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In the evening their Majesties re 4"i'ed the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the Duke 415,coglie, the Prince of Salm Dyck, the Counts de Bondy e Ger mior, General Sebastiani, &c. Constituiionne/ announces that the French and Eng tiovernments bave determined to interfere in order to put I,Period toe war waging by Roses against the republic of 'sate VideoFo,_ stir% I ,!`er, the ruffian who was sentenced to death rt f( n e• w as i 'lu; and throwing a man into the Canal St. Ma t i rri e ue,aded this morning at half-past eight o'clock, a . t he tb a .. er s t. aoques A great concourse assembled to witness execution „ xi • otat e 'men Gazette informs us that the different German ir: l 4,: e3l lll , rie.t e t u eli t r of a uniform postal bp . , are at this moment occupied with a plan for the este system for the whole of Ger from Vienna of the 31st ult. states that Prince ee eired Pe's Legate at the Court o! Austria, ha( . l notification of his having been raised to the dignit) to s ir orznal• will shortly quit his present post to return A st ubs successor h as not ye t b een appo i n t e d. erects ,in honou r o f Ch r i stop h er C o l um b us , is about to liid at Genoa his birth-place. ientific Congress of France will hold its thirteenth teitti); II th an is y i ea f r or at te l n th d e a im ys s . . It will assemble early in Sep tbere er f rom Rochefort, quoted in Ia Flotte, states that SinaerdePo Oceania.fitted eyed at Bordeaux two iron steamers, Pin-.,"' Th re the Australie, of 160, and „Loaf 01 7,,e °11 i0, of 70 horse tower. The same letter also says fat f ora are hare been given for fitting out the transport La kar e i; (4. a three years' service, and that she will be ready in Le Alp e tt ers from the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees and the 411 kof serious accidents having occurred from the late eatiste,w• Several avalanches have buried houses, and t %woe death of many persons. At Lunimont, in t he I 8110 W I l i t t lient of Belley (Ain) not less than four fee of agallen within a" few days. ys. In Languedoc, where E °st a rarity, it lies at present a foot deep. The ti t ti sate, -* 4 4 P . was stopped, ' a few . days back, near St. e sho w, thirty horses were required to drag it through may s 1, C OT-TIZT— rAigniorvitosz.re , wll , 1 4 .. 0f_ , Buckingham left Buckingham Muse, Pall to join the Duchess and . family at Stowe, r nra;ce'is Marchioness td to soourn until Easter. Ntki 1at,114 and xc of Londonderry are ex tehre b t e o loldernesslouse for the north in a few ttiese Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, and the " 1 e - urgh have left on their return to England. 1 , 11 e of Italy 't tl 'e his Lordship Bute has left town for Cardiff Castle, 'et It -4r dshiP is expected to arrive on Saturday next. .aquis of Sligo "dail expected to arrive in Mans iii4tahreetreaettnisrni having Co ls ntine y nt intelligence of his noble hialott ess ! been forwarded ' to his Lordship. The i ej e Aj ar and, the Ladies Brown are staying in town. f a 4 04 quis of Exeter has left Grosvenor-square for Bur s he e Se, Lincolnshire. f•ltth..,,en Lonodntess of Wilton has left Grosvenor-square for i, 1141 tor titied'rgMeesletnotn, Mowbray. The Noble Earl remains toe or 11 14 11 Berk le . ountess of Albemarle are expected to ar ) -square on Monday next for the season. h t S ,x.:rl intends visiting Newmarket en route to town i- 41 '.Col o ta - U • tl hatri Hall, to inspecthisracing stud. The 'Oti o ' uel and Mrs. Keppel and family are still on the t or ent. t'ov. Stanley,Stanley though convalescent, is not . yet quite , red i)7 from H is Lordship's continued indisposition prevented ,strtiil P a rticipating in the grand banquet given by Sir L . k.ord b e et on Saturday evening. Ros's eldest son, the Hon. Dudley Charles De entered the army as Cornet in the Ist Life Guards. tr; 1 1 : 1 4 pal mitzes,fx:4,:,...m.vc, Ilahle rectory of St. George's, Hanover -square, rp. l oro ii 4 e ,heen so long vacant, and which has been the . cause g,"hop fu dissension has at length been conferred by the t o ;, 11 011 4 % L ondon on the Rev. William Howarth, 8.D., of St b hire C?llege Cambridge, Rector of Mipershall, Bed lio'vvarth was formerly one of the lecturers of i of e , It II in e v V „ . S Y ( lney Smith is progressing favourably, though ka4,og,ttio'Y weak state. At Ar es r t d r aY, at th e usua l wee kl y mee ti ng o f th e Mary let. -4, A nn e, a deputation from the parishes of St. James ii r ly b e to 1 , Soho, had an interview with the vestry re- Peel.'c'bert V r ePriety of their sending a united deputation to e d l eg th eel, to represent to him the desirableness of re to% e wind g. 446, ow -tax. The suggestion was adopted, and vow ir ßoh t u ,_PPointed and the clerk was desired to write I s ,eat to receive them. to ascertain on what day it would be con let; We are le them. k i 4, 104 , - , en , to understand that the charter from the As k/eneral Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery, and 1 9 ght fer the heads of which have been forwarded to the ti \ ?!the i t ' l l ' the Secretary of State for the Home Department, te4-11rinei liberal description, embracing the represents, li v 'el , (l , sa te s i n au elective council, composed of metropch -11 Lae 1,-r-rY members, and that it was uuimously assented , s oep t4 e nom.ge P r ovisional committee of that Association. 'de 6 -1:1 eY of in n ation for South Wiltshire, vacant by the ac '4U - l' fii - e e d °f fioe of Secretary . at War by Mr. Sydney p n an, it i for the 15th instant, when the Right Hon. leSp. r tli s 17% 3 said, will be returned without . opposition. the -b...-oecioesent , ef,the present month a day mail (down) will 4 Aeter, but there will be no up mail for uEIINSEY FOLITICS. (Fro the Guernsey Star of Feb. 3.) "Ikt‘z ROYAL COURT, FEB. 1. 'l , or -I sl , B .ER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL ON THE COM AEAT OF T ROYAL COURT AGAINST MAJOR 11-s W TENANT-GOVERNOR. to u -er h •F. P. NAPIER, LIEU it. 4 1% t C ourt had disposed of some matters of " l oet th , llll handed to the Deputy -Greffier the follow . L nts, which that officer read Guernsey, Jan. 30, 1845. ~..V44 t t Loil'o l tf v .e, the honour to lay before you, for the in `°,,g or t,u,o Royal Court, a communication from the Prov'ttr of he Secretary of State, directing the accompany of prop' 4 uor Majesty in Council, dated the 13th inst., ap qllertserepert of the Lords of the Council for the affairs t hitt rt ' n , to Lar , d Jersey, upon two petitions of the Royal .4 •be r egistered in this 'Eland; and I have to desire 4111 Z t e lti t: e l le o r il i o rlay be dul): registered_accordingly. t ap . ur to be, Sir, your obedient sere ant, W. NAPIER, ao f Guernsey. Lieutenant-Governor. Whitehall2s 18. Et i 4 et t n i lt Et t r o vdoirected by Secretary Sir James Graham . to dated ti t the enclosed order of her Majes t yin t v , th e r , the 13th instant, approving a report of the p et Tuncil for the affairs of Guernsey and Jersey c ;e l ?!ts of the Royal Court of Guernsey touching ,i t t r e . r . e t i e : eeria i s a ila e ;ii, L ad i p e oj u ef t r e u, nant-G o v e r n or of that island ; and tilgnest that you will cause the same to be re gJorsd-, Guernsey.—l have, &c., H. MANNERS SUTTON. 4/ 111 OF JANUARY' 14 v°llll l' .A.T wprnsoß. THE The Queel4.sll —PRESEN T Excellent Majesty, host . 13TH DAY t ot td p His Royal highness Prince Albert, '•ord br4iclent Lord Stanley, _ I) tik .rit73, s,,a) / 4ttl e f)t. Weill t 011121 Jersevng nil' h Bart. 'oreas the; it 104 1,. , e vvas this day re_ Sir Rob r e a r u t v i l le le el B , a o m ß ni a , Bart., Affairs of tw Pettey '4 ' l3 . the Lords of the 0 S L i o r r J d a G mes Gra f December a , 0 . anti Jersey, dated the 20th o read at i t t h te e e ß f o or ar t d h a e l re st po . r an t of d ki, e 'lets. iiatlie,ity,:irsdasiciof the Committee, frene in e d ob id e , cli o e n nc . n e rho t e o co L• n o r E ti r. _ r t 16 th, _ . lath, of treee said petitions itit!ort, ~'_t t ,cte ,, h, take _h , Y,ejt,etiol h ..rd counsel as well in y our ,eleq,,s u thereto, and understanding , _ . out h t t e i r s e o r f e a ly s 4ntl e ~"' Pleasure that their Lordships . s n h s ot a il r d isi m ng e th,J°lll. Majesty upon certain questio a auH tra t t it i It 'rn titi in'titions, as regards the laws n r d e - p u o : r a t g t e h s e o ir f "Pitlie,ssY, their lord sh ips agree humbly to 4413,r0it-•:,°.Your jyupon the followin t g tter. 4 1 r c t ,i' In the eases of the petitioners in h iltriNcfeenetts Navin th e first question is q m ue a stions h domicile in Guerney nc a . s 41141ticitiltefe3ottebstataevdi,nt,graecncloutilsljsetciet to be deported but.i.nusrel_s, li t . ord e , e captain, with the advice of the bailiff and LS 1),,i4 t or . dasiil ?point in this . re _t of the n spe t e h . at the advice ose of 1114therittf'd juPratasreisofnoOtpinhelocissary for i'l L the 'sum- the captain to exercise the a tain " "tit' *ai d ' (pi under the term iP. his 4, t v __ . estion. That 04,4 rdships cons'd that the Governor, and in po t w h e e r , p m ‘ ti e r ltioned 4.;„ ee, „.. , i er I,,7afettgr._!ne case there should ers b o e n no Governor, the exercising time din g, ei.'e. vernor, or . the p 1 :, 40 itiae/nEdrnefc.ivr or Lieutenant-Governor for the 1 ("4:"Pect of the second question -411 t tbe hail'ff a n d LL ~V entitled i i:_t.4een„,_y to take part and speat . I . tll conferences with jurats of the Royal Court are indiv . i , - Vit t o ;;;c t. , he Lieutenantove t killerilor l's-isuips are of opinion, that the Lieutemr e th u waee ~as the sole authority of appointing the time 1.4.(' It e ,, uf conference, and that the bailiff and ra j h u e ra r ts a o rr 1 1,1 Court are individually ettitled to Excellency the 1 1 14 4 0 . 1 , „ 111 all conferences with his ~t 1 tasps':' Govrnor. 041,, ,Tht7t of the third question-- litl4 ~ue aforesaid writ of pardon ought to have been Isl; i t 'l•'' n''' Tegistered by the Royal Court before it was exe 141:trititiships are of opinion, that the writ h o a f ve pa h rd e o en n 1,, i4ed °tlsl mentioned did not require to litierxeetinbtedd.registered by the Royal Court before it 144'Pheke,of the fourth question— k.png ohe if was not warranted in en- Tl;tet4r)' Zilertlce b i t 4 ee. ' to the said writ of pardon by a threat of l b .. ' l' ;;;rtl'hiPa are of opinion, that it was the duty of 1 th:h-"erirrinicdiately to have discharged the prisoner .n rlttlueil°tinction to him of the pardon under the_ sign ,FlNL.,„,t,an'at.ll,t the Portier not being the servant of n 1 4 the ,ri__uovernor for Site purpose of . the . custody o,ent„6__s_nner their Lordships are of opinion that the °pu ! obe (.l4nee touvernor was nut warranted in enforcing ... LI U rf, the Writ of pardon by the threat of military or ti 11„ Lee. 4; er tni .I,ajestY, having taken the said report into cr; , ~,o , was 1 d dwith the advice of e -4qe -cMeil, P f ease 'by an t e. Whereof the tittle titt.,llt.Govegn:pro% Jonitimieanscaletnr. Commander - in-Chief i hief for the t i l otlV,,l'g. the bailiff mild jurats of the Royal Court, and L thin thel.er aj(-stys officers and persons concerned d vert), said island, are to pay due obedience an brii thenaselves hp C. GREVILLE: be foregoingr4istereed order o Nai i r. i .l Lb tth "- • of her Majesty in 1, Tt a ethitodileittheriandril:ortiN'tovniegriaoott LteoloEants.