The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-04 00:00:00

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George Loveland was fully committed for trial on the fol lowing charge • Tott enham oho man to Mr. Thomas Parker, of No. 5 4 , Court -road, hatter, stated that, between five and six o'clock last evening, as he was sitting at tea in the par lour behind the Cop, the prisoner opened the door from the tat,: tn,gand walking deliberately up to the counter snatched bP a new hat, and ran off with it. Witness pursued him, Stop thief;" and, after running a considerable dis-. la ne?, the prisoner threw away the hat. He was at length a t l / Pe'l by police-constable No. 94 of the E Ilertnwicit asked the prisoner if he wished to say any nrigin his defence? Prisoner—lt's no use my saying any 'ling- You w ou ld not believe me if I said that I did not Steal the hat. Ch arles Montague, described in the 13olice cbarge-sheet as residing at No. 4 E uston - square , St.. Pancras, a gentleman, of charged with furious driving, being at the time in a state o intoxication. appeared that about six o'clock last evening, the de ;`,4,", am, in a gig drawn by a very spirited horse, came on the at a most furious rate along Oxford-street, urging I T the animal by whipping it with much severi. I Tent-street the gig came in contact with an omnibus, 44 d the defendant' was pitched out on his head, but fortu t_n escaped with but very slight injury. He was then 'lAir t into custody by the police. RARnwiex imposed a fine of 40s. on the defendant. The fine was immediately paid. CLE RKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) ell \ , : ia t h Riley and Patrick Drury were charged, by Mr. '" e noll, a coffeehouse-keeper in Gray's Inn-lane, under utistances of an outrageous character. t6The prisoners, and some other fellows, entered the shop of .wil'iPrusalutor, and called for eggs, bacon, and coffee, with u le ," tNey were served by Mr. Nichol! , who demanded payd %l" The prisoner Drury seized the eatables, and calle h. _ to big companions to " Hook it." They run away. W O 7: tirYilesnwtorele police e would smash the landlord's nose if he were 11 icewoefreru, ruffians came sent for, and made and sau des if e s s e Riley anda l gang if it ii;td at e at tack ou Mr. Nichol! who would have been murdered pilehook ot . been fo r the timely arrival of a party of police, who la med 11Y into custody. Before Riley was , secured, a man ihea c i f ,anaan, who came to Mr. Nichol' s assistane, wa rt s of th T'Y beaten by the ruffians on the head and upper pa e prisoner was remanded. W A 11, RLO 0 -BR EDGE COMPANY. A g e neral (THIS DAY.) h eld at t ingofthe Proprietors of this Company Crown Pose of and receivi ng Anchor Tavern, for the pur- T ei ng half- the report of the Directors for the Pr .h e it year. Mr. R us h was ca ll e d to the chair. lryg i e e SECRETARY read the report, of which the .fol laentsg i s„ an abstract:—ln compliance with the reqlnre eor,„ of the Act of Parliament, the Directors of the th e ,r, a ''Y had prepared a report of the proceedings of jefo,„,rsrinll2 half -year, and they had the satisfaction of half, the Proprietors that the tolls received for the ,34 - B ) 4 e4 r, ending the 23d of August, amounted to Q141 14 , 4 _ 3 . 10d. At the last general meeting h :024 ,s:inkseervees ti trg," reported that, after defraying all the Ila ttad e ' 1_ a nd paving a dividend of 3s. in the 13s. and , rertinned a balance of 1,899/. - "g th tn ey had ii,7w to report that after avail- f of that surplus to the extent o Ileities'.2,ld., and providing for the interest on an °fPc'eX° bonds, and aying a dividend of 30. in the 13 jet% remained p a balance at the end of August Piri p etor s ",„ 7B . B d. It would be also the duty of the Pro °eta o f ,"" elect four members of committee in the :.ditor,,Ter retiring. They would also have to elect an ?Pr w e ) . Were, however, aware that the gentlemen who h e e:ent filled the office were eligible to re-election. a n rc ' t n th °llarnit tee anticited considerable advantages , 1 : 11 th jedi.atlways which would have the terminus on the "Ley 1, 8 2 - „ - e of the river, and , within the last two months, e Ftap B4l - i 4 entered into negotiations with several of these /l adu ct e '• The London. Railway proposed to erect a 14 1 )t i n tl ei tlZ t e the bridge, but the committee had ascer vtight befo r e projects of that company would not be st.ti. th tt andSouthernr in app! pext session.. The ;„ P anv • Company ppied . to know . if the ''Pns ^entd object to give up their bridge for the tht eS Of • we re ra;lway, and if they had no such objection, re i , a dY to snake a tender for it. The Cen yal n-sotiat•o" Ileilway Company had also entere d . into c)- th e 1-113 ' and they proposed to carry their railway a r t ) ire , d ° tl ll iotssie deetions e e o of . Their directors had re 0, ur l l 3 nies to tztrnish them with the plans . 4; 1 11 1 iie t heir railways, but they had not yet re ormation they r g l . 4n required, , a t l i t o h n ou t g o h a t p h p e l c y om to - Al a , !flou t notice of their Intel. ae next session, and had lodged their )v O u' co,,enrdancewith the standing orders of the Hou . se. Alr be-411ittee could assure them that every attention 14'aid to the interests of the proprietary. lk: t ße.ner,l"ra. Proposed the first resolution—" That me eting do a pp rove o f an d con fi rm the re wa rcleico rnt nittee." if Etl3, answer ution having been seconded, was carried, as tt'oPort of the auditors. ° a question from an HoN. PROPRIETOR, soul n he ti AR%AN e pl ans said that the Committee had not d of the several railway companies, an 31TThticlge i !elure say hemswhe r not they had taken he ' 91eir calculatio 11,4.1114 h, reti ring members of committee, the Rev. / / s hov (i , Beaden e l, Si r J o h n R enn i e , an d M r . d 4 4 r• \V, ° e re L E -e lected, as wa s the r e tiring auditor. 0 41 4 (1 2r Proposed a vote of thanks to the Chair- agreed era t°, the of committee, which being unani meeting broke up. ODt OF P ORTS. VI NO OF T f the To. o. meeting o u h. f.(.t01:43' a fol and respecta ble the l‘a,k, sand other inhabitants o f NtN4,.,41, held at twelve o'cloc k , consider the a of the °t,t, tf`l°Y tbe high Bailiff, to deficiency the h'411., t he e(juntry, arising from .e.in the Town Hall, Emanuel Ai h N t, -or. , i , i. °° l)er rifue gentlemen present we recogn isedThomaa Chadwick, 14eieke, ;11., 1i,a.81, Thomas Martin?_Es(l.,Bangh, Elia.,ms, Esq. 't rY Thomas Esq., vv m „,epi tsti a„h'gt)3ll' n Esq., and W. Wil li ams, Hum d - N. y after the n Beacon, thepro, Ws % i'' °lle 131 the U en b ig s for the Borough, Thoorily cheer es Esq.,) presided on 111' e:,ll!qh tailifi (Wm. Pritchard, eedin ding The ia,41°.4. FF rea gs' arrived, an BAILIFF 14 h ug , w as d by the HIGH wh i ch, he pro t, opened meeting; after - were called t e ed to addr e ss °g the He said, they opinion re *tti e th er for the t he mee ting . of expressingan 44 ,11,3,,the hpenliangi'P°fsethe ports for theim Dolliie"' 41(,c1. Re had the highest con fi dence s Southwark, an d ou , 44cier 81)44 of the inhabitants of requisition 'vas the • , when the considered it h i s free lety tllrestetot;ircutnstaillices, . _ e h expression of their . in the Z,1)14joo ,Il them t OretlL in ; for the nln .averting - ' 4 eli 4 el such au-importat quehsteio iroduce of the i a. Zoillitry, 4hallait3' as the failure of the a deep ebi g nd 1., 4 t,) at.._e.eonsidered they were theiru themea tifreelya 4`4,,,?artial'i?!orward to express q`. ( ifc ' , t() t i % itl sUch a crisis. With re -'er e Pt" Posed for the evil that was whatever difference d " 4:111j (4°l,jui Id opinion rd pending,to o re a t rise yet . he hope Y itint might wou • a in ' this meeting, kt4.zould gran t afplievail: impartial their own t't: e ll'% 1)(3'111 I. ' h e 4 r• ) and 4They would best advance tu others liiicahr ii4e,l,t It4'‘filrl.l:iat llbertyltowf asePtehee high a_nad.rPeay— hearingto every itil c ,„_ t r of the people of England to allow hist 1 PI opinion, a ki r 4 ev,rY NrBoo whatever might be remarks he would `:411 o/' l alld no favo'sr• With these _tio to i r 4 t to co in gentl n-i h o had a 113 r P eting. The 41)11, "ctte I.orardea-ndllay w it before the Me eneral eh g tntk ,-.4. ~,aa sat down ami d s t loud and g t re 01u titli.* -',44,h0.,..,, an _ havingT h at p rlti 4t ti,,T'sui.ajecl the mee ting Itlietle en0..7.1-',C9OPER rose to t i move ng : the firs - such- a iii:pitto as _lsivailiff to pres i de sor u of their l ate of opinion tkizflgt ear, foi4nieso.rtl Whatever differences tere was th tely t 4 en the sub' f a remedy, deficiency of ' l er a ny di !) o p inion to the -i v u er them. High N ° l l 9. 1 erenCe of p as .i the potato failure e ' w ,l a t e ktitt,Pli,lkt lAttl_.l)art there was a -0 reat rite „ 1 1 In ibt"..ula ly in Ireland. b Sin,,,lgetsit”`"senuntry, that the Government scientific 4 ;to or seudin t a commission of the potato,. cil) ;luire - g °ll titit aori into the condition o f had sent l'h ' 4 014 , e'en the l eading journa l s inquiries. had seen Nq'evil 1 eounnis ' to make sim ilarlt. alt'he ~,t , , vv4.3, 3,__ .. stoners, _ ~.., it of l''k i ll "as (I,3tieeY did not see the end u' ^ww•as ce r tai n .: aecure, tir ed while the other half N,, they h,they Would then know . not so; fo preyq the - ` 1 to grap 1 with. But it w ground for 't • Pettit P 6 A tli , 4104 oes were put under the they were eit. tatltsaut aPParently in good condition, as the de exactly the ditli r tai °y tioafinll,,.,eoMpletely destroyed. Neritwwas ascer: it i t ,7 the ~,h ' e e to the potato crops, but the extent of th cAil % d t , IS per" crop was also a failure, to average one t, Oe, ~,,,, eeTII. eonipared with what •an Hear.) t ri :ii tla Ili eonThined with the scarcity of the potato tilti," irehe,„^tts every prosneet of a famine.—th raise ii. ' voi '' c; every ' • h t he ir duty -- .1 1 in r,latit,A•eell ai tustauces. It was t e it'h - Nip t al oe With the eat towns of the nor._ t 4 4 4 . he op ooin f the whenwent.() I na h __ , g o .41 not concluded we 4 h t i ll 4, N 1544 . -------- ---_____ _ difficult 14,, t4111;4118 orl'eAr:. OPRRATION.-- f Thisver in sal : 111,'50(1,:piorrg :4911,1:v1as success u yh perfor m ed ~„.,dford and r . Ra & rsda "leek, 3' " far at to press.] 1 3 ,11 ,1 Of -r:,„' ;lirgeoll • and 3' derstand that,. so net kilo % 111,-gry a fortni h we Illin mother and child are one k l. q4.i• 44,40ing vvellg tii:3l4 stated that there is but _ ng be les, 141;1'1411v - Well-authen. Ccat is d s e of this operation i p l l, cif ,pfk,rnied in England, namely, by Mr. Know LAt,fAl tlllt Pzull'lNhanu.--Ittanclteter Guarthan. /thi,,411 '..t. k;Attoo or p IGN WHEAT BON DED . rs, %lit_ ,„, , ORE under rt ship, bop t, I::,Ne,i frlY _learn that the first cargo of foreign kN rci hag Jost b,svLni..irveerool, f.ott;,_theipo 9t111;;1dt1ie.......act j u t a n t of 181,10nsare.,d tincir.e bonded warehouses t '-_;,. Buckle and Newton, of qtr:k: buTlkteechester Quarwan• IN THE Ztliltilt qltAkr,,Z OFF GLAsS. ImPRovEmENT out at ltZoNot, irpat improvement is being carrietdheroof lIZI Of t ie ri 'lad e t„:: eßeat-street, by the removal of terrace, ori,i. sli,,s andsubstitute one of glass. From the dark t4 ,i,oritti oil s ligrf of forming a prom!nade, garden , r vkt g-. 