The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

p on the to get off. of Ne w with loss be steer• Weather 3 °WO O , as a ban. her On averag e ' v. Tbe e;vise the and th atre a adee d receifed kV.) lied with From th 6 full Id A st re % st. T he •IlerOP ed w ith stalifelf red e el " The W ; Lphoug at lode is, re"' -------- 1 10 _, ar. ...--- SO" 2,96° loiDB is I Pr i c es. e 4 f r ail il, 3 ' Irc af , or TilE SUN, LON ON, WEDNESD 8 7 _ EVEN INCA, JANUARY 22, 1851. The ASSISTANT -JUDGE having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and he was at ()Lee discharged. atARL BRO'-STREET—(TIIISDAY.) 'HUMANLY ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUALLEIL— robert Monekton, a stout young man, was placed before Alie Hardwick, charged with violently assaulting Mr. Jetties Taylor, landlord of the Rise and Crown, Hart- Street, Grosvernor-square. He was also charged with assaulting the police-oonstables who took him int o custody, Mr. Taylor stated that about six o'clock on the pre vious evening the prisoner, who had formerly lived a ith for him as potman, but who was discharged some weeks ago heine drunk, came into his house and asked to see '`rn• Witness went to the b ar and asked him what he wanted, a hen the prisoner replied that he had called to ask his (complainant's) forgiveness, and h e he would not think any more of what had Pissed. Witness said he should riot. Prisoner then forced 'his way into the bar and struck him in the lace with ;great force, and blackened one of his eyes. Corn iainant tried to run out of the bar for assistance, when the prisoner stopped him and struck him again. Some perso n thou ran for a constable, and the prisoner ran out o f the house, but was subsequently taken into CDs =WY in Oxford -street. !Wilton, 11 C, said he was called to take the prisoner ! i te custody, and on goirg to cenap'ainant's house saw the prisoner in the act of running away. Witness ',ur n the way h e him, and took him into custody in Oxford-street. lhe leg to the station the prisoner kicked him on came tried to throw him down. Another een a'ehle o his aid, who was also severely kicked on the lo wer part of his person. After a deal of trouble the prisoner was eventually lodged in the station. The prisoner, in defence, said he was drunk at the time, and kn ew nothing at all about it. Was Inspector W hall, who took the charge, said the pri soner perfectly sober when brought to the station. yo, t.,ll4.lleaDwlcs. fined the prisoner forty shillings or eal r re-etY-olle and days' i mpr i sonment for t h e assau l t ou M r . sentenced him to six weeks' imprisonment forpe assault on the constables. REC ENT BURGLARY IN TOTTENHAM-COURT ,?AI3. ERECENT BURGLARY alias Shallow Jack, James Cotton, 1 1 1 : 1 1 8 Young Dutch Sam, William Johnson, alias the hi 11 Little'6er, Charles Moran, and Charles Gosling, alias trial, Cha 'leY, Were brought up and fully committed for a . , on the charge of bur gloriously entering the house of v •„arLey, clothier, &c g , 44, Tottenham-court-road, " -- %nog therefrom property to the amount of 150/. LLOYD v. WEST-END AND CROYDON P • RAILWAY. Feint s 1 Dof Ve-Chancellor (nth Januar3) la that a creditor who has te received orders from the se tt,etarY of a provisionally-registered company must certain who sat at the board of direction each time that the ytrticular order was g iv e n, and then split up 7total of his bill and claim against each member for cperate portions, instead of the managing committee, r lab lc as cond ucted the affairs of the company being held a 4 bod y , and having to pay their several quotas an cesording to the a p port i onment of the o ffi c i a l manager the secretary the bla s t er i n Chancery, or general instructions to r ae Cretftry to incur certain necessary liabilities in eiednutc.ting the affairs of the company being held suf „ 2 . Th e d ecision is wholly opposed to the intention of 'ne Le g i s l ature, which was to prevent numerous and v e at ious actions, decide who concocted and promoted Scheme, an d release those not liable. The promoters of any abortive scheme, although Provisional! y and duly registered as a company, have .1_ 1 3 7 to get the secretary out of the way, and conceal or mestroy the minute b oks to render it impossible for 411 Y creditor to recover, Unless at the ruinous expense of " bill of discovery," &c. and 4 . An cPpeal to the Lords seems now the only course, although the Winding-up Act was intended ex -5p to bring the concocters of these schemes to . kt, the Court of Chancery holds that the Act only meat' and to companies having obtained a Bill in Parlia atat and which rarely or ever require to be wound-up. 5 . Ia the present case (which decides all others) pay 41ents on account were actually made by the managing committee. THE SLOANE CASE. te t t e "mequence o f t h e rumoure d i ntent i on o f th e de ant' M r. Sloane, to apply to the Court of Queen's 4-)en c h to remove the indictment in this case into that " i)f ll th t i ~, J)the subj ect was b rought under the considerat i on , L e uard of G uar di ans o f t h e W est L on d on U n i on e e sitting of the board last night, when Mr. Pontifex, clerk t o t h e board, stated that he had taken all the t i r , slry pr ecaut i onary steps to prevent the issuing of be_ wr it without no ti ce of the i ntended appl i cat i on b eing Tun to him, by entering a caveat at the Judge's chem.- te _ stud al so at the Crown-office, and giving the de se"_attnt'B attorneys notice of the fact; but up to the pre r.l, time he h a d rece i ved no notice of the application. eeClarkson, who appear e d f o r Mr. Sloane tnroughout to xatr iination and a t th e C entra l Criminal Court, tihas been ascertained, has not received instructions ,lipply for the writ, which can only be done tl rtngterm by counsel and application to the Court at Westminster, a Judge at chambers having no power dur .lng term t o di rect the writ to issue. Information has 'eakhcd Mr. Roe, the officer, who holds the warrant litle..,a:iketi:t Mrs. Sloane, that she is residing at Boulogne, l A tid L er feigne name, and that such is the fact that priety Xpresses his conviction; and in con.equence he . o .. ar u d a i d atls ev a e n r da l interviews with members of the board of or Mr. Pontifex on the subject of the pro- Pr„n supply ti to the ...overnment to aid through the be I auth ,, rities her apprehension, in the event of ta!g i .deatified and found residing there, upon the war- P". / . l ‘ which he holds against her; but as his got g•n over L . : ° „ (ll ,°,?,nt) would be attended with considerable (A ne (Roe) objects to do so unless indemnified by nth` guardians It - appears, however, that there is a d i t o r tg. d i , inclinationonte part of the guardians to 6PORTING INTELLIGENCE. W OLVERLIAMP fON STEEPLECHASE. Free Handicap Steeplechase. 1,,r• I:6atnplagh's Pugh man (Owner) 1 atr. hts..._ (Thrift) 2 Ai r. , 1 "" d rjusaucky-one ~ laylor's Jesuit (Owner) 3 ‘ „,' - ' l even ran. Won easy. Unlucky-one carried the -rang' weight, and was d a i s s y stinalifit d. M r , v, , Sweepst a k es o f 3 Bo y s . each. fir!,Y.!Ly tton s Mind-yo u r- own -b us i ness (Walker) 1 6 v - 4 u6han's Cowslip Seven ran. LIVERPOOLBETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TIIESDAY. f 0:_ STEEPLECHASE.-10 to 1 agst Va s ie . hope e ( t), i 1 2 to 1 agst Sir John (t), 14 to 1 agst Peter Simple , oj loo to 6 segst Sir Peter Laurie, 100 to 6 agst The ett u g - tin, 100 (0 6 waufishan (t), 2-2 agst Abd-e'-kader (t). Th e P,ST.ER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Rhesus (t), 20 to 1 agst to 1 agst Cossack (t), 30 to 1 agst l agst ti tt " v e e r, 35 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel (t), 35 to Nothing le c't (t), 40.t0 1 agst Flying Gout. done upon the Metropolitan Stakes or Derby. PER r ----- -- --- --- ADvER -14414- " TISER. ENLARGEMENT Or THE " MORNING ! "--- We are delighted to perceive, from an achrerteiern liberal - that the ent which appears in another column, Morning Advertiser, the most consistently ° f all the morning journals, which has, t111."311 e vil report and through good report, always itiwight the go o d fi ght of freedom, is about to add to T he l e b y permanently enlarging i ts s i ze. add. greatl "rnin g Advertiser will, by thi s e nlargement, dev yto its circulation its rofits are °led to the maintenance of some of the p most im- Portant charitable institutions of the metropolis (a fi ll e, °f 250 ,000/. has be e n s o appropriated during the t yl o :"lev en years of it s ex i s t ence ) , i t i s sat i s f actory to . W that while by this extension of circulation the e ti a l uae of h ottest reform will be greatly s t reng th ene d , . ca use of charity will b e b ene fi te d at the same binle. 410""'7-tFRESRNON OF GLAMORGAIN SIIIRE —A ru- or TATI i 3 abroad to the effect that Mr. Henry Thomas, who for of u 3; Years has been vice-chairman of the quarter sess.o:ls ‘c county of Glamorgan, will occa • ber be put forward in the Li ‘,„2ll interest as a candidate for Glamorganshire, on the I lurtdrd s. si"ed by Earl Dunraven accepting the Chiltern Niißho LADY IN DIFFICULTIES.—MISS Laura 841, itseerantacirn,elllsaos,been much before the public, on the 12th of '‘ )l for j ewels She came to gave at London a bill of exchange for Paris) • purchased of Mr. Josh. Joel. . 4 , an without paving the bill, and Joel passed it to a French-_ „: When it became due, M. Rognoux, the holder, caused iv r ,i",; e t e Qngs to be taken on it, and had her arrested. She or c i er ; a r isen before the President of the Civil Tribunal, who regul - a' r. t he arrest to be maintained, as the debt was perfectly . ca u ,,, e d b Miss Bell, instead of being at once taken to prison, l a T oth. ,erself to be conveyed to the residence of M. Guy de ' 4 Pin, and that gentleman advanced her 5,3001. to th ere `"e debt and costs, but under reserves. '1 he lady was cooeupon released, and yesterday she appealed to the Court PPeal to have the judgment of the Civil Tribunal, de • the validity of the debts, set aside. But after hear 11ri'g arguments the Court confirmed the judgment.—Ga grac'"i's litessen' ger. leriM "4l ) N ESs or THE SEASON.—Air. Dennis, of Essex, has a gooseberry bush in his garden with 4uhng fruit now upon it. In another garden, in the same neighbourhood, another bush is in full bloom. gi MELRO SE —A n e ff ort was lately made here to close "le post-office on Sundays, and a memorial to that effect livue didspatched to the Postmastr-General,i sgned by aout CO inividuals. Several of the inhabitsnts inimical tot his rproceeding, got up a counter-memorial, which, without any uv aes, obtained nearly 50 signatures. By orderthe ostrnaster-General a record was kept of the letters received 0 3' each of the parties, when it was shown that the fifty Were in receipt of more letters than the hundred ; in conse qtlenee of which there will be no alteration in our postal ar rangements. —North British Mail. b - : T ATE OF TR ADE , MANCHESTER.—TUES DAY. — O n hete whole we have had a quiet market, and where sales have m ade, a reducti on o f pr i ce h as b een su b m i tted to. 'y here is scarcely any demand for shirting, but a little more 18 doing in domestics and light T cloths. Printers continue 1° be negl ected, and prices are quite nominal. Yarn, both ' h iPPing and manufacturing purposes, is a shade lower than last, week. The business to-day is generally in favour ?t - the buyers, and in the few transactions entered into thcy have the advantage, although no general reduction can be quoted. MURDER DY A GIPSY, AND EFCAPE OF THE MOE, nl'ltElt•—Yesterday information was received that a man l amed John Cl arke was, whilst in a beer-house in the town tioivpeorifdgSetrrbridge, killed by a g i psy of the name of Elisha commonly called the " Slasher or Tasher." After committing the deed he absconded, and is supposed to have escaped to London. IRISH ADVER TISEMENT.--Missing' from Killer (lileY, Lane cow, all O'Fogg e rtY; she had in her ar ms t wo b a bi es an d a combs uer black, with re d ha i r, and tortoise-shell behind her ears, and la rge bl ac k spots all down her lace, which Aquiato invf4llY' THE WELSH CHURCH AND THE " QUARTERLY REVIEW." TO THE FDITOit OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Morni'ng Post of Friday, Oct. 4t.1), 180, says ef the Quarterly Review for the precious month, " We mu,t content ourselves with speekirg in general terms of the high intellectual gratifithstion which a perusal of it must afford," &c., and then pro ceede to point out the first three articles as censpi tuously marked by evidences of learning and ability rare sae n in the pages of the Quarterly. One of these three, on the state of the Church and , of education in Wales, is specially included in this commendation. " This," triumphantly announces , - the eulogistic critic, "i 3 not a mere resume of the Blue ; Books, though it extracts from them a picture suffi ciently deplorable," &c. "It is also a philosophical inquiry into the origin and character of the Welsh language and people, undertaken with the view prise , cipelly of showing that the religious error which there prevails is not dependent upon necessity of tem perament or distinciien of race ; and most success fully is the undertaking eccomplishe(3." After mak ing a long quotation, the Morning Post continues, " The popularity of various forms of Dissent in Wales is sufficiently explained by the inadequate means of the Church there to satisfy the religious tense of the people, which has been ve. liernently stirred, but ill-informed and partially vitiated." Stating that public attention ought to be drawn to the abuse of the funds devoted to free schools, the Morning Post sums up the wants of Wales as consisting in clergymen, schoolmasters, and a " bi-lingual" system of instruction. This encomi astic epitome embodies the main points of the article, and the implicit faith of the Morning Post in the in fallibility of the Quarterly indicates but too plainly the impression which is likely to be made upon minds unused to independent thought, and predisposed to reverence all such oracular declarations. The im portance attached to its authority is also proved in a remarkable manner by the fact that at a public meet ing, held at Bridgend on the 2d of last October, the Bishop of Llandaff, referring to the one now in ques tion, said,---" An article in the Quarterly Review also directs the attention of England and the world at large to the state of the Church in Wales. That article was written by a native of the Principality, who has devoted his eminent talents and profound learning to the service of his country." Ignorant of this distinguished writer's name, "I am fortunately safe from all danger of being seduced by personal veneration into a blind adoption of his sentiments." The learned Archdeacon of Car digan, so often complimented for his patriotism by the writers upon Wales in the Quarterly Review, might naturally have been expected ere this to have privately corrected their errors, or to have publicly refuted them. Other literary Welshmen, of compe tent knowledge and ability, are also mute, therefore the author of this letter being neither unacquainted with Wales, nor altogether ignorant of literature, though wanting the advantage of an authoritative name, thus ventures to attempt the exhibition of truth to the British public. Good matter and a good manner of stating it are universally allowed to be alike essential to excellence in writing. The high station, nobly won and respectably maintained by the Quarterly in critical literature, ought not, how ever, to exempt its essays from just animadver sion, more especially when any of those essays tend by example to the corruption of a correct taste, and by inculcation to the extension of erroneous views and injurious opinions upon important subjects. None can assert that an article alleged to be so "con spicuously marked by evidences of learning and abi lity, rare even in the pages of the Quarterly," has been unfairly selected for criticism. Yet this much ad mired production, even as a mere literary exercise, is full of faults. It is disfigured by mongrel epithets, such as "legitimate prestige" " the somewhat trancliant style of the reports," &c. ; by witless jests, such as the recommendatisin of General Bern as school master for Pwllheli ; by hackneyed allusions to the tomb oi the Capulets, the oldest inhabitant, a place rejoicing in the association of the names of Jabez, &c., and by several coarse similies. It is replete with affectation, of which the following are instances : " The old road leading to the masterpiece of Telford's art ;" " repugnance to breadth of phylactery," Sec.; the town of Bala is called, " this metropolis of knit ting and resort of anglers"; the majestic Berwyn range is fantastically dwindled down into "that mountain breast-plate which Nature reared before the old freedom of Gvvynedh (Gwynedd) into the softer undulations of Montgomery." Nothing can be more superficial, disjointed, and flippant than the narration, descriptions, and remarks given at pp. 333-6. Take a single specimen—"ln some churches service has not been performed for years. At one with a long name in Brecknockshire the vicar rides by," &c. This, but fur the Bishop of Llandatt's dis tinct information, one could scarcely believe to have been written by a learned Welshman. Some mincing trifler from London's eastern suburbs would othenNise unaoubtedly have been charged with it. Arguing in support of the proposition that "race is circumstance," the Reviewer adds, "Though circum stance we admit in some cases, so inveterate and en grained as to require generations before its effects on the mass can be altogether obliterated." This incon gruous assemblage of words appears to have been summoned to tell us of a race, which being transmuted into a circumstance, is admitted in seme circumstances, to have become so deeply (bed by the long action of colouring matter, that many generations of the race, or circumstance, must successively labour at rubbing it out " before its effects on the mass can be altogether obliterated." Ohl " World at large," regard not the recommen dation of the Morning Post and the Bishop of Llan duff ; judge not of British reasoning, nor of Britain's language by such a specimen as this unlucky article in the Quarterly affords ! Trust not to such a writer, and to such a reasoner, for a clear and true exposition of the state of the Church in Wales. His pictures are like those produced by an unskilful artist with the Talbotype, the objects lean obliquely, the lines are confusedly intermingled, and the shades are where the lights should be. Upwards of forty-two pages of the Quarterly Re view for September last (1850) are devoted to the article on Wales. Six works are enumerated at the head of it, arranged in chronological order, and begin ning with the "Reports of the Commissioners of In quiry into the State of Education in Wales, 1847." After the lapse of three years, and after the decided sentence of reprobation pronounced on those reports, in No. CLXX. of the same periodical for Sept. 1849, p. 341, it seems doubly strange to find them here made the basis of a fresh series of reproaches against the Welsh people. In describing the day schools of the Principality the Reviewer wastes his space in re peating many of the grossest errors to which the lead ing questions of the Commissioners obtained their simple catechist's arsent. Surely "England and the world at large" have had enough of this, and scarcely n eed the pitiful confession. " Trace?, indeed, of irreverence, and of leading to errors, rather strike us in a few of the questions, and a certain technicality in many of them," &c. Again, while affecting to disallow the Commissioners' views of Welsh society, and guarding the offensive quota tions as relating to particular instances, or by such phrases as "we should not infer too much," " due deductions should be made," Sec., every opportunity is taken of insinuating charges of infidelity, Chartism, and awful profanity vgatest the Welsh people. Se dition is represented as a prevalent tendency, stupid ignorance as a common thing ; Antinomienism and Dissent appear to be used as equivalent terms. Forgetting that sedition and Chartism, with all their bitter fruits, are most undoubtedly exotic trees of English planting; passing by unmarked the cairn and holy course of industrious, intelligent, and happy life, full of Goo's fear and of honour to existing Powers, which is bringing down the blessing of Heaven upon the cottages of \Vales, this Quarterly Reviewer gives and sanctions accounts of their inha bitants, which are calculated to excite the unmiti gated contempt, disgust, and horror of "England and the world at large. His flimsy qualificstione of ex pression rney fitly be compared to the cautious in sinuations of an lago, or to the assassin's folded scarf around the unsheathed dagger. The second of the works placed at the bead of the article is the "Report of the National Society,lB47 t' t the third is the " Bishop of St. David's Charge, 1848." From the latter a p assage i s quoted en forcing the necessity of instructing Welsh children in and through their native tongue, of which the Re viewer owns the tenacious and powerful vitality; justly asserting the popular interest and value which ought to be attached to its literature. To one really interested in the religious improvement of the Principality, the questionable theology revealed in that charge might, perchance, have furnished matter for many pertinent remarks, but here, as elsewhere, a reviewer's proper and principal office is lost sight of. The fourth work is the "Archdeacon of Llandaff 'sCharge, 1849," from which are cited several useful suggestions for in creasing the Church Establishment's parochial useful ness. The Reviewer unluckily describes this Arch deacon not as a zealous Churchman, but 8s an " able writer," while, in glaring disproof of his claim to the epithet, soon follows this incorrect and feeble sen tence : " W e shall gain nothing," observer this able writer, " even were it lawful, by torrawing from a system which is not ours." The! Avadeacon's literary merit might almost as well have been urged by a passage from his pamphlet on Church Extension, where men tal bewilderment is reflected with singular felicity in the disordered interrog:ition. However, or whence is a provision to be made ler these things ?" (p. 10.) The fifth work is "A Visitation Sermon, by A.M., Canon of St. Asaph ;" and the sixth is Keltische Studim von Vriedr Korner, •Ralle, 1849. 'On the last the Reviewer founds what the Morning Dust ure calla correctly philosophi ca l i nqu i ry ," th oug h it is n: described by the Quarterly Reviewer L "a himself as " a considerable digression." The subject is fairly open to speculation, but the casuistry used in this ethnological episode, leaves perfectly unshaken the historical facts, that Welelamen and Englishmen generally differ from each other at the present day, and that they also differed many centuries ago, in the same points of constitutional temperament. Some of the variations of this Reviewing Mariner's compass, and the consequent bias of his course, may be learned from the following passages. A note at page 353. on the word " Eistedhood" (Eisteddfod), says—" Some attacks of unnecessary acrimony have recently been made upon these herdic meetings. They are certainly relics of a hearing, rather than signs of a reading age; and even if they escape the perils of bickering, tend to give a literature too much the character of a succession of prize poems." I in terrupt the Quarterly Reviewer here for a moment to remark the very curious nature of these objections. While public lectures are kept up in our pulpits, our universities, our local societies, and other places of inetruction—while public meetings and platform peaking upon all sorts of subjects are more general than they ever were in Britain before, the Eistedd fodan are reproached as " relics of a hearing, rather than signs of a reading age ;" as if the present gene ration was composed exclusively of meditative scholars, and the practice of oral instruction was re membered only among obsolete customs. But the latter part of the paragraph announces that " even" if these Cambrian meetings " escape the perils of bickering," they " tend to give a literature too much the character of a succession of prize poems." Happily the literary adjudicators consider excel. knee to be the essential quality of successful comp°. sitions. It is marvellously strange, therefore, that a Quarterly Reviewer, of such "eminent talents and profound learning," forgetting that a Euripides, a Pinder, and other illustrious Greeks of old, gave to the immortal literature of their country the character of a succession of prize poems," should mainly object to the Welsh Esteddfodan es means well fitted to produce the like effects! " Yet," proceeds the wa vering advocate for mediocrity, " they are at least a graceful form of antiquarianism, and afford a certain kind of intellectual stimulus, us well as keep alive sympathy between ranks whose points of contact are not numerous," &c. The following extract proves the Reviewer to have attained no mean proficiency in that oscillating style of which the Bishop of St. David's is so great a master :—" Even persons who seldom trouble a church with their presence feel a pious satisfaction in requiring that the service should be performed in the language which they prefer, and have an ostensible grievance if the contrary should be the practice. ' Formerly it was perhaps too much the custom to con sider mainly the wealthy minority who preferred English ; but at present as from the relative, intelli gence of the two parties equity seems to require, the balance is rather in favour of the other side," (p. 368.) Again he says, "It is natural that attention should be daily more directed to the imperfections which such a state of things involve, and we are not sur prised that something like a crusade against the use of the Welsh language should be occasionally insti tuted and asserted to be a mark of superior intelli gence. We doubt, however, if more zeal than discre tion is not often developed in the cause," &c. In order that the true state of the case may be fully understood, it is absolutely necessary here to call the reader's attention to several important facts. The nobility and gentry of Wales and the English settlers, with their immediate retainers, chiefly 'form the Church party. The commonalty of Wales are in general attendants upon chapel worship, and a very large proportion of them are members of Dissenting congregations. Society in Wales is thus virtually severed, the only subsisting ligaments which hold its head and body together being the traditional respect and affectionate nature of the lower classes, and the sympathising kindness of some individuals among the upper ones. - Within the last few years a very great change has gradually taken place in the sentiments publicly professed alike by the Eng lish prelates of the Principality and by the clerical and lay adherents of their party. For many genera tions it was avowedly their object to substitute the English language for the mother tongue of Wales. Tnis mistaken policy, augmenting the power of Dis sent, and enervating the strength of the Establish ment, has left to our unhappy Church a very small minority of the native population. The neces sity that the Welsh people should be taught by native pastors, and in the language of their homes, is now openly and generally acknowledged. The folly of attempting to give Welsh children the first rudiments of education in a foreign language is stigmatised by all, from the erudite Bishop of St. David's down to the industrious Sir Thomas Phillips. Such notions not very long ago were virtually proscribed ; although a few noble-hearted and enlightened Welshmen faith ful to their country and to tt.e highest interests of their Church, have successively stood forth from age to age, like the Apocalyptic witnesses in sackcloth, still protesting against their national wrongs, and still claiming for ►ti ales the legal privilege of religious in struction in a language understood by her people. Enforced by public opinion, and by striking manifes tations of the Church's impending ruin, such warnings have at last succeeded in arousing the hierarchy of Wales to a sense of their dangerous position. They stand now avowedly awake to it, but still the predilection of their hearts is with the old s> stem. " Grudgingly and of necessity " they are yielding to the force of circumstances, anxious to do the least possible right which may consist with expediency, and betraying their consciousness of merited blame, by sedulous endeavours to avoid every act and every word which might possibly be construed to imply compunction for the past. Unchanged in inclination, every step is consequently taken in tremulous apprehension of its exciting attention to the errors of their previous course. Repentance is the invariable precursor of thorough reformation, and the acknowledgment of faults, whether tacit or avowed, must ever be a pre requisite of real amendment. A change of conduct which results from mere constraint must, of course, be heartless, feeble, and inefficient. Thus it is with the Anglo-Welsh clergy, thus it is with the Anglo- Welsh gentry, and thus it is with their partizan and spokesman in the Quarterly. There is more or less truth admitted into their statements, but its pure gold is alloyed to suit a corrupt standard. Double mindedness will render even the strongest intellect unstable ; and though endowed with many advantages of learning and capacity, a writer, conscious of hav ing much to hide, and of being too partial for perfect sincerity, must often prove like one of the vacillating rhymers rebuked by Pope, even . " He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round a meaning." The shameful fact that an English monopoly of Welsh livings was kept;up for ages to the destruction of the native clergy, and the durable alienation of the people, is thus alluded to by the Quarterly Reviewer : That infusion of fresh blood which it is sometimes supposed would he a panacea, has been tried for several generations without at least removing the evil, which on the other hand it is by many persons represented as having contributed to produce, for it has sown something like jealousy among those who should have been of one mind, and has given the less scrupulous opponents of the Church an excuse for re presenting her as estron, as an institution alien to the feeling as to the language of the people. In short the one cupit2,l and paramount want is a want of men. Here is the hinge on which every thing must turn, (p. 351.) The grievous want thus deplored, the want of men for pastors and schoulmsters, is obviously a natural and necessary result of the pernicious eccle siastical system with which the rulers of the Welsh Church are still identified. Like children, the Anglo- Welsh Churchmen are crying now for what their own reckless hands have destroyed. They, like their predecessors, have heretofore despised Welsh school masters, neglected and suffered the decay of Welsh Grammar Schools, discouraged and debased Welsh clergymen, and now they find out with surprise amounting to amaze ment, that they want men, that they urgently scant the very men whom they have hitherto cast contemptuously aside, the men who but for such fatuity might now be found, not among the leaders of the Dissenting host (from which the Bishops them - selves in this emergency are even condescending to invite them), but standing in noble array, the strength, the light and glory of their National Church. The Reviewer is apparently one of those high Churchmen who deem Dissent not merely schismatic, but heretical and scarcely Christian. In the present condition of the Principality, a.writer posse sse d w ith such opinions can certainly publish themto no good purpose, and is signally unfitted rightly to apprehend t he position of Welsh affairs, and candidly to inform the British public. Large indeed, then, should be the benevolence of strangers who come late in life as Church dignitaries among th e p eo pl e , f or w i t h t h em no ancestral traditions, no local associations, no early remembrances, no claims of kindred and old friend ships, no sympathy of feeling, no community of in terests, can exist, to soften down the oppositions of constitutional temperament, and reduce the harsh ness Of sectarian judgment even to the level of this Quarterly Reviewer's. In the Reviewer's fear that " Wales might, like Ireland, dash itself in fretting against the rock on which whoever eumbies is broken," few can share who are acquainted with the habits of the Welsh people. Those poor :Dissenting Sunday-schools, so much de spised by him, are continually at work, diffusing among the middle and lower classes that thorough knowledge of Holy Scripture which forms the true groundwork of our common Protestant faith, a n d pupplies the most effectull safeguard alike against Romanism and against every form of infidelity. Most heartily, oevertheiess, can all Welshmen sympathise with toe lle,viewer's "deep.aud anxious conviction,:that it depends, under Heaven, upon men now alive whe then in a century or less the Church Catholic (i. e., the Protestant Church Establistiment),in the Princi pality shall exist as a living teacher, or whether poli• ticians shall be wrangling over the carcase of her re venues," (p. 373). In conclusion, I would earnestly express my hope that the " eminent talents and profound learniT g" ascribed to this Reviewer may henceforth he applied to better effect, and tend not to the disparagement of his country's character, nor to the superficial con cealment of her injuries, but to their thorough inves tigation, to their candid acknowledgment, and to their perfect cure.—l au l, Sir, &c., PEREDUR. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 21. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, went to London this morning, at ten o'clock, for the purpose of presiding at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, held at the Building in Hyde Park. His Royal Highness and suite travelled by a special train on the Great Western Railway, and returned to the Castle at two o'clock. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner yesterday (Monday) evening, and performed the lON-riving selections : Overture, ".13:?rggei,t'' Selection, " Stebat Miter" Rossini. Overture, " Carline" Thomas. Ballet Music, "Masaniallo" His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes terday morning at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851. His Royal Highness arrived at the Building in Hyde Park at eleven o'clock, attended by Colonel the Hen. Charles Grey and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Say mour. The Commissioners present were—the Earl Gran ville, Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. Henry La bouchere, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. T. F. Gibson. Mr. Scott Russell attended as Secretary of the Royal Commission. Mr. Bowring was also present. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Com mittee, and Dr. Lyon Playl:ir, Special Commissioner, were in attendance on the Royal Commissioners. The meeting broke up at a quarter-past one o'clock, when Prince Albert left the Exhibition for the Pad dington terminus of the Great Western Railway on his return to Windsor Castle. Mr. J. A. Jackson had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial office. Wilkins had an interview with Viscount Pal merston yesterday at the Foreign-office. Sir Edward Disbrowe had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday at the Office of the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Lansdowne was better yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of South Australia and Malta, and also from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT_ (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JAN. 21. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.—Lord Godolphin has taken Sir J. S. Hippesiey's house for two years, from the Ist of March next. Captain Hamlyn Williams has taken Cambridge House for the summer ; and there are so many inquiries for houses, that there is every appearance of an early and full season. THE SEASON.—Such is the uncommon mildness of the season, that the trees are bursting buds and blos soms, the banks are covered with primroses, the tur nips are running up to seed, and the birds are full of song—the daisies deck the lawns, and the fields look as gay as May. PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.—The provisional order for the application of the Public Health Act, 1848, to the town of West Cowes, was received yesterday, and a meeting has been called in the Town.hall this evening, to appoint a person for conducting and com pleting the return of the first election of commis sioners, and to make a return of what alterations are required in the present local Act, prior to the Gene ral Board o f H ea l t h go i ng t o P ar li amen t t o ge t cer tain of the clauses repealed. MESMERISM, OR ELECTRO-BIOLOGY. An American physician, named Darling, has been demonstrating- mesmeric phenomena in Edinburgh, and bas produced a great sensation. Sir David Brewster has published a letter in the papers express ing his conviction that there was no collusion. In consequence of the conversion of so many opponents, the Rev. D. Esdaile, brother ( f Dr. Esdaile of India, has written the following letter to the Edinburgh Courant:— 111 URDER NEAR BURY ST. EDMUND'S. On Monday evening last a murder was committed , in the parish of Lawshall, under very shocking cir cumstances; and, from the information which we were enabled to obtain on the spot, there can be but little if any doubt that the perpetrator of it is now in cus tody. The following narrative will be found to em brace all the facts of the case at present known : The name of the deceased is Elizabeth Banbridge, and the prisoner in custody is George Carnt, both of them natives of Lawshall, the former the daughter of a small farmer there, obtaining her living as a dress and straw bonnet-maker; the latter a farm labourer. The deceased was a married woman, but had, for the last seven or eight years, been separated from her husband, who is supposed to be in the Sappers and Miners. She had one child, a boy about eight years of age. On the afternoon of Monday last the de ceased and the prisoner were together in the village public-house, called the Harrow, which is kept by the brother of the deceased. For the last few months an intimacy was observed to have sprung up between the prisoner and the deceased ; at any rate, if the prisoner's addresses were not reciprocated, it was quite clear that he was very anxious to ingratiate himself in her favour. About half-past three or four o'clock on Monday afternoon the deceased left the Harrow by the front doer, and, almost imme diately after, the prisoner went out by the back door, and they were seen in a few minutes crossing a field in company. This is the last time the deceased is known to have been seen alive. She said she was going home to her father's, a distance of a mile and a halt. About five o'clock Mr. Payne, the landlord of the Harrow, returned from his father's, and was asked by his wife what time Elizabeth (meaning the de ceased) bed returned, as she went away with Carnt. He replied that when he left she had not arrived. Mrs. Payne, having observed the intimacy apparently increasing of late between her sister in law and Carnt, became uncomfortable, and frequently expressed her hope that all was right. At seven o'clock the prisoner returned to the Harrow, his clothes literally covered with dirt and saturated with wet and without his hat and neckerchief. Although this strengthened Mrs. Payne's fears, it had not the effect it would under other circumstances have had, because the prisoner was known to be subject to fits, when he frequently fell down in the dirt, and was obliged to have his neckerchief loosened. One such fit occurred only on Saturday last. Payne said to him, " You fool, you ought never to be trusted alone, if you blunder about in this way," and asked him where his hat and neckerchief were. Carnt replied, " They are in the pond ' • the baiter will be my neckerchief ; the Devil has got me, pray don't touch nie (It may be proper here to state that our reporter could not ascertain that the prisoner had ever shown the least symptom of mental aberration; the fits to which he was subject were of an epileptic character.) Payne dispatched a man to his father's to ascertain whether his sister had arrived, who returned with the answer that she had not. Upon learning this, police constable Keable was sent for, and, on his arrival, asked the prisoner, who had been changing his clothes at the inn, " where Betsy was?" Carnt resolutely refused to make any answer, although the question was repeated two or three times. Keable went for her father, and, with one George Farrow, commenced a search along the route she must have gone to her father's house. For nearly a mile they traced the footmarks of a man and woman, when they suddenly stopped near a pond. On inspecting the pond with their lanterns, Keable perceived something dark, and, jumping in, found it was the body of the de ceased. On conveying itto a neighbouring house a large bruise, as if from a blow with a fist, was discovered on the right cheek, and several severe scratches on her face, neck, and hands. On looking at the bushes near the pond, they bore indisputable evidence that a fear ful struggle had taken place between the deceased and another person, and that she had been violently dragged along the hedge from the spot where the foot prints ceased to the pond. Keable at once proceeded to the Harrow, where Carnt still remained, and told him that deceased's body had been found, and that he should take him into custody on a charge of murdering her. He made no reply, nor showed any emotion. Superintendent Death, of Clare, was sent for, and he applied himself to ascertain all the facts likely to connect the prisoner with the deed. In the pond, and close by the deceased, were found a hat and neckerchief, which can be identified as belong ing to the prisoner. Round the neck of deceased was also found a silver watch which belonged to the prisoner. In the breeches pocket of the prisoner was found a wedding ring, corresponding to the one which the de ceased invariably wore, and which was missing from her finger. In the pocket of the deceased were found a guard ring, Is. 6d. in money, and about two ounces of tobacco. Her dress exhibited other evidence of the violence of the struggle, being torn from top to bottom ; her shawl, which lay on the edge of the pond, had also been torn through the fur, and thus forced ofl her neck. The prisoner's shoes, which are nailed and tipped in a very peculiar manner, exactly epee with the footmarks. The prisoner's clothes had evidently been a consi derable time immersed in water of a foul and muddy character. The deceased is described to have keen an industrious and rerg..ctahle person, and to have been deserted by her husband for no fault of her own. The prisoner has also borne the character of a hard working labourer, and his countenance is peculiarly mild and prepossessing. He is talkative on other sub jects, but does not allude to this event in the remotest degree. The only allusion he made was in the course of the night, when one of those who sat up with him said, on drinking seine brandy and water, that he was afraid it was the last they should ever drink together, and the prisoner, throwing himself back on his pillow, with considerable emotion exclaimed, " I am afraid so." If the prisoner is the murderer of the deceased, the only motive conjectured for it is an alleged jealous feeling as to her receiving the addresses of another. The age of the deceased is 31, and that of the prisoner 29. The prisoner will be examined to day at the local petty sessions. LITERATURE WHAT'S WHAT 3N 1851 : 2 A Guide to London, for the Year of the Great Industrial Exhibition. By One who not only knows " What's What," but "Who's Who," and "Where's Where." The author of this useful and cheap manual bas here furnished the visitor to the metropolis with a lucid and comprehensive epitome of all the leading places of importance and attraction throughout the metropolis and its suburbs. It contains all the in formation that either foreigners or strangers can re quire with regard to all the places of amusement or of business in London. As the author says in his preface— °• It tells na;ins and travellers— Where to seek Amusement; Where to Dine; Where to procure Luxuries, and Where Necessaries; Whi,re to obiaio the best Goods of various descriptions ; Where to meet the best Soctety; Where to Economise; Where to Lavish; Where to find the starting places of Conveyances to the various party of London end the Provinces; Where to gain It,firmation; And Where to seek Friends." From a careful perusal of this admirable handbook we recommend it to all visitors who are uninitiated in the ways of London as their vade-mecum: it will give them that inf. rraation which cannot fail to secure them from falling into those mistakes to which all strangers are liable, and to ensure to them the three advantages of economy, excellence, and comfort. THE MODERN HOUSE WIFE. By Alexis Soyer. .New Edition. We have here a new edition of the " Modern Housewife," which contains several important ad ditions by the illustrious chef of all gastronomic regenerators, the renowned Soper. The work has been published scarcely fifteen months, and the twentieth thousand is now on sale. The bare an nouncement of the fact renders eulogium superero gatory, TALUS'S DRAMATIC MAGAZINE. In addition to the dramatic news of the month, this number of the magazine contains well-engraved portraits of Mrs. Warner and Mr. Compton ; the latter is a most striking likeness. THE GUNPOWDER TREASON ; an Authen tic Reprint of the Trials of the Conspirators. This is en authentic reprint of the trial of the con spirators, of all the preliminary proceedings against them, and of the confessions of Guido Fawkes and Thomas Winter, it likewise contains King James's speech on the subject to both Houses of Parliament ; the whole as published by authority in 1609. It is preceded by the Preface of the Bishop of Lincoln, which was originally prefixed to the edition of 1679, and contains, by way of appendix, the papers written by Sir Everard Digby to his family during his con finement. It is a well-timed reprint, and in the trial of Garnett we find much curious information as to the tenets and the conduct of the Jesuits. A GENERAL. GAZETTEER, originally compiled by. R. Brookes. MD.; the whole Revised and Cor rected to the Present Period. By A. G. Findlay. F.R.G.S. illustrated with Maps. This is an excellent edition of a standard work. Mr. Findlay has executed the task imposed upon him with great care and attention, and has produced in fact a new Gazetteer, adapted to the knowledge and wants of the present period, and presenting a daguer reotype of the physical and political geography of the world in 1851. The maps ara neatly engraved, and exhibit the latest discoveries; and the work is clearly and beautifully printed. This will be the standard edition of Brookes's Gazetteer. FINE ARTS. THE FOUR PRINCESSES. An exquisite painting by Winterhalter of these four illustrious children of Queen Victoria has re cently been repeated, in the form of an admirable en• graving, by J. Richardson Jackson—the engraving b , -2ing now published at the establishment of the Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi. A copy of the work lying at our elbow affords us an assurance that no better companion plate could be found for that other splendid production by the same artist, repre senting her Majesty and the Prince Consort sur rounded by the royal children. The picture now under consideration, while as faithful a transcript from the originals, has less of that formality of atti tude which invested its predecessor with a certain artificial sentiment. The young Princesses are por trayed as grouped together in the open air, weaving a garland of flowers, two of them being in a re cumbent position, and the other two stand ing. Tirir countenances b e tray the bloom of youth and happi ness , and are in many respects eminently beautiful. O ne espec i a lly b ea rs a striki ng resemblance, in featu re an d express i on , to our mo s t gracious Sovereign ; and upon each face is, at the same time, impressed a visible and charming indivi duality. Children as they are, the differences of their character are, by the brush of the artist, and the in strument of the engraver, rendered easily perceptible. From the wide and earnest popu l ar ity o f our b e l ove d Queen, it cannot be doubted that the present engraving will be welcomed w ith peculiar pleasure by her faith ful lieges—a token as it is, in itself, of the domestic graces and virtues of her life. A worthier or more charming ornament could not be devised for the home-walls of any Englishman. MACREADY AS WERNER. A masterly painting by Mr. Maclise—represent ing W illiam Charles Macready in his celebrated per sonation of Werner—is now on view in the gallery of Mr. Hugarth, No. 5, Haymarket. It depicts our great tragedian at the moment when Werner is de spairing in the ruined castle, when sheltered there by the old seneschal Idenstein. The moment selected by the artist is that of the following interchange of eja culations : " Wer. Save what we seem! save what we are—sick heggars. Even to our hopes.—lla ! ha ! Jos. Alai That bitterlaugh! Wer. Who w ould read in this form The high soul of the son of a long line? Who, in this garb, the heir of princely lands? 13 ho, in this sunken, sickly eye, the pride Of rank and ancestry? In this worn cheek And famine-hollow'd brow, the lord of halls Which daily fi ast a thousand vassals? " Through all the emaciati on pro d uce d by p over t y an d all the dejection of anguish and disappointment, there are still perceptible in the frame and in the features the unextinguished fire of nobility, the unconquered energies of a haughty and heroic chieftain. Between the two illustrious artists already particularised, be tween the actor and the painter, the ideal indicated by Lord Byron in his magnificent tragedy has been ad mirably realized and embodied. The hand of Maclise and the soul ofM acready have presented to " the mind's eye" a vivid conception of the fallen— " Lord of halls, Which daily feast a thuut•and vassals." It is gratifying to learn that this splendid picture, by Daniel Maclise, R.A., is now being copied by W. C. Sharpe, in the highest style of line engraving. E s(l ., will be th ere b y transformed into a po- The painting, which is in th e p ossess i on o f J o h n p F u o l r a s r favourite;ter' and we doubt not will greatly tend to perpetuate the celebrity of the tragedian. BEDFOEDSIIIRE.--A vacancy having occurred in in consequence of the de inquiries o f l a t e h ave b een made by the electors and others who is to be hi s successor. At length it appears that for some d ays past the puny land lords, opf owners a u t on i t o t no Alford,no l f y this m count y ,one-thirdan man y part of the land in the county, together with the B ennett party, have been veryalert in n school, getting gup a requisition calling up on one o f the o ld roary Tory alias an out-and-out Prot ec ti on i s t , an d no sur render, of the name of Colonel Gilpin, in this county, to come forward to represent th eir in terest in Parliament ; and it is now rumoured about that the Colonel has a cce pt e d , the call. But of the electors (Free - traders) are d a ily anticipat ing that an independent candidate will be f o und that will represent the measures of her Majesty's Government and majorityt be that as it may, his electio n i s not yet certain, and the the commerce of this great nation, being assured that its prosperity will considerably add to the prosperity of all other interests and the well-being of rociety generally. But, in the event of a contest, it is generally thought that as the Colonel is known to be so very parsimonious, be will not be at any expense in contesting for the honour.— Fro nt a Corre spondent. "OF flisTING S. —Th e N ews better We wer e i n error in stating in Saturday's edition that the Marquis o f H ast i ngs had d i ed from the effects of a late accident. Hi s L or d s hi p had caught cold just before leaving Liverpool to joi n hi s reg i ment, t h e TilE of LATE MARQUIS says : MARQUIS 52d, at Birr, and on arriving in Dublin was attacked with fever, from the effects of which he never rallied." - -- ST. K A TnEntries Docxs.--At a meeting of the proprietary, held yesterday, a dividend of 13/ ‘ ; per cent. for the half-year was declared, free of inco me -t ax. F rom th e statement o f accounts prese::ted, it a pp ears t h a t th e t ota l earnings. d. ; and e h hfe r 3 during th e past year were : 238,115/. e;xlB3pendi:.ure, 19,,A3/ . 9 s. 7d. ; leav ing.%d. appli ca bl e to t h e di v id en d . IMPORTATION CIDER. —An importation of a parcel of several pipes of cider has t a k en p l ace b y a vessel .. P a ba l of aa n t t e o c03m,,p5 total or 1 n arrived in the docks from Cadiz, consi gne d t o or d er . W e an have never before knownimportation of this article to take place from Spain, considering also the season of the year the arrival is very remarkable, tuid pt onle interegtt TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURANT. Manse of Roscobie, Forfar, Jan. 8, 1851. Sir,—Will you permit me to make a few observa tions on certain communications which have recently appeared in your journal, on the subject of Mesmerism or Electro-Biology, with which, it seems, the good people of Eeinburgh are being astonished ? I am greatly amused with the new turn matters are taking in regard to Mesmerism. Sir David Brewster, it appears, has at length turned his attention to the subject, so far, at least, as to be a witness of Dr. Darling's experiments, and to avow his conviction that the phenomena eli cited by that gentleman are both " real " and " won derful." Better late than never certainly ; but when apprised by me, Gve years ego, of the mass of evidence demonstrating the reality cf the numerous operations in Bengal, painlessly pet formed by me brother on persons in the mesmeric trance, I cannot forget the incredulity and want of interest evinced by this illustrious philose pher. Instead, therefore, of guiding public opinion, as he was so well qualified to do, on a matter of the high est interest, to Sir David Brewster can now be assigned the humble praise of not obstructing the progress of truth—unless, indee d, as I trust he will, he atone for past neglect by favouring the public, with his explana tion of those " real phenomena " with which mesmerists have long been familiar, but of the cause of which they are profoundly ignorant. In this inviting field of re search no one is more likely to make discoveries; and when these are demonstrated by the eloquent pen of Sir David Brewster, great shall be the gain to the cause of science, humattity, and truth. As to the assertion of f tr. Bennett, that the phenomena witnessed by Sir David have long been familiar to the medical profession, I must, with all deference, be allowed to express my dissent, and for these reasons : Until elicited by Mesmerism these phenomena have ben of rare occurrence, because connected with ab normal conditions of the human system, with which, fortunately, we have small acquaintance. They have. moreover, received but slight aoention from the medical profession; so that it may be safely asserted that not one doctor in fifty has read, or, perhaps, ever heard of, I ) 6,etin'e "Electrici , 6 Animate,"! although it narrates cases in " Electro-Biology" quite as wonderful as any exhibited by Dr. Darling. And, when Mesmerism be came the means of calling forth these phenomena in greater abundance, the inveterate hatred and contempt of the doctors tor Mesmer so blinded their understand ing, that, almost to a man, they refused to look at them; and sneered at, defamed, and persecuted the few among their brethren who were more rational. Look at the base usage to which Dr. Elliteson was subjected in London, or at that which made Dr. Esdaile declare that he was the best abused man in all India—and it must be confessed that if Mesmerism be now onithe ascendant, it owes its success to a small but bold and honest band of writers and experimenters who have set themselves in opposition to what 1)r. Simpson has styled " the cha racteristic obstinacy of the medical profession." As to your correspondent " Senex," who tells us that mesmerists must infalliby become believers in the fenatical reveries of Swedenborg, I can only say—to use his own similitude—that there is about the same con nexion between the two things called Mesmerism and S eedennorgianism, as there is between the moon and green cheese. I em called upon to examine a singular series of phenomena, of which my own body is the sub ject. My natural thirst after knowledge prompts me to comply; but passionate " Senex" exclaims—" Oh ! don't; your head is sure to be turned." I was told that long ago; and yet, though personally knowing that Mesmerism can make a man as insensible to pain as it he were a log, I am not in the least conscious of a growing tendency to listen to "old wives' fables," or to swallow what that erudite Swedenborgian, Dr. George Bush, has been pleased to divulge concerning " the nerve-spirit," " the sun circle, and the life circle," " the language and the forms of spirits," " the illu minated eye," and "the growth of infants in the other tiler When, in the reports of the Mesmeric Hospital at Calcutta, I read cf tumours from 6 up to 112Ibe. being painlessly removed; and when Dr. Kean, of Berhampore, thus writes to my brother—" Taking a hasty glance over the years 1847 and 1848, I see that about 74 lunatic patients were mesmerised; and that cf these 64 were discharged cured to all appearance; and I think that it has been successful in every case of epilepsy"—l am certain that I am dealing with facts capable of being proved, and of such high importance to humanity, that from examining them nothing ought to deter me. But, under the guidance of Swedenborg, I am taken away to " cloud-land," as Coleridge calls it, and hear nothing but words meaning nothing, and see nothing but a mist of thick darkness. Now that attention is aroused by Dr. Darling's mes meric marvels, I trust the public will force the doctors to inquire whether they may not learn something worth knowing in the reports of the Mesmeric Hospital at Calcutta, and of the Mesmeric Infirmary, Bedford-street, London.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, DAvm ESDAILE. THE DAUGHTER OF NIGHT, a Story of the Present Day, by S. W. Fullom, Esq., is published this day, and may be had at all the Libraries. Also, just published : 1. Time the Avenger, by the Author of*" Emilia Wyndham."-2. Merk land, a Story of Scottish Life, by the Author of "Margaret Maitland."-3. Love and Ambition, by the Author of " Rockingham."-4. Nathalie, by Julia Kavanagh, Author of': Woman in France."-5 Light and l'arkness ; or, Mys teries of Life, by Mrs. Crowe.-6. Claude; or, the Double Sacrifice, by Misa Molesworth. Also, just ready, Popular Tales and Traditions of Hungary, by Frances and Theresa Pulszky. GREENOCK.—The Customs receipts at Greenock during the past year give a very flattering ccount of the prosperity of the port. It will be recollected that at Liver pool and other chief ports, as well as in th Customs gene sn3g:4B7Tl. The i r n e c c r e e i a p s t e s , rally, there was a falling off during th . e year, which makes the increase at Greenock the more gratifY3 in 1849 were 371,922/. ; ditto in 18 h 5 e 0, duties of sugar 11,5651. A material reduction in molasses came into effect in July last, t but for which g t a h r e in crease would have been considerably larger.—North British Mail. THE THEATRE ROYAL, EDINEURGH..--The Theatre Royal, from the management of which Mr. Murray is about to retire, h as been let for a term of ten years to Mr. Ll o yd, so long a valuable member of Mr. Murray's company, and now engaged with Mr. Glover in the management of the Prince's Theatre, Glasgow. Mr. Lloyd uncut* i4is lease en t h e 2961 of September ant.— Scotameis THE NURDER NEAR MOTTRAIII. 0; Aloncia — yaninquest was held at the Stamford Arms, Hattersley, Cheshire, before Mr. Hudson, one of the coroners for the county, on the body of an old lady named Kinder, who had resided for several years in the neighbourhood, and who was brutally mur dered in her own house on Friday last. Eliza Kinder, a daughter of the deceased, stated that her mother wes in her 78th year, and was the widow of George Kinder, a farmer at Matley, who died eight years ago. The deceased soon afterwards came to reside at Hattersley with her family. The land attached to the house was some time ago let to 'William Jackson (son-in-law of the deceased), but for the last four years the deceased had farmed it her self. The family residing in the house consisted of the deceased, the witness, and her sister, and two ser vants, Josiah Fox and Sarah Fox. The servants were trusty and confidential, and took their meals with the family. On Thursday last witness and her sister left home together about half-past nine o'clock in the morning, to spend the day with a sister at Armfield,. which is about five or six miles from the farm, leav ing Sarah Fox with her mother, and Josiah Fox, as she believed, had gone out with the milk. Oa their way home in the evening they were met by a neigh bour named Williamson, who told them their mother had been badly hurt, and on arriving at the house they found she was dead. All they had missed, after a careful search, were two purses, but whether they contained money or not witness was unable to say. The deceased, witness, and her sister, and the woman servant, all slept in the same room. Sarah Fox, the servant, then gave the following evi dence :—I am 23 years of age, and unmarried. I have lived in Mrs. Kinder's house for the last five years and a half. Oa Thursday last the two Misses Kin der went to Armfield. My brother, I, and . Mrs. Kinder were left at home. In the early part of the day I was sewing in the kitchen with Mrs. Kinder. My brother was about the farm-buildings until a little before noon, and then he went to Marple-mills. He came back before it was dark. He did not dine with us. We had tea together about dusk. After tea I sat with Mrs. Kinder in the kitchen sewing' until the time fur milking. We usually milk tbe cows between six and seven o'clock in the erlin se g : After sewing I did some odd jobs about the For n u I put For one thing, I brought in some coal, . 1 fromk I . t lean.v: the kitchen h e l h t o h u e s n e kitchen upon the fire. I took some clothes where the deceased was to the other 1_ came back into the front kitchen. .A.B rn y brother near the to go to the " shippon " I found , hail taken three can brot her went out of the backdoor s pigcote, opposite. My from the slop-kitchen. site side of the road. I w t i n ' ti a n 7oo l k a ing-chair in the front ttoootkheaswhalyPPt°hDeicolonthtehse;_roaa Mrs. y Kinder front door, and kitchen. s t e h a e te las I cannot say that was they was whether she was smoking or not. I cannot say what time it was when I went to the shippon . When I got to the shippon my brother was there. MY brother had a lantern with him and a lighted candle in it. There were three cows to be milked. I milked two, and my brother milked one. lie had finished before me. After be had done he did not go out of the shippon till I had done. When we had doze milking I went up to the house with the milk, leaving my brother in the shippon. I carried the milk to the bench-stone in the kitchen. I went into the house by the hack door. I went into the front kitchen or house-place for a light. That was the place where I had left Mrs. Kinder. I got a light from the fire. I had not left Mrs. Kinder with a candle burning. Mrs. Kinder was not then in the room. The rocking-chair was in its place. The front door was shut. The door leading into the front par lour was partially shut. I went and sieved the m ilk, and - then locked up the dairy. I then returned to ' the house by the back-door. I put the milk-ears in 1 the little kitchen' or house-place. ''As .t. did not see Mrs. Kinder there, I went into the parlour to look for her. I had a candle in my hand. The parlour-door was a little bit open. I pusbedit openand saw Mn. Kinder lying on the floor. She was lying on her face with her feet towards the door. I thou:el - it she had fallen in a fit. She had done 40 before. I put the candle down on the table against the wall and tried to help her up. Her face was all over blood, and on the floor where her face lay there was a large quantity of blood. She was dead, but ber body was warm. I put the body down again, ran to the shippon, and called for my b rot h er . I f oun d my b rother i n t h e shippon. My brother followed me to the house, and afterwards brought the next neighbour, Mrs. Wither son. When she came Mrs. Andrew, another neigh bour, was there. While 2.:Les. Andrew was there Mrs. Williamson and I lifted u p th e d ecease d . Ai rs. Andrew said the deceased had not done it herself. She wanted me to go up s t a i rs an d l ook i f there had i been snyboey n the bou::e. I t o ld h er I d urst not go by myself. She said she would go with me, and did so. We went to the top of the stairs and found the door of the room where the women slept open. The drawers stood opposite the door, and they were open. Clothes and other articles were pulled out of the drawers. We then went down again. Mr. An drew came, and then went home for his gun. My brother was at the house at the same time. I believe it was Mr. Andrew who sent for the constables. Mr. Williamson fetched the Misses Kinder home. About twenty minutes elapsed between my milking the cows and sieving the milk. I heard no cries while I was milking. It was a very windy night. When I began to milk the cows my brother went out and said that he was going to put the horses in the stable. I cannot say that I heard him putting them in the stable. I should think be was not above two minutes out of the shippon when be returned, and commenced milking a cow. There was a dog at the house, but I did not hear it bark that night. Mrs. Betty Williamson, who lives about fifty yards from the house of the deceased, was next examined, but her evidence was wholly in corroboration of that of the last witness. Miss Maria Kinder, another daughter of the de ceased, was also examined in corroboration, and spoke to the loss of a purse. When she left her on Thurs day morning there were 131. in a box behind a bed, which were not taken away. Lowe, a constable, was next examined, and gave evidence as to the drawers having been ransacked. Mr. Samuel Sidebottom, and Mr. R. Sidebottom, surgeons, of Mottram, described the wound which caused the death. It was a fracture on the left side of the head, five inches long by three broad. The wound must have been caused by an instrument having a broad surface. The wound was a lacerated one. After such a blow death would be instan taneous. Mr. Joseph Little, special high constable for the Hyde division, produced the cap and other articles worn by the deceased. They were saturated with blood. Robert Booth and Josiah Fox having been briefly examined in confirmation of the foregoing evidence, The CORONER briefly summed up, and the jury found " That the deceased had been wilfully mur dered by some person or persons unknown." The inquiry lasted from about ten o'clock in the morning till half-past five o'clock in the evening. The police, under the superintendence of Mr. Little, chief constable, are making : diligent search with the view of bringing to light the perpetrator of this brutal murder. THE APOLLONICON.—This grand and eloquent . instrument, completed at a cost of nearly ' 2s,oool., has been erected in the Royal Music Hall, Adelaide-street, Strand, in which spacious and elegant building it has prsved a great at traction, to the musical world especially. We attended last night the first evening. concert or the season, and were much gratified with the admirable selections from the great masters and favourite composers. The varied powers of the noble in strument were very skilfully expressed by Messrs. Coward, Rockstro. Rea, Brain, Higgs, Chitty, and Madame Austin, five of which artistes performed at one time; the conductor is Mr. Grattan Cooke. The programme announces morning performances every Tuesday, Thursday, and S , .turday, at two o'clock, and on the evenings of those days at eight, affording a high and classical musical treat to the public. A MIRACLE OF GOOD FORTUNB.—For several years back, one of the most miserably poor of the poor of Skibbereen was James Kane, who contrived to eke out existence by disposing of a few bones and old rags, and, now and then, a handful of grass plucked from the road side. On one occasion, his precarious means of liveli hood utterly failed him, and he was driven to the shelter of the workhouse. This same James Kane is now on his way to London, in company with an eminent solicitor, to receive a legacy of 10,0001., and property to the amount of 5001. a year. It appears that an uncle of his made this large fortune in business, in London ; and that James is his next of kin and heir. Curiously enough, on the very day that the important communication reached Skibbereen, Kane was on his way to Rosacarbery with a load ea his back, for which he was to earn a couple of pence—a matter of great moment to him at the time. The whole west is in terested in this extraordinary instance of good fortune; for an honeeter or better disposed creature does not exist than James Kane.— Cork Examiner. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A SOLDIER.- Yesterday at an early hour a report was generally spread in the vicinity of Westminster, that a soldier belonging to the 2nd battalion of the Grenadier Guards had been murdered in Orchard-street, by being thrown out of a window. Upon making inquiries, the rumour was found to be greatly exag gerated, and the following- appears to have been the fact. The soldier's name was Isaac Cummings, and he was one of the above battalion, On Monday night he was out from the barracks, in Portman-street, and got into the company of sonic women in Orchard-street, when he became excessively inebriated. From some cause which cannot be clearly as certained, he suddenly threw up the window of the second floor and leaped out. He was much hurt in the head, and was lying in a pool of blood when found by the police, and in an insensible state. Ile was taken to the Westminster Hospital, and seen by the surgeon, who did what was ne cessary, and he - was then conveyed to the Military llospital, in Rochester-row, where he remains, but not, it is believed, in a dangerous state. MADRID AND VALENCIA RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Master Blunt proceeded with the further investigation of this case. The examination of the directors was resumed. Mr. Waley deposed that after the meeting of theshareholders in November, 1846, he had formed a clear opinion that the objects and purposes of the company had become imprac ticable. He believed that some plan had been proposed by Mr. Chadwick for executing one of the sections of the line, in order that a ratio:of the caution money should be returned as each separate section was completed. After the meeting in 1846 he began his applications to the directors to pro matt onho and I es morewh i e h duce their accounts, but the former had wholly failed, and in the early part of 1843 he contemplated law pro ceedings, but was deterred by the expense. When he said yesterday that the directors were not under the control of the directors, he meant that the functions of the trustees were for the purposes of investment and re•investment, and those of the finance committee to make disbursements. Neither of them wee independent bodies. It was, how ever, understood that all the vouchers and property placed at the bank, and accessible only to the three trustees, Count Eyre, Mr. Nicholas M'Cann, the Hon. Mr. Villiers, Mr. Kinloch, and Captain Charity, directors; Sir. Powell, the secretary, and 2Alr. Keddell, the soliciior of the company, were examined, after which the proceedings were adjourned to Monday next. ELY TACTICS OF THE PUSEYITES.—A morning contemporary of yesterday, who has for some months past been the recognised organ of the Tractarians, affects, through the medium of a correspondent, to be mightily alarmed at the idea, that Lord Ashley and the other noble :lords and dis tinguished layman, who took part in the proceedings at the meeting e a o n m ll e L c o c r m e b t e o r b e 5, broughta t the freemasons'into Parliament, ap proaching session, .for the purpose of revising the Prayer Book of the Church of England. In private, the Puseyites say, that the measure is not only cut and dry, but that the Duke of Bedford, Lord John Russell's brother, has engaged to bring it into the House of Lords the very first week of the session. We are enabled to state that there is no truth whatever in the report. We can say this most positively, on behalf of the Noble Lord, who pres:cled at the meeting, and, we believe, we are equally justified in saying it for the other noblemen, Members of Parliament, and private gentlemen, under whose auspices the meeting took place. But . we have much pleasure in adding, that the noblemen and gentlemen alluded to have eetermined on using every means in their power to obtain immediately, on the re .assembling of the fr Legislature , orn inculcating principles injunction andpractising t r i anytthhiinsg e swi s i t il r gl ai c n beree th Puseyites within are wholly unsanctioned by boards of the -P' wrong the Prayer Book. The T e i f t: ifeise c t o - e n q the whole brood of f the Anglican Church, by or 1 . 6. 1 what thev f the Tractarian clergy. the attempt to put the Po of tending that the objectnoblemen and gentlemen Neu° a revisal of the Prayer Book.— alluded to is to P Book.— Advertiser. We are glee] to hear that Lord Panmure is bettor. right li o n. Mr. Fox :Mule has been absent from the The Cab i ne t meetings in consequence of a severe attack of gout. well, formerly of St. Clement Danes, scent,e a _ r a u nr by yho tepnr hence CHURCH NOMINATION. —The Rev. J. W. Mark -62U. per annum. re cently with the Dean of Bristol, has been appointed to the incumbency of St. James, Curtain-road, Finsbury, value They have suspended a clergyman at Lowen for being engaged to two girls at the same time. He should have been permitted to marry them, then he would have suspended himself.—Granville Journal. TI3II LATH DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT HUNGER.' FORD PIER.—A correspondent of the Herald confirms the statement that appeared in The Sun of last night, and adds that he never witnessed such cool indifference to the fate of a human being as was exhibited on this occasion. The unfor tunate young man floated on his back for at least three mi nutes from the " dummy," through Hungerford bridge, and several times cried out " Help I" but no help was afforded— not a rope, life-buoy, oar, boat-hook, or plank was thrown ° li n e itinato the poor struggling victim. A grave-digger, who eft w er e c il i , se b d ut the business? lie replied town, was asked how he l iked „ like it • it pre tty replied that he liked bet ter if he could have steady employment. 1 MOUSE MILLS.—A gentleman in Kirk aldy, Scot land, has trained a couple of mice, and invented machinery, enabling them to s pin cotton yarn. The work is so con structed that the common house mouse is enabled to make atonement to aocietv for past offences by twisting twine and reeling from 100 to 126 threads per day. To complete this, the little pedestrians have to run 101 1 miles. A halfpenny worth of oatine.:l, at ls. 31. per peck, serves one of these treadwheel culprits for the long period of five weeks. In that time it makes 110 threads per day. At this rate a mouse earns 7s. Ed. per annum. Take off sd. for board and Is. for machinery, there will arise 6s. clear for every mouse annually. The mouse employer was going to make applica ti,ai for the lease of an old empty house, which would held 10,0'0 mouse mills, sufficient room being left for keepers and some hundreds of spectators.— East Counties Herald. UMBRELLAS.-1 have talked with an old lady wbo remembered the first umbrella used in Oxford, and with another who described the surprise elicited by the first in Birmingham. An aunt of mine, born 1754, could not re member when the house was without one, though in her youth they were little used. May not the word umbrella have been applied to various sorts of implutial—Notes an 1 Queria! the 0' Y.) Lel" so ill. .c tile Y•) .„,,i 3 ay.., ?Oste r V's ia able' stjc ed cOrl . ;i for )Oi I I cti° ° 0 tt e' at °SI fli°ll Ir• - ' . re or bol Ijo' ,c 1; ~ . 3; . 0