The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

At o 0 I la ~,r -~r,,, ~sf e# b ; cl, Mr. CLARKSON said he had Further to request, on the part of the accused, that when his trial took place he should be tri e d b e f ore oue o f th e j u d ges o f a s uperior (*Ur;. Mr. Justice PATTESON said his brother Talfourd and himself thought undcr the circumstances the trill should be rostponed, on the other par:y consenting to the res- Piting the recognistnces. '1 he indictment could Only have been found on the Monday, and the Court th , u4ht it right that there should b., an opportunity grintA ;o the defendant's counsel of seeing what it contained, and to the accused himself of consulting with his counsel. There Wq3 at present very great difficulty in the accused consult• ing wi:h his counsel, for the: being seen in the st:e-ts might endanger his life; and to hurry the trial on to morrow would hardly be consistent with the prorr course of justice. The Court therefore thought it right that the trial should be postponed until next session. The Court sho u ld lik e t o secure the appearanc,, of the other defendant, but she not having been apprehende I, the Court had not the power to order such security to be given for her appearance to take her trial. The case was accordingly postponed until next session. lt(BßErty.—William Thompson, aged 26, described as a cat)man, was indicted for a robbery on Adolphus Du tnis, and st=aling from him a watch and chain. Mr. Payne prosecuted, and the prisoner vs as defended by NIL Cockle. It appeared that on the night of the 18th December the prosecutor was walking along Upper Norton-street, When he saw three men standing in a door-way, appa rently for shelter from the rain. As he was passing them they pounced upon him, and the prisoner placed something round his throat and gagged him, and stole Ilia watch and chain. They then ran away, and the pri saa'r, on being pursued, threw the watch and chain into an area. He bad not proceeded very far when he W as apprehended. The other two men efft cted their szcape. Mr. COCKLE addressed the jury for the prisoner, Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up, and The jury found a verdict of Guilty, whereupon btir. Justice PATTESON sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Alderman Gam.) No case of public interest, calling for a report, came b efore th e C ourt t hi s morn i ng . M ost o f t h e c harges tiled in the early part of the morning v%ere trivial offences of felony or misdemeanour. THIRD COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Alderman LAWRENCE.) 110 BRERY BY A. SERVANT.—A young woman, named ' - ' 4l ea Baker, aged 20, a spinster, was convicted of steal. 111 g three dresses, one scarf, and other articles, value 201., he property of Mrs. Anna Maria Agnes Dickens, of Oct" wicla. The prisoner had been in the service of the P r osecatrix, but for some misconduct she was discharged s ad returned home to her friends in Derbyshire. After she left the proseeutrix missed her property, and on giving information to the police it was traced to the pri soner, who had it concealed in her box. The COURT sentenced her to six months' imprisonment. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. - Emily Dean, 19, !Pinster, and Eliza Miller, 25, a married woman, were Indicted, Dean for stealing a watch and chain, value 21., the Property of .Frederick Grant, and Miller with felo niously receiving the same, well knowing them to have b een stolen. Dean pleaded guilty; Miller, not guilty. The pr osecutor met the former prisoner one night last month York-street, Westminster, and went home with or. She managed to absstract his watch and chain from his jacket, and then decamped; but information was given to the po lice, and the property was ultimately traced to the Possession of Miller. When she was arrested she said she had sold the watch fur 75.; bus though she admitted having received it from Dean, she never imagined that it had bQen dishonestly com 9 by. The jury convicted Miller cf the charge of receiv ing, and The COURT sentenced Dean to twelve, and to eight months' imprisonment. A REGULAR JEREMY " DIDDLER.— Paul Felix, de -I°rib:A as a clerk, was indicted fur unlawfully obtaining by false pretences, of William weaver, the sum of 17s. 6d.• of Charles Samuel Charles, the sum of 235.; and of deorge Brodie the sum of 275. 61., with intent to cheat them respectively of the said moneys. Ti.e prisoner pleaded not guilty. The prisoner had represented himself to the prose tutors es an officer in the Court of Chancery, and told them that be wanted to find out a family named Jack son, who were the heirs to property which had been left in the trust of the Lord Chancellor by a person of the lame name, who formerly resided at Springfield, near to New York, in America. Weaver informed him that his wife was a Jackson, and the prisoner at once said, " You bad better petition, then; the property is worth more than 800 L, and no doubt your wife is one of the parties entitled to it." Weaver, however, did not know how to proceed in the way of petitioning, but the prisoner soon relieved him on that score by undertaking to manage the matter, and in a day or two afterwards he called upon Weaver with a paper which he called a petition, and obtained ss. 6d. to pay the fees of filing. A week or so subsequently he waited upon Weaver again, and producing a second piper, which ho represented to be the answer of the Lora Chancellor, he put the poor man, who is a simple inoffensive shoemaker, living in the borough, in great glee, and declared to his wife, the alleged heiress, the petition was in a fair way to suc eeee. Weaver and his family treated the prisoner to a Sumptuous repast, but on a third occasion ho brought with him the unsatisfactory information that the petition had been met be another Jackson, who had put in twelve pleas, and each flee would involve a further expenditure of Its. 6J. Weaver's suspicion now began to be aroused, and, before throwing any more money away, he be thought himself that it would be as well to consult a friend who was in the police force. This friend saw the deception at once, and, through his instrumentality, the prisoner ultimately found his way into custody, when it was discovered that he had been carrying on an exten -Biva system of fraud, by exciting the hopes of indigent P e ople, and inducing them to advance him money to institute Chancery proceedings for their benefit. A Poor fellow, named Browlie, a gas-lighter, was so far 'duped by the prospects he held oat to him of future Wealth, that he freely paid whatever he demanded, and Placed such implicit confidence in his statement, that a seal, which he produced, had been engraved, with the E'rowlie arms, under a decree of the Court of Chancery. It 14 needless to add that no petition had been filed for either of these poor men, nor had any ether Chancery proceedings been taken in their names Or on their behalf, but it may be as well to state that ;hen the prisoner found out that his trick was seen through, he changed his character from that of an officer of the High Court of Chancery of Great Britain and Ireland to that of a commission agent, a calling which the prison, r himself explained consisted in "undertaking anY little job that fell in his way:' The prisoner, whose countenance wore a sly and leer ing expression, which would teem to have become ha bitual to him, produced a couple of papers in answer to the charge, which were signed by the prosecutors, and by which he alleged he must be held harmless for every thing he had done. He then entered into a rambling statement about the unclaimed treasures that are lucked L IP in the Court of Chancery, and mimicking the eutnnee of an advocate, he conjured the jury not to con vict him of a misdemeanour upon the faith of evidence jell, after all, only made out a case of civil wrong. The money, he protested in a whining tone of voice, was not paid to him under false pretences, but as part of his commission for helping the prosecutor to recover money Receiver -General, he said actually does exist in the coffers of the Aketeiver-General, and which he had hitherto believed sincerely ought to be the heritage of the prosecutors or their families. The jury, after a short consultation, found him Guilty. The prisoner made a last appeal to the Court fur "'creY, repeating his former declaration, that the offence he had committed was more the result of ignorance than criminal intention. The Court sentenced him to twelve months' im erisotneent. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) jlenr, fierssoan pleaded not guilty to an indictment twanging hi m w ith s t ea ling, ou the 27th of last month, ° gold breast-pins and other articles, the property of 'erdeand Slocher, a German. The wife of the prosecutor stated that on the day in question she returned home and saw a light in the room, Which she had left locked. As soon as she attempted to go into the room the light was put out. On going into the back room she saw the prisoner trying to get ba bied the door. When he was gone she missed the articles in question, and went to the prisoner's house , and in his waistcoat found the gold ring and pins, and afterwards gave him into custody. She had known him five weeks. In his defence the prisoner said he was drunk, and wa2jlot aware that he had gone into the house. The jury returned a verdict of Gu i lty, and -tae COURT sentenced him to three months' hard la bour in the House of Correction. MARLBRcr_sTREET—(T - HISDAY.) GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENT.—Five medical students, who gave the names of George Jackson, Charles Grew, Robert Lames, Henry Watso n , and Henry Medhurst, were brought before Mr. Hardwick, the three former charged with being drunk and riotous, and the two latter prisoners with attempting to rescue them from the custody of the police. Policeman 181 C, stated that about three o'clock this morning he was on duty in the Haymarket, when he saw the defendants turned out of the Saloon. They then went to the Black Horse, at the corner of Jermyn.street, and commenced knocking at t h e door with great violence. Witness went up to them and requested them to desist and go quietly away, but the three first-named prisoners, wno were very drunk, refused. He then procured assistance and took them into custody, and on the way to the station the other prisoners came up and attempted with some force to rescue them from custody. In the scuffle the prisoner Jackson struck him on the breast, but the blow did not hurt him. • In defence, Jackson, Grew, and Lames, denied the charge of drunkenness, and the other two prisoners said they made no resistance whatever to the officers, and in cerroboratien thereof called Mr. Bennet, a medical stu dent, residing at No. 18, Cecil-street, Strand, who stated that he was a friend of the defendants, and witnessed the whole transaction. The three first-named prisoners were perfectly sober, and the others offered no resist ance to the police. Several other witnesses were cared, who endeavoured to prove the same. Pulice-constable 324 A, who assisted in convoying the prisoners to the station, proved that Jackson, Grew, al.d Lames were decidedly the worse for liquor. lukpector Whall,C division, who took the charge, alio Roved that such was the fact. Mr. HARDWICK sail the Lad actud very foolis,bly ill denying the ehargc, and fined them 7s. each. The money was immeaialely paid. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. - LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-15 to 1 aki,t, Sir 4olio, 100 to fi ayst 1 ) ,,u: Simple (0, 100 to G ttgst Vainhop, 100 to 5 (SferPd egst any (Aber. CHESTER Cup.-500 to 15 cirernti on the field. DEitny.-7 to 1 agst Prime Minister (taken to a pony), 323 to 25 agst Newminster (t). THE SUN, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, J. T. The Queen an d his Royal ilighntss Prince Albert took their usual morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in the Slopes and Windior Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge went out bunting this morning. His Ito:, al High ness was attended by Major-General Wemyss and Lieut. Colonel P. H. Seymour. Lord and Lady John Russell 2n d the Speaker and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen and the Prince. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her R , ,y al Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, and. Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey. The band of the Coldstream Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private band will after wards attend in the Castle. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at tendance during dinner yesterday evening, and per formed the following selection : Overture Waltz, " Tony" Charivari Quadrille," Massaniello" Polka, " Jetty Treffi' Bohlmen. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle, and played the following pieces:— Overture, " Ahnenschatz" Duo, "Le Songe d'un Nuit d'Ete Thomas. Adagio and Polonaise, " Grass au das Vaterland" Selection, "Robert le Diable" A deputation, consisting of Mr. William Burton, Clerk to the commissioners of St. Leonard • Mr. J. M. C!abon, agent for the West Hastings Improve ment Bill ; and Mr. P. Barnes, had an interview with Lord Seymour yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place, on the subject of the application of the Health of Towns Act to Hastings. Lord and Lady John Russell left their residence, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, yesterday, for Windsor Castle. Dispatches from the Governors of Canada and the other North American colonies, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong Kong. STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, JAN. 7.—We are this morning in possession of the letters per the America, with dates from New York to the 24th ult. The advices hence per the Africa, 7th ult., showing the strong proba bility of peace being maintained on the continent, and an advancing cotton market, had stimulated the demand for cotton, and rates had considerably advanced, say, from the lowest point, :!tic. to lc. per lb., Uplands being most favourably affected. The receipts into the ports are, 690,000 bales, against 748,000 bales last season ; the exports to Great Bri tain, 219,000 bales, against 93,400 bales ; and the stock, 350,000 bales against 400,000 bales. There is a disposition to lower the estimates of the ultimate yield on the part of some who, only last mail were seeking to exaggerate it, and whose motives we have all along questioned and exposed. From New York we are advised, "We anticipate much higher prices in the early spring, believing the question of the crop will gradually nar row down to 2,00,000—t0 2.100,000 bales." From Mobile they write, the 14th ult.:—" The crop is now about all picked out, and probably seven-eighths of it is hauled to the river landing ready for shipment, and we hear the yield is not so great as was estimated a few weeks since, so that a good many persons are reducing their estimates. We con sider that 2,250,000 bales are perfectly safe for outside figures, and should not be surprised if they turned out consi derably less." We have a strong and healthy feeling to-day, and, stocks being low, producers, whether of cloth or yarn, are quite firm in their demands. It is yet, however, too early in the year for regular operations to commence. , - APPREHENSION OF THE UCKFIELD BURGLARS. — In a paragraph which appeared in our paper a few days ago, it was erroneously stated that the residence of Misses Farnscombe was in the neighbourhood of Fiimley. Down lands is rear Uckfield, abdut seven miles from Lewes, in the opposite direction to Brighton. Six of the burglars have been apprehended. The apprehension of three of them was accidental, and took place on the evening of the burglary on another charge. The names of these men are John Hamil ton, John Smith, and James Smith. They were at a vil lage called Groombridge, where Hamilton gave John Smith into custody on a charge of having taken a sovereign from him. In the meantime the police of the Tunbridge Wells district having received intelligence of a burglary committed at a Mr. Kenward's, at Hartfield, and thinking the whole party auspicious characters, proceeded to search them, and tound upon them a 51. note of the Lewes Bank, a coat, um brella, and mask. These were taken to Downlands, and the coat and umbrella were at once recognized by the butler and housekeeper of the Misses Farnscombe. Two more, named Hillyer and Morgan, were captured, after a desperate resistance, by the Guildford police in a beer-shop in that town, and several of the articles stolen from the house at Downlands found upon them. Another man, named Joseph Carter, was taken at Woking, on whose person was also found part of the stolen property, and a pistol loaded with slugs. Morgan has been identified by the butler as the man who knocked him down with the pistol, and Carter as the man who kept guard over him. THE GREAT FALLS OF NIAGARA.—OH Tuesday evening last our citizens were startled on hearing a lend and terrific noise, resembling, as near as we can describe it, the heavy booming of artillery in quick succession, which shook the earth around us very sensibly. Part of the Horse-Shoe Fall on the Canada side had fallen, carrying away about ten rods of the rock in length, by four in width. The canal boat, which had been lodged for the last few months on the brink of the rock which has fallen, and which has excited the admiration of all who beheld it, was also carried over with the rock. It is now in the whirlpool, two miles down the river, dancing attendance on the freaks of that great maelstrom. The crash occurred about seven o'clock in the evening, and it is indeed providential that it fell at such an hour and at this season of the year. Had it been in the summer, when so many thousands of strangers are here, there undoubtedly would have been persons crushed to death ; for it is precisely the spot whence so many contemplate the grandeur of nature and behold the waters of the mighty cataract above them rushing terrifically over their heads that is now filled with huge masses of rock which have fallen from above. The loss of this portion of the rock has not in the least diminished in appearance the view of the Falls, but has, in tur opinion, added to the scene, which looks grander and more sublime, if possible, than ever.—iViugura Fulls Iris, Dec. 14. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WEST INDIA DOCK AND iILACKWALL JUNCTION RAIL NVAY.—An accident of a fatal character took place on this line on Monday night, near the viaduct crossing the Great Northern Railway, at Maiden lane. A poor man named Henry Harris, aged 35, residing at Alpha cottages, Maiden-late, was employed on the line as watchman, and about half-past ten o'clock he left his post for the purpose of going home to ge., his supper. Whilst pro ceeding along the line, which at this spot is on a consider able inc.ine, he was knocked down by a pilot-engine, which passed over his body and mutilated it in a frightful manner. The skull was dreadfully frae.ured, and death must have been instantaneous. The night was rather foggy, and from the circumstance of the engine being without carriages, and the spot being an incline, it is believed that it made so little Rio ise that the unfortunate man was not at all aware of its 'rose proximity to him, and that his back was turned towards it when he was struck. The deceased has left a widow and four young children. Mr. Wakley held an inquest on the body, at the Fortune of War, Maiden-lane, yesterday after noon, and a verdict of "Accidental Death" was recorded. JERSEY. --Judge d'Avranche, we regret to have to announce, died on Tuesday evening last, after a long and severe illness. The late judge had been 42 years on the Jersey bench. Mr. Marett was a man of talent and learn ing. He was formerly an advocate of the Royal Court, and after his election to the judgeship he acted as lieutenant bailiff both to the late Sir Thomas le Breton (father of the present bailiff) and to the late Sir John de Veulle.—Brittsh Press, Jan. 3. THE 1848 HOP DUTY.