The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

RAY WITH GAMEKEEPERS COII.IIEUONDENT in different parts of the kingdm—arising from the eve tendency of the game-laws—occurred on Friday night last, at Picten, on the estate of Sir R. P. T. Philipps, Bart., N.P. for the borough of Have:ford:vest. It will pro bably be attended with the lo , s of one or teo lives. It appears from the different flying reports, that on Friday night and Saturday morning the gamekeepers beard the report of fire-arms in a Oen' :tion very clo,e to the man sion of the above trine il gentleman, eel!ee'ing mice proceeded towards the place from whence the sound, issued, and lay in welt for the poachers until they should retire, with the intention of surrounding and cap turing them. But. unfortunately, this intention was frustrated in the following manner:—One of the poachers wounded, but did not bring down, a bird, which he im mediately pursued to the edge of the plantation, and was laid hold of himself by one of the keepers or assistants. He gave the alarm to his comrades, and they quickly came to his support. The keepers endeavoured to se care their man, but failed to do so, and in the fight the poachers inflicted an awful blow on one of their party, which he will not probably long survive. The poachers then made off, carrying with them their wounded man ; however, one poacher covered the retreat in such an ef fectual manner, that on the keepers attempting to as cend a bank on w hich he stood, they were knocked down quickly one after the other. The bank or grip on Which the poacher stood was rendered inaccessible by the circumstance of a deep ditch being at the bottom. At last he thought proper to decamp, taking away all the game, splinters of the butt ends of guns, &c., and the Whole party got safe off. Of the keepers and assistants, eleven altogether, eight received very severe wounds. One person had his skull fractured, jaw broken, and teeth knocked out, and was unable to speak until Monday. The others got off with severe bruises about the head, &c. The poachers, five in number, have not been taken, altheneh active means are being used for the purpo-e. It is supposed from the immense pool of blood left that he will expire from the effects of his comrade's blow. Pieton Castle estate is situated about three miles from Haverfordwest, and the game is preserved. The plants tion in which the poachers were heard is close to the house, of one of the keepers, the birds being fed there. On Sunday and Monday, persons were apprehended on suspicion, but on being brought before the magistrates at a private hearing, the keepers failed to identify any of them. The appearance of the keepers was ludricrous in the extreme with their heads bound up. Sir Richard Phillips is at present in France. Persons in the neighbourhood of this town are sus pected, but proof cannot be obtained on account of the unwillingness of the peasantry to give information. They view poaching as a very venal offence against law, if any at all. This is another consequence of class legislation. We shall probably be able to give the result of the search of the police in a few days. THE SCOTTISii HosPETAL. , ~ 1 ......,i.... ..., _ , Yesterday, ar un o'clock, a Court of the Governors of the Scottish Hospital was held at the hall of the cor poration, Crsne•court, Fleet-street, for the purpose of receiving the annual report of the Kinloch Trust, of ap pointing a surgeon, in the room of Mr. R. G. Davidson, who li«s ,7‘ busilless. Mr. in the chair Major ADAIR, the s.:.ret.oy, re a:: the refer of the distribution of the Kioloch fru,t, from whien it ap peared that the amount of stock was 56,707/. Bs. 6d. (this munificent sum having been left by him for the relief of poor Seotchmen), that the receipt of dividends had been 1,651/. ; that 1,8601. had been di- tributed in Pensions, and that, after comparing other receipts and the expenditure, there remained balance ir the banker's hands of 821 ss. sd. From the funds of Scottish llospital, in the course of the last quarter, 298 pen simmrs had been relies ed with 2301 15s. bd. It was resolved that the account of the trustees of the liinloch Trust should he printed and circulated amone the governors; and the re-igration of Mr. Davidson was accepted. Mr. Rowland Hill Mackenzie, a Governor, was appointed in his stead, who acknowledged the honour conferred upon him. Professor DoNALDsoN then moved a resolution, re questing the Committee of relief to consider and report as to the propriety of giving power to the medical officers of the hospital to afford such additional assis tance in food, &c., as they might consider advisable. Mr. Nosh seconded the resolution, which was agreed to unanimously. The Court next considered the propriety of discon tinuing the pension of 10/. annually to George Monroe, at present residing in Scotland, it being against the rules of the corporation to grant pensions at that distance. The pensioner was formerly in possession of 3001. a year, which was lost in speculations. He was said to be the rightful heir t o a Scottish earldom, with property amount ingto 5,0001. a year, to which his grandson would succeed. It was resolved that the allowance be discontinued. ----- ATTEMPT TO ROD THE UNION BANE AT THORN MILL—FURTHER PA RTIcULARS.—On Sunday last the branch of the Glasgow Union Bank, at Thornhill, was forcibly entered while the inmates were at church, in the forenoon. Entrance was obtained by a stable adjoining the banking house, from which the thief passed through a small opening into the back kitchen, and thence up stairs to the apartments occupied by the accountant, where he forced the lock of a chest, from which he took three I/. Rotes and some silver. In this chest were deposited the keys of the safe, which contained a considerable amount of money ; but it is fortunate that he w as sat i s fi e d w i t h th e 3 1- He however, carried off one key belonging to , the safe, which was afterwards found in a neighbouring g ar deo. The robbery was discovered immediately on the return of the inmates from church, and notice being given to the office of police, the premises were searched, and the neighbouring gardens, &c., examined; and we Understand, that from what then appeared, and from cir cumstances that have since transpired, there are good grounds for suspecting that the perpetrator of the house ii!eaklog and theft is not far from the village of Thorn willAn investigation is now going on, and a little time , show wheth er th ese sus pi cio ns ar e cornet or not.— t Dumfries Paper. - ~„. t e 1 1 t a ; -NEW METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS A cr.— it es thie important Aet, some of the provisions of yvnich have been separately noticed in The Sun, came In t" operation. The-re are 120 el'auses in the new law, and 12 schedules: 1114 varioo- , objects blwelfied i:t the Preamble are worked out in the numerous provisions and sched u l es annexed. The o ffi cers ment i one d i n t h e A ct have been appointed since the Ist of September last by a. by special provisi4n. There are two official referees named the Government ; aad surveyors, with their districts sa ; ''gned have been nominated by the magistracy of the t 'ty mei the several localities con prised in Lire jurisdic -I°Ati of the metropolis. The Act vxtends on the north the south side of the river from Woolw.ch to Wands worth, including the other suburban districts. The Le gislature by the 4th section anticipated that building sPeeulati 1 h •d on beyond the prescribed ons omt e Carrie *malts of the statute in order to evade the law, and there lobre gave power to her Majesty in Council to extend the Perett oi-on of the same to any parts within ts, else milks of ha ling -cross his required that notice of such intention consider n n , s i i en der the limits shall be giv at least one month ri the London Gazette. Numerous buildings „„ ave b en lately commenced to prevent the immediate :Feration of the Lim, as by the construction clause is declared that the term " already built," used in 1 2,,ferenc e to b u i ld i ngs, i s to app l y to b u ildi ngs b u il t b e f ore 1 4 lst of Ja nuar y i ns t an t, or "comm e n ce d before that d ay," and covere d i n an d rendered fit fur use within u twe lve month s t h erea f ter ; an d the term " hereafter to built" to a p p l y to a ll b u ildi ngs t o b e b u il t , or " com a after th a t p e riod, or which being commenced sall not be covered in within twelve months." Notice m ust now b e g i ven o f a ll b u ildi ngs t o b e commence d t o e registraNgeneral appointed, under certain penalties; 1 !:od all buildings must be erected according to the direc tions of the Act, otherwise the workmen, as well as the owners, will be subjected to penalties, and in default of Yment to imprisonment. The Act has reference to the future drainag e of houses, and it is declared that the drainage h as been so bad as to endarger the health of the inhabita n t s . Th e w id t h o f s t ree t s and alleys is to be Increased, in order to obtain a proper ventilation, and to prevento the risk of fire from the close contiguity of us es oPposite. Another portion of the new law relates to dwellings for the poor. After a certain period cellars, or lever rooms, are not to be used unless altered to admit ihroper drainage and ventilation. Ruinous and dangerous noildings can now be repaired or palled down by parish officers, after notice to the owners, and proceedings adopted to recover the expenses incurred either from the ow ner or th e l an dl or d. Th e ot h er port i on h as re f erence to the officers to carry the law into force, to consolidate the tprovisiona, and to superintend the erection of buildings. AT CROYDON.—Yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock, an alarming fire, which was not extinguished until property to a serious amount had been destroyed, broke out in the extensive range of pre- Mises in the occupancy of Mr. R. S. M‘Leod, maltster, at Thornton's Heath, Croydon. When first discovered, the flames were raging with great violence in the kiln and stove room ; and not many minutes elapsed before the whole became one sheet of fire. From that portion o t he premi ses t h e fl ames ex t e nded to t wo ma l t - fl oors aedlvith grain, one 110 feet long by about 30 wide ; the other upwards of 60 feet long by 32 wide. Before any of the st oc k conta i ne d i n t h e l o ft cou ld b e rescue d , the fire reached the same, and broke through the roofs of both buildings. A spacious coach-house and btwo -stall stable, belonging to a Mr. ;laud, next e came ignited, and, in spite of every effort to save rem, they were speedily burned down. The fire con tinuing to spread, it was deemed advisable to dispatch an express to London for the aid of the brigade. As soon as intelligence wa. received in town of the 43i , agtt , r, Mr. Henders-n, one of the chief officers of the fire esta hlishment, started to the scene with an rugine and a strong muster of firemen ; and by the combined etlorts T . all parti es th e fl ames were eventua l ly extingu i s h e d . he damage done is as follows :—Malt-kiln and store loom burned down. The two malt-floors have their co ntents and roof s d es t ro yed, an d a b ou t 300 o i ti•lters of barley are extensively damaged by fire 1.1,(1 wr,ter. Ceach-house and stisbk belonging to Mr. Maud con sumed. 2 _ The fir e originated fr o m th e over -h eat o f t h e kilo. Fortunately a portion of Mr. M‘Leoci's loss w ill be Made good by an insurance in th e G uar di an o ffi ce , ut Mr. Alaud's premises were wholly uninsured. , Lord Viscount Combermere presided at a grand Provinc . :lal meeting of Freemasons, held at the Royal .hotel, Chester, on Friday last. Sir Watkin Williams -Wynn, Bart., and the Hon. Thcma s G rea Choltoon :leY, Son of Lord Delainere, were among •:nose initiated the occasion. John Walker, Esq., of Maryport, has, with his steustomed liberality, presented no fewer than fifty e , families in the parish of Dearhata each with a cartload Of Cools. :~• ;; ~~:i ed a sident of Ministet the nevi 11 be re" or ladieg veniegsf Adak' the Og les, and order of f Cardi n of S. s named I appear belong Rowe Ising in --,, For inuance as. The )rtnigbt I steam' me four teeasive mrhood violent o much Ip:ete/Y I Mont- depth, in the furtl . : , ar, timatea be per eady of Lnd dis ►y after I heard Wright put off, [lowing .sonellt ling is in their :rued* muient tiun. Lnd re' rd An' tobac" noney§ James gesso. d with reseed► eaking ieitor's foP under arged anent it the COURT CIRCULAR. w tht Uttst:e Luis ilicanntq. On Me return ut ner Majesty and her Illustrious Consort, his Royal Highness went shooting in the royal preserves, at• tenth by Lord Charles Wellesley, Mr. Anson, and Colonel Bouverie. The royal party returned to the Castle early. Th , ir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princf=ss - R,oyal, and the Princess Alice, were taken out for pony and walking exercise this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was also taken an airing to-day. Major-General Wemyss has relieved Lord Charles Wellesley from his duties as Equerry in Waiting on the Queen; and Colonel Bouverie has relieved Major- General Sir Edward Bowater from his duties as Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Dowager Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyttelton, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, assisted by the choir of Windsor, and several eminent artists from London, performed a grand selection of sacred music by Hummel, Mendelssohn, &c.; alsoa Te Deum, with full orchestral accompaniments, composed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Miss Kirkham, niece of Mrs. Anderson, and pupil of Signor Costa, had likewise the distinguished ho nour of singing several pieces, for the first time, be fore her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. La Marquise d'Harcourt and Captain F. Seymour were prevented joining the royal dinner circle yester day evening. Mr. Dicey, Deputy-Chairman, Mr. Thomas Ma caulay, Mr. Brodrick, Mr. C. C. Macaulay, Mr. Ord, and Mr. Hall, a deputation from the Churnet Valley Railway, transacted business yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council, left Wilton House, near Salisbury, yesterday, for Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Dispatches for the Governor of the West India Colonies, were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office. DISTRIBUTION OF THE ROYAL BOUNT Y AT WINDSOR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The distribution her Ma 's and Prince Ale,rt's New-year's gifts to the poor mid t,etly le, , iding within the borough of New Wiwdsor, took 'lace this in the new tiding scho,l, at the royal mews. The Queen and her illus trious Consort were present. The number of families, recipients of this seasonable bounty, amounted to five hundred and ten. In the centre of the immense build . ?1.1 - ;oi.td: l e ngth, n on prle., - ,,5;, gitoc lac tidy a IieCOUUL , d with laurel. two other taides, one a: each end, were appropris:ed to plum puddings and quartern loaves. Along the walls, at the north and south sides of the riding-school, tahles were also placed, upon which were displayed th,. biank. is fur distrnaition. The whole of the reel; , ' , 7,i, who were admitted at Vie western en tranei., tf.•k- ranged at the end of the build ing, 11 y t.-mained until the arrival of her Ma j•-sty the Prince, who entered the Queen's gallery at nine o'clock. Aincngz,t those members of the rc ?,tasehold whom we or:served in the body of the were the Countess of Charlemont, Lady tillu-oline Cocks, the Earl of Warwick, Sir Frederick Stovin, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Major- General Sir Edward Bowater, Mr. Cr. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Mr. Glover, &c. _ . . The distribution of the royal gifts commenced imme diately upon the arrival of the Queen and Prince Albert, under the superintendence of the mayor and magistrates of the borough, the Rev. Isaac Gossett (vicar), the Rev. W. Canning (canon in residence), the Rev. Stephen Haw trey, the Rev. Messrs. Gould and Bentley, curates of New Windsor ; and Mr. John Clode, jun., Mr. T. Adams and Mr. Ingalston, churchwardens. No persons were permitted to be present except those whose official services were required. The following is a list of the articles given away : One hundred and eighty families each received an excel lent pair of 10-quarter blankets. The provisions, as under, were divided amongst 330 families, including those who were supplied with blan kets :-1,819 pounds of meat, 1,395 pounds of bread, 944 pounds of pudding, 584 gallons of potatoes, 1,032 pints of ale, 3,330 cwt. coals. The quantity of meat given to each applicant was re gulated according to the number in the family, each male adult receiving three pounds, each female adult two pounds, and one pound to each child. The distribution of the other gifts was similarly regulated. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness remained until the proceedings, which lasted upwards of an hour, had terminated, and proceeded on foot, across the Home Pat k, to the Castle, attended by the royal suite. Two splendid banners, one containing the royal arms and the other the arms of the Prince Consort, were dis played from the Queen's closet, which was tastefully or namented with laurel and other evergreens. OLYMPIC THEATRE. The Outcast, a drama written purposely for Mr. Rayner, was again performed at this theatre last night, when that gentleman resumed Hs original part of Walter Graysdale, and Mrs. W. West sustained the character of the heroine. The piece consists of a strange medley of scenes and circumstances, among which may be enumerated a harvest home, a gang of poachers, a shipwreck, an incendiary conflagration, a child rescued from the flames, and other incidents "by flood and field." The plot is less skilfully con structed than it might have been, and in particular at the end of the first act. when ti.e child is preserved from the flames. This would have formed a more appropriate close to the piece. The drama affords scope for the display of Mr. Rayner's peculiar forte and powerful talents, and most ably he acquitted him s4f in both the whirlwind of passion and the subdued pat;:..,- by wl.kh some of th.• se,lnes were dis;in- Lo..isht-ct. It i fdr to state that he acted with all the t(xce and freshness of his earlier days. The audience were extremely liberal in their plaudits. Mrs. W. West laboured hard and successfully to make the most of an indifferent part. The house was well at tended. VICTORIA THEATRE. 