--Th!:: turn outs in the neigh inue to be met by the i ma A st t e s r e s N w e i r t a h l enct,aves th e hands Wh o Overruled by therun'on. struck are still out, and every Thethe°tit i 8 being made t pply their places with men, r tilinera, 14bourers,°or Souther& —Preston Guardian. 01 6 01 D~ 8~ .., 1 1 1 5 3'i A --,/ 110 654 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1R45. BRIGHTON-.SATURDAY. LITERATURE. This morning, at nine o'clock precisely, her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out of the Castle-square en trance of the palace to the chain-pier entirely unattended, and reached the pier without being recognised. Her Majesty and the Prince promenaded for about three quarters of an hour on the pier, which was kept entirely free from visitors during the time they were there, and then walked back to the palace. Her Majesty's visit to the pier was entirely unob served till she was about to return. Her Majesty looked remarkably healthy; . she was d resse d i n a tartan - pla id pelisse of French merino, trimmed with dark fur, a straw bonnet, trimmed with red and black velvet, and a black lace veil. Prince Albert wore a - kind of velvet shooting-jacket. As the royal pair were leaving the pier about 200 persons, who had congregated on the Marine Parade, ran forward so as to head them on their passing through the toll-gate. From this spot to the palace is somewhat more th an 100 yards, and wh i le this space was being traversed, some curious and imper tinent visitors (% e have never recognised among the parties who have thus acted any of the inhabitants of Brighton) pressed round her Majesty and her Royal Consort, some of them even peeping beneath the ro\ al bonnet. Her Majesty and the Prince at length escaped from the increasing crowd by entering the private en trance of the palace. Later in the morning, Major Allen (one of the Sussex magistrates acting for the Brigh ton division of Petty Sesvions), entered the police court just as the business was closing this morning, and with considerable warmth addressing Mr. Chase (the chief officer of police), said he had to state, with great re gret, that her Dlajesty had this morning been subjected to great annoyance while walking in the public streets. Her Majesty and Prince Albert had left the palace un attended, and had for some time enjoyed a promenade on the chain pier ; on returning from which she had been surrounded by a crowd, some of whom imperti nently placed themselves before her Majesty, and looked up under her bonnet. Now, if her Majesty was sub jected to a repetition of such annoyartee, the cense-. quence would probably be, that Brighton would be de prived cf the honour of her Majesty's occasional visits. Her Majesty was very desirous of privacy, and parti cularly objected to being surrounded by policemen, but he hoped some means might be devised which would ensure a proper degree of privacy to her Majesty in her walks. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. I London. Jackson and Watford. The principles of this new publication, religious as well as political, are liberal ; and while evidently leaning to the side of Dissenters, are sufficiently im partial to merit the attention of other denominations. A work of the kind was wanted, for though there are plenty of Reviews opposed to Toryism and the de fects, nay, grievances, of the Established Church, they only occasionally, and that rarely, advocate the interests of a very large and unprotected portion of the community. Those without the pale of the Church are probably as numerous as those within the fold, for we will not class under the Establishment, as is generally done, those who allow themselves to be called churchmen, while they neither attend public worship nor care anything for religion. Taking into account, therefore, all those who are Christians, the Dissenters are in the majority ; yet if we look to worldly power, and wealth, and interest, they may be regarded as comparatively helpless. They have no church lands nor tithes ' • they have no prelates to advocate their c au se i n Parliament, nor Peers who take an interest in their religious establishments for the sake of patronage or fat livings and bishoprics. But, nevertheless, without these they have gone on and prospered, and like the primitive Christians, their religious zeal has prevailed, and they have become a great multitude. The Editor of the British Quarterly states very briefly the plan and spirit of the work. Like other similar publications it will occasionally take a view of the progress of literature, science, and art, and on po litical questions its sentiments will be thoroughly liberal. With regard to religion, the principles will be those associated with the names of Watts and Doddridge, but its pages will be enriched by contri butions from able men of different religious con nexions, with a view to render it an efficient organ of revealed truth and of enlightened public opinion. This Number contains several articles of fresh interest —among others one on the Life and Discoveries of Dr. Dalton, and another on the Factory System and Factory Legislation, which may be usefully studied in reference to the motion on the subject of which Lord Ashley has given notice in Parliament. In a review of Lord John Russell's works, including his Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution, some hints are given to his Lordship on the part not of Dissenters only, but of all the friends of liberty, which merit his attention. The subjoined extracts will show the spirit of the article, and we grieve to say they contain too much truth : " In the Church, which his Lordship so much de lighteth to honour, ho has found his great antagonist. Whatever he most values as a statesman has been op posed, in the greatest degree, by the ministers of the church which he upholds in that capacity. In his Lord ship's view, no tree of its kind is so good as that tree. Did it never occur to him to inquire hew it has come to pass that a tree so good has borne fruit, to the experience of his Lordship, so much the reverse of good ? Whoever else may have failed to cross his path, the clergy of the Established Church have not so failed ; and the measures which his Lordship has prosecuted with the greatest solicitude, are those which have been always resisted with the greatest determination from that quarter. * "It may be much to the credit of his Lordship's Christian forbearance thus to repay good for evil. We know not that we have any right to.indulge in censure, if it should be his pleasure to show so much affection in a quarter from which he must know it will be utterly vain to expect any grateful return. But such displays of generous feeling in one relation, naturally dispose men to look for indications of similar magnanimity in other relations. In so looking, however, many noncon formists have been disappointed, and have sometimes de claimed with mueh warmth on this unreasonable and inconsistent favouritism. Even Toryism in a church ' man, it is alleged, is manifestly more acceptable to his Lordship than Liberalism in a Dissenter. The clergy man, notwithstanding all his repugnance to large and generous political principles, is preferred to the noncon formist minister, notwithstanding his adhesion to such principles. Thus, even in the case of Lord John Russell, the ecclesiastical is placed before the civil, and the sympathies of his Lordship with an established priesthood, are manifestly stronger than his sympathies with general freedom. Civil liberty is good, but the civil establishment of religion is a greater good. Pro mote the former so far as you have the power, but, at all costs, preclude every kind of danger from the latter. " We regret that there should have been anything in the conduct or language of Lord John Russell, that may seem to warrant such imputations. But it is unques tionable that his Lordship has often acted inconsistently, that he might do favour to churchmen ; and that there have been occasions on which he has so acted, much to the injury, rather than to the advantage, of Protestant Dissenters. When men become inconsistent that they may conceal the faults of their enemies, we can place an honourable construction on their conduct ; but when they forego consistency, apparently that they may mag nify the real or supposed errors of their friends, the moral conclusion is of another complexion. Lord John Russell once volunteered: a defence of the principle of compulsory support for the ministers of religion, alleging, from his place in the House of Commons, that where no such provision is made, it must be true of re ligious teachers, as of all other servants of the public, that— ' Those who live to please must please to live,' " His Lordship was not left in ignorance of the pain which this allusion had given to the mind of noncon formist ministers through the kingdom, but he never deigned, so far as we remember, to recal, or in any way to soften, his expressions." Mr. Chase said he would in future station policemen at the pier-gates, while her Majesty was on the pier. Major Allen said that would defeat the object, for it would soon act as a signal that her Majesty was there, and would cause a crowd to assemble to witness her exit. Mr. Chase said he would Lend the men out in plain clothes. Major Allen said this annoyance to her Majesty was a disgrace to the town. The persons who surrounded the Queen were chiefly tradesmen's boys, some of them with baskets on their arms ; and the tradesmen ought to know that such conduct on the part of their servants would be likely to drive her Majesty from the town, and deprive them of the advantage . of her occasional residence at the Pavilion. Some further conversation took place amongst the magistrates, after which Major Allen expressed a hope that Mr. Chase would take means to represent the case to all the tradesmen, as far as he could, in order that they might prevent their boys from continuing such annoyance. This morning her