—We are happy to state that the duty has been pretty generally paid, but we hear that some parties are still defaulters. After the various inti mations which we have ventured to give as to the possible result of non-payment, and the way in which the duty has been since paid by most, we must suppose that such non payment has resulted from inability. We still urge de faulters to make a new effort to meet this liability, as we have reason to believe that after Thursday next (Jan. 9) the collector at Maidstone will not receive any further duties i n this account, the collection of which will then pass into the hands of the solicitor to the Board of Excise, who will im mediately issue process.—Muidstone Gazette. EXHIBITION OF 1851.—PROTECTION OF ARTICLES OF INVENTION FROM PlRACY.—Exhibitors will be glad to learn that her Majesty's Government intend to bring in a Bill for the purpose of protecting from piracy inventions, &c., not already protected by the Designs Act of last year. FOREIGN PLAYING CARDS.—An importation having taken place from Hamburgh of a parcel of foreign rianufac tured playing cards, which were on examination found to have not the proper descriptive marks as required by law, they were detained by the officers of the revenue, for the directions of the authorities in the matter. The cards were officially reported as being for exportation only, and were intended for immediate shipment to the Indies, but under the circumstances, the parties requested that the forfeiture of the cards which had been incurred by the infraction of the law, might be waived in this instance, and permission given for them to be returned to the port of shipment, which on consideration of the matter, although the cards were strictly and legally liable to forfeiture under the 33d section of the act of 9th Geo. IV., cap. 18. for not having the maker's name and place cf residence on the cards, and also on the wrapper, has been granted on payment of a small fine to the Cro;vu. THE LATE MR. GEORGE DRUMMOND.—The coro ner, Mr. Bodford, held an inquest yesterday on the body of the lamented deceased, when on the evidence of Lieutenant E. A. Drummond, R.N., cousin of the deceased, and Dr. Synnett, the jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death from disease the heart." I' , is rumoured in fashionable circles that Viscount Hinton is about to be married to a Somersetshire lady of great personal attractions.— /Vestern, Flying Post. LORD DALMENY.It is gratifying to state that the health of this Noble Lord continues to improve, the latest accounts from Dalmeny Park representing him to be still progressing favourably, and giving hopes of his speedy resto ration to good health. A GANG OF RAILWAY THIEVES. At the Bristol Quarter Sessions yesterday (Tuesday) a young man of respectable appe3reirce and connexions, and of good address, named Jams Simpson, was sen tenced to ten years' transportation. The circumstances of the case are somewhat singular, and the subjoined brief dttdil may lead to caution on the part of ladies tra velling in first-cia , :s carriages. Ic appeats the prisoner was at the head of a gang of thieves who have long in fests d that portion of the Groat Western Railway which lies between Bath and Bristol, and particularly the Bristol terminus. The prisoner had been noticed re peatedly of late to travel betwt-en Bristol and Bath, al ways taking a first-class ticket, and as several robberies had recently been complained ot; suspicion was aroused, but so skilfully were the operations of the gang conducted that for some into all E fl'orts for the detection of the thieves were fruitless. On the 2a of November last, how ever, a lady named Cook went with her servant from Bath to Bristol by the express train, and on their arri val, as the servant was engaged in getting her mistress's luggage, the lady noticed the prisoner push against her, and shortly after two wher men, standing close by, walked away. On the servant feeling in ha r pocket she found that her purse, containir g a quantity of silver, was gone. A hue and cry was raised, and the prisoner having been suspected, was stopped by some of the railway officials. In his possession were found se veral sums of money, and he was also seen in the act of patting gold into a purse. On the pane being opened there were 'twelve sovereigns in it. Through the exertions of Mr. Burton, superintendent of the Great Western Rail way police, this purse was subsequently identified by a M iss Powell as her property, which she said, with a good deal of money in it, was stolen from her a day or two before whilst waiting on the railway platform to see a friend off. Mr. Stone, one of the Western Circuit, de fended the prisoner, and by his advice he pleaded " guilty." When sentenced he endeavoured to excite commiseration by throwing up his hands and pretend ing to faint, but as he was t emoved from the dock he was observed to put his tongue out and laugh to some of I the gang in the court anxious to hear Ilia fate. The prisoner, by his good address and respectable appear ance, has for some time pursued successfully a systema tic plan of thus plundering ladies travelling in first-class carriages. It is hoped his committal and sentence will operate in breaking up the gang. MONEY MARKET—The quotation of gold at Paris is at par, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.15; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 24.971, it follows that gold is 0.70 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 419 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 1014. per ounce for standard gold, givis an exchange of 13.18; and the ex change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.3*, it follows that gold is 0.89 per cent. dearer in Lon don than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1101- per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it fol lows that the exchange is nominally 0.92 per cent. in favour of England, and, after making allowance for difference of interest and charges of transport, the present rate leaves a profit on the importation of gold from the United States. CALIFORNIA FASHIONS.—The newly-arrived Cali fornians, who appeared in large numbers in the streets yes terday, attracted no little attention. They seemed to vie with each other in the uncouthness of their garbs. Coats of all manner of shapes, trousers of all sorts of colours, and hats or caps of all descriptions of shapes were observable. One person, who put up at a number-one house, and, ergo, must have had some " rocks," was adorned with an in d _escribable coat, of large dimension, the colour of which appeared to have been sheep's gray, pantaloons which bore a colour entirely unknown in this part of the world, and which had been worn off around the teet, as though they had been too lung for him originally. On his head he wore parts of two wool hats, the whole made to answer very well the purpose of a chapeau. This thatching to the Californian, when viewed at a small distance, appeared like an ordinary , tin wash-hand basin inverted. But, with all the grotesque ness of garb which these men assumed from choice, or re tained from necessity, when leaving the golden land, they were a fine-looking set of fellows, and looked as if 60,000 or 80,000 of t hem might make a state and build a city wherever interest might induce them to their energies into action. No one of them looked dull, but all seemed to convey the idea that they were but in disguise here, whatever might have been the appropriateness of their garb in California. These are not the men who have been out to the new state, and, on the con,ummation of some pre-arranged speculation, returned before the clothes they took were worn out. No, they were the men that last year, and the year before,•and the year before that, left by scores and hundreds in every sailing-vessel and steamer that started for San Frenciso. They are of those jolly crews who used to go down to the ships with a bag or two of clothes as their baggage, and a rifle at their shoulder. Alas I they have left many of their then hardy companions to fill rude graves. But they have come safely home themselves, to bless the longing eyes of parents or wives, who otherwise might save lived in straitened circumstances, but who now may have a competency.—. New York Herald. IMPROVED PROSPECTS FOR IRELAND. — If we anti cipate anything for the next year, it is that steady industry will go forward; that men will learn to depend more and more upon themselves and less upon Governments; that our trade and commerce will advance, under an average season; and that the slow but effective pressure of the nation on behalf of free education will be felt, and will advance the cause of enlightenment. Our country has been long enough the victim of sects and factions, of political impostors and sectarian schemers; and it now exhibits some satisfactory symptoms of a determination to act a little for itself. The railway and the steam-ship, the flax-grower and the flax steeper, the spinner and the bleacher, are all in activity, la bouring, each of course for his own separate advantage, but all nevertheless far more effectually struggling to advance the nation, and give it a real rank among the nations of the world, than if they had, or pretended to have, that object in view, and were straining their lungs like so many enthusias tic patriots. We therefore entertain strong hope and take high courage; and much as Ireland is advanced now, com pared with what she was at the beginning of the century, that advance is little in comparison with what may be anti cipated from the career which seems to be opening for her as she glides into the second half of this great centenary cycle of our race.