The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-30 00:00:00

ri , P , AS.--(TFTS - 1 )- 117 .) Lord cl tee it ILD3 747 . jci;',l3-3 (_IIZSSIVELL Mr. Justie., Jr-'t'cc ) Mr. IN' RE: A NA': 7:17.1) ;4 CO. /T °"nin r, na,ved Lbc-ir Lrd hi7s ca h hz.;t f AirE• nit - A kr . 4a orl,-_-r of 1.15 e Courc to En3/) le her t pcf interest in certain frcoho . la a L l d copyll,;.l f tia was p , :hc..usi.ed in 1 6 4 '' e , unty. tht , consrLt of i.er hus ti..:l;rrr,ahl in the L ,arn.d C , :uns(.l th;.t his clie , .t ar vPar 13)7, and in IS i 2 khe her . I,u Sq a- a..e.1-by natm.zr,l out} anti had tin :ore: co tcg.ll“.r. It 1:.s1 t`...1.t. Mr -. " ( 2 ' t aware wlicthcr or Lot her hu:-...bar.d was nun-,yp. d rp:licn!iin. T F NCI PEQUER.-(TII IS DAY.) •,•urin-1 Court ~ ,as occupied in I;riv _ng ail.j • v „ i ,Ls t . o e.,s, or Willi v. Murray, which ()lily In que , tion as t r ci t alis r,he liggai!.,t to pleail exei In'z•Lte. fr' al.tettua rte v, inst ..w rx 'i'lr lulioliler in a rail 4ay' (".•rJ their yin tipii i . t n aurt• cotnpan . y, hut the Coin t COURT. -(THIS DAY.) (i'*fore Jas•ice Ent.% ) Si r p 1117.1,NF( 1131Tit , N. • lIESICIER ail I 111 l ins.rhrt 41 to a; py Loilstiip on b u l l ;.ii of the It v. Gt.; rg • I:aro.l e f r it rule to show eau, a by a vrtarir al it f 81 '°ohl not he the I agaioq Mr. Isaac La:tinier, H' Prin is and r f the Pe .0.pc,./. uarl PlynAilr'i fl e " Journal, f or a greas and seandalon.i - • t t":"4" ort Lie charect,r Mr. Pryrne, and pu:,iishuil newsor.pr etc 24th of this mon:h. Mr. ,Yrine st r t e d iri fi:s that hr was a pri ,, t in ili e .:;;".': r s , and in the ar 1848 he ass lic , used t I e of a district church in Ply mow h, called ',a. That church had been previously knon n as per'443 Chapel and even now ;t was called by mAly : 11.0. ::;uves IthbYhiitiPtAt.:f: LuinP„ r. Prynne is marrir at rlynaouth, and various articles a ~v , 4 „ PPeared froth time to ?hoe in the ne.r paper in )j,i'. l l ' ol l, in which very severe ,canarks were made upon prie st a'r Y a ncs, who was generally styled in tl e article as the ta of c. „ . Eidad' s Chapel. Up t ) the preaent mo :(4`, however, he has disrigarded these atta ks, acid doula', by his f o rbear a nce, en the 24 h : 8 R '"fith, the libellous article in question was lirhEu• It was in these Lrms—'• Increase of population. Li k t _ priest like e , ole, is an old axiom and rather a ruthful ore If ehu • th e ' blind lead the blind, said the Head rch, ditch is their desin ation. Not a • t i n u ll o t 4 r i ,red miles froth Eldad Chapel, while the abhorrent t 1. ) r t t ue s and practices of Puseyisua are buing c ar rie d ou I: 0 - i .) ; "VS (and truly so) th,t a certa . n young lady, nr r , ` u . ° modest in her behaviour, and certainly 3 e , r e rl _ l ne ab , iut her h ur or protessior, received a new t i sh . pres et t in the character of either a son ora t er• f :re this strange am , al the pries ' , aho far evi d'lmly grey tdr al less fir his own wife than e°lt,,in other ferna'es, and on whom great susticion fe ats d ob- the ori g i n o f t h e tt;.an4er abets alluded igelec•lrcd She mother's situation to be a delicate one, situ discritnination to be need'ul as to the author of her dr ops and guilt. One designated her . situation a tob e,Y, mid scouted the idea of any t'ling criminal. To Or i the charge of guilt , a marriage of long %as sno:t duration with ' a certain gri y head t a bkiw n abut ; but, lo ! at the Hi : Nu t t ; L tae ow.ure moved and tie (hop)/ was cure ). th 3 laws revealed the guilty secret, though rot 4 ..uurch 1111tY accomplice. And n ow wh at to be done ? wit,C rn. e::ing must called. It is convened, and q .what reau7t? 'fire judge and jary present, the ;, Po', ' What have you to say to this charge, shit I ; ?' 'I sa etr by this bo; k (the Bible) the Said taa not ruin:,." Bibb',' said the . jt.ry," itit; as LI and the supposed culprit liberatedpub--a.• There is a ea, lt secret here about which iudignr tion must be stirred to it i depths. Vv bon utt 4 h r, P r ttiss to t eac h j u d gment nigh, their own lives e•.1 1; , 4 ,.. 1 1° be indeed dec..:nt." Now, the Learned tq " thought i t qu i te unncces ary f or him t, more than rea d thi s art i c l e , exce pt live -'ate i to his L-rdship that the most p‘osi th„ cont radictio n was g i ven to the imputation on I vithr ; t Mr • Pr) mac. He is living in the purest way the 11`81vife, and 24 t h e (articular passage ref.rring to Prea,t"t,, judgment it fers t > tl e f_ct t f his having eil t hi",!u er on on the subject du r ing Adv en t, th e re Lit Aiue!'cl room for do u bt th a t it a ppli e d t o M r . P r) one . r • erYoue in his s. ffidavits brought forward other lvl l i et : 4 ol l teli h a d b een publishe d in this pat er, ein d in ilerib,d"l.3name is me n ti one d, and in which h e is c gtuti ( f , U S the prie s t o f Eld a d Chap:!, e while sveral stati a ' — " wbo knew him wed joined in the.tiffidavits, ira pip g that th ere was no truth or faundtstion for the Stti e !' e 4ti ° ll s which were cast upon him in all these h ad st • , usti ce E nLE thought the Learned Gentleman had Sufficient t o en ti t l e hi m t o a ru l e to show cause. ujai According ly. Ste-- ° NDARIES'.—(THIS DA.Y.) tr (Before Mr. Secondary PoTTEn.) , V. ADY.—" JOSEPH OUTWITTED." , 6"ta a,:tion brou,,s , ht agatt o t wtl.-.inown tite 11 Ad an to recover the sum of 31. 26. The dh fe . ( Pai r , I °,_ t plead to the ac : iou, and the present m oheatoqefore, to assess what earnaps the plaintiff - ttit ed in the not:-performance of the p , r0m .. .5 ,,1 5 i (14 bY this def .titian; , and set out in the dec.art to h. (4fendtent) weld I inform plaintiff f something 18 ad v Mr W araLg.. spe c eLflat tlitnaliedthePilsu,ilnn•stssiefria: t, ed. deJaratien to rt cover the sum of 1/. obtained tabwo 'Wald. by one of his spacious Thepre'( . ll ces. p. .nj this ch n" P " h rt ask why the a ;Lion was bruu w t, s t s t a t n do e c_ ht would answer th, m that ther , c I vas ' ed ri ght in law to do ss, and as t,e dt idan . t i, 111 1, 1 1?_ 1 1,"ai to all pro?• clings buf ne the magi: tr,t th e 0 „ i "La . had detercuini d t expose It, and have 4°1 14 li t _ ' en °f a jury, who would, no don , m '_ ulct o h t irn , T he °i ng him within the bounds of common hot —. 04 Pe r ,lu 6 - 1 Counsel then produced some of defendant's , Wer e - general circu'utior, but obsene 1 that t Pri~ilFB° S currilous and libtllous that he would not be ed vr otild even as a concise', to read them, but they money 4l o4,, be banded to the jury. Plaintiff ha 1 paid the hItC 6 , II ti e fa:VI of important information for _ , It t and i mmediate advantage, (the papers produced tith e ,\'' to Parochial assessaseatr, and the old "dodge" of liketth aud furt herance o f that he employed en 11 . 1, t f ° negotiate with defendant, and the agent charged t h i s expenses, an d plaintiff another guinea for loss 3 ,Z ia comities up to London , and it was for Th o s '' 3 . 2 i ., the ' action was brought. gay ''waging clerk to Mr. Jones, plaintiff's agent, 14/t eft -- " e(4 ' 6 l'd proved that great trouble had been : l ieh tu g"t any information from dt fendant, and 11. Is., "11 i 8 wtr" Very low charge, vas paid to a Mr. Clarke 11gnir. °able. Witness called on defendant, and re \4l a ‘ o ti t h t i b ill . to I efood, but de'Vudant refused, and said . he %.\-70nk Mr. Etheringtin would have been such a 44 '4 ` ti esst on this, said, then if that's the case, I'll ThYoa with a wri'. the Learned SECONDARY said he would not put tecioirrs la:44e the jury. As tl the 1/ , there t hack r ° doubt plaintiff was entitled t• - ) recover ure tteii , for defendant, by not pleading, admitted the Itt °Fe°ll tract. On the second charge the jury . were er tY to leaving the expenses, and on the third it was (tier Ins'nlon for them whether the principal could I , ll‘ j‘t!ry consulted. matter in the hands of the agent. l' A ll ;t? e ,.., °lll) -tatir ' —lltkve you all agreed on your 4 erY of ,6.oreman—Yes, for the plaintiff , on all and l'uo charges. ; Ste `,ll`te t ," 13 -tRY—Ti at is a f orma l ver di ct, b ut no t Certainly , r l a nl iniy you say, for the pl a intiff. J urors , lilla Ad • WA n --11 Ert—I think this will be a warning to Mr. nv.- LIIS DAY.) " yv -STHEET.—(T A' L ' J ane o. r at her a baby urcast , a young, woman with tep,i '' 4 b rought bt ere r. u. eerloo brilß , 4 g to th row herself M and H iloi ch , . ~,chovarr Wat gth ed wi at 441tee. six titl a . eon,,table Duff, 84 F, deposed ti at between at the was standing tohis"ell o' Duff, last evening he prisoner came h urr la t a! of Waterloo -bridge when the,Yennt,, seem in 1 II Y uP and threw down a he 'll ) . 1 .7 „ not y „ a • . that a w tiot h,,gr'ut angui*h. Gocssiug follows d ler across th o r ' l - watched ler closely, and third recess cf the brid,:eJ When she got to about the atal then RA ' 1 ' 1 „ , 4 e .Placed her child on the balustrade,_. they lihu 1r herself being determined, as she said, that -I" die ' `-' • constable, howeler, rit h h ed i together. The police. the bat 4rw ai'd the moment he saw the child placei 0 . 0 uceeeded in triit,„t•ustra4, and by dint of great force s down coa.n wittit'lng with the a..d blieging her _e, 11,141 k) t hilt' in hev:°thr ans of she thatdiscovere , d tm a i ll i 4 hai!