Majesty was obliged to run into the palace from the entrance in Castle-square. An elderly gentleman who was sitting at the table, said he witnessed the behaviour alluded to. It was most disgraceful ; and, could he have got near to some of the boys, they would have become acquainted with the strength of his walking stick. Major Allen said he was authorised by Colonel Buckley, equerry in waiting to her Majesty, to s p ea k thus publicly o f t h e annoyance to which the Queen had been subjected, and he trusted that there would be no necessity to recur to the subject. THE LONDON JOURNAL, 6v. The present number contains a list of all the recent English, Scottish, and Irish patents, and reports of the judgments of the Courts of Law in all recent, cases of disputed patents. From the scientific notices we extract the following, on the preservation of statues and monuments by means of oxide of c o pp er . The subject is one well worthy the attention of the public authorities : " There is on the Place Caroline, at Munich, an obelisk made of bronze, ex cere capto, erected by the king to the memory of the 30,000 Bavarians who fell in the Rus sian campaign. This obelisk is surrounded by several steps of stone, which are washed by the rain running down the obelisk. Baron de Bourgouin has observed, that this water preserved the stone from the species of greyish rust which generally aocumulates upon old monu ments, and which appears to be produced by moss or very minute insects lodging in the pores of the stone. The four angles of the pedestal, which do not receive any water from the obelisk, present a great contrast, by reason of their blackish colour, to those parts washed by the water which has passed over the bronze. May we not conclude from this observation, that water, impreg nated with the least portion of oxide of copper, will de stroy seeds of moss, &c., as well as the eggs of animal culte, which adhere to all unpolished stones. It is from this cause that the marble statues at Versailles, and those in London more particularly, are so much dis figured with black and grey mould. In order to preserve the beauty of statues, ornaments, and monu ments, it may be sufficient to wash them periodically with water, containing oxide of copper in solution. Re-cutting, or scraping is not only very expensive, but does not last : as witness the façades of the Louvre, which are now of the same colour as those which have not been touched. Advantage should be taken of the lesson afforded by the obelisk at Munich. The discovery of a process for preserving chef-d'oeuvres of architecture and sculpture, should be proposed amongst the prizes offered by the learned S oc i et i es , an d even by Government." A CONSCIENTIOUS BOOKSELLER. A bookseller who exposes books for sale in his open shop-window in the City, having recently observed that he lost a number of books, notwithstanding he always found the exact quantity, abating those that were sold on taking them in at night, and besides this, finding several books among his own, of which he had not the slightest knowledge, was the other day induced to watch a demure-looking young man rather closely, whom he had constantly seen looking at his books, but scarcely ever making a purchase. In this employment his sur prise was very soon increased by observing his customer put a book in his pocket, and pull another from under his coat, which he placed amongst the rest on the board, and then deliberately walked away. Being, however, desired to walk back again, and account for his conduct, the trembling culprit at length acknow ledged that he bad been in the constant habit of exchanging good carnal for what ho called indifferent spiritual books, which he consi dered advantageous to the bookseller ; and as a proof of his assertion pulled out of his pocket a volume of old puritanic divinity, for which he averred, and the fact proved it, he had deposited a well-bound volume of the works of Pope, by way of a conscientious exchange ! His youth and simplicity had such an effect upon the bookseller, that after making him sensible that even these exchanges would expose him to a prosecution for theft, he let him go, with advice in future always to con sult the owner of property before he attempted to trans fer or exchange it under any pretext whatever. EXTRAORDINARY PROGENY.—Widow Rutherford died at Aberfeldy on the 20th ult., aged 92 years. She was the mother of five children—three sons and two daughters. By ber eldest daughter, she had 13 grand children and 57 great grandchildren. By her second daughter, she had 15 grandchildren, and 17 great-grand children:By her eldest son, she had eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Her second son had no children, and the third son had three children. In all, she had five children, 39 grandchildren, and 79 great grandchildren—bring 123 of a progeny ! Her eldest great-grandchild is rising 21 years of age, and several of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, were at her bedside when she breathed her last.--Edin burgh paper. A LEVELLER.—A Correspondent informs us that a clergyman, not twenty miles from Truro, caused a new road to be made through the church-yard, which passed over the grave of a widow, whose remains had only been placed "in the narrow house" six weeks ; and also over Notse tsexton the x several more graves belonging to her family. con tented with this, his reverence gave orders to level all the graves on each side of the path, because of their unsightly appearance . This the sexton refused to do; but the lady of his reverence, indignant at the refusal of the subordinate functionary, and determined not to be foiled, directed her gardener to level the graves, and sat by in her carriage superintending this work of dese cration. It is needless to add that the feelings of the living are severely wounded by these proceedings.— West Briton. LATER FROM THE UNITED THE INCOME-TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES: h , r , lini; article in ti.ia day's journal doubt on my mind that we are to be subjected to this bur densome impost for an indefinite period; I therefore beg that you will allow me a small space briefly to state my own case in illustration of its unequal bearing. I am an engraver, and by great exertion have lately earned an average annual income of 5001. At the time of my mar riage I insured my life for 1,000/.; and at the birth of each of my four children I have insured a further sum of 1,0001., so that I have now tio provide for premiums on policies amounting to 5,0001. This would have required an annual sum of 1801., but I am so fortunate as to have insured in an institution where success has enabled the Directors to reduce my payment to 120/. This is still a serious call on my limited means ; neverthelass, my wife and I prefer abstinence from every approach to luxury, and even privation of some com forts, to the risk of leaving our children chargeable to our friends or to the community. Should my health, and especially my eyesight, be provi dentially preserved, so as to enable me to continue my pay ments to the insurance company, my wife and four children will, at my decease, inherit 1,000/. each, producing a scanty income of 30/. The case of a friend and close neighbour offers a marked contrast to mine. He is in the enjoyment of a clear income of 500/., derived from freehold land, occupied at present by market-gardeners, but which may shortly be in demand fur building purposes. He has five children; but as he is a widower, our families are equal in number. My friend, being of a literary turn, spends much time in his study, and in the education of his children, thereby saving those schol charges which unavoidably fall upon me. This gentleman can spend his whole income without solicitude, as, at his decease, each of his children will inherit a certain income of 1001., with expectations of future improvement. Nevertheless our re turns to the Commissioners are necessarily the same. Now, Sir, is it consistent with equity that I, with my pre carious income (necessarily reduced by life insurance to 3801. to secure a pittance to my family), should be called upon to pay the same amount of tax as my friend, with his inde pendent and certain income of 500/. ? I do not pretend to contest the advantages of an income and property-tax based on equitable principles, neither am I unwilling to bear my just proportion of the burden. In my humble opinion, a tax on property of 5 per cent. and 2 per cent. on earnings would meet the justice of the case. This would, I am persuaded, give universal satisfaction to the industrious classes, and would raise a large sum, enabling the Ministry to take off many imposts bearing unfairly , on the poor.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, G. T. Camden-town, - Feb. 8. THE WINDOW-TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlN—Your leading article; of the sth contains an earnest expression of a very natural wish for the removal of the window-tax, on the ground that attempts to avoid its exactions frequently lead the builders and occupiers of dwel lings to stop up windows that should be open ; and, by doing so, risk injury to their own health, and certainly disfigure their houses. If these evils were inevitable consequences of the tax, your strictures upon that impost would be perfectly legitimate ; as the tax is at present levied, these are the con sequences that must naturally he expected ; but I think it is quite possible to adopt a mode of assessment which would not be - open to this objection, and would have the further advan tage of distributing the burthen of taxation more equally among those who have to bear it. At present, window-tax is charged according to the number of windows, the amount varying, according to a graduated scale. The builder, is therefore. tempted to put in as few windows as possible, and frequently, nay, generally, houses are rendered less commo dious and healthful than they otherwise would be, in conse quence. W. E. Hickson, Esq., one of the Commissioners of inquiry into the condition of the hand-loom weavers, was, so far as I know, the first to propose a plan by which the temptation to this evil might be avoided without injury to the revenue from the window-tax. Mr. Hickson proposes that the tax should be charged ac cording to the size of the house, not according to the number of its windows. Let a man live in a glass house if he please, he should pay no more window-tax than another who has only a little peephole in each room. It has been objected that such a mode of assessment would operate as an induce ment to build low rooms. It will operate as an inducement to inhabit small houses, but so do all rates upon such pro perty, but it need not be made to operate as an inducement to construct the houses in any particular form, except that which individual convenience dictates. It would be easy to construct a scale of charges regulated proportionately to the area of the ground occupied, and the number of stories in the house, assuming that the number of windows ought to be proportionate: let the window-tax be charged accord ingly whether the windows be made or not. It would not perhaps be just to apply the new mode of assess ment to houses constructed to meet the present law, but it would be easy to give the occupiers of houses already built the option of being assessed according to the present or an improved plan, and apply the improved plan imperatively to future houses only. 1 need not, however, enter upon details. You will perceive that tie adoption of some such principle as this would remove the principal objections to a tax which, I fear, we must for the present at least submit to. Those of your readers who desire to see more argument on this subject may refer to Mr. Hickson's evidence published at pages 436-7 of the first report of the Health of Towns Commissioners.— Yours, X. Manchester, Feb. 7, 1845. AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION.—A number of no blemen, gentlemen, and farmers, representing the agricultu rists of the country, waited upon Sir Robert Peel by appoint ment, on Saturday, and laid before him the present depressed state of the agricultural interest, urging its claim upon the Government for a share in any remission of tax ation. Several tenant-farmers addressed Sir Rob ert Peel, stating, from their own practical knowledge, the existing distress in their own particular districts. The Prime Minister received them with great courtesy and at tention. The Duke of Richmond read a letter from the Duke of Buckingham, expressing regret at his unavoid able al-sence. The following were present :—The Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Essex, Earl of March, M.P., Sussex, West ; Lord Beaumont, Mr. G. Bankes, M.P., Dorsetshire ; Mr. T. W. Bramston Essex, South; Mr. Darby, M.P., Sussex, East; Air. E. B. Denison, M.P., Yorkshire, West Riding ; Mr. Du Pre, M.P., Buckinghamshire ; Mr. W. Miles, M.P., Somerset, East ; Mr. Newdigate, M.P., Warwickshire, North ; Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., Northamptonshire, North; Mr. Pusey, M.P., Berkshire ; Col. Rushbrooke, M.P., Suffolk, West; Sir John Trollope, Bart., M.P., Lincolnshire, South ; Sir John Tyrell, tßart., M.P., Essex, North ; r. Wodehouse, M.P., 'Norfolk, East ; Mr. J. J. Allnatt, Berkshire ; Mr. H. G. Andrews, Somerset ; Mr. IL Baker, Essex ; Mr. W. Bennett, Beds. ; Mr. Brickwell, Bucks. ; Mr. Blandford, Somerset ; Mr. Brown, North Wilts ; Mr. Cramp, Kent ; Mr. I. Clarke, Lincolnshire ; Mr. 1. Ellman, Sussex ; Mr. Hilditch, Salop ; Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Essex ; Mr. Hudson, Norfolk ; Mr. S. Jonas, Cambridgeshire ; Mr. S. Mills, South Wilts; Mr. Moseley, East Suffolk; Mr. Oak ley, Herts ; Mr. Pain, Bedfordshire ; Mr.Rodwell,West Suffolk ; Mr. G. Shackel, Berkshire; Mr. R. Smith, Rutland; Mr. Stevenson, Lincolnshire; Mr. Turner, Devon; Mr. Warsop, Huntingdon; Mr. Weall, Surrey; Mr. Edward Wyatt, West Sussex. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF ELY.—The greatest alarm, a few days since, pervaded the palace and town of Ely, in consequence of its being ascertained that the Right Reverend Prelate was suffering from a serious fit of apoplexy. His Lordship had, it appears, been found by a domestic, stretched on the floor of his bed-room, seemingly lifeless ; and, medical aid being instantly called in, he was in some measure restored to sensation. Up to Friday night, he remained in a very precarious state. ➢lr. Josi, the keeper of the prints at the British Museum, died on Friday last, of consumption. The taste and judgment displayed by this gentleman in the perform ance of his duties must render it no easy task to find a suc cessor to him, who will not, to some extent, suffer in the com parison. SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRlDGE.—Yesterday even ing, shortly after five o'clock, a respectably dressed female threw herself off Waterloo-bridge into the river. She took off her shawl and left it in the first recess on the east side of the bridge from the Strand, then climbing over the balustrade, divested herself of her bonnet, and, before any person could arrive to her rescue, jumped in. Boats immediately shoved off, but she had sunk before they reached the spot. The bonnet and shawl of the ill-fated woman were taken to Bow-street station-house, for the purpose of identification. THE CASH OF CARUS WILSON.—THE WRIT OF HABEAS.—The States met on Tuesday and Wednesday and discussed with closed doors the subject of Mr. Wilson and the habeas. It was decided after a rather stormy debate that the writ should be obeyed under protest, and Mr. Dupre, the So licitor-General, and Mr. Godfray, constable of St. Saviour's, were directed to proceed to London to represent the interests of the States and the Royal Court. They will leave the island this day by the Monarch, and Mr. Wilson will go in the same vessel. Colonel Le Couteur left this island by the Transit, on Wednesday lass.—Jersey Times of Friday. We understand that the marriage of the Mar chioness of Hastings with Captain llastings Henry, will be solemnised at the beginning of April.— court Journal. A NEW MODE OF PASSING COUNTERFEIT COIN. — Yesterday, whilst a collection was being made at the doors of St. Clements Danes for a charitable purpose, an elegantly dressed female, about forty years of age, and of lady-like manners and address, expressed her willingness to contribute a small sum towards the object sought to be benefitted, but regretted that she had no small change in her possession, at the same time producing a sovereign from her purse and offering to give Is. 6d. if they would oblige her with the change. This request, after some delay, was complied with, and 18s. 6d. was handed to her, and, having leisurely placed the silver in her purse, she left the church. A short time after the sovereign was found to be counterfeit. WEST-END CLUES.—Although the great west-end clubs have in many instances damaged, and in some ruined the proprietors of the comfortable old-fashioned taverns and coffee-houses, they are to a certain extent compensating, at least mitigating, the evil, by the unquestionable services which they render to the poor of the metropolis. There is not one club of any respectability which is not in the habit of contributing to the maintenance or relief of the indigent in their respective parishes. We may illustrate this state ment by a reference to the Union Club, which distributed in the year 1844 to the poor of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, under the control of the officiating ministers, no less than 3,1041b5. of broken bread ; 4,5561b5. of broken meat, 1147 pints of tea-leaves, and 1,158 pints of coffee-grounds. DEPUTATIONS ON THE COTTON TAX.—We under stand that Sir Robert Peel has signified his willingness to re ceive, on Wednesday next, the di fferent de p utations which have been appointed to wait upon him in reference to the repeal of the tax on cotton. Amongst them will be three from Manchester, namely, one from the Town-Council, one from the public meeting of merchants and manufacturers, and one from the Chamber of Commerce. We understand also, that most of the large towns interested in the cotton manu facture will also send deputations, so that the number of gen tlemen who will assemble in London for this purpose is likely to be considerable. DRINKING TO DEATH. — Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest on Saturday forenoon last, at the White Lion, Edgware-road, on the body of Thomas Stamford, aged forty one. Deceased was found dead by his bedside on Wednesday evening last, and his wife said he had drank himself to death. He bad been a hay salesman and corn chandler, once well off in that neighbourhood, but becoming embarrassed a year ago, he abandoned himself to intemperance, and had not been scarcely a day sober until within three days of his death. His irregular habits had brouiht on a violent cough and dis ease of the lungs. Verdict—Natural death. LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL,-011 Sunday morning a sermon on behalf of this highly valued Institution was preached at the church of St. Peter's, Vere-street, St. bfary lebone, by the Rev. Edward Scobell, M.A., &c. The im mense utility of such an establishment in so vast a metro polis as that of London, and the benefits of which were alike available both to the sick and to the poor in l the hour of con tagion and danger, was very warmly and eloquently dwelt upon by the Rev. Gentleman, and at the conclusion of a very energetic appeal, the sum collected at the doors amounted to 1501. 14s. 4d., exclusive of annual subscriptions. The total amount of patients received into the wards of the hos pital since its establishment in 1802, exceeds 17,000. STATES. LIVERPOOL SUNDAY MORNING. The fine packet ship Yorkshire, commanded by Captain Bailey, arrived here last night, after an excel lent passage from New York, whence she sailed on the 16th ultimo, bringing papers from that city two days later than those previously received. They con tain no news of striking interest. The annexation of Texas was still the all-absorbing topic. France, it would appear from the, tone of the Neu , York Sun, is now viewed as an enemy of the great Republic, and is said to have designs upon Mexico ; to the intrigues of French emissaries and the influence of Gallic gold is attributable the downfall of Santa Anna; and the marriage of Prince de Joinville with a Brazilian Princess is spoken of as the first part of a gigantic scheme for establishing French supremacy in South America. A Bill, authorising the preliminary steps to bring about the annexation of Texas, was presented to Congress on the 13th of January, by Mr. Foster, of Tennessee, and was received, and various petitions for and against that measure were presented. In the House of Representatives there had also been debating on the same question, without any practical result. The resolutions were read and referred to a Corn mittee of the whole House. The Madisonian coolly remarks that Colonel Benson will not deem it necessary, in the present po sition of Mexico, to require the consent of that coun try to the annexation of Texas. A meeting of the Abolitionists of New England to oppose the annexa tion was to be held at Boston on the 29th ult. A report made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the State of Pennsylvania goes far in support of the promises made a short time since, that the future interest of the public debt will be punctually paid. Some unpleasant occurrences have taken place between the Government of New Grenada and the American Consul, Mr. Sancha, that gentleman having been forcibly ejected from his office, and anotherperson appointed in his place. Full particulars of the affair are not given, but the American citizens appear to have been in favour of Mr. Sancha. NEW YORK COMMERCIAL MARKETS, JAN. 16. Favourable accounts from England have rendered the Cotton Market more buoyant and firm. There is little doing in exchanges. We quote bills on London, 110 to 1101 ; on Paris 5.2 i to 5.211. Mr. Polk, the President elect, is expected to arrive in Washington, on the 15th instant. The Neu' York Herald announces that the return of Mr. Webster to the Senate of the United States, for the State of Massachusets, is certain. Colonel W. Polk, brother of the President elect, has been appointed, by President Tyler, to the post of Charge d'Affaires of the United States at the Court of Naples. DESTRUCTIVE INCENDIARY FIRE NEAR NOTTING RAM.