— The Northern Whit. THE LATE QUARTER-M ASTER- GENEEALe—The remains of the late Quarter-Master-General Sir Willoughby . Gordon are to be removed from his residence, Chelsea Col lege, on Friday next, to his house at Knighton, in the Isle of Wight. The funeral (which will be quite. private) is fixed to take place the next day (Saturday) at the parish church of the above place. The mortal remains of the late John Hume Viscount Alford will be removed on Friday next from Ash bridge Park, for interment in the family mausoleum at Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. DISTRESSING DOMESTIC EFFECTS OF PUSETISM. —We understand that very distressing effects have resulted from the adoption of Puseyite principles, recently terminat ing in Popery, in the family of a late clergyman of the An glican Church. The particulars have been communicated to us, but they are too delicate and painful for publication. We may, however, state, that one of the consequences to which we allude, is, the separation of the husband from his wife and a numerous and interesting family. What makes the matter still worse, is the fact, that the lady, when mar ried, brought her husband a handsome fortune, and that she has no longer any control over that portion of it which still remains. A near relative of the lady's—a lady by title, and belonging to one of the most respectable families in England —has had her feelings so outraged by the husband's seces sion to Rome, under the distressing circumstances of the case, that, within the last fortnight, she publicly addressed the large congregation of which he was recently the pastor, on the domestic misery which had been produced by the course he had adopted. As might be expected, the lady, whose name we forbear to give, was in a distressingly nervous slate while addressing a large public assembly, who had met together for Christian worship.— Advertiser. \V INDIN G....UP OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—The Master in Chancery Brougham issued the following order on the 21st of last month :—" I direct that all official managers appointed by me shall bring into my office their accounts to be passed, and pass the same three times in every year, that is to t , ay, once during the last fortnight in the month of Janu ary, once during the first fortnight in the month of June, and once during the last fortnight in the month of November, and at the time of passing each account shall leave in my office I for examination their time accounts made up to the day of their leaving the same." THE NEW MAYORALTY.—The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have taken up their residence at the Man slow house. His Lordship commenced the new year by re ceiving a family party at dinner on New Year's Day, and has issued cards of invitation for a dinner to be given to the alder men and their ladies on the 31st of January, and for an even ing party on the same day. The usual household dinner will be held according to ancient custom, on Plough Monday, and his Lordship will entertain the directors of the Monarch As surance-office, of which his Lordship is chairman, on Mon day, the 21st inst. SINGULAR MISTAKE. —In the early part of last week Mr. Simpson, high bailiff of the York County Court, being about to leave York on a Christmas visit to his family, depthited a parcel containing silver plate, in the hands of M. March. publican, Goodramgate. The plate consisted of a silver mug, two pairs of sugar tongs, gravy spoons, tea spoons, &c. Mr. Simpson and his wife returned on Saturday, and in the evening called on Mr. March for the property, which was hande to them by Miss March. They left the house about eleven o'clock, when Miss March discovered they had not taken the parcel with them. She immediately sent a lad, about sixteen years of age (who is in Mr. March's service), after Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, to whom he was to I deliver the parcel in question. The lad, on reaching Mr. Darby's public-house, Monk Bar, saw a man and woman standing. He gave the parcel to the latter, who very po litely replied, " Thank you; I have dropped a parcel." The youth returned, little suspecting the error he had so unwit tingly committed. Mr. Simpson had not reached home be• fore he discovered that he had lett the silver goods at Mr. March's, whither he retraced his steps, but to his dismay, he became aware of the above facts. Information was given to the police authorities, whose exertions were rewarded by the discovery of the parcel in Grape-lane, in a house occupied by some of the lowest characters, locked up in a box. Much credit is due to the police for their dexterity in the affair. Yorkshire Gazette. THE CASE CF THE SLOANES.—At the Central Cri -• minal Court yesterday, the grand jury returned a true bil against George Sloane and Theresa, his wife, for a misde• meanour. The widow of Lieutenant Wagborn has been add tionally pensioned by the liberality of Sir Jamset-jee Juju , bhoy, the wealthy native merchant of Bombay. The well known Parsee Knight has bes:owed 201. per annum on Lieutenant Waghoru's relict. A BORROWED COUNTENANCE.—A Gascon officer, demanding his salary from the Minister of War, maintained that he was in danger of dying of hunger. The Minister, who saw that his visage was full and ruddy, told him his face gave the lie to his statement : "Ah t Sir," said the Ga , ,con, " Don't trust to that; this face is not mine. It betengs to my landlord, who has given the credit for a long time past." The Rev. T. T. Coxwell, A.M., Surrogate of Bucks, Berke, and Oxon, has been instituted to the Rectory of Horton, Bucks, on the presentation of T. P. Williams, M.P. '.one Duke of Beaufort, we regret to state, in answer to inquiries last evening, continued very much in disposed at Beaufort House, Arlington-street. The Duchess and oche branchea of the family remain in town. LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN ITARY 8, 1851. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES IN THE BUILDING. wneral prin6ple which will govern the at-- rangerAent of artie!ei in the building nre es follows:- 1. The productions of the United Kingdom and the British colonies will be groui . ed westward of the cen tral transept. The productions of the United Kingdom will be ar ranged into the following 30 classel , , as far us practi cable:— RAW MATERIALS: - 1. Mining and quarrying, metallurgy, and mine al products. 2. Chemical and pharmaceutical processes and produces generally. 3. Substances used as food. 4. Vegetable and animal substances used in ma nufactures, implements, or for ornament. MACHINERY:- 5. Machines for direct use, including carriages, railway, and naval mechanism. 6. Manufacturing machines and tools. 7. Mechanical, civil engineering, architectural, and building contrivances. 8. Naval architecture, military engineering and structure, ordnance, armour, and accoutre • manta. 9. Agricultural and horticultural machines and implements. 10. Philosophical instruments and miscellaneous contrivances, including processes depend ing upon their use, musical, horological, and acoustical instruments. MANUFACTURES: - 11. Cotton. 12. Woollen and worsted stuff goods. 13. Silk and velvet. 14. Manufactures from flax and hemp. 15. Mixed fabrics, including shawls. 16. Leather, including saddlery and harness, skins, fur, and Bair. 17. Paper, printing, and bookbinding. 18. Woven, spun, felted, and laid fabrics, when shown for printing or dyeing. 19. Tapestry, carpets and floor cloths, also lace and embroidery, fancy and industrial works. 20. Articles of clothing for immediate, personal, or domestic use. 21. Cutlery, edge and hand tools, and surgical instruments. 22. General hardware, including locks and grates. 23. Working in precious metals, jewellery, and all articles of luxury not included in the ether juries. 24. Glass. 25. Ceramic manufactures, china, porcelain, earthenware, &c. 26. Decoration, furniture, and upholstery, paper hangings, papier mache, and japanned goods. 27. Manu'actures in mineral substances, used for building or decorations, as in marble, slate, porphyries, cements, artificial stones, &c. 28. M4eutactures from animal and vegetable sub stances, not being woven or felted. 29. Miscellaneous manufactures and Small ware 3. FINE ART:- 30. Sculpture, models, and plastic art, mosaics, enamels, &c. 2. The productions of each colony will be placed to gether, and classified as far as practicable into the 30 classes aforesaid. 8. The productions of each foreign country will be placed together eastward of the transept—except machi nery in motion, which, on account of the motive power being at the north-west end of the building, must be placed in that part of the building. The productions of each country will be classified nation by nation, and as far as practicable into the 30 classes already adopted for the United Kingdom. 4. As a general rule machinery will be placed at the north side, and raw materials and produce brought to the south side of the building. The intermediate parts will be occupied by the manufactures and fine arts. 5. There is hardly uny choice in respect of light, which is nearly the same in all parts of the building. The south side, as well as the roof of the building, both in the north and south sides, will be covered with canvass. The sides of the upper and the gallery tier on "he north will not be SG covered. 