0-:o-lhiiston is certainly a most indefatigable cater-_ , r for the public. Notwithstanding the crowded housr— which the performances of last week drew every night, he has this week produced another new drama, from the practised pen of the author of Susan Hopley. It is entitled Marianne, the Child of Charity, and details the adventures of a poor, but vir tuous girl, Marianne (admirably acted by Miss Vin cent), who at the commencement of the drama is sup posed to be a mere child of charity, but who eventually turns out to be the heiress of immense wealth. The piece is cleverly written, and is replete with dramatic incidents and startling effects. We were glad to see that Mr. Osbaldiston himself took a part in this drama. He acted the part of Captain Sefton, the father of Marianne, who had been supposed to be dead, but who returns from slavery in time to rescue his daughter from the machinations of those who would fain destroy her, and, by his judicious performance, contributed greatly to the success of the piece. Mr. W. Searle, who has recently joined this company, was very successful in his delineation of the character of Nightshade, a desperado of the O'Smith school, and was much applauded. Mr. John Herbert, as Job Scroggs, a cat's-meat vendor, kept the house fa a roar of bughter the whole time he was on the stage ; and Miss E. Terry, as Miss Charlotte Todd, a gay lady of fashion, was excellent. If we mistake not, Marianne is destined to be as popular as Susan Hoge. STATE OP TRADE.—For some days past there has been a much better demand, both for goods and yarn, than is usually experienced at this season, and a fair amount of business has been done at very firm rates. The purchases of manufactured goods have been made, we believe, principally for the home trade ; but there has been also some demand for several of the principal foreign markets ; and stocks of all descriptions are un usually light. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MON DAY, DEC. 30.—The market to-day has been but thinly attended, and the little business transacted has been at former prices. Between Christmas-day and the first market, which is always the first Monday after the Twelfth-day (the 6th instant), there is but little business transacted. The demand for Wool is better, and prices stiffer.—Manchester Guardian. The Bishop of Worcester and Mrs. Pepys are passing the Christmas recess at Hartlebury Castle. We are happy to say that his Lordship and Mrs. Pepys have not experienced any ill effect from the alarm occasioned them by the fire which occurred at the Castle on Thurs day last. The Right Reverend Prelate and Mrs. Pepys were awoke at four o'clock on 1 hursday morning by a strong smell of fire in their bedroom, upon which his Lordship immediately quitted the apartment, and has tened down stairs, when opening the dour of the school room found that apartment enve l o p e d i n fl ames . Hi s Lordship, with great presence of, mind, immediately closed the door, ~nrl having secured his family and ch mystics, . sent for the fire -engine a. In the interim his Lordship expressly - forbid the door of th e b urn i ng room to be opened, and to which judicious step the preserva tion of the whole of the magnificent building and its valuable contents may be mainly attributed. A movement is now being made at Ipswi c h f or the appointment of a chaplain to mstruct the labourers on the Eastern Union Railway. We iish the parties all S' CL The good effects of a similar arrangement are seen on the works progressing in the neigh of Cambridge. We should like to see all con trartor, following the example of Messrs. Grissell and Pet( In the instance referred to. They contribute most liberally towards the religious instruction of the la bourers, and without any restriction as to oreed.—Rail way Record. ALEXANDRIA. • !,-*- Ov.i^rf , l enTrinqnV'S P i3ezitinck, A• ~;uz- 1 :i''l • She •.• :mi'v , a-rived at Madras 22d Nov., Gallee 26th Nov., Aden 6th D c., and Suoz 14th Dec. Mr. Bourne's Postal Convention with the Pacha has been terminated as far as that gentleman is concerned, and it is to be sent to England by the steamer Oriental to be ratified. The conditions are not so satisfactory as expected. Although the particulars of the agreement have not been made public, it is believed that it is based on the same principles as the one made with the French Government for the Indian mails proceeding through France, and that Mehemet Ali will receive an amount of postage on the mails passing through Egypt to and from India at the rate of 6s. per lb. on letters, and Is. par lb. on newspapers. The term is for five years. The mails will be conveyed through the country by the Vice roy at his own expense, and will be accompanied by an English messenger. Artin Bey, the Prime Minister, has returned to Alex andria, accompanied by Mr. Bourne. The Egyptian Transit Company is still in a state of discomfiture, the real Directors not being yet known. In the mean time the Government continues to take measures to make a monopoly of the transit through Egypt. The British and several European consuls at Cairo have received instructions from the Egyptian Go vernment to prohibit travellers from crossing the Desert between Cairo and Suez by their own conveyances, as the means of proceeding between those two places are to be strictly confined to the Egyptian Transit Company. Said Pacha, Mehemet Ali's son, has again applied to purchase the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta, but without success. Owing to very prevalent bad weather, the French steamers have lately been very irregular in their arrivals; and the French schooner Gazelle, which has recently been placed on the line between Beyrout and Alex andria, arrived only on the 16th, whilst she should have been here, under ordinary circumstances, on the 4th. One of the Pacha's Nile steamers, of 50-horse power, was lost a few days ago near Aboukir Bay, on her way from Rosetta to Alexandria. The fault is entirely as cribable to the captain for not taking precautionary measures. The engines of this steamboat were made at Cairo, and her boilers, of copper, are valued at 4,0001. sterling. The mortt:lity amongst the cattle still continues, and although Mehemet Ali is making every effort. at an im mense cost, to replenish the stock in Egypt by constant supplies from Asia Minor and Abyssinia, the number of animals does not increase. Lord Elphinstone arrived here on the 17th inst. by the French steamer from Syra. His Lordship intends to proceed by the Bentinck from Suez to Ceylon, to visit some estates he owns iu that island, and expects to be back in March. Very few travellers have passed through Alexandria this year with the intention of visiting Upper Egypt. The several crops of wheat, beans, barley, lentils, and sessame seed are excessively short this year, owing, no doubt, to the great scarcity of cattle. Beans have con tinued to advance daily in price until they have finally re ached 21s. 4d. p , r quarter, free on board, and it is impossible to say when the speculation in this article will cease. The schooner Emmetje arrived here yesterday from Beyrout, which place she 12ft on the 11th. Very severe ‘, r 11:!s prevailed oil the coast of Syria since the Noveldb,r. and h great awaher of country v,s ,els hav, been lost on the coast. Fresh supplies of tre ,, Ts were constantly pouring into Syria from Turkey, and All I'acha had arrived at Jerusalem to replace the former Paella, on account of his inactive conduct during the late disturbances, caused by Sheikh Aboo Ghosh, in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The new system of petty Christian Governors, under the Druse Emir in the Lebanon, is being carried into operation, but it is not ex pected that much good will be derived from it. The old Turkish coinage lately called in by the Government is again perfectly current in every town in Syria. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—This has been a day of some excitement in the Share Market, on account of the notice issued by the Board of Trade on the subject of the proposed rail way extensions. As far as feelings in the City can be ascertained, they are generally in favour of the Board's decision, and the manner in which they have communi cated it, simply stating the results at which dry hrve arrived, without entering into the particular merits of the question as regards any particular undertaking. The Commissioners appear to have acted on a distinct principle, as their present announcement shows—viz., that of taking the country divided between the two great lines of the Great Western and South-Western Rail ways. The decision in favour of the extensions pro posed by the Great Western in preference to those proposed by the South-Western seems to be generally considered favourable to the public at large, and to maintain the best line of road. The consequence of the announcement has been that the shares of the Great Western Company have advanced, while, on the other hand, those of the South-Western Company (espe cially those recently issued) have been depreciated. It has had, moreover, the beneficial effect of check ing reckless speculation in many undertakings uncon nected with these, since the parties interested are more cautious in their operations now they see the prudent and clear manner in which the counsels of the Board are directed. From the sample of the business just given it is now expected that the remaining sections of the country through which railways are proposed to pass will be disposed of in a similar manner, and there is reason to hope that in the selection hereafter to be made results equally judicious will be obtained. Another feature in the act of the Board of Trade that receives general commendation is its publicity. A few days ago we pointed out the danger which would ensue if the Board communicated its decisions to a few individuals, who might be able to take advantage of their exclusive information, instead of addressing the public generally. By publishing their determinations in the Gazette in the first instance, the information is obtained at the same time by all to whom it is of interest. The fluctuation of prices in the Share Market shows a rise in the value of Great Western and Bristol and Exeter, both of which have considerably improved, the Board of Trade accepting the principal extensions of the Great Western Company, and the rejection of the Yeovil and Exeter line saving the Bristol and Exeter Company from competition. 