—On Monday morning, a destructive fire, for which no cause of origin can be assigned, and which is considered to be the work of an incendiary, occurred at the villege of Lenton, about a mile from Nottingham. The building which has been destroyed was a lace fac tory, belonging to Mr. Peter Colton, of New Lenton, having been erected about twelve months since at a large expense. It was fitted up with new machinery for the manufacture of lace. It was three stories high, with machinery on each floor, and completed with every re quisite for work. The fire was discovered about half past two o'clock, A.M., and about four a large engine arrived, with post horses, from the Nottingham Fire brigade, but the roof had fallen in twenty minutes after the discovery of the fire, and nothing but the bare walls remained standing. The machinery contained in the building was valued alone at 1,5001., of which only 5501. was insured. The building was quite new, and its erection cost several hundred pounds, but its exact worth is not known.— Worcestershire Chronicle. WRECK OF A VESSEL AT PORT TALBOT.—On Saturday morning last, as the barque Margaret Hardy, of Aberdeen, Johnson, master, laden with copper, wine, beer, coals, &c., for Calcutta, was being towed out of Port Talbot harbour, by the Don steam-tug, she struck on the south side of the river, when the ropes parted, and the vessel being left to the mercy of the waves, drifted to the north side of the river, where she remained until Sunday morning. It appears that at the time the accident occurred, the Chieftain tug was also attached to the vessel by means of a rope from her quarters, and our informant attributes the oc currence to a sudden start of the Chieftain, which had the effect of driving the vessel ashore on the south side. On Sunday morning, by means of the breakwater capstan, she was hauled to the river, but most un fortunately a heavy sea beating at the time, she was carried on the breakwater, where, after knocking about for a considerable time, she ultimately sunk, the sea clearing her decks. A portion of the wine and beer had drifted away, while all the cop per, with the exception of one or two cases, were dis charged. About twenty tons of coals were thrown overboard, while the portion of the cargo that could be saved, consisting of wine and bear, has been dis charged. Her stores also were greatly damaged. The evening tide carried the stern of the vessel right across the river, a position by which she completely blockades the port, there being neither ingress nor egress for vessels. She is now embedded in eight feet of sand, and about three hundred tons of coal remain undischarged. Some seamen's chests drifted ashore on Wednesday. On, that day some divers arrived at the place to inspect the vessel, and it is reported that they had undertaken to raise her, but the prevailing opinion seems to be that she will become a total wreck. The cargo, we are informed, is fully insured, and the vessel partly so. About four feet of the stern has parted off, and she continues making more water than her pumps can raise. There are about thirty sail of vessels in port ready to leave, and about ten or twelve ready to enter the port, but are obstructed by the wreck of the barque, which has the effect, for the time being, of stopping the entire trade of the port.—Cambrian. GREYFRIARS' CHURCHES.—The scene of the confla gration of Sunday week, which we have described, has been visited since then by thousands of individuals—all of whom are much struck with the total ruin presented by the walls of the Old Church. From the gateway, at Candle maker-row, the scene is quite picturesque, and as one approaches nearer, or gets within the shell of the once strong edifice, the fire appears to have worked, in a few hours, upon the arches and abut ments, the slow effects of one or two hun dred years upon some of our older ruins. Al though no permanent arrangement has been made, it is understood that on Sunday next the congregation of Old Greyfriars meet in St. John's (Rev. Mr. Fraser's), and that the Rev. Mr. Robertson, of New Greyfriars, is to officiate in Newington Church, which has at present no stated minister,—Scotsman. TWEED BANK DIVIDEND.—On Tuesday the audit of the affairs of the Tweed Bank bankruptcy was held in Newcastle. The business preliminary to the de claring of the further dividend was gone through, when the Commissioner resolved to hear no more proofs of debts until the said dividend had been declared. At this stage of the proceeding the business was stopped in con sequence of the Commissioner having to go to Lon don, when he adjourned the sitting until Monday the 10th of February, when the dividend will be declared, and the days for paying it fixed upon. The amount is expected to be 6d. per pound, making, with what has already been paid, 109. We understand there is a pros pect of a still further dividend, the payment of which, however, is by present appearances at some distance. The amount will also be small, probably one penny or twopence in the pound.—Berwick Advertiser. THE STORM.—On Sabbath morning last, a violent storm from north-west raged on the coasts of Wigton shire. The tide in Lochryan rose to an unusual height; and as the wind blew directly up the Loch, the vessels in the roadstead at Stranraer required all the precau tions that could possibly be taken to make them hold their ground. The brig David of Stranraer, Captain M'Dowall, with coals from Newcastle to Carthagena, was driven, when off Dublin, by a south-west wind, to the entrance of Lochryan, where she came to anchor on Saturday night ; but the wind suddenly changing to N. W., and blowing a hurricane, she slipped, and ran up to the roads at Stranraer, where she brought to, and was driven ashore, about three o'clock on Sunday morning, near Sanclmill. She struck violently, and filled soon after. The crew got safely on shore ; but the vessel is very seriously damaged. About the same time that the David ran ashore, the schooner Isabella, Captain Davidson, of Stranraer, was also stranded at a short distance from her, but being very light, she was driven much farther up the beach than the brig, and has suffered no damage. The Lady Brisbane steamer, which had brought to in the roads, beginning to drive, the engines were set to work, and she steamed to windward the greater part of Sunday, dragging her anchors. Besides two female passengers, who must have got a sad fright, the only persons on board were the engineer and two men, who deserve much credit for the manner in which they managed the vessel and brought her safely into the quay at five r at. It was very fortunate that the steamer had a supply of coals on board, else the gallant little craft would inevitably have been driven ashore.—Ayr Observer. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEBRUARY 7.—We have no alteration to notice in our sugar market ; the trade mtinue barely to supply their immediate wants, and prices are not more than supported. No sales reported in Mauri tius and West India, and the rum market is quite neglected. —Bristol Mercury. The following is an account of game bagged by the Hon. Col. Lowther, Lieut. Lowther, E. W. Hassell, Esq., Dalemain, and E. Wilson, Esq., Abbot Hall, Ken dal, after two or three days' shooting in the preserves in the vicinity of Lowther Castle :—Hares, 541; pheasants, 500; partridges, 21; woodcocks, 12; rabbits, 4; giving a total of 1,078 head.—Lancaster Guardian. DRURY..LANE THEATRE.—Amongst the greatest " hits " for some time past, may be consider, d the new grand ballet of Les Danaides, which is nightly filling this theatre with all the playgoing and fashionable folks in London. A more brilliant combination cannot be imagined than The Daughter of St. Mark and Les Danaides. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Royal llighnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, attended Divine service yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. Captain Edmond St. John Mildmay was in waiting on their Royal llighnesses. The Duchess of Gloucester visited their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meckleuburgh Strelitz, on Saturday, at Cambridge House. The Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. George Bankes M.P., and a deputation of about forty members of the Agricultural Protection Society, waited upon Sir Robert Peel, on Saturday afternoon, at his official residence, in Downing-street, and had a conference with the Right Hon. Baronet. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office in White hall-place. There were present the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Chichester, and the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse. A deputation of spirit-merchants, including Messrs. Barnes, Currie, Clark, and Ruck, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The Marquis of Bute had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Viscount Sandon, M.P., and Mr. Cook, bad an inter view with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. Despatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received en Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Dukes of Wellington and Rutland, and Sir Fred. Trench, attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read and the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Horsley Dakins. The Marquisses of Salisbury, Normanby, and Winchester, — Lords Hawarden, Wharncliffe, Ernest Bruce, Colville and Cantalupe, attended the daily service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Horsley Dakins, and the Communion Service by the Bishop of London. The anthem was, " 0 Lord, thou bast searched me out" (Croft). Sir George Smart pre sided at the organ. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council sat on Saturday. The Lords present were the Lord President of the Council, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, resumed his address on an appeal from Madras, " Nanaboery Selapaty v. Kauso Colanoo Pulliah." Mr. Loftus Wigram, Queen's Counsel, was heard in reply. Lord Brougham gave judgment. The Court then rose. THE INTENDED NEW POOR-LAW.—As another session of Parliament hes commenced, the public will do well to be alive to the additional Poor-law Bill, as respects pauper settlements, which the Government is intending to introduce—to confine all settlements to the birth-place! It has just been well observed by the able editors of a legal weekly publication, called the Justice of the Peace, that " the Bill seems to have been framed with one object—parsimony, the narrowest and meanest motive of action; that as to any consideration or feeling for the immense pauper population of England and Wales, these seem not for a moment to have influenced the mind of the framers of the Bill. They are to be dealt with as burdens and incumbrances, to be shifted off and evaded, no matter at what expense of suffering to the objects themselves ; that the first consequences, it the Bill were to pass, would be frightful, not only as re gards the well-being of the poor, but the enormous litigation to which it would give birth. Immediately would be instituted a general and searching inquiry into the place of birth (with a few exceptions) of every pauper head of a family of children, and his or her removal with the family to that place, and so likewise of every single pauper without children, regardless of all old ties or as sociations, or considerations of health, or means o f gain ing a livelihood. Concurrently with, and oven after this earthquake among the pauper population has subsided, if it ever shall subside, commences the contest among parish functionaries and rate-payers to prevent, as fur as possible, the birth (which would constitute the settle ment) of the poor amongst them. All those paupers who had gained settlements by any means—by mar. riage, by apprenticeship, by hiring and service, by pay. went of rates, by estate, by rental of a tenement, by relief—all these must be examined anew, and if found to be born elsewhere than in the parish in which they are settled, rooted up and sent to their birth place, however distant, without respect to age, infirmity, kindred, predi. lections, associations, temporal or spiritual welfare or comfort. We question whether ignorance or wilful im policy, whichever it is, could be carried further." This Bill is another landlord's trick, and it must be watched with the utmost caution and care, in order to prevent its becoming a law.—Frorn a Correspondent. MORAL EFFECTS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.— The magistrates were occupied on Monday week several hours in investigating charges of drunkenness, theft, &c., at the Town-hall, by persons wh o came, as several of tem said, to see " the poor man hung." On Friday night 30 persons made application for board and beds at the Union house, and avowed they came from the country, some ten, others fourteen miles off, for the purpose of beholding the execution. Twenty-four were accommodated with supper and bed. Six got their suppers onl y , as there was not lodging room in the house (which is fuller than ever known, containing 350 inmates, of whom 60 are able-bodied). The twenty-four requested their breakfast in the morning, but the conditions were that if they partook of breakfast they could not go out till after twelve o'clock ; these conditions were considered hard, they all, therefore, took their departure. —l:pswich Express. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SraATroßD.—About half past ten o'clock on Saturday night much alarm was felt in the village of Stratford, Essex, owing to a disastrous fire at the extensive premises of Messrs. Curtis and Son, builders, adjacent to the parish church. It appears that it was first raging in that part of the works termed the drying stores. The watchman on duty gave the alarm. Before, however, the enginescould be brought into opera tion, the flames had gained a most alarming ascendancy, and had extended to the painting warehouses, threaten ing the entire destruction of the premises. A copious supply of water having been gained, and the brigade engines from Wellelose-square, Jeffreys square, and the chief station in Watling street, under the charge of Mr. Braidwood, having arrived, by half past twelve o'clock they were safely got under. The damage effect e d w ill prove very heavy, the drying-stores bein g a ll b ut con surned, and slight injury to the paint-rooms. The over heating of the stoves is supposed to be the origin. The property is insured in thJ Phceaix Fire-office for a very large amount. ROYAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL AS SOCIATION.—The annual meeting of this Society took place on Saturday, at the George Inn, Aylesbury, which was as vapid and insipid as such meetings usually are. The Duke of Buckingham was in the chair. Tho League was, of course, abused, and the unfortunate members of the So ciety cajoled and flattered by the speeches of their leaders. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. - Operations on this line will be commenced almost imme diately. On Wednesday the contracts are to be let, when there will be thirty miles put in hand, taking a direct line from Chester to Baghilt, and the Penmaen Bach Tunnel, which is 440 yards in length, and is to be made at the instance of the Admiralty. In another month the entire distance, 84 miles, with the exception of the Bangor portion of the line, approaching the Menai Straits, and the passage over them, which stands in abeyance at the request of Government, will also be under contract. It was originally contemplated by Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, to carry the rail wa y over th e pre sent Menai bridge, but this was objected to by the Woods and Forests, and by Mr. Walker, the Government engineer. He now recommends the Directors to construct a permanent bridge over the Britannia Rock, to be used exclusively for the transit of the trains, and application for the necessary powers will be wade in the ensuing session. The works at this point will be the weightiest on the line, and the proposed bridge over the straits of stupendous construction. There will be two arches of 350 feet span, the segments of the arch to be formed of iron. They are proposed to be built without centerings, and of such a nature as to prevent any obstruction to the navigation ; fear of which was the principal reason for not granting this portion of the line last session. Within the last few days engineers have been taking plans and soundings at the Britannia Rock, with the view of giving evidence before the House on the subject. The line was originally laid out by Mr. George Stephenson in 1838. In 1839 Commissioners were appointed by Government to select the best lines, and the best harbours to be adopted, so as to furnish a better and more direct communication between England and Ireland. The harbours to which the attention of the Commissioners was directed were those of Holyhead and Portdinnlaen. The lines were four, viz., from Holyhead to Bangor and Chester ; from Portdinnlaen, rid Carnarvon, to Bangor and Chester ; from Portdinnlaen, by Bala and Shrewsbury ; and the fourth from Ormshead to Chester. The latter lines, from Portdinnlaen and Ormshead, were rejected by the Commissioners, who conceived that, being open road steads, they could not be well adapted for mail-packet stations. The Chester and Holyhead starts from the Birken head line, runs parallel for five miles with the Dee, and sweeps on to Mostyn, Flint, Abergele, Baghilt, and Liandowlais, skirting the seashore until it arrives at the pro montories of Penmaen Bach and Pamaen Mawr, where the chief engineering difficulties occur. Owing to their extreme steepness two plans were proposed by Mr. Stephenson, either to carry a ledge along them, or to perforate them by a tunnel. The former, he thought, would be the cheapest, but he had been induced to adopt the latter, as it will prevent the trains from exposure to the sea, which beats powerfully at those points. The line sweeps by a viaduct over Bangor, and through Anglesea on to Holyhead. From Chester it will run for thirty-five miles on a level, which, in an engineering point of view, is almost unprecedented. A deviation, with the concurrence of the landowners, is proposed to be made in tne route at Bangor, in consequence of opposition from the bishop, whose palace it originally proposed to pass on a viaduct. The proposed modification will entail an increased expense of 50,000/. We understand that arrangements have been made with Colonel Pennant, one of the principal landed proprietors, that the works between the Ogwm river, near Bangor, and the Menai Straits, may be proceeded with immediately. The line, when constructed, will be employed in the conveyance of the Government mails, troops, and ordnance stores. It will cost 2,100,000/., and bring the metropolis within 270 miles of Holy. head, by a journey of ten hours. Ten thousand tons of rails have already been contracted for. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT NOTTINGHAM. NOTTEIGIIAM, FEB. B.—The investigation into this extra ordinary affair—some particulars of which appeared in The Sun of last week—was resumed on Thursday, when Mr. M. Browne, the borough coroner, and jury, assembled at the Milton's Head tavern, Derby-road. The inquiry:was strictly private, reporters and public being refused admittance to the inquest-room. Through the courtesy of the coroner, however, we are enabled to give some extracts from the depo sitions. The first witness examined was Mrs. Ann Campbell, of Derby-road. She said the deceased, Hannah Wilmot, was fifteen years old on the 19th of last October. Up to a recent period she enjoyed good health. On the Bth of last August she went to live with Mrs. Farmer, who is a milliner and dressmaker on the Long-row. She boarded and lodged in the house, About two months ago (witness con tinued) I perceived that her health had undergone a serious change. She became gradually worse, until about three weeks ago, when she came to my house, and has remained there ever since. She was confined to her bed for the last fortnight, and died on Sunday night, about half-past nine o'clock. During the time she was at my house I had several conversations with her as to the nature of her com plaint. She told me her illness had been occasioned by some powders which Mr. Farmer had given her from eight to ten weeks previously. She said that she took three of those powders, in succession, at night, and had never been well since. Mr. Farmer got her a packet of them, but she only took three. I desired her to bring me one of the powders she had been taking; and called to see her, at Mr. Farmer's, about ten days afterwards, when I found she had got a bad cold. She came to see me en the Sunday following, and I then asked her if she had brought the powder. She told me that when she returned from my house on the former occasion she found her box had been broken open, and everything taken out. I did not see her again for a fortnight ; her cold was better, but she had still a cough, her lips were very much swollen, and her mouth looked blistered. I did not see her again till the:following Friday week, when her mother brought her to my house. She went home with her mother that night, and returned the next day to my house, where she remained till her death. A few days afterwards she appeared to be very ill, and I asked her how long she had felt so. She told me that she had not been well since she took the powders ; and on my asking her why she was prevailed on to take them, she said she was ashamed to tell me the reason. She, however, went on to in form me, that Mr. Farmer had given her the powders be cause he supposed she was in the family way by him, he having taken liberties with her, in a great degree by force; and he was assisted in the matter of the powders by Miss Matheson, a young female living in the house. Miss Mathe son, when giving her the powders, told her that if there should be anything wrong she must not bring her (Miss Matheson's) name into question, as she had done it for her good. Mr. Farmer himself put the powders and a lotion into her box, and Miss Matheson, after some few days, kept the key of it. The next witness examined was Miss Ann Matheson ' the young lady already referred to. Her evidence proved no thing but the good understanding which seemed to exist be tween her and Mr. Farmer. Mr. Henry Attenburrow, of Nottingham, surgeon, said—l was called in to see Hannah Wilmot on the 20th of last January. I found her labouring under constant sickness, and, after eating, pain in the head. There were then no other remarkable appearances. The next day I found that her breath had a very strong mercurial factor. Her gums were very spongy, and a good deal receded from her teeth. I continued to attend the deceased. From the constant sickness, I could give:her nothing except gum water, beef tea, and matters of that kind. The medicine which I first ordered produced such distressing effects that I immediately discontinued it. The pain in the head continued, accompa nied at times with loss of sight. For the last two days be fore her death she appeared to be rather improved, as food stayed on her stomach. On Sunday morning last, when I called, she had been sleeping much longer than I had allowed her to sleep, and she seemed to be sinking. I stopped with her for about three-quarters of an hour, and gave her some port wine and beef tea, which rallied her, and she appeared much as she had done the preceding day. Between eight and nine o'clock that evening I was sent for in a great hurry, and when I reached the house I found she had just died. In the morning of that day I was not without hopes of her recovering ; but when she began to sink, she sank so rapidly that it was impossible to have her dying declaration taken in the presence of a magistrate. On the third day of my attendance on her, she told me about the powders which had been given to her, and that confirmed my suspicions as to her being under the influence of mercury. I made a post mortem examination. The only part of the body where disease was found was the lower part of the brain ; there were small tubercles, containing matter, in the cere bellum, and over the greater part of it, just where the spinal cord commences. The disease of the brain would account for the pain in the head, the loss of sight, and, in some measure, for the constant sickness. She died from that disease of the brain. I cannot say with certainty how long the disease might have existed, but judging from the circumstances, I think about two months. The disease might be produced by mental excitement. Therewas not any appearance in the stomach or bowels to indicate that any corrosive mineral poison had been administered. The spongy appearance of the gums, and the state of the breath were the only indications of her having taken mercury. She was not pregnant. She told me of powders having been given to her at Farmer's ; that those which she had not taken were pillaged from her box but she did not know at what shop they were procured. Several other witnesses were examined, and the evidence was generally corroborative of that given by Mrs. Campbell and the surgeon. The CORONER, considering it useless to examine any more witnesses, summed up at some length. He expressed hi s sorrow that Miss Wilmot's dying declaration had not been taken before a magistrate; as it stood there was no legal evidence to convict; and, therefore, however, painful it might be to the feelings of.the jury, they would be comelled to return a verdict of " Died from disease of the b r ain," and this was the verdict recorded. The greatest disgust and indignation were expressed by all the jurors, and several of them regretted that they could come ;o no other conclusion. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS. During the past week there has been a return of winter weather, and a most intense frost has again set in. The thermometer up to the night of Thursday last had not been lower than 31 degrees, but on that night it fell to 25 degrees, and on Friday it was again down to the same point. On Saturday night it was 26 degrees, and at 8 o'clock yesterday morning 27 degrees. About 11C011 the mercury rose to 31i, and the wind veered round to the south ; but, as the after noon advanced the mercury began to fall, and at 8 o'clock last evening it was down to 29 degrees, with a keen and cutting wind from the E.S.E., and a cloudy sky. In St. James's and the Regent's Parks, and in Kensington gardens, so severe had been the frost, that skating commenced so early as Saturday, and numbers ventured on the ice without any accident of a serious character occurring. The ice in the Serpentine, yesterday, was not above an inch thick ; and, through the exertions of the icemen of the Royal Humane Society, no persons ventured on, except a few boys, who kept close to the south shore. No accident occurred. In Kensington-gardens, the ice on the Round-pond, through persons venturing on it too soon, hasbeen broken b a d and in several places ; and, therefore, is in dan gerons state, the thickest part being .4 a nd yesterday, scarcely two inches. Several of the icemen were, on Satur da y stationed both at the Round-pod and rendered most essential assistance l sn and at the Long-water, is l t 7 a . n s ce mi i t n h, pr o e f ve c n l t a in re g mont. , acci dents, About three o'clock u Claremont house, Hammersmith, through the ice, but was extri cated by iceman Sm ith, bs . means of the new ice sledge, b u t not before he was himself immersed in the l e water. The num ber of skaters during the day was nearly „000 and no other acci dent of a serious nature occurred. On the Long-water the ice at the Bayswater end is the strongest, and on t h at part r tthere were about 2,000 skaters. The marquee of the Skating Club was on Saturday again placed on the north on th bank, e a ic nd e. No accidents occ a number of the members were ye s t er d ay skating The ice in the Regent's Park is not above an inch and th r ee-quarters thick. Yeste r d ay the number of skaters was about 2,000, and the accidents were numerous. About a quarter before 12 o'clock Mr. Digby, of No. 20, Easton street, Spa-fields, became immersed in eight feet water, but was extricated by Charles Griffith, one of the icemen, with an ice-sledge. Ab out a quarter of an hour afterwards Alfred Stamford, of No. 42, College-street, Camden -town, broke through near the Suspension -bridge into, six feet water, and was rescued by iceman Edward Collins. About half past one o'clock Mr. Fennell, of 22, Gloucester- place, New road, broke thro ug h th e i ce on the Broad -water, but was got out by iceman Wightman, by means of a double-breaker ladder. About three o'clock Thomas Summers, of Stamford street, Lisson-grove, broke through near the Suspension. bridge Into eight feet water, but was rescued by means of an ice-boat by iceman George Clapson, and in less than half an hour afterwards no less than six persons became immersed by the ice breaking in two places. The first accident took place off the island, near the Humane . Society's marquee, where Mr. Bower, of No. 1, Powis-place, Queen-square, Bloomsbury; Mr. Morrell, No. 14, Charles-street, Portman square ; and John and Henry Davis, of No. 1, Great Barlow street, Marylebone, broke through into eight feet water, but were extricated by icemen Southern, Winnott, and Griffiths. The second accident took place on the Broad-water, where Mr. Warren, of No. 37, Gloucester• place, New-road ; and Mr. Townsend, of High-street s Camden-town, broke through into seven feet water, but were rescued by icemen George. Clapson and John Winnstt. All the above persons-were. admitted into the marquee, and received assistance from the Society's servants. Two of them (the Devises) were so ex hausted that it was fonnd necessary to put them into warm baths, &c . The ice in St. James's Park is also very tight, not being more than an inch and a quarter thick, and it will to-day (Monday) be highly dangerous for persons to venture On. The number of skaters during the day was about 5,000 and . about 740 accidents happened. Amongst the persons who broke through were the following :—Saumel Sebley, No 14, Arnold-place, W'alworth ; George Legg, No. 2, Rochester- 7 row, Westminster ; George Barker, No. 27, Berwick street, Pimlico ; Jam es G ar d ener, No. 9, Broad-street, St. Giles's ; George Ladwick, silversmith, 106, Vauxhall-walk ; • James Purser, 14, Cross-street, Hatton-garden ' • James Pawley, 6, Bedford -court, N ew N ort h -street, Red Lion-square. ; John Farrance, 1, Heron-place, Vauxhall-bridge ; William Ed ward Rargibrd, 346, Strand, John France, Primrose-street, Bishopsgate ; Daniel Lardne r , N o . 