The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

.0 01° olviS Arab avid g al ° ta //I you, A m , c onii O 4',l cam andes, de h is s c itire a been r- iSi nslll3 D UTCH ____.............., UT CH AND FLANDER S MAILS. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) 8 RILSSELS JAN. 20.—The reports that have been spread by the Dutch and German journals, of an in disposition of the Emperor of Russia, are completely refuted by recent accounts from St. Petersburgb, dated the 7th of this month, which announces that his kajesty the Emperor Nicho accomanied by th Grand Duke Alexander and las, a brilliant staff, had a grand review of all the troops of the garrison on the 4th instant. b We announced some days ago a report that M. de 41.1)oehusson, the Ambassador of 'Tolland at the Court - ", e lgium had been appointed Governor-General of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies. This news r i. „,c° ll " as good as certain. The Amsterdam Handles "'"ut giving an account of the reception of that atatearnen by the King, the Princes, and the Most distinguished persons in "Tolland, congratulate tile country on the choice that has just bee n made of M. Rochussen as Governor- General of ii.dla—a choice, it says, which seems to combine every thing that it required to promote the increase of the coMmercial intercourse between the mother country rid its colonial possessions. Our countrymen, M. J ' Linden, who left us in 1841, on a scientific mission to South America, returned to Brussels a few days a gn• Ile has explored successively, in three year s an d a half, the Rep Grenad a Republic of Venezuela and N ew % Cub a . , Jamaic a , an d the eastern part of the Island 1 y h is traveller, who i s k nown to the learned world o. 15 preceding visits to Brazil and Mexico, has eerossed the vast chain of the Andes, between the i!stern shores of Venezuela and the chief coast of the ii:teifie Ocean, which is above six hundred leagues of th e en t% The gloomy and pestilential forests IPPerplains o f t h e Tierra Caliente, as well as th e pitteregions of the Cordelleras, known in South 3:rica by the name of Paramos, were ultimately ex -I,:cvored• ne passed several times the limit of perpetual gtts, and ventured to ascend to the three highest , of New Grenada and Venezuela, the Nevadode fe e e "'a , 16 ,437 feet, the volcano of Folima, 17,240 f _t t l and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria, 16,500 t 7 e above the level of the sea. During these dangerous zib il , rs i°os he has also visited the Indian can vial of Goajira, and the ferocious Auruhuacos, ( l e :.!obabit the cold and temperate side of the Nevade 1/4'inta Maria, and he sojourned for whole months on t • - tang he fnghtful solitude of the Quindice, and the ta, regions of the Folima and of the grand Pa rtie7 de Ruiz. These dangerous researches in im vidnoountries, some of which had never before been lon hare bee n f ert i le in numerous discoveries, and hy o Z n . b in partic u l er, i s indebted to M. Linden for a :, 'Modred species of new plants, collected from the of t rg plains of the Apiore to the gigantic summits iltee Andes. b,wBcf, Universal Prussian Gazette of the 19th has promo r°lll St. Petersburgh of the 11th, re l a ti ve t o tion i n the army of the Caucasus. AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 14. S per Cent. Aletalliques . .... 111 1 4 „ Per Cent. Ditto ''''''''''''''''' 10134 L 4 per l ent.o Ditto ********************** 78 oan, 834********************************** _ Ditto, 1839 ******************************************* bidan Nahaes ******************** 1617 144.11 g 'lteYsl.4;an ***************************** srneine Zeitung, Jan. li. ********* 114MBILEIGH BO SENTIALLE, JAN. 18. B4kaStriaoa 5 per Cents ank Shares ........................''' 41,43 -Russian L a , — 10-514 -11 ' 88141 1 5 per Cello' n liam ... l): .......... 105% tiejitttwtttoooilst series Ins"Cription •:. — iHope and C 3d 4 .... series 99% Ditto SPnti4 F rt z i fi t e .: ati o : p .. e . . and. . n . Co : 9: 42 1 4_ _- 31)44 i h ieSgelevir er Cent _29, ,/3/2. —__ Ditto 3 Cent.. . ..................... ci_?l. Abglo••PorPtagil • e Loan, 2% per Cent. 58 13,4t.e1l Actual D e e s bt 2% Der Cent 63% •liii °hal Dews per dent loan, 1844 " ' 8 7 7 1 / 2 8 7 1% g.lo-ni Loan 3 per Cent ational Bank Sha r es.... Exchange on London. Beteburg, Three months •sttitkv, n, Two months utirg Borsenhalle, Jan, 19. BLITCII PUNDS.---A34BTERDAM, JAN. 21. Bills. Money. Actual Debt 21/2 per C t .. 64 1 64 i Dittbit ta, 3 per C e n t' ell .......... 7834 79A Dittoo, 4 per ent ............... 984 C ,9"-,91 , 5 per Cent: ............... 99'4 -•„„-- 4 A_ Tnl)s i n tto B , g ....... 331r)lie, 41/2 per per Cent ,:r/i i ',' Commercial-Company:4% perCt l47i/2 "''" Eastt India Loan, 4 per Cent 2-; Zehange on ondon, one month 12 15 Two months At sight 81 2-10 „,On Hamburg 56 2-10 Iwo months 06 2-13 On Paris 68 2-10 ',Dutch Papers Two months Jan. 22. J A.? . , T 18. PRITSSIO PNDS* ---BERLLN, A- . B,t. S e bald Sch., 3 1 / 2 Bills. Money. 100% 9934 per Cent rruss. English Bonds 1 830 4 p er Ct — .....rjilivterzseldhageonLs,madzon', 2 ra ' onths Sir_ Prussian 1/ ette, Jan. 19 1)-, 81.4.,..n00ert Peel arrived in town this morning from -4 c4fi la_ e ~ libi ' t Y • misPate-W7An extra mail, via Marseilles, 44etter,40' from the Post -office to-morrow e l v i o a n d i r n g : k its ~1,1. zutabay should be also addressed ria . will . be taoargthh s ; 4 o 4 l ,7htellezTAhlre. p E r d e w se a n r t d l Airs. ppeh T y a , Ye% ago. lnelds, but who died at Houghton -le-Spring som e , b h(l 4l sl,, Ber first husband Was awfberlimelsrlythoef tied t sh e one daught r still livin 2 she w Mr. Cutfoarsthm,abr). /1 o dAn T - e- ' -. dr of Sarah art) i n „ avvell (accused of the mur der of abo.., _Tti the issue of which marriage is an infant N1.,,1_L tifteen months old.-- Tyne Mercury. E Etzt,,:ce:. toiscorticr.A,s a small farmer was dnigargrnian_egd, Geara ft e i d s ,, i lng at Norton-juxtaßmpseY, tell "war the two-mile stone on the Spetehley 0 d Which el ty, he discovered something buried in a cloth,.. jeweite'r3,ll,Pson hexarigntion, proved to be a quantity o f appears., ne as is carried about by pedlars, and **-417,0' ' 0 have been in the round a considerable time. D ester Chronicle. g to,. Wboy, IltoNt IhnitoruonlA.—On Saturday night ti Pilaobl,l4:4moti Dynes, aged twelve years died of hydro s"'%Vest --.°33taghs rear Lurgan. The disease mad s e , I 14113, thirince on the Wednesday morning previou .01n th e . leen months after he had received a scr a t ch_ 7me he,„• toot of a dog on the hand —the wound at the ' Pk g . ''''g 8° alight, that no blood appeared.—Northern tst, lig '0 14 , 411 :, Pk' LORD ArroN.—lire regret to stat h e C f th is v °quer Noble da y contains a notice of the death v h ‘ge,T a e r ici d er ,Elbleman, which occurred at the Vica :'ni e 1;i„,-C,e,.ulgg, in this county, yesterday (Tuesday). ' l atoa ;',"" 410 n. and Rev. Walter Hutchinson, Lord , t his f..a.a.an Irish Pe er, and the last surviving membe . r ' ttinot: mtl Y, male female • consequently the title is lor, to ‘.._i_inla 14_ordship's envois Will be severely felt v b . y_th o e f tl ardebigw.°o, ...he was a ki benefiwtor. The .121 li vi ng of 11, 7 14 11 G.'hlrr "inch then ) Hon. R. H. Clive, .., .p's dekisege, Is patron) becomes vacant by his Lord t i 341,48 ...--- Worcester Ghana icle. kb° tar t i tt AN D WA.stinuesEs POE THE POOR....The ije et ee appointed s at the late meeting on the above *l\ 84t Yeeter 4 p . era], pi ttris day the London Tavern, when among e'roved, ha tlbulitted was one which . was ver:y highly ' l 3 in th v lag For its object the making various divi b).ll'Y frogwashing department, so as to preclude any .71 rent 4---iti lelin:- p -, overlooked by a neighbour, and t.hererey. it t k, the Ipleasant observations or feelings with . ot, gilt t o b_ Iture, quality, or quantity of the articles tt itt x.is_ e 4 ash d. t !lott weliff 44 ORDINARY PARILY.—Sarah Whiteside, -t it e, near Garst n aged eighty-nine years and .. °4 ,, t11 . h • • ri ' g' tiovi%nsth..:oirzi: now living thirteen sons and .. daughters, - 4 ' ' i rk good health, visited and dined with t i h i ei: Cristmas-day, at her house in Rawc lite r 11(141 1 alloosl custom. She has forty-two gran d ' and 3iaty-nine great grandchildren.—Halifax At '1". /I to h'V • toione Police -court yesterday, Mr. t Ni ~ ' th e magistrate, announced the receipt of the 44 la'o4llolB for the assistance of the poor woman 1 , 4 ul 1, isitY,,whose farnily had lately sustained the erst s,(lte r ea dy a, 84 out of eight children having, in little `ertr),tit tflontb, died of scarlet fever and dropsy : otTj W. and the Rev. J. S., 3L; Mr. Charles , 4 1., i o ' 's• ; E. 'v., 2t. ; D. S., U. ; a Gentleman, It ; " 1 * q 3. ; 4, Benevolent Society at the Essex Head, '44'4.1; M. 8., 7s. 6d ; A. B , 11; H. R, 5s ; J. W" NP0ek1,.,%3,05.; G. H. It . . . t.7ha kti- P I NE, APPLEs.--ln consequence of the terartes I:ll.ding tile importation of pine apples from, the 04 tape 1,4' Year, upward s of ten thousand additional wi,ott, ueen set apart for their cultivation at New Pro 14110C.y,tit'hiteartla.ahrt an equal quantity at the small island poStitti 0 ,• n order to improve the cultivation, some k 't la st offsets of the most approved sorts were sent _pts t. ~ Year from Of thi l `• hi Year _p is country. Letters just received . I,Yes t . ai l ',I, the prospect of the crops, and the imorts th e 8g .A.; nicely to be very extensive. vt„ttpproa,ll;4°Aeri OF SPRING.As an intimation of itivhckiho iihr:l7Pe r nw e :d e Ir. c; t f o o 8 1 I b P s e r a i n a s g ' and as a proof of the fallacy of ffitoietthede,sweveenlres3and long winter with mention that during 1 k e ,7): week there has been plucked from the open 44,1 i:19114,(1,.an orchard attached the residence of Mr. till:N:1410r of Silverton, in to tis county a quantity of edela-,?.,1a full and Perfect blootn.