441 (14. the rooms above, but under t h e n_ or co be ‘.sityli , 'lie terrace in order ty.lt 14443 Rtlti, 8, 0. „ t .w . as ncessarily given , It will now l.trltre, aati be gottivlill!ers sfzes and h'i's ftttithe h elp. e e 1 nt both to eshOpkeepers and , ql14141141) Of ier,itliattnin Harrison M.A., ' c lt , ' lll of ---Nurfs Chaplains is to be th e new l 11,. i t)h to theMaidstone, acant b Archdeacon Lynn a loal 11l of t 0 I)eanery of:vcant buY ,i,,q'vritin `'o late b r . 1,,, er FY* one of the i Arthur tp 4 4 3e 4. 11 R 4 .-...,, satorcit; T ade, winch was in his own tile I°:'l4lleati%b•llli, Vij'ef4g.ust_t\-!c311 11:4?ca ' .ek, give 441,,Y,,140,,Mr. Thee,,karY Anai East n l af e l Der, third daughter of ~,-i alr°4lY arid-,Z '-',rafer,_ of De;eham, Norfolk, all -rft4,4;1,41110' allat.4"!CW, ”d moneys in hand and due to me, tr tch l of anks,ai oln. Cornish mines, money in annu . iti )tti:''' 111: 114 t kii.,l ::etreerh stipends and fees, and nielxoectnur_ Vki4e4 atiejl3,lZil tat for f tivie'lpeahyteultsolfli' probate duty I SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The decision of the Cabinet is no longer a secret. Parliament, it is confidently reported, is to be summoned for the first week in January ; anti the Royal Speech will, it is added, recommend an immediate con sideration of the corn-laws, preparatory to their total repeal. Sir Robert Peel in one house, and the Duke of Wellington in the other, will, wo are told, be prepared to give immediate effect to the recommendation thus conveyed. An announcement of such immeasurable im portance, and to the larger portion of the community so unspeakably gratifying, almost precludes the possibility I of comment. No pen can keep pace with the reflecions which must spontaneously crowd upon every thoughtful and sensitive mind. They who have long desired this change, and have long traced its manifold bearings on the welfare and happiness of the world, will in one mo I ment see the realisation of that fair prospect, and will I hardly endure to be informed of what they already be ; hold. The approaching event, therefore, which we this ' day communicate to our readers, must be left to speak for itself. It is understood that until Parliament meets nothing is to be done. For the Legislature will be reserved the responsibility and the glory of opening the ports. We presume that none will quarrel with this brief appearance of delay, now that the resolution of the Cabinet is known. The moral certainty of an early opening will be equivalent in its operation to an immediate order in council. It is enough for the mks chant and the capitalist to know that by the end et January at the latest, the produce of all countries will enter the British market on an absolute equality with our own, excepting only those disadvantages which Nature itself has made, and which man cannot entirely remove. Any unnecessary appearance of haste would only create alarm, and might thus defeat, for a time at least, the very object of the measure. Happily there is no occasion for haste, even if haste were not almost certain to interfere with speed. It is said that the deci sion has been made with that unanimity which perhaps the compulsion of circumstances alone can inspire. The reported exceptions are both insignificant and doubtful, and not of a sort to interfere with the construc tion of the Cabinet. There is, of course, one man who had it in his power to offer an enormous impediment and create a frightful collision ; but experience com ing to the aid of his own intuitive sagacity, has, we are told, taught him to retire from an eventually fruitless opposition, and to husband his strength for more attainable objects. Fortunately for the present peace, if not for the ultimate prosperity of the nation, he has long exemplified that which the chief writer on the British Constitution has declared to be the most decisive and triumphant test of its soundness—viz., the abso lute impotence of military greatness against the con stitutional movements of the popular will. It is scarcely fair to imagine a contingency from which the possible author has himself most judiciously recoiled ; but we feel very sure that the Upper House will be only too thnkful to be spared an unequal and, per haps, a disastrous conflict with the Ministers of the Crown and the representatives of the people. It is evident that this is the only quarter from which the Premier's position has been seriously threatened. From that quarter he might have been over thrown if his assailants felt sufficient interest in their cause to wish to be buried in its ruins; but the British aristocracy feels no such injurious and sui cidal ambition. It is either too good or too wise to strike wiih such force that its own life is spent in the blow. The Premier has not been blind to the security afforded by the alternative of a common destruction. lie has set his political existence against the Lords, and won the stake. Our traditionary reverence for the first estate of the realm may lead us to regret that it should ever be thrown into a psition involving defeat by so unequal a combatant. We may justly regret that it has not lately been more accustomed to draw on the known resources of hereditary wisdom—that it has allowed itself to be represented by a few, and has thus changed its broad, aristocratical basis, for the more manageable, and, therefore, less enduring, form of an oligarchy—and, above all, that it has delegated its credit and authority to leaders who are kind only in flattering its foibles, bold only in committing it to errors, and wise only in consenting to defeat. The other parties with whom Sir Robert Peel might have been called upon to measure his strength really, like some countries we see on the maps, have, at the pre sent moment, rather a geographical than a political existence. In whatever way it has come to pass, so it is. the agriculturists have just now no more power than the animals they are industriously bringing to such magnificent proportions. What they wish, or hate, or fear, their interests and their grievances, have literally been dropped out of the calcu lation. The Premier, who has enjoyed their support, has a just sense of its value, and is atno pains to conceal that he can do without it. Whether his is the case of the steward who grows rich himself while his employer cle!!ays, we will not now inquire, but the result is the same. From this quarter nothing was to be feared, and to imagfoe a danger would have been simply a mistake. They, however, who expect to see us r!. nation of heroe and martyrs wolikl probably have desired that the pre s sent patriotic surrendssr should have been the voluntary and gratuitous act of those at whose risk, if not at whose loss, it is done. But if the Conservatives should be broken up, the Whigs would come in. Here wss a sub stantial, a political, an historical foe, whom Sir Robert might remember and fear ! Truly hey are an historical foe —magni nominis umbra. The meinbe7 B of the party may survive and reign in another form ; but the party itself is scattered and overthrown. It is an unfortunate circumstance that so good a deed should literally go a-begging for an author. The nation has done it, but who is the instrument ? It is in Sir Robert Peel's hand, but is it his property ? Nor have the Whigs much more claim to it. They only proposed to give up the corn-laws when it was evident the peril of the experiment would be the inheritance of their succes sors. Shall we, again, call the League the true hero of the crisis—the real Simon Pure of free trade ? Truth compels us to answer in the affirmative ; but the idea is still somewhat distasteful, and human nature itself will cavil at a patriotism, the virtues of which were so closely allied with its interests. The Premier appeals to the good sense and the growing intelligence of the nation. We are flattered by an appeal whichi assures us that we are wiser than our forefathers. Still, it is unusual to see those mutations of opinion which are usually spread over ages, and divided by successive generations, concentrated in one man. Grant that it is a piece of good sense, and wisdom, and intelligence, it is distressing to reflect how long we have been denied it. The appeal. is next made to our experience. The sliding-scale has been tried in every form, and every form has required a change. The last change has not been the most suc cessful. Never since it began has it done any good to the farmer, till just now, when the country will not bear it. Grant that the experiment is a failure ; but whose experiment was it ? Some, perhaps, will not trust the same experimentalist again. The appeal to our condo nation is the next resort. The nation is merciful, and Sir Robert has had too many proofs of its forgiving temper not to confide once more in that amiable ele ment. But why are people to forgive when there is no help for it ? It is mockery to carry a matter againi t a person's will and then ask his pardon. The truth is that it must be done. Necessity knows no laws. The sliding-scale cannot and will not stand. Protection can not be maintained. The country cannot be kept in a state of civil war, with the most fearful jealousies daily ripening and coming to a head. The thing must be done, and it is Sir Robert Peel's common sense and con venient view of the case that he is the actual Premier, and therefore bound to do it. ADVERTISER.--A rumour of great importance reached us yesterday, namely, that Sir Robert Peel had, at the Cabinet Council of Tuesday, threatened his resig nation. We are bound to say that subsequent inquiries have not tended to confirm this rumour. From the par ticular circle to which it may he traced, the wish may be expected to be "father to the thought." Hence, while we give it currency, we deny it credit. Not that we should be very much astonished at such a result, come when it may, but at present it appears premature, and would affix a most mortifying importance to the let ters of political rivals. Sir Robert Peel is much more sensitive to the opinions of a party than a nation. His arguments in the House are directed to " the Noble Lord" with much greater frequency than to the coun try. He seems to consider, that if he fall there is none to replace him but the party in opposition ; hence his constant endeavours to damage or silence them, rather than satisfy the millions outside. To resign just now would be the greatest homage that could be paid to Lords Russell and Morpeth, as nothing of im portance has occurred since the preceding Cabinet Council save the publication of their letters. The letter of Lord John Russell seems to shut the door to the pos sibility of a coalition Ministry, whatever may be the similarity of sentiments between the great leaders. Al most every point that is made is a personal one, and is the more biting from the quiet language in which it is expressed. An air of the most mortifying triumph runs through the whole, and the instances of vacillation and tergiversation at the most critical periods, and on the most important measures of the last quarter of a cen tury, must be gall and wormwood to the present Premier. We are for " measures, not men." Nevertheless, we do not shut our eyes to the philosophy of Bacon's obser vation, that " measures without men are dead images." Catholic Emancipation was extorted by fear, not pro moted by love. It was the result of a certain letter from a certain Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, rather than of any altered convictions. At that time the Duke of Wel lington, as well as Sir R. Peel, was not insensible to the evils and hazards of a national outbreak. These states men granted emancipation in appearance to quiet Ire land, determined to deny it in fact as much as they could. They enabled Roman Catholics to fill thirty-three situa tions, from which religion had previously excluded them, but they took especial care that not one of those situa tions should a Roman Catholic actually fill. That no Peel-faith or punic. faith could prevent the people en joying free-trade if they once got it on the Statute-book, we can readily believe ; nevertheless there are many things a friendly Administration might do to promote it, which a hostile one would not. Hence we would rather have it from those who agree with it in principle, than from those who concede it as a necessity. Lord John Russell and Lord Morpeth are now as much pledged to it from conviction as Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Villiers; while to hammer it into the heads of any set of men, or any party with whom Sir Robert could now connect him self, would be a work of great delay and difficulty. , POST.—Constituted as society is at present in this country, with habits of political discussion so generally diffused, and with habits of assertion regarding public matters so little guarded, there appears to be a great want of some more regular and constant mode of authentic communication between the Government and the public. For some weeks past, in certain widely circulated newspapers, and at public meetings convened for the purposes of political agitation, assertions have been made, producing an effect on the public mind of the most serious importance. In short, impressions of the probability of approaching scarcity—perhaps of famine—have been produced by these assertions. And • it has been even alleged that Government is in possession of information which proves such alarming assertions to be well founded. Now, whatever may be thought of their own dignity by men in office, and whatever may be . the contempt they entertain for the individuals who harangue at Anti-Corn-law meetings, or who write in newspapers, it surely is a serious pra.nical matter that a general impression of the probability of scarcity or famine should be produced, if there be no good foun dation for it. We ourselves believe that there is none. We believe, that notwithstanding the spoutings of Mr. Cobden and his set at public meetings, notwithstanding the acknowledged writing of Lord John Russell, and the anonymous writings of others in newspapers of great circulation and influence, that there is no good founda tion for the alarm about probable famine, and that the speakers and writers to whom we allude have themselves no belief iu the probability of the calamities which they prophesy. We believe that all these forebodings are published merely from a wish to do mischief to political opponents, or to serve certain ends which are not likely to be served by the promulgation of truth. But our belief is not the belief of the multitudes who listen to Anti-Corn-law harangues, or who read the articles of Lord John Russell, or other men, in the newspapers which favour the views of the Anti- Corn-law League. It cannot be that the Government discerns no mischief in the wide circulation of un founded apprehensions. But the Government does nothing in any way to set the public right, if indeed it be wrong to think that famine is probable ; and if it be not wrong, then the Government should before now have interposed with cautions and directions suitable to such a state of things. It may be said, that the public may very well be left to judge for themselves of what is true and what is untrue, in regard to the probability of scarcity. We deny, however, that it is safe to leave the public to their own errors, and their own means of finding out errors in such matters. We know how much it is the fashion now for Government to leave every thing to " find its own level." Falsehood, avarice, au dacity, are not to be interfered with. Government is merely to give away places, and to allow the people to struggle as they may, the strong with the weak, the wealthy with the poor, the crafty with the simple. There is to be no interference, for it is the law of liberality to allow such things to find their own level. We believe that such liberality must come to a ruinous end, and therefore we protest against it. It is a mistake to suppose that the good sense of the people is enough to protect them against being im posed upon by misrepresentation. The newspapers which. venture upon misrepresentation know the public better. The Times of yesterday, for instance, quotes speeches in its leading article with a view of showing that bread is at this moment half as dear again as it was last May. The Times ventures upon this, although well knowing that every one in London who will take the trouble of looking at the bakers' bills, or of in quiring of his wife or housekeeper what the price of bread was in May, and what it is now, must discover the untruth. But readers will not take that trouble. They will assume the fact, because their prejudices are in favour of some measure to which the fact is supposed to lead. The Times says much about the large aggre gate sum paid every week in the United Kingdon for bread, beyond that which was paid this time last year. This difference is cited as an overwhelming argument for repeal of the corn-laws. True, it is not shown that the repeal of the corn laws would lessen the present expenditure by a single penny ; but that is assumes, and hasty readers swallow the assumption. It is true also, that in December, 1839, wheat was much dearer than it is now, and employment much more difficult to be obtained, and the corn-law imposed much heavier duties than it does now ; and yet at that time the Times did not make any clamour about the necessity or expe diency of establishing free trade in corn; but readers of the present day do not remember that. They imagine that the Times writes as it does from established prin ciples of political economy, and from a sincere view of that which is needful for the public safety. Thus are the public deluded, and the Government looks on and does nothing but hold Cabinet Councils which the Times says are for the purpose of considering " whether there is a sufficient likelihood of a scarcity to call for any special precautions." We believe that the Times does not know what has been done at recent Cabinet Councils, or what has been considered, more than it does of what happened on any of these days in the moon; but the assertion is made, and there is nothing to guard the pub lic against being misled. ~„ -- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EV'ENIN'G, DECEMBER 4, 1845. REGENT'S CANAL COMPANY. The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Regent's Canal was held yesterday at their office, City-road Basin. There was a very large attendance of proprietors. On the motion of Mr. Alderman WILSON, J. D. Bethune, Esq., was called to the chair. The minutes of the last half-yearly meeting, as well as those of a special meeting, held in September, having been read, were confirmed. The CHAIRMAN said that he had to submit for their consideration the report of the committee for the pre ceding half-year. The Chairman read the report, which was in substance as follows:—" The committee congratu late the proprietors on the continued prosperity of the Company. The working of the canal during the last half-year had been most beneficial ; and, as compared with the correspondin g period of 1844, exhibited a marked improvement. They found that for the half-year end :^e the 30th of November, the commerce had been 5 27089 :9ns,,which yielded an amount of 19,4891., giving a profit to the Company, on the 30th of September, of 13,920/. 15s. 4id. This would give a dividend of 12s. per share to each of the proprietors, as also 5 per cent. on the profits of the last half-year, amounting to 6761. 14s. 10d., leaving a surplus balance of 393 L 4s. 61d. to be added to the next dividend. They begged to call the attention of the proprietors to a purchase of some pro perty at Lewisham, for the improvement of the canal, and they had to add, that the pro moters ' of the Regent's Canal Railway had deposited the necessary documents with the Board of Trade, and paid in 5,000 L, as a portion of the purchase money, into the Bank of England, which their com mittee had invested favourably in the purchase of Ex chequer-bills." The report having been read, The CHAIRMAN again rose, and read several resolu tions confirmatory of the paragraphs in the report, which were unanimously agreed to. He then stated that a letter had been received by their Secretary, Mr. Lynn, from Mr. Greene, one of their auditors, resigning his office. A desultory discussion of a personal character fol lowed in relation to the motives that induced that gen tleman to tender his resignation. In reply to questions from different proprietors, The CHAIRMAN stated that the plans and sections of the proposed Railway Company had been deposited agreeably to the requirement of the standing orders ; that the subscription lists were filled up, but he could not say whether the calls had been fully responded to. It was also added that no portion of the Parliamentary expenses would fall on the Regent's Canal Company, and they were, by the terms of the agreement, to retain possession of the canal until the Railway Bill should have been obtained, and the purchase-money should be paid up. They were, in addition, to receive whatever money should have been in' the meantime expended in the im provement of the canal. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman and the committee, the meeting separated. SUPPOSED CASE OF MURDER. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) ENNISKILLEN, Nov. 29.—A very shocking murder — happily, however, unconnected with the agrarian sys tem—has just come to light in the vicinity of this town. " On Wednesday was a week, a Miss Irvine, sister to the clerk of the crown for the county of Fermanagh, was found dead under the feet of her horse in the stable attached to her house, which stands almost in the suburbs of Enniskillen. She was covered with wounds and bruises, particularly on the head ; one of her arms was broken, and the hand of it very much damaged. " It was supposed that Miss Irvine, who, though an elderly lady was of very active habits, had, upon this occasion, gone to fetch some apples from the loft above the stable, where they had been stored, and that in her descent either the step-ladder had slipped, or that she had fallen from it under the horse's feet, and had thus been kicked and trampled to death. This would have been the more extraordinary, as the animal was known to be very gentle, and, moreover, very familiar with and attached to his mistress, who frequently used to feed him. The death, however, was considered accidental, and the body was buried, without an inquest. " Things remained in this state until late yesterday (Friday) evening, when a lad about sixteen or seventeen years of age, who had recently been taken into Miss Irvine's service, came forward, under the direction of his father, and gave such information as induced the magistrate to arrest the woman servant who lived with Miss Irvine at the time of her death. This woman had been reared by her mistress from her childhood, and no suspicion had previously attached itself to her, nor, in deed, to anybody else. " The body was this day (Saturday) exhumed, and an inquest was held, but at so late an hour that the sitting was obliged to be adjourned to Monday morning. Two physicians, Drs. Ovenden and Nixon, deposed, I understand, that the injuries of which the lady died were not such as could have been produced by the hoofs of a horse, and that some, at least, of them were in flicted by a sharp instrument, such as a hatchet or cleaver (of the latter there had been one in the house, which cannot now be found.) " The boy deposed that a few evenings previous to the murder his fellow servant had said to him Now, if some stranger should come and murder the mistress, what would become of us?' He also stated, that on the day of the murder this woman had sent him out of the way on the pretext of fetching her an apron and other articles of clothing from some distant place, and that on his return she would not admit him by the shortest and most usual entrance, but sent him a long round. On her opening the door for him he observed blood upon her hands, but, supposing she had been killing a turkey, he took no further notice of it at the time. The woman said nothing about the murder, and he went about his business, until having occasion to g o into the stable, he saw blood, , upon which water had been thrown, flowing from under the stable-door, and on entering it found his mistress dead as described. " This is the material part of the evidence, as far as I have heard it, and I have reason to think it is essentially correct. The woman and the lad are, of course, b o t h held in custody until the result of the inquest shall be known. " The motive to this horrid deed is not yet ascer tained. Some impute it to the desire of robbery, as the old lady was rich, and the woman has been observed to have more money than usual about her. Others think it arose from resentment and revenge for the mistress having recently discharged a man-servant, on the grounds of too great a familiarity having existed between him and the woman. 6. —. *: ITALIAN DESPOTISM. Clara Novello has been the prima donna for the last half of the carnival. Rome and Genoa had both, as they thought, engaged her for the season, and hence when each claimed her there was a collision. The two Go vernments took it up, and finally it was referred to the Pope. It was a matter of some consequence to his Holi ness where the sweet singer should open her mouth for the season. In his magnanimity he decided that she should stay at Rome. The managers, however, compromised the matter, by each city having her half the time. She had formerly been exceedingly popular here, but, contrary to the will of the chief bass singer and the leader of the orchestra, she attempted, at her .first appearance, an air unsuited to her voice, and which she was told she could not perform. Of course she failed, and was slightly hissed. Her English blood mounted at so unequivocal a demonstration of their opinion of her singing, and, Dido like, bowing haughtily to the crowd, the turned her back on the audience and walked off the stage. The tenor and the bass both stopped—the orchestra—indeed all stopped except the hissing, which a axed louder every moment. bile was immediately taken to her rooms by the police of the city, and for three days the gens•d'armes stood night and day at her door, keeping the fair singer a prisontr for her misconduct. This is a fair illustration of this Go vernment. Even an opera-singer cannot pout without having the gens-d'armes after her. On the promise of good behaviour, however, she was released from confine , ment, and again appeared on the stage, where the good natured, music-loving Italians hailed her appearance with deafening cheers, and repaid their want ofgellantry with excess of applause. Poor Clara Novelle) is not the first who has suffered from the tyranny of this military des potisio. The other day I went to see the first printer of Genoa. He is a young man, modest, amiable, and cour teous—so much so, that I became immediately deeply interested in him. His name is Isola. He, too, had fallen once under the ban of the Government. Like all geniuses, he loves liberty, and the great first historical piece he painted, and on which he designed to base his claim to be ranked amongst the first artists of his coun try, was a representation of the last great struggle Genoa made for freedom. He showed me the design : in the foreground, with his horse fallen under him, struggled the foreign governor that had been imposed on the people, while the excited multitude were raining stones and mis siles on him, and trampling him under foot. Farther back, and elevated on the canvas, stood the Marquis of Spinola, cheering on the people, one hand grasping the sword, the other waiving Oat the flag of freedom. Ex cited men were running hither and thither, through crowded streets, and all the bustle and hurry of a rapid heavy fight were thrown upon the canvas. It was a spi rited sketch, and one almost seemed to hear the battle cry of freemen, end the shout of victory. Such a picture immediately made a noise in Genoa, where yet slumber the elements of a republic. It was finished, and admired by all, and treasured by the painter. But one day, while Isola was sitting before it, contemplating his work, and thinking what corrections might be made, his door was burst open, and two gens-d'armes stood before him. — Seizing the picture before his eyes, they marched bim oft behind it, to answer for the crime of having painted his country battling for her rights. The painting was locked up in a room of the Government, where it has ever since remained. Isola was carried between two gens•d'aimes a hundred and twenty miles, to Turin, and thrown into prison. He was finally released, hut his picture remains under lock and key. The Government, however, has, in its magnanimity, condescended to permit the artist t 3 sell it to any one who will carry it out of the country.—La ers from Italy. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. nrE RUSSIAN MEN OF 'WAR IN PLYMOUTH SOUND.—The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, and the line of battle ship and corvette have not yet left Plymouth Sound, the wind having continued foul. On Tuesday, being the birth day of the Emperor of Russia, his Majesty's ships, the In germanland, 80, and the Prince of Warsaw, 30, were dressed with various coloured flags, and at 11 A.M. fired a royal salute. The British ships, the Queen, 110, bearing the flag of the Port Admiral, and the President, 50, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Dacres, in Plymouth Sound, and the Caledonia, 120, flagship of Rear Admiral Pym, in Hamoaze, paid the same compliment to the Emperor at 12 o'clock, the standard of England being hoisted at the main, and the Russian standard being run up at the foremost of their ships, during the salute of 21 guns. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, in honour of the anniversary of his Royal father's birthday, invited Admirals Sir John West, Sir S. Pvm, and J. R. Dacres; Captains Sir Henry Leeke. M. H. Dixon, E. Stanley, and Henderson; Com manders Dacres, Wreford, Potbury, and other officers to lutcheon at two P.M. • The Ocean, 80, Captain Superintendent Arthur, C. 8., was taken out of Sheerness basin on Tuesday, and alongside the Minotaur hulk, shipping her stores. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, with the flag of Rear. Admiral Dacres, still remains in Plymouth Sound, prevented by the weather from pursuing her voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. The Endvmien, 44, Captain Henderson, will leave Devon port Harbolir for Plymouth Sound in a day or two. The St. Lawrence, 44, was undocked at Sheerness on Satur day, when the Ferret, 10, was taken in to be fitted for the pendant. The Curagoa, 24, Captain Sir Thomas Pesky, Bart., was at Buenos Ayres on the 21st of September. Sir Thomas had given notice of the blockade of that port by, the combined forces of England and France. The Nimrod, 20, hoisted the pendant on Monday, Com mander. Dacres having arrived at Devonport on that day. Mr. George Corney, gunner, has been appointed to her. The Fantome, 16, Commander Sir F. W. Nicholson, Bart., arrived at Gibraltar, from Malaga, on Nov. 21. The Viper, 6, brigantine, has been masted at Sheerness basin,and will be reported ready for commission in a few days:. The Penguin, 6, packet-brig, Lieut. Commander Leslie, has arrived at Devonport, from Falmouth and the Brazils, to be refitted. The Mercury tender, arrived at §eerness on Friday, with the Marines paid off from the Thalia, 44, at Portsmouth, belonging to the Chatham division. She returned to Ports mouth on Monday with supernumeraries. The Aid, lighter, is unloading seines at Sheerness, from Woolwich ; and the Lively, lighter, from Portsmouth. The Avenger, steam-frigate, built at Devonport, and na vigated to the Thames to have her engines fitted, has ar rived at Devonport, from Woolwich, in charge of Mr. Kerley, assistant master attendant of Sheerness Dockyard. WooLwicif, DEC. 3.—The Electo steam-vessel, Com mander F. W. Austen, went down the river yesterday on an experimental trial, and being found in .excellent order, left Woolwich this afternoon for Greenhithe, to have her corn passes adjusted by Captain Johnson, and will then proceed to Portsmouth to be paid advance, previous to leaving for the South American station. The Avenger steam-frigate left Deptford on Saturday, on her way round to Plymouth to be commissioned. She fully sustained her character fer speed, which she acquired on her experimental triaL The Fearless steam-vessel, Master Commander Brockman, left Woolwich to-day for Sheerness, to undertake the duties of the Dwarf steam-vessel, at the latter port. The Dwarf steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander H. B. Proc tor, is hourly expected at Woolwich, to be paid off, and her present commander will then hoist his pennant on the Harpy iron steam-vessel, at present at Woolwich. The Monkey steam-vessel, Master William Bryant, towed the Barretto Junior, on Sunday, to moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, the latter having been placed under orders to convey convicts to Bermuda, A detachment of Royal Marines, of the Woolwich division, joined head-quarters on Saturday, on being paid off from the Thalia, 42 guns, recently returned from the Pacific, and Sergeant Johnson, a non-commissioned officer, was yesterday presented with a silver medal, and a gratuity of 71., on the guard mounting parade, for good conduct on board the Thalia. He will be placed on the pension list at the end of the month, having completed his twenty-one years' service in March last. A number of caulkers have been sent from Deptford and Chatham to Woolwich dockyard, to assist in expediting the Amphion and Sphynx steam-vessels, now nearly ready for launching. ACCIDENT WHILST RlDlNG.