4 , R ane l ag h -walk, Thames-bank ; John Feakins, No. 4, Peel-terrace, Deptford; Joseph Duke, 26, Lambeth-terrace; John Lenden, Star-court, Chancery-lane; Charles Hodset, 3, Gard ener ' s - co tt ages, West minster ; Joseph Caldwell, Post-office, Southwark ; James Beckworth, 27, Wootton-street, Cornwall - road, Lambeth ; Anthony Reading, Highbury-barn ; Richard De Lion, artist, 145, Goswell-street ; Thomas Newland, 4, Douglas street, Vauxhall-road : Thomas Baxter, Charles -court, Hungerford-market ; Frederick Moody, 10, Pall-m a ll E as t ; and Joseph Male, 24 Buckingham-street, Strand, &c. The whole of the above persons were, when rescued, taken to the Humane Society's marquee, and placed in warm baths, and received every attention until able to return home. The icemen and other officers of the Royal Humane So ciety deserve the highest praise for their exertions in all the parks, to which may be attributed the preservation of so many persons from a watery grave. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 9.—The Commander-in-Chief, Sir C. Rowley, Bart., returned from leave yesterday and re-assumed the port duties. The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C. 8., is alongside the jetty preparing for sea. Rendezvous are opened for the entry of men. A rumour is in circulation that Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., will hoist his flag in her to command in the Mediterranean. The Sparrow, 2, Commander Otter, left to complete her refit alongside her hulk on Friday. The Medway, royal mail steamer, was towed into this harbour on Friday, at high water, to be docked, having tailed the ground in the Southampton water, and scraped her copper, and lost her rudder. A steamer was secured on either side of her at the bow, and another steamer was towed astern to act as a rudder. She was taken into dock yesterday. The Rattler, 8, screw-propelled steam sloop, Commander Smith, is in the harbour, painting and preparing for sea. She is short-handed. Squadron in the Pacific—The Dublin, 50, Captain Tucker, flag of Rear. Admiral Thomas, was at Callao, on the sth of November, waiting the arrival of the Coßingwood, 80, Rear-Admiral Seymour, to take the command. The America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, was at Callao on the above date; she arrived on the Ist from the Cape. The Cor morant steam-sloop, Commander Gordon, was at Callao on the 3d of November. The Flsgard, 42, Captain Duntze, and the Salamander steamer, Commander Hammond, were at Islay on the 3d of November. The following notice to pilots has been issued by the Lords of the Admiralty :—" Notice is hereby given, that on such occasions as it is found necessary to employ a steam vessel to tow any of her Majesty'sships or vessels, only one pilot will be paid for such service (except in extraordinary cases), and that such payment will be made for which ever vessel draws most water." The Cygnet, 6, Commander Layton, was cruising off the Bight of Benin on the 25th of November. She had captured a slaver on the 15th. The Winchester, 50, Captain Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the lion. J. Percy, was at Symond's Bay on the 20th of De cember. The Wasp, 16, Captain Usher, and the Star, 6, Comman der Dunlop, were cruising off the Bights on the 2d of De cember, at which date the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir William Daniel, and Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, were at Benguela; the Growler, steam-sloop, Commander Buckle, Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch, and Ardent, steam-sloop, Commander Russell, were at the Gallinas; the Alert, 6, Commander Bosanquet, and Alert, 3, steam-sloop, Lieute nant-Commander Cumberland, were at Sierra Leone, ex pecting the arrival of the Commodore in the Penelope, 22 ; the Eclair, steam-sloop, Commander Estcourt, the Hydra, 4, steam-sloop, Commander Young, and the Tortoise, guard ship, were at Ascension. The Albatrosshad made two prizes. DEVONPORT.—The Espiegle, 12, Commander Harris, and Flyish Fish, 12, Commander Thompson, "made their num bers" on Wednesday, and put to sea again. A private letter from the former states, that since their departure from the Sound, on the 31st ult., they had encountered very rough weather, which, during the first three or four days, was really awful. During a heavy squall, the Espiegle carried away her jib-boom and narrowly escaped being dismasted. They had encountered also a severe snow storm. The Espiegle proves herself a most weatherly vessel, and far superior to her competitor, the Flying Fish, as a sea boat ; but the latter had some advantage over the Espiegle on a wind. They showed themselves off the port again on Friday, and stood down Channel. The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willis, is alongside the jetty fitting. Her complement will be, we believe, 580. The Daring, 12, Commander Matson, when ready, will join the Espiegle and Flying Fish in another trial cruize. She has shipped her ballast, and was to be afloat again on Satur day, her bottom having been completed. The Acorn, 16, Commander Bingham, was paid advance oa Wednesday, and sailed on Thursday for the Brazils. The Wellesley, 72, is alongside the dockyard to be com pleted as an advance ship. The Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, left the harbour for the Sound, on Thursday, which she will leave in a day or two for her destination. The Firebrand steam-frigate, Capt. James Hope, left the harbour for the Sound on Saturday. The Canopus, 84, was to be undocked for 'nesting, &c., on Saturday. The Acta2on, 26, Capt. Manse], and the Ranger, 10, Com mander Anderson, were expected to go into the Sound or; Saturday. The Amethyst, 26, recently launched, was ordered to be docked on Saturday to have her bottom examined. The Superb, 80, Capt. Corry, is progressing very favourably in her equipment. The Express, 6, Lieut. Herrick, was towed out of harbour on Friday, and sailed for Falmouth, to take out the next mail to the Brazils. SIIEERNESS.—The Trafalgar, 120, Capt. Martin, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White, is completing fittings in the Basin ; the crew of the Queen, 110, turned over to her, are hulked on board the Minotaur. Some dis- content has recently been manifested by the crew of this ship, at what they consider their over-work, and certainly, we think, not without cause. This crew fitted out the Camper down, 104; dismantled her in Portsmouth harbour, and were turned over to the Queen; went to sea in her fo r th e t r i a l cruize; dismantled her at this port, and are now turned over to the Trafalgar, which they are now equipping. In a time of peace, no crew could have been much more employed. We are informed they wish to be paid off. The Dido, 18, Captain the Hon. 11. Keppel, is dismant ling in the harbour, and will, it is expected, be paid off to morrow. The Erebus and Terror bomb-vessels are to be fitted for another expedition, and have left for the river for that purpose. The Monarch, 84, is expected to be shortly commissioned at this port. PROMOTIONS. Commander--GeorgeTruseo - tCiOle retired Captain. Lieutenants—J. Orlebar to be Commander ;S. Allen to be retired Commander. Surgeon—James Allan (JO, M.D. (1815), to be Deputy- Inspector of Hospitals and Senior Surgeon of Haslar Hos pital, vice King. Mates—E. E. Morgan (1836) ;W. C. Grierson (1837) ; Harry Smith (1839) ; W. Arm( tape (1840) ; A. P. Ark wright (1840) ; J. E. D. Kay (1841) ; IL N. Burroughs (1840), to the rank of Lieutenants. Assistant-Surgeon —W. Brown (1837), M.D., to the rank of Surgeon. Clerk—J. de Vries to the rank of purser. AI'POLNTMENTS. Captains—E. Collier, C. 8., to the Rodney ;G. W. Willes to the Vanguard. Lieutenants—G. W. Sanders, J. Nourse, E. B. Rice, and the Hon 0. Lambert, to the Rodney; F. H. Stanfell, W. Tottenham, and R. C. Tatnall, to the Vanguard; B. Young to the Persian; H. King to the Lily; M. Bouchier, from the Excellent, to the Vanguard; J. G. Moore to the Excel lent; 0. Cumberland to the Racehorse; W. H. Webb to the Firebrand; J. F. Cornell to the Comas; F. G. Leigh to the Stromboli. Masters—J. M'Donald, to the Rodney; P. C. D. Bean, to the Imaum ; S. S. Flinn, to the Vanguard. Surgeons—Alexander Mliechnie (and medical store keeper), to Hasler Hospital, vice Allan, promoted ; J. M'Ternan, of Greenwich, to Deptford Dockyard; W. Bruce, of the Trafalgar, to Greenwich, vice M`Ternan ; D. Finley to the Rodney ; J. Caldwell, to the Spiteful. Paymastere and Pursers—J. Maddocks, to the Rodney; T. Shanks to the Vanguard. Assistant-Surgeons—C. Crandell and G. Whitmarsh, to the Rodney; W. Wildey, M.D. (acting), to Plymouth Hos pital; R. Pottinger, to the Radfunanthus; 'l'. Seecombe (acting additional) to the San Josef; C. C. Protheroe (acting additional) to the San Josef; J. W. Reid, to the Victory, ad ditional, for service, at Hasler. Masters' Assistants—L. Fisher, W. H. Burke, J. Imrie, and R. Smith, to the Rhadamanthus. Midshipmen—W. G. Douglas and W. J. Fead, to the E. cellent ; X. J. Dickens and C. Didham, to the Vindictive. Clerk—D. Goodwin, to the Rhadamanthus. Naval Cadet—W. Temple, to the Albion. ROYAL MARINES. _ . Promotions.—Lieutenant—Augustus Flemyng, to the rank of Captain. COAST GUARD. Appointments—Lieut. J. Brooman to Torquay station, vice Moore, appointdd to the Rolla brig. Removals—Lieut. W. Boys, from No. 2 Battery, to Kings town, vice Loveless, to Pegwell Bay, vice Trappo, deceased; Lieut. R. Goodridge, from Hope Cove to Sidmouth, vice Edward, to Cawsand Bay, vice Foot, superannuated ; Lieut. Coleman (b.), from Lassiemouth to Frazerburgh, N. 8., vice Glover, removed. Chaplains in the Navy are now made eligible to receive half-pay after eight years' (foreign or home) service. TUE GAME MANlA.—Whilst the odious game-Fre serving system continues—whilst our " English country gentlemen" continue in the condition of " poulterers, as the Duke of Portland properly termed them—poach ing (with all its evils and consequences) will also con tinue. The extent to which the preserving mania is carried is a premium for poaching, as much as giving to gamekeepers half of a penalty (which they get when penalties are paid), is a preruLm for perjury. The mania gentry are so jealous of each other, where their estates adjoin, that they quarrel like children about toys. Farmers are, no doubt, right glad when they find that the poaohers have paid ; a nightly. visit, and carried off! good good stdcof thi .stiiiihis ganief indeed they have sub stantial reason foi Nowt glad. _ Mr. Cardwe . l4.:f.jae. nelll- . tb f that the Tre utw departm tili• - .7 f l -. .. 1, ate 11 :I f it' ' ary. Mr. Eushworth iou s e ....ienliedushswecorretar, Secretar y of .' 54 7 ; acted, for the last three to Sif George Clerk.— ..o lic a l ser;s 7 re o rag.ncipterir.:ll,3l secretary I 54 in. . 0-• gq