„ 4l at at suici de u a n n i d . murder had been fius drunk. ';`'"", li-N44) tears and clied bitterl. She „as evening 41 -Oval.' si,‘eQtistable vent to her residence last %11() a,. -;„°`:', 13Iaekfriars-road, and saw her husband,_eto. Vt .cA:I- 14 de t • sober man, a cubbhir. H . wa in , tl z „' -- hat h iti , .tieu , , ecofid time Wife was a great drunkaid, and this t rapt,:d her life. Her bah}',l 4he wa4 1 that 6" 1a I at e would soon come ',P it deEtth. rNnently heard to -ay, Liliqic4ettirbeer, w hose sobs prevented her frem being mY the iii i t i yara in ci urt, said that :he was driven t The it,,17,„.'4411ent of her husbinch landlord last tiehin ''e'eolastable said that he saw the ,r, a -41111!' i 4" h e l told hm that she wss a g.,. t 41.( a' (1 aSo s a sober, industrious tear ,-1 that her husbandwas kr. tr ALL remanded the prisoner for a week. . Tit t / 3,,, structure has ,isti„ ".TAIN NIA-lirtIDGE.—A novel and very in- J 4 4 1, t7g Pto,ess in connexion w‘ta this acon i that of in the' bto',ight to a iticces ful t . .:imt i n , lowering p ci TR or one `f the wrought-iron aad tubes on to ‘ tB x ni t,. '- ' 4 ',Pn in the recess of the t ewer, by tit bee /44 -Nbity ful l: teen inches t) Ai p-rrnal"e. as a youro.titi wlacretv its weigi t of 650 lo o ns, ringt ' uf rmsiug lipl.cl-balance over the t ,K o:, had the ~-ec _ci-i,t, by Utiwa.rele,ntre of the wain lute, of 1,660 1,__11:: a!;,r,u.fly to jt, j a ! f . two ineheN and of course addit!„ ~, .1 ti o, Lrigtqity and strenth. A precisely tube 4 11 . :' to he perfi,rn el ' with the imne, or terminal , ~i , _ ktaal to 8:(1., and by v. 1.411 the ce: tres of eget] ef,.....t The similar ?pt ra- Arr a , 51)2414 'OA be ratszti ci o- then !cur lecher. ‘ In eb til truraitittots for this e 1 tea ly cotrip'e;eo, the .70,1.6:rmibe, rtiti3 ti:r6.e.n.enga; el night and day. The: . rai l ! utp thoseouupt_tie,t.,ihe aro !ail on lorgittiat i a Al r. juk2,l;ne tireat West. rit IN.1). ay. lis ti i , in "" A Yar, aq Engli,,h gentle war, well known , s tit t' ober , , 11 ° it'd ) A7-7"tur ` t the proces s ( f "k 3 ar , iz'r,g '' Y•°''', ) 4,1 ..k.rl t nn , :z -. • . ... of lira age. s( 1 11: - .. t: b had 1.),1i 1., 1/4_,/ turd. 3, In t e , sth year .the eltY attthoritiesr Cu'll t.curniner a ule el,geged in maturing for . Piaa for filtering tLe Cro'.iu we.te). TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, IESO LIT E ;', ,A.TURE. sAf AT I,E; GER ; or, thc Tlire(ills (f life. 1 VOL S , '17)!:=*(-::4 bizto:tes e •i t h ! v , i7 ;tur e , iii ii eijtn.s .:re espttialy rr..sei ,e.l by tho;e ' Lich el 1••eli nyiGn pii,ssl,m I - other t1(1 detail thoilitts in,;ead of inniJents, " St. Leger" all ertains, in a degree', to both cLsses. The lovers of the marvel , „ous aTri the nry:ti cal will, without doubt, be charme.d by the a/at:). biographer's preliminary announc; oenf, " the age of twenty-three I find myself up ,n th threshold of two wuildf. I have , fini•lied rnv IS; u 1 on earth," &c. j Tney will furthermore Le delighted by an intro ductic.n to the mysterious and villancus VaArey, who either alienates or fascinates all with whom he comes in contact ; thy will linger with horrible delight over the moun.fal prophecy which overshadows with gloom the early cars of tie unfortunate S'. I.?i,:er. The tenibly st.,ry f b.ve, dcceit, murder, and madness recoun!td one of L - ;>>;r's fellow-3`Udents, The i , t,iat'd and the strange brid..l of his thught, r these innumerahl•J other most romantic the-nes are to be met with in d e pages of this One voltune—a pci f .ct feat for the lovers t f strangely romantic adventure. For our.seive!, "S . Leger" in this Feint el view is without attraction. I s incidents are too impiobable, not to say imp, ssible, and some of its characters too unnatural, to excite on our port any interest in the work as a tale. Taken in its other character, however, as the de ' velopinent of an inward lif , as a book of thought, it is both attractive and excel lent, so much so that we gladly oveiloole the improbabilities of the tale, for the sulk of the moral reflA:tions which it strings together. \Ve are willing to linger in the company even of the terrible Vau trey and the amazing IS"cedallab, in order to become better acquainted with the pure-minded Theresa, or to dive in'o the recesses of the doubting heart of William S. Leger. There are in this volume so many truthful thoughts, so beautifully expressed, that its perusal cannot fail to give pleAsure, and very probably to prove beneficial, to all who read it. It is difficult among so many to select any passages for specimens. The following are, perhaps, among the best eve' -;2l;anginy, always Leng. Bet that which fhttcr,d my pride, do roved Itppin , .:!ss; aryl Ie x!'a':r-t - 41 in n!tguis!, t Wr.o give te, , s back my- soul?' 13nt of rit t)e most dc, ply mournful were tliesp tb.a ,tlt,rkt.l throbbing, threbbinr, close in under Lby hear;, whenv - ,,r I saw my motht.r. I eculd not (neGunter her sort, kind, inquiring eyes, raised !O min e, anziou,ly bat silently asking what it seas that disturbed her chip'. There vras that in her p,azl which I dared not meet. It was t.o pure, so peaceful, so hetv - culy—yet so troubled. " At:d could ray new philosophy I e truth-inspired and yet not support toe undrr ti e e fresh trials? In my ilstrcss I af plitd to :'e Lisle, I,ut received no aid." The pure true-hearted Them s^, who enacts to wards LEger a part 4Lnikr to that of the gen:le .A.gees towards David C.Tperfleld, wins him back to holier and heppier sentiments. "St. Leger," notwith standing its improbable character as t story, is beautiful bock, full Lf beautiful thoughts, and w , .11 worthy cf perusal. THE MANUAL OP BOOK-KEEPING By _Henry Tuck. The Lest proof of the utility ( f this book is that hai. reached its sixth editiot.. It (Anciently suppli,s a want that hal ken keg felt, that of a cl-ur and concise system of book-keeping. To the cum nercial man we need not point out how essentill such a sy tem is, and, therefore, the commercial world is dceply indebted to Mr. Tuck (the well-known compiler (..f rJi!way statistics) f:r this useful book, which, we are happy to find, is carrying r,!foun through the counting-houses dour great commercial establizhments thr, ug.i the ler.gtl and breadth of the land. THE HIGH: TIDE OF YESTERDAY. Yesterday wi:l loree be remembered le parrs liv ing 1:3-tr the hantel of e'r'e river T. :ee- s. the tide her in g risen ee z x 'raw dee!rile nn to evert', w' the walls of the riv e r a'.ll;ettacdate the varieus thuaough fares along either Awe. So unexpected was the high tide tint no one hid made any preparation to preserve thelr property, and the consequence was that mischief to a n iecaleel.able amount vv se done. The tide on the p rev i ous d ay was lower than it has been known to be f or some cons id era bl e t i me pas t, w hil st that of yesterd a y rose two feet one i nc h hi g h er th an i t di lin Octole r, 1844, when so much property vv S destroyed. The first notice the inhabitants received of this feat ful visitation was shortly after three o'clock, about half an hour before high water. At that period the water began to flow over the banks, but as that had freqeuntly been seen before, ne particular notice was 'alien of that circumetenee; but in the space of ameher ten minutes it became apparent to every be heller that a great destruction of property, if not cf humtn life, uas inevitable. The various wharves :stou t ; the river soon presented innueme sheet of water, tirade r and other articles i, ieg forced eb eat with the strength of the tide if, tea-10de confusien ; whilst the small craft lying on the shores of the Thames were either filled with water, or forced into the open street , . The following are the places which sufferi d most severely Lemneru.—The pr o p er t y d es t roye d i n thi s p ar i s h, end the two a dj o i n i ng, must reacts to many th :us eret pounds. In College -street the tide rose to the end of the dock at the bottom of the street, then rushed down the thoroughfare, filling the kitcnens of every house, and rising several feet in the ground flours. The inmates being so suddenly visited, scarcely knew what to do, and many of them flew to the upper windows, when they beheld a scene that can scarcely be believed by those who did not witness it. The whole of the street was One great expanse of water ; and the only means for the residents to leave their habitations were in carts and boats. From College street the water rushed into the Belvidere-road, crossed the York-road, flooded Vine-street, and travelled as far as the terminus of the South-Western Railway in the York-road, the whole of the open piece of ground belonging to-the railway company in the York-road being several inches under water. In Vine-street the water; , rtisheel down the kitchens and forced the furniture up to the ceilings. Ia one of the houses adjoining Napier's engineering works three children nearly perished. Their mother being upstairs, and not aware cf what had occurred, was startled at hearing the children screaming violently : at first she imagined one of them had set fire to its clothes. She rushed down stairs, and when she got into the kitchen found the children nearly to their necks in water. Fortunately she succeeded in getting them out, but had a few more minutes elapsed the three must have perished. In Edward. street, Lambeth, the water rose so high, and beat so furiously against a wheelwright's shop that it was partially destroyed, and the walls falling against the back of the houses in Prince's-buildings, knocked in the windows and nearly killed the affrighted occupants, who had taken shelter in the upper rooms. In the Belvidere-road, under the dry arch of Waterloc-bridge, the water rose several feet, so that no person could pass either up or down with out the aid of boats or vehicles. In the Crescent of Belvidere -road the houses have sustained great injury, and the furniture is destroyed. As late as eight o'clock last evening the lower floors of the houses in 'College-street were full of water. Tee furniture belonging to nearly fifty persons in this stre e t i s either destroyed or extensively damaged. Fore street (Lambeth), Bishop's-walk, as well as the several wharves on the opposite side of the river at Milbank, were all under-water, the tide crossing the public roar', and rushing down the street opposite. At Fore•street, Lambeth, the traffic was en'irely stopped during the afternoon ; the water rose so high that boats were obliged to be used to remove the inhabitantr. Fortunately when the predicted high tide, three weeks since, was talked of, it induced many persons to make preparations for keeping the enemy out; these remaining yesterday, much property by that means was saved. Not a single house, however, which was not so-protected escaped, and the licensed victuallers' cellar-stocks have been greatly damaged by the floating and sinking of the casks. Along Vauxhall, and the Laminas lands at Fulham and Bat tersea the open country presented broad sheets of water, in many places several feet deep. STRAND, &c.