair of Dungarvan, when passing through the townland of Kilgobinet, heard some faint cries ; on looking round him he could see no object, and after standing in amazement for some minutes, he put his ear to a heap of stones, when he felt convinced that some living creature was concealed underneath within a few feet of him. He proceeded to remove the stones, when, to his surprise, he found a female child, about eight or ten days old. The poor man had the child taken to the parish priest, who baptised it, but in the course of the evening it died from the injuries it received. On Wednesday, Thomas Dennehy, Esq., county coroner, held an inquest ; the jury returned the following verdict:—" That the said female child was buried alive by some person or persons unknown, and which alone was the cause of its death." — Waterford Mail. TEE RAILWAY.— 1 he last prevailing rumour rela tive to the opening of the railway from London to Cambridge was, that it would take place on Wednesday the 9th instant. rhis is correct however only so far as regards the line front Cambridge to Ely, which we believe will be opened on that day. Yesterday an experimental train was made in a single carriage down that part of the line, and everything proved very satisfactory. Within the last week or two, the station has rapidly advanced.—Cambridge Advertiser. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—We heard just as we were going to press that the floor of the Petty Sessions House at Mullinahone gave way yesterday (Friday), with about 500 persons. The fall was so sudden, that many were seriously injured, several arms, legs, and thighs being broken. The bench, on which were the magistrates, John Millet, H. T. Redmond, Purefoy Poe, Esqs., and the Rev. W. Bryan, remained undisturbed. Dr. Goring promptly attended, and administered medical relief to the sufferers. —Tipperary Free Press. On Sunday rwirning, shortly before two o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 30, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-square, in the joint occupation of Mr. C. Goodall, card-manufacturer, and Messrs. Parsons, Welling, and Lotner. The fire was first ob servod .n the second floor by a policeman, who gave an alarm, and enabled the inmates to escape. The flames were not extinguished until the upp er fl oors were d estroyed. A PuILOSOPHER IN TROUBLE. A gentloman named Goddard, wh o res id es i n L on d on, was b rought before the borou g h magistrates on Monday, and charged with trespassing on the grounds of C. P. rrOerton, E,q , and refusing to give an ac count of himself. Mr. Bradley appeared for the defendant, and stated that he had been requested by Professor Phillips to say that the defendant was a gentleman of respectability, well known to him Voe principal members of the British Asiociation. The ex plapatipll opti of the affair was, that the defendant had t a k en an oy er_tiose 'of s t et her, Which had affected him so much as to render higl perfectfy unconscious of what he was doing, so that he fancied himself in smile of the collefe grotiadrh—carnbriclie Ckrunicfr. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, .July -2. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. On the motion of Mr. GREENE, Sir William Somer ville, Mr. More O'Ferrall, Mr. Archbold, Captain Gore, Mr. Hans Hamilton, Mr. Alexander Murray, Mr. C. Gorin g , Captain Layard, and C a p ta i n T aylor, were added to the Committee on the Dublin Pipe Water Bill; SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL WAY. On the motion of Mr. DARBY, it was ord er that it be an instruction to the Committee on group A of Rail way Bills to entertain the petition of James Thorpe, praying to be heard by himself, his counsel, or agents, against certain parts of the South-Eastern Railway (Hastings to Ashford) Bill. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Captain MANGLES moved that the report on the London and South-Western Railway (No. 1) Metro politan Extension Bill be received. The Hon. Member stated, in referee cc to the observations made by the Noble Lord opposite (Lord G. Somerset), that the charge made by the Company of 3d. a ton on coals was reduced for 15 miles to 21d., and for 25 miles to 2d. ; the Com pany had also reduced the fares of passengers. Lord G. SOMERSET would not offer any further op position to the Bill, as it appeared to be one that K ould afford great accommodation to the public. The report was received after a few observations frog Mr. HAWES. STANDING ORDERS. On the motion of Mr. ESTCOURT, it was ordered that during the remainder of the session the Select Committee on Standing Orders have leave to sit and to proceed to business with a quorum of three Members. The HON. MEMBER also moved that during the re maineer of the session the Committee of Selection should have leave to sit and to proceed to business with a quorum of two Members. Lord G. SOMERSET considered that two Metnbers were not sufficient, for a quorum. Mr. WILSON PATTI4.;N believed that nothing but routine business would have to come before the Com mittee, and such being the case he did not see why the motion should not be agreed to. He should there- fore support the motion. Sir G. CLERK thought that two members were too small a quorum. _ _ The /notion was ultimately withdrawn. - The Lords' amendments to the Exeter and Crediton Railway Bill were agreed to. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition from 1,100 landowners of Roscard, in the county of Down, against the Landlords and Tenants Bill, and in favour of compensation for improvements. The Hon. Member also presented a similar petition from Cork. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from Bristol praying for the abolition of the punishment of death. The Lords'amendments to the Wolverhampton Water works Bill were agreed to. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. The London and South-Western Railway (No. 2) Bill was read a third time and passed. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the Sheffield and Rother ham Railway Bill were agreed to. NOTICES OF MOTION—DISTRESS IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that, before going into Committee on the Scotch Poor-law Bill, ha should call the attention of the House to the distressed condi tion, and the relief at present administered to the inha bitants of Sutherlandshire and other counties in Scotland; and also, on the motion that the Speaker leave the Chair on the Commons Inclosure Bill, he should move that the measure should be considered that day six months. TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said, that on Friday next he should move the resolution, of which he had given notice, relative to the valuation of land belonging to Trinity College, Dublin. Captain BERKELEY said, that on the motion that the Speaker leave the chair in Committee of Supply, he should bring forward the resolution of which he had already given notice. LUNATICS BILL. On the order of the day for bringing np the report of the Lunatics Asylum, and Pauper Lunatics Bills, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he was de cidedly opposed to the second reading of this Bill. He wished the measure under consideration, and the other measure on the paper also introduced by the Noble Lord, to be postponed, because they were much too important to be brought on by a private Member. He did not see why the House should saddle the country with additional expenses. He did not think that six Commissioners, each receiving a salary of 1,5001.. a year, with a retiring pension, were necessary. His Hon. Friend the Member for Weymouth had moved fora certain return relative to theseexpenses, and he thought it would be necessary that the House should be in reAses sion of that return before they voted away any more money. He wished to know whether this was to be con sidered a Government Bill, or a Bill brought in by a private individual. If the latter, - be thought it of too great importance to be left to the care of an Honourable Member.