6. The following decisions of her Majesty's Commis sioners may be here repeated:— "5. The building will be provided to the exhibitors free from rent. "9. Any manufacturer exhibiting articles which can properly be placed together according to the clas sification already announced, will be at liberty to arrange such articles in his own way; and his ar rangements, if compatible with the convenience of other exhibitors and of the public, will not be dis turbed. In like manner, if it is wished to exhibit together the productions of a particular town or dis trict, all such productions, if they can fairly be said to be of the same sort, will be admitted together. The ultimate decision, whether they are so admis sible or not, must, of course, rest in each case with the discretion of the Commissioners. " 10. When it is desired to exhibit processes of ma nufacture a sufficient number of articles, however dissimilar, will be admitted for the purpose of illus trating the process; but they must not exceed what may be actually required. " 11. In all cases where the productions of an indi vidual are exhibited together his wishes, with regard to the treatment of them, will be complied with as far as possible; but should they be of a nature to involve expense the Commissioners cannot under take to meet that expense out of their funds, but must call upon the exhibitor to defray it himself. Glass cases, frames and stands of peculiar construc tion, and similar contrivances for the display or protection of the goods exhibited, must in like man ner be provided by the person requiring them at his own cost. " 14. Should any exhibitor desire to employ a servant of his own to preserve or keep in order the articles he exhibits, or to explain them to visitors, he may do so after obtaining permission from the Commis sioners. Such persons, however, will in all cases be forbidden to invite visitors to purchase the goods of their employers, the exhibition being intended for the purpose of display only, and not for those of sale. Any violation of this or any other rule must lead to their exclusion from the building. " 15a. Her Majesty's Commissioners being desirous of affording every facility to those persons who may wish to exhibit machines, or trains of machinery in motion, have resolved to allow such machinery to be managed and worked, as far as practicable, under the superintendence of the owners, and by their own men. The Commissioners will also find steam, not exceeding 301bs. per inch, gratuitously to the exhibitors, and convey it in clothed pipes to such parts of the building as require steam-power. Par ties sending machines, or articles requiring to be driven by steam, should send with the same si small portable steam-engine, to which a steam-pipe can be laid on. The above will apply to all engines from one-horse power to six horses; beyond which power, it is presumed, no single branch of manu facture or_ article will require steam-power. As re gards machines too small to require an independent portable engine, arrangements will be made to place thorn in groups to be xhibited in communication with some steam-engine, also sent for exhibition, in motion. Exhibitors proposing to exhibit portable steim•engines should understand that their engines may be employed for driving other machinery, unless the owners of the steam-engines object to such use. " 15b. Her Majesty's Commissioners have made ar rangements to supply water at a high pressure gratuitously to cxhibituts, who will have the pri vilege of :adapting it to the working of their ma chinery, &c." 7. The Commissioners accordingly, with confidence, resign to the exhibitors themselves the proper exhibition of their goods, and the responsibility of making the necessary preparations for displaying them, subject only to such general rules as shall be conducive to the in torests of all pitrtics. The executive committee are de sirous of pointing out that great mutual advantage will arise from exhibitors of the same description of articles acting as much as possible in combination in the fitting up of the it spaces, and in arranging for the cleaning, watching, and general superintendence of the respective articles; and exhibitors on a small scale should bear in mind that by such a system of combination they may be able to secure, at a small expense to themselves, the ser vices of one person jointly to watch over and clean their goods, and furnish explanations to the public. 8. I t m ay bo convenient to exhibitors to know that Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., the contractors for the building, are prepared, in accordance with the wishes of exhibitors, to construct counters, shelves, frames, stands, and every necessary fitting fur the proper display of the articles to be exhibited. and to lend or sell glass cases where required. A tariff of prices may be obtained of Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., at the building. At the same time exhibitors are at liberty to make any other arrangements more satisfactory to themselves; but is exercising their own judgment and taste exhibitors will obviously bear in mind that the effect of the exhibition must materially depend upon the mode in which they exercise this privilege thus confided to them. 9. Every exhil,itor who desires to attend himself, or by his representative, during the exhibition, must ob tain permission to do so ,from the executive committee. He must deduct the sitting or standing space for such attendant from the superficial floor or counter space al lotted to him ; but he will be allowed to make up the deduction by building up and arranging those goods properly authenticated fur admission. on shelves one above the other, within the boundary of his allotment, to any height he pleases, under 19 feet from the fluor. 10. There will be a central passage, 48 feet wide, a corridor at the north and at the south side. each 12 feet wide, and two intermediate passages of 8 feet, all running from the east to the west ends of the building. As a general rule, these w ill be intersected by passages at right angles, running from north to south. 11. The building is divided laterally (i. e., from north to south) by ranges of columns of 24 feet from centre to centre. Spaces of 24 X 24 f et, 48 X 24 feet, Or 48 X4B feet, and in some cases of 72 >< 24 feet, or 72 X 48 feet, or 72 X 72 feet, running from north to south, may be arranged according to the wishes of this exhibitors ; provided always that there shall be at least one entrance and exit passage of 8 fee-t running truth north to south, or else two entraLce on exit passages of not less than 5 feet each for emery space of 24 feet; and that no co=mmunications from ells; to west between any passages shall be estAblish el without spe cial leave of the executive c‘oninitt( e in writing. 12. The exhibitors of the United Kingdom, to whom sp ice has bt en ahotted by &heir various local committees, and whose names have been duly returned to the execu tive committee, will t,;e urraniztd into the 30 classes. As a general rule, the articles of an exhibitor will not be separated. A certain space will be allotted to each class, and specific places to subdivisions in towns, &c., and finally to each exhibitor. 13. Spaces of the rt quisite dimensions will ly) set apart to recsive the productions of the colonies and ,ach foreign country. And the charge of these departm-nts, as well a 3 the arrangement of the productions, will be handed 'over to Each commissioner or agent r, presenting such colonies or foreign country. 14. The length of the floor and counter ipaces will be regulated by eitcumetances, the width of them may vary from Ito 16 feet. The height of the counters should be generally about 2 feet 6 inches. 15. The wall or hanging space will be obtained, either with or without counter in connexion, between the columns running from north to south. The wall or partition space, if required to be solid, may be built up by exhibitors to any desired height. The hanging space for light goods may be obtained by suspending lines between ttio columns and from the girders in the gal. levies. 16. The wall or hanging spaces may be of any height under 40 feet, and experiments in this building hive shown that it is desirable that haugintz fabrics sneuld, as a general rule, be of not less than 17 to 20 feet drop. 17. All eLmmunications from exhibitors on the sub- ject of arrangement must be in writing in the first in stance, addressed to " M. D. Wyatt, Esq., at the Buil,l - for the Exhibition, Kensington-road, London," and marked at the top of the sheet " arrangement " (raw produce) or (machinery), or (manufactures) or (fine arts), marking also which of the thirty classes to which they belong; and the executive committee request that they may not be mixed up with communications refer ring to other departments of the exhibition. By order of the Executive Committee, M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary. Exhibition Building, Hyde Park, Jan. 1, 1851. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. MEETING AT ISLINGTON. A public meeting, convened at the instigation cf the Committee of the St. Mary Islington Parochial Reform Association, was held last night at the Denmark School rooms, at the rear of White Conduit-house, for the pur pose of concerting measures for obtaining the immediate, tonal, and unconditional repeal of the window- tax. It appears that much dissatisfaction exists in the earish in consequence of the authorities having neglected the invi tation of St. Marylebone to appoint delegates, in common with other parishes, to wait upon Lord John Russell, to urge upon his Lordship the repeal of the aforesaid tax; and consequently the Paro chial Reform Association had taken upon them selves the office of calling a public meeting on the subject, at which they requested the presence of several Members of Parliament, and of the delegates who had been appointed by some of the principal metropolitan parishes upon the subject of the window-tax. Depu tations and delegates attended from various metropolitan parishes, among which were St. James's, Westminster ; St. George's, Southwark; Clerkenwell, Greenwich,Pad dington, and Hackney. The deputation from Maryle hone was a numerous one, consisting of the following gentlemen :—Messrs. Freeth, Botting, Marchmont, Hodges, Shields, Glover, Johnson, Cesson, Thorpe, Bromley, Thomas, Stevens, Browne, Temple, Crowther, and Mtinro. St. James's, Westminster, was represented by Mr. Geesin, its well-known churchwarden, and others. Mr. T. Wakley was present, and sat by the chairman. Mr. J. WYLD, M.P., took the chair at seven o'clock precisely. Ho said that for many years he had been the opponent of the window-tax, and lately had voted against it in the House of Commons.—(Hear.) He was the more gratified at the privilege of now taking part in these pro ceedings, because he believed that this was about the last meeting on the subject which it would be necessary for hire to attend. In former times various excuses had been made for retaining the tax; and one Chancellor of the Exchequer; when applied toter a repeal said it was too early, and another pleaded that the budget was male up, and therefore the application was too late.