—The whole of the wharves along the Strand were also under water. At the Halfpenny Steam-boat Pier the water entered the premises to a fearful extent, so that the:money takers were obliged to meke a precipitate retreat. The Fex-under•the- Hill at the Adelphi-pier was also under water, and the stock damaged. It would be impossible to give a list of the whole ( f the premises injured, as scarcely a building on either side of the river escaped, anti the furniture destroyed must amount to many thousand pounds. The tide completely overflowed the Temple gardens, and instead of the grass plats, nothing but water could be seen -for upwards of half-an-hour.., &c.—At the. London Docks all register of the depth tf the tide was lost from the water over flowing the gates. At the S-. Katharine's, for two hours after flood, the water poured over the gates like a cataract. The measurement of the tide yesterday morning at the St. liatharine's Dicks was 28 feet, and in the afternoon 31 feet 4 inches, making a dif ference, between morning and evening, of 3 feet 4 inches. As may be imagined, great consternation prevailed along the river-side at the unusual rise of the tide. People, who were prepared for the fulfil ment of a prophecy a month ago, had made no pre paration fir yesterday, and the consequence has been considerable 'damage to household propel ty. In Wapping High-street the water stood 5 feet high;. boats were plying about instead of vans, and people moving from the lower to the upper part of the house in such consternation as to leave their property behind. It is impossible to e' mate the damage done ; unfor tunately it is princip a ll y confined to those who are least able to bear it--the humbler classes—whose all has been in a measure demolished by the effect of the water. From all we can learn, the wharves were pretty well prepared for the tide, and froni . the num ber of labourers always at hand, perishable goods were removed before they were affected, with few and unimportant exceptions. • ROTH BRIIITHP.-0a the opposite side of the river, particularly at Rotherhithe, between 300 and 400 warehouses, house?, and other premises, were partially inu n d ated. It was not until past one o'clock that any apprehe ns i on was enterta i ned of the approaching tide. The bulk of the warehouse owners immediately adopted the most judicious means in barricading their doors and windows, whilst others lost no time in removing stores and all perishable goods from near where the water might reach. There were others who neglected the slightest precaution until the last moment, and their loss in consequence was considerable. Before two o'clock the tide had swept over many parts of Rotherhithe wall, and the neighbourhood being several feet below the level of the ordinary tide, the water rushed down the various courts and alleys with the force of a cataract, creating the greatest dismay to the poor creatures who crowded the cellars and lower floors of the hovels in this loca lity. Several miraculous escapes from drowing oc curred. By half-past two, all the lower portion of Roe therhithe, with its meadows, were under water. In many of the streets it was nearly two feet in depth. In this state it con ti nued upwards o f an h our , a n d on the water recedi ng, an offens i ve mass o f filth and m u d was left in the s t reets. The damages resulting from the tide are both numerous and heavy. GREEN WICET..— At 8 quartee past two o'clock the rush of wate r over t h e. b an ks of the river and through all the str ee t s situated along shore was alarming. The grou n d i n front of the Royal Hospital, called the ' five-foot way, wa s w h o ll y impassable, and the whole of the groun d s b e lOri g ii eg the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, fermerly occupied by numerous public-houses, &c., were-coinpletel, inundated. From the Salutation Tavern, Waterman s Pier, nearly the whole of Church-street; 'Billingstate-stree, Thames street, Bridge-street,' the Wood Wharf—a street running parallel with the river to the Horseferry road, opposite to the Dreadnought Seamen's Hos pital ship—were deluged by the continuous rush of water ; and when the tide had reached its limit, were about two feet under water. In this district of the town nearly every cellar and warehouse were flooded, doing serious damage to tavern-keepers and numerous other proprietors. The reporter saw bakers' carts delivering their bread at the first floor wind o ws--the horses standing up to their bellies in w a t er . At Greenwich the tide rose six inches higher than re membered by the oldest man connected with the na vigation of the Thamee. the morning n Monday the tide was so low in 0 0 0 r L n w i n i g c fi t . h — at O none of the Woolwich passenger steam-boats could leave Roff's wharf until ten o'clock, and even then with considerable difficulty and touch ing on the shoals. At about two o'clock P.M. yester day the tide ro , e to a greater height than it has been known since 1841. In the dockyard considerable anxiety existed front the apprehension that the cais son would give way.which on; out th e water of the river from the S l ip on, which toe Aga memnon , 80 guns, is building, owing to the immense pressure, when the water began to run over it into the slip, rising to some height on the blocks on which the stern part cf the keel has been laid. At the west-end the crater entered the saw-pits, and was beginning to enter the slip in which the Royal Albert, 120 guns, is being built, . when fortunately the tide began to ebb. The water entered the mast-house to a considerable depth, filling all the sae -pits. The 'outer basin was filled to nearly level with the wharf- wa il , an d t h e water ran over f rom it into King Williem the Fourth Dock, where the Magceea h fitting with a screw pro peller. The dock engine was soon set to work and kept the weer low until the tide turned, when it was emptied ,The water of tt - e river rushed over the em bankment at Lower Charlton with great force, and soon acquired a considerable depth in the Manor- j way, where a number of cottqges hvie been built horses with carts and boats were promptly brought to I the sp9t, to remove the krrifird .11ch11,17.riurt 7s they cr4d take w7th I.2',:rtu n,)lely it was rewark..bly calm and tine, otberwi,e there would have been a far greater destruction of property . PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—We had a❑ exceedingly high tile tc-day, brought up no doubt by the high S.W. wind last night. Bffoad-atrect was inundated. To-day we have a cahn, with N%-Ty thick weather. NAVA 1, IN TELLIGLNCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain Ellice, Comptroller of the Steam Department of the Navy; aed the Junior-Assistant Surveyor of the Navy, came from London last night on an official visit to this dockyard. Sir B Walker and Captain Ellice, iii conjunction %% ith Captain Chads, C B , of her Alt.jesty's ship Excellent, fmtn a committee to inquire into and report upon the best method of rah - jog reed loaering the propellers of screw steam ships in the Royal Navy, c o as to di-prose with as much as pls.ible of that dead weight near the stern-post of ships, now so cumbersome and detrimental to their orogres!. Exp_riments were tried on board the Blenheim, 60, steam guard- hip, Commander J. A. Sza vens, wh( 1-, with rope tackle, the process was accomplished in six minute e. Mr. Marrav, the Super intendent Engineer of the Doe kyard, is of opihion he can apply a screw lever, which will do the weak in two minutes, and di-p-nse with the manifold appli ances now used in performing the same duty. Sir Baldwin Walker afterwards made an inspection of the various ships under repair and refit, and works in prc g ass in the dockyard. These periodical visits of such an officer as Sir Baldwin cannot fail to be highly advantageous. The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell, arrived this morning from Bermuda, whence she sailed on the 9th inst. On her passage she expe rienced very severe weather, having been in a gale of wind nearly a week. She brought home several in valids from the 421 Regiment and Royal Artillery. She is ordered into harbour to refit. It is gratifying to state that although her crew is one borrowed from the Excellent chiefly, among whom are . some famous gunners, not one case of desertion to America has oc curred, although she lay some time off an American port. The Wellesley, 72, Vice-Admiral Earl Dun donald, G.C.8., and the Plumper, 