'I he shares of the Great Western Company from 74 to 76 premium have risen to 78 to 80 premium, and the shares of the Bristol and Exeter have improved from 69 to 70, yesterday's price, to 73 to 75 to-day. Original South-Western shares have been pretty well supported, though in the early part of the day they were flat. The new 401. shares, however, from 84 have e.e:e back to 3to 6, their last price. Much business is transacting in the French tines of rade ay. A purchase of 1,000 shares in the Great North of France line was made to-day at 21 premium. SUN.—The English Stock Market closes flatly, on account of the decline at Paris on Tuesday, owing to the expected change in the Cabinet. Consols were 1004 ; New Three- and -a-Quarter per Cents., 103 4 1; and the Three per Cents., look India Stock was rather higher. Spanish Bonds also receded, the Five per Cents. being 274 4, and the Three per Cents. 364 4. The Coupons were 274 to 264. Brazilian New Bonds were 861, and Portuguese Converted, ex dividend, 60 to 594-. Mexican were 354 1. French Scrip receded to 14 premium. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 5 ; Bristol and Exeter, 5; Ditto and Gloucester, 124; Ches ter and Holyhead, 4 ' • Churnet Valley, 2to 4; Corn wall, 4 4; Dublin and Belfast, 21 to 24; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5f ; Great Western, 80 ; Lan caster and Carlisle, 44 ; Birmingham, 129 ; Brighton, 24 i ; South-Western, 334 ; Ditto, Eighths, 18 •, Ditto, New, 3; London and York, 24 ; Lynn and Ely, 11 ; North British, %V i; Norwich and Brandon, New, 34 ; Thclunond and est-end Junction, 14; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 4 ; South-Eastern, 81 ; Trent Valley, 8 to 7-ii; York and North Midland, 54 to 4; Ditto, Half, 264 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 484; Boulogne and Amiens, 3to • Lyons and Avignon, ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 6to 4 ; Paris and Lyons, 14 ; Paris and Rouen 211 4 ; and Paris and Strasbourg, 14 to 1 premium. Caledonian have been 4 ; Eastern Counties, 94 to g ; Blackwell, 94 to 81 ; and West London, 134 discount. OCCUPATION of the NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE BY THE MERCHANTS. This interesting event occurred yesterday, and the muster on 'Change, though the day was not a post day, was very considerable. In consequence of the intended occupation, all the avenues were completely opened. The only arrangement we noticed which had any novelty about it, was that by which the ad vertisements and announcements of the sailing of ships, which used to be affixed generally to the walls of the old Exchange, are now pasted upon neat boards, which are hung up in the recesses of the merchants' area. These boards are all of one size and character, and seem calculated to prevent the dis figurement which the old system involved. The temporary Exchange in the court-yard of the Excise-office will soon be dismantled of its roof and other fittings ; and we perceive, by an announcement affixed to the posts supporting the roof, that the materials are to be sold, anti that the proceeds will be devoted to the principal City charities. The merchanti generally seemed to be perfectly satisfied with their new quarters, and quite ready to join in the general congratulation to Mr. Tite, the architect, on the very successful termination of his labours. Some of the merchants still seem to think that all the Exchange ought to have been roofed like the Bourse at Paris ; but, as we have before observed, that is a question the merchants determined them selves, by a large majority, before the Committee tlok any step in the matter ; and the common opinion appears to be that the majority were right, for though a roofed hall might be convenient at this time of the year, in the summer, and particularly in wet weather, the heat and steam would be insufferable. Some of the merchants complained of draughts of cold air, an evil which, we are informed, it is intended to remedy by the introduction of inner doors, should the incon venience be found to he important. The Birmingham tin-plate and sheet-iron trade, which gives employment to a large proportion of our population, is in a very flourishing condition, if we may judge by the supply of orders and the scarcity of hands. A stove manufacturer informed us yesterday that he could not obtain a sufficient number of men to execute his orders, and that, while last Christmas a written no tice in his window would have brought a shoal of appli cants in a few hours, it is now next to impossible to ob tain workmen.—,Birmingham %burned. MURDER AT ULVERSTON. The conclus;on of the inquest on this horrible affair • •_;.! • i., :Li .aaruea returned against the prisoner, Thomas Donahoo, for murdering his wife on Friday, the 20th, by striking her with an iron bar. The inquest occupied three days. The following is the most important evidence which came before the jury connected with this tragic affair. Mr. Barton, surgeon, stated that there were three wounds on the deceased's head, any of which were fatal; but that the immediate cause of death was a severe wound on the back part of the head, which might have been done by some obtuse instrument. He found about a spoonful of extravasated blood pressing on the brain. He also stated that the whole body, especially her legs, thighs, and arms, were severely bruised ; and on being shown a piece of square iron, round at the end, like a pistol, said the marks and bruises corresponded with this iron, and that he had measured them with it. That he had no doubt whatever but the deceased's death was caned by the wounds in her head, and that they could have been produced by such an instrument. He also distinctly stated that the deceased could not possibly have received such wounds by falling down stairs, as stated by the prisoner. That he had particularly exa mined the iron, and was confident that there was a spot of blood on the end, and that it had the appearance of being recently washed. Police .constable Sandwell examined—He had met the deceased between twelve and one o'clock oa Friday morning, and talked with her. She was drunk, and had then no bruises upon her. Soon after he saw her hus band, who inquired for her, and he told him she had gone home ; when he said he wanted money, and would go home and give her a " d—d good kicking." That afterwards he went to the prisoner's house, and saw Donahoo and his son, a boy about 12 years of age, sit ting by the fire. Donahoo was talking to the boy about his mother, and saying, the " b—h" came in and sat down on his stool, and he knocked her off ; and said she had been " spreeing ;" and then he took a can, apparently having water in it, and a cloth, and began washing about the foot and on the stairs, and took a stone after he had washed and scrubbed the flag. Soon after they went up stairs, and he went away, concluding all was peaceable. James Walker stated that he lived next door to Donahoo, and he was awoke by a violent falling against the wall which separated his room from theirs ; that it was a thin lath and plaster wall, and he could hear any ordinary conversation going on. When he awoke, he found that Donahoo and his wife were engaged, as he thought, in a quarrel, which was quite common with them, and he heard the deceased cry out, "Don't murder me, don't kill me," and immediately he heard a violent blow or kick given, which was quickly followed by two unnatural groans. Soon after he heard a dragging along the floor, and something falling down stairs like a dead weight, when he heard the boy exclaim, " Oh, you have killed, or will kill my mother," and then the prisoner gave a violent stamp with his foot, and said something which he did not catch. The jury were about to adjourn, it being half-past eight, but on being informed that the boy bad expressed a desire to give a statement of the affair, he was sent for, and gave an account that his father had kicked and struck his mother both up and down stairs, and dragged her by the hair of the head, and in various other ways abused her. The prisoner is a travelling razor-grinder and tinker. He is a fresh-coloured, strong muscular man, and stands about six feet high, possessing; a most brutal and savage temper. The prisoner and his wife have had six chil dren, all of whom are dead, with the exception of a boy of about twelve years of age, and a little girl about three. rTIFIP: sioN, LONDON, TiItrRSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1845 SUICIDE AT DERBY. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.) A young man, whose name was Dixon, and who formerly resided in the family a clergyman of a neighbouring county, has committed self-destruction, after attempting the life of a girl, named Caroline Allen, to whom his affections were confided. The deceased was about twenty-one years of age, and about five years ago absconded from service, in company with the clergyman's daughter. After making one or two unsuccessful efforts to get united, they at length succeeded, and were married at the parish church of St. Peter's, Derby. The father of the young lady was naturally indignant, and subse quently obtained a divorce. It appears that, some time pending this, the deceased formed an acquaint ance with Caroline Allen (whose father formerly re sided at Leicester, but is now a copperplate printer at Derby). Caroline, however, at first refused his proposals, on account of his former marriage; but about a year ago her scruples gave way, and she con sented to become his. Caroline seems to have been a frequenter of "sa loons" in Derby and Nottingham, and the deceased procured her an engagement at the latter town as a vocalist. The deceased's attendance upon her seems to have been constant, and she complained of his neglecting his work, stating that she could not main tain him unless he assisted by his own industry. He said if she would consent to marry him, he would attend to his work, and she gave her consent, and furnished him with money to get the banns put in, and to pur chase certain necessaries for the wedding festivities ; on one occasion she gave him two sovereigns for this purpose. The banns ran out, and the deceased (ac cording to Caroline's statement) then wished for a little time, until his friends were more favourable to the match. In consequence of the delays which took place, the affair became so Much talked of amongs t their circle of acquaintance in Nottingham, that the girl determined on breaking the engagement. This was accordingly done about six weeks ago, but a friendly correspondence seems to have been kept up between the parties. On Christmas-day the deceased came over to Derby, and had an interview with Caroline at the Talbot public-house. He requested to know whe ther she was still of the same mind. She replied that she was, and reasoned with him on the propriety of discontinuing the connexion. He did not seem much concerned, though he was evidently dissatisfied with the result of the interview, and exclaimed, "If it must loe so, it must." On the next day the deceased spent five or six hours at the house of the girl's father, and conducted himself in a proper and becoming manner. At night he saw Caroline at a saloon ; no words of an angry nature ensued, and they parted in apparent kindness and friendship. On Friday morning he called upon her at her father's house in South-street, and sent a younger sister for a pint of ale. Caroline was not then down stairs, but she complied with the deceased's request to " get up," and on de scending to the house-place he made very kind inquiries as to the state of her health, and then pre dented her with a glass of ale, saying, " Caroline, this is to be our parting glass." Not suspecting any wrong, she drank part of the contents, and immedi ately became very ill, being violently purged and sick. He then told her that he " could not bear to see the pledge of his affections in the arms of another;" and stated that, as hi s f ormer w if e was abo u t t o e married to her cousin, and as she (Caroline Allen) refused to have him, he could not, and would not, bear it. Caroline was assisted to her bed by her sisters, and the deceased left the house for a few minutes. On his return he walked into the bed-room in an agitated state, with a glass of ale i n hi s hand, and, before he could be prevented, drank the contents. He then rushed to the bedside, expressed a hope that she would be saved, and that she would remember him, and then sunk upon the floor, exclaiming, " Let me die in your arms and I shall be happy " His mouth foamed, his legs and arms stretched out, and he immediately expired. On his person were found several letters, showing pre meditation, and avowing that if she (Caroline) would not be his, no one else should have her, and request ing that both their bodies might be buried in the same coffin (if possible), hut at any rate in the same grave. ' A small phial, containing prussic acid, and also a razor, were found in his pocket; and an empty phial, which had contained prussic acid, was found in the house. An investigation of all the circumstances took place before Mr. Balguy, Coroner, on Monday last, and a verdict of felo de se was returned by the jury. SUICIDE OP AN INSANE LADY.—Last evening, Mr! Higgs held an inquest at the Salisbury Arms, Durham street, Strand, on the body of Mrs. Fanny Re nton, aged 45, the lady of Dr. A. H. Renton, who committed sui cide. Mrs. Fanny Enoch, of the Island of Madeira, said she had known the deceased nine years. She was the wife of Dr. Alexander Home Renton, also of Madeira. On Christmas-day they arrived in London from Madeira, and took apartments at Osborne's Hotel. The deceased had been in an ill state of health, and was decidedly in sane. Before they left Madeira the deceased several times attempted to strangle herself, and was put under restraint. She also attempted to destroy herself on many occasions during the voyage, but was prevented. Since their arrival in England she had appeared much better, and had more liberty. About half-past twelve o'clock last night (Tuesday), witness was with her, and wished her to go to bed ; when she said. "Wait a little while, us I have to go into this closet." She went in, and wit ness followed her in a minute, and found the door fas tened. On looking through a hole in the door, she saw her on her knees, and heard blood running into th e basin. She called or assistance, and the door was broken open. A razor was in her hand, but how she got it witness dtd not know. The razor belonged to the doctor. She died in half an hour after. By the jury—The first symptoms of insanity were apparent in October last, whilst she was travelling with the docttT. Every pre caution was taken to prevent her doing mischief. The reason of coming to England was in hopes that the air of her native land would improve her health, and also to have the best medical aid. Sir James Clark and other medical men saw her. The deceased said she could not account for her anxiety to destroy herself, but a cloud came over her all at once. She was a most amiable lady, and had been married to Dr. Renton nine years. Dr. Renton, had been a resident in the Island of Madeira 28 years.-;=Verdiet, " Insanity." A remarkably fine baron of beef; intended to be dressed at Stowe on the occasion of the visit'of her Majesty and Prince Albert to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, on the 13th inst., has been on show at Mr. Comfort's, of Islington-green. It has been cut from the' Hereford ox (aged 3 years and 9 months), fed'by Mr. W. If. Bailey, of Shenley House, Bucks, and which obtained the prize of ten guineas and a silver medal a t th e l a t e cattle-show. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The Church question, which just now engrosses the attention of the laity as well as the clergy, is here canvassed in a more temperate and conciliatory spirit than we should have expected from such a High Church periodical as Fraser; and the writer is of opi nion that an Act of Parliament authorising the Bishops to take the question of rites and ceremonies as observed in the Church into consideration, and to settle the same from time to time, as to their collec tive wisdom might appear expedient, would prove at once the most effectual and the least unpopular re medy for the serious evils under which the Establish ment laboured. This suggestion is not amiss, but we fear it would be found very difficult to carry it into execution. " A Walk from London to Fulham" is a dull collection of local and other reminiscences, which are only redeemed by the clever little wood-cuts with which they are profusely illustrated. In a brief essay, with the quaint title of " Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature," the writer, in opposition to the theories of Wulf and—if we remember rightly—of Payne Knight, strenuously insists on the }nifty of Homer, which no dispassionate individual could ever doubt who had perused attentively the Iliad and the Odyssey. " Some Rambling Remarks on Horace" contains some passable critical observations. The remark that " Horace was a selfish man" is perfectly just; he was indeed a quick-witted man of the world, who never lost sight of the interests of Number One, but his selfishness was not of a repulsive order, but, on the contrary, sate pleasantly, and even gracefully, upon him. " A Fine Day in the Temple" consists of a series of recollections of - eminent lawyers who have for the last two or three centuries taken up their abode in this locality. Perhaps our readers may be amused by the following anecdotes of Louis the Eight tentn and Sir Sidney Smith, which we quote from an article headed " Retrospective Gleanings " Louis XVIII. made dining an object of the first im portance. The stories of his gourmandise are numerous: when in England, an exile, he would daily insist on seeing the fowls alive that were designed for his table, and on examining into their plumpness himself. The caustic remark of Talleyrand upon the journal which the King published of his escape from Paris, is upon record:—' It was ajournal ofhis fears and his bills of fare, his bills of fare and his fears.' The last time we ever saw him, he passed us in as open carriage as we were crossing the Place VedOme. He was of frightful bulk, seeming to enlarge rapidly; from the knees upward, in one formless mass of flesh and integument. We never saw in humanity a more uncouth development of the body, from the effects, no doubt, of his favourite indul gence in , eating. It was the opinion of some that Louis XVIIL was fond of reading: one of the garde de corps, a young Irishman, being asked if this was the case by a friend of ottrs, desired him to come to the Tuileries the next day, when he should be there , on duty, and he would show him the royal library. The invitation was ac cepted ; the young garde de corps led the way to a place which commanded a view of one of the lower apartments, where there was a cook in a white dress spitting larks:— That is the King's library,' said the young