—Yesterday morning the following accident occurred to a boy named John Ayl - fourteen }ears of age. He was occasionally employed at a farrier's in Upper Clapton, who had shoed a horse, which the lad was directed to take home to the Swan Tavern. Whilst proceeding along the road the bridle rein broke, and the animal finding itself at liberty, darted oft at full speed. The boy maintained his seat for some time, when the horse stumbled, by which be was thrown into the road with fear ful violence, pitching headfOremost. Ho was picked up to all appearance dead, and bleeding profusely from a dreadful wound on the head, and he was conveyed to the London Hospital, where his case is considered quite hopeless. Cammucs.—ZAn improved fabric, made from the best qualities of home-grown flax—denominated " the golden flax"—has gained the first prizes, both for cambric and cam bric handkerchiefs, at the present November meeting of the Flax Improvement Society or Ireland. We notice this, in connexion with the following summary of facts detailed in the valuable work by Dr. Kane on the " Industrial Resources of Ireland," which fully goes to prove the vast im portance of this branch of our industry. We find it therein stated, that, near to Warringstown, three statute acres of land produced no less a quantity than one hundred stones of flax, value 751. ; the produce of this field was sold to an eminent factory in the neighbourhood (the very same that has turned out the present prize webs), for 15s. per stone; this flax, in the process of conversion into cambric pocket handkerchiefs, will give constant employment, for twelve months, to about 217 persons, whose wages amount to 2,217/. Cs. Bd. Adding 751. for the flax, you arrive at a value of 2,2921. 6s. Bd., the elements of which sprung from about la. 3r. 16p. of land, Irish measure, and the entire when finished, will yield a very remunerating profit to the manu facturer ! The operatives seem fully alive to their interest in this manufacture; several hundreds of them, accompanied with bands of music, met the successful weavers returning from the exhibition, and conducted them in triumph through Lurgan, and the village of Warringstown was illuminated on the occasion.—Bsifast News Letter. DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS.—The Ecclesias tical Commissioners have decided upon a scheme for revising the fixed annual payment charged upon the see of Bath and Wells, which has up to the present time been 1,0001. In order to preserve, as nearly as may be, to the Bishop of Bath and Wells an amount of income equivalent to that which was determined in the first instance to be suitable to the circumstances of his bishopric, the Commissioners have determined that the annual payment shall be reduced to 8001. per annum. The scheme has been approved of by her Majesty in Council. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.—This document will be delivered about this day (Wednesday), two days after the departure of the Boston mail steamer, unless she should be detained for it, which we hear is improbable. It will, therefore, most likely be brought by a sailing-packet, which, leaving New York on the 6th, at this season of the year, may be expected to arrive about the 24th or 25th, unless the Government, which we think may be the case, should have a steamer in waiting. The Message will decide the question " Peace or War ?"—Liverpool Courier. MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEws.—The princi pal feature at the Stock Exchange yesterday was a fall in the premium of Exchequer-bills, which went as low as 14s. No great importance is to be attached to a reduction of some shillings in the value as regards the security itself, but, as an indication which it furnishes of an increased stringency of the money market, it is certainly one that will not be over looked by practical men of business. By some it has been thought to portend an increase by the Bank in their rate of interest to-morrow, but there are so many political elements of disturbance abroad, that it is impossible to tell exactly upon what circumstance or circumstar cos our capitalists are for the moment operating, whether with a view to security or profit. The continued meetings of Ministers, and the doubts which still exist with regard to the issue of the Oregon dispute, serve to keep dings in an unsettled state. —Poet. LITERAT URE. THE CHAINBEAREB7 By J. F. Cooper. 3 Vets. This is another of Cooper's American tales—a con tinuation of the " Littlepage Manuscripts," to which we were first introduced some months back in "Satanstoe." The hero end heroine of that novel give place to their son, who plays the first role in this. A few years are supposed to have intervened, but they are years that performed the work of ages—a mighty revolution bad taken place. " Satanstoe" was a tale of the Colonies ; the events of the " Chainbearer" occur in the States. These volumes are not remarkable for the stirring inci dents and animated descriptions to be found in the pre ceding work, but, en revanche, we have highly-finished portraits and masterly sketches forcibly illustrating the different characters. Mordaunt Littlepage is the osten sible hero, the preux chevalier of the romance ; but there is another, and a very important personage, who gives his name to the work Andries Cocjemans (Que( mans) is a Dutchman, a captain in the American army. Having lost his fortune, he becomes a surveyor, but, we are told, " he had no head for mathematics, and after making one or two notable blunders in the way of his new profession, he quietly sunk to the station of a chainbearer, in which capacity be was known to all the leading men of his craft." Old Andries seems to be a favourite with the author. His character is described with considerable force and even minuteness. He is represented as a compound of pride and humility ; ignorant, yet shrewd; sagacious, but simple ; warm-hearted, honest, and honourable. The chief incidents of the plot are occasioned by the disputes of the landlords and the " squatters," the former anxious to maintain possession of the soil which the latter unceremoniously appropriated to themselves. This gives rise to som e interesting discussions regard ing land and landlords. The description of Aaron Thousand Acres, the chief of a family of" squatters." is one of the most powerful in the book. He is independent, stern, even cruel ; convinced of his rights and resolved to maintain them ; his motto, nemo me impune lacessit ; his anger easily kindled, and his revenge terrible. These stern scenes are pleasingly contrasted by occasional glimpses of the Littlepage family. We there find our old friends Cornelius and Anneke surrounded by their happy children, passing their lives in tranquillity and peace. The romance of the story is occasioned by the loves of Mordaunt Littlepage and Ursula Malbone, the niece of the chainbearer. The whole narrative is related in the first person. It is told in the easy style of familiar conversation, which soon places the author on friendly terms with his readers. LA SOUBRETTE; or THE ADVENTURES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF THERESA DORNAY. 3 Vols. This is a very lively, entertaining narrative, full of variety. It is said to be founded on facts, and very pos sibly the main incidents are not wholly without foun • dation. Theresa Dornay, the heroine, is left at an early age without friends or fortune. Having enjoyed the ad vantages of an excellent education, she assumes the ar duous duties of a nursery governess. In this situation she endures many trials • she is treated with n eg l ec t, sometimes with unkindness, dismissed on the most trifling pretences ; at each engagement hoping for better fortune, yet each time doomed to disappointment. She perceives the different treatment experienced by the lady's-maid, and yielding to the persuasions of some humble friends, she resolves to change her situation. She is told " that it is not more humbling to wait on the mistress of the family than to be in constant attendance upon the children ; that she will be better paid, more kindly treated, and have much more liberty as lady's maid than as governess." She accordingly commences the life of a Soubrette, and finds no cause to repent the change. At first sight it appears extraordinary and improbable that one occupy ing the inferior position of lady's-maid should be preferred before a. person of education and refine ment, to whom is entrusted the intruction of the young. But the reason is obvious. A governess is poor, but in other respects she is the equal, if not the superior, of her mistress. All persons of narrow views and ignorant minds (and it is only these who can ill-treat the in structors of their children), all such persons will feel humbled by their own inferior abilities, and, conscious that they are superior in wealth, will avail themselves of this advantage to humble those whose talents they envy, but whose position they affect to despise. The lady's maid, on the contrary, does not pretend to be an equal •, she is regarded as a servant, but often, by abilities which render her necessary, or flattery, which makes her agreeable, she becomes the favourite companion, if not friend, of her mistress. Whatever the cause, Theresa Dornay experienced the advantages of the change. Yet her course is not smooth even here. From some pretext or other she is constantly changing situations ; but this only renders her adventures more interesting. She gives an amusing sketch of every family she knows. Being behind the scenes, she can furnish full details, and this she does in the most lively and sparkling manner. It is one continued round of whimsical adventures, tragical histories, piquant anecdotes, misunderstandings and re conciliations, plots and counterplots. If " variety is charming," then this is a most charming book. At all events, it is amusing, and if not calculated to afford much instruction, will make many an hour pass pleasantly. We would observe, en passant, that it must not be taken as a correct picture of modern life. If the scenes are any of them probable, they can only relate to extreme cases ; the general tone of society is of a far higher character. THE MAGAZINES. AINSWORTH. The present is an excellent number of Ainsworth, and is distinguished by that which should be the distin guishing characteristic of every literary magazine— variety. That reader must indeed be difficult to please who cannot find matter of amusement here. Is he a lover of romance, he will be delighted with the opening paper, " The Count of Monte Christo," a continuation of Alexander Dumas' tale of the " Prisoner of If ;" eschewing fiction, he is one of those who patronises useful knowledge (though Heaven knows more than one-half of that which by a strange misnomer is termed useful knowledge is the most useless lumber with which man ever encumbered his brain), Mr. W. Francis Ains worth and the Hon. C. Stuart Savile are there ready to administer to his amusement—the former by an account of his adventures among the Muntifik Arabs, the latter by a graphic description of the City of Ispahan ; does he like the dreaming misty haze of German poetry and metaphysics, Oxenford and Boyd will introduce him to Richter and Heinrich Heine ; or should he prefer to revel in horrors, Charles Oilier will make his flesh tingle as he relates to him the sensations of " Osborne North brooke," who, in a fit of catalepsy, was placed in his cogs, possessing his consciousness the whole time, and was on the point of being buried alive. The sportsman will find some most amusing reminiscences of Nimrod, by the author of " Handley Cross." Persons about to marry will derive both amusement and instruction from the perusal of Mrs. White's admirably-told tale, " The Separate Purse." We are delighted to meet with an old friend in the present number of Ainsworth—Cor nelius Webbe, the English pen and ink Teniers, who, in " The Lonely Man of Lambeth," gives us some most highly-finished pictures of London low life, as distin guished from Cockney vulgar life. His picture of the lonely man eating his breakfast of fried dabs, and at tended on by honest John Dards, that admirable speci men of Thames fisherman, is one of the moat finished interiors that the pencil of an artist ever produced ; and albeit Cornelius Webbe paints in words only, yet is he an artist of the very highest order. Dudley Costello contributes an amusing " Dissertation on English Do mestic Cookery," in which he proves himself to be the most learned and . painstaking of culinary bibliogra phers ; and L. Mariotti gives us a sketch of town life in Italy, entitled " The Fiasco." The following de scription of an Anglo-Italian grand cosmopolite rout, although perhaps somewhat too sarcastic, is in its main features correct ; and the concluding observations, coming as they do from an Italian pen, are valuable, as showing the estimation in which the Anglo-Italians are really held by those amongst whom they choose to pass their time : " Lady Phillimore had, on this occasion, been extremely particular in her invitations—that is, she had drained Florence of its motley population. The guests were from the four corners of the globe. The accomplished and the wealthy, the great and the learned of many regions, were blended in a crowd. There were long-haired professors, and bewigged Danish savans, bare-necked German artists, and lorgnette.' French attaches, and amongst a few of a better class, many of that vulgar breed, whom gold enables to haunt the idle towns of the Continent, the two varieties most prevalent in the European menagerie—the Russian bears and the English bores. Conspicuous among the latter, and distinguished by their colossal turbans, and by their air of familiarity with the lady of the house, were two female dabblers in literature, a Mrs. Brattle, a notorious novelist, who had, as she ex -Ipressed it, walked half the Courts of Europe ; and a Lady ntmelina Bruton, a person of whom her best friends said she had all bumps in her head save that of adhesiveness—a mal-maritata, who dipped her pen in gall, and emptied her quiver at all man-kind, with a hope that some random shaft might find its way to her ill-wedded lord. The rest of the company was made up of dowager countesses and consump tive spinsters ; a lord bishop, with a swarm of his daughters, and the squires and lordlings licensed to flirt with the said bishop's daughters—besides sundry lean and lank poets, magazine editors, wits, rakes, sharpers, and missionaries. The ' natives' were few ; and there would have been none but for the circumstance that one of their number was to be exhibited as the hero or the victim—the lion of the night. They shrunk back and clustered together in a corner, awed and abashed by a consciousness of their own insignificance. All good understanding between the Italians and their foreign visitors, especially the English, is for ever at an end. Tourists may have their neat hotels in the best quarter of the town. The grand duke—that inn-keeper on a large scale—may throw open his drawing-rooms, his galleries to them. But Italians who respect themselves never appear at Court. The English may buy the pure sky, the climate, the country ; they may feel at home in the Vatican, or the Palazzo Pitti ; but, from that very reason, the heart of the soundest part of the nation is closed against them." How much better would it be for these persons to re turn to their native land, where they would find that, provided they behaved with only common decency, the heart of the soundest part of the nation would not be closed against them. RENCONTRE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE Po- LICE IN IRELAND.—On Friday last some policemen on their way from the Petty Sessions at Ardfinnan went into a public house at Mooncrea, and drank there with some men of the name of Brobstin, and two brothers named Fennessy, one of whom was inebriated. After leaving the public-house a ills pute arose between these men and the police, and blows were struck ; the policemen, it is said, struck down their opponents with the butt ends of their guns, when another party of countrymen came up andlook the arms from the police. The Fennessys and Brobstins were arrested and sent into Clonmel gaol ; but the arms were left at the hall door of Neddins, with a letter addressed to Charles Mulcahy, Esq., n which it was stated that the party who to ok the arms fr om t he police L L ., o a r n d d G b l o en th . were teetotallers, whose sole obj ect was to prevent any ill use being made of them. Mr. Mulcahy immediately had the a gentlemen broug hadht t oaßichard interview Butler o n the Lowe, subject E s q . w , D. L., Glen gall, after which the Fennessys and Brobstins were admitted to bail.—Tipperary Free Press COURT CIRCULAR. The wet and unfavourable state of the weather on Tuesday afternoon prevented her Majesty and Prince Albeit, and the royal children, from taking airings. The Countess I)esart arrived at Osborne House on Tuesday afternoon. Her Ladyship has succeeded Lady Portman as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. Lady Portman remains on a visit at Osborne House. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort walked on the sea beach yesterday morning. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken in a carriage to the beach yesterday forenoon. Mr. M'Queen and Mr. Thomas Sturge had an inter view with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday. Mr. Freshfield had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. A numerous deputation from Marylebone, headed by Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., had an interview with Sir James Graham yesterday, at the Home-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday, at the office in Whitehall. place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Rochester, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Duke of Buccleuch has left town for Ditton. Mr. Hart Davies, Deputy-Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. Carr, Solicitor to the Excise, had an interview wi►h the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Dispatches for the Governor-General of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American Provinces, were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office. Dispatches were also sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of New Zealand. PARISH OF ST. MARYLEBONE AND THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS. ___ On Wednesday a deputation from the — parish ;f St. Marylebone, consisting of Mr. George Daniell, the churchwarden, Lord Montford, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., together with Messrs. Alfred Daniel, Potter, Joseph, Soden, G. Spencer Smith, Swaine, Perry, Melialieu, Stephens, and Carr, accompanied by Mr. Flood, the vestry-clerk, and Mr. Thorne, the secretary to the Board of Directors and Guardians, waited by ap pointment on Sir James Graham, for the purpose of re monstrating against the unconstitutional power exercised by the Poor-law Commissioners in uniting the parish of Marylebone with seven other parishes as an asylum dis trict for the destitute. Prior to the deputation proceeding to the Home-office, a numerous meeting of vestrymen and directors of the poor took place at the Court-house, St. Marylebone, at which communications were read by Mr. Flood, the vestry-clerk, from Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham:— " Whitehall, Nov. 30. "Sir,—l beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your com munication of the 28th instant. " It appears to me that the request you have made for a personal interview with me is on a different ground from that on which a similar request was preferredro the Secreta r y of State for the Home D e p ar t men t. " Sir James Graham infer r ed, I apprehend l that the object of the deputation which desired to wait on him was to appeal against a particular act of the Poor-law Commissioners, an act entirely within their own jurisdiction, and with which he is not empowered by law to interfere : against that act he declined to receive an appeal. " If the object of the deputation be to suggest amendments in the existing poor-law, 'Sir James Graham may probably not deny an interview with the deputation, for the purpose of receiving any suggestions they may wish to offer on that head ; and as the Secretary of State is the Minister to whom the consideration of the subject more immediately belongs, I have felt it my duty to transmit your letter to Sir James Graham. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, "Joseph Hume, Esq , M.P." " ROBERT PEEL." The communication from Sir James Graham reiterated the views contained in the letter of Sir Robert Peel, and expressed the willingness of the Right Hon. Baronet to receive the deputation at two o'clock on Wednesday (yesterday) afternoon. The deputation then proceeded to the Home-office, and having stated their case (which is well known to our readers), Sir James Graham said that neither he nor any other member of the Government wished to interfere with the integrity of the parish of Marylebone, and that the matter should have his best consideration. The deputation then returned to the Court-house, where a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. flume, M.P., and Mr. Williams, M.P., and the parties separated. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, DEC. 8. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 3% p.—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13% p.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, par—Caledonian, 3% p.—Ditte, Extension, % p.—Chester and Birkenhead, New 201. Shares, p.—Derby and Crewe, 24 p.—Glas- Qow and Dumfries, 2s. 6d. dis.—Grand Junction, 230—Ditto, uarter Shares, 311 p.—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 314 — Ditto, Eighth Shares, 15 p.—Ditto, 401. Shares (L.M.), 504 p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, p.—Great North of England, 151. Shares, 10% p.—Goole and Doncaster, is. dis. —Lancaster and Preston, 7 1 % p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 1j p.—London and Birmingham, 209 —Leeds and Thirsk, 23/ p.—Manchester and Birmingham, 70 ex n.—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 6% p.—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 3 / 4 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, par—Manchester and Leeds, 130 Stock—Ditto, Fifth Shares, 104 p.—Midland, 140%—North Union ( B), 141—North Staffordshire, 635. p.—Prestori and Wyre, New Shares, 5% p.—Sheffield and Manchester, 117—Ditto, Quar ter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 3—Sheffield and Lincoln, 1% p.— Shrewsbury and Hereford, par—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, par—South-Eastern and Dover, 36—Ditto, Con solidated Thirds, Half Shares, 1 p.—Scottish Central, 6 p.— Dublin and Belfast. Junction, 1% p.—Dutch Rhenish, 2 p.— Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 2s. 6d. dis. MANCHESTER, DEC. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 274—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 245. Gd. —Cambridge and Lincoln, 3n Ditto, New, 21—Derby and Crewe, s%—Dudley, Iron Bridge, and Shrewsbury, 24 East Lincolnshire, 2—Grand Union, I%—lludderstield and Sheffield Junction, 14%—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 48s. 3d.—Leicester and Tamworth, 41s. 9d. —Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 4 1 ,4 c.—London and Birmingham, 208— Manchester and Birmingham, 69 3 / 4 —Ditto, Quarters, 9 Manchester and Bury Atmospheric, 21s—Manchester and Southampton, 2%—North Staffordshire, Si. 4s. 6d.—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 14% Sheffield and Lincoln shire Junction, 2 3 A—Sheffield and Manchester, 119—Tean and Dove Valley, 1% . - : —__Welsh Midland, 23/4. LEEDS, DEC. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon, 184—Midland, New, 18—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, N 0.3, 414—East Lancashire, N 0.2 (late Accrington), 9%—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 8 cash—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 3—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 17 c.n.—Leeds and Brad ford, 43—Leeds and Dewsbury, 18% c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 9—Newcastle and Berwick, 91A—North British, New Car lisle Branch, 2%—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 14%—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, par—Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 3 / 4 —Cambridge and Lincoln,3%—Liverpool, Onus kirk, and Preston, 4—West Riding Union, 51. 18s. 6d.— Clitheroe Junction, 3%—Grand Union, 2s. Gd. dis.—Great Eastern and Western, ss. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 10s. dis.—Leeds and York, les. dis.—Leices ter and Bedford, ss. p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle Junction, 15s. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—North Western, 2% —Nottingham and Grantham, 2%—South Midlands, 2% p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 10s. p.—Welsh Midlands, 2%. HULL, DEC. 3. Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, 100 —Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolten, 74—Leeds and Thirsk, 8% —Cambridge and Lincoln, 3%—Derby and Gainsb roug h, I%—Hull and BarnsleyJunction, 42s.—South Midland, 41. 2s. HUDDERSFIELD, DEC. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 776—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 14 1 4, x u.—Leeds and Thirsk, 91. 3s. 6d.—West Riding Union, 54—Grand Union, 26s.—Leicester and Bedford, 1.4 —North astern, 2%. SHEFFIELD, DEC. 3. STOCK ExclimeoE.—The sales are—Caledonian, 7 3 / 4 —Li.. verpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 276 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 31. YORK, DEC. 3. STocir EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington, Brandling, 40—York and North Midland Exten sion, 234—Newcastle and Berwick, 93/4—North British, Carlisle Branch, 2%—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 4%—South Midland, 4—Welsh Midland, 2%. BRISTOL, DEC. 3. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 4%—Caledonian, 14, x n.—Manchester and Birming ham, 70—Midland, New, 1814. EDINBURGH, DEc. 1. _ _ STocx EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 5/. 155.- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 2/. 95.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 2/. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Ball Shares, 151.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21.155.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/ Bs. -Banffshire, 2/. 55.-British and Irish Union, 2/. 17s. 6d. -Caledonian, 11/. 10s.-Caledonian Extension, 2/. 10s.- Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 31. Os. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 191.-Direct North ern, 21.-Dundee and Arbroath, 361.-Ditto, New, 171.-Dun dee and Perth, 81.-East of Fife, 2/. 7s. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 2/. 33.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 31.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 701.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.-Ditto, Quarters, 161.-Ditto, ditto, New, 13L-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dum barton, 195.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, V. 55.- Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Direct, 1/. 155.-Edin burgh, Leith, and Granton, 21/. 109.-Ditte, Preference, 18/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 2/. 195.-Ditto, New port, 11.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 1/. 4s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Pee bles, 1/. 18s.-Edinburgh and Perth, 41. 2s. 6d.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 21.75.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 70/.-Ditto, New Stock, 231.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 211: 12s. 6d.-Glas gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2/. 55.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 21. 45.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 45/.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New, 10/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 21. 55.-Great North of Scotland, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Granton Junc tion, 11. 12s. 6d.-Inverness and Elgin, 2/. 12s. Gd.-lon dt and York, 41. 55.-North British, 20/. 10s.-Ditto, Mites 71. ls.-Ditto, Fi ft hs, 6L-Perth and Inverness, 1/ . 155.- Scottish Central, 121.-Scottish Midland, 31.-Scot tish Western, 2/. 10s. Stirling and Dunfermline. 2/. 105. THEATRICAL FUND .—The monthly meet- GENERAL j n . was held at the ing of the Directors of this B. Buckstone, Esq., iisssiatti; Eng lish Opera-house on Tuesday 1 Mr. Cullenford, the secretary, read chairman and treasurer. the financial r eport, frontasso w hich it appeared that the f un d e d property of th i a tion amounted to 2,953/. Ils. 3d., e c in the hands of the treasurer, made a total of which, w ith 211. 13s. 3d. 2,975/. 4 s. 6d. This association was formed to meet th e wants of the great body of the theatrical prof ess i on, who are totally debarred from the benefits of the wealthy funds of Drury-lane and Covent-garden Theatres ; as, b y t h e rules of those institutions. none but those who have been a certain number of consecutive years in these respective - theatres are eligible to become subscribers. It has already enrolled 120 members, and is steadily increasing, as its utility is becoming more generally known. Among its donors are his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 50/.3 Charles Kean, Esq., 50/. ; W. C. Macready, Esq., 30/. : J. Bryne, Esq., 30/. ; W. Farren, Esq., 201 ; B. Webster, Esq., 201. ; the late G. B. Davidge , Esq., 201.; Miss Helen Faucit, 5/., annually ; T. P. Cooke, Esq., 51.; J. Wilkinson, Esq., 5/. ; A. Arcedeckne, Esq., 51., annually. And we feel convinced that this excellent insti tution needs only to be more generally known to the public to meet with increased support in carrying out its laudable intention of securing its members from privations and want when they are unable to continue their professional exertions. RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday the bakers of the east end of the metropolis increased the price of their best bread frem 84d. to 9id. per 41b. loaf ; seconds ditto, 7d. to Bd. On the Surrey side of the river the price of the best is from 9d. to 10d. ; seconds, 70. to fid. for the 41b. loaf: -4 ,.." /2 --- FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. I.—On Tuesday, the 16th of this month, his Majesty the Bing of the Belgians will com plete his 55th year. The inhabitants of the city of Ghent have just sent to the Chamber of Representatives a petition, very nume rously signed, for a reform in the Post-office. The Piecurseur of Antw e rp, o f the 30th, says : " The arrival of numerous ships, in anticipation that the navigation may soon be closed, and partly in conse quence of the tncreased importation of provisions, give ample employment to the labouring classes, who have now as much as they can do." The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Berlin, which contains news of such importance, that though we think it our duty to mention it, in order to acquaint our readers of all that is done or reported in the political world, we cannot credit the statements in this letter. It is reported in some political circles that the Pope has decided to recognise the Protestant Church, and the Greek Church. There are various statements on the subject, some say that the Pope will ratify as far as Germany is concerned the treaties of Munster and Osna burg of 1648, and that he will order some conciliatory measures with regard to mixed marriages. BERLIN, Nov. 26.—The latest accounts which our Court has received from Palermo, state that the Emperor of Russia has changed his first plan, and has determined to pass some days at Rome. These accounts add that all the differences between the Emperor and the Papal See relative to the Catholic Church in Russia are com pletely settled to the satisfaction of the two parties. It is said a superior officer about the King's person will go, in a few days, to Rome, on a special mission. The news of concessions which the Papal See intends to make to the Protestant Church, appears to be confirmed. With respect to the new organisation of the Protestant Church in Russia, it seems nearly certain that the superior administration of it will be confided to a Presi dent of the Consistory, of strictly orthodox opinions, which proves that the Rationalists and the Friends of Light cannot expect the support of the Russian Govern ment, their creed not being conformable to that of the Evangelic Church contained in this agenda.