11, Commander S. M. Nolloth, were at Bermuda when the Hecate sailed. She has been under sail alone, with paddle floats off, 1 ; 560 miles, has now arrived with nearly half her full quantity of coals in her bunkers—some-1 thing very much to the credit of Commander Shad well. She has brought a mail and the following pat sengers:—Mr.Keowr, R.N., late surgeon of the Pes tonjee Bomanjee transport ; Mr. Pinhorn, - late de puty clerk of the works at Berrnu&, superseded, and Mrs. Pinhorn ; Lieutenant M'Leod, of the 421 keg', ment, in charge of 30 invalids of that regiment, and three of the Royal Artillery ; and Mr. Joseph Wal ker, second master, late acting-master of the Trin comalee, dismissed the service. The Admiral was about to proceed to the West Indies in the course of a few days. The Ilecate is ordered to be kept in com mission and fitted for foreign service. There have been many reports about the Raleigh, 50, C iptain the Hon. G. Hope, being paid off all standing ; but she will be totally dismantled, and will probably go into ordinary at Portsmouth. She is entering stores and unrigging with all dispatch. We have authority fur stating that her M.jesty's ship Hastings, 62, late the flag-ship of Sir Francis A. Collier, deceased, is to continue the flag-ship of Almiral A usten— an arrangement much to be ap plauded, both in point of economy and efficiency. No ship ever was in better order or in better hands. She had not lost a man by sickness or desertion since com missioned. Captain Morgan will come home on being superseded by Captain Aus!en. The Comet steam-vessel, Commander R. C. Otter, was paid off all standing today WooLwicn, JAN. 29. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant William Wolleock (4) (1809), to be retired commander of 1830. Lieutenant Charles Goldsmith (1825), to command the Wellington cruiser. Lieutenant A. IL B. Carter (184), of the coast guard, to command the Wicklam revenue cruiser. Lieutenant William L. Lambert (1842), to be a chit f officer of the coast guard. William Wollcock (a) entered the navy in May, 1800, as A B on board the V‘suve, Lieutenant- Commanders William Eliot, William Chapman, and Benjamin Crispin, stationed in the North Sea. He served next frem April, 1801, until July, 1802, part of the time as midshipman in the Powerful, 74, Cap tain Sir Francis Laforey, in the Baltic, off the port of Cadiz, and in the West Indies ; and from March, 1803, until June, 1807, under Sir William Sidney Smith, in the Antelope, 50, and Pompey, 74. I i the Antelope he la as often in action with the enemy's flotilla between Flushing and Ostend; and in the Pom i 6_, he passed the llsrdanelles and assisted at the d.!structiOn of a Turkish squadron anchored under the Buns of a redoubt on Point re,quies. On ti.e Bth of July, 1807, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the Pincher gun-bri e -, Lieutenant-Commanders James Aberdour and Samuel Burgess, in the North Sea; he was promoted to the full rank of Lieutenant on the 25th cf March, 1809, and he was afzer wards, from June following until June, 1814, em ployed in the Persian, 18, Captains Samuel Martin Co'quitt and Charles 8.. r tram ; and the Iris, 36, Captain Hoed Ilanway Christian, on the. West Indii7, home, at.d Brszlian stations. He assisted in the Persian at the capture of the priva teers 'ambuscade, of 14 guns and 63 men, and Petit Jean, of 16 guns, only 8 mounted, and 65 men. Ilis last sea appointment was to the Poictiers, 72, Captains William Henry Shirreff and Sir Thomas Bourchier, depot-ship of ordinary at Chatham, where he served as first-lieutenant from the 4th of April, 1844, until the summer of 1847. In addition to the above inter esting details of the services of this gallant officer, given in " O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary," it is also stated that he was honourably mentioned in the London Gazette of 1809, fur his gallant conduct in command of the boats of the Pincher and Basilisk, when he succeeded, in the early part of 1809, in cap turing a Danish privateer, mounting one carriage gun and four swivels, and a galliot laden with deals. Such a long period of service. s rewarded by placing the gallant veteran on the retired list of com manders of 1830, which entitles him to the half-pay of 7f. per day. Commander Codrington Forsyth, having studied steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard, was ex amined yesterday by Mr. Trickett, assistant to the chief engineer, and passed in a very satisfactory man ner, receiving his certificate accordingly. SURVIVING OFFICERS OF TILE OLD SUPERB. — Among the surviving officers t f the o'd Superb is Commander Willcox (late of Portsmouth ordinary, and uncle of Commander Willcox of the Fury). He served in the Superb, 74, for upwards of eleven years as midshipmen,. acting lieutenant, and lieu tenant, under Captain John Sutton and the late Sir K. G. Keats. He was in Sir James Saumarez's action with the Franco- Spanish squadron ; was in Lord Nelsen's pursuit of the combined fleets; in Duckworth's action off St. Domingo and at Copen hagen; and subsequently, whilst belonging to the Superb, had charge of two gun-boats at the siege of Flushing, and commanded one of several boats that boarded and carried a Danish brig of 18 guns and a cutter of twelve guns. EIYAL MARINES.—The following Admiralty cir cular, relating to the pay of Quartermasters, has been received by the commandants of the four divisions, which is dated from the Royal Marine-c frice, viz.:— " Her Majesty bas been graciously ph asee, by Order in Council of the Bth inst., to direct that the daily pay of Quartermasters of the Roy al Marines shall be as f,,!- lows, viz.:—Upon first appointment, Gs. 6J; after ten years' service as a quartermaster, or after fifteen years' service as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, of which at least five years shall have been is quarter master, S.. 6d.; after fifteen years' service as a quarter master, or a 4 t3r twenty years' service as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, ( f which at least ten years al, all have been as quartermaster, 10r. " By ccmmand Lf the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. " JOHN OWEN, Deputy Adjutant-GenetaL" INNER TEMPLE, JAN. 29.—A further call to the bar of stude.,ti ftt e lion. Society of the Inner Temple wai made this evening, and :they comprised tho af,er mentioned gentlemen :—John Thomas Abdy, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, B.C.L. ; William Byem, of Trinity College,' Cambridge, 8.A.; George Robert Cumyn Chil ton, of Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. ; and Samuel Shepherd, of Northallerton, in the county of York. LINCOLN'S INN, JAN. 29 —The after-mentioned memt era of the Hon. Society f Lincoln's Inn have been eallcd to the degree of Barrister-.:t law, and they were this c vening sworL in before several of the bench( re:— Ede. and P. Fi.ton, BA. ; Timothy S. o.ler, LL B. ; Thomas Btcror; William Wright, jun.; John F. Miller; Robert W. T.ylor; Arthur H. Estc, , urr, M.A.; Herman L. Prior, AI.A. ; Henry Thomas J. Jenkinsor, M.A. ; and John Sayer, ALA. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week, as Mr. James Milligan, hosier here, aai v alkiug along Buccleugh•street, be slipped on the ieo which covered the pavement. To save himself from fulling, he caught at the iron railings in front of the bower, whin tl:e spike of one c f the bars entered between his little finger and a ring worn on it, on which the whole weight of his body was thrown in consequence. The t)p p nt;on of the finger was torn off by the sudden wrench, and the ter don ztt.tally pulled out and coiled round tho bar. Mr. Milligan, wit') gr( at, fortitude, though he must have Suffered di eadfally, walked to the house of a sat t-zeori, and Lai the wound dressed. A . portion of the finger has since required amputation. funfrie,r Courier. Lord John hay is about to retire from the Ad tally, ally, and Captain Houston Stewart, R.N., C otnr _ troller-Gcteral of the Coast-guard, will succeed him.— Times. HEALTH OF .LO2.i'DON clurirg the WEEK. (From. tug Rogistree-General's Returr.) , In the weak ending last Seturday, the deeths re : gistered in the Instropolitan itistrieta were 1 034, and exhibit a decrease or 122 on those ef the previous . week. A comparison of the same weeks of former years shows that the mortality has not been so low as at the present tine since 1846 ; in the early part of the sears 1847-9 the deaths ranged weekly from 1,200 to about 1,450. The average of corre sponding week; in ten previous years (1840-9) is 1,089, or, if a correction is made for ieereese of pepu ',Aloe, 1,183, compared with which the present re turn shows a decrease of 49 deaths. The deaths from consumption were 128, or rathtr less than the, average. Amongst other fetal diseases, bronchitis is now predominant, and last week carried off 121 persons, a number which, though less than in the weds b. fere, exceeds by 51 the corrected aver age of ten corresp coding weeks of former y are. It is worthy of mina, k that this com plaint, which has exceediegle inert used during the last six years, has, since '1844, predate d at this see son st weekly mortality more than fourfold its former amount. Plictimorlia was fetal to only 78 pereuns lest week (..t great majority of whom were children), whilst the corrected aver ge i f ten corresponding wet ks is 109; this disease, though it has fluctuated in its weekly numbers from 64. to 156, has nut shown the same disposition as bronchitis to increase during later years. Toe deaths of 7 nonagenarian: were registered last week ; cf these, a woman at the age of 96 years, and a man at 99. The deaths of 105 persons were registered in workhouses ; 57 in hospi tals ; and 13 in the two royal hospitals, amongst whom were 7 pensioners at Greenwich, who die:l be ' taeen the 18th and 24th of January, at various ages, from 37 to 84. The mortality from epidemics continues to be comparatively low, though measles and diarrhwa (from the former there having been 28 deaths, and from the latter 14), are about the ave rage; 11 children died of croup. The mean dairy reading of the barometer -at Green wich was above 30 in. on the first five days of the week; the mean of the week was 30.050. The mean daily temperature rose from 29 deg. on Sunday to 45 deg. on Friday; the mean of the week was 35.5 deg.; which is rather less than the average cf . the same week in seven years. The mean temperature was 9 deg. below the average of the same day, on Monday ; on Friday it was 8 deg. above it. The following cases are selected from the Regis trar's report : In . . Kensington (town), Jenning's-buildin gs , the wife of a hawker, fifty y ears o f age , di e d of" chronic bronchitis." Mr. Gorham describes these buildings as dose and dirty, and the house overcrowded. In Hanover-square (sub-district), the master of a wardrobe shop, fifty years, died of " cynanche ton sillaris (ten weeks), typhus (two weeks)." Mr. Jay_ reports that the house (42, Gilbert-street) where the death occurred is neither well ventilated nor cleansed, and that the soil of the closet overflows the area fre quently, causing an offensive smell. In Berwick-street (sub-district), the daughter of a tailor, 17 days, died of "pneumonia" (2 days' ill ness). Mr. Walker states that the house, 31, Poland street, where the death occurred, is close and un healthy. In Camden-town (sub-district), at Cambridge - crescent, Agar-town, the son i f a " navigator," 1 year, died of hooping - cough (3 weeks), i n fl amma ti on of the lungs." Mr. Holl describes it as "a wretched and unhealthy locality, with houses of two rooms, which are damp and unfit for habitation, and occupied by very poor persons." • 'ln St. Clement Danes a tailor of 37' years died of " phthisis (6 months), bronchitis (4 weeks)," in King's College H os pit a l. H e h a d been brought from Feather's-court, Drury-line, which Mr. Jones describes as "close, crowded, and badly drained." Chapel-place, Clement's-lane, whence a cap maker, who died of "bronchitis (2 months) pneumonia (5 days)," ' in the same hospital, was brought, is also described as "the filthiest court in the metropolis." Mr. Jones states that a house in Carey-street, where a child died of bronchitis an d hyd rocep h a l us , " h as no back - windows and is exceedingly close." EVAPORATION PROM THE THAMES.—A larger Iquantity of matter i s ra i se d f rom t h e Th ames b y eva poration than is generally supposed. Upon Mr. Glaisher's estimate, 678,505 gallons evaporate from an acre of water in a year, which is at the rate of 1,857 6 gallons daily. Toe bed of the Thames in London is estimated approximately at 2,245 acres ; consequently 4,170,000 gallons are raised from the Thames on an average daily throughout the year. The quantity evaporated at low water is, perhap', much less than this; on the other hand, the evapora tion in summer is more active than in winter ; arid the proportion of decomposing orgatrin matter in the water, and on the banks exposed to evaporation, is greater at low than at high water. Upon the whole, it is probable that in summer four million gallons, or about 18,000 tons of water, are raised from the pol luted Thames daily and, discharged into the atmos phere which is breathed by the inhabitants of London. It remains to determine how much of the organic matter in - tie water is raised with the vapour to cjir ferent temperatures. Mr. Glaisher was requested to make an estimate of the amount of vapour raised by evaporation from the Thamee, and has favoured the Registrar-General with the subjoined statement : " For same years past I have male daily experiments upon the amount of water evapm a ed from a surface of water, and the amount excseds 30 inches annually. " A depth i f wafer cf fully 30 inches must evaporate from the surface i f the Thames annually; indeed the quantity must be larger than this from the circumstance of its relative high night temperature. Take it, how eier, at 30 inches, and we shall have— • 2•5 tot 9 x 480=408900 cubic feet evaporated in a . 108900 year from au area of water of ore) acre. —=678505 gallons of water evaporated in 0.1605 one yeti. from an acre of water. 108900>s 2245=244480500 cubic fett of water evapo rated from a surface of 2245 acres 'of water in one year. - - =152342991 gallons of water evaporat -0.1605 • ed in one year from e sur face of' water of 2,245 acres in extent, or more than 1,523 millions of gallons. Tho salt water affects the water at Woolwich : it •is usually what is termed brackish there. Lieutenant Sanders states that at Greenwich, at high-meter spring tides, the waver is frequently brackish. " The dirt and filth in solution must be very large. The ' Dreadnought' experiments are made under my direction chit fly, and I can assure you that to read the instruments is a serious affair, owing to the filth of the waters; on first pulling them up they are covered with a slimy adhesive mud; they first have to be wiped, and if the wind is blowing strongly, Allis muddy water is blown about and over the observer. A new trunk is now being made with a perforated copper-bottom turn ing downwards upon hinges, so as to get rid of the enormous deposit " SELF-DENIAL. " Se:f•denial, which is another word for exclusion, is a necessary exercise. No matter what the object sought; without it, all labour is empty effort. For no person can at the same time walk in a given dirt cion and in a di re etion exactly opposite. Attempt Est one and then the other, and no progress is made. Self-. 7 .enial may be pairf.ll, or it may not be. It may be every way ugre-e -able; or it may produce a strong r evet-inding st; u4gle with ourseves. The sensualist denies him: e!1 the ext rcise! of virtue, to please his passions, excluding all the good it.flatnces of his moral nature. The woe Id ling denies himself to gratify an ambition of one kind or another, excluding whatever interferes with his aim. The Christian denies himself, t) satisfy his moral sense, excluding t various temptations which surrould and beset hie - . Self-denial, then, is a philosophical exele sion of everything which interferes w:th a given rule a f conduct, adopted with re!erence to a desired res.ult. And yet we often encounter a certain class ef benevacnts, who tell us that •all things were made for man's eijo)mcnt;' that every creature of God is good;' that t=ie happiness within our reach is the happiness to secure, and that self-denial, if it implies any constraint, is altog'?thrr wrong in itse'f; in short, is too absurd (because too dis agi e ab!e) to be tolerated. " These are dano:ous philanthropists. They have no notion c f the holy in man. They ate earthly, sensual, devilish. They can make no distinction between the sensual and the interei:tual, much less between the k - tellectual and the moral. They seem not to understand that the passions may lead IA-here the intellect refuses to fellow, and that the intellect may yield whore the moral ease Londe mar. Not daring to avow their doctrine in all its hideous eef is mitt', they cover it ever with the gloss of an apparently improved humanity; and by pit turirg a perfect state t f ideal sensuousness (I say sensuousness, because so'f is the solo object of contemplation in it), they leaf nueibe-rs away irreclaimably to perdition. They are blind leaders of the blind. Once more I utter my warning. Once more I ay to those in the forming tame (reader, if you have passed that period you are beyond lay reach), yield not to the sensual; worship not as a divinity the intellectual; rest on'y in an ohjyet of the highest moral purity; anything 1 , si wilt end in cli at+. Fur no man can find rest in an object unless that object is larger tl an his own mind, and no mind can test in an object which is not Mimi:- able. Therefore no merely earthly object can satisfy it. We must hal e an object of Good, which ex/ ands as the mind Expands which contemp!ates it—and that object is God. He must furnish the alimet t to sustain cur souls. In no other way can the soul be elevated and rest ;red to its original pririty. Then, if we may not prevent the tmEtations which beset ty, we can defy tieir power!" THE PRACTICAL PRESENT. " And there we sat; the gloomy meditator upon what had beer, and the eager I xpcc a:it upon what was to t o —a strange companionship! 'Mete we sat; and while we lived upon the Past and Future, b,,th forgot the ca nal Present; the everListirg, neves-endirg Now, for which only nrAn exists; f iu it are embraced yesterday, and fur ever. Vain mortal, to feed upon dim recollictionF, or upon the unsub:taniial framework c f fThe hopes, forge t ul of that which is! "But must !anti, must hope, be bani,hed? Ah, no. ' Dora nut the eeriest expectation of the cietituto wait for the manif station of the sons of God?' Assuredly. But it trust be such Lith, ouch hope, such expectation, as will make the Now impor alt. Tell me of a faith that bids rue form, t the prcEent, and I will Lrund A false. Show me a hope that connects not with what is, and I will u ark it vrtn. Summon me an expectation that ra ters not to what I now an-, end I will stamp it futilo. And <<t era sits, and wait , , and hopes, and expects, and waits agair, while nothing comes of it; and be rour enure, lint still expectf, and still the river runs by Lull fliwing, and the current will not diminish : still t!lo wheel goes tuuud, hot to thing is azcomplislad. And what la 3 h fAith, or his hope, or his exp. ctaion, dune for him? 'II e il)re, oh being, ertated by the Almighty Father, when, unquiet and dissatisfied, thou busiest thyself with vain imsgininp, know that thou neglectest the present, and if thou aeglectest it, thou art lost." FALSE AM) TRUE. " I have always been diskosed to deny that our early days were intended to be our happiest. Tr ue it i', tla; mutt look ia. .:k to them with pleasure, mingled with feelings half cf regret, half of sadness, that they are r a ised. The reason f this is, that those days are free from the anxieties which mature life is sure to bring. The man, pressed down with Lusiness, with care, even though his coffers are filling with wealth, looks LaAt. upon his childhood as a green spot in his existence, while all around is drear and desolate. "And if business engross him not, if he knows no thing of the drudgery of a (prizing riches, but lives or his own pleasure and amusement, how soon these pall upon him—then he, al. -,0, sighs fur the careless,thought les,,, happy feelings of early days, %ler time needed no destroyer, and the hydr.-headed monster Ennui found no place of attack. "Is it a wonder that such as I have moationcd, the slave of plca-ure as well as the slave of toil, should look away across the dreary waste of y ears, and seek to re call the past? But it is too late: youth will not come back, and they have no talisman t compel it to return. " When I hear friends conversing tog. tier good old time',' closing their conference Kith,Ah, well! those were happy days, sure' enough; tle happiest part of our lives, if we had but. known it :' I fool persuaded that they have made but a poor use if existence. What! has God made us with such rich preparatiws fur true enjoyment, such noble powers of mind and sense, and yet designed us to retrograde through lifu? Yielding us a few hours of questionable happiness at first, to be succeeded by days of weariness or we? It is not so! Who would be contented always with such happiness? Who does nut know that it is but the pleasur e e f animal ex istence; an existence gay indeed as the bird's, and I.ke the bird's thoughtless too? "The man who wisely employs himself about things imperishable, mutt grow happier each succeeding day in time, and so on through the period beyond, which we call eternity. The goodness of God orda'ns this; the wisdom of God proclaims it." LIFE WITUGUT 110 PE. "Life! shall I tell you what it is? Ah, would it wero what so many make a pumping cf air in and out of the lungs; a covering cf the nakeJness, to the prevention of shame; eating lest the body tall away; sl , eping o' from wearisomeness of the flesh!— then were man inthel somewhat better than a beast. But to have pining want: which gnaw the soul, and for which no provision has been made; to love, and fie' that love lasts only so long as I L; to labour, and know that the grave closes upon al resu'ti of toil; to el joy, and be conscious that time withers up the sources 01 our bliss; to be miserable, and feel that death n - ay not release us; to undergo all the mad pleaswei a earth, and all the remorse - which their indulgence brings; to feel in pros perity that nothing can se cure against change, and to recognise in ache: city no hope—Ha: ha! that—that is lif ! What a precious boon to that poor praying beggar, maul" s AIFATUY. My parting with Meta was one of the happiest moments of my life. We hart not spoken one word i f our feelings fur each other during my stay—positively, not one word; but we had talked of almost everything in the wide world; we had exchanged thoughts and sym pathies, and, strnnge to say, cur feelings were in exact hat mon3. The endless, boundless world of the imagina tive aid the imaginable! Pleasant is it when we find in another the echo of what we feel and are; but how much higher the enjoyment when we can appreciate in such a one the feelings whirls we ourselves do not possess, and thus el ter, soul w:th sou', into the sweet exchange of spiritual barmonfe.l By ne t reducing ur feelings to the point of mere self-enjoyment. we exi ecience a growing happiness, the reverse of wl aS tho:e lovers f el who allow t'le flame to die by what it feeds on, and who in this way are exposed to the curse of a double selfishness. To cur tain the life of the affections, we re quire a comptnior, not a counterpart; red they are blessed who mistake not one for the other." Among St. LPger's mental trials he is disturbed by the suggestions of the infidel philoscp'iy. His emc tton., on yielding to it, are thus described : Nfy thoughts b. came daily more distracted. I had purchased itttllectual freedom, and lo t my peace of mind. I looked back t) my former s t ate , and flt bow happy had be ea my ignorance. I thought el' the God of my childhood, IsCA a pang aett low do vtn into my hear. I seemedto have lost my hu man i ty, and ov , r the warm I.f -glowing structure of a hi 'point h eat t h o d b een raised a splendid en 1 magt,ificent lAA cold wad gl oom y maukoleun^. True, I was no longer a secondary object; I was apart et' the sublime vt hole; a portion efvk ry God; THE ZOIST. .No. The Zoist for the present quarter presents us with an accurate record of the progress made in the sciences of cerebral physielopy and mesmerism during the last three months. The following observations by Dr. Elliotson on the choice of mesmerisers will be found important : " I am anxious to make a few observations to Cle public on the choice c f mesmerisers. A very large number of those who profess to mesmerise do not a hundredth part of the good they might, aid thus injure individual patients and the progresi of the subject. It is difficult to find a professed mesmeriser who gives satisfaction. Too many are lull of whims of their own and act the quack, talking as if possessed of t xtra ordinary knowledge, making all sorts cf displays in their methods, in fact, playing all sorts of antics, and talking all sorts of nonsense. Many of my pie nts have been made so nervous by these mesmerisers as t le unable to continue to employ them. Some thought• lessly talk all the time. Now a good mesmeriser works iu silenu, and allows no talkiumin the room, nor r,ny thing else that can excite the patient. The passes should be made very slowly, or they may excite ratter than and nay prevent sleep. The mesmeriser should look earnestly at the patient, and be absorbed in the attempt to produce a silent it:fluence. It is in general best to persevere with one method, for the diversif ) hig the attempt is very likely to exoiti the curiosity anti wonder of the patient and prevent repos-. 0: e sort of pasting, or mere pointing, or gazing, may, for some un known reason, suit one patient better than another: but when a patient, by mere continuance of attempt 4, has become affected, the method employed at the m:nnent of success is likely from association to be afterwards, at least fir a long while, fa more effectual, if not even exclusively (actual, than others. I would not allow a patient at mine t) be mesmerised by one who, while the process is going on, talks at all, or laughs, or makes quick passer, snaps his fingers, makes flourishes, or plays arly monkey tricks ; or is careless and listless. All should be done calmly and even solemnly: for mesmerism is a serious, holy thing. There is no occasion to hold the hands, or sit with knees against knees; or in general to touch the patient et all. And all may be done as well by the operator standing to one side of the patient as oppo.ite. There is no occasion fur the operator to vibrate his hands or head, or make any muscular effor'. The best mesmerisers are those who do all quietly and ;,ently. " Some persons, whom I have recommended as mes merisers, have taken the liberty of passing art opinion upon the medical treatment which I had prvseribt.d at the same Cute; or, where there vas no other treatmen•, f auggcsting medical treatment. One person, quite ignorant of medicines, took the liberty of applying lee:hes v hen exhaustion forbad any such measures: one introduced a foreigner to assist her iu mesmerising, who was a linendraper in Brussels and passed himself off us a doctor, and he mesmerised and prescribed. Some, in stead c f simply mesmerising, as I directed, introduced pretended clairvo; ants, absolute impoeOrs. I advise all medical men to allow nothing of this sort when they employ n eimerisere. But, on the other hand, they should not interfere with the mesmeriser, or take any measures without cot ferring with him, provided they understand nothing c f it and he is a Lilly informed and disci eel mesmeriser. "Some amateur mesmerisers do injury to the ea :se by their want of perseverance. If they produce no he nefir, or no sensible effect, iu tho first few trials, c f per haps only a quarter of al hour each, they give up the case. I wish such persons would never take a case in hand, because their irilures must be very numerous, and the poor patient conceives that mesmerism, perl.krs his last and only hope, is no remedy for him, and our adver saries register the more failure•. In truth, mesme.ism cannot be said to have foiled under a trial of a year or more in chronic cases. Let no one mesmerise who is not prepared to gibe a daily trial of at least half an hour for many months or still longer. `• On Ile other hand, I must also entreat the air eta never t) begin an smerism unless firmly resolved to give it a fair trial; and not to give it up because they are not bett , -.:r sour, or do not go to sleep. I b Len foolishly loge all patience with people, to whom I have . explained the possibility of no r ffect cccuring for a length of time, and of benefit without sleep, - returning or writing to me ifs a few days with a deetaration that, as they telt nu thing, !Ley should not continue it. Some go about sa3- ing they cannot be sent to 'sleep' because Mr. Somebody tried one day without (Met. If a complaint is worth tie trouble cf curing, it is worth the trouble of submit ting to a remedy causirg neither pain nor annoyance, but requiring merely perseverance. S: me give up in a f.w e 2ics or months. It is surprising how many per sons in the world have no force of character: are only big children—holding silly opinions on various subjects of which they know nothing, and acting without reason or steadit,e4s." UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGES. OXFORD, JAN. 29.—The Professor of Chemistry will continue his lectures on Wednesday next, the 30th inst , at 8 o'clock in the evening, at his rooms in the Botanic garden. The Professor of Anglo-Saxon will continue his lectures on Thursday, the 31st inst., at 2 o'clock. Also he proposes to form an elementary class for beginners. Any gentlemen who desire to jqin either of these classes are requested to call on the Professor, at Oriel-College, on Wednesday, the 30th inst., be tween the hours. of 11 and 2. DIAMOND DUST. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured tit, than the powerful whom we have injured. Ile tl has cot the lion's claws will not feel himself quite secure until he has ulso drawn his teeth. Where merit appears, do justice to it without scruple. The future is always fairy-land to the young. Lfe is like a Lt autiful and windini , lane, on either side bright flowers, and Leauiful buttnlies, and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and t i taste; so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But, by degrees as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fsil; the fruits di:appear, and we find we have arrived, to rt ach a desert waste; in the centre, a stage ant and letheau lake, over which wheel and shriek the dark-winged birdr, the embodied memories cf the past. You can never overtake tiine. It is Lest therefore to be always a few minutes before him. Forgiveness of injuries—The odour flowers yield when trampled on. MR. ARCHER'S BENEFIT.—The benefit of Mr. 3. T. Archer, the box book-keeper at the Haymarket Theatre, whose valuable services are well known at d appreciated by every frequenter of the boxes of the " little theatre in the Haymarket," is fixed fir Friday next. The bill of fare is excellent. Jerrold's comedy of Nell Gwynne will be revived, when Mr. Keeley will appear in his original character of Orange Moll, Mr. Webster will appear for the first time as King Charles, and Miss Reynolds will make her first appearance as Nell Gwynne. The comedy will be followed by Buck stone's f.rce of the Christening; after which will be pre tented Mrs. Gore's popular drama of The Maid of Croissey, in which Madame Celeste will appear in the character of Theresa ; and the entertainments will con clude with the comic drama of The Maid with the Milk ing Pail, in which Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will sustain the principal characters. Mr. Archer's own merits are sufficient to secure him a bumper, but, with such a bill of fare, he cannot but have an overflow. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN u h neniriendbeyris. nhwteilirsoet RAILWAT.—On Monday night last the engine of the ui -Newcastle mail train, upon the London and North- Western railway got off the line, in the road-cuttings about nine miles south of Wolverton, and fell over on its side, dirc..tly across the down line. The tender was dragged off the line, aad the empty van, which is usually attached behind the tender, mounted upon it, and two or three of the carriages went off the :line with the shock of the sudden stoppage, but f 'nut ately nor e of them were damaged, and the whole of the passengers escaped t t u t hb g nie i ctr t eo le kw e ei a r t d, untoward du a ur n ypa d e ;ct i t hda h ane e ndrit fi ,Na : oen a tv h n et ;beet we ( e ehi, believe, omeuknp . maaonidfl d s course, u u train to Mandl ester and Li% erpool and the north arrived at the spot at elev. n o'clock, it could not proceed. The pas. engers and luggae were taken out of the carriages and conveyed over the hoPe r ( f the prostrate engine to another train which was brought up from Rugby, in which ct Last they proceeded, r.f er a delay of about eight hours, The mails, instead (reaching Manchester and L'viirpoul at :71.39 A 111 , did not arrive till 11.50 in the torenoen. --- - MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—The market to day has been very quip t and heavy. There was a strong determination on the part of purchasers not to buy, ex cept at a reduction in price, and for some titre after the market opened little business was done, producers seem ing determined to hold out with equal resolution. 'lbis feeling 'revai!ed more or less duringthe eay, and very little bush ess wa3 dere in-any article, the turn being in favour of the buyer, without any quotable decline in prices. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF _DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN TUE WEEK ENDING SATUIIDAY, JAN. 26, I:50. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases ... 175 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 120 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Reqiration 252 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... 6 Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. •• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &?.. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muse:es ••• Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations... ••• ••• ••• Premature Birth ... •• ••• Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Old Ag e ••• it" ••• ••• ••• Sudden ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Causes not specified •6 • •• • •• • • DEATHS FROST ALL CAUSES ... *153 ... 45 ... 12 ... 23 ... 16 Population Enumerated, 1841. West Districts... 301,169 North Districts.. 376,568 Central Districts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts .. 503,346 1,034 Totals... .....1,948,369 Males Females Deaths in con o- Deaths spondinz week in the of 1849. 'Week. p • 179 ... 176 .. 222 ... 166 ~. 212 ... 183 ... 245 ... 208 ... 350 ... 301 ... 1,208 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... 1,034 Total •1,494 *I a this number are included 16 by Scarlatina, 27 by Typhus Fever, and 14 by Diarrhoea. TIIS COLONIES AND TIIR SOCIETY FOR TEIR PRO PAGATION or TILE GOSPEL --At the annual meeting art Monday afternoon of the Gloucester I? i.xesan . Asset a tion, in aid t f th e above venerable society, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristo!, in calling the a.det.t.on of the meeting to the objects and operation t f the society in spreading the Gospel among tur colonial possessions, particularly direct :d public attention to the txpet t tiuu that ,vre long sown ..t our colonies will be beveled from tre. His Lordship expressed a hope, that if such a separe.tion should take placz., it would not be eficctud by violent means; but be alluded to the growing feeling which, he said, existed upon this subje.t. with the view of pressing upon all parties who toils as inttrert in the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts to a'd in thet grt: t work while wo have the power of extcodir g rkli gious help to the colonies. His Lordship was fo lowed by Mr. Vernon, cne of the secretaries of the parint a sociation, who also spoke in similar terms of the expect ations of our North American colonists. The celebrated sculptor, Bartolini, died at Flo rence on the 20th, aged stvent3 -never , after a abort ill nis cf three days. 244480500 /V . DISASTROUS AFFA - GAMBIA. v* -- \ 44. The followinEr is an extrext f ' [ officer of tl:,. 21 ,l'est.:lndia R., , girn . 4 2 -141 c.;.• a t a -, " Bathurst, Gambia, Dec.. 21, 18-19.' " 1 ' ' "About two months ego a.vessel helorigmg to a merchant here was trt.ding down the coact, near Bis sao, about 100 miles to the south of u;, when the vessel was seized by: a party of-black fellows, who turned out to be pirate , ., inhabiting an Mend at the mouth e.f the River Seba. Some of the crew were shot, one of whom was a Freuchmar. Tie Governor h?re wrote an account to the Governor ..f &mega!, who sent a vmall rnar-uf-war steamer, with some marbles., to assist us in punishing these scoundrels, and retaking the vessel. The day after she vrrived here one of our vessels, the Tetz?r, came in ; so the Governor thterinined un tending her with 6 c French man and a few ( f our men. The d.. 3 aft. .r this the Gommotore arrived in the C .nlalsr ,t,.:-.n-f. igate quite by cii;:r.e,.. It vet now a.r,nge i t h at tl.ey s'.ould bll go down Ile had a number of 11 :sines on board, rim] with CO of our men, iiy,.l.--r Captain 11:11, and I.eute omit, Al.,‘Court :Ind 31 . 1411:ghlen, sailed 14 this place. The action was vpry Amt. A s we ll as I C,411 Illi lie ore, the outline is :as follows: " [he Ten r and the Ruby (Frenchman) having gone up V e creek where the island is si - uared, an chored off the place where they were to lure?. The Ceram'', being too large to come up s o f.r, Lent up her boats, twelve in number, while sh., remained about three Miles doer.. Captain 1.3nr:1:1..., o f the Centaur, and Lieutenant Ski+)i- , , cornmcnrkr of the Teaser, then Went in advance of the other boats near the shore, intending to demand the rc stitution of the vessel together with the-men who murdered the crew when he was fi re d a t. Th e b a ll t oo k effect on Mr., Young, Midshipman of the Centaur, dangerously wounding hint in the breas*.• The Tesz.n. and Ruby, together with the boats that had minor, then opened a furious cannonade, which-lasted nearly half an hour. The natives stood it without answering a shoe. They then attempted - to land from the boats, however the first that came near the bush which they had to pass through, received a volley which took great aid, killing Lieutenant Crocket, commanding the marine, and dangerously wounding eight others (sailers and marines). They then withdrew and our men landed :without further opposition, and after beating about for son.e time returned to their vessels. The fi.st boat was the cnly one under. fire, unless 3ou reckon the shot that wounded Young, and this single shot and.the volley Was-the only firing from the enemy. Toe next day the party went ten miles up the creek, and recovered the vessel without opposition or seeing a man. Thus ended the affair." . _ FATAL PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER. ANDOVERSFORD, NEAR CHELTENHAM, MONDA T NIGHT.--A. shocking occurrence h.-. 3 just happened here, which has ended in the • violen% death of one man, and the committal of three others to Glouces ter County Giol on a charge of manslaughter. The particulars cf . the case, as summed up from the depn sitions of the several witnesses examined on the coroner's itquest, may be briefly stated as follows : Two farm servants, named William Cook and J3seph Franklin, in the employ of Mr. Hsniy, farmer, quarrelled while following their daily work, and, after a good deal of bickerinv, came to a mutual agree - ment to "fight it out." They fought together in the road near their master's farm for a short time, tl • only looker-on being ti boy, named Perrin. After two or three rounds, in the course if which they fell twice or thrice and kicked each other while upon ti e ground, a temporary truce was declar«', while eat h combatant rent for " a backer." Franklin sent for his father, who quickly arriver', and a rasa named George Fletcher came as Cook's backer. They then resumed the battle, Franklin, the father, encouraging his son. Cook knock, d Franklin down firs', but in the next "rouna" Cock was down, and was picked up by Fletcher. After two or three more rounds Cook fel!. Fletcher d him up, and endeavoured to replace Lim on his legs, but Cook.could not eerie, and appeared insensible, while blood flowed from his ears. He was then put in a cart and taken home. Before he was taken away, however, Franklin went up to him, and asked him, " if he had had enough, or whether he wanted any more?' Caok did not reply, and never spoke rgain ; in fact, there can be little doubt that he was actual' y dead at that moment, and his antagonist was talking to a corpse. While the fight was going on Franklin's wife came up, and entreated her hus band, with tears in her eyes, to desist. Frank.. fin's father, however, told her to be off home, and while the men were fighting he called upon bis son to " put it into him" (the deceased man). A. married woman named Aigg, - who said she went " to see the tight," deposed at the inquest that she saw Mrs. Franklin endeavour to separate Cook and her husband. The deceased was considered a match for his antagonist, being 39 years of age, while the other was 23. Tire deceased has left a widow and four children unprovided for. Mr. Galli, surgeon of Charlton Kings, who made u postmortem examination IS the deceased, showed upon the i, quest that death had been occasioned by a blow or blows on the heed, which had ruptured a blood-vessnl in the brain. Death was not occasioned by a fell, buts blow-. The coro ner's verdict war, that C.,ok came l'v his death from the efftct of blows received whilst fighting with Franklin, and that William Franklin (his • tither) and George Fletcher. were aiding and abettieg. Joseph Franklin, and were principals in the sccotd degree. . FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.— A distressing ac cident, resulting from the dan k erous practice of bo) a i eil:g allowed to carry guns, Laa occurred at Bu-f qd, Oxon. An inquiry was held on Saturday, bcf ,re Mr. James %Vested. corouvr.,,into the circumstanze; attliniing the a•h cf Eliza Evans, a young girl aged 19 year:, Rho was shot the previous day by a boy about the t ame age, who ieque , t d her to stand out of the way hi'e he shot a bird. From the evidence adduced it appeared she stood round the corner of a house to avoid danger, but f, om incautiously looking round at the moment the gun was discharged, she received the wound which occa sioned her death, at the inside of the eye, - close to the nose. Mr. A. T. Cooke, surgeor, was promptly in at tendance, and used all the means that his skill could de vise t ) save her - life, but the unlortunata sufftrer lingered in a state of insensibility for three hours, Rhen t (lath ensued. As the melancholy occurrence wits purel) sooi dentLl, the jury returned a verdict aceurdingly. The family if the deceased girl are placed in great distress by the sml event. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL—A meeting of this in tutien was h. Id yesterday for the purpose itt r.ceivirg the committee's report, and lor the election govt rnor to form the committee of rnariaeernent. and tti choose auditors. Mr. Prichard, high bailiff of Southwark, was culled to the chair. The secretary read the annual re port, which stated that, in the begienit.g f the year 1849, 154 p3uper children from Tooting, belonging to the Holborn union, were ndrni•ted to the hospital, sll more or less suffering from cholera, but 80 of whim showed signs of a decided and violent nature. Only tour of these died, whom the report bu.t d to hale be. past hope en entering the Luspital. When cl.olsres broke out in the metropolis, the doors c f the hospital were, as is 1832, thrown open to all applicants, aod upwards of 3,000 persons so attacked hid rece . eud relief, either as in or out-door patients. During the year upwards of 28,190 persons have hen reliev,d by the institution—on the whole a decrease in the huh,- ber in 1848. The financial statement in the rerrt was highly satisfietory as to the state of the bolpitsl. The la ceipts amounted to . 5,550/, upstards e f 900 L more than those of 1848. This excess enabled the commit:o3 to pay off old debts to the amount of 2,0001., and to re-Jpen a ward capable of accommo dating 50 'agents, which, from a pressure of &tit, had, for a Val.-, been unavoidably closed. Should the bent v‘ilent continue their exertions iu favour t f the institution the committee would soon be enabled again to throw open the Governor Wald, which wood give accommodation to fifty additional destitute peztons. The total i_aytnents of tie institution during the year amounted to 5,5211. The report having Lezu adopted, the election of the thirty governors was proceeded with. After a vet? of thanks to the chairman, and to the several authorities and officials of the hospital, the meets ing broke up. COLLEGF, LONDON.—The names of the frilJvving students of the college and school appear 115 .s H k arrisoa, the list of wranglers at the late Carnbr . idge ezamina.. ici ct u:e ra ba f v or e lion :—Wats.or, second Greenwood, Nvrtbeott, lie y wrangleroo d , ; a d nd lr ll vin a g i. justT h c e o p nv i o r k e e c d tor a s C in f c t e h ti e ng ßa u n f clu t e he e sh ß a e re l February, to take into consideration convention be tween t`to G overnme nt and the Bank, by which the latter engages to take 15,000,000 f. in the capital of tho B an k Nation ale about i to be establish, O. These 15.000,00 0 '. are divided nto 10,060 shares. The Socit 6 Gererale has enterei into a similar convention with the Government. Morten - MAELET.--The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per mills, which, at the Ertglish Mint price of 31. 17a., lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an a xchaege of 25.45; and the excharge at Paris on London at short being 25.42, it follows that go ld i s 0.10 per ct nt. dearer in Paris than in London. By advice, fee m Ilam• burgh the price of gold is 4341 per murk, which, at the English Mir t price of :31. 17s. 10,1 d. per ource for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.91; and the x ch I,nge at Harebure,h on London at short heit,g it follows that gild is 0.57 per cent. clutter iu Lou con that in Ilumburgh. INDIAN PRIZE MONEY.—The Sum (f 12,4.).V. Las been paid by the East India Company into the Bank of England to the public account, to meet the claims of the keveral parit s entitled to share in the pr:z! u.oney granted f the I apture of Ghuznee and L.,wer Sinde. euxuavtri, JAN. 24.—We had a strong westerly wind, with a t stiiid thaw, last night. The chat:o.ol is p l fee.ly clear, Lt t there is still a good deal f ce along the northern shore ; the moth of the hatbeur is now navigable by the sprit giug f the ice This alt. (-- noon there has Leen sit appearance . f ice t gain in the channel Wine, W .N.W., with a thick fog.—llanibu:9/4 BorAenhalle. Jan. 24. CHILD lURDRII. — George Berry, the man chark;e3 with niuidering a child t 0.., ears 01d, awe,' Mary Hunan!, at Suit in•ir.-Athfield, Notting! awahire, is committed fur trial it taxi Aakires. Br is, from te.ti. mony given upon the coroner's inquost, c f unsound wind. ~N ' l-# -• , Pir € , 4:11 C ' .l, ' vt-:-e-V,. i C• ,- - ~' 1