soldier ; I knew no other nearer than the Rue Richelieu'—referring to the great national library of France. " We once saw the royal gourmand, in the character of a soldier, reviewing troops for the first time : Louis was comfortably seated in a caliche, accompanied by her whom Napoleon used to style the only man of the family, the Duchess of Augouleme. The marshals of France, whe had led the French armies to victory under a diffe rent ruler, were all there. On the ground were twelve battalions of French guards, three Swiss regiments, two regiments of cuirassiers, with chasseurs, dragoons, lan cers, and hussars of the guard ; a regiment of hussars of the line, and six departmental legions, besides horse and foot artillery; in all, above 20,000 men. The Duke of Wellington and King of Prussia, we were told, were on the ground incognito. The King of France and the members of the Royal Family remained on the right flank. We were much struck with the rapidity of the fire of the artillery, which seemed to be a very perfect military arm in the French service. We shall not easily forget the dust and warmth of that day. Paris. in the height of summer, has a degree of heat at times perfectly tropicaL " At this review was Sir Sidney Smith, whom we had met long before in England. His brother, Mr. Spencer Smith, we had known almost from the time of his arrival from Constantinople, where he had been charge d'affaires. Sir Sidney was distinguished at that time by his leading a grey horse about the streets, on the back of which we never once saw him mounted ; he was peculiar for the smartness of his dress, wearing a claret-coloured coat with gold buttons. Sir Sidney's merits were never duly appreciated by the Ministry under which he was em ployed : he was too chivalrous for cabinet men and officials at home ; they disliked him, and he had no love for them ; he saw much further than they did. His agreement with the French for the evacuation of Egypt, which Lord Keith rescinded on his arrival, was repre sented to Sir Sidney's disadvantage at home. What was the result but that, after a most expensive expedition from England, the blood shed in two or three sanguinary contests, with the death of Abercromby and the expense of a second army sent from India—after all these useless sacrifices, the French obtained terms very little more to their disadvantage than Sir Sidney had granted. Sir Sidney's mind was extremely active: simple and straight forward, his imagination was continually at work." MAGA ZINES —(CONTINUED.) 1 What heavy joinery work I Surely, it was shaped by HOOD'S MAGAZINE. an adze, and put together by some bungler, ignorant of - .)! ...tark vulgarity ! • • • • tut • 0 1 .'he or c.,remony ! How has a bon, gcti,u,, .uutt-,.;in.c,a.u.L . )—iii.tc '•• "."'" we are compelled, perforce, to be brief in our notice i e st a ) r ft vi to the touch il — dir how p%lNera,,sliantwteo have tht. eye s t !. A t lal away the of it. The Number, on the whole, is a good ave- covering ; an we g have ag s . cratched a little of the r gildin y g off, rage one, and the most entertaining articles are those and what is there beneath ?—why oak, mere oak ; a which proceed from the pen of the editor, who, in ad- 1 younger branch of the tree—a piece of kindred wood to dition, contributes several whimsical illustrations. the three-legged stool. The same material makes stool The present chapters of " Our Family" contain several and chair—but then the magical delusion worked by lively touches of character, not unworthy of Sterne. damask, gold, and dainty carving ! The subjoined " Anacreontic, by a Footman," will, "In this way it is our hope to show St. Giles and St. no doubt, cause our readers a hearty laugh : James—to prove their brotherhood—their identity of It's wery well to talk in praise material. We may, here and there, scratch a little of the Of Tea and Water-drinking ways, gilding off one, but only to display the kindred nature of In proper time and place ; both. Thus, St. James may sometimes appear to be only Of sober draughts, so clear and cool, St. Giles better stuffed, and with a brighter covering." Dipp'd out of a transparent pool Reflecting heaven's face. Of babbling brooks, and purling rills, And streams as gushes from the hills,: It's wery well to talk— But what becomes of all sich schemes, With ponds of ice, and running streams, As doesn't even walk ? When winter comes with piercing cold, And all the rivers, new or old, Is frozen far and wide ; And limpid springs is solid stuff, And chrystal pools is hard enough To skate upon, and slide ; What then are thirsty men to do, But drink of ale, and porter too, Champagne as makes a fizz ; Port, sherry, or the Rhenish sort, And p'rhaps a drop of summut short— The water-pipes is friz ! ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE. Our usual magazine notices have unawares ex tended to such a length and encroached so much on our space, that we are compelled to be brief in our account of this periodical. The Number, on the whole, is a good one, but its chief recommendations are to be found in its illustrations, some of which are as highly finished as the most fastidious amateur of the Fine Arts could desire. " Our Christmas Dream" is particularly clever, to say nothing of its seasonable ness, and represents a jolly, good-natured fellow fast asleep in his arm-chair, while punch-bowls, prize oxen, mince pies, sirloins of beef, plum puddings, and a host of similar Christmas emblems are dancing on the trays in glorious confusion before him. This plate is very much in Cruickshank's manner, and is every way worthy of that master of the grotesque and the familiar. Among the cleverest literary articles is an essay on "The Influence of Education on the Wear and Tear of Life." As a specimen of the poetry of the Illuminated Magazine, we subjoin Mr. Wade's " llymn to the New Year," chiefly, however, on account of the seasonableness of the subject, for it is by no means remarkably brilliant either in thought or expression : Another course the horses of the sun Along the viewless zodiac have run, And all but to commence Their varied journey o'er again:— Their hope of resting may be vain, For many a cycle hence! " Their task began with young creation's dawn, — The chariot of their ruler they have drawn Up to this passing hour— And through the long eternity, Just like a river to its sea, Shall be their onward power— " A power that scorns the whirlwind's noisy wrath. And e'en o'ertakes the lightning in its path, Slow creeper though it be— Time is a tortoise that will find His way and leave far—far behind All other rivalry! " O'er aged cities bath he swept his wings— Entombed in dust the purple pride of kings, And chronicled a few. But on he goes, all careless still— Much less inclined to cure than kill, Or give desert its due! " Yes! time's a canker, a most slow disease, Whose cravings not an antidote can please; — There is no cautery To sear and heal the wounds he makes — He has no thought for others' sakes— A selfish thing is he! " Another year! how many hearts unborn, And hopes unblossomed yet or on the thorn Of sharp anxiety, Will in thy course spring up or fade— How many a cheek shall be decayed, And ling'ring—ling'ring die! " But let us trust that, coming year! thoul't bring The promise of ripe Summer on thy wing, And. like the almond trees, Give us good token of thy fruit By blossoms, that ere leaves can shoot, Will scent the wandering breeze!" JERROLD'S MAGAZINE. So far as can be judged from a first Number, we think that this cheap and conveniently-sized periodi cal is likely to obtain a fair share of popularity. It opens with a tale entitled " St. Giles and St. James,"' which is avowedly from the pen of the editor, and is written with all that pungency and earnestness so characteristic of his better prose compositions. The spirit, too, that animates it, is excellent, and as anti conversational in its tone as can be desired. We hope it will be continued without interruption. The " Recollections of Hazlitt" are, no doubt, true in the main, but they are not penned in the most amiable spirit, and they involve one or two contradictions, for in one place the writer asserts that Hazlitt was selfish, and in the very next sentence leads us to infer that he was not at all so. We quote Mr. Jerrold's epi grammatic introduction to his new story : " Our first paragraph shall be a confession of igno rance. We know not the geanealogy of St. Giles. All we know is this. Our St. Giles was born—we can hardly say first saw the light—in Hampshire Hog-lane. We believe that we are pretty sure of his father, but at once lose ourselves seeking his grandsire. We are imme diately in a genealogical fog, without even a link's end from the Herald's- office to guide us. True it is, we might, if we would, sit contentedly down in the dark ness, and our imagination, aided by obscurity—as men are apt to close their eyes whet they would take a bright internal look—might in a trice discover the family tree ; now complacently following its branches as they waved towards the Court-end of the town, and now avoiding them as they struck towards Tyburn. We might do this, for it has been done many a time, and for only so much hard cash. But can the family of St. Giles fee us for the labour ? No. Then we trust we are not so wholly lost to the decencies of life as to lie gratis. "Nevertheless, we owe some explanation to the polite reader, for that we have given typographical precedence to St Giles to the apparent injury of St. James. We think we have a just reason for this. There appears to us—and sure we are the like opinion burns in the breasts of