—(Hear.) But now it could be shown to the Government that there ens a surplus of more than three millions, and therefore the people had a right to ask the Government what taxes they meant to remit, and to tell them that the country, and London more especially, now demanded that this tax be repealed, and that a portion of the surplus should be applied to that purpose. This was essentially a metropolitan tax. If he looked to the re turns presented to Parliament f o r severa l y ears , he should find that one quarter of the tax h a d b een contri buted by this metropolis—(Hear)—and half of the re mnning three-quarters was paid by the manufacturing towns, the pillars on which rested the prosperity of the British empire. —(Hear, hear.) It was a tax which pressed immediately upon small manufeeturers and arti sans. Sir John Rousilly had said at Devonport that the tax was upon the wealthy classes only. But that was a mistake. 'The Hon. Gentleman here read from the re turns the amount of the window -tax, the number of windows taxed, and other particulars, which have fre quently been reported and printed, relating to the tax, its nature and operation, with a view to show its unfairness, inequality, and injustice, and that it was a pressure upon the poor. He argued that the smallest window, for the ventilation and light of the poor man's abode, paid as much as the grand windows in the houses of the rich and noble, for luxury and ornament. He bad been to the crystal palace in Hyde-park, and when he saw what glass had done, he said this building has sealed the fate of the window-tax.—(Cheers.) Such a proof of what could be effected in glass was sufficient in itself to justify this demand for the repeal of the duty on windows. When Alexander the Great, standing by the tub of Diogenes, asked what he could do for him, the answer was—" Stand out of my sunshine"--(Hear, hear) —and now it would be the duty of those who suf fered from the infliction of the window-tax to say to the Minister of the day—whatever his politics or party— " Stand out of our sunshine."—(Cheers.) Mr. DAVID HARRIS, the lion. Secretary to the Is lington Parochial Reform Association, here read the correspondence which had taken place between the ves tries of the different parishes on the subject of the window duty, and also a letter from Mr. Hume, dated from Burnley hall, Norfolk, giving his hearty adhesion to all agitation for the repeal of this odious and oppres sive impost. Mr. THOMAS GREENE now came forward to move the first resolution:—" That this meeting pledges itself to use all possible means to obtain a total and unconditional repeal of the window-tax—a tax not only oppressive and atifeir, but degrading to the morals and sanitary condi tion of the people generally." The speaker treated the question at great length and with considerable ability, dwelling with peculiar force on the desirability of the re peal in a sanitary point of view. After going through the history of the tax from its earliest imposition up to the present period, Mr. Greene expressed his opinion that the Whigs were a very sqeezable people, and that the present was a good opportunity for urging the repeal of so unpopular a tax. Mr. VOUSLEY seconded the motion, which was also sup ported by Mr.Freetb, as the organ of the Ratepayers' Asso ciation of Marylebone; by Mr. Nicholay, a member of the vestry of the same perish, who also described himself as a commissioner of taxes; and by Mr. George, churchwarden of Sa Line's, Soho, deputed by a meeting of 1,100 inhabitants. Mr. Nicholay spoke as great length, and read a sharp lecture to the metropolitan Members w hose names were not to be found in the division list when this question was last brought forward in the House of CCM moos. He said he was glad to observe that Mr. Wakley was now present to answer for himself. The resolution, with the following addendum, " And that a deputation of the members of the St. Mary, Is lington, Parochial Reform Association, be appointed to attend a meeting to be held to-morrow, at the Court house, Marylebone, on the same subject," was then put and carried by acclamation. Mr. 'THOMAS LEWIS then moved, " That a petition to the House of Commons, for the total and unconditional repeal of the window-tax be adopted, and signed by the chairman on behalf of this meeting, and that Mr. T. S. Duueombe, M.P., be respectfully requested to present the same, and that Mr. Wakley, M.P., and Mr. Wyid, M.P., be requested to support its prayer." 'The petition having been read, Mr. T. Lewes spoke to the resolution, which was se conded by Mr. Simes, jun., and supported by Mr. Gooch, of the parish of Paddington. Mr. GEESIN (churchwarden of St. James's, Westmin ster) expressed his astonishment and indignation on hearing an allusion from any gentleman to a compromise, or the substitution of any other tax—a course which he, for one, would oppose to the utmost. The Government having a surplus revenue, had no right to impose any substitute whatever.—(iltar, hear.) He was one of 500,000 persons who were to be taxed, and he was for total and unconditional repeal, and nothing short of it. —(Cheers.) It was the partiality of the tax which bad caused the little excitement which for some time pre vailed, for they had not the sympathy of three millions of taxpayers, whom this particular tax did not affect. He assured them that in the aristocratic parish of St. James a radical feeling ran through all the parochial authorities, from the beadle to the churchwardens,— (Laughter and cheers.) He, far one, was for a petition to the Queen, for one to the House of Commons would only be ordered to lie on the table, and would one day be found in the buttershop.—(Great laughter.) There was going to be a great meeting at the Court-house at Marylebone to-morrow (this day). They had now many years of experience in agitating against this de tested tax, and he did not know what it would come to at last, but he should propose that the authorised depu tations should make a great demonstration out of doors in going up, and should, hire coaches and cover them with placards stating their object—the " total, imme diate, and unconditional repeal of the window -tax "—for talking to a Chancellor in a quiet way was like talking to a wall.--(Lauglater ) But let them have a show of the popular opinion; and he should like to see their line of coaches extending from Cumberland-gate to Down ing-street. Mr. Geesin then made some general an rnadversons on the window-tax as the cause of ill-health and death, and concluded by declaring that the man who taxed the lieht of the people should have had every window in his house blocked up.—(Laughter.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. WAKLEY then rose and was received with re- posted voileys of cheers. Ho assured them he h ad anti ciputsd a great deal of pleasure from attending that. beenthe most o .o n s - t meeting, bat still had not entertained a conception that his enjoyment would have extended so far. _ Among other things he had received a most . useful lesson.— !nen. He . hed alreetly (Cheerieg and laughter.) An or sta'.ement he had now to veeed to him in a spirit of kindliness and generosity u sv u ti g ic r h :„ , it a were ri lost re fl,ueptoi iinghim, adullie9:lhtowuuldhable received tokens—one or two—of dissati&ction, but ho offer would be so kindly received that he should be at ot;cs acquitted of all blame with_ respect to the particu lar occasion that had been mentioned by Mr. Nicholuy, thought that the explanation of ML.ryiebone. Mr.Ntcholay appeared t o b e a l oser of justice; ho spoke in that subdued and quiet tone which every now and then marked the judicial digni tary, and he appeared there, according to his own description, in a variety of forms and Protean shapes.— (A laugh.) One of the apparitions or hues he tied as sumed was that ef a commissioner off• taxes, and in that capacity was doubtless just. But he mieht have been a little more just in Tele; eece to the mode in which he had treated the poor Members for Finsbury for their conduct upon the question of the window-tax in the last session of Parliament, and he might have remembered what threw Members had done in times past.—(llear, hear.) For the fifteen 3 ears he had the indescribable honour and the inexpressible pleasure of representing them in Parliament be could truly say that he had never, to serve himself, given one vote or done one act in the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) He had never given a single vote or done u single thing in that assembly which was hostile to the interest or advantage of the peeple he bad the honour to represent.—(Cheers.) In stead of flinching or dreading scrutiny he wattle' say at once that he (Mr. Nicholay), in making the allusion he had to his conduct, had acted with the most strict pro priety. He commended him for it. It was this kind of notice of the conduct of public men that spurred them on to discharge their duty—which kept them up to the collar; and if they flinched from it, er dreaded to give explanation, then the inference was that they de served the castigation that was inflicted upon them. — (Hear, hear.) In the last session, when the questio❑ of the window-tax was moved, his Hon. Colleague, Mr. Duncombe, was almost it might be said on his death-bed —(Hear, hear)—and he was now so ill that he (Mr. Wakley) did nut like to refer to it, and would only say that every man must deplore his state; but it must be hoped that they would see him appear again in health and spirits, for a more faithfal, more indefatigable, or more able representative was never seen in the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) For himself, he (Mr. Wakley had only to say that size was not strength. Once, in deed, be had got strength, but continuous labour for many years had struck his nervous system, and rendered him incapable of performing his duty ; and he had already intimated that if in the coming session he found himself still incapable of attending to his duties in Parliament, he should resign his seat.—(Hear.) He was bound in honour to take that course, and did not shrink from the avowal of it.—(Hear.) If he had been absent on one occasion without reason, and had not voted when the questi n was brought forward, Mr. Nicholay might blame him; but that had not occurred. When Lord Duncan—who had fought the battle bravely —brought forward the motion, he (Mr. Wakley) bad made what was called in the House almost an inde corous speech, on account of its violence; for the opi nions he expressed were that the window-tax was one of the most odious that could be imposed—that it was absolutely a brutal tax, and that no words were too strong to indicate the objections that would be raised against it. He said that the fault of it not having been repealed laid with the constituencies, with the people, and not with their representatives.