—Journal de Franckfort. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELS, DEC. 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent•• • • Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto, ditto, 1840 Ditto, ditto, 1842 Ditto, 1844 9B Ditto, 1536.. ............. ..... Ditto, 1838 ..... .•• • • • •••••••••• • • • .. 743, Ditto of the City, 1832 •• . .• • . Ditto, 1543 ............. ..... ........ 100 Bank ofßelgium • ..... •• • • •••• • • • • 760 —Brussels Papers. DEC. 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov. 26. 5 per Cent. Metalliques • • • • •• • • • • • • 111% 4 per Cent. ditto.. • • • • •• • • •• • • 100% 3 per Cent. ditto. ....... ......... • • • Lean, 1834 ..... ............. ..... 106 Ditto, 1839 Bank Shares 1605 Esterhazy's Loan • RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • 193 Gloggnitz .• ..... • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 133 Vienna —Milan • • • • • . • •• • • ••• • • • • • 117% Leghorn ... 116 j 4 107% Grosetto ....... .....• ••••• • • • • 98% —411110310126 Zeitttng. Nov. 29. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is now many years since so great a " hit " in the dramatic circles of the metro polis has been made as that produced by the performance of Mdlle. Flora Fabbri in The Devil to Pay. With all the elegance of Taglioni, she unites the brilliancy of Carlotta Grisi, and the energy of Cerito, and is fully equal to either. Her admirable dancing in this delightful ballet, coupled with Mr. Wallace's new opera, fills the theatre night after night. RUBINI AND HIS TEMPTERS: —Mr. Lumley, who is still in Italy, has been on a short visit to Rubini, at his cha teau at Romano, and has, it is understood, been endeavouring to tempt the gran' tenore to one more "last engagement" at her Majesty's Theatre in London. The terms offered by this prince of impresari to the prince of tenors are described as simply—a blank sheet of paper, to be filled up altogether by Rubini, on whatever terms he chose to propose—a truly regal mode of doing business. We have not yet learned the result. —Galignani's Messenger. APPREHENSION OF A SUPPOSED FORGER.--A per son, named Mitchell, who is charged with uttering a forged bill of exchange for 2,0001., at Carlisle, has been apprehended in Birkenhead, through the activity of Inspector Hall, o f the Birkenhead police.—Liverpool Courier, CAPTURE OF A SHARR.—On Monday last, as the fishermen of Sidmouth were out with their herring nets, one of them observed some strong and sudden movement in one of the nets, which brought him to a close examination, when, to his surprise, be found a large fish entangled in it. He made a signal to some of the sons of Zebedee, who came to his assistance, and, after a long struggle, they captared and got it safe to land. It was of the shark species, and measured eight feet in length.— West Briton. ObINIBUS ROBBERY.—Yesterday the police re ceived information that a lady named Moreland, residing at No. 7, Dorset-street, Pall-mall, had been robbed of her purse whilst riding in an omnibus between Coventry -street and Houndsditch, by, it is supposed, a well-dressed individual who sat next to her, and who got' out at the Rank. The purse contained only 30s. in silver. The robbery was effected by cutting through the dress. FALL OF THREE HOUSES.—On Tuesday night, about eight o'clock, an occurrence that at the time caused great excitement, and has since spread agloom over the neighbour hood, took place in Cavendish-place, Wandsworth-road. It appears from the inquiries made by the reporter that Mr. Corrall, a builder, had recently erected four six-roomed houses with shop fronts, in Cavendish. place. They had been covered in, and the lathing and flooring had been com pleted, but there yet was some plastering, and ether matters to be done. On the night in question Oliver Carroll, the son of the builder, who was only in his twentieth year, his brother, and a labourer, were at work on one of the basement. floors of the houses, laying concrete, when, as it is supposed, the end wall of the house nearest the Cavendish Arms, bulged out. and in less than a minute the three houses separated from the fourth, which was apparently much more strongly built, and fell with a loud crash, burying in the ruins the two brothers, the labourer escaping with a few bruises from the falling bricks. An instant alarm was given, and in an incredibly short space of time a large body of men assembled, and commenced removing the bricks and timber with the sanguine hope of preserving the persons buried. In a few minutes one of the Carrolls was discovered, and brought out ; he was alive, and owed his preservation to two pieces of timber falling crossway, and thus preventing the rubbish suffocating him. He was carried home by two men, suffering from some very severe contusions. In about ten minutes after the accident occurred, Sergeant Emmerson, 16 V, with a number of constables, arrived, and cleared away the mob that had assembled, so that the men might pursue their work uninterrupted. The men laboured unceasingly for three-quarters of an hour, when a sufficient opening was made for a man to creep in, who reported that he saw the deceased Oliver Carroll in a sitting position, about three yards distant from where ho was. The men re doubled their energies, and in another ten minutes they cleared an enormous mass of timber and brick which were on the deceased, and Sergeant Emnierson dragged him out. His bead had been driven between his knees, and his back was apparently broken. He was, to all appear ance dead, but, nevertheless, was conveyed with the utmost ,celerity to the Cavendish Arms, where Mr. Palmer, a sur geon, had been in attendance since the accident, so that he might be of service to the unfortunate sufferers. Mr. Palmer resorted to bleeding, the application of stimulants, &c., but although one or two drops of blood came there was no sign of life manifested, and the surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased must have been suffocated some time. One or two carpenters were in the act of leaving the building at the time of its falling, so that their escape may be considered miraculous. The materials of the houses were evidently of a very common description, the mortar especially seemed to have been made without that great essential, lime, for there was scarcely a brick to which it adhered. TIIE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 3.—The Orien tal Company's steam-ship the Tagus, Captain Brookes, left the docks this day with the East India and China mails en route for Alexandria, having a very full cargo of bale goods, and above sixty passengers. The Royal West India mail packet, the Severn, left this port yesterday with the West India and South American mails, a goods cargo, including 650 bottles of quicksilve r, ___ and above eighty passengers. The inward mails from the West Indies will be brought by the Medway, which is expected to arrive here to-morrow. ROBBERY ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S YACHT TILE WILLIAM AND MARY.—Yesterday the police received information that some thief had stolen from the William and Mary yacht, which is now lying in the river Thames, a large and valuable ship telescope—maker's name, " Syed and Davies, London,"—the property of her Majesty. Similar robberies have of late been very frequent on board vessels lying in the river Thames. LOSS OF THE BREAKWATER.—WC have just heard that this old vessel, so long known in the Nith, was wrecked last night, during the severe gale, off Carsethorn, laden with a cargo of oak timber, for Maryport. We deeply regret to add that the master, Captain Huddert, and his son, who formed the crew of the vessel, were both drowned. The vessel belonged to Mr. Shaw, of Maryport , and le ft the nth by yesterday's tide. The cargo belonged to Mr. Sloan, Auchencrielf.—Dumfries Courier, SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCKS.— On Wednesday an accident, attended with very shocking c i rcums t ance s, occurred in the L ondon Docks, to a youth named Charles Nightingale, a native of Newcastle. The poor fellow was on board the Ramona brig, now lying in the eastern basin of the London Docks, and while stepping across the cabin hole he missed his footing, and fell to the bottom of the vessel. On being raised up he was found to have sus tained a frightful fracture of the skull, and very serious in jury on other parts of his person. He was removed in an insensible state to the London Hospital, with but very faint hopes of his recovery. Low TlDE.—Yesterday the river presented an un usual appearance in consequence of the extraordinary low state of the tide, which produced considerable inconvenience in the navigation of steam-boats and other craft, particularly between Blackfriars-bridge and Waterloo-bridge. RATHER EquivocAL.—The perquisites of the sex ton of Peterborough Cathedral, during the five months that have elapsed since the opening of the railway, have amounted to 1501 .—Cambridge Advertiser. A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 15th ult., has the following:—" The 'Civil Governor of Tambof has pub lished a notice that, conformably to instructions given him by the Directing Senate, he has decided that, in order to ef fect the payment of a part of the debts contracted by Count de Kutuisow to the State and private individuals, amounting to the sum of 1,508,925 paper roubles (1,600,000 f.), there would be publicly sold 3,702 peasants belonging to that no bleman in the two districts composing the Government of Tambof." GREAT FOOT-RACE.—Yesterday the long pending rivalry which has existed between two well• known runners, named Williams, of Shepherd's Bush, and Inwood, of Toot ing, was settled. The men were matched for a stake of 501. to contend over one mile of road , and the King's Arms, at Acton Bottom, was the locale selected. Williams was backed very freely by the London fancy, and to a large amount. The contest was commenced at a rapid pace. Williams obtained a slight advantage at the start, which his friends hailed as A s ignal of victory. The t w o m e n r a tt l ed away over half a tlnhielepoafceg wasroun t d o 0 , i s v e h v e e n r V fo il r l ihaimms tnotahnoifkels.tedßostyhramptenomestrenthua.t ously exerted themselves for the goal, and their efforts were finally terminated by Inwood running in the winner, and covering the one mile of ground under five minutes. The Londoners seemed much discomfited at the result. -- Within the last week five hundred coach-horses worked on the great north road have been sold, in conse quence of a further opening of the Northern and Eastern Railway. ~==-~ ....`.- ,"' :l 7 . e"2. - - z!!'"