—Plyne'uth Times. t 4,i4lcirancis Egerton has, we regret to say, been 0'44 i 6,, i '_° l l . l a n attack of gout, at Ratchford -hall. His -Ert0,1%,3 however, again convalescent. Mr. Francis joined the Excellent, at Portsmouth. tit7eli4lliirstir.--"llatAnisroic.---The usual two months ► e 4 , B _ !I dulness of trade preceding the new year f,11:,(il 9ver, and an active resurnption is imme ',chi 4151 M '.e'Pated. The printfields here are somewhat 4,, %h t. , with foreign orders at resent, and a month ti:l,Cll4i 47,Peeted to elapse ere the y will be full engaged 441 g trade. Our manufacturers anticipate y that ,'N4I twi t :on, as during last year, be rinci all em 101itrilezde!s for the home . market? The myousse ttit7itt,_ Me e t . 0 ,,,_ with some improvements, are expected e ttc; t o k u 'e in vogue. The activity of last year is to„ . 8 , t o ~„'e main in this branch of manufa <irp.tt,,o tsculet which the prpal establishments in 401 z 7 p_repared with additional accommodation. li`;'''," dour-nat. deZ11:1:1:147, the 9th instant, a remarkably fine 'v 14 rio t Y Sir 'I% D. Achim, '4,4ote, Bitrt. tit hie reei- Bills. Money. 113 ... 1650 THE TAXATION. In talking of the taxation of Great Britain, landlords always insist that the _land bears peculiar burdens, equal to, in their way, if not greater, than those with which the remaining kinds of property are loaded throughout the kingdom. This assertion is made every day, and with reference to the present time. Look at the facts of the case. During the reign of King IY iiliam 111., according to the state ment of Sir John Sinclair, in his work on the Revenue, the annual average of the land-tax was 34 per cent., that is, more than a third of the whole revenue of the kingdom. As Mr. Macintyre states the same fact, his deductions being taken seemingly from one individual year, more " than a fourth of the public revenue was derived (in the reign of William of Orange) from the land- tax. At that time the whole of the revenue was about 4,600,0001., of which the tax on land was about 1,300,0001." Now, no man can deny that the species of property which has increased most enormously in the ratio of productiveness, since the close of the seventeenth century, is land. The rants of the landlords have been doubled, trebled, and quadrupled—much more, indeed, in many cases— within the last few score years. The land-tax should then have been greatly increased in common fairness, with the increasing revenue which has been exacted from the country. Has such been the case ? "In the year 1842," we find " the total amount of revenue is .52,000,000/., of which the taxes on land amount to less than 1,200,0001." The land taxes redeemed since 1798 ought to be added to this, since the annual payment was sold for a value equal to it, and the land-tax ought to be stated at about 2,000,0001. But taking this latter sum as the correct one, what an enormity of increase on the burdens of the other classes, while the land stands comparatively at little more than the same rate as in William the Third's time ! A third at the utmost has been added to the land-tax, while the common taxes have been raised to nearly twelve times their amount in the same period, notwithstanding that the vast increase in the productiveness of land would have justified so fully a proportionate augmentation of the burdens thereon ! HER MAJ. - FIELDSAYE. WHITC CONDUIT HOUSE. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. (From the Sunday Times.) We have little record of the pastimes, of our fore fathers ; Stiutt has, it is true, described the games in which they " delote " to unbend themselves, but he has presented us no picture of the reople. Sam. Foote's " Tea Parties" are but a name, it was only through a verbal description by old Byrn, the veteran ballet-mas ter, that we could at all imagine the effect of that enter tainment, and Byrn, who died at the age of ninety, was but twelve years old when he witnessed Fcote's per formance ! The publications of that day entered into no detail ; what everybody went to see, the editors deemed it unnecessary to describe, as if all records of events were not meant for posterity. Thus it is with the old household words that spoke of the enjoyments of our predecessors. We read of Ranelagh, and ask where and what it was ?—of the Ridotto at Marylebone-gar dens—of the Apollo Saloon in St. Georges'. fields—of the famed Dog and Duck in the same vicinity—of Bag nigge and of Tunbridge Wells (London)—scarcely a vestige remains to depict the site of one or either of them. Ere steam had gained an empire upon land and water, visitors to Brighthelmstone were few indeed. Margate had its hoy boat, the miseries of which Charles Dibdin has perpetuated in a song ; the voyage frequently lasted three or four days—it is now accomplished in five or six hours. In those " good old days that our grandmothers tell of " Islington, Highgate, Hampstead, Hornsey, and Finchley were the Brighton, the Ramsgate, and the ' Broadstairs of the middle classes. It was with a view to put upon record some picture of the past that we some time since gave a sketch of Bagnigge and Sadler's Wells in the olden time, and in the same spirit we speak of White Conduit House, as it was when our progenitors called a visit to it a "country jaunt." A magnificent tavern—where the O'Connells, the Broughams, and the Duncombes have assembled thousands—now stands upon the spot formerly dedicated to the revels and innocent diversions of the citizens of the last century. The amusements of former days might literally be described as " life in the fieb's." ilornsey-wood House, the Wells, Copenhagen House, the Spa, and White Conduit were all situated in the midst of meadows. While the citizen enjoyed his ale or cyder, and smoked his pipe, his dame drank her tea and demolished the Conduit cakes, and the children plucked buttercups and gambolled at their pleasure. The bowling-grown had its attractions for lusty youth, and the coffee-room formed a snug retreat for afflicted age. All this would be deemed coarse and vulgar now, for the new school. teaches every man to assume a station above his own. Appearance has taken the place of reality, and with far more show, we fear there is much less happiness. After this explanatory sermon, let us to the history of the house which gives a name to this article. The " Conduit" from which the house took its title was in an adjoining field. A spring there was, in the 14th century, resorted to by the Carthusian Friars. In 1538 this convent was surrendered to Henry VIII. In 1611 Thomas Sutton founded the Charter House on part of the site of the old monastery. " This charitable foun dation for pensioners and scholars, is (was) supplied from the Old Conduit, in the field to the west of the vil lage of Eyseldon" (Islington). A few years afterwards the New River Company became incorporated, but it was many, many years ere water from this source was car ried to the neighbourhood of West Smithfield. - Conduits were things of great importance with our forefathers. About 1236 a great want of water prevail ing in London. occasioned by the encroachment of build ings on the fresh water canals about the City, a scheme was set on foOt for bringing water from six fountains "in the towne of Tyburne." In 1285 the first conduit was built at the west end of Cheapside, near the centre of the space between the corner of St. Paul's-churchyard and St. Martin's-le-Grand. In 1438 Sir W. Eastfield, Lord Mayor, at his own ex pense brought water from Tyburn, Highbury Barn, and from the Islington fields. He erected conduits in Fleet street, Aldermanbury, and Cripplegate. In 1443 the Common Council granted 1,000 marks to wards erecting a " new conduit, near St. Paul's-gate, at the upper end of Cheapside" (no doubt the side pre viously alluded to). Spring water at this time was evi dently a scarce commodity. The price of the best ale was then three-halfpence a gallon. In 1541 orders were issued for repairing the conduits of London, and for bringing water from Hampstead, Marylebone, Hackney, Islington, Muswell Hill, &c., indemnifying owners of land from damage by such water courses. A new conduit was erected at Walbrook corner (the water being drawn from the Thames). A writer, in 1750, says, at the west end of the Poultry, where Bucklersbury meets Cheapside, stood the great conduit. The south end of George-street, Hanover-square, ter minates in Conduit-street, built upon the site of Con duit Mead. This conduit supplied the then west-end of the metropolis. In 1577 Wm. Lamb, citizen and cloth-worker, drew several springs of water into one head at the upper end of Red Lion-street. It was denominated Lamb's Con duit. From it he supplied (through leaden pipes*) Snow-hill, and where an old conduit (repaired by him) received the water. This conduit was taken down in 1706. The Foundling Hospital now stands on its site. The chapel in the court at the north-west corner of Monkwell-street, was originally erected by the same Wm. Lamb. Notwithstanding the progress made by the New River Company, conduits were continually erected, and the old ones kept in repair. It is within the recollection of many now living that the river burst its channel (a thing pre dicted a century before). This accident gave a handle to the numerous family of grumblers to mourn over the de cay of conduits. "To the north of White Conduit House are," says Lambert in his survey, "the remains of an ancient forti fication in a place known by the name of The Reed Moat, or Six Acre Field. This place is supposed to have been the spot where Paulinus, the Roman General, ILA with his men, when the Britons, under Queen Boadicea, mur dered the inhabitants of London, and set fire to the city. Whether this supposition be correct or not, it is certain that a Roman camp was situated on this spot, from the remains of the General's prmtorium in the south-west angle of the field." " REPORT MADE UPON A VIEW OF THE DALSTON AND ISAINGToN WATERS."—DEC. 13, 1692. After a long exordium and description of other places, the report proceeds thus :—" And we have also, in fur ther pursuance of the said order, viewed the springs and water belonging to the citty neare Islington, and find the same in two heads, one covered over with stone in a field neare Jack Straw's Castle, which is fed by sundry springs in an adjacent field, and is usually called The White Conduit." This document, which is very curious, and explains the routes taken from the different con duits, will be found at length in " Nelson's Islington," quarto, 1811, p. 154 (curious). The Wheel Pond, by White Conduit House, was a famous place for duck hunting. Sir William Davenant describes a City wife going to the fields to " sop her cake in milke," on which her husband exclaims— " Ho, ho I—to IwarroToN—enough. Fetch Job, my son, and our dog fluffs; For there, in pond, through mire and muck, We'll cry --hay duck I—there Ruffe!—hay duck." Goldsmith speaks of the feast of hot rolls and butter and the tea-drinking parties at White Conduit House. Dr. Hunter tells a pleasant story of a lady, an invalid, whom he recommended to live at Islington ; she agreed for some lodgings, but discovering the bannisters to be out of repair said, " These must be mended before I come." " That, Madam, would be of no use," replied the landlady, " the undertakers' men, in bringing down the coffins, are continually breaking the bannisters ; if I did mend them they'd be just the same again in a month or so." The lady did not take the lodgings. In a collection of the writings of Mr. Edward Ward (1717), in a poem entitled " A Walk to Islington," we find a description of N ew T un b r i dge Wells (gardens, now built over ; the site is between Garnault-place and Sadler's Wells); he also describes the latter place, then called Sadler's Music House. The poem commences thus : STRATH- STRATIIFIELDSAYE, WEDNESDAY EVENINGI.—LittIe or nothing has occurred to vary the even tenor in which matters here are proceeding. The frost has gone off, and to-day has been mild and pleasant, with a little rain in the forencon, not sufficient, however, to prevent the Prince from enjoy ing field sports. The dinner party last night, in addition to the former guests, embraced three officers of the Ha•.np shire Yeomanry. In the evening were also present Sir H. and Lady Russell, Captain and Mrs. Brown, and Miss Walms ley, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Beauchamp, and Mr., Mrs., and Miss Anderton. The band of the Foot Guards performed as before. After dinner the gentlemen of the party amused themselves is the billiard-room. Her Majesty retired about eleven o'clock, con ducted to her apartments by her noble host. To-day she rose at her usual early hour, break fasted in private with the Prince, but did not take her accust:Tned morning walk. Just opposite one of the fronts of Strathfieldsaye House, and forming a part of the range of building principally appropriated to the stables, is a spacious tennis court, roofed over. Here her Majesty and the Prince proceeded after breakfast, the Prince amusing himself by trying the sport peculiar to the place. After this interlude, the Prince sallied forth to shoot. Thorpe's Copse, chosen for the scene of the day's recreation, is a cover about two miles from Strathfieidsaye. The beaters mustered in great force, and the shooting party consisted of Prince Albert, the Duke of Bedford, Col. Bouverie, and Capt. Brown, a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood. Lord Charles Wellesley and Mr. Anson were present, but did not join in the sport. The party rode to the ground, the Prince and Lord Charles Wellesley heading the group of horsemen. After a short stay at Thorpe's Copse, the party abandoned it for the pheasantry close to the Noble Duke's park, behind the rectory of Strathfieldsaye. The following is the amount of execution done on the furred and feathered denizens of Thorpe's Copse and the pheasantry :—The grand total of game killed numbered 71 ; of these 39 were pheasants, 25 hares, and 7 rabbits. The Prince dispatched 23 pheasants, 12 hares, and 6 rabbits. The whole time occupied in shooting to-day did not exceed an hour and a half, .the party returning at one o'clock to luncheon. The keepers and beaters praise the Prince's quick ness and steadiness in taking aim. The number of head shot to-day was not so great as that dispatched yesterday; and both days' returns fall very short of the battle slaughtering at Stowe; but his Grace of Wellington is by no means so keen a sportsman, or so strict a preserver of game, as the Duke of Buck ingham. After luncheon there was a grand match at tennis. The whole party, or nearly so, adjourning to the court. The game was played by Lord Charles Wellesly and Mr. Phillips, the tennis-master, against two profe s sional players from Hampton. Her Majesty expressed herself much gratified with the sport, which was conducted with great spirit and vigour. The dinner party to-day will include, in addition to the former circle, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, Sir John Cope, and the Speaker of the House of Com mons. Look, again, at the different proportions in which land pays to the public revenue in other leading Eu ropean countries :—ln France, the land and pro perty-tax brings 23,200,000/., while other taxes fetch 17,500,000/.; in Austria the former rates at 8,795,000/., and the latter at 7,700,0001. ; and in Prussia the land brings to the revenue 3,990,0001., while the re maining taxes stand at 3,667,0001. And yet our British landholders have the impudence to talk of their bearing " peculiar burdens"—paying, as they do, but about two millions of the fifty composing the pub lic revenue ! Nor is this all. We have yet to reckon what the landholder gains by the laws on food which he has established, and place them against the taxes which he bears. He may be easily shown to be in the posi tion of a gainer by the corn-laws to an extent far ex ceeding what he contributed as a tax-paver. Such is the sort of contribution which the British land holder makes to the revenue of the empire. There will come a time when men will wonder at these things as monstrosities unparalleled in the history of nations. Nay, the time is fast coming. The League are not working in vain.—Scotsman. Her Majesty is expected to leave Strathfleldsaye for Windsor to-morrow, at eleven o'clock. The mansion of Bramshill, the seat of Sir John Cope, which the Queen yesterday visited, is a very curious and interesting old English manor-house, built in the Elizabethan age, and racy of the time. Modern Elizabethan mansions are common enough, but it is a rare as well as a beautiful sight, the veritable old residence of an ancient English family, grey and weather stained, with its trim ter races and carved balconies, and elaborately sculptured balustrades—its heavy-arched doorways, its long echoing passages, and tapestried halls and galleries— all cold, and stately, and rigid as centuries ago, when hawking parties rode, with ringing horns and jang ling bells, forth from its massive portals, or when rude masques and quaint gambols charmed away long winter nights, within its torch and faggot lighted halls. You pass from gallery to gallery, and chamber to chamber, all still furnished and decorated as when the gay courtiers of the time of Elizabeth and the first Charles paced them. There are the old oaken floors and carvings upon the walls, the quaint chisel ings of grotesque forms and grinning faces, which stare at you from dim cor n ers ; th er e are the pointed and groined projections from the roof, the glorious old fire-places, big enough to roast oxen ; their de corations piled up in storied hatchments to the ceiling, and putting modern mantel-pieces to the blush ; there are the old wavy tapes tries, gorgeous with groups from the classic stories of Greece and Rome; there are the vast erect old chairs, with backs like steeples, the massive tables, the quaint escutcheons, and devices in needle work—the unending employment of some fair damsel when foul weather forced her to hold the embroidery needle in her fingers, rather than the hawk upon her wrist. All these signs and tokens of the stately past —its lofty dignity, its quaint pageantry, and still its lack of the modern refinements of comfort, have all an abiding place and a home in the mansion of Brams hill. Nor is this all. The beauties of Charles the Second's Court look down upon you from the walls-- their eyes still lustrous, and their cheeks still breath ing the peachy ripeness of the pencil of Sir Peter Lely. The more staid portraits of Kneller are also there; and mingling with the long array of family likenesses we have a number of curious quaint speci mens of the early Flemish school portraits—of dismal scowling monks, and landscapes with figures of boors, and huntsmen, and revellers—all hard, and stiff, and angular, but still wrought cut by those who laid the foundations of the nature-copying school of Terriers and Ostade. Here are, besides, a vast number of quaint old articles of furniture—cabinets, and escru toires, and desks—inlaid with gaudy shells,. wrought into odd kaleidescope-lime forms and devices, and altogether the "plenishing" of the old house—its pic tures and its ornaments, its deep arched windows, its tapestried walls, its long echoing galleries, and sombre chambers, are admirably adapted to lead the imagi nation back to the olden time, the image of which it so vividly brings before the mind. Her Majesty expressed herself highly delighted with the antique beauties of Bramshill. Mrs. Cra shay, the doorkeeper, acted as cicerone. Sir John Cope was absent during her Majesty's visit—not having had timely information of the royal intention. Sir John is a really "fine old English gentleman ;" who, although in his 77th year, still rides up to the hounds as vigorously as he might have done half a century ago. ' 4 In holiday time, when the ladies of London Walk out with their spouses, or think themselves unclose, * * * * * Then I, like my neighbours, to sweeten my life, Took a walk in the fields (i. e. Ming!*— * * * We saunter'd about near the New River Head, Where we prattled and talked, but what 'twas we said If you'd have me direover, indeed I must fail you," &c. It appears the price of admission to the New Tunbridge Wells was 3d. Of the amusements, he says : " We walk'd by an outhouse we found had been made For raffling and lote ries, and such sort of trade. To gaze at the lott'ry I stood by a while, in verse : See the gamesters all frown, and the lott'ry man smile, Till, tir'd with standing, we rambled from'hence, And left the poor fools to be gull'd of their pence." In a paper entitled " The Dancing School," the writer describes an Easter Monday re jsaauynst "All t o e s o u a r n co d part of London was evidently EilichieY thveiauinsilvinergsta°lnr.tesor(tTohfitsradesmen, their wives, i d n a t u o g t h h t e er fi s, ei ' d p s r . e ” nti H ce e s, p & ro c c .) eeds, " In little time to Islington we came, For cakes and ale, a town of ancient fame, Which to this day 's frequented for the same." His discription of Highgate and of the crowds going to Finchley, where " the murderer was hung in chains," where th e g en t ry me t, High Tavern , cho be is l e i f o e u -l l d i k not e. At get t hae muttonilig Pt thou g h h e o ff ere d a crown for it. The masses had lit era ll y d evoured all before them. At what time the first tavern b ear i ng t h e title of White Conduit House was built doe s not c l ear l y appear; but in the Gentleman's Magazine (1760) we find the following .-- street " WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE . "And to White Conduit "."—s e every face, Grub-street R eg i s t e r. w housemaid's I ie cheek, a rtivl.rgtooh. brightens u " is le hyd Sunday-ill go, will g toeoin o e_ , come—mirth i House paints the rose upon the ampleHofar,prireetntoircell,lroelsl,idmeonrteirnudd * Now t Or alley kennel wash'd ; Cheapside,, Cornhill, Or Cranbourne—thee for calcuments renown'd, 'With joy distends ; his meal meridian o'er, With switch in hand, he to WRITE CONDUIT HOUSE Hies merry hearted." This burlesque heroic concludes thus " While tea and cream and butter'd ro ll s can please, While rival beaux and jealous belles exist, So long White Conduit House shall b e t h y f ame. " The signature to this grandiloquent a ff a i r i s W . W . Topham, the s t rong man, exhibited in the fields. He had thrice the strength of what is commonly termed a powerful man. He was accustomed to resist the draught of two horses, and do a variety of other feats, too well authenticated to be deemed exaggerations. The fields around the Conduit were places of his frequent re sort. A large pewter plate that he doubled up by his fingers is still preserved in the British Museum. The Daily Public Advertiser of August 11, 1749, has this record :—" Yesterday, August 10, died Thomas Topham (known by the name of The Strong Man, mas ter of a public-house in Hog-lane (Shoreditch), occa sioned by several wounds to gave himself on Wuesday THE SUN, LONDON, TUTTRS-DAY EVENING, JANUARY 23 1345. STY AT , last, after having stabbed his wife in the breast, who is likely to recover." Jealousy was the cause of this rash act. The wire subsequently recovered. Abraham Newland, who died at Ilighbury in 1807, in his 78th year, was a frequenter of the White Conduit and the Barn House. He was noted as a " disputatious (i. e. argumentative) person, yet generally reLpected by all visitors." A writer in 1774 gives this description of the place:— "The garden is formed into walks, prettily disposed. At the end of the principal one is a painting, which seems to render it (the walk) longer in appearance than it really is. In the centre of the garden is a fish-pond. There are boxes for company, curiously cut into hedges, adorned with Flemish and other paintings. There are two handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, and several inferior ones in the house." The fish-pond was soon after filled up, and its site planted, the paintings removed, and a new dancing and tea saloon, called the Apollo room, built. Christopher Bartholomew laid out the gardens and walks, and realised a great deal of money in this house; he was also proprietor of the old Angel Inn at Islington. Excessive speculations ruined him. Whilst in abject poverty, he dreamt of a number in the lottery, prevailed on a friend to go halves with him in a sixteenth, and, wonderful to relate, it came up a 20,0001. prize. He died in 1809, at the age of sixty-eight. Bartholomew was the uncle of Frederick Hartland, the well-known Pantaloon. The small stone house that, until 1832, stood above the well, or conduit, was built in the year 1641. In Bowles' " Manly Recreations " are some capital prints of the bowling-green attached to the old house. In the early part of the present century, Mrs. Sharpe and a Mr. Warren had the house, to which a small ale and table beer brewery was attached. In 1826 a variety of theatrical experiments were made in the gardens. Mr. Lunt (celebrated as the first coffee-shopkeeper) opened them as a " Minor Vauxhall." Under his management Mrs. Bland made her last public. appearance. The house and grounds are now in the possession of Mr. R Rouse. The Licensed Victuallers hold their summer meeting here, the dinner being served beneath a canvass canopy that may be called a " monster tent." The large saloon in the house is continually engaged for dinners and public meetings, and from the size of the rooms and the extent of the gardens, White Conduit House offers facilities beyond those of any other esta blishment in or near the metropolis. * Leaden pipes (without solder) for conveying water, were invented by Robert Brocke, chaplain to Henry VIII. Robert Cowper, a goldsmith, first put the invention in practice. Of so much importance were these conduits, that when Otho Nicholson, M.A. Christ Church, erected Carfax Con duit, in Oxford 0610), the scientific men of the metropolis crowded thither to inspect it. It appears Ward and his mistress rode. One line gives us a graphic idea of that lazy convenience, a coach. He says—" We "Somctimes drew up our sashes, made of tin, To hide from vulgar eyes love's toys within" CUSTOM DUTIES ACT. Amongst the 349 articles in the Custom Duties Act, producing less than 1001. each of revenue, " alkali" stands at the head, the duty received on which, in 1839, was Bs. Ashes, not otherwise enumerated, 11. 4s. 7d. ; copper ore, the produce of, and imported from any Bri tish possession within the limits of the East India Com pany's charter, gave 4s. 7d. ; camels' wool or hair, Is. ; dog skins in the hair, not tanned, Is. 7d.; fish's skins, undressed, ls. ; slates, not otherwise enumerated, the large sum of Bd.; walnut oil, 35.; tanned goat skins, 6d.; steel unwrought, prepared in and brought from any Bri tish possession in Asia, Africa, or America, 6d. These are taken at random from the table in the appendix to the report of the Select Committee on import duties, which contains numerous others of similar insignificance, ranging from shillings to pounds, and vice versa. The list of 147 articles on which no duty was received contains alkali again at the head, not being barilla ; the duty being lls. 4d. per cwt., and running up to 11. 10s., according to the per centage of soda contained. Basket rods, Is. per bundle ; cinders, 21. per ton ; and this list ends with thrown silk, on which a duty was paid of 38,452 L, and a drawback allowed of 43,8501. By the new tariff, this duty on alkali, not being barilla, is reduced to Is. 6d. per cwt. ; ashes, nut enumerated, to 5 per cent. ; and the duties on copper ores were, as is well known, materially altered, and for the better ; but the tariff was left with the whole army of unproductive duties still standing in the schedule to the Custom Duties Act ; and, therefore, it may be safely inferred that any document correctly prepared, to show the operation of the new tariff; will contain numerous sums of sixpences and shillings, denoting the amount of revenue received. As many as 1,150 articles, or nearly so, may be said to remain liable to Custom-house duties ; and yet, out of a revenue of 22,000,000/, about 17 articles produce as much as 94i per cent., or 21,700,6301. This state of things show that the Custom Duties Ac requires a complete and searching reform, and it is ma• nifest that a very large saving in the expense of collec. Lion would thus be effected, exclusive of important ad. vantages and facilities to trade.--Chronicle. CrARDENRIte BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. -About ninety of the friends and supporters of this useful In stitution assembled together last evening, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-bill, to celebrate the sixth anni versary of the Society. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Sidney presided, and amongst the company we observed H. Pownall,l Esq., the Middlesex magistrate ; A. L. Gower, Esq. ; Captain Lamont, R.N.; the Messrs. Noble, Mr. Groom, and most of the leading gardeners and horticulturists of London and its vicinity. The dinner was served in Mr. Lovegrove's best style. The usual loyal toasts were given and responded to, after which the secretary announced that the subscriptions of the evening amounted to 1701., the Hon. Chairman and the Lord Mayor being in the list of subscribers for five guineas each. The secretary also stated that that morn ing no less than thirty new annual subscribers of one guinea each had enrolled their names in the subscription list. Several app ro p r i a t e toasts were g i ven and res • ponded to, and the amusements of the evening were varied by several glees and songs, given with much effect by Messrs. Bradbury, Lloyd, and Showbridge. Miss Steele, a lady with a charming voice and consider able taste, whom we do not remember to have met before, sang Benedict's beautiful song, " By the sad sea wave," in a styl e w hi c h reminded ,us forcibly of Alfred AIM Shaw. A " RECKLESS" COUPLE.—On Wednesday week a marriage was about to be celebrated at Boston, between a Mr. John Reckless, well known as a wa i ter, an d Mi ss Eliza Procter, daughter of Captain Procter, of Boston, but who had been brought up by her aunt, an old lady named Lilly, of Leverton. The license was bought --a good dinner provided—friends and relations met—and every arrangement was made to do honour to the joyous occasion. The bride and bridegroom were present, and received the congratulations of, the assembled guests, and the aunt of the bride, in the joy of her heart, gave a cheque for 1001., as her marriage portion. On the time arriving to proceed to church, the company were much alarmed by the sudden disappearance of the young couple, and, although the strictest inquiries were made, not the slightest intelligence of them could be obtained. Much anxiety soon prevailed, and joy was turned into mourning. An application at the bank upon which the cheque was drawn, however, set all their fears at rest. It was there ascertained that the youthful pair had called at the bank and received cash for the cheque, and had then decamped without having the marriage cere mony performed, leaving their friends and relations to enjoy the marriage feast by themselves. It is supposed that this " reckless" pair have fled to London.—Boston Herald. PROGRESS OW 'THE PRINTING PRESS.—We have lying before us a little vocabulary of fourteen pages, beimg the first attempt at printing on the island of Fer nando, and the work of the Rev. Mr. Merrick, Baptist missionary there, who, having procured some English type, has printed this vocabulary for the use of the natives in learning English. It is printed only on one side of the paper, and, on the whole, is a very creditable first attempt. It seems that, in the native language, or dialect, the long and short sounds of the vowels are the same as on the continent of Europe. Gis always hard ; a single II is never sounded, but 1111 marks the aspirate; and KW is sounded as QU in equal. Obassi signifies God ; bubi, sin ; molima, mind, soul, or spirit ; linggam, to love. With this book we received another, "The Adeeyah Vocabulary, f or th e U se of Schools in v'estern Africa," by John Clarke, and printed at Falmouth, Jamaica, last year, for the use of the Baptist mission. Father, in this dialect, is Boy-em, or In-ta ; mother, Emmi, or 0-mi; the great spirit, AI-e-hun-du; the good spirit, Dupe; bad spirit, Mo-o ; man, Bu-bi ; woman, Wa-di.—Manchester Guardian. ORANGES AND LEMONS.--The Lords of the Trea sury have issued an order to the effect, that chests or boxes of oranges and lemons, measuring 36 inches in length, 20 inches in width, and 7 inches in depth, and having cones of 9 inches and under 12 inches in height, are to be admitted to entry at the duty of 3s. 9d. each, as not exceeding 7,300 cubic inches, and as this result is to be arrived at by rejecting any fractional parts of an inch which may appear to remain after the deduction of the two-third parts of the cone has been made, in con formity with the order of the Commissioners of Customs, dated 19th May, 1830, the board have issued directions authorising the officers of the revenue to apply the prin ciple to boxes not exceeding 5,000 cubic inches, so far as regards the rejection of the fractional parts of the cone. These orders have been communicated to the several departments in London, and at all the out-ports of the kingdom, for the information and government of the officers and the trade. DUTY or A POLICEMAN.—At an inquest held on Monday night, before Mr. William Payne, the City coroner, on the body of a young man who died suddenly in a cab, it transpired, in the course of the evidence, that the policeman who came up, instead of at once taking the deceased to the nearest surgeon's, ordered the cab man to drive to the station-house in Black Horse-court, Fleet-street. The coroner said the present was the second case which had come under his notice recently, where a person taken ill in the street had been taken to the station ; house, instead of to the nearest surgeon's. In so doing much time, which was of the most vital im portance, was lost. It was his opinion that the first thing a policeman should do, on coming to a fresh beat, was to ascertain the residence of all the medical men near it, so that in all cases of sudden illness or accidents in the stre e t, h e m i g h t k now where to obtain medical aid, without first going to the station-house for orders. He trusted the inspector would take notice of what k he said, so that in a ll f u t ure cases o f persons being ta ill in the stre e t s p rompt me di ca l ass i stance might be ob tained en The venerable Earl of Carlisle, who has been again much indisposed, was, in answer to inquiries yesterday at Carlisle House, Grosvenor -place, somewhat better. Viscount Morpeth is expected in _town flat month from Castle llvword, IRELAND. THE CHIEF SECRETARYHIP. DUBLIN, JAN. 21.-:--Intelligence of the death of the venerable Earl of St. Germans reached Lord Eliot this day, at Dublin Castle. As his Lordship goes to the House of Lords as Earl of St. Germans, it is very pro bable that _he will "not continue in the office of Chief Secretary of Ireland. There are already rumours as to his successor, and amongst those spoken of are Lord Dalhousie, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Sydney Herbert ; Secretary to the Admiralty; but, of course, everything on this point at present must be the merest spectilation. Lord Eliot had arranged to receive a deputation from the Corporation at the Castle to-day ; but, in conse quence of the event above referred to, the interview did not take place. Lord Eliot is to sail for Port Eliot, Cornwall, this evening, to attend the funeral of his father. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY. The following is the petition for the repeal of the penaLclauses affecting the regular clergy in the Emanci pation Act and the Charitable Bequests' Act. It is now in course of signature, with the earnest sanction of Arch- Dublin bishop Murray, am ongst t h e Roman Catholic clergy of Murray, " THE PETITION OP THE UNDERSIGNED ARCHBISHOP .*ND SECULAR CLERGY OF THE BOMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN DUBLIN. " Most humbly showeth—That petitioners presume to approach your Honourable House, soliciting your gra cious consideration in favour of the regulars or clergy bound by monastic vows in this city and country. " That petitioners have had long and constant oppor tunities of closely observing and intimately knowing the clergymen aforesaid. " That this close observation and intimate knowledge have rendered it evident to petitioners that the said re gulars have always constituted, and still constitute, a class not only of peaceable and loyal subjects, but a class entitled to great merit and great gratitude for their un ceasing, extensive, and successful labours in the advance ment of morality, education, and soci..l order. " That in the year 1829, when, inn spirit of liberal and wise legislation, sour Honourable House, by the Act of 10 Geo. IV., chap. 7, commonly called The Catholic Relief Bill,' admitted to a very hill participation in civil rights the Roman Catholics of the realm, tow hom, on account of mere abstract religious opinions, these rights had low , been denied, th e regu l ars were, pet i t i oners humbly sub mit,' unmeritedly excluded from a participation in the be nefits which that measure of justice and of wisdom con ferred on their Catholic fellow- subjects. "That your petitioners, actuated by their intimate knowledge of the deserts of said regulars, appeared at that time before your Honourable House, by petition, stating that the institutions composed of said regulars were suited to the wants of Ireland, promoted exten sively the public good, without being, in any manner, at all known to petitioners dangerous to the Government or prejudicial to the State, and that the suppression of them would, in the opinion of petitioners, tend much to retard the progress of education, and the moral improve ment of the people,' and prayi ng th a t a measure of relief and conciliation should not be rendered the means of vi siting with penalties and deprivation of character whole classes of meritorious individuals. " That, notwithstanding, petitioners saw with sorrow your Hon. House pass clauses 27 to 39 inclusively of said Catholic Relief Bill, which clauses enact most dis tressing disabilities against said regulars. " That nearly sixteen years of additional experience have confirmed petitioners in the opinion then formed of the merits of said regulars, and of their value to the morals, the education, and the good ord er o f th e people. " That petitioners have now further to regret, that in the last session of Parliament your HOB. House thought proper to enact section 15 of 7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 97, commonly called, The Charitable Donations and Be quests Act,' which section, while it provides for the pro tection and