many most respectable people—rsore of the original animal man in St. Giles then in St. James. He seems to vindicate, and that brazenly, unblushingly, the baseness of his origin. He stands before us a creature of the earth ; or rather, of the mud of the earth. If it be otherwise, then has St:Giles again and again been much abused, mistaken. "The very nakedness of St. Giles—according to our heraldry—makes him elder brother of St. James. As we consider him, he is as much the elder, as the bare skin of man is older than the silks and velvets that have enwrapt it. lie may be a marked and branded vagabond ; but, nevertheless, he is the elder brother. Contem plating him, we behold in his wants—in his fiereeness, begotten of these wants—the proscribed from the con fines of this world's Paradise. Consider the history of MIL Your vagabond is lost in the shadows of anti quarian night —now, your gentleman is a common-place of yesterday. Upon this philosophical principle do we place St. Giles before St. James, and believe us, dear reader, for no catchpenny reason whatever. We do not say that a three-legged oaken stool is a finer, more com modious chattel, than a gilded chair ; but, in the genea logy of household moveables, sure we are it ranks as the elder brother. " St. Giles and St. James I Is it possible they can be brethren ? Every particle of their faces, every atom of their covering, cries no ; externally, as different as the aforesaid three-legged stool and glittering chair ; and yet, in truth, of the same frame-work—the very same. Impossible I Let us see. "What a clumsy thing is this three-legged stool. NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW. Though the title of this Review is somewhat too ambitious, yet it is by no means devoid of literary merit, and the January Number is a manifest im provement on its predecessor. Among the articles we find an ingenious essay on the subject of the " Protestant Reformation," and the causes by which it was more immediat e ly brought about, in the course of which essay the writer justly remarks that the aristocracy benefited most by the great change in the national religion, obtaining not only the political power of the high ecclesiastics, but the chief portion of the abbey lands, with the numerous benefices and tithes pertaining to them. The account of " Texas, its Settlement, Resources, and Prospects "—some hints for which have been derived from Mr. Ken nedy's able work on the subject—will be read with interest, as this colony is daily more and more at tracting the attention of Europeans. UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. Foremost among the articles in the Number before us is a discussion on the " Social Wrongs of the Soldier," whom the writer most erroneously states as becoming "an outcast from the affections and the respect of civilians " the instant he engages to serve her Majesty in the army. We are not aware that this is the case ; on the contrary, we are firmly of opinion that the military man is invariably treated with respect by the people so long as he maintains a peaceable and conciliatory demeanour. "Reminis cences of a French Prison " contain one or two striking incidents, and will remind the reader of the admirable sketch of the interior of a French provin cial Newgate, in Captain Marryatt's first and best tale of " Peter Simple." We have no space for extracts. DUBLIN UNIVERSI7'Y MAGAZINE. Tinder the title of " The White Lace Bonnet" we find a pleasant prose tale in the present Number of this Magazine, one of the scenes in which is laid on the Birmingham Railway. The principal incident refers to the mishaps of a young man who has been inveigled into matrimony by an artful woman whom he accidentally encountered on board a Margate steamer, and who shortly after her marriage con fessed to the fortunate husband of her choice, that "she had been twice married before, and had heavy misgivings that her two spouses were still living !" In the notices of the "Leading State Trials in Ire land" there is an affecting account of the trial of one Jackson, which took place in Dublin towards the close of the last century, but was put an abrupt stop to by the prisoner's death, which occurred while he was in court listening to the proceedings against him. The " Crescent and the Cross" is a review of a book of travels in the East, which has lately made its ap pearance. From an amusing and somewhat whim sical essay on the " Nightmare," we quote the follow ing passage : " Now, there is nothing elevated about indigestion: it is neither saintly nor, in its unsaintliness, is it sublime. In general, it comes from eating too much, which is not a proceeding of a seraphic tendency, nor the first step of a movement heavenwards. And these affections of the epigastric regions are ordinarily the fruit of indigestion, wherefore the "sleep-waking" state into which they cast us—namely, that sleep of the outward and waking of the inward man—reveals to the eye of the latter a base neighbourhood. The nightmare does not come up into our sphere, but we spiritually descend into his. Ile is there already, while we are gorging ourselves, but we are not aware of him until the outward senses be sealed in torpor, and the inward world opens in its dim horror on the troubled eye of the soul. " Wo have met with people who believe that the beasts characterised by the Mosaic law as unclean are not so in a mere ceremonial sense, but in one that has its foundation in nature ; in fact, that such beasts are in a special wise liable to demoniacal possession. The cat is a long-recognised minister of the darker powers. Dogs and horses see ghosts, which, as we shall presently see, implies a capability of being possessed, and is, in fact, the next thing to it. What is more horrible than to come into magnetic rapport' with a dog, through in fusion of the saliva of the latter into your blood? For the saliva is a great medium of magnetic influences, a conductor of psychic agency, wherefore, also, the moods of the soul have a marked operation on its physical qualities, making it a vehicle of sanatory virtue, or a deadly poison. Armstrong affirms that the bite of negroes, when enraged, produces obstinate ulcers and hydrophobia. Gaubius tells of a soldier who, being bit in the arm by a woman whom ho had bitterly angered, died in convulsions; as also of a young Italian, who in a paroxysm of anger, bit himself in the finger, and forth with became rabid, and died. And Sauvage has re corded the case of a young maiden, who, by sheer inten sity of ireful emotion, without any bite at all, of herself or another, man or beast, was thrown into a state exactly resembling canine madness. Even the mere sight of a person in hydrophobia has engendered the same affec tion in persons of susceptible temperament. Mease relates such a case, wherein the sufferer was a priest. A student of Wittenberg became hydrophobious, after he had seen, with heartfelt sympathy, a violent paroxysm of rabies with which a y ou ng maiden, already nigh in the last agonies, was seized. Ile was indeed restored, but for years laboured under a great weakness and un certainty of the voice, as well as a painful dread of speaking in public. Themison experienced something of the stunt+ kind after attending a friend in hyd rop h o bi a, An ninwsahe inward paralyzin g terror * 40 6 : recalled to his mom ury p an os d se sli o ng n o h f im hi d n i l e. as often a the vivid picture of the suffering he h a d w i tuf.Assed. Peter Frank, having merely touched with his 64ers a person dying of hydrophobia, was, through O d e power affected with syrnp!ms of the of imagination, presently disense ; and a young physician, mentkoned in the Journal General de Medecine, 1824, - became rabid through a similar operation of phante sy, after the dis section of a child which had died of the bite of a mad dog. The like unhappy fate had a woman, through attending the death-bed of her "ausband under similar circumstances." THE BANKERS' MA'GAZLVE AND JOUR NAL OF THE MOP:EY MARKET. No. X. This able periodical, 'continues to prefer fresh claims on the attention and. confidence of the commercial world, by the geneiral soundness of its opinions on all monetary questious, and the careful accuracy with which the data diet collected that it brings to boar in support of those opinions. The first paper in the pre sent Number, entitled " Effects of the Stamp Act on Banking," is an able exposition of the positively, or the possibly, injurious and unfair operation of the Act, under four especial heads, of " Banking Licenses," " Letters of Credit," " Cheques," and " Deposit Re ceipts." Some " Notes on Recent Bank Failures" give a lucid illustration of the specifi•.; causes which must have led to the catastrophe of the " Yorkshire Agricultural and Commercial Banking Company." Other articles, such as " Summary of the Arguments for and against Restriction of Bank Issues," " Present State of the Insolvency Laws," " The Law of Cheques," &c., are much to be commended for the amount of practical and valuable information they concentrate. The money and banking statistics com prised in papers relative to the savings' banks and joint-stock banks, are cleverly arranged. We have no doubt that this Magazine will find a place in the counting-house of every mercantile or banking con cern in the metropolis and the country, the dealings of which habitually connect it with the money market. POLYTECHNIC BE VIE W. This cheap Monthly Periodical is devoted equally to literary and scientific subjects, and contains this month, in addition to several impartial notices of new publications, an essay on the " Prevention of Rail way Accidents," by the establishment of electric telegraphs and the use of signal fires, in which occur sevcral serviceable practical suggestions ; and an in genious plan of a new life" boat, with the quaint name of the " Kamptulicon." From an exceedingly clever article on the Drama, we have given an extract, detailing the proceedings of thte " Prize Comedy " Committee. It furnishes a complete answer to the various attacks which have, at sundry times and in divers manners, been made upon them. "- It• has been asked by various pisrsous, and ourselves amongst the number—why, granting that Quid Pro Quo was the best of the competing comedies, yet why, being so bad, the committee con sented to give it the prize ? Ard Webster even has been pitied for having so worthless an affair forced upon him, and being made to pay 500/. for it, Lesides the ex pense of producing it. Why did t h e y not re-open the competition, or decline to adjudicate the prize, it has been asked, and so save poor Webster his 500/. ? A simple statement of facts answers these questions, and in a manner which does equal credit to the judgment and discretion of the !committee, and the liberality of Webster. We know it to be a fact, that, when the com mittee had got through about half their work, having examined some fifty or sixty plays, without finding one that had any pretensions to dramatic merit, cne, in ;act, that could possibly be put upon the stage, the idea struck them, that it was veil possible the remainder might prove as unavailable for the purposes of the manager, and his intention in offering the prize. They then requested the company of Mr. Webster, and put the question to him, whether in case of such a result, the committee would ' have the power to withhold the prize, and re-open the competition ; a power which has c(lurnonly been exer cised on occasions by committees for such purposes. Mr. Webster replied, that he felt the force ma: iustice of the suggestion, but that he was precluded from acquiescing in it ; havin g been led by some communicati ons w hi c h had reached him through the public prints cr by other channels, to give a pledge that the prize should in any case be given to one of the MSS. sent in, in cont'ormity with the advertisement, which one the committee had to decide, and that if they declined to decide upon one, he would be obliged to endeavour to appoint another committee, and so to go over all the labour and trouble again. Mr. Webster was then asked whe ther, supposing the play selected should be such that there would be no probability of its being acted on the stage with success, or even listened to by the audience, he would still consider himself bound to make the expe riment by producing it ? The r( ply was, that he ap prehended he should be so comptlit 0, in consequence of the contingent advant;.q. , ,es,' as the twentieth, fortieth, and sixtieth nights, &e., mentioned in the advertise ment, and the injustice which would be considered to be done to the author of the play, alter its being selected by the committee, in not producing it. Under these circumstances, the committee resolved to go on With their labours, and to select the best of the lot, whatever it might be, having regard as well to general literary merit, and the possibility—the physical possibility—of production on the stage. The result everybody knows." SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. The most readable article in the January Number of this Magazine is an account of " Australia, Past, Present, and Future," which is evidently the produc tion of a writer who is perfectly conversant with the theme on which he expatiates. The remaining arti cles call fbr no particular notice. SPORTIAG MAGAZINE. We have here two engravings—one a portrait of Flush, a famous sporting holding a dead partridge in his mouth ; and the other representing a hunting scene over a fine open tract of country, with a refrac tory horse in the foreground, whom his rider is in vain endeavouring to lead over a hedge, at which the ani mal has most unceremoniously stopped short. Both engravings are well executed. The literary depart ment of the Magazine is neither better nor worse than usual. STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND. There is a considerable amount of useful statistical information contained hi this Part, which is the fiftieth, and is chiefly devoted to a consideration of the geographical, antiquarian, and other peculiarities of the county of Fifeshire. FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY RE VIE This is a new series of a Quarterly Journal, which appeals chiefly to the tastes of the Masonic brethren, and reports with much minuteness their proceedings throughout the kingdom during the last three months. THE INSTITUTIONAL ADVOCATE. This is the first Number of a new monthly peri odical, which is intended to be a record of the pro ceedings of London nrni provincial literary, scientific, and mechanics' institutions. In the present Number we find condensed reports of the proceedings during the past month of all the London, and of a consider able number of the provincial institutions. It is neatly printed, and contains a vast quantity of information in a small compass. NAVAL I N TELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—Last evening the officers of the Victory, 110, Captain Moubray, gave an elegant entertainment to Cantain Moubray and family, consistin g of a dinner and ball.' The officers of the flag and other ships were invited, and, together with their ladies and families, formed a brilliant party. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, is along side the jetty taking in stores and fitting for sea. Vice- Admiral Sir F. Austen has gone to town, it is reported to endeavour to prevail upon the Lords of the Admiralty to grant him a larger ship. The Styx, steam surveying -vessel, Captain Vidal, came in from the Azores on Monday, and having coaled left yesterday for Woolwich, calling on her way with hands for the ships fitting at Chatham and Sheerness. The Locust, steam-vessel, Lieut. Eden, was removed from the basin into the harbour yesterday, to fit for sea. The Echo, steam-vessel, was towed into the basin yesterday to repair the damage sustained by the recent experimental trip. 'The Lively, naval lighter, returned from Jersey, whither she had conveyed a quantity of stores and pro visions for the troops, on Monday. The Britannia, 120, was towed into the basin on Monday to be stored, as an advance ship. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was paid off yes terday. The Dwarf, steam tender, is alongside the Dryad hulk, having a new figure-head and cutwater fitted ; the latter will be considerably extended, which will much improve the appearance of the vessel. The Sparrow, ketch, Lieutenant Otter, is alongside, the Topaz hulk, completing a thorough rest. Tboe officers of this vessel gave a substantial entertainment ' on board to-day to the crew, whose wives, sweethearts, and friends were invited to make merry and celebrate the commencement of the new year. Dancing, singing, &c., were kept up until a late hoar. The officers' wivvs an d friends were present. The Nautilus, to, Lieutenant-Commander IV. Robson, has taken up her former position in Blockhouse -hole. An application was made on Saturday to the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, on tha - part of an English man named Cottrell, to compel Mr. Harvy Leach, who has been exhibiting the children ok Cottrell at the theatre elle. to surrender them to o f the Bazaar Bonne - Nouv their father, who, being a Poor man, had agreed with o tt o Par Leach for a certain sum to a ll ow hi s c hild ren to proceed from and obtain operform n engagement. forhi n hits at The a n theatrem d L n whereo i he e could is, ground of the application for restitution was ill-treat ment of the children on the part of Leach. The applica tion was resisted, .0 n the ground of the parties being both foreigners, and therefore not liable to the jurisdiction of a French Conn ; but this was overruled, and the Presi dennt ordered the immediate restitution of the children, with the Clothes belonging to them. It transpired, how ever, that although the defendant had pleaded the incoru petente of the tribunal, he had in reality already surren der' the children to their father, with a portion of their eP:ects.—Galignani. AN AMERICAN DESCRIPTION OF A TEETOTLER.-••• I once travelled through all the state of Maine with one lof them ere chaps. lie was as thin as a whippin post. His skin looked like a blown bladder after some of the air has leaked out, kinder wrinkled and rumpled like. and his eye as dim as a lamp that's in on a short al lowance of ile. lie put me in mind of a pair of kitchen tongs, all legs, shaft, and head, anti no hell v ; real gan• / der-gutted looking erittur, as hollow as a. bemboo walk ing-cane, and twice as yaller. lie looked actually as if he had been picked Oa rack at seal, and dragged through a gimlet-hole. lie was a lawyer. Thinks 1, the Lord s massy on your clients, you hungry, half-starved looking crittur you, you'll eat'em up alive. You are just the chap to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, tank, shank, and flank, all at a gulp. A SLY " BET: —Miss Elizabeth Peabody offaai to la) a wager, on the Presidential election, with tidy eligible young man, viz., that if Polk were aected, she was the winner, and should have her oppv,nent for a husband ; but if Polk were defeated, then j ter opponent was the winner, and would be entitled to nave her for a wife 'F. ig of cted Ltd ince , by MO dies een ing eye wss