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill, as it stood, was liable to objection, because it did not give that protection to unfortunate persons confined in private asylums which it ought to do. The Under- Secretary of State for the Home Department said the other evening that the Bill must be passed during that. session of Parliament, or the Commission would expire, but that was not the case. The Commission would not expire till next session. and where, therefore, he asked, was the necessity for the hurry of this proceeding? He said that these expenses ought not to be saddl e d on t h e Consolidated Fund un til the return ordered by his Hc,n. Friend had been laid on the table. The public had a right to know how the money had been expended on former occasions, and were it but produced the House would find that the Commissioners were not the extraordinary fine persons they were represented to be. What did Mr. Perceval say s and he had ample experience of the system, eleven years ago ? He was a victim to the private usylum system. He stated that this Bill would nor remedy the e%ils from which he and others hack suffered. He (Mr. T. bun combe) gave every er'..dit to the Noble Lord the Member for Dorsetshire tbr his knowledge of this subject, but be would rather trust the statements made by individuals like Mr. Percival, who had had their knowledge founded 'en experience. He protested against the indecent haste with which the measure had been urged forward ; and, under all the circumstances, he should move that it be read that day six months. Mr. S. CRAWFORD seconded the motion. Lord ASHLEY complained that the Honourable Member for Finsbury had not re: erved the discussion on the part of the salaries to the Commissioners until the Bill was in Committee. He could then state to the Honourable Member for Weymouth every de tail which he might require. The discussion might in Committee be taken on the clause, but surely it was most inconvenient then to open up the whole question when so much time had already been consumed in its consideration. Should the Honourable Member for Finsbury consent to this course, he believed he should be able to satisfy the House and the Hon. Member for Finsbury that what he was asking was no more thee what was just —was no more than what was economical—and no more than what was absolutely necessary for the exigencies of the case. The provisions of the Bill he stated so far back as last session, and, on that occasion, his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Home Department had prevailed upon him to under take the preparation and bringing in of the Bill The Right Hon. Gentleman stated that Government would render him every assistance, if they approved of the Bill. The measure had now been before Govern ment for some time, before the Poor-law Commissioners, and various other parties, named by the Government, who had all sanctioned it, and he was now only acting for and as the mouth-peace of the Government, in pro pounding their Bills. He, therefore, entreated the Hon Member to allow him to go into Committee, when he had no doubt h e s h ou ld b e a bl e to dispel all his objec tions to the measure ; else out of kindness to the unfor tunate individuals for whose accommodation the pro visions of the Bill were intended. Mr. F. BARING hoped that his Noble Friend would allow the report to he brought up. That did not bind the House to enter into any discussion on the subject. All that would be required would be to bring up the resolution and have it read, and then the House could enter upon the consideration of the whole Bill. He hoped his Noble Friend would not stand on a point of form. Mr. MILNER GIBSON briefly supported the motion of the Hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. Duncombe). He could not see any difficulty that would arise from taking such a course. Mr: MANNERS SUTTON suggested that they should be allowed to proceed with the Bill as far as the Committee, and that any o bj ec ti ons m i g h t as we ll be made in Committee. He begged that the Hon. Member would not press his motion. Mr. V. SMITH was o f o pi n i on t h at any o bj ect i ons might be urged in Committee. After a few words from Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. CHRISTIE said he hoped that, under all the cir cumstances, his Honourable Friend would withdraw his opposition to the further progress of the Bill. Mr. DUNCOMBE sa id h e w o u ld not withdraw his opposition. He wished the Bill postponed till next ses sion, and if thi s were no t done he would divide the House on every clause. He had a duty to perform to the unfortunate creatures who were the ob j e cts of this Bill, and he was determined to persevere in his motion of postponement. Strangers were o r dered to withdraw. The House then divided, when there appeared-- For Mr. Duncombe's motion Against it 117 Majority -102 The report was then received. PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE. On the question, that the other orders of the day be proceeded with, Mr. DIVETT rose, and said he had to present a pe tition of the most important kind as respected the pri vileges of that House. It was from a genteman named Barrett, formerly a Member of the House, who stated that last session he was summoned as witness on the Committee of Inquiry into the Medical Bill, at which the lion. and Noble Member for Dorset shire presided. In consequence of the evidence which he had then given, he was subcequently served with notice that an action would be brought against him, and a declaration filed on the 26th of June stated that the cause of action was for giving false evidence and libelling the character of the plaintiff. This Mr. Barrett denied, affirming that he had stated nothing but what was in strict conformity with the truth, and to that avowal he (Mr. Divett), after the most careful examination into the case, believed was strictly correct. The petitioner, after complaining of the expense and inconvenience to which this action would subject him, prayed the protection of the House against it. He (Mr. Divett) thought that if they were not prepared to mud° to the prayer of the petition, they would be abrogating care veal bless other soes 9 d not The illitT , Judi' and r the Ch 0