—(Hear.) They had now raised a goodly reform association; it was like a young Hercules in the cradle, and he honed they would be as energetic, and manifest as much seal as he had for the thirteen years of hard service he had passed in his Parliamentary duties. He had proclaimed in the House his hope that all the parishes in London would rise against this odious tax in the next session of Parliament. And after all, what had been done ? No thing. Lord Duncan had stated that, if they would only act, repeal was certain ; that it was doomed by the Crystal Palace. But he (Mr. W.) would tell them that it was not doomed, but required the most powerful ex ertions from the moment he was speaking till the ques tion was again brought before the House of Commons. It the parishes of London had been •properly organised, and if there had been so strong an expression of public opinion that there could have been no misunderstanding of it by the Minister, the thing might have been done. But there has been a great deal of gentle manly delicacy and scholastic forbearance in the matter, and if they had only spoken out and said we will have it, the result might have been different. He said, call the rept esentatives of London together, and ask them whether they would vote for the repeal or the tax—put it to them directly, not as a mere paltry finan cial saving, but as a question of morality end health, and let them say-- We will have it. The question of the nature of the tax was decided. All was decided as to its statistics, its origin and operation, aid its evils. The only practical question was how to get rid of it. Some people thought that petitioning Parliament was of no use; but there was a mistake, for it was of use when con• ducted properly, but it was not one or two or ten peti tions that would accomplish an object, for Ministers asked how many petitions there were, and when this for example was produced, although it represented the opi nions cl 60,000 men, it told in the House of Commons as the petition only of the single man, able or influen tial as he might be, who had signed it on behalf of the meeting.—(Llear, hear.) What they wanted now was a petition from every man who held a house.—(Cheers.) He should like to see that plan adopted, and if it was not he should say the inhabitants of London were not sincere, and so would the Minister.—(Hear.) But if he saw every man anxious to put his petition in the hands of his representative, he would admit it to be a mani festation of public opinion which he could not resist. The Honourable Gentleman concluded by a long and able speech by professing his determination to exert himself against this tax in Parliament to the utmost of his power, if his health would permit, and he would at all times discharge his duties as he had done on previous occasions. Mr. HODGSKINS proposed a resolution declaring the explanation of Mr.Wakley to be satisfactory.—(Cheers.) It would be only justice. The resolution was carried unanimously, with cheers. A vote cf censure on the pariah authorities of St. Mary, Islington, was then moved by Mr. G UEDDELLE and seconded by Mr. ELMES, and carried unanimously; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, and acknowledged by him, the meeting separated at ten o'clock. ROMAN ISW MIRACLES. Sir,—The sham miracle lately recorded in Galignani's Messenger, and repeated in your columns of Wednesday last, is a mere imitation of an old imposture. In Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, vol. 2, pp. 434, 435, Lond. 1714, fol., you will find the following narra tive:— _ _ _ "At the arrival of the Earl of Sussex, the Queen's Lieutenant in Ireland, the Litany was sung in English, at Christ Church, Dublin (Tuesday., August 30, 1559*). Some bigotted Papists were much disturbed at this way of worship, and endeavoured to retrieve their old service by counterfeiting a miracle. To this purpose a marble figure of our Saviour, standing in the cathedral, with a reed in his hand, and a crown of thorns on his bead, was observed to bleed through the thorns upon the face of the image. This wonderful appearance happened in service time, when the Lord-Lieutenant, the Archbishop, and the rest of the Privy Council, were at church. When this was perceived by the people they were strangely affected. especially when ene privy to the contrivance told them that our Saviour could not chuse but sweat Wood when heresy was come into the church. In short, all the audience not being of the same mind, the miracle occasioned a confusion, and the congregation broke up. Several of the people, however, stayed behind, tell on their knees, and prayed before the image. 6 , The Archbishop of Dublin (Hugh Curwen, a native of Westmoreland), suspecting some fc•ul play, ordered the sexton to wasn and examine the image. This being done, the man perceived a sponge soaked in blood within the hollow of the head. This sponge one Lf.e, formerly a m9nk of the cathedral, had put wW:in the head that morning, and being loaded with blood, it was strained through the cracks 0f the marble, and fell dovrt in drops upon the face. Tho cheat being thus discovered, the Archbishop preached in the church upon that subject the next Sunday; and to make the more serviceable im pression, Lee, with his assistants, were placed upon a table before the pulpit, with their hands and legs tied, and their crime on paper upon their breasts. In this equipage they appeared.three Sundays, were imprisoned for some time, and afterwards banished the realm." I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, Hawkshead, Jan. 6. D. B. H. a See Sir James Ware's " Antiquities of Ireland," Anna'. Temp. Enz., p. 2, Dub]. 1702, fol. DECLARATION AGAINST THE ENACT MENT OF RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES. We, the undersigned, deem it our duty at the present juncture to declare our unalterable attachment to the principles of Civil and Religious Liberty, and our de termination to oppose, by every constitutional means, any measure tending to interfere by legislative enact ment with the discipline or doctrine of any portion of the Queen's subjects. M. J. Blake G. H. Meagher Casty rengh J. O'Brien M. E. Corbally T. O'Brien W. Sharman Crawford M. O'Connell J. T. Devereux J. O'Connell ! W. Fagan A. O'Flaherty J. Fagan The O'Gorman Mahon R. M. Fox G. Ouaeley Higgins 11. Grattan M. Power J. Greene N. Power 1 it, Keatinge E. Burke Roche I C. Lawless J. Reynolds W. Torrens M'Cullagh J. Sadleir I N. V. Maher W. Monsell W. Scully J. 11. Talbot T. Meagher h Coventry Sessions' on COVENTRY t-e late a turnkey in the Co- Thursday last, Henry Hollow ay,f ca or a front aiding a n t h d a tassistinggaol. George it obn Thompson, a prisoner, to escape ventry Gaol, was indicted p Frazer, committed for the same cflence as Thomson, stated b e fore_last sessions he h p eard Hollo that about the Sunday way tell Thompson_ t hat he (Holloway) had 20/. in a building society. ' Thompson replied that he h a d 12 0 1 . i n such a so if Holloway would ass i st hi m to effect his cesiectayPeahnediv that ould make Holloway's 20/. into 1201. On another Holloway showed Thompson a occasion plan of the gaol which he had drawn on A slate. Mary Hodges deposed that three months ago she visited Thompson in Coventry Gaol; that Holloway afterwards came to see her at the City Hotel, and said that if there was any money he would release Thompson. He then gave her a wax impression of the locks of the goal, and she procured keys to be made at Wol verhampton to open ninety locks. She also provided the dis guise fur Thompson which was found at Holloway's house. The jury having returned a verdict of guilty, the Chair ntan, in passing sentence, observed that the law left no alter native but transportation for a longer or shorter period for this offence ; and as in this instance the offence was greatly aggravated on the part of the prisoner, by reason of the re sponsible situation which he held, it became his duty to pass the extreme sentence of fourteen years' transportation. Mary Ann Hodges was then arraigned on a charge of con spiring with Holloway to effect the escape of Thompson. She pleaded not guilty, and was thereupon discharged, on her own bail, to appear at the next a;sizes.—Birmingham Gazette. SOUTHERN WHALE FISHERY COMPANY.--Letters have been roceived by this company from Sydney, dated i n August hot , announcing that the Samuel Enderby had ar rived from the Auckland Islands, having been very success ful iu whaling for the time she had been out. NAVAL INTELLIGEN C.E. I DEATH OF SIR H. M. BLACKWOOD, BART., CAPTAIN OF H. M. SHIP VENGEANCE. We stated last week that the Gallant Captain of the Vengeance, 84, at Portsmouth, had been seriously 'Lelia posed. It is now with the deepest regret that we an nounce the decease of that officer, yesterday morniug, at his lodgings, Portsmouth, in the 49th year of his age. The following is O'Byrne's biographical notice of the late Sir Henry:— " Sir Henry Martin Blackwood, born June 11, 1801, was only son of the late Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., K.C.8., G.C.H.,K.F.M., by his se cond wife, Elias, fourth daughter of Captain Martin Waghorn, RN.; half-brother of Captain F. P. Black wood, R.N., and cousin of Lord Dufferin and Chine boy. He entered the navy July 22, 1814, as third-class boy, on board the Liffey, 50, Captain John Hancock, stationed in the Channel, where he served until April, 1815. He next, in May, 18/7, joined the Bulwark, 74, Curtain George Mqiinley; and afterwards officiated as midshipman on the Cape of Good Hope, Brazilian, East India, and home stations, of the Favourite, 26, Captain Hercules Robinson ; Leander. 