conveyance of ecclesiastical property held by the parochial clergy, extends to said regulars no partici pation in said beneficial provision, and thereby virtually declares said regulars still unworthy of the rights and privileges of British subjects. "Petitioners, humbly conceiving that these exclusions and disabilities affecting said regulars are unmerited pe nalties upon a peaceful, loyal, and most useful body, whose conduct individually and collectively petitioners most respectfully submit deserves from a just and paternal Government protection and not proscription, humbly solicit your Honourable House to restore said regulars to the rights and privileges of the other subjects of the realm, or grant such relief in the premises as your Honourable House in its wisdom shall graciously think proper. And petitioners will ever pray." &ex AND INDIGENT BOOK-KEEPERS' SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this excellent society was held to-day, at the Commercial-buildings. The Lord Mayor pre sided. Mr. O'Connell and several of the leading citi zens attended. ~„_______. NEW MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ACT Since the Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to merchant seamen, and for keeping a re gister of seamen, has come into operation, a great number of foreigners have applied to the registrar of the port of Landon for register tickets, which have been in every case refused, the new law only autho rising the registrar to register seamen being subjects of her Majesty. It is pe:haps,not generally known that foreign seamen comprise about one-fifteenth of our mercantile marine, and the new law has placed them in a very awkward position. They cannot obtain register tickets from the office, and masters of ships mustnot take them to seawithout one, believing, if they do, that theyare li a bl e t o h eavy pena l t i es. This belief is founded in error. The 2d section of the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 112, enacts that no master shall carry to sea any seaman being a subject of her Majesty until he shall have first obtained his register ticket, which he is authorised to retain until the ter mination of the voyage. The 4th section imposes a penalty of 101. on any master of a ship carrying out to sea any seaman being a subject of Ler Majesty, without first obtaining his register ticket. The 20th section enacts that any person being a sub ject of her Majesty, intending to serve on board any ship, shall provide himself with a re gister ticket ; and for that purpose to apply per sonally at the General Register and Record-office of Seamen in London, or the cust om -h ouses o f t h e several outposts of the United Kingdom. It will be seen, therefore, that the new Merchant Seamen's Act only applies to subjects of her Majesty, and that there is nothing to prevent the hiring of foreigners as here tofore. Yesterday two foreigners applied to Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police -court, for a summons against the registrar of British seamen for refusing to register them. One of the applicants stated that he was a seaman, that he was born at Ilamburgh, and had been for twenty-nine years sailing in English ships. A great part of that time had been spent in the service of the East India Company • he had mar ried an English w if e , b y w h om he had five children, and when he was ashore he lived with her in London. The last British ship he sailed in was the barque Newton, Captain Dixon, and that gentleman had furnished him with a flattering testimonial of good conduct, sobriety, and steadiness. He had applied to the registrar to send him a ticket, which he refused to do, because he was not a British subject, but he con sidered himself a British seaman to all intents and purposes, and had adopted England as his country. He had obtained a ship which was about to sail from London to Sydney, but the master would not take him unless he was registered and would produce his ticket. A Swedish seamen next applied to the magistrate, and his case was a stronger one than the last. He had been away from his native country for forty-six years, and had served in the Royal Navy of Great Britain for thirty years, and in English merchant-ships for sixteen more, and considered he was entitled to a register ticket. Without one he could not obtain another berth, and as to returning to the land of his birth, where he knew no one, it was quite out o f th e ques tion. Mr. B ro d er i p did not think he had any power to interfere. The only question was, whether the applicants were British subjects or denizens. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, and author of the work, " The Law relating to Merchant Seamen," said the Magistrate could not interfere with the registrar of British seamen, who was an officer under the control of the Lords of the Admiralty, and that he had no power to issue tickets to those who were not subjects of her Majesty. The applicants seemed very much troubled at the answer to their applications, and said they must starve, if no ship -masters would engage them. The desire of foreign seamen to register under the new law is very great—the pay in the British service is greater, and the supply of provisions more ample, than can be obtained in any foreign vessels. It is a well-known fact that many foreigners, who have been acting as seamen in British ships for many years, have registered th emse l ves as su bj ects o f h er Majesty, and obtained their tickets. MASONIC BALL. Last night a grand masonic ball, in aid of the funds of the Asylum for worthy aged and decayed Freemasons, took place in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street. This fraternity has long since passed the rubicon of pub lic opinion ; to be a free and accepted Mason is to possess a welcome passport in every quarter of the civilised world. It is, therefore, peculiarly gr a tif y i ng to fi n d that the asylum und from year to year continues to accumu late and prosper. Through many " lets and hindrances " Dr. Crucefix, the founder, has had the satisfaction of seeing the good work proceed to completion. The offspring of our poorer brethren alone shall not be cared for ; the aged and indigent members al;o demand oar sympathy. These feelings prompted the founder of the asylum fund ; last night he and the other promoters of it had a gratifying triumph in the number and brilliancy of the company attending the ball. Among those pre sent were the Spanish Minister, Dr. Lane (Preside n t), Brothers Shaw, H o d g ki nson, F i eld, Aspull, Bacon, Barnes, Comins, Crucefix, &c. Dancing, under the able superi n t en d ence of Brothers Carlin Marriott, who a c t e d as masters of the cere monws, commenced about Lnine o'clock, with the pretty quadrille from Don Pasquale; then followed Quadrille, Il Giuramento—Lancers, Prince of Wales— Quadrille, L'Espagnole—Caledonians —La Polka and waltz—Quadrille, Cracovienne—Quadrille, Les Gondo liers—Spanish dance, Double Pousette—Quadriile, Royal Irish—Quadrille, Jullien's English—Caledonians, New music —Quadrille, Le Postillon—Le Polka and Galope, Cerito and Strauss—Quadrille, Bohemian Girl—Lancers, Adams—Quadrille, l4te de Bronze—Quadrille, New Scotch —Spanish Dance, Light of other Days—Quadrille, Antiques, Vocal Finale—Country dance, Sir Roge r d o Coverly. The celebr a t e d b an d o f Mr. Adams performed during the evening with its accustomed ability. About midnight there could not have been fewer than 350 ladies and gentlemen present; the former brilliant in the ex treme, and there being a very numerous attendance of officers most of whom wo re th e i r j ewe l s and badges, the ensemble at the above -mentioned time was really magni ficent. Refreshments of the best order were liberally supplied by Mr. Bacon, the courteous proprietor of the tavern; indeed, everything was so well conducted, that entire satisfaction appeared to pervade the assembly, the elegant hilarity of which was sustained till an early hour this morning. FEVER IN ENNISTDION WORKHOUSE.—We have been informed that fever to an alarming extent has broken out in the Ennistimon Workhouse. The master, porter, and fifty of the paupers, young and old, are in hospital. Several of the male and female children, and adults, are also infected with the complaint called " tetters." The workhouses throughout Ireland are too large, and con sequently exceedingly cold, particularly on the ground floors, composed as they are of flags or earth.—Clare Journal. RECRUITING IN IRELAND.—The most vigorous efforts are being made throughout the various recruiting dis tricts to raise recruits; and commanding officers of some corps have received a most formidable circular, in J. E. Napier's energetic style, to use every exertion to com plete the deficiency in their respective corps.— Cork Examiner. FALLING OP THREE NEW HOUSES IN LIVERPOOL• —On Thursday night last, about ten o'clock, three new and unfinished 13uses, in Upper Canning-street, fell with a tremendous crash, the walls carrying nearly the whole of the joists, floors, &c., into the cellar, and smashing the timber into comparatively small pieces. The buildings were of four stories in height, of brick, and formed the eastern end of a new row of houses on the south side of the street. Luckily no one was by at the late hour stated. We find that the lower, or cellar portion of the walls, up the datum level, was roughly built of broken pieces of soft freestone, called " nobling," and so imper fectly put together as to be inadequate to support the superincumbent weight, rising to an elevation of forty-six feet. The walls were but nine inches (or only brick length) in thickness, which is sadly short for buildings of that size. The buildings are upon what was formerly Mosslake-field, in which the unbroken ground is yet a black moss to the depth of two or three feet. The foun dations, however, were sunk below this, to apparently a stratum of soft sandstone, and the probability is that the houses gave way from the cause assigned.—Liverpool Courrier. ADMIRAL DUPETIT THOTJARS.—There is a pom pous account in the French Radical newspapers of a subscription to purchase " a sword of honour for Admiral Deputit Thouars, who had the command of the French expedition to Otaheite. We are told that sub scriptions have been received in all the principal towns of France," and that "it is calculated that no less than 175,000 persons had joined in this expression of feel ing." From this it is argued how strong must be the national feeling of France in favour of the Admiral, and of all he had done against the actual or supposed inte rests of Great Britain in the Pacific. But what do our readers suppose may be the total amount of the sub scription of these 175,000 French patriots ? The sum is 19,685 francs, with the addition (in order to be exact) of five centimes, or one halfpenny I As 19 then is to 175, so is the subscription of each patriot to the munificent sum of ninepence halfpenny I The fast is, that 175,000 patriots have combined among them to put together 374,000 halfpence. Each patriot has, on an average, contributed a fraction beyond one penny sterling, in order to accumulate honour upon the Admiral of the Pacific, and to impress England with a due sense of French determination to uphold her officers, however marked their hostility to British interests may be. We are of opinion, however, that this penny subscription is, on the whole, a very ludicrous affair.—host. THE BITER BIT.—A gang of horse jockeys made their appearance before the magistrates on Saturday last, charged with an attempt to swindle a farmer in a most audacious manner. The farmer, it appears, had brought a nag for sale to the fair, &c., and on thd pre vious evening fell into the company of several dealers, one of whom proposed to change horses with him, and give him 30s. to boot." The farmer closed in with this offer, knowing that his horse was considerably inferior to the one he was to receive from the dealer. On the Saturday morning the exchange of the horses took place, and the farmer mounted his new steed for a jour ney home. On arriving opposite the House of Correc tion, however, he was stopped by a jockey, who de manded in the most peremptory terms whither the farmer was taking the horse, which he said belonged to himself. The rustic at once explained the process by which he became possessed of the animal ; but was instantly met with the reply that the person who had sold him the horse had no right whatever to dispose of it ; and was, moreover, ordered to dismount, and to return to the stable for his original steed. The farmer at once per ceived the " dodge" and knowing full well that if he re turned to the stable on foot he would lose both horses, held firmly to that which he had, and referred his new acqua ntance to a policeman for satisfaction. The con sequence was, that the entire company had to make their appearance at the Town. hall the same forenoon, when it was clearly proved that the trick had been concerted among them. The magistrates ratified the bargain which had been made ; and the designing swindlers, in order to escape further exposure, added another sove reign to the exchange money, thus increasing the far mer's gain to fifty shillings, and leaving hinapin posses sion of an anim a l muc h super i or t o his own.—Preston Guardian. PREACHERS IN LENT IN THE Friday, Mr. KinneestPdielinnyt: CITY AND SUBURBS. The following is a list of the preachers appointed by the Lord Bishop of London to preach in the city and suburbs of London in Lent, 1845, on Wednesdays and Fridays, in the following churches :- ST. SEPULCHRE'S.-Feb. 5, Ash Wednesday, Mr. Hale, Archdeacon of London ; Feb. 7, Friday, Mr. Letts ; Feb. 12, Wednesday, Dr. Bird ; Feb. 14, Friday, Dr. Shepherd; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. Lee ; Feb. 21, Friday, Mr. Robinson; Feb. 26, Wednesday, Mr. Short; Feb. 28, Friday, Mr. Abbiss; March 5, Wednesday, Mr. Harding; March 7, Friday, Mr. Gibbs; March 12, Wed nesday, Mr. Crosthwait ; March 14, Friday, Mr. Bean • March 19, Wednesday, Mr. Crouch ; March 21, Good Friday, Mr. Wood. Sr. MAGNUS THE MARTYR, LONDON -BRIDGE.--Feb. 5, Ash Wednesday, Mr. Jones, Archdeacon of Essex ; Feb. 7, Friday, Mr. Sharpe ; Fb. 12, Wednesday, Mr. Stone; Feb. 14, Friday, Mr. Lacy; Feb. 19, Wednesday , Mr. Gelling ; Feb. 21, Friday, Dr. Burnet ; Feb. 26, Wednesday, Mr. Goode ; Feb. 28, Friday, Mr. Roberts; March 5, Wednesday, Mr. ' Blunt; March 7, Friday, Mr. Durham; March 12, Wednesday, Mr. Hutchins; March 14, Friday, Mr. Lupton ; March 19, Wednesday, Mr. Johnson; March 21, Good Friday, Mr. Leigh. Sr. ANN'S, SOMO - SQUARE.-Feb. 5, Ash Wednesday, Dr. Burney, Archdeacon of St. Alban's; Feb. 7, Friday, Mr. T. H. Horne ; Feb. 12, Wednesday, Mr. Newbery ; Feb. 14, Friday, Dr. Vivian ; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. ; Feb. 21, Friday, Mr. ' A. Hollingworth ; Feb. 26, Wednesday, Dr. Croly ; Feb. 28, Friday, Mr. Denham; March 5, Wednesday, Mr. Rodwell ; March 7, Friday, Mr. Hall ; March 12, Wednesday, Mr. Gibson ; March 14, Friday, Mr. Foy-eh - March 19, Wednesday, Mr. Amiot ; March 21, Good 'Friday, Dr. Macleod. Sr. PETER'S, Pramico.-Feb. 5, Ash Wednesday, Mr. Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex; Feb. 7, Friday, Mr. Ward ; Feb. 12, Wednesday, Mr. A. Cooper ; Feb. 14, Friday, Mr. Bowers ; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. Dale ; Feb.'2l, Friday, Sir IL K. Dukenfield ; Feb. 26, Wed nesday, Hon. Mr. Villiers; Feb. 28, March 5, Wednesday, Dr. M'Caul ; March 7, Friday, Mr. Tyler ; March 11, Wednesday, Dr. Russell; Mardi 14, Friday, Mr. W. W. Ellis ; Mr. Jennings ; March 21, Good Friday, Mr. Fuller. C. J. LONDON. N.8.-Prayers will begin at e leven ho'cloF9erkidW;:a.nd there will be a sermon every Wednesday and at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. —lt perhaps, be re. TIIE RULING PASSION. fortnightbeenor three committedw e weeks membered, that we stated, ago, that a man named money, Ardsley, nearrkcans to York, for t Wakefield, a t t he i a t i on s sfieaszsecsao, against as f j o idn r es. r rta o h li bil b me i robbing personmaasoaf na an at to and that t whom he h h e aN r c in on c fi ip d a e l d w h i is secret whilst under remand in the House of Correction. This wit ness, whose name is John Denison, was tried at Leeds Borough Sessions and acquitted. He was assi bound to give evide nce against Birkenshaw at the zes. During the recent West Biding Sessions, at Wakefield, he could not resist the temptation of availing himself of the opportunity offered by a crowded court to abstract a handkerchief from the pocket of a person named George Haigh, of East Moor, for which he was brought up before the magistrates at the Court-house, Wakefield, on Monday last, and com mitted for trial at the sessions.—Doncaster Gazette. The sum of one thousand three hundred pounds has been subscribed for the relief of the widows and children of the men who were killed by the explosion of the boiler of the Gipsy Queen, at Blackwall, in November last. The relatives of the sufferers have received weekly allowances since the accident, and some of them have been supplied with mangles 45 4 means of obtaining . a ST. CLEMENT'S SAVINGS' BANS.--.The following is a statement of the audited account of the money tran sactions of this bank for th e l ast year : — The amount re ceived of depositors during the year was 46,0091. ls. Bd. The amount paid to depositors, including interest, was 41,181/. IBs. 4d., whilst the cost of management &c., amounted to 6041. I s . 7d. 'Ter© was during the , ear 2,536 deposit ors , whose balances did n year not exceed 20/. ; 1,190 depositors above 201. and not exceedingSOZ ; 536 above 501. and not exceeding 1001. ; 167 above 1004 an d not exceeding 15 0 / . ; 67 above 1504 and not exceeding 2001. Sixteen charitable societies and 30 friendly so cieties were also depositors, showing the total number of open accounts to be 4,542. EXTENSIVE FIRE IN TIUNGERFORD-MARYET..--.. This morring, between three and four o'clock, an alarm ing fire was discovered among the loads of hay and straw in liungerford-market, near the company's office. Information was forwarded to the Chandos-street fire station by the watchman on duty, and speedy assistance was procured therefrom, as well as from other stations, but from the progress the fire had made previous to its discovery the firemen were not able to subdue it till a considerable portion of hay and straw had been con sumed. A great mystery attends the cause of the fire, but sufficient time could not be attained to aseertain its origin. ROYAL GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.--Last evening the usual general meeting of this excellent institution took place at the board-room, in Chapel-street, Caven dish-square. From the report of the secretary, - *I - - John Morris, it appears that there are at present nearly i one hundred recipi en t s o f t h e c h arity upon the some of whom are u p war d s o f "three scorelp_ Indeed, one old l a d y i s state d to b e upward s o f six years, similar age s and many of the male recipi en t s ninety six reach ti LITERATURE. AUN7' MARY'S STORY-BOOK. Darton and Clark London, 1845. We have here a new edition, carefully revised by the author, of one of the prettiest children's story-books we have met with for some time. The language throughout is simple and natural, without being at all feeble, the incidents are skilfully put together, and the volume is embellished with several pleasing coloured prints. SINGULAR MisTAKE.—Last Friday afternoon a clipper schooner belonging to Newcastle, took a pilot at the mouth of the river, and brought up in Montrose harbour. On coming on shore the captain inquired immediately for his consignees, designing them as mer . chants in Aberdeen, and was surprised to find that he had entered Montrose Harbour instead of that of the " city of the North." Such a mistake occurring in the 19th century certainly betokens a lamentable want of knowledge, and is another proof of the great need of a properly constituted board for ascertaining the qualifi cations of masters and mates previous to their being en trusted with the care of life and property.—Montrose Standard. We are sorry to learn that the lobster fishers in the Hebrides have not been so successful in their specula tions in the English markets since our last notice as we could have wished them, or their exertions merited. Owing to the stormy weather and intervening fogs, the steamers to and from the Highlands, but more particu larly from Glaszow, have been prevented from sailing at the stated time; and, in consequence, the lobsters being too long out of their native element, the greater part of them died ere they reached the English markets. We learn that proposals have been made to have the lobsters boiled and prepared here before they are trans mitted to the sister kingdom, so that they may be fit for the market there.—Caledania n Mercury. We are glad to learn that the gingham weavers in Whitehaven, in the employ of Messrs. Chambers and Co., of Carlisle, have lately had an advance in their wages of one penny per head, which will amount to from 6d. to 9d. per week to ordinary workmen, and perhaps to ls. per week to the quickest hands in their employ ment.— Cumberland Pacquet. WIGAN.-....FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—On Thursday night last, between ten and eleven o'clock, a fatal accident happened to a man, named William Round, on the North Union Railway, near Mr. Hargreave's warehouses, luggage station, Wigan. Round had, for about three weeks, been en gaged as an occasional assistant in and about Mr. Hargreave's warehouses ; and, more particularly, we believe, to help his brother, who has been a servant in the same place for many years. On the night in question, his brother being called in some other direction, it fell to the lot of William Round to attend a luggage train, at the time stated, for the purpose of removing some tarpauling sheets from the waggons, before the train proceeded from the sta tion. He was engaged in doing this when the train started, and had left his lamp on the side of the line ; he is supposed to have either jumped off the carriages, or have been so much thrown off his balance in getting upon them, that when he came to the ground he staggered backwards and fell over the side of the bridge, his head coming in contact with some stones, and his body rolling into the river Douglas, where it was found early next morning. Front some unfortunate neglect, for neglect it must be, there is not the slightest protection,tby wall or pallisading, at that side of the bridge, although the " switches," which communicate with the line leading to the warehouses, are placed on or very near it. The watchman, who attended with Round at the train, be lieving him to have done his work and gon e h ome , went away also ; and no inquiry was made until he was discovered to be missing on the following morning, when his body was found in the river. He appeared to have bled profusely from the side of the head, and it is supposed sufficient iujury had been received to cause death before he get into the water. An inquest was held on Saturday even ing, before Mr. Rogerson, borough-coroner, when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. The jury also strongly recommended that a suitable guard or pro tection should be immediately placed upon the bridge, which recommendation is, we believe, about to be com plied with.—Manchester Guardian. Mr. Tufnell, M.P., is detained in Italy by the ill health of Mrs. Tufnell, but hopes to be back in Eng land in the course of the month of February, to attend to his duties in Parliament. EXTENSIIVEIZOBBERY Or BANK NOTES.—On Wed nesday information was circulated throughout the metro politan and City police districts, that on the evening of Saturday, the 18th instant, Mr. J. Brodriek, a gentleman recently come from Newcastle•upon-Tyne, and residing at No. 23, Haydon-square, Minories, was robbed while sitting in the pit of Covent-garden Theatre of bank notes to the value of 8251 The notes were enclosed in a paper packet, and were deposited in an inside breast pocket of his inner coat. They consisted chiefly of Bank of England notes, and some were of the York and Stock ton banks. About 30 of them were for 10L each, and the rest of them were for Si. each, the numbers and dates being unknown. How the robbery was effected, or at what period of the evening, is a mystery. CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday forenoon Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Cottage of Content, Locks fields, Walworth, on the body of a newly-born female child, which was found dead in Penton-place, Walworth. Frederick Gibbs, of 14, Regent-street, Brixton, stated that on Sunday morning last whilst proceeding across the fields in Penton-place, he saw a parcel lying in the area of an unfinished house. Witness with considerable difficulty got it up, and on opening it he discovered the dead body of a female child. Police-constable 208 P came to the spot, and subsequently conveyed the body to the station-house. There were several marks of vio lence about the head. Mr. W. H. Dry, surgeon, said that he saw the child soon after it was found. It ap peared of recent birth. There were several contusions of the scalp and left forehead, and another bruise on the back, which injuri es , he had no doubt, were t h e resu l t o f violent blows inflicted by some blunt instrument, which had caused the deceased's death soon after birth. Other corroborative evidence having been adduced, the jury returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased was born alive, and that she was wilfully murdered by some person or p ersons unknown. " MORE ADVANCE IN WAGES.—The miners in them ploy of Messrs. Lloyd, Foster, and Co., the extensive coal and iron masters, of Wednesbury, have received an ad vance in their wages ; the thin coal men to the amount of threepence per day, and the thick coal men sixpence a day. The iron trade is in a most flourishing condition, and it is most gratifying to find the men partaking of the prosperity which prevails throughout the district,— Birmingham Journal. We are happy to learn that the health of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart, is considerably improved, and that hopes are entertained of his complete recovery. —Bury Post. The Marquis and Marchioness Camden are expected in Belgrave-square, at the end of the month, from the Wilderness, near Seven Oaks, Kent, for the season. HARROW ScnooL.—Yesterday Harrow School 90 ened under its new head-master, the Rey. Charles Vaughn, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.---Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken for walking exercise this morning on the Terrace, and in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was also taken an airing to-day. The Duchess of Gloucester visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Here ditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yesterday, at Cambridge House. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. The Worshipful the Mayor of Huntingdon, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Colonel Peel, M.P., and Mr. Rust, a deputation fro'n Huntingdon in favour of the London and York Railway, attended yesterday at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, to pre sent a memorial in favour of the London and York Rail way. The Rev. Dr. Smith and Mr. Lomas, a deputation from Horneastle, to present a similar memorial. The Worshipful the Mayor of Grantham and Mr. Wyles, a deputation from Grantham, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Isaac Dods and Mr. Charles Rennie, a depu tation from Spalding, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Clifford Pease, Mr. Holderness, Mr. Tall, and Mr. J. H. Smith, a deputation from Hull, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Lindsell, a deputation from Biggleswade, to present a similar memorial ; also to present a similar memorial from the town of Bedford. The Worshipful the Mayor of East Retford and Dr. J. C. Hall, a deputation from East Retford, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Adams, Mr. Sturdy, and Mr. Coupland, a de putation from Boston, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Ellison and the Rev. H. W. Sibthorp, to pre sent a similar memorial from Lincoln. Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Whitwell, a deputation from Peterborough, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Thorpe, a deputation from Newark, to pre sent a similar memorial in favour of the London and York Railway, who transacted business yester day at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. SAFFRON WALDEN.—In addition to two maiden sessions in this borough in the past year, we have plea sure in recording that a third—the Epiphany Sessions, has also proved a maiden one, there not being a single prisoner for trial. The Mayor (George Youngman, Esq.), accomp an i e d b y t h e mem b ers of the town coun cil, proceeded on Monday last to the Town-hall, and there adjourned the sessions, according to law, grati fied, we doubt not, that the year of his mayoralty has commenced so favourably, since the satisfaction is so much greater in preventing crime than in punishing it, -Essex 'Jerald, -~;