50, bearing his father's 114; Eden, 26, Captain Francis Erskine Loch; Tees, 26, Captain Thomas Coe; and Dover, Captain Arthur Batt Bingham. The Eden was actively employed, in 182 0, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf. From July 6, 1 8 22, until his pro motion to the rank of Commander, Dec. 1, 1823, we find Mr. Blackwood, whose first commission bears date, Nor. 30, 1821, serving on board the Nimrod, 18, Captain Rochfort, and Active, 46, Captain Andrew Icing. He obtained command, July 26, 1826, of the Jasper sloop, on the Mediterranean station, and there served until his advancement to post-rank, April 28, 1827. His next appointment was on Oct. 14, 1843, to the Fox, 42, in which frigate, after being for some time employed on particular service, he sailed for the East Indies, where be discharged the duties of Commodore. Sir H. M. Blackwood married August 12, 1826, Harriet Louisa, youngest daughter of J. M. Bulkeley, Esq., by whom he has issue." Since his East India Commodoreship the gallant de ceased has commanded the Vengeance, first succeeding the Earl of Hardwicke in the Mediterranean, and then recommissioning the ship on paying her off in July last. The reformers of the service have lost a friend in the death of Sir Henry, for he has been reported as an approver, if not an active supporter of, a revisioa of naval titles, and the establishment of a general mess oa board ship. Lady Blackwood and ten children sur vive the Gallant Baronet. Rear-Admiral Dixon, the Commander-in- Chief at Queenstown, accompanied by his flag captain, secretary, and Sage lieutenant, proceeded on board the Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Captain Macdougall, on Friday morning, and, after having inspected her throughout, exercised the ship's company in shifting yards and sails, and sub sequently at toe guns, both in the ship and in the boats. The gallant Admiral was much pleased with the general efficiency of the crew. Captain Superintendent Richards, C. 8., Commander Cammillierl, and the officers of the Cumberland, 70, commissioned the Boscawen, 70, on the 6tii, as the ordi nary guard-ship of Chatham. Captain G. H. Seymour was to commission the Cum berland, 70, and to commence entering a crew of 650 officers and men, for service in the West Indies, as the flag-ship for his father, Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Sey mour, C. 8., G.C.H. Paymaster Rowe remains in this ship. Lieut. Charles T. Leckie (1845) has been appointed to study steam at the factory, Woolwich. Lieut. Thomas Saumarez (1848) has been appointed additional to the Centaur, flag steam-frigate, on the cuast of Africa, and proceeds in the Volcano. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Fantome, 12, Commander Genneys, sailed this morning for Plymouth, to receive her wages and the dispatches and letters for New Zealand. Commander Heaslop and Mr. Horton's newly invented night signal lights were tried last evening from Seaview to the dockyard semaphore, the distance between the points being about live miles. They appeared to answer remarkably w ell, as the lights and their different colours could be clearly seen without a telescope. The number of lights in use at one time could not be distinctly made out without a telescope at so great a distance. They ap peared to spectators from the platform in Portsmouth to be one body of fire. These lights, we are informed, are not intended for the use of ships, being too cumbersome, owiLg to their weight and biz?, but are intended for use along the coast, i❑ case of necessity. PJAMOUTLI, 'TUESDAY.—The Right Hon. Lord John Hay, Cutrnodore-Superintendent of the dockyard, re sumed his official duties yesterday, vi hen the red burgee was hoisted at the main on board his flag-ship, the St. George, 120, Captain J. Nies. Voicano, steam.vessel, Commander W. J. Rivers, ar rived on Sunday from Portsmouth, and is appointed to sail on Friday with the mails for the coast of Africa, touching at Madeira. The Samson steam-ship, Captain Jones, was placed in dock yesterday to have her copper examined. The Bloodhound steam-tender arrived yesterday with marine artillery for the Samson. Thu crew of the Diligence transport were paid wages yesterday. The Crane packet-brig, which arrived from Falmouth on Saturday, is gone up to Ilaruoaau to be fitted for ser vice on the coast of Africa. A notice has bLen posted at the police stations, dated Devonport, January 5, 18441, and signed by Captain Robert Smart, offering a reward of 1/. each for the ap prehensen of the captain of the wizen-top, 12 able sea men, four ordinary seamen, and tour privates, Royal Marines, stragglers or deserters, from her Majesty's fri gate Indefatigable. Two divisions of shipwrights have been placed on the Narcissus frigate to get her ready fur launching in the summer. Letters have been received from her Majesty's steam ship Gladiator, Captain J. Adams, dated Bights of Benin, September 25. She had taken five prises, one of which, with 250 slaves, was sent to Sierra► Leone. FALMOUTH, DEC. 29.—His Netherlands Majesty's new steam-frigate, the Ardjoeno, of heavy armament, Cap tain A. J. Voet, arrived here this morning from Flush ing, prior to proceeding to Java, and will be supplied with from 200 to 300 tons of coal. The Dutch Govern ment has selected Falmouth for upwards of ten years as the fuel depot and port of departure for all their steamers to the East and West India colonies. The Ardjoeno is the largest steamer in the Dutch navy. THE SCREW STEAMER BOSPHORUS. The following is the copy of a letter addressed to the Secretary of the General Screw Steam Shipping Com pany, dated off Madeira, Dec. 24, 1850: " Being about to touch at Madeira and land our passengers, I take the opportunity of sending a few lines to inform you of our proceedings. We left Plymouth on the morning of the 18th of December, weather much finer, but we were scarcely out of the harbour when the appearance of the weather changed, the wind backed to south-westward, and it luoked dirty. However, off the Lizard it became equally, and in a heavy puff, with hard rain, about 3 P.M. the wind shifted to west-north-west and north-westward, with which we stretched to the south-south-westward, and, notwithstanding being rather a deep and heavy sea, we made tolerable pro gress and good weather. The wind continued favour ing us till on Sunday last, at 1 P.M., having a fine fresh breeze and appearance of continuing, we let the fires down and feathered the screw, which we did with no difficulty. We ran 24 hours without steam, under stud ding-sails and royals, making 215 miles. At 1 P.M. on Monday, we tried the speed of the ship, with the screw, in steaming position, and afterwards feathered; rate 64- knots steaming position; 8 knots feathered. Yesterday evening, wind becoming light, at 9.30 got steam up, and the asrew was replaced in steaming posi tion in one minute. Thus far it has proved quite satis factory, and with the precaution of not letting the screw go too long without changing its position, lest it should get set fast, I feel it will be a great advantage and no trouble in any way. It dries the ship as fast as the old one, the engine making perhaps two or three revo lutions on the average more than with the other. The engineer complains that the fuel is not very good; i t runs away fast, and evidently seems to have too much tar in it, making much flame and dense black smoke. The engineers themselves ate going on very well, very attentive., and appear quite satisfied in all respects. The passengers, I believe, are quito happy and comfortable, end, I doubt not, will continue so. 'l6e mail . officer is very companionable, and rat her an acquisition than otherwise. In fact, I cons ider everything is going on with us as well as can reasonably be wished or hoped for. The weather appears now settled from the north the fuel, con s i s t en t with d w o ar a d l , l alnedanwitlol,eclonexompeiczre, run us into the trades. I shall keep ing up a good average speed, towards which I shall take care thexi t r TH E Lo eAacriv does its part." o art.: r THE SCREW-STEAMER IBOSPIIORI) F. ss WeduFsday, Dec. 18.—At 8 A.m. passed ti e Break water ; wind south-westerly. 3 o'clock P.M. off the Lizard; squally, wind to W.N.W. " Thursday, Dec. 19.—Di s tan c e, 165 miles ; in lat. 48 deg. 1 min. N., long. 6 deg. 28 min. W.; very heavy westerly swell, squally, N. wind. " Friday, Dec. 20.—Distance, 195 miles ; in lat. 44 deg. 45 min. N., long. 8 deg. 25 min. W.; very heavy westerly swell, N.E. wind. " Saturday, Dec. 21.—Distance, 188 miles ; lat. 42 deg. 17 min. N., long. 11.15 W.; light N.E. breezes. " Sunday, Dec. 22.—Distance, 211 miles; lat. 38 deg. 58 min., lung. 12.40 W. Wind N.E. and fine; 1 P.m., feathered screw. " Monday, Dec 23.—Distance, 215 miles; lat. 35 deg. 31 min., long. 14.50; wind fresh, N.E. No steam. " Tuesdav, Dec. 24.—Distance, 190 miles ; " between Porto Santo and Desertas; off Port of Madeira. It has been the custom in France to take a census of the population every five years. The last having taken place in 1546, the present year will therefore see this great and useful operation renewed. The following is the rate at which, according to historians and of f icial documents, the i population of Paris has gradually ncreased :- In the 13th century Paris contained 120,000 souls; in 1474, 150,000; under Henry 11., 210,000; in 1590, 200,000; under Louis, XIV., 492,600; i n 1719, 509,640 ; f rom 1752 to 1762, 5 according to Buffon, 658,000; in 1778, according 76,6"; in 17 1ott o 3n, 6,0,000 ; 1784, according to Neckel, 660,00:1; end of the reign of Louis XVI., 610,620 ; 1798 according to the cen4us, 640,5 '4; 1802, 672,000; 1806, 54",756 ; 1808, 580,609 ; 1809, 794,595 ; 1817, 743,966; 1827, 890,431; 1831, the commencement of quinquennial census, 774,328; 1836, 909,126; 1841, 912,033 (exclusive of soldiers, absentees, and children at nurse); 1646, 1,053,897 ; and the department of the Seine, 1,365,467. The population of the dc:partinmt is thus divided:-Ist arrondissement, 111,245; 2d, 117,768; 3d, 64,675; 4th, 48,233; sth, 96,628 ; 6th, 104,484; 7th, 72,593; Bth, 12,170; 9th, 52,604; 10th, 106,878 ; 11th, 66,119 ; 12th, 100,208 ; 13th (St. Denis), 187,513 ; 14th (Sceaux), 123,057. The population of France in 1701 was 19,669,0J0 souls; in 1831, 32,560,934; in 1846, 35,430,486. It is said that 500 guineas have been offered for the privilege of advertising on the last page of the catalogue of . the great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations.